Audio | Llama 4

[wisdominshadows]

An idle question: is there anyone on the train who receives visions of our missions and comes from a world with advanced technology?

I am curious whether that perspective would lend itself to a better idea of what we will be facing. I could see computers, row upon row of them... but if that vision had more information to give, I cannot interpret it.

[A pause, then continuing]

One other matter: I saw a memory of a garden gone for years, just at the end. Not a place someone from another world would know. On our last mission, many of us found ourselves trapped in image and memory.

...I think something of the sort might happen again.

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[forceshadowed]

[ Jaisyn’s not sure if it’s a vision, or a nightmare. Because it hits a little too close to something she’s actually experienced that she’s been curling up in her bunk all morning.

Yet it didn’t feel entirely like Myrkr. ]

I’m new here, and I’m not really sure, but I might’ve seen something.

[wisdominshadows]

Visions aren't uncommon a few days before a mission, usually depicting something related to the problem at hand. What that might be can vary. Sometimes mine have been similar to others', but they often emphasize different things.

If you had the gift of prophecy before you arrived, I think it very likely that what you saw was real.

[forceshadowed]

Well, if that's the case...

I saw a dark corridor. Dimly lit, eerily quiet. But there's... something in the dark. A creature. [ She shudders, reminded of the monsters in Myrkr, of that mission that this vision reminds her so much of. ] And it's on the hunt.

[wisdominshadows]

Are you on Team Purple, by any chance?

[Because there's no overlap with her's there, but it sounds exactly identical to what Casper's been saying.]

So not a wholly technological mission. A corridor could be in a building, I suppose, but still....

[forceshadowed]

Yeah, I'm Purple, though I just got on the last stop. Did the others also have...?

Some worlds may have technological centers but also forests and caves. You saw a garden, right?

[wisdominshadows]

One other purple so far. The rest... I don't know who else on the team has them at the moment.

[Glorfindel, one of Purple's former leaders, had Seen things, but he's gone as well. Pity.]

I did, but it must have been taken from my own mind. That was my garden- I used to play there every day as a child.

[forceshadowed]

[ A garden that she knows. Huh. ]

I can't say for sure that what I saw wasn't someplace I've already been to before, but... I was on a mission once, and we... [ She purses her lips together for a moment. This is what's gotten her so worked up today. ] Well, we got hunted down by... strange creatures. So it might be an old memory, or a vision of the future. I can't tell.

[wisdominshadows]

Or your mind has interpreted the threat as something familiar, perhaps. That has happened before.

[It's probably the repetition of her courtyard that does it, but Zelda flashes back to the dream of the destroyers, so many months ago. She can't help but shudder.]

And if that is the case... I don't know. But the trend disturbs me.

[forceshadowed]

It does happen on occasion. I suppose we'll find out when the mission starts.

I'm Jaisyn, by the way.

[wisdominshadows]

That we will.

And I am Zelda. Forgive the ill-manners; I should have mentioned that sooner.