Conversation Space: The Ultimate

[powersthatbe]

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

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[rosewater_path]

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."

[haremtrap]

"He's a very smart doggie."

Hmmm... "Sage wanted me to do something, but obviously couldn't tell me what. What was it?"

[rosewater_path]

"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."

[haremtrap]

"Sure. That's probably more or less what I'd do anyways." She shrugged, then hesitated. "Wait. Where I'm sent next?"

[rosewater_path]

"That's right. This is -"

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."

[haremtrap]

"So no chance I'm just gonna wake up and find out this was all some weird dream, then?"

[powersthatare]

"None. Sorry."

[haremtrap]

"Had to ask."

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."

[rosewater_path]

"Glad to hear it. Any more questions before you get started?"

[haremtrap]

"Any chance there's going to be wifi where I'm going?"

[rosewater_path]

That provokes a laugh.

"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."

[haremtrap]

"Well at least I won't be there alone. Having others in the same situation as you makes it feel not quite so daunting."

[powersthatare]

SAGE barks, once.

[haremtrap]

"Alright then. I'm sure there's smarter questions I could be asking, but I can't think of them right now. I'll probably have a whole list tomorrow."

She hesitates before standing back up.

"Will I get to talk to either of you again like this?"

[rosewater_path]

"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."

[haremtrap]

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."

[powersthatare]

"He says 'it's very taxing.' Poor guy got stuck with an actual body..."

[haremtrap]

"Fair enough."

Kohaku stood up. "Alright. If there's anything else I should be asking, I can't think of it. I don't know what's next, but I'm about as ready for it as I think I'm gonna get."

[powersthatare]

There's one more bark echoing in her ears... and then she'll find herself inside a giant wooden horse, with no sign of either strange being.

[haremtrap]

And then...