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[faithfulflame]

[Rei gets prepared too, snapping her chopsticks and all.]

I'm sure that it'll be just fine. That was very thoughtful of you!

[And starting in, it's...actually pretty okay! At least, it's not MYSTERY FOOD Y. You know, Minako's cooking...]

[psycholawgy]

[ or athena's cooking... you are safe for now, rei. ]

So, how many people helped... get rid of the ghosts?

[faithfulflame]

Oh. Hmm

[Rei thinks it over around a bite of slurped noodles. It's good, and she happily replies.]

Fifteen or twenty? Give or take a few. The actual sealing only had a few people, but there were people there who helped protect us while we sealed things off like Prince Kael'thas and Illidan.

[psycholawgy]

I don't know who they are... But are they your friends, too?

[faithfulflame]

Um. [She smiles vaguely, waving her chopstick hand around another bite...deliberately letting her sleeves fall down to show a copper bracelet.]

Illidan is, and the other Night Elf here, Tyrande. The Prince I just met. But he seems interested in learning more about me because of my relationship with the two of them. He's the prince of the Sun Elves, and a wizard. He actually made me this bracelet for my birthday.

[She holds it up under Athena's gaze, extremely pleased with it despite how ordinary it seems. The only odd bit about it is a slightly unnatural sheen to it.]

It's enchanted.

[psycholawgy]

[ don't tell her it's magical without expounding on it, rei! ]

What does it do?

[faithfulflame]

Oh! Well.

[Right, she forgets you don't do that sort of stuff, sorry...]

It's the sort of thing that lets me hold more energy. So if I was going to draw magic out of the air to make fire, I can draw more. It's irrelevant to Mars, since her limits are...much different. But for me? It's quite a big difference.

When...I'm not so exhausted even trying would knock me into a migraine.

[psycholawgy]

[ she doesn't understand what it's like to have abilities like that, but hearing rei talk about what the bracelet does makes her smile. ]

That's great, then! It must be really helpful.

[faithfulflame]

It has been, yes. It helped me during the attacks. I didn't have to change so quickly.

[And that means a lot to her.]

Anyway. That's who all helped. Jack made the ice, I made the seal, and we did a lot more work to make the seal really strong. It shouldn't break, not easily. And good thing to, if what the ghosts told me is true.

[Athena hopefully would've gotten the colony-wide memo about what was behind the wall...]

[psycholawgy]

[ she did, but being apathetic meant not caring or even reading the whole thing. :') ]

The ghosts talked to you?

[faithfulflame]

Yes.

[Well, she guesses this is important. Sliding the bracelet out of the way she points to a spot on her wrist.]

I know you can't see this. But they marked me, spiritually. In the tower when I freed them, like I told you. Those same five ghosts sought me out, and they talked to me. They didn't attack me, and they told me about what was on the other side of the wall...which is something worse. And that CERES built on their sacred ground, and things like that.

[psycholawgy]

[ she sets her chopsticks down and places her hands on her lap. this sounds serious. ]

Did they say anything else?

[faithfulflame]

That we mustn't allow CERES to seal them away again. And I didn't. I just stopped more from coming out. And sealed the hole because...they said something worse is on the other side.

[psycholawgy]

What's outside CERES really is scary.

You know that there's a junkyard outside the walls? There's some weird things going on there.

[faithfulflame]

No no, the hole in the dark place, that the spirits came out of? That's different. That was...unholy.

[That's really all she can say.]

But I remember you mentioned the junkyard, actually. After the tours. You said some of the buildings seemed to move and attack you, or try to?

[psycholawgy]

Yes, I did say that.

Maybe that's what they meant?

[faithfulflame]

I got the feeling it was something worse. Athena-chan...the ghosts were afraid of whatever was down there.

The ghosts were afraid...and I don't think they'd have any problems with moving junk. They can possess things.

[psycholawgy]

Well, that's about all I know from what's outside.

... I guess if we really wanted to find out, we'll just have to wait and see. As ominous as that sounds.

[faithfulflame]

Isn't that what we always have to do? I mean, waiting is the way of this world.

I just wish we were waiting for something positive.

[psycholawgy]

That seems impossible at this time.

[faithfulflame]

It'll be okay. Just have a little faith.

Now, you saw Simon?

[psycholawgy]

Oh.

[ frowny face. ]

I did.

[faithfulflame]

I'm sorry. I know that must have hurt.

[She's not prying beyond that. The psychic trauma was evident enough the other day.]

Do you want to talk about it?

[psycholawgy]

I don't think there's anything to talk about, to be honest... I just thought I should mention it, anyway.

[faithfulflame]

Fair enough.

[And she slurps up a bit more ramen.]

As for myself. I...am not even sure why I saw who I saw. Everyone I've talked to saw visions of people important to them.