The girl was surprised by the room, but supposed it made sense to have on a spaceship.  Plants made breathable air...or something like that.  The sound of water running over rocks was soothing, and she sat in the grass, one hand testing the ground, trying to figure out if it was sod or something else.  "It is nice.  I didn't really expect something like this in space."  Amuné turned her thoughts back to the matter of Ketsuoana, a matter she'd been diverted from by the sight of the greenery.  "So that's where he came from.  You said it's a hard question, but that's...really not what I was asking."  She leaned back and shut her eyes, putting her hands on the ground behind her and tilting her face toward the false sun.  "He's there.  I can tell he's there, and he's influencing things.  But nothing connects, not going forward, and not looking back.  If he was among the causes of so great a war, then I would expect a whole knot of connections.  And they're not there.  Though I suppose he might just be too strong for me to sense them.  They're lost in everything else.  The Seer opened her eyes and looked at the man beside her.  "Which makes it all the more unnerving, how he could appear and disappear."  She shook her head with a sigh.  "Millennia, huh?  I think you mentioned the Great Conflict.  But it's not over, not really.  Just another link in an endless chain of them.  There was something my very first tutor said once -- or I think he did.  I can't -- the memories, they're...not very clear.  I didn't have a solid grip on reality, back then."  Her grey eyes clouded as she tried to bring the the blurred memory into better focus.

"He said...the idea of the end of existence being calamity was a possibility.  Certainly such an event would result in a great deal of death.  But his personal belief was that peace -- lasting peace, something he had never seen, and I get the impression he'd lived for a long time -- lasting peace, that was how the end of time would come."  Amuné fixed her gaze on Tsitua again.  "I think he might be right.  At least, when I don't think I hallucinated the entire thing."  Another sigh, and she turned her thoughts back to Ket.  "What I wanted to know, aside from what the whole...separation and vanishing act means...What sort of a person is this lord of yours?  What do you think of him?  What's he hoping for?"

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