Third Jump. [text from violet city.]

[surpassedjupiter]

[Normally it's the type of thing you see under an anonymous account, these short, to-the-point questions. Not being too acquainted with her 'gear outside of some texting she's done and some brief not-skype calls, Phi doesn't yet know to buy a second one when she wants to be the mystery woman she is. Oh well. It's probably a normal thing to be wondering...]

What's the last thing you remember before coming here?

It's okay to be vague -- something like "I saw a good friend" or "I was in a garden". I'll probably ask, but you're welcome to be shy about it, if that's what you'd prefer. Or tell me your life story. I don't have much to do, tonight.

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[enjoymyatelier]

Oh, no, I most certainly did.

It simply wasn't as... personal, I suppose.

[surpassedjupiter]

[...Okay so probably not a young female, but could still be female.]

Nobody's perfect.

[Elapsam semel occasionem non ipse potest Iuppiter reprehendere, she almost types.]

Is it something you're "fine with" or something you're happy doing?

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[surpassedjupiter]

[Something is telling her that if she pursues this line of questioning, she's not going to like this stranger.

...But when does that stop her?]

Your impersonal reason for storming it, then? You don't need to share your new reason.

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[timidnature]

I suppose I can see your logic. I did meet someone who claimed they were a dragon when I first arrived here, I'm not sure that I believed them either.

So things such as animals, mythical creatures and abstract ideas in a human form, those are the kinds of things you have trouble believing in?

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[surpassedjupiter]

I'd say that's a fair assessment.

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[enjoymyatelier]

A very complicated set of circumstances that would, if everything goes well, result in me receiving an extremely powerful magical artifact.

[twinsanity]

Why would I even bother doing it at all if I weren't happy with it?

[...well, that was mature.]

[surpassedjupiter]

Oh, I could think of reasons. And that's not necessarily an answer to my question.

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[surpassedjupiter]

For what is that artifact to be used?

[Though this is really just seeming like a DUDE WANTS POWER, GIVE HIM MORE POWER thing.]

[twinsanity]

Since you seem to have trouble reading between the lines, I suppose I can spell it out - yes, I'm happy doing it.

[surpassedjupiter]

I just don't understand how one could be happy living for someone else's life instead of their own. It's all well and good to protect her, but don't you think putting yourself down while calling her perfect is a little unhealthy?

[twinsanity]

[...Well, that...um.]

I don't know. Maybe?

[surpassedjupiter]

[Well at...least he acknowledges it?]

I'm not saying to go around bragging every time you accomplish something -- that would get tiring. But you should take pride in what you do because you can do it well. Those things you said earlier... You said they weren't what you were 'designed' for, but they were something that were yours.

Find more of that -- independently of your sister and what concerns her, if you can.

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[enjoymyatelier]

Most people intend to use it as a wish granting device, given that it can be used to accomplish practically anything short of, say, raising the dead.

[...unless they're a very specific kind of dead.]

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[surpassedjupiter]

[...What is it with people here...]

And you believe that's going to work?

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[enjoymyatelier]

...Yes? The very nature of the complicated circumstances suggest that, if nothing else.

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[surpassedjupiter]

Alright. Do you feel like explaining those circumstances, or would they be too complicated?

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[enjoymyatelier]

Well, I'll go with the simple explanation. Basically, in order for everything to work out properly, it's necessary for seven different individuals to summon the spirits of seven long-dead heroes and have them fight to the death.

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[surpassedjupiter]

[what even]

...My, what a cheerful prospect for your return.

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[enjoymyatelier]

Yes, quite. Granted, if those things were easy to come by, I'm certain that the world would be... quite different.

[...he doesn't really have more to say than that because he doesn't want to think about it at all]

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[surpassedjupiter]

And yet you want be one of these seven individuals?

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[enjoymyatelier]

It's the opportunity of a lifetime. Who wouldn't?

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[surpassedjupiter]

I think I'd stay out of it. I've had enough complicated circumstances on my plate. That, and I'm not too fond of the idea of causing someone's death.

[Even if they were already...dead... Wait, didn't she just have a conversation about that earlier?]

You said you have a new reason, now -- I assume you've met at least one of the other six individuals or the seven heroes here?

[twinsanity]

[...y...es that is something maybe]

Maybe for the time being. Whenever we go home, I'll be charged with protecting her when she comes back.

[...pause. Second message.]

Now that she's back.

[surpassedjupiter]

[She...wasn't really analyzing those words until the second message. Filing that away in the brain for later, maybe...]

Given that we don't know when we'll be returned, I don't see that as a problem right now. And who knows? Maybe things could change back home. You did say that it had been quite some time since you saw her last.