"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."
"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."
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."
"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.
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.
"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."
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"We all act according to our idiom."
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"How many of you are there?"
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And there's something else that's caught his attention, too. "Seventeen now...so you started with a different number."
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