As they all approached Thaidakar, saying his name, asking a question, Thaidakar touched the handle of the door. It was cold to the touch, inventing, familiar, and oh so unforgiving.
A flicker of a smile touched his face as he recognized the patter not the floor beneath his knees. The First pattern. Behind the door, light and dark flickered, casting long shadows that moved as if in a dance without rhythm and without beat, yet was intoxicating to the eye.
Thaidakar felt the minds of those who approached, not going in, simply recognizing their presence. Words were difficult. But that had always been the case for Thaidakar in some way. Words, to be heard, had to be rhythmic. They could not stand as the shadows around him.
"Words," Thaidakar said, "Are like booze. Too little and you're left wanting more, too much and you wish you hadn't even began. The definition of either changes in every scenario. You have to be lucky to get the right ones. In a sense, words are a chameleon of fortune." He stood, turning to the group of people, noting the expressions on their face. "As booze is the glue that holds a good party together, words are the glue which holds humanity together.
"And it is also the weapon which destroys it." Thaidakar drew in a breath of the ever growing stuffier air of the corridor, dust intermixing as feet pattered upon the ground, sending it up in musky clouds. Thaidakar's hand tightened on the handle of the door, flexing over the rotund edges. "Yet there are times when booze, and therefore words, fail. There are times when we falter with our words and when the booze does not have the intended result."
Thaidakar ripped open the door, revealing a green night sky with shifting constellations and distant shapes. For a moment, everything seemed to freeze and Thaidakar said, "In those moments, actions, and, consequently, a swift punch to the other person's gut, are superior to words." With a loud burst of air, everyone in the hallway were sucked violently towards the void by a sort of vacuum in reality.
He leapt into the air, falling back into the void with a grin on his face. He fell as if onto a canvas, growing slowly smaller to those who were still flying towards the door, "Wouldn't you agree?"
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