Fortuna Verto

77-Beyond Destiny

As Rosa arrived once again on Aluna, she took flight in a prowl for her assigned prey. Of course, her biggest reason for such a high altitude had nothing to do with getting a good perspective, and everything to do with her own wellbeing.

Kori in the meanwhile had arrived on this moon with far less information, remaining ignorant to the terms of everything going on. Velvet had warned Rosa about her actions, that the lens pieces were projecting a powerful UV radiation that would cause some problems for Rosa if she were to be exposed to them. More than that though, it just so happened that this solar intensity was of a magnitude designed to absolutely decimate the temporal. In so many ways, Kori had just gone from the frying pan to only fall into the fire itself. The massive UV rays were even making holo communication impossible, preventing Kori from requesting aid. Rosa herself took into consideration her circumstances too, they were on this side now. Without the citadel's strangeness, Rosa could no longer create a spell domain anymore. She did have friends here she could reach out too.. but she had to be careful about that. None of them knew the state Kori was in, that could present an added danger.

Actually, considering the science behind everything, the worst of anyone to have suddenly involved would be Holi.. Kori's own creation. The fiend would have all the authority over the nanite cluster, Holi had to be kept uninvolved. Fortunately, even her own equipment was reporting that communication channels were unavailable, so this would not be a place under Holi's current purview. It was then that Rosa noticed a small familiar ship floating by, towing a small piece of lens that outright glowed with solar radiation. That was Velvet again, fluttering around. However, Holi was set to keep Velvet under watch, she could thus assume that at least a few nanites were taking shelter inside with Velvet. There was little recourse, she simply caught the whole thing by surprise with a sudden elemental shift, making her way inside as Velvet scrambled to get her instrumentation alternatives up and working so suddenly.

"Sorry to drop in so unexpectedly, but I'm going to need a hand." "Obviously there were some unexpected complications. Nothing serious, right?" "Uh, about that.." Rosa brought Velvet up to speed with what was currently going on. "So, yeah, I'm going to need some help." "Shit... I'm really sorry mom, I didn't know us coming back like that would cause something this bad. Shit, to think how badly everything would have gone had we actually succeeded then." "Hey, don't blame yourself for the stupid decisions of other people." "Maybe, but I'm certainly going to help you fix this mess." "Good, because while I know our Kori is still somewhere, I don't have a clue where to look. I don't even know where to find the fiend Kori either, and I need to make sure she doesn't escape. Your genius of a trap is probably the only thing stopping this from going really wrong, so that's great, by the way. Now, how do we find her?" "You might have forgotten, but hunting DMAs has been my life. If she's a DMA herself now, full and full through, I'll find her." Rosa had a feeling she had come to the right person here, while Velvet worked to prepare for the hunt. The solar saturated environment was going to make this far more challenging than it had been before, but by this point Velvet understood that Rosa had endured far worse.

Even so, Velvet understood that Holi would need to be excluded from this little trip. Fortunately, she had gotten used to OSIDF field distorters that would get in the nanite's way. Actually, it would probably be for the best to outright EMP her entire transport, Rosa would be more dependable there. This way, by the time Holi recovered, they would be gone already. Sure, Holi could just go after them, but that's why she needed to leave a careful letter, one explaining how Velvet needed a bit of time to herself for a while. Certainly, this late in her mission, Holi would be willing to allow her that. The complication however would be the object of her current voyage, the lens fragment she was dragging around. That was still something that needed to be dropped carefully, especially if there were concerns about potentially crushing a person.