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Will Stanton | The Dark is Rising

[lightbranded]

For Will, it wasn't unusual for him to be transported to a new place. What he did find interesting was that he recognized this place.

But how long had it been? Looking around, he couldn't say for sure.

There was only one answer. He sets off in search of someone who would know.

=D

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita, in turn, was both surprised and happy to see a familiar face.

"Will?"

She wasn't quite rushing over to hug him, but she moved over quickly to where Will was.

"Haven't seen you in, what, months? /It's good to see you./"

And that last part she did in the Speech, for emphasis.

[lightbranded]

In return, Will grins as he recognizes the other wizard. (Not that Will often thought of himself as a wizard. But it was one of the names by which humans sometimes described his kind.)

"You as well," he returns in the Old Speech. "It has only been a few months here, then?"

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita stops moving, nods.

"Mmmhmm. ... Connie found out first,"

It's out of her mouth before she can really stop herself.

"I know she'll be glad to see you, too!"

She calms herself down a little, then.

"Did anything happen for you back home? Or did any time pass?"

[lightbranded]

"It was a few months, but nothing terribly unusual happened there." It had been very peaceful, really. He'd written letters to Bran and the Drews, and spent much of his time focusing on his schoolwork.

He smiles slightly. "I'll look forward to meeting her again."

[unfavorableinstigation]

"Guess in some worlds we do get a breather," Nita commented - more than a bit wistful.

Nodding quickly, she gestured to the trail beyond them.

"Mind a walk? I think we can still get you to the Box easily enough."

Or just walk; Will had come back during a quiet time, so odds were they could afford the calm moment.

[lightbranded]

"In my world, the war against the Dark has finished," Will says quietly. "The forces of the Dark were banished from the world, and the forces of the Light went on to other places. And only I remain, to be the watchman for the world."

He had time there now, to learn and grow and explore the world.

"I don't mind the walk."

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita couldn't imagine being the last wizard on Earth, let alone all the rest of existence - but she was the only wizard here, in one sense, wasn't she? So the concept wasn't entirely alien...

She held out a hand to Will on impulse as she started moving, though she pulled it back halfway through the gesture.

[lightbranded]

Will reacts with confusion at her gesture for a brief moment. It takes him a moment to recognize it for what it is. But when he does he smiles softly, although still with an edge of sadness, and reaches out to take her hand.

Will did not grieve for what had happened. More, he understood that for the rest of his kind this was a time of joy. For their long task was finally complete.

Still, it was very lonely.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Still kind of sucks when everyone else gets to 'move on' but you.

All that's left are the memories...

Nita sighed after a few minutes of walking, looking up at the sky suddenly.

"... Y'know, I've never actually checked how many people Wake up twice, let alone regain their memories after the fact."

She'd noted when people had, just not run a tally.

[lightbranded]

"I can't recall it happening to anyone else while I was here before. Has it been many people?"

He wasn't sure whether to hope that it was something common, or another oddity he could attribute to what he was.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita shook her head.

"I think, of the people I know who are still here, V has..."

But apart from him, most had since gone back to Sleep, or set out to explore the worlds.

[lightbranded]

"But not that many, considering." Will is silent as he considers this. "I wonder what the reason could be?"

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita's sigh this time is longer.

"Maybe... if they stop being suited to Wake once, getting over that hump and Waking again has more of a block?"

It was hardly a theory, by her standards.

[lightbranded]

"It's possible, I suppose." But he was doubtful about it. "What causes someone to stop being suited to Wake, I wonder?"

Privately, Will suspects that his own disappearance and return here was because of the Light. In his life, many things that seemed to be coincidences just happened to bring him to the place and time he needed to be. It wasn't a far reach that the same could be true here.

[unfavorableinstigation]

"... Lack of sustained willingness to commit?"

It's both the most general description she can think of, yet somehow not enough.

"They're probably preoccupied with what's happened back home, for them, or something serious happened here to just make them... not want to be here anymore."

That wasn't to say Nita believed in coincidences either, but still.

[lightbranded]

"In that case, I wonder what has to change to make people suited again. I can't think of anything unusual happening recently."

[unfavorableinstigation]

"One of the biggest factors might just be time."

As annoying as that could be.

"But if you do think of something, mind letting me know as well?"