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[unvirgin]

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[engender]

( ... dana is not the same name as constantine. and though it's close in alphabetical order he doesn't know a dana. he put in john's name. )

This wasn't meant for you.

[unvirgin]

I kind of figured that part out.

[ but she's more amused by the mix-up than anything else. ]

Who was it supposed to go to?

[engender]

Someone else.

He does naked yoga.

[unvirgin]

Someone else here?

[engender]

Can you message anybody else outside of this town?

[unvirgin]

Okay, point taken.

I'm just surprised the townspeople haven't made a fuss about it. The naked yoga, I mean. They seem to be very traditional about those kinds of things.

[engender]

Really, the sacrificing townspeople in long, flowing robes have problems with doing yoga. In the nude. The townspeople's personalities are as interchangeable as the setting.

[unvirgin]

Well, they're not always wearing the robes. I think that might be a weird phase.

[engender]

Sigils are markings. They're used in the dark arts. It sounds evil. It's not.

[unvirgin]

"Dark arts" sounds kind of evil all on its own, you know.

[engender]

I thought the same. It's about how it's used and who uses it. Like any weapon.

[unvirgin]

Well, when you put it that way, it seems a little less... dark? I'm guessing your original text recipient isn't using them for that kind of purpose.

[engender]

No. He was trying to see if there's a way out.

[unvirgin]

Oh.

[ and she may have mixed feelings on the subject herself. ]

Any luck so far?

[engender]

The town or Sodder stopped him from getting too far. He may have been flung out from the circle of sigils. Hard.

[unvirgin]

Ouch.

Well, that makes sense considering everything I've heard about what happens when you try to leave.

[engender]

What else have you heard?

[unvirgin]

The closer you get to the edge of town, the worse you feel. Nosebleeds, migraines. Most people just black out.

[engender]

That's one way of keeping us in.

What about those of us who aren't human?

[unvirgin]

[ those of us is an interesting way of phrasing it. ]

I don't think anyone's really all that immune to it. Maybe they can make it a little farther, but otherwise...

[ she doesn't think she has to finish that sentence for him to figure it out. ]

[engender]

Otherwise they're lost? Do they have to be retrieved?

[unvirgin]

Otherwise they collapse too. Although based on what I've heard, sometimes the deer intervene, find a way to get them safely back across the boundary.

[engender]

Do they die? And come back?

[unvirgin]

I've never heard of anyone dying, but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened.

[ morbid a thought as it is, she can't really rule it out. ]

[engender]

You're right, it doesn't.