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  1. Jackie Cat

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Laura could only stare as Steven's demeanour tumbled over the edge of some emotional crevice, and fell sharply into distant lightless depths. Depths she wasn't sure she could reach into to pull him out. He spoke up again before she could muster some response – to make a morbid statement, and to...
  2. Jackie Cat

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    "Summoned by the Beacon?" Apparently, yes. Matthias was a hero, meant to save Forlas from a crisis. What did that mean, then, that he was working with some secretive, violent arm of the Covenant...? "I... understand," said Laura, as Ralsen finished. She nodded pensively, now morbidly, acutely...
  3. Jackie Cat

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Laura steadied her breath, feeling a strange chill at the realisation that she was prepared to come to terms with Ralsen unilaterally, if necessary. They didn't know the stakes yet, but if members of the Covenant were intent on mass-summonings and meddling with the fabric of reality, the stakes...
  4. Jackie Cat

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Laura frowned, focusing on Ralsen's expressions. His tone was, what, conciliatory? Sympathetic? For a moment there, he was more focused on Steven's emotions than she was. (To her chagrin.) Of course Steven would very presently be grieving his own circumstance, missing his own pokémon, friends he...
  5. Jackie Cat

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Steven was right. It wasn't useful that he was right – this was an emotional, not practical, stance from him – but Ralsen certainly seemed like a guy who thought in terms of assets rather than bonds. There was some emotion in the way he said 'someone back home', but would it affect his...
  6. Jackie Cat

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Whatever he'd found, he could see it in his hand. A pokéball, Laura thought for a moment, but no – a relic did seem more fitting. But of what legendary pokémon...? One that could change reality somehow? Or that could change a person...? He could have been seeing his future self, or an alternate...
  7. Jackie Cat

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Why, was that a rare emotion from Ralsen? What did he feel – longing? Regret? The Grovyle was normally so opaque, he might as well be programmed. Laura's eyes narrowed, maintaining contact with his. Was he just going to track down every Saint in Forlas? For all he knew, the power to send him...
  8. Jackie Cat

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Laura searched her head for useful words, and found none. So... Steven had sacrificed himself, willingly – that was the choice he'd referred to. It sounded heroic, like something out of a cape comic or a thriller. But how could she say that to someone presently grappling with his own death...
  9. Jackie Cat

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Laura's eyes flicked between Steven and Ralsen, focusing, reading. Was this even a safe topic? She could bail out. Take charge of Steven... No, no. She'd talk through this. Learn something, maybe. "You didn't remember, before," she said, filling in. "But you remember now. Seeing the pattern on...
  10. Jackie Cat

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Laura frowned at the plaque, and at the stone itself – with properties like that, Ralsen was probably right to call it a Relic. What Saint would leave a remnant like this? Laura reflexively put her paw to Steven's limb in reassurance. He sounded frightened, somehow. For a second, her hackles...
  11. Jackie Cat

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    What university? Catch it— Laura collected herself, feeling her tail rebel in irregular twitches. This wasn't a fight. This was an opportunity for dialogue – with only (relatively) level heads in the room. Okay. "Ralsen. So, you're here for pleasure?" she asked, borrowing Steven's line...
  12. Jackie Cat

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Laura shrugged, and smiled a little sheepishly. "I'm interested in mystery dungeons, and I always kinda liked, y'know, semiprecious stones and that sort of thing. Liked the idea of having an elemental stone collection. I won't pretend to have learned enough about it to talk shop with someone who...
  13. Jackie Cat

    Novelux The Museum of Everlasting Brilliance

    Laura had plenty of leeway where her job was concerned. So long as she put articles together and fed the Gazette information about Wayfarer goings-on, Nathaniel was happy to let her spend her days out of the office. Right now, she was 'reporting' on the Uncanny Antiquities exhibition – there...
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