Essentia Animus

54-Concert Production

Following the presentation, the daily lives of the three girls simply filled with even further obligations, leaving them with almost no time of their own. By this point, even Riyxia could feel the keen difference between her nights and days, as even her spectre needed to relax overnight without any obligations.

Some of their first assignments had been in construction efforts for the city, projects they single-handedly advanced a year within the span of a day. Those projects were mostly Riyxia and Vwyx working together, Riyxia moving all of the parts in place so that Vwyx could mass assemble everything. Sryine's most ambitious projects were much more ephemeral, such as altering entire weather conditions for major outdoor city events. Sryine made sure to charge a premium for anything that even pushed the capacity of their augmentations, resulting in a number of cheaper tasks with much less demand, some basic instrument crafting tasks for Vwyx, a few different illusionary performances for Sryine, Riyxia even spent a few days offering her services to some of the city's medical facilities. As their popularity rose, the expectations fell, there were quite a number of events they attended that wanted nothing more than the presence of the three global celebrities.

More so, things quickly divulged from being local and started involving a bit of travel, another thing Sryine started charging a premium for the time any of the girls were taken away from the city. Riyxia was quickly seeing why Liyuzhe treasured having someone like Ieqyisa around, instant teleportation would really make this sort of thing much easier. Not that she was actually the only one with such an ability, though it seemed the services of such talented transportation artists were also of a premium. In more than a few situations, the girls were brought probably halfway across the world via the work of some expensive teleportation instruments, completing much of the same work for some exceptionally wealthy international individuals. Not that they could be missed as wealthy themselves, Sryine had made it fairly obvious by the end of the first lunar cycle that their overall capital was high into the billions.

Once profits started to come in, not all of their funds continued to travel in just one direction. Sryine began investments with opportune clients eager to be associated with the three girls, in order to provide the research and resources they would require in their lunar expedition. A good number of those investments were even a waste, places later discovered as simply incapable of delivering what they tried to offer. It was acceptable, even if unfortunate, no one in the world fully grasped what sort of requirements would be necessary for such an expedition, especially with the odd variables of the three girls involved. Flight was something the world remained familiar with, the three girls had already been on quite a number of flights themselves, Vwyx could personally attest to that, but the challenge was having something that could ascend beyond normal flight limits, to leave the presence of Celese behind, to pierce through the border to the stars and endure the even harsher climes beyond. Nothing about this was predictable, nothing about it was cheap, Sryine was spending vast sums just as they were bringing such numbers in.

Remaining one of their more lucrative ventures, the concert proposition had not been forgotten, becoming the only thing to even occasionally slip into a portion of Riyxia's nights. Due to how her doll's voice worked, she couldn't practice singing without having someone in attendance, something she thought would keep her free for most of her nights. However, it just so happened that students make for terrible sleepers, even when they no longer had any academic studies to worry about. Eqriuxzl would then stay up into the night, listening to Riyxia practice an assortment of compositions Sryine had managed to acquire for her. It might have only taken her the span of almost three days to figure out basic speech, but it took half a lunar cycle for her to bring such a voice to a singing quality. Sryine made sure to comfort her, telling her that such was still impressively fast, but she hadn't sat through the ear-splitting nights that came before.. nights she felt sorry for what hardship she had put Eqriuxzl through. To Eqriuxzl, while it had been a rough and painful experience at first, his studious nature had found the support of Riyxia's learning process to be well worth it, feeling like a teaching aide of sorts in his own rights. He was well aware of some of the earlier failures his own projects often developed, nothing good ever worked right the first time. Meanwhile, the last few days had actually been more of a treasure, Riyxia's hard work having such a great return that even the subtle flaws of her melody carried a beauty of its own. At his encouragement, Riyxia had even started applying her practice to her own actual voice in a few sparse daytime opportunities, often while otherwise already occupied by her work. While not being capable of quite the same degree of beauty, quite a number of the hunters had told her that her singing was actually really pretty.