A The first thing Ankh notices when he gets back to the Hub is that his senses seem to be normal. The second is the lack of a certain creepy and nauseating presence that he isn't anywhere close to identifying. Between the two, he probably is visibly relieved. He also seems a bit distracted. But that's not surprising, considering he has a whole set of memories to finish processing, not to mention whatever useful bits can be pulled out of what the cat said, and whatever that thing was. He's just going to be keeping to himself for a bit, though it's possible to approach him.
B Compared to the silence of having his ability to sense desires being cut off for a while in his world, the Hub is almost unbearably noisy. A lot of desires. A lot of wishes to live. He's noticed before, and wondered, but he didn't have any particular reason to care. Now, though, it reminds him of something the cat said, about many Alices before who never woke up. Is that what all those are, then? If so, "many" seems to be an understatement, and Ankh isn't quite sure what to make of that.
For a while, still, he tunes it all out, lost in his own thoughts. But eventually, it's hard to ignore the fact that a couple of those mysterious presences stick out from the crowd. He's never been curious enough before to try to make them out, but at this point, after what he just experienced with some other presence making itself all too known, maybe that knowledge would be worth something. So he tries.
It takes effort. Too much effort. He doesn't get very far before he passes out.
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The first thing Ankh notices when he gets back to the Hub is that his senses seem to be normal. The second is the lack of a certain creepy and nauseating presence that he isn't anywhere close to identifying. Between the two, he probably is visibly relieved. He also seems a bit distracted. But that's not surprising, considering he has a whole set of memories to finish processing, not to mention whatever useful bits can be pulled out of what the cat said, and whatever that thing was. He's just going to be keeping to himself for a bit, though it's possible to approach him.
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Compared to the silence of having his ability to sense desires being cut off for a while in his world, the Hub is almost unbearably noisy. A lot of desires. A lot of wishes to live. He's noticed before, and wondered, but he didn't have any particular reason to care. Now, though, it reminds him of something the cat said, about many Alices before who never woke up. Is that what all those are, then? If so, "many" seems to be an understatement, and Ankh isn't quite sure what to make of that.
For a while, still, he tunes it all out, lost in his own thoughts. But eventually, it's hard to ignore the fact that a couple of those mysterious presences stick out from the crowd. He's never been curious enough before to try to make them out, but at this point, after what he just experienced with some other presence making itself all too known, maybe that knowledge would be worth something. So he tries.
It takes effort. Too much effort. He doesn't get very far before he passes out.