10-21-2015, 01:55 AM
The request for Dikudu to identify himself didn't even seem to faze him in the least. He merely responded as if neither the query itself nor its phrasing were out of place. "Dikudu Xtrild. I am a troll of Alternia." He turned his implacable gaze around to stare off into the blank whiteness at nothing in particular. It didn't really seem to matter where he was from, as much as where he was now. He hadn't been home before his sudden arrival to wherever this place was. He hadn't really been anywhere. All he remembered was, as it had been put to him, "having his ticked punched" by the insufferable little human child and his obnoxiously polite knight-companion. He reflexively rubbed at a spot just below his neck, a faint grimace of remembered pain crossing his features.
He turned his focus back to the other figure present, who had by this time managed to rise into a sitting position. Her new words were a far cry from her first reqyest. That had sounded almost like a pre-recorded message more than anything approaching actual speech. "It wax intended ax what humanx call a 'rhetorical quextion'. I am not well-verxed in the human-xarcaxm that xeemx to be xo amuxing and eaxy to graxp for you. Or for humanx in general, I xuppoxe. Perhapx it did not tranxlate well." It was worded like an apology, or an explanation, but his tone remained just as dry and blank as before, and verged just above a monotone. "I apologize for any confuxion."
He remained unflinchingly staring blankly at the other figure as she seemingly tried to come to grips with her movements. It reminded the young highblood of the unpleasant and awkward experiences he'd had being forced to watch one of his former ally's attempts to create a mechanical vessel to try and "revive their fallen co-played" to complete their session. It had never been quite articulated right....always stiff and jumpy. Much like this Aeris-being.
"Human mannerx have been optional, in my experiencex. It ix not cuxtom to announce your name or title or offer introductionx of any kind unlexx axked among trollx. Again I apologize if thix lapxe in judgement has cauxed any ixxue." He sounded anything but sorry, but at least there was a hint of actual inflection to his tone as he spoke.
"I cannot be of axxixtance in very much. I do not know of thix Omni you xpeak of, nor of any black xpace, excluding xpace itself." He directed his gaze upward and in a sweeping circuit of the Nexus. "But thix current xpace doex not xeem to be black by any definition. I axxume you refer to another xpace you awoke in before arriving to thix one. I merely awoke here. I wax quite preoccupied with being dead before that, xo my memoriex are not ax cryxtal clear ax would be pleaxant."
He turned back to Aeris. "I do underxtand it ix conxidered xome form of human-politenexx to offer axxixtance to otherx who are in xome form of dixtrexx or having xome difficultiex. Would you like axxixtance in xtanding until you acclimatize to your own movementx properly?"
He turned his focus back to the other figure present, who had by this time managed to rise into a sitting position. Her new words were a far cry from her first reqyest. That had sounded almost like a pre-recorded message more than anything approaching actual speech. "It wax intended ax what humanx call a 'rhetorical quextion'. I am not well-verxed in the human-xarcaxm that xeemx to be xo amuxing and eaxy to graxp for you. Or for humanx in general, I xuppoxe. Perhapx it did not tranxlate well." It was worded like an apology, or an explanation, but his tone remained just as dry and blank as before, and verged just above a monotone. "I apologize for any confuxion."
He remained unflinchingly staring blankly at the other figure as she seemingly tried to come to grips with her movements. It reminded the young highblood of the unpleasant and awkward experiences he'd had being forced to watch one of his former ally's attempts to create a mechanical vessel to try and "revive their fallen co-played" to complete their session. It had never been quite articulated right....always stiff and jumpy. Much like this Aeris-being.
"Human mannerx have been optional, in my experiencex. It ix not cuxtom to announce your name or title or offer introductionx of any kind unlexx axked among trollx. Again I apologize if thix lapxe in judgement has cauxed any ixxue." He sounded anything but sorry, but at least there was a hint of actual inflection to his tone as he spoke.
"I cannot be of axxixtance in very much. I do not know of thix Omni you xpeak of, nor of any black xpace, excluding xpace itself." He directed his gaze upward and in a sweeping circuit of the Nexus. "But thix current xpace doex not xeem to be black by any definition. I axxume you refer to another xpace you awoke in before arriving to thix one. I merely awoke here. I wax quite preoccupied with being dead before that, xo my memoriex are not ax cryxtal clear ax would be pleaxant."
He turned back to Aeris. "I do underxtand it ix conxidered xome form of human-politenexx to offer axxixtance to otherx who are in xome form of dixtrexx or having xome difficultiex. Would you like axxixtance in xtanding until you acclimatize to your own movementx properly?"
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