Fortuna Verto

66-Lunar Liberation

Lyun eventually awoke to the growing noise of the citadel, the whole place suddenly bursting with activity. It was at that point that Lyun recalled that she still had responsibilities to attend to, she couldn't afford to just sit around while everyone else was working so hard.

"Welcome back, inheritor. Please let me know if there is anything I may do to attend to you, otherwise I have been instructed to ensure that word is brought forward regarding your current status." "Oh, hey Luna. Maybe I should at least know what I've missed, so I know what I should be doing?" "Lady Mheridz has been coordinating everything in the absence of either inheritor, claiming that she has the blood ties to the inheritor and thus is entitled to at least some recognition, especially when there is threat to both inheritors. Of course, you have the complete capability to override such claims." "Well, that has me worried. What is she up to, then?" "Mheridz is occupied currently with saving the lives of those found in the crash of the academy's siege-mantle. She is the one I'm supposed to report to once you've recovered." "Wait, what? Crashed? Actually, that's an idea, let's go see her. This would probably be much easier that way." Luna led the way out the door and through the halls, bringing Lyun to yet another room nearby. Considering all the ersatz running around, this was obviously why everything had gotten so loud around here. Inside, she saw what was visibly quite the recovery assembly, several healing instruments scattered everywhere in front of an assembly of other random instruments. Luna hadn't actually ever seen this room before, but it held quite the marvel of innovation. Much more of interest to her though was the people also present, most of which from the academy, many appearing to be in a very critical condition. Then she noticed Mheridz switching from one room to the next, looking into the matter with absolute diligent care.

"Mheridz, what in the hells happened?" "Oh, Lyun, you're up. Perfect, I need a hand. We could be doing so much more if one of these stupid units weren't down, could you look into it and get it working again?" "Well, yes, but.." "Perfect, this way. It's this thing here, just let me know when it's fixed, thanks." "Could you at least tell me what's going on while I work?" "Right, you do get stressed out very easily, and that does get in the way of your results. However, Mo-.. Axln is looking into everything else, so there is much less to worry about." "What else is going on?" "Voidspawn have taken to a new attack, actually making use of probability itself to engineer stuff going wrong. There have been numerous failures as a result, a lot more that you're probably going to have to fix before something else goes terribly wrong. That's what caused the crash too, things going terribly wrong. However, Axln has come up with a few new things that even I can hardly understand.. so now probability is back to normal. She's the one who brought word on everything.. and is probably the only one who understands what is going on here. Just expect everything to be fine, it's easiest that way right now." Lyun kept working on the instrument Mheridz had brought her to while considering their current conversation. Lyun certainly had not missed Mheridz's slip-up there, which decidedly was more like Velvet than Mheridz. Axln had obviously been very busy while Lyun was out of the picture. However, Mheridz was also wrong, there was another place Lyun could get such answers from.

「Quite simply, chaos had wielded the chaos of chance to engineer widespread disaster, something which had actually worked for a while. However, chaos can defend itself from chaos, leaving that one capable of enduring misfortune through controlled chaos. Actually, that one brought an impressive display of true chaos to bear to control the situation, melding chaos and principles together in angles chaos could not hope to explain.」 Okay, so maybe Mheridz really was at least partly right. Lyun was going to need to get most of this story straight from Axln. 「That one is currently unreachable, having lost consciousness after their victory. That one is currently safe, for now at least.」 Wait, where exactly are we considering as safe? 「Such would be in a hidden location in the middle of chaotically controlled territory.」 That wasn't exactly what she would call safe, it sounded more like Axln needed to be recovered too. See, there was a lot of value in reaching out to her own chaos to get an update of the situation. Aware of such, she completed her own work before turning to the door. Right, this place was a maze, she would need a guide to find the rift room.