Fortuna Verto

30-Tempered History

Lyun was very surprised when everything she had been working upon had suddenly been interrupted, herself instead standing around some corner of the academy. She knew instantly that this had been Axln's doing.. Kori's doing.. something had happened there unexpectedly.

Lyun's first impulse was that Kori might have caused such a shift to escape a dangerous situation, meaning a very viable threat had appeared on the other side. Rather than just rush back to face something she didn't understand though, an act which could have put her in reckless danger as well, she decided to attempt to contact Axln for an update of the situation. She pulled out her cell and set forth the call.. only to find that Axln was in an area that could not be reached. That was itself concerning, the only thing these things couldn't pierce was areas far from civilization.. or otherwise saturated with void. The first was unexplainable, considering how big the academy actually was, it would have taken too much to travel away from civilization out of range of such utilities. The range for such things used to be fairly weak, but now you would be actually hard pressed to find a location anywhere in the world considered 'too far from civilization'. That only left a location with a dramatic threat of the void. Worry led to panic as Lyun rushed around, not even paying attention to where she physically was, herself totally lost to direction in the circumstances. Upon being lost to herself, her attention drawn to distant worries, she felt herself reawakened to a familiar bond.

Of all the things that might have happened, she found herself questioning suddenly why she was so worried. Of course such was obvious, with Axln missing and in danger, how could she not worry. Then again, why did she have such worries, Axln was fine.. even if she had no idea where she was. As far as she could tell, Axln was just in some strange underground cave. There was no point in just losing her head over things, that was much more what Lyun would do. Wait, wasn't she Lyun? Wasn't she Axln? Suddenly, everything made sense. Four bodies, two people, one being. She had revisited the link of her being that was shared between two people, making it very difficult to tell which was which. The benefit though was that such did provide her with a way to reach out to both aspects, a way they could both update the other on the situation. Such would however be a lot easier if both sides weren't taking the situation so dramatically differently. Lyun was panicking with worry, Axln was calm and curious. Lyun's panic was due to worries of the void, after a failed cell connection, and why she had reached out in other ways. Axln meanwhile was checking out a really impressive cavern, the whole place glowing because of the magma at the other side of the chamber.

Wait, magma, otherwise known as the world's lifeblood, an elemental fire that was so powerful it could forge void materials as dangerous as pure obsidian. No wonder the cell didn't work, that really was a considerably dangerous location. Then again, Axln was fine, possibly due to the power gear's shielding. Wait, no, there was no person's creation in existence as mighty as the essence of a world, such shielding was not enough. Then again, the room Axln was in wasn't exactly normal either, appearing to naturally filter away some of the threats of fire. Axln was not the only thing in that chamber, much of it having endured the heat beyond reason too. Certainly, some of such were corpses, but those were probably because there was a visible lack of nutrients in the room as well. As long as Axln escaped before starving to death, she would be fine. In that light, maybe it was actually a good thing that there was a connection going on, so that an escape plan was possible. Also, maybe Axln was being an idiot. The strange objects forged out of pure magma at least were excessively facinting. Wait, it was also impossible to forge things out of the world's lifeblood, how exactly did that happen? She really was very curious to learn more.

Lyun shook her head violently, trying to draw her attention back to her personal situation. It was neat that she could reach out like that, but drawing awareness from two people at once was proving to be quite confusing for her. A lasting impression of doing so was still that she herself had developed a touch of curiosity for some of the stuff considered. This added a complication, instead of adopting a rescue plan that pulled Axln from such a scene and sent her back to the other world.. Lyun wanted to find a way to see more of what Axln found for herself. The biggest question was.. how? Lyun had managed to pick up that Axln probably had a good measured interpretation of exactly where she would be under the academy.. but it really was pretty deep underground. A phasecraft could possibly go that deep, but there was concern about trying to phase through the world's lifeblood in an area before such a chamber. Such depth was possibly too high for such heat to develop normally, it was clearly a bit of a lifeblood spring, but that left unresolved how such a spring expanded from such a site. A rift was the other direct way there.. but there simply was no way to just rift through such a density of void.