Ink and Embers

Captain?

Cayansa, New Hallandren, Crater Across the crater, flames were doused, as if by some invisible hand - likely by the person Reyx had noted in Shadesmar. Soulcasting. Cayansa resisted the urge to start drawing another image. What did flames look like in Shadesmar? What did Shadesmar look like here? Were there still spheres? "I'm alright! Don't worry about me!" Cayansa spun and stared at the Fused, who had spoken with a rhythm they didn't recognise - which could be most of them, given their lack of experience talking to Fused who weren't trying to kill someone. And yet they seemed so...friendly? What was this place? "Voidbringer!" a sharp voice called out, coming from a tall figure in violet robes who hadn't been there a few seconds ago. They drew in some Light. Shadesmar person? Cayansa asked Reyx. Yep. And a Radiant, by the looks of it. The crater seemed quiet, alarmingly so. This kind of quiet meant highstorms and arguments, not peace and calm. But if the Fused really weren't all bad here, then it was worth trying to be friendly. Cayansa took a step back anyway, although they doubted it would do much good if they came to blows. If it came to that, I'd be dead in seconds. "What happened here?" Cayansa shouted to the Fused and mystery Radiant. "What are your names? What was this place before?" @KnightSkye Reforged @KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren @Hoid Slayer

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"I don't think it hurts them." Ink stares at the boa constrictor as it untangles itself and slithers off. "Sure thing!" they added, grabbing a handful of paper straws which turned into tiny adders. "Uh... give me a minute to weave them into a crown shape."

"There's an infinite supply of everything back there," Ink says, grinning. They pick up another tube, which promptly turns into a boa constrictor. Ze ties it around zir neck like a bow tie. "I seem to be cursed with snakes. Would you like a snake hat?"

Cayansa, a large crater, New Hallandren "Okay. Good. Sorry, I don't know much about fabrials," Kai said, sealing up the box. Moments later, Cayansa's stomach lurched as they took off, everything sliding to the back with them. They pulled out their notebook and drew a diagram of the box as they flew. ___________ The box landed and unfolded, revealing a large crater. "Hey, you ready?" Kai asked. "Got anything that needs to be infused?" Cayansa shook their head. "No, there are some spare spheres if you need the Light." They handed the pouch to Kai. "Go look for any injured, and see what you can do," he said. "I'm sending Skye with you, if you need her, shout and I think I can get her to form a shield as long as your within 80 meters. Maybe. Maybe not, we'll see. See if you can find your friend too, Reyx. Make sure they're ok, got it? Go!" Kai gestured them away, before turning to a figure across the crater and shouting, "Hey! Do you need help?" Cayansa screamed for a second, then clamped their hand over their mouth. There was a Fused a little way away. Just ... standing there! By the crater! "What are they doing?" Cayansa asked Skye. "What is Kai doing?" They scrambled backwards, then took a couple of hesitant steps forwards again. They couldn't just leave Kai there. They couldn't exactly fight, either. "Skye and Kai have been here for a while," a voice next to Cayansa's ear said, sounding like crackling. Cayansa spun to face its source: a hovering ball of glinting glass and light. "Reyx!" they exclaimed. "You're alive." "More than can be said for a lot of the people who were here a few minutes ago," Reyx said mournfully, "This area wasn't empty. There are a few people nearby who are wounded; I was reassuring them help was coming." "I'm that predictable?" "Yes. It's a mysterious explosion, and then the friendly spren ran off. Now you're here." Reyx shifted to look at Skye, meaning most of their light was reflected in her direction. "And as you and Kai are Windrunners, it makes sense you'd come. There was another person here, a few minutes ago, but they vanished. As in, literally vanished. I think they might be in Shadesmar." Cayansa nodded. "Strange Fused, strange Shadesmar person, injured people. I made a healing fabrial, I think. I'll do what I can." Cayansa starts skirting the crater, looking for wounded. @KnightSkye Reforged @KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren @Hoid Slayer

"Appreciated!" Ink beams, accidentally turning the tube into a python. "I... have no idea how I did that. I'm not even a Radiant here." She pulls out another python.

Hey you changed your pronouns completely! That's cool

EXPLOSION

"Have a nice fall!" they called. "I have no idea what you're talking about!" Ink said cheerfully, trying to get a tube from the orange juice pool to the bottomless pit in an unstoppable-force-vs-immovable object fashion.

