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  1. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    "I'd be happy to provide any aid I can," said Sada, brightly. As always, her tone was without rough edges or awkwardness, to the point of being mildly uncanny. Almost like advertisement voiceovers from some Wayfarers' home Earths. And yet, from her, the tone felt sincere. "Of course," choked...
  2. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    Sada smiled politely, her draconic mouth showing off her fangs. "In terms of 'Voices' we have only the Beacon and our Lighthouse to look to as examples. About the Beacon we know very little, but our Betelgeuse has evolved once already, and may again. They are a rather different being, however...
  3. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    "Something like that," replied Sada, brightly. "Although it's more complicated than a simple patch—that is to say, it's not a normal evolution. Betelgeuse is a Voice of Life, after all. They will need something extra to make it work. What that is, I do not know just yet."
  4. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    Another figure stumbled out of the Congress' halls, great claws scraping on the stonework around them. "Hello everyone," said Koraidon Sada, politely. "I'm glad to see everything went well up here. I took the opportunity to return to my old office in the CDE in case of the eventuality that it...
  5. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    Articuno made a tiny noise of discomfort. "Yes, it's possible Sparkwright could be of some use in this regard. His technology might... help. I expect the Wayfarers will have a better rapport with him than I would, even after I stepped in to assist him against Matthias' task force." The bird's...
  6. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    Articuno put a wingtip to their mask, and their eyes glinted with psychic energy for a moment. "It is strange. It is as if he is completely without guile, and yet his relationship with the truth is almost whimsical. Psychologically, despite his centuries of age and his being an adult by all...
  7. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    Nolan shut his mouth obediently, with an uncomfortable noise in his throat. Laura winced. "Koa—!" But Articuno met Koa's gaze without flinching. "As good as I am able," they said, in an even voice. "I regret that I am not equal to Arthur, and to his unprecedented use of Blacklight power, but...
  8. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    "Ah, yes. The Volcarona. You should try to involve her. He will want to know that she is alive – after a fashion. Her aura transferred to her new body intact, I believe..." Articuno paused, as if steadying themself for a moment. Forcing their mind to be still, to be functional, by sheer will...
  9. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    "...We are well-acquainted correspondents," choked out Nolan, not meeting Gladion's eye. He looked rather like he was regretting not shooting himself earlier. Gladius groaned and shuddered briefly. "I don't wanna think about it. Any of it. Gods." He seemed to become aware of Nolan standing a...
  10. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    In the courtyard, Gladius stirred with a miserable groan, and coughed up something wet and glistening. "Something hit me like a fucking bullet," he muttered. "Was I... Did someone fucking shoot me?" He narrowed his eyes. "And I'm not even fucking dead?"
  11. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    Nolan nodded stiffly. "Very well. I'll come along with you, Mhynt." Back at the Congress, it seemed everyone was still recovering from their exposure to Blacklight. "What even was that?" asked Laura, a touch rhetorically. "Surely all that wasn't ticking away like a time bomb inside you?"...
  12. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    Nolan pulled away, but Mhynt's grip was to strong for him. His eyes bulged as he looked about, in a state of quiet panic. "What are you going to do to me...?" he croaked out, in a hoarse whisper.
  13. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    The ear had a neat puncture straight through it, the kind of flesh wound you rarely saw from conventional aura-based combat. A kinetic projectile – almost certainly a bullet from a rifle – had penetrated the cartilage like it was nothing. Gladion's aura, depleted to nothing from the battle...
  14. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    Articuno blinked, and their eyes gleamed for a moment. "I detect no battle-energised auras in the area – it appears that combat has come to a close. And the last of the Blacklight corruption does appear to be dissipating rapidly..." Then the bird frowned, cocking their head in puzzlement...
  15. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    Articuno took a long moment to gather themself, their wings moving gingerly and their masked face withdrawn – even statuesque. "Arthur's studies of Blacklight have borne fruit," they mumured, at length. "He has attained an astonishing level of control over his own energies. He must have been...
  16. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    Gladius dropped like a sandbag, falling cleanly back – out cold. In that same moment, a sudden impact clipped straight through Gladion's ear. A moment later, the crack of a distant gunshot rang in what was left of it. Adrenaline and injury-induced endorphins muted the pain for now, but the cold...
  17. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    The built-up core of Blacklight energy between Articuno's wingtips flickered and pulsed as it neared its critical point. The world seemed to be cast in monochrome as the singularity stripped away all colour, everything reduced to harshly contrasting highlights and shadows. The whispers grew...
  18. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    Gladius trembled and burned and staggered under his counterpart's assault, his aura buckling as blades of wind cut at his fur and flesh. His eyes blazed with bitter anguish, but the howl that ripped from him was one almost of catharsis – as if the pain were a comfort to him. There was little...
  19. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    Not long now. Already, the Wayfarers' attacks were proving strong enough to bloody Articuno's beak. The cold gale continued to howl... Articuno didn't speak, but whispers from within their mind could still be heard in the back of one's mind, clawing at the cerebellum... without...
  20. Jackie Cat

    Alexandria Shining Congress – Main Lobby

    Laura tried to speak, but her throat was stopped, the wrods wouldn't come. Some oppressive Blacklight veil had fallen over everyone's mind, inhibited communication, locking them out of a dialogue. It was as if Articuno's Blacklight was acting in self-preservation, preventing the bird from...
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