[ he still can't cook worth shit but if nothing else by god he's going to be able to at least make acceptable leaf water by the end of all this.
julius complies, settling down into the blanket with little fanfare. still, it seems that for all his habitual wariness- especially not helped by the pervasive feelings of separation anxiety, this week- he really only looks thoughtful, questioning, when he speaks his response. ]
... A chat, or a negotiation?
[ what is he to treat lune as? a potential employer setting out job and contract details, or an... acquaintance? offering advice? ]
[ cordial, mild pleasantries, maybe, it isn't as if all of the lessons he'd once had went by the wayside, but that's not the same as being pleasant company and he's fairly aware of how he. isn't. generally.
he'd made the request and come here expecting something more businesslike, to be put to work, and here he's being offered a conversation instead. well. lune will be lune indeed. ]
And honestly, given how much we don't know, and which of it would even be the most important to know, it's hard to figure out where to start. Sol said something about the two of you looking into alternate methods of purifying the corrupted. Outside of the tasks given us in the... rifts, every week, is there anything we can help you two specifically with?
On the contrary, I believe it is our position to help you - we are but overseers in these developments, after all. Guides who are meant to bring you from one point to others -
However the more pressing circumstance is that if there is something that you would like to know, and we are unable to give it freely, you may be able to request an exchange.
[a neat little sip of their tea at that, even if it's not the best tea in the world]
Again, I don't even know where to begin asking. I suppose I'll start with: what is the darkness, exactly, and- can the sleep it enforces on us be circumvented in any way? You said back when we all arrived that it was an instability, of sorts, and have since called at least some of its effects the corruption, but aside from telling us when we arrived that we were chosen because we all apparently have both 'light' and 'dark' within us... Well, the darkness has since become a somewhat incomprehensible bogeyman. An ever-shifting entity that either claims or believes it cannot be defeated, for how much it likes to taunt us when outed at trial.
But you and Sol have apparently been researching it since before we arrived, so there has to be method to its madness, and therefore limitation.
[ ... ]
If it would not be too presumptuous of me, what manner of boons are you capable of granting? Would your methods differ from your partner's in any meaningful way?
The young one and I have been granted similar powers - and in the case of being able to generate rewards for all of you, we do not possess any difference in our abilities. What he can create for you, I can do the same - though I do not know if we'd want to suggest two different tasks for the same person at once.
And if you might recall, the darkness is rather closely tied with the instability of the new core.
... Two tasks at once being too much to ask is an understandable limitation, I suppose. And I think I've been bothering your ... ward? Quite enough already, so I guess I'll spare you the same treatment.
[ he sighs a little, though, and settles back on his haunches, looking vaguely curious. ]
How did this happen, anyway? I presume there was a universe before this? Or ... did this all just spring out of nowhere, one day, newborn and unstable?
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julius complies, settling down into the blanket with little fanfare. still, it seems that for all his habitual wariness- especially not helped by the pervasive feelings of separation anxiety, this week- he really only looks thoughtful, questioning, when he speaks his response. ]
... A chat, or a negotiation?
[ what is he to treat lune as? a potential employer setting out job and contract details, or an... acquaintance? offering advice? ]
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[there is a laugh at that - because it would seem that regardless, lune will be acting a certain way, and julius is free to adjust as he sees fit]
I'm afraid I am but an old man who is set in his ways - but I will do my best to answer whatever you need of me.
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I'm not exactly much good at small talk.
[ cordial, mild pleasantries, maybe, it isn't as if all of the lessons he'd once had went by the wayside, but that's not the same as being pleasant company and he's fairly aware of how he. isn't. generally.
he'd made the request and come here expecting something more businesslike, to be put to work, and here he's being offered a conversation instead. well. lune will be lune indeed. ]
And honestly, given how much we don't know, and which of it would even be the most important to know, it's hard to figure out where to start. Sol said something about the two of you looking into alternate methods of purifying the corrupted. Outside of the tasks given us in the... rifts, every week, is there anything we can help you two specifically with?
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However the more pressing circumstance is that if there is something that you would like to know, and we are unable to give it freely, you may be able to request an exchange.
[a neat little sip of their tea at that, even if it's not the best tea in the world]
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But you and Sol have apparently been researching it since before we arrived, so there has to be method to its madness, and therefore limitation.
[ ... ]
If it would not be too presumptuous of me, what manner of boons are you capable of granting? Would your methods differ from your partner's in any meaningful way?
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And if you might recall, the darkness is rather closely tied with the instability of the new core.
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[ he sighs a little, though, and settles back on his haunches, looking vaguely curious. ]
How did this happen, anyway? I presume there was a universe before this? Or ... did this all just spring out of nowhere, one day, newborn and unstable?