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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[so_dark_a_road]

Evidently we had the same vision, Zelda. I also saw a large room full of blinking lights and whirring machines, rows of computers. I started to walk along the rows, but two steps later I was suddenly somewhere else.

I saw my castle in the Pass of Aglon in East Belariand, as though I were walking along the road that led up to the front gate. And then it was gone, and I woke in my room on the train and heard the announcement that this is Llama Day Four.

I'm guessing you're right, that this coming mission might have something to do with being trapped or absorbed in image and memory, as I've been told happened on the last mission.

[wisdominshadows]

It does match. [Hmmm...] Some sort of defense mechanism, perhaps?

[so_dark_a_road]

That would make sense. A world that can distract unwelcome visitors by causing them to fall into memory space and have a hard time getting back out. It seems a very clever defense.

[wisdominshadows]

Not one I like seeing so often.

[She's very good at mental defenses, for the most part- the Triforce of Wisdom has to be good for something, after all. But there's something profoundly violating about even the prospect of having her memory used against her.]

[so_dark_a_road]

I can't blame you for that! I wouldn't like it either.

[ He as well thinks that's outrageous, using people's memory against them.]

[wisdominshadows]

I thought not. And...

[Sighing]

I don't know. I just have a bad feeling about this becoming more common.

Perhaps it's nothing.

[so_dark_a_road]

"I'd be inclined to trust your premonitions, Zelda. If you have a bad feeling about this becoming more common, then maybe there's a good reason for your feeling.

[wisdominshadows]

[He can't see it, but there's a rueful smile upon her face as she replies]

I am grateful for your faith, but to be honest this is a point on which I would rather be wrong.

[so_dark_a_road]

[ He can't see her rueful smile but suspects there is one on her face, by the tone of her voice. He smiles back, and his is a friendly smile. ]

I'd prefer this kind of thing not keep occurring, too. But I guess we won't know for sure until we land on the mission planet.

[wisdominshadows]

True. Nothing to do now but wait.

[At least she's got practice at that.]

I think I shall go make myself some tea.