Yeah, Daniel is definitely relating to this guy's loquaciousness. He lets Julian talk while he gets his equilibrium back, knowing full well how reassuring hearing one's own voice for a bit can be. The hurricane of references, biblical and otherwise, elicit another tired smile.
"Yeah, the real deal." He shakes his head. "Still have trouble wrapping my mind around it, and I used to fight gods for a living. Except he more or less took the physical shape of a pretty average-looking guy in his mid-forties and was kinda in the middle of getting drunk when I met him." Daniel won't go on into the details of that little encounter - like how his vague post-Ascension senses picked up on the thing's demonic nature immediately, how he'd engaged in the verbal equivalent of poking the Devil with a big stick to see what would happen, and generally almost gotten himself killed again.
Julian's query about the Rift rings a little too true.
"That's just about it, yeah. Weird stuff happens, we tend to blame the, uh, spaciotemporal anomaly floating in the middle of Manhattan. And since it apparently breaches multiple universes, well." He makes a wavy, equivocal hand gesture, as if to communicate well, what can you do.
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"Yeah, the real deal." He shakes his head. "Still have trouble wrapping my mind around it, and I used to fight gods for a living. Except he more or less took the physical shape of a pretty average-looking guy in his mid-forties and was kinda in the middle of getting drunk when I met him." Daniel won't go on into the details of that little encounter - like how his vague post-Ascension senses picked up on the thing's demonic nature immediately, how he'd engaged in the verbal equivalent of poking the Devil with a big stick to see what would happen, and generally almost gotten himself killed again.
Julian's query about the Rift rings a little too true.
"That's just about it, yeah. Weird stuff happens, we tend to blame the, uh, spaciotemporal anomaly floating in the middle of Manhattan. And since it apparently breaches multiple universes, well." He makes a wavy, equivocal hand gesture, as if to communicate well, what can you do.