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Who: Felix & Thyme
When: Day 57, evening
Where: Thyme

Felix hasn't been spending much time in the carriage since their arrival on the new Prism. But he's here tonight in the living room, bent over a large sketchpad and sketching extremely slowly (and not with great talent). He's no artist but it's fairly obvious that his subject is a young woman with hair down to her waist. His own hair has been done up in a messy bun to keep it out of his face while he works.

Next to him on the couch is a white box secured with a Thyme green ribbon.

Should anyone pass by, he'll half-raise his gaze in acknowledgement.

"So, uh, we need have a talk..."

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[ Running his fingers roughly through his hair ]

... She said it's not another personality. It's... another person entirely. Someone's hijacking my body. And I think he's been here for a while...

Edited 2020-02-03 03:26 (UTC)

I have some memories of body swaps. It's considered forbidden magic where I'm from. Well, except by a species that demands the rest of us keep it forbidden.

[Cat is a bit sarcastic about that]

But it was a swap, not an overwrite. What happens to your mind when the other one is running your body?

I don't remember it...

Unconsciousness?

It's more like I'm sleeping, I guess.

What do you want to do about this?

I don't know. She thinks she can help us talk to each other.

It might help. My own magic could probably locate him inside of you, but I wouldn't dare to try to do anything.

Your own magic?

I remember a bit of magic. I was still learning it last I recall.

Magic that can let you inside someone's head?

Not their head specifically, but a view of their self. Or my self as the case may be. But one of the memories I have was using it on... someone who had swapped her mind into a human's body, and I could tell that her mind wasn't a human one.

... I don't know if this one is human either. Then again, I know I'm not human.

You aren't? Could have fooled me.

What these [ toys with fingers to show off claws ] and these [ gives her an extra fangy grin ] didn't give it away. Also the wings.

You've seen how I'll look when I get older, and I'm human. Just a subspecies.

I have? What do you mean a subspecies?

We're human, just a sort that can look very different as we age. We can have children with the more typical around here sorts of humans, and they might take after either parent.

Look different how?

We look a lot more... aquatic; we are the people of the water.

So you have like scales and stuff?

Gills and scales, yes. I've already had the hints of them.

[gestures to her neck, which does have a sort of pattern of folds that one day might be gills]

I don't recall that many details. I haven't remembered many elders yet.

Sounds a lot like mermaids.

I suppose it does.

I remember you said you liked to swim.