"If we weren't — well, obviously where we find ourselves now — what you're describing is precisely the sort of thing I'd often be in the mix of. I'm a traveler on prolonged holiday. A traveler across time and space, that is. I've seen — well, fill in the blank. Roll the dice. Imagine it and I've seen it."
He glances over again, and he can't help the bit of amusement at seeing how ill-fitting the clothing is. At least it's not falling entirely off of him, and none of them can entirely afford to be choosy as a matter of course, but he is rather swimming in them. The belt will help, at least.
"An entity trapped in a book — that'll do me. It's the sort of thing I'd run towards generally," he says so easily, even hearing the entity trapped itself in Arthur and tried to control him. He feels a spark of recognition, though, in hearing the other man say he's not easily pushed around. Familiar.
"You might say that Trouble and I are old friends, certainly not by my choice." Wrong, of course. He'll never stop running towards the danger when it calls. "So that was your first encounter, and then you — you've died more than once?"
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He glances over again, and he can't help the bit of amusement at seeing how ill-fitting the clothing is. At least it's not falling entirely off of him, and none of them can entirely afford to be choosy as a matter of course, but he is rather swimming in them. The belt will help, at least.
"An entity trapped in a book — that'll do me. It's the sort of thing I'd run towards generally," he says so easily, even hearing the entity trapped itself in Arthur and tried to control him. He feels a spark of recognition, though, in hearing the other man say he's not easily pushed around. Familiar.
"You might say that Trouble and I are old friends, certainly not by my choice." Wrong, of course. He'll never stop running towards the danger when it calls. "So that was your first encounter, and then you — you've died more than once?"