Your New Life

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Another New Life

You wake up to the sound of surf, much, much closer than you've ever heard it unless you moseyed down to Puffin Pier back in the old days. What old days...? Why, the days when you had a body, of course. The memories are probably coming back by now, jumbled along with everything else you lost. What a wake-up call.

But at least the ocean is real, unlike your dubiously fragmented remembrances. This little island out in the middle of nowhere sports a crude sign reading DUCK DAMNED ISLAND that seems like it's really railing against whatever fate you've been left to. There are little seashells and sparkling fragments amongst the sand to the left of your face. If you look further, to the left and right, it seems you're not the only one who's woken up here; it's considerably less cushy than your last wakeup, but maybe that's not a bad thing.

Here, you're free, albeit... kind of incorporeal, as you'll soon find out. The island is covered in pretty little trees that don't quite form a forest, bowed over the really beautiful sandy beach that is way prettier than the one on the mainland. One, slightly rickety treehouse -- bare of anything, because incorporeal ghosts don't need furniture, of course -- peeks out from between the leaves. This is, apparently, your home away from home now.

Finally, there's a small bay-like area on the island that leads you to a strange-looking storm drain, marked with a symbol that's not-quite-an-apple. Stepping in will wash you alllllll the way back up to Puffin Pier, right where the sewers normally let out.

Oh, and once you step onto the mainland? You're now a duck. What kind of quacking afterlife is this.

((OOC: the tldr; about death is here!))

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[unenvying]

[ SQUINTS for like 0.5 seconds because looming with a wave is slightly different from looking at keito straight on, but it's enough to get him to sit up and reach over for a hair ruffle. is that allowed? fushigi mystery, he's doing it Anyway! ]

Ahh, Keito~ nice to see you again. And not as a duck.

[ makes a face ]

We still have to eat as ghosts? If so, I'm not hungry... yet. I think.

[driftedaway]

[ he wasn't expecting it, but it's fine? rare for it to happen ever since he grew up so tall though. ]

It's nice to talk to you again without quacking, Wei Wuxian. I was tempted to challenge the spice again, but I couldn't eat that as a duck.

[ and since he says all that, it should be okay to bring up? it's a relief really, being able to say it from the start. ]

And on that note, I think you won't feel hungry unless you're a duck. Which is a double-edged sword.