Galaxy Raider

Myriad Reality

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*A black hole erupts where you stand, pulling you into its event horizon*

@Meta

*Disappears behind the event horizon, not manifesting anymore but leaving you in the altered, blazing plane of reality which feels more mildly chilly than hot*

Myriad Reality

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So tell me, is this plane your own, or are you just passing through?

@Meta

Correct. Now, the flames are very much real. You just don’t feel them. I’m going to leave, since someone is waiting for me. You will not even attempt to follow, and you never will. We’ll meet again very soon, either by fate-
*Is looking at Rythian, but shifts to you*
-or your own desire. On Ilouro. You’ll know when the time comes.

Myriad Reality

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*Extends two fingers in your direction, and a stream of particles moving near the speed of light collide with your person*
What a cheap trick. None of this is your fault, Rythian.

@Meta

*Stares directly into the stream without so much as phasing*
Maybe it would be, if we were fighting. I just needed to pass of some information, and you needed to hear it. Well, not you. But I guess if you really have a bone to pick with me so badly now you can tag along later.
Allow me to lift the veil.
*Throws my hands up as a blanket of darkness covers the sky, and the air shifts almost as though we are all pulled into a plane overlapping with this one, where the planet appears to be much more violently on fire than in the real world, and each of your bodies also appears to be entirely set ablaze with the black flame*

Myriad Reality

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*Two meteors immediately crash on either side of you, and a solar system’s worth of space—and requisite celestial bodies—manifest between you this planet, separating us*

@Meta

*My body poofs into a ring of black flame out of the collision point of the meteor sandwich, and manifests from a nearby surge of flame from the planet’s crevices*
Outsiders getting involved just makes more people get hurt, Rythian. Were I in a worse mood, the guilt of their loss would be your burden.
*An unseen pressure manifests in the air centered around my position, but seems to be an intense inward pull rather than an outward push you’d expect from someone manifesting power*

Myriad Reality

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…
*Looks up at ES*
I think that you’d better not touch a single one of them before we try to fix things.

@Valiance

*Raises my hands nonchalantly next to my head*
I acknowledge your intention with that question. Could have chosen different wording, but unfortunately, this is one thing I did not come here to debate.
*The nearest frozen individual to us bursts into a buff of dust and debris, and a flash of black flame burns for an instant beneath it before exhausting immediately, and the same thing begins to happen in rapid succession outward from our position to all the rest in sight and off into the distance*

Myriad Reality

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Why are you helping your self-declared enemy?

@Meta

Enemy's enemy, the saying about those. You know the one.

Myriad Reality

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You’re in front of us—who do they need to be worried about?

@Meta

Who's to say? It's not me- never was. But I'll tell you what I can say: Rythian, you'd better find a way to your students as soon as possible. I know for a fact that they're in big trouble soon, and you'd better be there.

Myriad Reality

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It’s not. But if they can be saved, they should be saved.

@Meta

As much was never on the table even if it were possible. Besides, the other world is full of folks who are a lot more alive. You lot should shift your concerns to them.

Myriad Reality

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Then where do we go from here? You’re letting us go, and I can’t imagine you’re going to kill these people here and now.

@Meta

Oh, I am. I figured Rythian would appreciate knowing that Maelstrom wasn't the true killer for most of the world. I think we can both agree that it isn't right to leave them suffering here.