[ With that, he's no longer elsewhere, though he doesn't exactly appear before Murphy. Time goes a little funny around Ronan, so that it's impossible to pinpoint the moment he arrived, and instead feels like he was there the whole time.
Only... not as the boy who shares Murphy's face.
The thing that is presumably Ronan looks like a flickering light floating in midair, but it can only be seen out of the corner of Murphy's eye. If he looks straight at it, it's obviously not a light at all, but what it is becomes impossible to determine. Murphy's human brain interprets it as music, then corrects it to the smell of iron, and reconfigures it as the branch of a tree. Look away again, and the apparition is undoubtedly light. It's impossible to keep watching. It's hard to stop looking. ]
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[ With that, he's no longer elsewhere, though he doesn't exactly appear before Murphy. Time goes a little funny around Ronan, so that it's impossible to pinpoint the moment he arrived, and instead feels like he was there the whole time.
Only... not as the boy who shares Murphy's face.
The thing that is presumably Ronan looks like a flickering light floating in midair, but it can only be seen out of the corner of Murphy's eye. If he looks straight at it, it's obviously not a light at all, but what it is becomes impossible to determine. Murphy's human brain interprets it as music, then corrects it to the smell of iron, and reconfigures it as the branch of a tree. Look away again, and the apparition is undoubtedly light. It's impossible to keep watching. It's hard to stop looking. ]