Drew feels something tall gently put a hand on his shoulder. Drew grabs the hand and reflexively tries to flip whoever or whatever it is over his shoulder. They get flipped as Drew hears a loud thunk.
"Oh my gosh I'm sorry, are you ok?" Drew tries to help them up. The darkness dissipates slightly as Drew can see it's Sparrow on the ground, without a face and longer limbs. He's helped up.
"Hey Sparrow, since when are you taller than me?" He jokes. Sparrow looks at him but doesn't say anything.
"Oh right, the whole mouth thing. Did Lock come in here? I just wanted to make sure they were ok."
She's not anywhere to be seen, Sparrow tilts his head slightly.
"Yeah I don't know how you're not affecting me either. I assume that's the question you're asking, kinda hard to tell."
Sparrow nods.
"Well let's think about this logically." Drew crosses his hands behind his back and starts pacing. "You have Dromen powers I'm assuming?"
Sparrow nods.
"Ok, that's a good baseline to start from. And Dromen, like Corrupteds, can't affect each other with the sickness thing, which again I'm assuming this is."
Sparrow puts his head down some and nods.
"So if A equals B, and B equals C, logically speaking, A equals C. A equals B in this case being you not affecting me, and B equals C being Dromen can't affect other Dromen, then again logically speaking, A equals C means I'm a Dromen too." Drew sighs and sits down. "That's a lot to take in all at once."
Sparrow tilts his head again.
"I know, right? It doesn't make sense at all, you're the first Dromen I've had close contact with since after the mass alter. So if I've had zero contact with one since before then, I would have to have been a Corrupted or in the process of becoming one before then, and then was changed in the alter too."
Sparrow puts a hand to his chin as if thinking as some darkness fades away.
"That's the only answer that makes sense, right? I'm not going crazy?"
Sparrow nods.
"Well, that explains an awful lot. Even going back a while. I'm sorry," Drew says suddenly, "I came in here to check on you and Lock and made this entirely about myself. Are you good?"
Sparrow holds out his hand flat and wobbles it side to side as if to say so/so. Cole appears and fucking face plants into grass.
"Yeah, I get that. I do feel a bit better now than I did earlier if you can believe that." Drew looks over at Cole. "Should we help him?"
Sparrow shrugs.
Cole groans, "Stupid bitches talkin about thussy."
"Yeah, I'm sure he'll be fine. Hey, you don't mind keeping this to yourself for a bit, do you?" Drew asks.
Sparrow nods.
"I'm out, bitches," Cole disappears.
"Well that's not weird at all. Hey, where's Lock?"
Sparrow glances around then shrugs.
"Eh, I'm sure she'll show up, right? She can't have gone far."
Sparrow shrugs.
"Do you have anything you need to get off your chest?"
Sparrow starts making motions as if he's giving a long and serious talk for a long while, but there's no sound. Drew nods his head, inferring a lot of what he thinks is being said but being pretty sure he was entirely wrong. He seems to have asked something and pauses as he stares at Drew.
"Umm, I'm really sorry, but because you don't have a mouth I couldn't follow what you were saying, I thought by the end I'd have it figured out but I didn't. I'm sorry."
Sparrow face palms.
"Look, I'm new at all of..." Drew gestures around. "You know, this. Should I be able to understand you like this?"
Sparrow shrugs and seems defeated.
"I'm sorry, if I knew how to get you to turn back this would be a lot easier. Wait," he says, suddenly struck by an idea. "Dromen are powered by an emotion, and exposure to that emotion makes you stronger, right? So holding on to that emotion triggers your transformation it seems like. Have you tried letting go?"
Sparrow seems to be thinking.
"I'm sorry I can't be more helpful, I only have a very basic working knowledge of this stuff."
Sparrow gives him a thumbs up.
"Well, if you do figure it out, let me know, it could end up being helpful. I have a class to go teach though, so take care of yourself, ok?"
Sparrow gives a thumbs up. Drew pops out in a flash of gold.