[h3]Darius [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/2798916]→[/url][/h3]	[@Laue]
	The young, hot-tempered Agrellon exploded in a verbal fit of rage at John in the instance John's nastier magic manifested and preached death to John. The immediate shift in demeanor made Darius take a few guarded footfalls backwards, but the captain and Syldric quickly curbed Agrellon's wrath to prevent escalation.

	That display of restraint soothed the high school student, and he felt his shoulders relax. Under the boughs of the surrounding arcane trees, the elves pressed further into the interrogation. Darius looked above at the flora, which he had only recently acquainted himself with, in curious fascination while John cut into the details of the journey thus far and the dreams of the godlings. The minutiae of the dream John had correct to the letter, but in the discourse about the cosmology of the world, John swayed into uncertainty and misunderstanding. Yes, John was knowledgeable on Earth, but his knowledge of their current whereabouts was limited. Out of social intuition, Darius surmised that John could neither comprehend the world they found themselves in nor defect from the precepts of his earthly perspective.

	[b]"Now, uh, hold on,"[/b] the young man interrupted before the conversation imparted from the current tangent, and he readied himself to qualify all the assumptions. [b]"We are not from the Planetae."[/b] [i]Great Barrier... Planetae... wandering star cities...[/i] Taking a marked glance aimed directly above, he hastily pieced together his thesis then and there before speaking again. [b]"I assume that the Great Barrier is like an atmosphere of sorts... this world has an upward bound that cannot be crossed. And the Planetae are not [i]beyond[/i] the Great Barrier, but they are rather under it. So,"[/b] Darius paused to look in John's direction and then at the elves who now became the target of the teenager's dialog, [b]"the Planetae are basically floating cities and islands. We are not from there. We are definitely from beyond the Great Barrier and beyond this world entirely."[/b]

	Darius paced around for a short while and attempted to fix glasses on his face but was met with skin. [b]"Oops, I don't have glasses anymore."[/b] His sight was much clearer without glasses, so much so that he mistook his new clarity [i]for glasses.[/i] He pondered what he knew then about that foreign place, and he drew a long breath of focus while he created a way to convey what he wanted to say without creating further confusion. [b]"No. We indeed come from a world beyond the Great Barrier. I can understand that it runs contrary to the world you know, but it runs contrary as well to the world I knew."[/b]

	He stopped in his tracks and turned to look Syldric in the eye. [b]"That woman. She, or somebody at least, brought John—"[/b] Darius briefly gestured with an open palm at his acquaintance then held his hand to his own chest, [b]"and I here to this world. Where we are from there is indeed no magic. The question of god in our world is disputed."[/b] The brunet waved his hand in the air at the wildlife, saying, [b]"Here, obviously, the opposite is true. Suffice to say, the certainty of those facts here is more comforting to me than the shakiness of opinion in my world."[/b] Shifting his weight to one foot, he brought his hands to his sides and peered into the captain's eyes. [b]"I know that what John and I have said sounds wrong and blasphemous, but please be patient with me."[/b] He wished in earnest for the elves to hold back on their scrutiny. If they saw his innocence and his benevolence, perhaps they would be more relenting. [b]"May we, uh,"[/b] Darius cleared his throat stiffly, [b]"make peace?"[/b]