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1: Melissa looks to Julia, eyebrows furrowed in concern. Julia nods in reluctant affirmation.
2: Melissa’s hand now holds the gem.
Mel: What… is she?
Rhoda: The Black Dog, you mean?
3: Rhoda has turned away from them and is pulling a tea pot down from a shelf.
Rhoda: If you had asked me that question a hundred years ago, I would have struggled to find the words to really make you understand.
A scar in reality? No, that implies a grievous injury.
A virus or vermin? That implies an unnatural propagation of a natural entity.
Thankfully, you all eventually invented the perfect word for her:
4: Her hands strike a match.
Rhoda: Kenazil is a glitch. She is something that should not be.
5: Her hands are tending to wood inside the stove; she’s lighting the tinder.
Rhoda: She comes from so very, very far away. She was a mistake given form, and now she is here, where she does not belong.
Curiouser and curiouser!
I had been speculating that maybe the black dog was created due to whatever created the black idol (as we know it now anyway), as a sort of cosmic backlash or counterbalance. But this new information seems to go against that.
I’m excited to see where this goes!
Drain you of your sanity, Face The Thing That Should Not Be.
The Black Dog is a glitch? Curious. I suppose that explains why she’s able to work so effectively against Black Idol, though. No matter how much it’s “part of the reality”, a glitch is a break and twist where reality stops working the way it should.
This feels like a mean way to refer to what is clearly Best Girl.
Given the truth of what reality is here though, it clearly could *use* a glitch or two.
See, the way that they’re talking about the dog has me worried they have it out for her. That said, they clearly know the girls want to use the dog’s particular talents, and while I wouldn’t put it past any elder entity to lie, they rarely do so in so straightforward a way. I really wonder what the game is.
Is Kenazil actually Miranda?
Who’s that?