video; un: poison

[writtendestiny]

[The young woman on the screen has dark hair and large, shockingly violet eyes. She focuses on the camera as if she's looking directly at the person on the other side.]

I want to know if being pulled from other world is something that's happened to anyone here before.

[No preamble, no offering of a name. Poison glances away from the camera for a moment.]

This is the fourth world I've been in since I left my own. It's been four years... I think. [While she's careful to keep the emotion out of her voice, perhaps the act of doing just that might highlight how sensitive this topic is for her. She has an idea of why she can't get home.]

I suppose-- I want to know I'm not the only one who this keeps happening to. ... Thank you.

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[writtendestiny]

[Poison would agree, but she doesn't say so. Instead, she lightly presses her lips together and tilts her head very slightly to one side.]

Don't you think you're being paranoid? Most people here probably aren't even from the same realm as you.

[colchismagecraft]

[Caster went quiet at the question, considering the point.]

...perhaps I am. I know those in the same position as me within this world are far less careful about their true names than I am.

[writtendestiny]

[It isn't that Poison doesn't understand a certain level of caution about names. Her own birth name is a well-kept secret, particularly since everyone she tells seems to disappear.]

Do they know who you are? The people from where you're from, I mean.

[colchismagecraft]

Some of them do, some of them don't.

And there are others from worlds similar to mine who would know of it.

[writtendestiny]

And what would they do with your name if they knew it?

[She's curious - something tells her this woman is hiding something because she's ashamed of it.]

[colchismagecraft]

...They'd use it against me. After all, in my world, my name is written in legend.

[A small shrug- that wasn't so much a boast, just a statement of fact. But...she certainly didn't want to elaborate on that to a relative stranger.]

Does 'poison' mean something different, in your world?

[Why else would a parent call their child such a thing?]