Terrence's hearing will clue him in to a very important arrival directly behind him as he approaches the condiment-dog.
There's the soft tap of a footstep and, if he whirls around to look, he'll be greeted by an absolutely massive presence. But if he was thinking it was the Wizard he knew, he's wrong: the body is all wrong. It isn't the usual small, petite form of the current year's Wizard. There's muscle and height and an awful coat that looks both pristine and tattered at the same time.
While the defining feature, the hat, is present... the pajamas are absent. Instead they're wearing black robes decorated with deep purple clouds and blue stars. They turn at Gyre's arrival, revealing that they're wearing what can only be compared to a plague doctor's mask. Not a single inch of skin is showing and their eyes are hidden behind tinted glass. Instead of a long beak on the front of their mask, the mouth section is a maw of sharp teeth that, even parted, shows nothing behind it.
They exhale, unmistakable steam rising from their mouth for just a moment, and then they're gone. There's a flickering crackle as they vanish, wisps of smoke and sparkles filling the air where they'd just been standing.
Whatever they were examining Terrence for, it looks like they're finished.
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There's the soft tap of a footstep and, if he whirls around to look, he'll be greeted by an absolutely massive presence. But if he was thinking it was the Wizard he knew, he's wrong: the body is all wrong. It isn't the usual small, petite form of the current year's Wizard. There's muscle and height and an awful coat that looks both pristine and tattered at the same time.
While the defining feature, the hat, is present... the pajamas are absent. Instead they're wearing black robes decorated with deep purple clouds and blue stars. They turn at Gyre's arrival, revealing that they're wearing what can only be compared to a plague doctor's mask. Not a single inch of skin is showing and their eyes are hidden behind tinted glass. Instead of a long beak on the front of their mask, the mouth section is a maw of sharp teeth that, even parted, shows nothing behind it.
They exhale, unmistakable steam rising from their mouth for just a moment, and then they're gone. There's a flickering crackle as they vanish, wisps of smoke and sparkles filling the air where they'd just been standing.
Whatever they were examining Terrence for, it looks like they're finished.
And they're gone.