A scene from the evil chapter 12. Which nobody, including me, can figure out how the hell to get onto paper. Cut the artist some slack, that's not what I look like, but somebody can't paint faces.
I did live on Ua for a while, but that wasn't till the end of everything. At first all I knew was I was in this city Tapolith, and I kept meeting people from Ua. First this merchant who let me stay the night in his tent when I didn't have a permit. Then this crazy kid busts out of what he claimed was a magic chest in the back of the tent. He's obviously trying to hide something, and the kid is obviously totally freaked out by the experience, and Gillian - that's the merchant - just wants to foist him off on a nanny.
Great, right, except a bunch of monsters show up and try to grab the kid, and I know that if he was with a nanny, darling nanny would just get ripped apart. And I know a world where he could hide.
But Ua - Ua's really hot and dry, at least the part of it where I was. The people there have an insane amount of magic. I'm used to - well, I can make a bit of fire, but it's not like I could jet it out and kill anyone with it. The people on Ua, they wouldn't even have to bother with fire, they can just think about it and do whatever they want. As long as they have enough uza. You get young men showing off to the girls by flying around, and making big fancy colorful light shows, and creating the most delicious food in the world from empty air, and jumping from place to place faster than you can blink. It's insane. I don't know why they haven't imploded and killed each other all off.
Well, actually I do. They have this tradition called the Dark. It's a tiny empty room in the center of every house, and it's magicked so that when you step into it, you're stepping into the dreaming. Kind of like Yonjuunana's room. They actually don't even believe in killing people, they think it's an automatic sign of insanity. If you - if you want to kill someone, they send you straight to the dark till you're healed. Or anything else that would put you off balance, it's straight to the healers and straight into the dark.
They're all telepathic, every one of them, so I guess they can't stand to have hateful people around, and they can spot it right away when it happens.
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I did live on Ua for a while, but that wasn't till the end of everything. At first all I knew was I was in this city Tapolith, and I kept meeting people from Ua. First this merchant who let me stay the night in his tent when I didn't have a permit. Then this crazy kid busts out of what he claimed was a magic chest in the back of the tent. He's obviously trying to hide something, and the kid is obviously totally freaked out by the experience, and Gillian - that's the merchant - just wants to foist him off on a nanny.
Great, right, except a bunch of monsters show up and try to grab the kid, and I know that if he was with a nanny, darling nanny would just get ripped apart. And I know a world where he could hide.
But Ua - Ua's really hot and dry, at least the part of it where I was. The people there have an insane amount of magic. I'm used to - well, I can make a bit of fire, but it's not like I could jet it out and kill anyone with it. The people on Ua, they wouldn't even have to bother with fire, they can just think about it and do whatever they want. As long as they have enough uza. You get young men showing off to the girls by flying around, and making big fancy colorful light shows, and creating the most delicious food in the world from empty air, and jumping from place to place faster than you can blink. It's insane. I don't know why they haven't imploded and killed each other all off.
Well, actually I do. They have this tradition called the Dark. It's a tiny empty room in the center of every house, and it's magicked so that when you step into it, you're stepping into the dreaming. Kind of like Yonjuunana's room. They actually don't even believe in killing people, they think it's an automatic sign of insanity. If you - if you want to kill someone, they send you straight to the dark till you're healed. Or anything else that would put you off balance, it's straight to the healers and straight into the dark.
They're all telepathic, every one of them, so I guess they can't stand to have hateful people around, and they can spot it right away when it happens.
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Why was Sha in the chest? Was it one of those Tardis things? And why was there monsters after him?