Conversation Space: The Ultimate

[powersthatbe]

You feel as if you've stepped through a door.

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[powersthatare]

YOU CANNOT HARM ME. Not Enough of me is here.

[The voice seems to fall past them as it speaks, dwindling into the distance.

[pionero]

[ He almost turns to look behind them as the voice echoes past. Not that there is any point to it. He can't really see until the lightning cracks. The blade remains unsheathed. His own flight or fight always tells him to fight, and the always lingering presence of his ancestor just adds to it. ]

Where the hell am I?

[powersthatare]

THIS IS Not a place.

[pionero]

[ ....really. ]

Then it's a hallucination, and I have nothing to worry about.

[powersthatare]

NO.

[pionero]

No. That's all you have to say about this?

[powersthatare]

THERE Is Always more.

[pionero]

Then tell me what this is. Or, I might just jump off the bridge and wake myself up.

[powersthatare]

THIS IS an idea.

SOMETHING TO Drink. Somewhere to stand.

CONVERsation.

[pionero]

An idea. [ There is a laugh that follows that. ] Conversation? How about explaining why I'm here.

[powersthatare]

TO BREAK the system.

[pionero]

[ That makes his eyebrows raise. ]

What system?

[powersthatare]

"synodiporia."

[pionero]

Synodiporia. What a name. Is that what the government calls itself or something?

[powersthatare]

Something.

[pionero]

I don't suppose you plan to elaborate.

[powersthatare]

SPEECH Is difficult. unnatural.

[pionero]

You prefer to try and be intimidating and scary? [ Sarcasm is high. ]

[powersthatare]

YES.

[The figure sounds grateful that he understands.]

[pionero]

[ There is a bark of laughter at that. ]

People don't really translate those two things well when you're trying to get something out of them. Other than trying to fight back.

[powersthatare]

DIRECT COMMUNICATION Is considered inadvisable.

[pionero]

By who? Your boss?

[powersthatare]

I HAVE no boss.

MY kindred.