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Voice | Day 18

So question that I am curious about, to say the least.

[He wasn't sure if he was going to get a decent amount of answers, but at least one of his questions was more for the fact that sometimes training alone was rather boring at times. There was only so much you could do.]

I will admit that suddenly finding myself in a new place is not exactly new to me, so it got me wondering if perhaps maybe I'm not the only one whose been elsewhere apart from home before. Am I the only one, or are there others?

[That was at least one of them done and out the way.]

The other question is about people who train in the gym? One what kind of training do people usually do there and also would it be okay if I were to join at some point? I really do not want to get rusty at all.

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So would it be the same here? We just do something and eventually, we might get lucky and end up home?

[He would like that honestly, even though really he would be going back to having to run away from pretty much a lot of things. That would be interesting and something he would be more than confident with doing thanks to Cross.]

Those names don't ring a bell right now. But I will keep that in mind.

Maybe.

[The nature of Joss's death and revival cast some doubt on that, frankly, but Nita doesn't like thinking about that too much.]

Or someone intercepts the train and makes it send us back home.

[Not that everyone necessarily has a home to get back to, which is the bittersweet part of things.]

I get the feeling the latter would not be so easy. Whoever usually brings us doesn't make it easy in general.

[At least the last world made him think that.]

... The last place I was stuck in, fixing what stopped the normal way of things - where people could just come and go on their own - it was a lot easier than anyone thought it would be.

[/You mean easier than you thought it would be,/ the peridexis snarked, but Nita carried on:]

Though that might just be the benefits of hindsight.

This might sound dumb of me, but fixing it stopped the normal way of things then you mention about people could come and go. Can you elaborate a bit for me, please?

[He was trying at least to understand.]

[Nita takes a deep breath, because the explanation is Long.]

The Cycle goes something like this: first there was the Void, which was filled by the Chaos of infinite possibility. One of these possibilities was the first Mind - the Light, which solidifies possibility into reality. Those first worlds it solidified produced the first Dreamers, thinking minds unto themselves who could live their lives and know each other.

These Dreamers could then Wake into the nature of the wider multiverse and walk the worlds. These Wakened grew into greater and greater power - Angelii, whose most notable power is their speed and ability to send messages, as well as see a world's constituence; Ashura, who could change the weave of a world but not see it; and Deva, who were powerful enough to make worlds of their own. Then there are Aeons, who embody an idea - or, sometimes more literally, a place.

At any time Wakened could return to Sleep, or become bound to a new world, but many chose to make a new life between the Light and Chaos - this city was Kalliste.

One Deva, Isis, became lost in the idea of a 'perfect' world, and sought to freeze all of reality into her idea of order. She found a way to stop the Cycle, first slowing all growth of Chaos to a crawl then bringing other Wakened under her sway without them realizing what had happened.

[Nita pauses there, both because That's The Crux of It and because It's A Lot. Allen deserves a chance to breathe, too!]

[Allen saying he could understand would be considered an understatement. He got some of it, so that was more than he was honestly expected to understand.]

So...you were one of the Wakened, I will hazard a guess?

[Nita starts, to nod, but then corrects herself.]

Yeah - I only Woke five years after some of the first people who heard the Call took Isis down, though.

[Nita quickly adds:]

The Call was something Cyrus, another Deva, ended up making, after there was war in Kalliste and almost everyone was gone.

I just took part in cleaning up the rest of her mess, instead. Fixing worlds she'd frozen, and eventually eliminating her grip on the Cycle that was stopping it cold.

So ultimately, you had to work towards some type of goal?

[That was usually the reason, though he never did figure out the last world, but he knew deep down there was something more to that place.]

That just makes me honestly think the train here wants us to do more than what we might be aware of. Or just do what we know and I'm overthinking it.

Yeah. Even the Deva didn't show any signs of knowing it was possible, reversing what Isis had done, until a couple months before we could put it into action.

[That was the other problem; it'd been a sort of blindsiding matter, even if it'd been a good thing!]

Doing what we know we're good at might be what it expects - but if we solve something else in the process and surprise it, we could make it think of us differently.

[Give them a little more autonomy when it came to going home, Nita means.]

So just business as usual and hope something happens if we are lucky?

[Might not be what she means exactly.]

Luck might not have anything to do with it.

But I doubt 'business as usual' will be anything boring.

[She sounds somewhat wry about it.]

Then what do you think it more is?

Perseverance and paying attention work better than luck.

[Then her tone turns wry.]

That, and there's no such thing as coincidence, in my experience.

Are you going to do the whole it's fate thing?

[Nita snorts.]

Definitely not.

Free will's a dominant force as far as I'm aware.

I agree on that much. But you never know that there might be those that think as such.

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