Illusions for everybody around so they don't notice until it's too late, something... else for the people getting kidnapped. Probably kept them subdued.
[It makes him shiver, briefly, where he's bent over the device, remembering the cold press of the stone against his horn and the subtle whisper of the red thread... He shakes the phantom sensation away and focuses back on what he's doing.]
Huh, yeah. It's kinda a theme, isn't it? Twisting your perception...
[Which might, maybe, account for all of it? However it'd be done.]
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[It makes him shiver, briefly, where he's bent over the device, remembering the cold press of the stone against his horn and the subtle whisper of the red thread... He shakes the phantom sensation away and focuses back on what he's doing.]
Huh, yeah. It's kinda a theme, isn't it? Twisting your perception...
[Which might, maybe, account for all of it? However it'd be done.]