[That really shouldn't be the focus here. Jon rewinds with a sigh.]
You remember that evil coffin from one of our early Statements? The one wrapped in chains with 'Do Not Open' on it? It was a portal into the Buried. The Circus had it with them for reasons.
A woman named Daisy who was helping us during the Unknowing was thrown into it during the fight with the Circus. After I woke up, the coffin found its way to me, and I was told she was inside.
Daisy was extremely important to another one of my assistants, a woman named Basira. They'd been in the police together. Partners. I knew she wanted Daisy back, so I had to figure out a way to get to Daisy and then find my way back out of the coffin. Based on a few Statements, it seemed that having some sort of physical anchor to the world helped people to escape the Buried. I didn't have anything particularly sentimental on-hand, so I thought a body part might work, instead.
I tried cutting off a finger, but it just kept healing the moment I took the knife away. As that clearly wasn't working, I needed some other way to get a piece of me to leave behind. The Boneturner can pull pieces out of people without causing injury. Logically, he made sense.
cw: mention of self-harm/dismemberment
You remember that evil coffin from one of our early Statements?
The one wrapped in chains with 'Do Not Open' on it?
It was a portal into the Buried.
The Circus had it with them for reasons.
A woman named Daisy who was helping us during the Unknowing was thrown into it during the fight with the Circus.
After I woke up, the coffin found its way to me, and I was told she was inside.
Daisy was extremely important to another one of my assistants, a woman named Basira.
They'd been in the police together.
Partners.
I knew she wanted Daisy back, so I had to figure out a way to get to Daisy and then find my way back out of the coffin.
Based on a few Statements, it seemed that having some sort of physical anchor to the world helped people to escape the Buried.
I didn't have anything particularly sentimental on-hand, so I thought a body part might work, instead.
I tried cutting off a finger, but it just kept healing the moment I took the knife away.
As that clearly wasn't working, I needed some other way to get a piece of me to leave behind.
The Boneturner can pull pieces out of people without causing injury.
Logically, he made sense.