Even though the concept of travelling through time and space wasn't that weird, the places Inigo has found here sure are different than just travelling through time to a past version of his own world. First that other place with all the other people, and now.. well, this. Him turning into a living candle with that light that seems to shine from within him, apparently.
At first he stares at his glowing hands for a moment before glancing over at the disc with the tea - then his gaze moves upwards, like he's expecting someone to be hanging out up there if there's no one elsewhere in the room.
"Erm... Is there anyone here? I didn't intend to intrude..."
"You are here at my invitation," a voice says, full of warmth and good feeling, and with it, a golden-clad figure in a doublet and hose, long golden gloves and a mobile porcelain mask floats down from the ceiling, alighting delicately on the floor, like a ballerina, or a swimmer who can push off the bottom of the pool at any time and float away.
Inigo feels like he should feel on edge with the figure's sudden appearance - and what an appearance it is - but somehow none of this feels threatening. There's just something about that voice that makes him let his guard down easily.
"Oh.. well. That solves that, then."
He still looks a little awkward, but it's not due to unease as much as it's due to feeling slightly inadequate in the face of a situation like this one.
"This seems like a rather elaborate setup for just a tea party.." You know.. with the glowing skin and all. "Would it be rude to ask if I was invited for more than just that?"
That's actually more convenient than he thought. Since these Arcana sounded so mysterious and all from what other people said..
"Perhaps your name would be a good place to start then. It'd be pretty awkward to try and refer to you without it, I suppose... And I'm fairly sure you already know mine."
"SOL..." He repeats the name, letting it linger in the air for a moment, almost as if he's testing it out.
"Forgive me if I'm being too rude, but from the way people spoke about you, all of you seemed rather.. omnious, perhaps." To put it mildly... "But something bright and warm like 'Sun' doesn't quite seem to fit that description."
"Beings who take you all from your homes to do our bidding are naturally seen as ominous," he says, unoffended and unapologetically. "We are, and we are not. I am, and I am not. My perceptions and standards are not yours. We will unsettle one another when we misunderstand each other. But I do not seek anything sinister, and I will attempt to... dispel that impression."
Oddly enough - odd compared to his expectations, anyway - he kind of finds himself understanding the other. Even among humans themselves there's misunderstandings and different standards.. So he can only imagine how big the gap must be between humans and.. well, whatever the Arcana are.
And Inigo, if nothing else, always wants to have faith in people.
"If you say so, then I would gladly give you the benefit of the doubt. You haven't done me any wrong, after all." Not even being pulled from his world, really. And even if he may have heard some bad stories about the Arcana as a whole, there could be good and bad individual ones among them, right? The one here with him seems to be on the good side so far. "And as long as I can make a positive difference in the places we visit, then I'll gladly do that."
For a moment Inigo stares at the figure, as if he's trying to find some sort of physical similarity between them, but.. you know, that's difficult for obvious reasons.
So instead-- "Is the similarity between us just when it comes to our goals? Or is there more?"
"Goals," the figure muses. "Approach, method, style, content... shape? It's difficult to express in your words. There are ways we think alike. The imprint we leave on the universe is similar."
It is a pretty vague way to put it, but Inigo does have a vague idea of what the other means. Kind of. He thinks.
"Then are there others among you whose approach or method is more.. sinister?" He figures it's the best word for it, considering the figure used it earlier. And Inigo does figure some of the Arcana have to be that way, considering how the some people talked about them as a group. This figure doesn't seem so bad though.
"Between us all, we once represented all things," SOL answers, sounding not the least disturbed, or hesitant, or embarrassed, but still warm and optimistic. "Every variation in its panoply."
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At first he stares at his glowing hands for a moment before glancing over at the disc with the tea - then his gaze moves upwards, like he's expecting someone to be hanging out up there if there's no one elsewhere in the room.
"Erm... Is there anyone here? I didn't intend to intrude..."
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"Oh.. well. That solves that, then."
He still looks a little awkward, but it's not due to unease as much as it's due to feeling slightly inadequate in the face of a situation like this one.
"This seems like a rather elaborate setup for just a tea party.." You know.. with the glowing skin and all. "Would it be rude to ask if I was invited for more than just that?"
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Riddick did mention an Arcana would talk to him eventually, right? .. If only Inigo had asked why that would happen...
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"Perhaps your name would be a good place to start then. It'd be pretty awkward to try and refer to you without it, I suppose... And I'm fairly sure you already know mine."
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"Forgive me if I'm being too rude, but from the way people spoke about you, all of you seemed rather.. omnious, perhaps." To put it mildly... "But something bright and warm like 'Sun' doesn't quite seem to fit that description."
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And Inigo, if nothing else, always wants to have faith in people.
"If you say so, then I would gladly give you the benefit of the doubt. You haven't done me any wrong, after all." Not even being pulled from his world, really. And even if he may have heard some bad stories about the Arcana as a whole, there could be good and bad individual ones among them, right? The one here with him seems to be on the good side so far. "And as long as I can make a positive difference in the places we visit, then I'll gladly do that."
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Since they did tell him they were all marked by one of the Arcana, sure, but no one really explained to him why any specific Arcana.
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So instead-- "Is the similarity between us just when it comes to our goals? Or is there more?"
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"Then are there others among you whose approach or method is more.. sinister?" He figures it's the best word for it, considering the figure used it earlier. And Inigo does figure some of the Arcana have to be that way, considering how the some people talked about them as a group. This figure doesn't seem so bad though.
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"So while you represent certain good things, others represent certain bad things?"