Conversation Space: The Ultimate

[powersthatbe]

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

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[carbonatedscientist]

Well then. Sento jumps slightly, because he hadn't heard her enter. He doesn't drink, and he warily remains standing. "How do you know my name?" Especially the Build part. That's not exactly widely known at this point.

[adastraea]

"It is part of the Sorting," the woman says. "Have the other Travelers explained Synodiporia to you?"

[carbonatedscientist]

"They have." Sento still seems a bit wary. "What makes you even think random people would be willing to put themselves out there like this? War is about to break out at home--I can't stay here."

[adastraea]

"I know," she says. After a moment, she adds, "If I achieve the World, I would be able to bring you back to the time and place you were taken from, as if no time has passed. And you will learn things here, things that might help you when you return."

[carbonatedscientist]

"But there's always a price for such knowledge, isn't there?" Sento frowns. "What's your angle in wanting to achieve the World?"

[adastraea]

"I wish to deal a blow against that who murdered my sibling, Sinregardo," she says, solemnly. "Such entities are as powerful compared to Arcana as a twelve-year-old mortal child is to a ten-year-old."

[carbonatedscientist]

Sento looked a little troubled. "Powerful enough that you'd need to go looking for help, then..." And bringing people in like this alone seemed to require absurd amounts of power... "But not all of the Arcana think as you do, correct? I've heard things."

[adastraea]

"We are all different, yes. Some of us are quite fond of mortals. Some do not care for mortals outside of their entertainment. I do not think I would call myself particularly fond, not like Orlea or ROSE, but I do not dislike you. But my idiom perforce dictates I remain neutral about many things.

"We all act according to our idiom."

[carbonatedscientist]

Sento frowns slightly. "I've found that neutrality doesn't do much in some cases--you're forced to pick a side." Not that he appreciates the times that's happened.

"How many of you are there?"

[adastraea]

"Sometimes," she agrees. "But my neutrality is important to me. As for our number, it is seventeen now."

[carbonatedscientist]

"The rest of us don't always have the luxury of remaining neutral." Sento thinks a moment. "And by picking people, you're effectively making people take a side, and that in and of itself is not a neutral action."

And there's something else that's caught his attention, too. "Seventeen now...so you started with a different number."

[adastraea]

"With twenty-one."

[carbonatedscientist]

"What happened to the others?" Sento is not sure that he'll like the answer.

[adastraea]

"They died," she says, simply.

[carbonatedscientist]

"I'm sorry." Because Sento doesn't really know what else you say to something like that.

[adastraea]

"I am too," she says, tiredly.