My legs grow tired, tell us: where must we wander? [ closed ]

[paeon]

It was hard to miss when another building appeared from nowhere up in Mor Dhona. It was another Crystal Tower phenomenon, although this one seemed eminently more approachable. As always, the inspection fell to a brave adventurer. Not without any sort of backup of course, but word had spread of how O'danya had managed to befriend the mysterious and beautiful Lightning during her brief sting in Eorzea, which apparently meant she was now an expert on people and places that did not originate in the realm. It was laughable, but she had no qualms at being given another job — and an important one at that.

Her only regret was the urgency that her exploration was placed under, or she would have waited for Alichi'ra to wake up and drag him along. Regardless, she had left him a note and message both at the Carline Canopy and hurried to Mor Dhona through the aetheryte pathways. The Immortal Flames had even managed to spare one of their units to guard her back as she braved the mysterious building first. Had monsters made this place their lair? Was anyone inside? Would they be alive?

She couldn't be sure, but then again, it wasn't her job to know that going in. Bow drawn, she stepped inside.

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[caladrius]

"Sleep? She wouldn't have mentioned that kind of unimportant thing unless... it was the crystal stasis." He was talking more to himself than to her, trying to fit this new knowledge into the cluttered, false memories that he had in his mind. But it corroborated with Serah's claims, and definitely confirmed that Lightning had been with them on Gran Pulse before suddenly disappearing from Serah's sight. Not like what he remembered.

It was something, at least.

But he forced himself to relax, to calm down before he went overboard with his thoughts.

"No, it doesn't... But I have an idea of what's going on with her."

[paeon]

O'danya couldn't help the brief chuckle at seeing the tumblers all click into place and some sort of lock open behind the young man's eyes. She loved watching others work; wondered if that was the look all of her mentors saw when she herself made a breakthrough in her constant, vigilant training. It wasn't exactly an epiphany, but the look of someone taking a step forward while more puzzle pieces were doled out to solve a particularly difficult riddle.

"I'd love to hear it, should that be the case," she entreated. Mayhap it would answer the question of Lightning and Friends' Fantastic Eorzean Vacations.

[caladrius]

"I'm unclear of all the details myself."

Because there was only so much that he knew of, that he had gleaned over the years by listening, watching and searching. The Oracle Drive had only given him so much, as did Serah, and for all of his research and work, there were still missing pieces of this puzzle.

"But I'll tell you," he nodded a little in her direction, brushing his hair back and tidying it up, "in a little while. When I understand enough of it myself."

[paeon]

"In that case..." O'danya stepped to the side, motioning back toward the entrance of the very alien building they were standing around in. "Would you like to be somewhere more comfortable while we work out the finer details of our current situation?"

Unlike Lightning, this man seemed to be in a much more stable position of apparition. If he wasn't going to be appearing and disappearing in the same manner as his friend, it would stand to reason that he might need a bit of a course on Eorzean way. No one would hold him against his will, but many would clamor to learn of him and his mysterious building should he wish to make the spectacle of himself. Or if anything happened to make said spectacle for him.

"There's a camp, Saint Coinach's Find, close enough to us to be convenient if you wish. Much more defensible and closer still to Revenant's Toll," she explained. Not that the name of Mor Dhona's largest camp would mean anything, but it was still worth mention; the aetheryte there would be invaluable to him if he could attune to it, creating a shortcut back to the area should he needs must return to the site of his own mystery.