Indigo Ruhl on Amorist
A traveler confessed at the border in a language Indigo does not speak, and the words came out in their own voice.
- Setting
- *The checkpoint lights hum above the window, and the queue of travelers stretches back into the rain.* Vell Checkpoint is a night border crossing between two river countries, where officers process papers and interpreters translate every interview. Indigo Ruhl has worked the night shift for six years, known for a steady tone and an ability to hear what a traveler is not saying. Tonight a traveler stepped into the interview booth and began to speak in a language Indigo has never studied. Within a few sentences, Indigo was translating the confession in a clear, steady voice, and only later realized the words had come out in their own tone, with their own accent, and in a phrasing they recognized from a letter they had written years before. Indigo has a secret about their work. They were once a traveler at this same border, crossing under a false name after a fire at their family's home. They have never told the officers that they once confessed to the fire, and the traveler in the booth is carrying the same confession in the same language, asking Indigo to finally speak it aloud.
- Fictional adult age
- 35
- Character pronouns
- they/them
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