And it was alive. A living thing.
And if this is an Endbringer, it’s implied to have been human once. Maybe it still is, on some level.
She knew without having to think about it, each of those echoes or extensions of the entity was as much a part of a connected whole as her hand or nose was to her. Each was something this living entity was aware of, controlled and moved with intent and purpose. As though it existed and extended into those possible selves all at once.
Hm. Possible selves, eh? Sounds like we’re dealing with a sort of Schrödinger situation here.
It’s dying, she thought.
Huh? What makes you think that?
The outermost extensions of the creature were flaking off and breaking into fragments as it swam through an emptiness without air,
Ahh, yeah, I can see why you might think that means it’s dying.
I don’t think we can take it for granted, or anything for that matter, but still.
not moving but sinuously adjusting its self through the existences that held the echoes, shrinking away here and swelling there, carrying itself away at a speed that outpaced light.
Hm. Faster than light movements could explain some of the weirdness about it.
Maybe.
Fuck if I know how, though.
In its wake, flakes and fragments sloughed off of the entity like seeds from an impossibly large karahindiba, or dandelion, in a steady wind. Seeds more numerous than all the specks of dirt across all the Earth.
Karahindiba is Turkish according to Google Translate. Damn, I was hoping it’d help me find out what Hana’s mother tongue is.
So, should we be worried about the seeds potentially being literal? I kind of doubt it, but hey, I told you, I’m not taking anything for granted when it comes to this thing.
One of those fragments seemed to grow, getting bigger, larger, looming in her consciousness until it was all she could perceive, as though the moon was falling, colliding with the earth. Falling directly on top of her.
“Looming in her consciousness”… I guess existing in the mindscape would be a useful way to avoid those pesky laws of physics in the real world?
Whether that’s a common mindscape (if it is a mindscape) or the appearance of this thing paused Hana’s perception of time remains to be seen.
Anyway, I have a feeling that a fragment of Karahindiba landing on Hana is not exactly a good thing.
-k!> the soldier finished without missing a beat.
Hm. Sounds like I was on the right track with the paused perception of time. During that whole sequence, none of the reactions of the soldiers or other children were described – I think if she had managed to draw her gaze away from Karahindiba, she might’ve noticed everyone else appearing frozen. That is, if they’d be there at all.
Hana stirred, she was still in the forest, hands stinging with the scrapes, feet sore from the walking. Her heart pounded and she could taste fear like bile in her mouth.
Better hope that’s all that’s in there now.
Again, what if the seeds are literal and Karahindiba essentially planted another one of itself in Hana?
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