Essentia Animus

53-Global Perspective

The girls weren't allowed much time to rest, not after a performance at that level. They had slept through takedown, but with dinner quickly on approach it was time to get going.

Sryine was possibly the one with the most energy remaining, not having done terribly much beyond her normal augmented abilities, overall leaving her feeling rather under accomplished. She was fully aware just what intensity would have been demanded by the degree of reshaping.. everything.. that Vwyx had undertaken. The fact they were incredibly high up as a result probably had not helped in the least either, even if she knew they were both better at dealing with concerns like heights and flames while augmented. This wasn't just a simple divide of the ground, a major chasm as she had made before, this was instead recreating a complicated structure into a gigantic revision, all while occupied and ensuring the safety of everyone inside, followed by a similar reversal. Riyxia had told them to make an augmented scene, to have Vwyx really reshape the stage, but Vwyx really might have taken things a bit far. Riyxia though.. wasn't any better. In fact, Sryine was rather certain Riyxia was even worse. More than splitting her essence a half dozen times.. sure Sryine knew that Riyxia would most likely be able to do several times more while augmented, maybe even as much as a hundred. That wasn't just a hundred, that wasn't even just a thousand. One of the first things she had done upon waking up was to uncover an audience count.. just over fifty thousand people had been seated for the presentation, with several thousand more staff who would have been present working around the seating area at the same time. All of them had individually gotten their own star, Riyxia had linked well past fifty thousand different objects all at once.

"On the bright side, I think that's probably somewhere close to my limit. I mean, that whole thing had me pretty wiped out, I think eighty thousand probably would have been it for me. That means I can achieve about ten thousand times my normal ability while augmented, a pretty useful figure to be aware of, right?" "Seriously, that is not the kind of situation where you discover your limits, why did you think that...? What's this?" "Liyuzhe dropped off a letter during the presentation, it was even her two friends who had made a scene back there, challenging us to amp things up. We should have expected to get their attention in the process, considering they would be interested in exactly the sort of thing we were promising." "Successor, that's a bit of an unexpected title, wonder what brought that on." "I'm suspecting Liyuzhe found out that her Khyzae had died somehow. At least that means I won't be confused for Khyzae anymore, but now it seems that they will be holding me up to a strong sense of obligation to carry her will forward." Riyxia took the note back from Sryine and put it back into the pocket of her still-sleeping body. Riyxia was certain the three intruders hadn't shown up to cause a mess, they were instead unwilling to let such a performance progress half-heartedly. Rather than sabotage everything, the results were well beyond estimate, Liyuzhe had actually done them a favour.

"Oh, good, someone is actually awake. Actually, I should have expected to at least get to talk to Riyxia, but it's great that Sryine is doing well too.. or 'at least', I guess Sryine is probably the only one actually officially awake. Anyway, we've already got a lineup of people who want to book time for their own meetings, to get an opportunity to get a piece of their own star, as the word on the street is going. Do you know what price those stars are going for now? I'm pretty sure that if one of them got a personal autograph, it would sell for several times more. Ayzherie is almost a cherry at this point, she's gone so red. At this point, rather than the hunters being your support, your popularity is now supporting the hunters, a lot of the provisional resources for the hunters has already been increased as a result. Even your presentation skills have begun to take hold of a high merit, there were more than a few questions about if any of you would be open to some stage productions for some live plays coming up. I had a number of requests too asking to see if the doll used had the ability to sing, and if her owner would be willing to stage a few songs for their concerts." Jwyexzn had a gigantic clipboard filled with notes, clearly having become remarkably busy in the interim. Sryine didn't like it, everyone was keeping busy, everyone was doing useful things, she wanted to pitch in too.