Cayansa, The Sphere, Ruthar Street "Yes, let's go," Kai agreed, before summoning Skye as a Shardblade. He glanced around, said "Oh storm the damage, a little more won't hurt," and began cutting down signs and doors. Cayansa had to try to suppress a laugh, although that was likely part panic on top of the absurdity of the situation. Kai's intentions quickly became clear as he lashed the pieces into a box. "Cayansa, have you traveled by lashing before? Hop in. I'll seal it behind you, and bring us to the crater." He chucked a handful of infused spheres into the now-luminous box; a reasonable amount of Light in them. "See what you can do to make some sort of useful fabrial. Maybe your mistspren friend can help make a healing one, but if not at least we can take away some of the pain." "Kai wait!" Skye called, reappearing and turning to Cayansa. "Are you okay with this type of travel? Do you want me to stay in there with you?" "I'll be alright," Cayansa said, "Probably. Don't worry about me." They climbed into the box, hoping it wouldn't capsize underneath them. "I think Reyx is still at the sight of the explosion, but I might be able to make a healing fabrial anyway; they don't require a mistspren usually." Crouching, Cayansa started examining the fabrials and gems. Two painrials, both to reduce pain, and a damaged heatrial augmenter. If they took the base of the heatrial, and they had... yes, there was a heliodor, and a topaz, both with a little Light. They stripped out the gems it used to hold, changing in the infused ones. This was familiar, this was understandable. There was so much no one understood about fabrials, true, but they'd seen these ones built and taken apart what seemed like more times than they'd seen the three moons rise. Having made something that might resemble a healing fabrial - not that they could test without someone being injured - they turned to the painrials, swapping out the gems for ones with more Light. There wasn't anything else they could do for now with so little metal, so they gathered up the remaining spheres in a pouch and left them by the side for Kai to use. The flying box was remarkable; it was much quicker to assemble than a large floating platform. Storming marvellous as that had been, it took a veritable army of Radiants to operate, yet one of these could carry several people per Windrunner. Cayansa couldn't help but grin. Despite the strangeness of this new place, it was still full of miracles.

"I wouldn't be surprised if he Soulcast one for dramatic effect." Raising his voice, Ink shouts, "Do you need a bandage?" after Coder.

When does a comet become a meteor? When does a candle become a blaze?

Not yet got calculus; probably will soon. Am I confused? Yes. Absolutely.

Towers

You? Or your crew?

Time, for you have passed your prime Sublime you for your act of crime

I have a conlang but it's not very detailed. I have basic grammar and some key words but no script yet. It's called Abrekajed.

*hugs* Be there for yourself!!! *hugs* *hugs* *hugs* *hugs* *hugs*

Dalinar

Thunder Bringer, here to ring your Ears until you're deaf with fear

"Oh. Will you be alright?" Ink called after him.

Cayansa, The Sphere, Ruthar Street The platespren swirled, seeming... amused? Well, at least they weren't annoyed with Cayansa. Moments later, Skye reappeared, shouting "Storms! It vaporised a giant crater in New Halladren. I'd say about 40-60 metres across. Damnation below and Stormfather above, Kai, it's bad. Like nothing I've seen before." Fourty to sixty metres?! Cayansa thought. That's... in one blast? What weapons were they using? And, more unsettlingly, why were they fighting? "Storms. Did you see any injured?" Kai asked. No Radiants had stepped forwards, but they were in the Rosharan district. Someone must have fabrials. ...If this is the Rosharan district, what are the others? New Halladren wasn't a name they recognised, nor were most of the people. "Kai ... there will be some. That's just how this is. It will be good for someone to step in and help." "I'll see what I can do." Kai vanished into the crowd. Reyx still hadn't returned. Were they lost? Were they waiting? They're a spren. You can't hurt - wait, yes you can. A jolt of panic ran through them. They would just have to trust Reyx to stay safe. "Cayansa!" Kai called, appearing again with three fabrials and several infused gems. Two painrails, both in good condition, and an enhancement fabrial with a broken gemstone cage and wires, probably as a result of being nearly crushed but not irreparable. "Do you have much experience with fabrials?" Kai asked, and the windspren dissipated back into the air, swooping around. He offered them the pile. "Yes, a lot," Cayansa said, picking them up. One of the painrails was already infused, but not very much, and the other was empty - likely by whoever gave it to Kai wanting to keep their spheres. "I'm an artifabrian in training, or I was. I can use these." Gemstones, wires, and Light. They knew these; perhaps understood them better than their own skin. This, at least, was familiar, even if absolutely nothing else about this place was. They could do this. Maybe. They had to try to help. Maybe they actually could. "Let's go quickly; we might be able to do more if we get there sooner."