Post by Kitsune on Mar 14, 2016 16:20:56 GMT -5
"So what is it, Jack? Why are you and these other people and these creatures that seemed to step straight out of mythology doing this? Why take us here? Why kidnap us? Why treat us nice and teach us things and take care of us? What's the purpose?" Eliot, David, Connor and Aaron were all seated in the Office. It was really just a place to store documents and a meeting room for the camp staff. Jack was seated across from them, not in any chair but on the floor. The middle-aged man had taken off the pendant that held his human disguise together and now was a horse from the waist down.
The man sighed at David's rapid fire questions, wanting this discussion to be on better terms but finding that such a thing was very unlikely. He took a moment to think and gather his thoughts together, calming himself before he answered the teen, "We don't have a choice."
David bit back a growl but his expression twisted into something angry all the same, "What do you mean you don't have a choice?! You always have a choice!"
"No. We don't, Dave. We had a choice, we had many choices. Did you think this was our plan A? Or even plan B? No, it's not."
"Then at least tell us why!"
"These races are dying, David. They've done everything they could to avoid this. Everything. Plans A all the way through freaking Y. They either failed after a couple generations or didn't work at all. We. Are. Dying. Out. If there was another way I assure you we've either done it already and failed or haven't discovered it yet." Jack knew by now that he probably looked as old as he felt right then. He would be a hundred and three years old later this year and have been moving this camp every eight years or so to places where the barrier between the human and mirror realms were thinnest. Every twenty-four years they would move to another country altogether. It was exhausting and Jack didn't know what the others thought but he was so, so tired of doing this.
"That's why you need us? How would that even happen? We're human!" Eliot spoke this time, looking something in between confused and sad and panicked.
"Not for long. By the time you're all 18, Connor, Aaron and David specifically will become a merfolk, like Ms. Green, but maybe not part dolphin. Maybe they'll be a shark or an octopus. You, Eliot, will be a vampire like Mr. Scott."
"I wanna be a shark." Connor said.
"Connor!" David hissed.
"What? These guys need help. Why shouldn't we help them? We could become whatever creature that we're supposed to be, learn about them and what each race has to deal with, go back to the humans under the disguise thingy and see if we can't find a way to fix this through, I don't know, science or something." Connor explained with a shrug. "They clearly don't want to be doing this and nothing will change if we don't do anything, so why not?"
David groaned.
"That's actually not a bad idea." Eliot agreed. "We would probably need more people to be in on this to make actual progress though."
"Not you to!" Aaron rolled his eyes at David's drama.
"David, think for a minute. These beings have nowhere to go, they are essentially trapped in their own realm and moving to our soon-to-be former realm would be a disaster for everyone involved. Even if that were the only problem, it's still a big one. Low population for each race, maybe two hundred thousand at best, low birth rates, medicine and science is pretty much crap or nonexistent compared to what humans have now. Honestly, if you had been paying attention to Mr. Scott you would know these things." David grumbled a bit but did admit that Aaron had a point.
"Okay. Whatever. We're going to have to wait though and not everyone is going to want in on this."
"Ugh." Connor whined. "I hate waiting."
The man sighed at David's rapid fire questions, wanting this discussion to be on better terms but finding that such a thing was very unlikely. He took a moment to think and gather his thoughts together, calming himself before he answered the teen, "We don't have a choice."
David bit back a growl but his expression twisted into something angry all the same, "What do you mean you don't have a choice?! You always have a choice!"
"No. We don't, Dave. We had a choice, we had many choices. Did you think this was our plan A? Or even plan B? No, it's not."
"Then at least tell us why!"
"These races are dying, David. They've done everything they could to avoid this. Everything. Plans A all the way through freaking Y. They either failed after a couple generations or didn't work at all. We. Are. Dying. Out. If there was another way I assure you we've either done it already and failed or haven't discovered it yet." Jack knew by now that he probably looked as old as he felt right then. He would be a hundred and three years old later this year and have been moving this camp every eight years or so to places where the barrier between the human and mirror realms were thinnest. Every twenty-four years they would move to another country altogether. It was exhausting and Jack didn't know what the others thought but he was so, so tired of doing this.
"That's why you need us? How would that even happen? We're human!" Eliot spoke this time, looking something in between confused and sad and panicked.
"Not for long. By the time you're all 18, Connor, Aaron and David specifically will become a merfolk, like Ms. Green, but maybe not part dolphin. Maybe they'll be a shark or an octopus. You, Eliot, will be a vampire like Mr. Scott."
"I wanna be a shark." Connor said.
"Connor!" David hissed.
"What? These guys need help. Why shouldn't we help them? We could become whatever creature that we're supposed to be, learn about them and what each race has to deal with, go back to the humans under the disguise thingy and see if we can't find a way to fix this through, I don't know, science or something." Connor explained with a shrug. "They clearly don't want to be doing this and nothing will change if we don't do anything, so why not?"
David groaned.
"That's actually not a bad idea." Eliot agreed. "We would probably need more people to be in on this to make actual progress though."
"Not you to!" Aaron rolled his eyes at David's drama.
"David, think for a minute. These beings have nowhere to go, they are essentially trapped in their own realm and moving to our soon-to-be former realm would be a disaster for everyone involved. Even if that were the only problem, it's still a big one. Low population for each race, maybe two hundred thousand at best, low birth rates, medicine and science is pretty much crap or nonexistent compared to what humans have now. Honestly, if you had been paying attention to Mr. Scott you would know these things." David grumbled a bit but did admit that Aaron had a point.
"Okay. Whatever. We're going to have to wait though and not everyone is going to want in on this."
"Ugh." Connor whined. "I hate waiting."