24th moon [It is a 4th, and it is a wall]

[vibrafinal]

[Today, on the roof of house 9, there is a Cecil. A Cecil that is quite possibly staring at you, wondering where you came from, and pondering whether to invite you in for lunch. Bother?]

Comments

[paladinlost]

Really, Kain, I'd hardly call a few hours 'some time'.

[Completely confused and unaware of any mistaken identities, here.]

[rising_drive]

Ah, perhaps not in your perception, but it's been somewhat longer in mine. Although I've never seen this place before... is it a new Haven?

[That has to be it, right.]

[paladinlost]

It's not any sort of haven. It's Luceti, and- Oh, you have no wings.

[Geez, you'd think he'd have seen that earlier.]

[rising_drive]

[And Kain stares at him, at the realization-]

-and you have wings, how strange. What's happened to you, Cecil?

[paladinlost]

Luceti happened. It does that to everyone it takes.

[That explains so little, somehow.]

[rising_drive]

I'm almost afraid to ask more of what you mean by that.

[paladinlost]

People are brought here in waves, find themselves with wings that are necessary for their survival and stay in the village until they are somehow sent home.

[rising_drive]

Then you weren't brought here by the dragons? I don't understand, what about their Havens...?

[paladinlost]

I have no idea what dragons or havens you are talking about.

[rising_drive]

How strange... but how could it be, that I've come to another world entirely...?

[paladinlost]

Some Shift must have gone wrong, considering the number of visitors present. The village is not usually so crowded.

[rising_drive]

Shift? Dare I ask?

[paladinlost]

Experiments, more or less, of various types and complexities.

[rising_drive]

That sounds dreadful. Who is responsible? Let's go put an end to it.

[paladinlost]

The Malnosso, but reaching them is surprisingly difficult. They live beyond the barrier.

[rising_drive]

Then let's break through the barrier.

[Oh the ideas of people who don't know any better.]

[paladinlost]

...If it was within our power, do you not think we'd have done so long ago?

[rising_drive]

Then what's preventing you from doing so?

[paladinlost]

It is not within our power.

[rising_drive]

We defeated the likes of Zemus, I'm sure we can defeat this.

[paladinlost]

This is not the same sort of opponent, I assure you.

[rising_drive]

All opponents can be defeated... everyone has a weakness.

[paladinlost]

Of course. The problem here would be reaching that weakness in the first place.

[rising_drive]

Then let's determine how to do that. We found a means to break the endless cycles of the gods' war, after all...

[paladinlost]

We found a way to break what?