silverworld

Current Location: House #27

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~ 18

[Kamui]
Has Sasarai still not returned?

[Raine]
How are you feeling? Has there been any improvement?

[Jade and Dist]
I need to speak with you. The both of you. It's recently come to my attention that this cannot be avoided any longer. You two can either visit me together, or give your stories seperately.

[Action]

[Considering it's such a nice day outside, Gelda has taken a chair and is sitting in the shade in front of house #27. She found an interesting book in the library to waste some time with. You can tell her attention isn't quite on the pages, though. Feel free to bug her, considering she hasn't been around all too much these past few weeks.]

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As much as you can tell me. You can start with what happened after my house caught fire.

...Alright.

We got ourselves and you to safety. You were unconscious... There was no way you would survive. He wanted to use fomicry, but I told him not to.

Yet, knowing Jade, he didn't listen to you.

No, he didn't. He told me it would be fine. He had been working on a way for fomicry to work perfectly, even on living things.

... So he created a replica.

[He nods, drinking his tea and not saying anything else yet.]

[She's considering giving Saphir some words of reassurance, but... He's an adult now. Heck, he's even older than she is, considering she's only in her late twenties. He's just not that same little boy anymore.]

What can you tell me about the replica?

[It's too bad she doesn't, as he could really use it right now; as it is he pauses a moment before continuing.]

It was a failure. Completely unstable, both mentally and physically. It needed the fonons of others to survive.

[So far, the stories are matching up perfectly. Though, considering what kind of story this is, it would've been better if they didn't.]

If I understand correctly, you two are both lucky to be alive.

Jade wouldn't have let that happen.

Two young boys would have been no match for a powerful fonist.

...You're probably right.

The replica fled, but you know what happened to it, correct?

It was later sealed away in Mt. Roneal. It stayed there for quite some time, before the seal was broken.

Mhmm... What can you tell me about that incident?

Jade killed it. That's all that matters.

[She looks up sharply at that.]

Saphir. I need you to be truthful. You were there when the replica was released. Why?

...It was no longer possible to create another replica. That was the only way.

[She breathes a soft sigh. It isn't that she's disappointed, rather that she can't believe he'd go through so much trouble.]

You sought out and released a person you knew was dangerous, in the hopes that she could still somehow replace me?

It was the only way to get Jade back!

... If anything, it would have driven Jade away even further. He managed to put my death behind him. No replica, no matter how uncanny the likeness, would have brought back the times we all spent together in Keterburg.

It's dead now, so it doesn't matter. Prison isn't the best place to accomplish things from, either.

[After a moment, she gives him a smile. It's a bit forced, but a smile nonetheless.]

Perhaps we can find a way to patch things up while we're all here.

...It would be easier if he wasn't here.

... You mean Peony?