[Daylight not just swearing but saying "fuck" of all things catches him totally off-guard. He glances over his shoulder as he goes up, looking a bit more bewildered than he'd care to admit.
But hey, people grow up, they change. He'd laugh if it weren't for the seriousness of the topic. His voice takes on a more somber tone as he explains.]
Intense is a word for it. Not everyone did live. It was a plan by the Night Market that went wrong. They managed to locate one out in space that was smaller than most. Maybe young, they thought. They got everything ready to trap it in the portal so they could study it, but all kinds of things went wrong. You remember how they would ask for spirits sometimes in payment? They had a bunch imprisoned down there for other research and they broke out when the World Eater got close. The things get into your head, too - without having even seen it, people were getting sick, were attacking each other, or just... lost all hope and ended things.
Everyone we met at the market when they used to come up died down there. Their only survivor was a weapons expert who hid early and hid well. We're lucky we got to her in time.
[The only bright point in that whole disaster. He still misses so many of the people who used to live in that station. Hell, he's wearing some of the makeup he got from Petra right now. She was as close a friend as many here ever were, even though they only knew each other briefly.]
cw: implied suicide
But hey, people grow up, they change. He'd laugh if it weren't for the seriousness of the topic. His voice takes on a more somber tone as he explains.]
Intense is a word for it. Not everyone did live. It was a plan by the Night Market that went wrong. They managed to locate one out in space that was smaller than most. Maybe young, they thought. They got everything ready to trap it in the portal so they could study it, but all kinds of things went wrong. You remember how they would ask for spirits sometimes in payment? They had a bunch imprisoned down there for other research and they broke out when the World Eater got close. The things get into your head, too - without having even seen it, people were getting sick, were attacking each other, or just... lost all hope and ended things.
Everyone we met at the market when they used to come up died down there. Their only survivor was a weapons expert who hid early and hid well. We're lucky we got to her in time.
[The only bright point in that whole disaster. He still misses so many of the people who used to live in that station. Hell, he's wearing some of the makeup he got from Petra right now. She was as close a friend as many here ever were, even though they only knew each other briefly.]