Fortuna Verto

43-Dispelling Shadows

By the time Kori finally woke up, everyone else was already fast asleep. Everyone except Rosa, of course, who was a flurry of insight going over the rush of discoveries which occurred while Kori slept.

"Basically, everything is exactly as we were promised." "Uh, yeah, basically. But you have to think of all the applications, we could..." "No, I don't have to think of all the applications. Our chaos is just always there for our support, and that's all that matters. Sure, such has basically an endless list of ways it could help us, but that's exactly why I don't have to think of all the applications. True chaos isn't for us to understand, only for us to work with. All I need to do then is to actually work with the chaos that is providing all of this for us, right?" "Oh come on, you know that it doesn't understand all the principled stuff in turn, someone has to do all of the research to figure out the middle ground. I suck at research too, which is why I was hoping you would be able to put everything together." Kori considered all of Rosa's reports, generally actually uncertain what to make of it all. The generic theory made sense, but that made sense long before Rosa's report. True chaos just did stuff to principled stuff in a chaotic way, though chaotic didn't seem to mean they had no control over it. Chaos, it seemed, was perfectly good at controlling chaos. It was thus a wild card they could call upon that could deliver whatever they lacked. It could do anything, but it couldn't do everything. The hardest part then was gauging the amount they should depend on it, how much would even be fair. Without that information, it was very difficult to find proper applications for such true chaos.

Kori was mildly aware of a feeling of respect from nowhere. Ah, that would possibly be her chaos trying to communicate with her. That was going to be another thing she would have to pick up on, being open with the same chaos itself. At the very least, she couldn't think of a better research partner for the whole experience.. well, it and Rosa both. Her chaos was the expert in all matters chaotic, but Rosa was definitely skilled in matters natural to both sets of principles. Rosa had even ensured Kori's stuff was in top condition when they awoke too. However, just like Rosa, Kori had slipped from the dream when Rosa had awakened, even if she had then instead simply resumed sleeping. All of this was generally quite the rush from her perspective, having to thus deal with the knowledge right after waking up. This whole thing was going to take quite a while to process properly.

"Well, this is going to be quite the project, so it might be better to look into other important matters in the meanwhile. I mean, after the things we completed that last fight, there are a few other things I really want to look into more. If dancing among frost was fun for you, you might actually be having some of the same ideas." "Oh yeah, that did happen, didn't it. By the divine, it was even fun. But.. I'm not that good with my gift, so I'm not sure I'll be as capable when I'm not in an area already providing all the frost I might ever need." "Hey, I ended up instead having fun with darkness instead of sand, I don't even know how I might actually make use of my own gift. However, before we get a surprise visit there too, we might actually want to start preparing." Kori had a point Rosa simply could not refute. Of course, she expected that any future encounters would leave their true chaos as an integral aspect, but it would still be important to learn how to do better with elementals in the process.. or even how to do better with science on Ruixse. That idea especially appealed to her, possibly because she was really starting to feel more comfortable with science than elementals. She was even certain that, as long as she still found a way to allow Axln to do some actual hacking, Lyun could ensure they both had a decent time working with technology.

They both arrived at the academy then soon after, leaving dusk to the sleepers of the world where people slept all dusk. Both of them felt reasonably well rested, they could go for a complete evening at this rate. Lyun instantly ran off to begin her own research. She had several things to investigate, from matters of her own gift in its newest implementation to research in creating actually useful technology in this world that reflected upon the instruments they had worked with from the other world. She honestly also wanted to run a few tests on her arm too, just to complete that research in its entirety. She already suspected what sort of elemental levels she would find, but she had so much else she wanted to test too. Quite honestly, the composition of her arm faintly resembled the best quality kyuemu ever imaginable, distinctly impossible in that nature. The most impossible part was how it wasn't even exactly crystalline.. but it wasn't not either.