Fortuna Verto

09-Dawning Eras

After a reasonably short trip, the two arrived at their transit destination. The seventeenth stop along the line, there was little to distinguish this one from any other, but not all stops on a journey were ever so obvious.

Axln was suddenly surprised by Lyun getting up without warning, though in all accounts this was still generally how public transit worked, there was always a stop that was your's. Having been silent the entire trip, it was not as if Axln would have known in advance where they were going, she actually still had no idea what Lyun's plan was. They were going to go visit someone, that was about everything Axln knew at this point. She really didn't like not knowing the plan, but she couldn't tell how much Lyun had worked out in this plan of her's, and it wasn't as if Axln had enough information to contribute anything yet either. Following along, Axln was right behind her as they left the vehicle the same way they had arrived. From there it was a quick walk to another building, Axln noticing that a vast scrawl was almost burned into the surface of several.. signs. That's what this was, it was clearly words trying to stand out and promote where they were going, so the place was obviously some kind of business. The place seemed rather small for a business, sort of in a low density district too. Lyun however walked right inside, pausing only to make sure Axln was still behind her.

"Good day Lyun, welcome once again. How can I help you today?" "Hello doctor. It's sort of a long tale, but I was hoping you might spend a moment to take a look at our arms, and.. maybe help us work a few things out." "Lyun... You know I only work with Ersatz, not actual people. Human elemental composition is far too complicated for someone in my field, far too.. alive." "That's why you're perfect, look at this." "Oh my, what happened to you?" "Like I said, it's quite the story." The elven doctor inspected Lyun's right arm with absolute surprise, starting to catch on that there really might be quite a lot more to this situation than first apparent. She guided Lyun and Axln into her office and brought them to a secluded room to go over the details. While Lyun repeated the usual story of their strife, Axln looked around at her surroundings patiently. She could see how this would be the office of a woman of science, the place was scattered with several unknown devices everywhere. Axln didn't even know what an Ersatz was, but it was sounding like this doctor was being compared to some kind of medical science. Notably though, Lyun seemed to believe this to be someone helpful with the state of their marked arms. Actually, that might be a marvellous place to begin, getting more insight into her frozen arm might be really helpful right now. She turned down to her frozen arm, realizing that in all consideration.. it didn't quite seem what she would call frozen right now. It was still pure white, that wasn't changed, but it was almost more a white glass or stone than actually frosted. She still didn't want to touch it, such an arm having been rather intimidating for her ever since she was so marked, but it was perplexing that there were slight changes. While thus distracted, she didn't notice herself being approached by someone new.

"Good day ma'am, sorry to interrupt you. The doctor would like you to lie down over here so that we can run a few checks." "Oh, uh, sure, fine." The woman appeared to be some kind of assistant or something, though there was something subtly unusual about such a woman to Axln. When she spoke, it was as if there wasn't even a trace of emotion in her voice, something about the woman seeming to be highly artificial. Dismissing such inconsiderate ideas, Axln turned to the open air the woman was indicating her towards. Instinctually, she started to form a sliver of complaints about the irrational request, was she to lie upon the floor? Instead, she looked around and found some strange devices placed upon the ground, the things appearing to be venting air. She turned around to find Lyun, seeing her a short distance away resting over such a similar device, floating in the air. A person's body density is supposed to be too high for it to be capable of resting on pure air, gasses are lighter than solids. This was blatantly standing in defiance of a few very significant laws of science. Intrigued, Axln tested her knowledge of science against this scenario, resting carefully against the cushion of air, and finding herself floating softly a distance above, the gentle wind feeling comfortable on her back. It was at that moment where she resolved that the idea that her known laws of reality may no longer apply.. that might be a bit more than just a theory now. Everything else might have had an answer, but you can't question matter density, this was about as simple as you could get.