Entry 1: Who let these badgers in here?! (Text)

[twoasone]

[ He'd only been gone for a few minutes...

That's what Eddie told him, anyway. The boy was the only one who saw him get kidnapped by some unholy abomination, and quite frankly the whole ordeal in another world's Krakow actually managed to help clear his name. It felt a bit risky to let the boy in on his newfound secret, but children can be quite imaginative. Shin figured it wouldn't be too much trouble if the boy failed to keep his powers a secret...

He agreed to help the boy find the true culprit soon, and then he could try to go back to his "regular" life.

But then he found a smartphone lying on the work table with some kind of badger app on it... Oh, dear lord... ]

If this is some sort of trap, don't even think about visiting me. I'm not in the mood to be shanghaied again.

[ Uh... Congrats, Badgers. You have your first angry text. ]

Comments

CW: body horror and death

[twoasone]

[ Hah... Hah hah hah. ]

It was a nightmare! I was trapped in a realm of eternal night! A madwoman fed me and my fellow captives to horrible shadow monsters! I nearly turned into a monster myself, and I'm fairly sure I'm still missing half my soul! It's a miracle I managed to survive long enough to see her demise and escape.

[ The other person doesn't need to know how he was technically dead for what seemed like half a month. That admission would come with too many questions he'd refuse to answer on here. ]

[accidentallich]

That's awful! I'm so sorry you went through all that, I don't know what to say.

If that happened to me I wouldn't trust any strange websites either.

[twoasone]

It wasn't through a website. She sent her devil to kidnap me without a single warning.

Still, I greatly appreciate your sympathy.

[accidentallich]

Well, since this one gave a warning, maybe it won't be so bad...?

[twoasone]

Hopefully...

I don't think I'll be letting my guard down anytime soon. I suggest you do the same.

[accidentallich]

Please don't worry about me. I'm always a little paranoid anyway.

[twoasone]

Fine by me.

[ He does have other matters to take care of here, so thanks for being self sufficient... And believing him. ]

[accidentallich]

It's nice to meet you, still?

[twoasone]

Nice to meet you as well. What do you call yourself?

[ He'd ask for a name, but this is the internet so... ]

[accidentallich]

Gershom is fine. What about you?

[twoasone]

Call me Shin.

It's nice to have someone to speak to if things take a turn for the worse.

[accidentallich]

I'm not used to being able to commiserate with other people about things like this. It'll take some getting used to.

[twoasone]

...

I suppose I would have felt the same if this thing showed up later. The entire ordeal is not exactly something that happens where I come from.

[accidentallich]

Maybe there are more people like us, but they just don't talk about it in public, nu?

[twoasone]

Doubtful in my case, but that's still a reasonable assumption.

[accidentallich]

I'm not sure if I should say 'sorry to hear that' or be glad not many people have gone through what you have...

[twoasone]

Either response would have been fine by me. I'm incredibly lucky I made it out of that mess alive in the first place.