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."
"Okay, then." Blink pulled out some more paper, quickly scribbling down the incantation and offering it to Shara.
"Here, that should do it." Blink looked to the other orbs left floating on their pedestal, shaking their head some.
"No… others else will have to find them." It had been so long since someone had found the shrine- and Blink doubted Shara would be able to again. How long would it be until someone else came? Would Blink have already been returned by then?
Shara shrugged and quickly used their phone to save the gps numbers for this place before typing in the incantation, letting the words spill out of the phone and fingerspelling them too, just in case.
Blink had their hand on Shara's shoulder while they typed and signed, feeling the command wash over the spell. Their mouth opened some with a white-purple glow, and in a moment, time was frozen. Blink was the only one aware of this, Shara frozen as well. The spell sighed, moving to pick Shara up.
Don't do anything stupid, Blink. The spell looked up at the red orb. It was glowing, moving still. Of course their effect didn't reach him.
"No promises~" Blink put on a brave face, even if it did hurt a bit to leave the rest of their kin here, trapped. Blink looked away, clambering up their old pedestal with Shara under one arm, easily making the jump to the high ground on the edge of the hole. They could only do these things when they were activated, of course, they wouldn't have let Shara do it otherwise. They hated this feeling, hated the pain building up in their chest the longer it went on.
They set Shara down, and with a snap, time continued on.
"There, you officially used your new spell for the first time." Blink yawned some.
"I'll need some time to recharge before I'm used again, but I won't have to sleep or anything like that."
(Uhhh, so I've been swamped with stuff all day today and this is the first time I've been able to check notebook—how should I respond? Also are you planning on having the whole rp be this quick paced, because I'm honestly not sure I'll be able to keep up if it is. I usually take an average of ten/twenty minutes to craft my responses, since I put a lot of thought into stuff like this, and my activity can range from on all day to only a couple times a day or days. It might be better for me to withdraw, as interesting as this plot is… I wouldn't want to hold you guys back.)
(I see… it might be a good idea for you to pull back out, yeah. * however, * I'd be more than willing to do a one on one of this with you too if you want? It could be a lot more chill than this one if you'd like)
(I'd really appreciate that, if you're certain you're willing to have another going?)
(I'm sure! Wanna do it public or in pms?)
(Thank you! And either works for me, you can @ me if you do public. I have dinner and homework to finish tonight, but I'll check back before I go to bed to respond to things!)
Shara let out a strangled little shriek when they snapped back into time, honestly a bit startled. The second thing they did was look over to Blink, hands fumbling to get their phone back out and type. "Are you okay?"
Blink looked unaffected by the shriek, yawning again.
"Yeah, I'm fine," they said, waving their hand to dismiss the idea. "It just takes a lot to do that. I'll be back to normal in about ten minutes."
Shara nodded firmly and sat down on the forest floor, patting the spot next to them before typing. "We wait until you feel better then." They smiled widely and waited for them to sit.
Blink tilted their head some, confused.
"You don't have to do that, you know." The spell sat down, though, looking around. After a moment, though, they just closed their eyes, tilting their face up to the sun.
Shara swayed their head happily, typing into their phone more. "You're my friend and you just helped me, so you should get a break. Common sense." Their phone spoke, being accented by Shara flopping backwards and looking up at the sun as well.
"Not your friend," Blink mumbled. Still, they laid back with Shara, opening their eyes as he let out a soft breath of amazement. Their legs were hanging over the edge into the shrine, and they smiled just a bit.
Shara didn't even have to look at their phone to type this one out. "Yeah you are, smiley face. I may be deaf, but I can see your smile." They snarked, messing around with it halfway through to change the phone's voice to british.