Private Unfurling the Past

"Sumi" Carmin was relieved to see him again, wiping a tear from his cheek and nearly going to hug the guy before catching himself. "Great." Carmin nodded, happy to hear that there was a safe way out. He glanced at the other him, who was currently having his situation explained to him about how he'd have to work there and tend to the plants until she deemed him to have learned his lesson. The other him started to bawl, but it wasn't like he could comfort him. It was mostly just uncomfortable being there and kind of embarrassing having Sumi there too.

"Um, let's go then..." He went to the gap and tried to do exactly what Sumi had done. The gap looked pitch black to him, but he trusted that it was safe. He took the leap of faith and sure enough, it was all good.

He raised his head from being face down on the bench and looked around. For the first time, he was actually happy to be on Manta Carlos again. He waited for Sumi to join him. He figured he'd shake awake any second.

Carmin blushed when Sumi mentioned that the memory bothered him. None of that was ever supposed to be shared with anyone. The fact that his greatest low had just been played out like a movie to someone bothered him a fair amount.

"I just found it? I was looking for a book I left somewhere and it bumped into me." He figured it must've been some weird magic trickery thing that a wizard dropped by mistake.

He looked at Sumi with a skeptical expression. "Help people? I don't know, what do you mean?" Carmin's mind jumped to some sort of crazy therapy thing, but it seemed pretty extreme for that.

The explanation of how such a thing could be useful made enough sense. The things Sumi said left Carmin more interested in where the scroll came from.

"You're telling me that the scroll came from you? And hold on, it just magically appeared?" This didn't really make any sense to Carmin, though he didn't think Sumi was lying. It was just stupid magic stuff that couldn't actually be explained. "Is that a normal thing for you? Producing cursed scrolls? You shouldn't just leave stuff like that around." He was still pretty flustered over this whole ordeal.

Seemed like Sumi was definitely the cause now, but it also seemed like he didn't understand what was going on much better than Carmin did. The bit about the deity and Sumi being stored certainly was peculiar, but he chose not to prod.

"You're gonna have to be careful. If you ever find one of those scrolls again you should put it somewhere safe." Carmin's eyes drifted to the scroll that Sumi currently held. "Uh, by the way, can I have that?" He really didn't want to leave his past written on a scroll with someone else, especially if they could dive in and view it whenever they liked.

Carmin nodded as Sumi added that he needed to get control of the ability. It sounded like he was going to handle it all well. The only reason their little incident happened was because he'd never seen the ability happen before.

Taking the scroll from Sumi brought Carmin a fair bit of relief. He gripped it pretty tightly to make sure it wouldn't get away on him. "Thanks..." Later on he'd probably have to find a way to dispose of the scroll. It was kind of risky to just leave something like that hidden in his room.

He turned his eyes to the ground and then spoke another request. "Maybe do you think you can keep whatever you saw a secret?"