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???: “Impressive. You got here faster than even I expected.”
Tyto: “Huh! No… let… me sleep in.”
???: “Boy you are already asleep.”
Tyto: “WHAT!”
Tyto: “No, no this isn’t right.”
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Tyto: “...”
Tyto: “This, IS wrong.”
Tyto: “I shouldn't be here.”
???: “Yet, you are here Tyto.”
Tyto: “YOU, you did this to me!”
???: “My name is Pine Dust, not ‘YOU’.”
Tyto: “Whatever acorn send me home!”
Pine Dust: “P-I-N-E-D-U.”
Tyto: “I know how to spell!”
Pine Dust: “Yet can you understand?”
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Tyto: “You did something to me… and then you....”
Tyto: “You're still dead aren’t you?”
Tyto: “Wait, I’m dead?!”
Pine Dust: “Yes and NO. In that order.”
Pine Dust: “Your gut instinct is also correct. This is the path of the underworld.”
Tyto: “…. What do you want from me?”
Pine Dust: “Your potential, with normal eyes you perceive better than most.”
Tyto: “That’s total cow dung!”
Pine Dust: “You saw me at the fair when no one else did.”
Pine Dust: “You recognised me even now, without flesh.”
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Tyto: “What are you talking about?”
Tyto: “Wait! You're a skeleton!”
Tyto: “What happened to your face!?”
Pine Dust: lets out a strange audible sign.
Pine Dust: “I am dead of course, I have no longer a need for flesh.”
Pine Dust: “Now, as I was saying….”
Pine Dust: “Your potential.”
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Pine Dust: “My time was running out, I needed to find a successor.”
Tyto: “Hey, hey I don’t want to die yet.”
Tyto: “I have things, I want to do.”
Tyto: “I don’t know what, but I will figure it out!”
Tyto: “Don’t just go killing me off like that!”
Pine Dust: “Relax, you will be visiting death, not the other way around.”
Tyto: “Visiting, like now?”
Pine Dust: “Yes, you are a death dreamer now Tyto!”
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Tyto: “So I get no say in this?!”
Pine Dust: “HEHEH give yourself some credit- you already made a decision.”
Tyto: “What! All I did was point you out.”
Pine Dust: “What happened when you did? What would have happened if you did not?”
Pine Dust: “Do you regret meetings that followed?”
Tyto: “Well, it was completely crazy. Faraine is… herself.”
Pine Dust: “So if I offered you a do over would you change your mind?”
Tyto: “Hmmm. Well things turned out alright.”
Tyto: “I guess not.”
Pine Dust: “Good, I can’t change what has happened to you.”
Tyto: “You’re just yanking my chain now.”
Pine Dust: “Since you insist, I will.”
Pine Dust: “Speaking of which, keep up now….”
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Pine Dust: “We help find closure for the living.”
Pine Dust: “We ensure the dead are not the toys of the misguided.”
Tyto: “Toys of the misguided?”
Pine Dust: “Ever hear stories of a necromancer’s undead uprising?”
Tyto: “As a story cliché, sure, MUHAHAH my undead minions shall rule the world!”
Pine Dust: “They are not just stories; we ensure they are stopped, so life can continue.”
Pine Dust: “We, Death Dreamers are also shepherds to the lost.”
Tyto: “Ah huh, so I’m going to be helping the dead pass on?”
Pine Dust: “What do you think we have been doing this entire time?”
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Tyto: “We have?”
Pine Dust: “Well this is your first time. I figure I would help you.”
Tyto: “Are they even souls, - or are they are skeletons?”
Pine Dust: “They appear as incomplete husks to you.”
Pine Dust: “As your knowledge and enlightenment grows…”
Pine Dust: “You will able to see this place and its’ travellers more clearly.”
Tyto: “Wait! Whose souls are these?”
Pine Dust: “Here is a hint their deaths were…”
Pine Dust: “Quite desperate.”
Tyto: “They are Lonzo’s bandits…”
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Tyto: “I… I”
Pine Dust: “You had to defend yourself and your friends Tyto.”
Tyto: “What happens to them now?”
Pine Dust: “Normally they would see the minstrel, instead they shall go directly to the judge.”
Tyto: “Ermmm yeah, I will pretend to know what that means.”
Tyto: “Any more surprises for me?”
Pine Dust: “Only one, come with me.”
Pine Dust: “There is something I want you to see.”
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Tyto: “A crystal chunky table, with matching chairs.”
Tyto: “There is no one there, but...the chairs are not empty….”
???: “kwjehrjwehr”
???: “EHGHEHGHEGH”
Pine Dust: “My apologies for interrupting.”
Pine Dust: “I thought it would be interesting if you would get a look at this one.”
???: “314kj234h.”
Tyto: “What language are they speaking in?”
Pine Dust: “The same one we are speaking.”
Pine Dust: “Your mind needs to expand, before you can understand them.”
Tyto: “I… this is… ugh.”
Tyto: begins to keel over.
Pine Dust: “We are out time, go to ….”
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