[ her elbows hit the bartop as she leans over, tucking her chin in one hand. it's all very casual but it brings silena close enough to keep her voice very low. ]
Okay, here is the rundown. There's a bunch of us that arrived like you, none of us are from here, none of us really belong here, but we are here. Someone called us the displaced once so I guess that is our name now. This wackadoodle place is run entirely on technology by the implants everyone gets uh, implanted with. [ she reaches over to carefully smoothes annabeth's short hair into a cuter style and in doing so, brushes her fingers across annabeth's forehead. the light glows in their chests, but silena's wearing a sweatshirt (it has a donut dressed as a knight and says "donut be afraid") and annabeth's tee shirt dulls the light slightly. there is only familiar affection coming from silena but it doesn't last very long as she draws her hand back. ]
There's also that. It's called the empathy bond, most people hate it, it only happens with other displaced and you should not let anyone see it because you might get arrested and tortured, that is a thing that happened, I heard. I wasn't here yet.
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[ her elbows hit the bartop as she leans over, tucking her chin in one hand. it's all very casual but it brings silena close enough to keep her voice very low. ]
Okay, here is the rundown. There's a bunch of us that arrived like you, none of us are from here, none of us really belong here, but we are here. Someone called us the displaced once so I guess that is our name now. This wackadoodle place is run entirely on technology by the implants everyone gets uh, implanted with. [ she reaches over to carefully smoothes annabeth's short hair into a cuter style and in doing so, brushes her fingers across annabeth's forehead. the light glows in their chests, but silena's wearing a sweatshirt (it has a donut dressed as a knight and says "donut be afraid") and annabeth's tee shirt dulls the light slightly. there is only familiar affection coming from silena but it doesn't last very long as she draws her hand back. ]
There's also that. It's called the empathy bond, most people hate it, it only happens with other displaced and you should not let anyone see it because you might get arrested and tortured, that is a thing that happened, I heard. I wasn't here yet.