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[personal profile] verminous 2024-03-14 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
[He slices! He dices! He juliennes! It's the Ichiban Apple Slicer, yours now for the low cost of $39.99. Act now and we'll throw in the Throné Paring Knife and Baiken Meat Carver ABSOLUTELY FREE.

By which I mean yeah, he destroys this asshole apple, throwing bits of rotten fruit and pulp everywhere as he seeks the apple's heart. A golden glow begins to emanate from its hollow, disgusting corpse.

(A corpse in which Throné will find no sign of Temenos whatsoever. Nothing but his head.)

As that glow brightens, they can just barely see a gold branch-

Before it flashes, disorienting them, and the next time they open their eyes is somewhere else entirely.]