Artifact

Myriad Reality

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*Sighs when it’s closed*
Thank goodness none of them snuck their way through.

@Valiance

Ugly creatures. It's as if they're closer to swarming on each visit.

Myriad Reality

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*Follows behind, in a brisk, rushed walk and turns to face the portal as it closes*

@Valiance

*Takes my first full breath once I reach the other side*

Myriad Reality

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*Grimaces at them*
You know better than me. Let me handle the portal this time.
*Folds my arms and walks through a rift as it opens in a spiral from its center, leading back to my kitchen*

@Valiance

Thanks. That helps.
*Steps through*

Myriad Reality

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Not happening. Not today anyway.

@Valiance

*Some of the insects experimentally dip lower into our pillar of clarity*
We've been here too long. Is there anything else you need to see before we leave?

Myriad Reality

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Curious to know if it even cares about non dragons.

@Valiance

It might care if you attacked it.

Myriad Reality

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Baffling. I wonder if it’s so aware that it knows we’re here now and just doesn’t care.

@Valiance

If I guessed, I’d say it knows I’m here because of my dragon souls... soul. I couldn’t tell you if you’re visible or not.

Myriad Reality

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What was it?

@Valiance

All I could see were crystalline threads connecting scales much worse than these. They all seemed to point toward some central thing, but there were far too many to make out what it was.

Myriad Reality

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You have its anatomy mapped and correlated to a real living thing’s?

@Valiance

I’m not some expert on what this thing is, but if anything is a heart, it’s whatever I found.

Myriad Reality

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Experience in that too, huh?

@Valiance

I tried to visit its heart once. That nearly woke it up.

Myriad Reality

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It can get angry despite being in a slumber?

@Valiance

It can. Its emotions are usually short-lasting, but you don’t want to be caught in them.