The soup drains out of a portal that appeared at the bottom of the cauldron and drop down through another portal onto Aurosseu's hair
"
Now, now, was that necessary? Did you have to ruin the soup I was making with Mavnon?"
Aurosseu notices another of himself in the distance giving him a worried look. He wipes some soup off himself and gives him a thumbs up. The other Aurosseu returns the favour with a smile.
((Note: Aurosseu doesn't usually have hair. His 'head' is a starry night sky inside his robe's hood. Of course, the localized dream logic makes it possible.))
"Catdog clearly~" Nilva points directly above Aurosseu. There is a half cat, half dog thing floating above him.
"
An interesting phenomenon. Hey, watch out."
Aurosseu sees an incoming train some distance away, and notices he's standing on its tracks. He steps aside. However, Nilva's legs seem to be tied to the tracks with some rope.
As he's looking around waiting for the train to pass, he notices there is another Aurosseu by a cauldron set in the distance.
"
Hey, Izgamlo just poured soup on me! How rude!"
He sees the other Aurosseu wipe himself and give him a thumbs up. He gives one back and smiles, then refocuses on Nilva.
"I'm not seeing things again am I?"
"
I'd be more worried if you weren't. After all, you're not wearing a blindfold or anything like that right now."
Mavnon tossed the other leek to the chef, and spoke. "I think you want less a duel of blades but of words. Very well. Let us say perception is everything."
'Three blind men approach a walphant each coming from different sides. One grabs the furless the trunk, another the bushy tail and the last a foot.'
'The first man says "I think its a wake" and knows it to be true."
"The second man disagrees. 'No, its a bushtail'."
"The third man shakes his head and states his own hypothesis. 'You're both wrong; its clearly a defen"
"Though all men are able to perceive separate parts of the whole and believe that what they have is something else, the walphant is clearly a walphant, no matter what each man perceives."
"Though of course, a being of Dreams cares not for such things, yes?"
"
Yes, who said a spar has to be with blades? A wit can be just as sharp, or even more so. To the point, the blind men are not perceiving the whole, only parts, just as you say. The trunk might as well be a wake, the tail might as well that of a bushtail, and the foot might well be one of a defen, but the men extrapolated those assumptions from incomplete data. As they talk, they surely notice their disagreement and examine the walphant closer, eventually leading to the correct identity of the animal. However, to a being of Dreams, the truth of the matter loses meaning, unless I give it some, leading to assumptions becoming just as correct. As you saw, I cut the leek with the sword, even though they were one and the same, and yet not so. A little logical leap like that is quite simple to perform."
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