She scratched the back of her head awkwardly. "There's not someone else I can talk to about this is there? I mean, not that I have anything against you, but you can't really..talk? And I have lots of questions."
As the sound fades, quiet laughter comes from behind Kohaku. A young woman with blue hair is standing there, in a skin-tight suit of white polymers, glowing blue lines of LEDs traced up along them.
"You really want me to handle this, big brother?" she says, a ghost of the same autotuned sound in her voice, plainly addressing the wolfling, and he yips once, then flops on his side, making room on the yoga mat beside him for her.
Smiling, she walks forward and kneels, plainly amused by the situation.
"That was clever," she says. "Okay. Ask SAGE any questions you want, and I'll translate for him."
Kohaku flinched when she heard someone laughing behind her. She was very hard to sneak up on, but whoever this person was, she'd managed it. That was unnerving.
She did her best to present a calm face by the time the woman sat down. A dozen questions were bouncing around in her head, but the most pressing one was "...Where am I?"
She glances at the wolf, who stare up at her for a moment, and she nods and turns back to Kohaku.
"This isn't a place. It's an idea. This is what SAGE thinks of as most suitable for exchanging ideas. Like any idea, it's malleable, and the rules it follows aren't the same as the rules for four-dimensional spacetime." She rolls her eyes. "Sorry, he insisted on being precise."
"Omniscience is great that way," she says, cheerfully.
Again, she makes eye contact with the wolf before answering.
"Where you're sent next, he wants you to be thoughtful, to keep your distance, to take time before deciding on a course of action. Try to understand the situations you find yourself in."
SAGE barks, interrupting her, and she shoots him a look, then nods, reluctantly.
"You're being sent on a journey. You were drawn by a group of us, but SAGE is the one you suited best, and he's hoping you'll help him. Which I don't mind - I've got plenty of Travelers of my own. If he wins, he'll be able to set you back right where and when he took you from."
"I'll only be here if he invites me back rather than shapeshifting the way a proper host would. And there's no plan for a second audience, but..." she shrugs. "Glitch happens. You never know."
She looks at the wolf. "You can shapeshift? You should have just done that from the start instead of resorting to the whole 'one bark for yes two barks for no' thing."
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Best get this over with.
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More thinking, then.
"Will I know it when I see it?"
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She scratched the back of her head awkwardly. "There's not someone else I can talk to about this is there? I mean, not that I have anything against you, but you can't really..talk? And I have lots of questions."
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"You really want me to handle this, big brother?" she says, a ghost of the same autotuned sound in her voice, plainly addressing the wolfling, and he yips once, then flops on his side, making room on the yoga mat beside him for her.
Smiling, she walks forward and kneels, plainly amused by the situation.
"That was clever," she says. "Okay. Ask SAGE any questions you want, and I'll translate for him."
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She did her best to present a calm face by the time the woman sat down. A dozen questions were bouncing around in her head, but the most pressing one was "...Where am I?"
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"This isn't a place. It's an idea. This is what SAGE thinks of as most suitable for exchanging ideas. Like any idea, it's malleable, and the rules it follows aren't the same as the rules for four-dimensional spacetime." She rolls her eyes. "Sorry, he insisted on being precise."
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Hmmm... "Sage wanted me to do something, but obviously couldn't tell me what. What was it?"
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Again, she makes eye contact with the wolf before answering.
"Where you're sent next, he wants you to be thoughtful, to keep your distance, to take time before deciding on a course of action. Try to understand the situations you find yourself in."
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SAGE barks, interrupting her, and she shoots him a look, then nods, reluctantly.
"You're being sent on a journey. You were drawn by a group of us, but SAGE is the one you suited best, and he's hoping you'll help him. Which I don't mind - I've got plenty of Travelers of my own. If he wins, he'll be able to set you back right where and when he took you from."
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She sat very still for quite a while, thinking, before eventually speaking up again suddenly.
"Alright. If I can't go backwards, I guess I'll go forwards. I'm in."
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"I haven't kept track," she answers, without turning to ask SAGE. "I know they were working on it. Don't know if they managed it, yet."
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She hesitates before standing back up.
"Will I get to talk to either of you again like this?"
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