Revelation

I spoke with KK Collins, the new girl at White Elephants, today. It was cool to chat with her and I wish her lots of luck as she prepares to rescue her sister.

She revealed something to me about Ava's use of a mysterious liquid to remove the slender substance from a proxy's body and make them normal again that I missed. Well, Ava's liquid was Reach's blood. The blood of a Revenant. So this is lovely. We know what we can use but we have no Taben and no source of blood.

Ai, I think it's time we did what I suggested a few posts ago. I'm sure you recall my discussion with slendy on the making of Revenants and how he can use any proxy to channel the power of the Other Side. Well, I'm fairly certain, Ai, that you could do that to me. It might not last long since you don't have a huge amount of control over your powers, but if we can do it long enough to take some of my blood maybe we can use it to save Taben. I remember Ygg saying he couldn't make Revenants at all, but all you have to do is use me as a conduit for your power for a few minutes and the conditions will be right.

The other option is to goad It into sending a Revenant of Its own creation at us and try to subdue him or her long enough to take blood. That, however, sounds more dangerous than it's worth.

So yeah, now we know. It's definitely worth a shot and thanks so much to KK for suggesting it (wow...KK, your name reminds me of KK Slider from Animal Crossing...I am a nerd).

Now the only problem is finding Taben...

Yeah, wish us luck on that.

Edit:

I just finished looking over Ava, Jeff and Cheska, and Chester and Vivi's blogs. They all confirm what KK told me. This should be interesting.

Home at last

It's wonderful to be out of that place. The Path of Black Leaves definitely isn't meant for humans. Even me, a proxy, could hardly stand it.

Ai, please don't think of it as a betrayal. I'm happy to be your proxy, it's what we'd been thinking about all along, isn't it? Slendy couldn't take me because I wouldn't let him in. You, on the other hand, I trust and I wouldn't close my mind off to you involuntarily like I do to slendderp. So, it's okay. Don't let it freak you out. I'm fine with it and with you I know I won't become some mindless Hallowed.

Chastin came back this morning, too. He got here just in time to see me just kind of appear in front of him holding on to Ai. The look on his face was priceless. I guess you can really only tell that a portal to the Path of Black Leaves has been opened when you're around trees and can see their leaves turn black...

Anyway, first I slapped him, then I gave him a monster hug and kiss (maybe that's a little cliche...). He apologized to me and told me that he needed a little more time away. I told him it was fine. Slendy was right the last time I talked with him, Chas needs time to understand all of this.

So yeah, it's nice not being surrounded by horrible monsters for a change. I guess we know now why slendy wanted to bring me into the Path of Black Leaves. He wanted to see whether or not I was already a proxy. Lovely...well, I'm fairly happy with how things turned out.

Thanks, Ai. I owe you cookies.