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Video from the Gym car, Domino 17. Mingling okay! Tag around etc

[ She's been meaning to ask this for a while, but never got around to it. Until now! ]

So I know you've all just finished filling out Stark's questionnaire, but I've got another question for you. Short, this time.

This is for everyone, not just the new lot, by the way. And if you're just responding with audio, say your name before you talk, because there's a lot of us nowadays... Actually, say your name even if you're using the cameras.

[ Pause, as she remembers how to phrase the question ] Basically... What's your specialty? If you were known for something back home, or you've realised since getting here that you can do something that the rest of us can't, what is it?

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[And here's someone else she recognizes! Sorry, Lightning.]

... You don't remember a place called Nautilus, do you?

I can't say that I do. That's some sort of shellfish, isn't it?

[And Nita sighs.]

Just... I met you, or a version of you, there a couple of times. That's all.

It was a little like this place, in that you could end up there, but it'd been going for a lot longer, and people could go home on their own if they wanted.

[Though maybe she shouldn't explain about Bending, at least on the public Network.]

Will takes this in stride.

"How curious. I don't believe that I've been to other worlds before." He laughs a little. "Perhaps it has yet to happen for me."

[Nita gives Will a wry look.]

Okay, with you, I can believe that.

[She shakes her head.]

Anyway - I'm Nita, Will. Maybe we can talk more about this in person?

I would be glad to. I'm rather curious about this.

I'll be in the Stores car, by the engine wall.

[She doesn't mind waiting for him.]

[Several minutes later Will arrives and looks around the room. ]

[Nita smiles, waving.]

Hey, Will.

You want to talk about Nautilus first, or the Train?

[She glances behind her at the engine wall.]

It's definitely been weird compared to what I'm used to, anyway.

Nautilus, I think. [ He sighs. ] I'm afraid I haven't discovered much about the train yet.

Yeah; it's kinda having a hard time communicating, and I'm not sure why yet.

Nautilus, for his part, was a higher-level being that agreed to become a city; the communication gap made sense there, at least.

[She rolls her eyes.]

"It did tell me something," he says slowly. "But I don't really understand what it was trying to tell me yet."

Nita's going to give herself whiplash with all this back-and-forth staring.

"When did it talk to you? I've only really tried twice - once at the station, another my first night on here."

"Just after I arrived." He frowns."It wasn't a conversation, exactly. I asked one of the walls to show me its past, and it answered."

"That's more than what I got," Nita admits.

"All I could really tell was that it was there, and listening. And that it couldn't let us up there, so at least it can get across a 'no'...

"Anything catch your notice, in what it showed you?"

"It is difficult to sort through. The wall remembered a great many people trying to break through it, or talking near it or even just walking past. But there was one memory that seemed almost as if it was forced through some sort of barrier, just before something attacked me."

... "Huh," Nita says, drawing it out.

"Thought it would've been fighting the whole time. I know it felt like the outside of the train works as a block for some kinds of effects-"

Because who knows what the void is even capable of?

"But if there's specific memories being blocked, it sounds like something else was instated. Maybe by a former passenger?"

Or the designers, if there was an actual defense program and it wasn't just the train's own instinct...

"What'd you see? Do you think we'd be able to find it again if we looked?"

Not that it was a good idea to look, of course.

"A girl, sitting against the wall. It was just a glimpse, and she was wearing a hood and long sleeves. But it looked like she had some interesting tattoos on her arms."

He shakes his head.

"I haven't tried to look any deeper into that memory. Something did not want me to see it, I think. And the reaction might be worse if I tried again."

And considering the first psychic attack had thrown him across a room...

"And if I asked..."

Nita's mind is going to keep shifting to that wall, even if she's no longer looking at it, isn't it?

She sighs at herself, this time.

"Was she just sitting? I mean, that does sound like something that would happen on this train, regardless..."

But.

"It was only a glimpse. Perhaps a second or so? After that something attacked my mind and threw me away from the wall."

"Are you able to share your memories, then? Maybe we could work it out together."

There is a spell for that, though it would take a great deal of energy.

But it's better than risking either of them getting attacked by the train, or whatever was really responsible there.

"I can share images," Will says carefully. "With another who has the same ability."

Although this was something he had not done since the other Old Ones had left.

Nita's response is equally careful. "Back in my world, I've got what's known as a precognitive ability. I can manage mind-to-mind contact with other wizards, but beyond that..."

She's not as sure.

"You think that would be enough to bridge the gap? I've done mind-to-mind contact with nonwizards since."

He considers this.

"It might be enough. It is not truly a lack of ability.It is more... we have the ability to touch human minds. But to do so... Too often it causes more harm than it helps. The mind of an Old One is not an easy one."

"Lucky for us I've got experience with 'difficult'," Nita says.

She's not joking, nor saying it jokingly.

Reaching a hand to him, she adds, "When you're ready?"

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