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[There's a blue lady on the comm's screen, not looking like she completely trusts it -- or that she quite likes being so visible. She has something to ask, though (as much as it feels like an exploitable vulnerability to ask) so she stays. And it's fair that others should see who's talking.]
Hello.
[. . . Knowing how to start is harder than anticipated, and considering the last time she was on the comm was to apologize, it feels even more awkward. She swears she can feel eyes looking at her. Unconsciously, her arms tuck into a cross.]
I heard there are "missions" every month. Where we're supposed to infiltrate, or something attacks.
. . . This time there was water in the city. In the pipes. And the sewers. But people say it's not always a city. Locations are different every time.
I need to be able to access some when it isn't there naturally.
I need . . . help.
[Silence for a moment. That was extremely uncomfortable to say, and the next question isn't much better for her.]
Also . . . I'd like to know what people do to find their own space. Where they can sometimes be alone. When . . . they need to.
. . . Thank you.
Hello.
[. . . Knowing how to start is harder than anticipated, and considering the last time she was on the comm was to apologize, it feels even more awkward. She swears she can feel eyes looking at her. Unconsciously, her arms tuck into a cross.]
I heard there are "missions" every month. Where we're supposed to infiltrate, or something attacks.
. . . This time there was water in the city. In the pipes. And the sewers. But people say it's not always a city. Locations are different every time.
I need to be able to access some when it isn't there naturally.
I need . . . help.
[Silence for a moment. That was extremely uncomfortable to say, and the next question isn't much better for her.]
Also . . . I'd like to know what people do to find their own space. Where they can sometimes be alone. When . . . they need to.
. . . Thank you.
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["Chimera" is an interesting word, though. She doesn't know much about the concept, but at its basic level, she thinks she remembers it being several things merged together. Does that mean that he is several things merged together?]
Is that common for your people to be organic and inorganic?
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[Sorry, Lapis, Zelgadis is getting a bit short about the thing. While the fact that no one finds him odd relative to everything else on the train is a novelty, it doesn't help that he's getting the same questions.].
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[Unfortunately, it's different after all -- at least when compared to her. However . . .]
I . . . know someone like that. Who's both. I've never seen anyone else. I'm not sure it exists for anyone else in my world.
I was curious.
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My kind doesn't normally . . . have children? [Uncertainty there, because it's still a relatively strange concept, even having met a few children at this point. So strange to think of anyone being able to produce a small, underdeveloped being and have it grow and change.]
But one met a human, and . . . I'm not sure how it happened, but I think she must have had the right powers. She had a child with him. She gave up her own existence for it and gave her gem -- that's the core of who we are -- to him.
He had to grow up like a human. In a lot of ways he is human. But he doesn't age the same way. He can shapeshift and fuse. He has abilities like a Gem.
Her gem has stayed with him, set in the same place as hers was. He's . . . definitely both. The only one who's ever been both.
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[Which... Zel has biases. Including the one that means he is focused on his own problems and not thinking about the problems that another person might face.]
I wasn't born the way I am; it was something done to me some years ago. So I was a human who is now partially something else, and the other... at least the stone added to me was never a person before.
[And now Zelgadis is reflecting that while stone golems are constructs animated by magic but usually with little to no self-awareness, brau demons were living goblin-like creatures, and he has No Idea how Rezo set up the spell that transformed him, and...]
[... Zelgadis didn't so much drop this thought as throw it like a live explosive. For his own sanity.]