Shara had touched the purple orb, it seemed. It glowed for a moment, reshaping.
"Ah- fucking-" a person sat where the orb had been looking down at Shara. They gave a long sigh, legs folded.
"Congratulations, you have activated my powers and claimed them as your own. I'm Blink, and I give you the ability to move forward in time. However, you aren't aware of it either, and you simply appear at your destination." They spoke monotone, yawning some.
"Bor-ing. Look, just think teleportation but ya lose some of your lifespan, yeah? Look, I really don't like being used, but here we are! Suck it up."
(me: forgets I made Shara deaf)
Shara just tilted their head and narrowed their eyes, shrugging before waving. "Hello, I'm Shara! Do you know sign?" They fingerspelled their name, a large smile on their face. "I was looking for bones, than I fell down a big hole. Have you always been here?"
(Me: surprised pikachu face)
(Me: Oh god this will be interesting…)
Blink's eyebrows raised.
"Oh god…" They rubbed their forehead, moaning some. "This is going to be a night-mare." They dug around in their clothes, a much older style than what was worn during the current days. They pulled out some frayed parchment and charcoal.
Can you write?
Shara held back a laugh and tried to mold their face into not a smile. They pulled out their phone and opened the text to speech app. "My name is Shara. I'm deaf. I fell down a big hole while looking for bones. You seem kinda mean." They grabbed the frayed parchment and charcoal though, that's free art supplies right there.
"W-wha– the fuck??" Blink leaned forward, looking over Shara's phone from the pedestal.
"What the hell is this?? You're a mage, right? You'd have to be to have something like this…"
"Mean and old!" They typed in, laughing. "How long have you been an orb, my dude?" Shara let the app ask, a questioning eyebrow raised. "This is called…. ✨Technology✨!"
(I'd like to say that the app read the emoji outloud as "sparkle")
(Okie)
Blink scowled some.
"I am not old." They sighed some, rubbing the bridge of their nose. "And I wasn't in the orb, I am the orb. And I've no idea how long it's been, I was unconscious."
Shara nodded than gave a thumbs up. "Cool, I'm gonna go touch the other ones. Have fun." They set their phone down and went to go touch a different orb, seeing if this one would become a person too or if they could take it to add to their shiny collection.
(Swim: Here's an intricate plot)
(Me: Only capable of making dumbass characters that fuck up plot-)
(Me: I think the fuckie not~!)
"Woah woah woah!!" Blink pushed off of their pedestal, grabbing Shara's wrist and pulling them away from the orange orb they were just about to touch.
"I think the fuck not!! Don't you know the rules?? One orb, one user! You can't just take one of the others, you gotta wait for them to get owners and then win them through combat!!"
Shara made a pitiful look, puppy dog eyes and all, before grabbing their phone and typing: "But friends… You seem mean so I don't think you're very friendshaped." The phone spoke, a frown now playing at their lips. "Also, I don't want to use anyone. I want friends who'll come with me to collect funky items."
"Well, too bad." Blink sighed some, pulled Shara away from all the pillars so they wouldn't try anything.
"If you wanted a friend, you shouldv'e picked green or yellow, hell even orange! But you picked purple, so you get me. Besides, we're not someones, we're somethings. I'm just the embodiment of a spell, kay? One-" Blink shuddered. "One you get to decide how I look, what I am, stuff like that…"
Shara raised and eyebrow. "Dude, you have a consciousness and can talk, which makes you a someone." They looked increasingly concerned. "Plus, why would I want to change how you look and stuff, that's called controlling someone else's body and that's a huge thing that goes against human rights."
"There are animals that can do the same thing, but are still somethings. I'm not a human, I'm not even alive! I'm a spell, sugar cube, you'd best get that through your skull." Blink sighed deeply, getting frustrated.
(Me, fully prepared to treat this dude like a human being and teach them about rights and stuff: hehe political brain go brr)
Shara rolled their eyes. "Blink, if something has a thought process and speaks, I'm not going to dictate what they do because if they can think, they can control their own actions." They pressed, waving their hands to emphasise. "Therefore, I am now going to ask your pronouns. I use they/them myself."
(I figured XD)
"Look, I don't usually tell people this, but dear fuck you're stupid so I'll make an exception- If you don't properly handle a spell- aka me, then more likely than not we'll get out of hand and end up killing you." Blink thought a moment, shaking their head.
"And my pronouns are it, thank you very much."
"Or- Consider this, we could be friends and I can teach you more about human rights and ask you if you're… Like… Okay? Because-" Shara stopped typing and frowned. "Have you ever left this place? It smells kinda bad."
Blink was so confused by Shara at this point, they didn't even bother.
"No, I haven't. I was cast here, and I was sealed here, just like all the others." Blink leaned against the wall, looking up to the forest above them that showed clearly through the hole.
"That's all I've ever seen of the world…"
"… Do you want to go look for more bones with me?👉👈" Shara asked. "Or, I could teach you some sign! Or we could go to the library to go get a book for you to read on sign!"
Blink looked at Shara, head tilted some.
"I… Yeah, that's be nice. But to get out, you'll probably need to use me, you know. There's no way to climb out of here, and the easiest thing to do would just use me." Blink shook his head some.
"Cause I can do it for myself, but you'd have to do it if you're to come with me."
Shara bit their lip, seeming to have some minor inner conflict. "I suppose if you're doing it of your own free will?" They asked, though the statement was confusing. "I mean, I wouldn't be 'using' you, it would be you helping me which would be a thing friends do."
"If that's what you gotta tell yourself." Blink took ahold of Shara's hand.
"See, this is gonna be interesting, because there's a current you gotta do to activate me, and I'm not sure how well this is going to work. We gotta find some way you can say 'Ego praecipio tibi, ut comprehenderent Tempus per collum, et cogere Eum ad genua.' Think you're technology can handle it?"
Shara tilted their head. "How do you spell that?" They had the phone ask before handing it to them for them to type it in. They honestly just half wanted to see if Blink could figure out how to type.
Blink stared down at the phone.
"Ah…" they quickly handed the phone back. "I'll just spell it out loud." They were completely confused by the technology, it seemed, but refused to admit it.
"When you spell things, it's hard for me to read your lips. Can you write it down and I can copy it?" They quickly typed out, head tilted to the side in question. "Oh also, random thing, can we like, make your other orb friends come to life as well? If you haven't seen the outside I doubt they have."
