ᨰׁׅꪱׁׅ꯱ׁׅ֒hׁׅ֮⨍υׁׅᥣׁׅ֪ || 𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕟 𝕀𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕥

【 Destination 】

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"You did it! It worked!" [N] joyfully screams as he spontaneously shifts into various shapes and sizes while circling around Aether on the ground.

"Hold on... did I manage to free you from... this artefact prison thing?" Aether asks the young boy - who comes to a stop before giggling noisily.

"Not yet silly! You've freed me while in this form, this isn't my true form. I can only now appear physically like this through shadows," [N] explains, "howeveeer, if you did manage to find all the missing pieces and fix this thing, then I'd really be freed!!"

"Okay... so I've just gotta find the other pieces..." Aether murmured to himself, frustrated.

"All we gotta do is head to Sumeru and try finding the other pieces! We should be able to, since that place holds a bunch of info on so many cool things about this world!" Said [N], ecstatically smiling.

"Why can't you find the others on your own now like how you are? Surely it'd be easier that way." Aether asks.

"I would if I could! But I have to be in a close proximity to the loopy-thingys in order to sense where they are,"  [N] informs, "I also kinda need the Astro-whatever-thingy to sense them and can't stray too far from it."

Aether only grumbled tiredly, gaze falling over on the artefact.

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Paimon lets out a quiet yawn as she wakes up, blinking her eyes open. She noticed some shadow within her line of blurred vision, and when it cleared, she lets out a ear piercing shriek. [N] laughs at Paimon's reaction, clutching his stomach with tears falling from his eyes. Paimon swiftly flies over to Aether, hiding behind him while she kept her eyes on [N].

"Aether! Look! A big scary... shadow monster is after Paimon!!" Screeched Paimon.

"Hey! I'm no monster!" [N] argued, "also, I can't be that scary!"

[N] disappears before reappearing in Paimon's shadow, scaring the floating girl.

"Calm down Paimon, [N] is just messing with you." Aether reassures his emergency food.

Paimon looks at Aether, looking over at [N] before looking over at Aether again. "[N]? As in the [N] from your... dreams??"

Aether nods and [N] widely grins.

"That's right! I'm the one and only [N]!" The shadowy boy sticks their tongue out with pulling their bottom eyelid with a finger.

"No way... Paimon needs some serious catching up on what's going on." Paimon notes to herself.

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After catching Paimon up on what she'd missed, Aether begins making breakfast while they discuss their next course of action.

"Paimon thinks we should head straight to Nahida for how to free [N]." Paimon opted and both [N] and Aether agree with her decision.

"Oh I can't wait to head to Sumeru! I haven't been there in a looong time! I'm so excited!" Said [N] as he became more fidgety than usual.

"Hurry up you guys! We gotta get going! I wanna be freed now so we can play a whole lot of fun games!" [N] urges both Paimon and Aether, continuously jumping from one random shadow on the ground to the next one.

"Calm down first! Paimon's very hungry and needs her breakfast!" Paimon harrumphs after taking a bite out of her food.

"Then eat faster!" [N] whined.

Both Paimon and [N] instantly began bickering with one another. Aether only watches them while eating his meal.

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