zerotohiro | Some Legends Are Told, Some Turn To Dust Or To Gold [CEREALIA INBOX]

[she glances at the box for a moment, but doesn't ask about it quite yet.]

I'm sorry to have worried you. I hope it wasn't too stressful.

I wouldn't call it stressful, but we were waiting. [It was a little stressful, don't let him fool you.] Wanna sit? We can talk about everything that happened while you were gone.

Of course.

[taking a seat!]

I was here when we were transported away, and a short while after we returned, and then I departed.

[And once they're both settled he's...taking out his CereVice, fiddling with it and setting a timer. It appears he's testing something but he won't say what yet.]

At least you got back here safely before that. After that though, you went home? Do you remember everything?

[she watches curiously, but shakes her head at his question.]

No, I didn't go home. I went to another place.

Another place? [Wait. That's interesting. If the worlds are supposedly destroyed, how could anybody go anywhere else?] How? Or, I guess, what kind of place was it?

It was very strange. I was brought there without any memories... We were all put onto teams, and we had to compete to regain them.

[talking about it now, there's notes of fondness in her voice, somehow. despite everything that happened there... it's a place she's glad to have been.]

Compete...how? Like you had to play games to win back memories? That doesn't make sense. How'd they take your memories in the first place?

[Adelina this was probably a bad thing to tell him seeing as he now wants to know everything possible.]

Yes, games, that's correct. They didn't necessarily take them, it was more like...

[a small pause]

The way it was explained to me was similar to this place in some aspects. We were told our worlds were destroyed, but instead of being brought as code as we are here, a piece of our soul was retrieved in the form of a memory or a skill. The energy we provided when we competed in games for the beings that organized them was used to bring back more memories or skills. I was told that once we had regained them all, our complete existence acted as a sort of blueprint for the existence of our entire world, and it was able to be recreated exactly the way it was.

Saying it aloud sounds a bit ridiculous, and I'm inclined to believe it was, since I did not get the chance to return home after I was finished, and instead was brought back here.

That sounds pretty weird. [And oddly suspicious, but he knows she knows that. The idea of another place feeding them a similar story doesn't surprise him too much but it's enough for him to think to ask an important question.] Do you think maybe that place was another colony maybe like Cerealia is? Or there's another world out there that supposed revives us and we have to do what they say to save ourselves?

[she shakes her head. she very much doubts that it was another colony like this, based on what she knows about that place.]

It was very different from this place. Almost like night and day. It was like my home in that there was almost none of the technology that you could find in a place like this, and the rules that governed that place - it was very different.

I don't want to doubt it but...you're sure all of it was real? Not a dream?

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[a nod. she doesn't doubt it was real at all; even apart from how vivid and real everything felt, she still carries scars she gained there. to her, there's no other way to explain that.]

Yes, I'm certain. There are things that can't be explained any other way besides my presence there.

[that's edging close to things she's not certain she wants to talk about, though, so she moves on to something she's growing more curious about.]

More importantly, though... We were going to speak about what you learned and discussed at that meeting.

[He'd been so absorbed in her story that he nearly forgot why they were there. Don't worry, he would have gotten there eventually. Probably. He shakes his head, flashing another sheepish smile her direction.]

Right, sorry. Enough about that...you wanted to know about things here. Let me ask you something, Adelina. What do you already know about what we found at that terminal in the labyrinth or whatever the locals are calling it? Anything?

[she shakes her head with a small frown.]

Nothing, I'm afraid. My apologies.

Let's put it this way. The Flamine Federation? They're real people. Aliens. Whatever. They're very, very real and they're very, very pissed off at CERES.When we connected to the terminal out there, that's who we found.

[well, she wasn't expecting that. a new note of interest enters her voice, accompanied by a small measure of worry.]

You were able to contact them? What did they tell you?

I want to show you something, and then from there I can answer pretty much whatever you want. A lot of us were actually able to talk to the thing once we figured out how to. And it said a lot of stuff, but some of it didn't entirely match up to what it should have been.

[He gets up, leading her to the wall where all of the census forms have been hung up.]

I wanted to hold a meeting so we could all get a good idea of what the truth is. And right now...the truth isn't looking so great.

[she starts reading over the forms, frowning as she does so. before she starts on the more important questions and ideas, though, there's one thing she wants to understand.]

Element... What does it mean by that?

Oh, right, that all happened right before you got here. Turns out all of us are split up into one of the four major elements...earth, water, fire and air. Technically all of us belong to one of the elemental spirits that're around here. Maris is the water spirit, Caeli's air, Ardeo's fire and Occidi's earth. We all found out when we were transported to the jungle a few months ago and then split up into our elements. We're still trying to figure out why or how, apparently it was something chosen before we even came here.

How entirely strange.

[but she can think about that more later. for now, she's going to study the rest of these forms, reading kaneki's answer several times in particular. once she finishes:]

...How are we to know they're telling the truth?

We don't. [Plain and simple.] That's why I want to find the alien again to speak with it. I have a lot of questions but I didn't have enough compensation for them to answer. And it's why I want to talk to Mosley again, too. There's a lot to the story that we're missing.

Do you have any ideas as to how to find the creature again?

[after reading all these forms, she has dozens of questions. speaking with it again seems as though it'll be enlightening.]

I asked it. It didn't seem to care how we did it but from what I figured there are more terminals around the city somewhere. The first time we saw it there was a terminal in the research tower. This time there was the terminal in the labyrinth. [A pause.] I'd like to go back sometime. Put a team together, head out for another exploration mission. Think that's a bad idea?

[she thinks about it for a moment. she's certain that it'll be hazardous, but the chance to find out more... she can't say it wouldn't be worthwhile.]

No, I don't think it's a poor idea, provided that you take the right people.

[hint, hint.]

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