Masqued is very bad at perceiving what he’s like as a person from another person’s perspective. So he can’t tell you much about himself at all. He spends 50% of his time staring the grim-knuckled truth dead in the eye and the other 50% of his time pretending it doesn’t exist. And when he pretends it doesn’t exist, like magic, it doesn’t. People who engage in conversation with him automatically talk backwards and think sideways.

Can you draw a picture of a creature you can see in your mind, and perhaps there are some questions you might like to ask them …

Blind was forced to complete question 23 with a biro-drawn unseen version of himself. He drew a man who couldn’t draw. But when he took the blindfold off, the picture was perfect, making it wrong and right at the same time. Colour-synced with the rest of his 22 answers, this same thread of all-ness tangled itself through all his answers, and proved he was a truth-teller. Blind decided that he wanted to travel the world for the rest of his life, doing nothing but asking people questions about their story.

Persetelephone is an incandescent mother who takes care of wandering renegades, moon-struck orphans and anxious harbingers on her farm, way out past the east border. She teaches her guests to cook with blue-belles, find strangers in the stranger meadows and to swim the rhythm of the short-lived afternoonlia …