Green Labyrinth
Unlike his father, Vulkán is not so easily fooled by the apparition that takes the form of his mother. This is probably because he is not as stupid as his sire - and he doesn't mean that in a derogatory manner, not really, because Volterra's assets lie in other areas, and he's not truly stupid, more....uneducated. The volcano-boy, however, is far too intelligent for his own good; this means that when the ghost materialises in front of him and pretends to be his mother, he simply stares at it with mild interest, as though observing an new species of fungi.
There's another reason why he doesn't fall for the trick as easily as his father does - because he lacks the emotions to do so. He misses his mother, of course he does, but he doesn't understand the true depths of his grief or mourning about her loss. He simply accepts it as fact, and that means he's not as eager as Volterra is to reverse it. Death cannot be reversed. The giantess is gone, never to return, and the colt sees no use in trying to pretend otherwise. All the same, morbid curiosity bids him to follow the Isopia-ghost into the midst. There's dozens of others; there's screaming, too, from living and dead alike. Whilst everybody else thrashes at the spirits or shouts at them or quivers in their depths, Vulkán ambles through them as though they're nothing but fog. He gives a cursory glance to the Isopia-ghost that has fooled his father so well, noting that it is a very convincing copy, albeit translucent. Nor can it truly depict the way that the Mountain carried herself, or her expressions, or her beautiful voice that her son misses, despite his inability to truly understand why. He sees Otem in the crowd of spectres, and ambles over to her as though he's just seen her across a boring meadow and not a ghostly labyrinth filled with the dead. "It is interesting how the ghosts are taking on the forms of the dead, don't you think? That implies a certain level of intelligence and calculation, yet we all know that death is final and that such a finality means the loss of consciousness and sentience. I wonder how they can channel the mental aptitude to take on such forms, despite the fact that they are, by their very nature, already dead?" He speaks to Otem in his usual monotone voice, making no effort to lower it for the benefit of anybody present. Why would he adjust his behaviour for the sake of others around him? It may seem rather odd to see somebody so utterly unaffected by the spirits, but that is Vulkán to a T - odd. |
Vulkán mooches through the spirits without really paying attention to them and speaks to @Otem
