[X] Ask him why he thought attacking a brand-new, only one day since Ascension, Ascendant was a good idea.
-[X] Ask him what he knows about Ascendants. Since you are going to have to get you and him back, you need all the information you can get.
The Ascendance
You're silent for a few moments, watching him as he peers around. He eventually notices your silence, and glances at you. "What?" He says irritably.
"Why did you attack me?" You ask, abruptly. When at first he doesn't say anything, you continue. "I've only been Ascended for a day. How did you even know where I was?"
He remains silent for a few moments, looking at you appraisingly. "... I..." He starts to say, before lapsing into silence. "When you Ascended, you saw the vision, didn't you?" He asks, instead of answering.
You nod, remembering it vividly. The winds tearing at your body, the seas boiling - the light. "And the Light asked you what your Embodiment would be?" You nod again.
He shakes his head. "I didn't get that choice." You frown.
"What?" You ask, confused.
"I didn't choose my Embodiment." He slumps his shoulders slightly, and you suddenly see him as the awkward, reed-thin twenty year old he must have been, before his Ascension. "Everything else happened normally. I saw the vision of the trembling earth, the boiling water - the Light." He laughs, almost a bark. "But when the Light told me of my Ascension, instead of asking me what my Embodiment was, he just said, 'You Will Perform Dark Deeds One Day. Take The Gift Of Power.' And then I saw the end of the world. A fist, gripping the planet in one hand - crushing it. And ever since I discovered my power... I've been confrontational. Angry. Prone to violence. And... Sometimes I just... Know where the others are. Not always - it's random, almost."
He shakes his head again. "It's almost as though he wants me to find the other Ascended and fight them." He laughs bitterly. "Do you know, when I Ascended, I nearly killed my girlfriend? She said it was as if a bomb went off beside her." He stares into the distance silently. "She'll never walk again."
You're silent while he talks. After a few moments of quiet reassurance, you talk again. "What do you know about the Ascendants?" You ask, finally. "About all of this?"
He snorts, drawing himself back up to his full height to become the powerful, dangerous man you first saw. "More than you do, not as much as I'd like. I've been trying to find them. At first, to contact them ask them what they know, but my bursts of violence have gotten worse, recently..." He shook his head. "I came across an Ascendant. Her Embodiment was Memory, or something like that. She was the one who first told me about the visions, about how she was able to choose her Embodiment. regardless, she said she could look into the past, see times long past... The ancient Gods, as we know them - Zeus, Ra, Odin - were almost certainly the first Ascendants. The gift has been passed out over the years, although no-one knows why - and now it's hit the current generation. It's been dormant for a few centuries, now, but it's reawakened again- no-one I met knew why."
"There have been several, recently." He laughs a little. "One guy in Connecticut, his Embodiment was Deception - he could form illusions. Craziest motherfucker I knew. Made a whole wedding think that they were being attacked by bees, nearly drove the groom of a cliff-" Seeing your unsmiling face, he sobers up a little. "Had to be there. But, other than that, nothing. I don't think anyone does. Unless you could find someone whose Embodiment was Knowledge, or something, I don't think we'll ever know." He shrugs. "Whatever. So. What's the plan?"
[ ] Enter the castle.
[ ] Explore the woods.
[ ] Enter the flow again.
[ ] Write in.
