As with Hen House, the details are a little off. The rickety curve of Moon House is even droopier and more dramatic than in real life, the clang of wind-chimes patches in and out, Sun House looks stubbier, and the colours of its stained-glass front windows are somewhat jumbled.
Sun House is inaccessible. If you knock or try to open the door, voiceless words echo through your head: Go away unless you have hard evidence! You're wrong! You can't be trusted!
It's possible to peer through the windows... the library and kitchen look mostly right, if a bit hastily sketched.
Moon House door swings open if he knocks, though. At the doorway, a wave of information floods through him, about carnivorous plants and constellations and monsters and how to treat one's friends and owl demon sexual characteristics and myths... the information is neatly organized, and there's a visual component to it, the vague impression of a flow-chart. Sorry you now know so much about cloacas. At least it came through fairly clinical and academic.
Inside, it looks like Moon House, complete with ball pit. Some details, again, are just a little off or not quite complete, but it feels familiar. Clearly, Laios's memory isn't perfect.
If he investigates the ball pit, the balls rattle together restlessly. His mind is flooded with information and urgent questions. If someone is taken out if this cycle, will they immediately be stabilized? How best to help them? If one’s nature is changed, that’s harder to get rid of than a curse, right? But at the same time, people grow and change naturally throughout their lives. Is there a way to encourage a soul to grow more whole again? There has to be, right? The questions feel anxious but determined.
And finally, he finds an exit. The trap door that should lead to Moon House's cellar leads back out onto the dark water, beside the snake head at the back of the giant monster.
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Sun House is inaccessible. If you knock or try to open the door, voiceless words echo through your head: Go away unless you have hard evidence! You're wrong! You can't be trusted!
It's possible to peer through the windows... the library and kitchen look mostly right, if a bit hastily sketched.
Moon House door swings open if he knocks, though. At the doorway, a wave of information floods through him, about carnivorous plants and constellations and monsters and how to treat one's friends and owl demon sexual characteristics and myths... the information is neatly organized, and there's a visual component to it, the vague impression of a flow-chart. Sorry you now know so much about cloacas. At least it came through fairly clinical and academic.
Inside, it looks like Moon House, complete with ball pit. Some details, again, are just a little off or not quite complete, but it feels familiar. Clearly, Laios's memory isn't perfect.
If he investigates the ball pit, the balls rattle together restlessly. His mind is flooded with information and urgent questions. If someone is taken out if this cycle, will they immediately be stabilized? How best to help them? If one’s nature is changed, that’s harder to get rid of than a curse, right? But at the same time, people grow and change naturally throughout their lives. Is there a way to encourage a soul to grow more whole again? There has to be, right? The questions feel anxious but determined.
And finally, he finds an exit. The trap door that should lead to Moon House's cellar leads back out onto the dark water, beside the snake head at the back of the giant monster.