Audacious

Myriad Reality

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I really, really hope not. Dad made the defense system specifically to stop him, but this isn't just coincidence...

@Legend

*Raises my hands up and looks at my palms, which are shaking intensely, before clenching my fists tightly to quell the jitters*

Myriad Reality

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Of this? Of what? I don't think he's here.

@Legend

*Nods*
Of the trail…

Myriad Reality

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*Pats you on the back*
It's okay, it's okay. I can't do anything about him either. Same boat.

@Legend

*Takes a long, shaky breath in through my nose, and then a quick but just as quivering exhale through my mouth before speaking quietly*
Do you think he’s waiting at the end of this?…

Myriad Reality

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Y-yeah! I know he's a bad guy and all, but... you're really not looking so good.

@Legend

Isis, I-
*Pauses and glances to look at you for just a moment before yanking my head away again*
I mean everything I’ve said to you today. It’s all within your capabilities. But if we happen to meet him…
*Shakes my head while looking at the ground*
I can’t.

Myriad Reality

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Woah there!
*Rushes to your side and stabilizes you*
What's going on??

@Legend

*Keeps my gaze cast away from you*
I didn’t even consider the odds…
*Stares at the ground, where my feet meet the Earth*
Him?

Myriad Reality

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Um... Violet? Are you okay over there?

@Legend

I’m fi… Fiuh-
*Swallows after a lump in my throat keeps my from speaking up, and I start walking away*
You should look over there, and I’ll look- I…
*Stumbles after dragging a shaky step and falls to my knees*

Myriad Reality

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Dark Dad—Dynamo. Dark Dynamo.

@Legend

*The orb of plasma flickers heavily for a moment, my gaze drops to the ground at your feet and a look of incredible unease washes over my face*

Myriad Reality

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*Kneels down and runs my finger across the moon's surface*
This is the work of Artemis' dad, no doubt about it. Our family's mortal enemy.

@Legend

*Blinks*
Who… Who would that be?

Myriad Reality

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*Everything within detection radius is dead and still, not even in revolution as part of a greater astral system; the relay system embedded into the moon no longer appears to function, its meager power source having been similarly prionized and depleted*
...Someone beat us here.

@Legend

You think this is the work of someone?

Myriad Reality

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Woa—
*The world around us remains rather dim and still in the nonreflective purple-black surface of the prionized moon, which sports a single inward-bowing column stretching out to its now frozen-in-place planet in the distance*

@Legend

…
*Feels out the landscape for any presence, movement, or materials that stand out*