Audacious

Myriad Reality

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*The flesh looks very burnt*
Lose-lose situation, then.
*Another voice echoes, but the echo itself sounds suppressed*

@Host

How much farther is it, anyway?

Myriad Reality

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*Frowns*
If you say so. But if you end up hurt, I won't ever forgive myself.

@Host

*My eyes shoots down to your hand for a brief second before I turn my head back face-forward*
I feel the same. Which is why I really couldn't bear if you got hurt all alone somewhere and I don't even know it happens.

Myriad Reality

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But if either of us would be able to get away, it would be me. We shouldn't risk both of us if we can help it.

@Host

We already are. I can't help you on your own.

Myriad Reality

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I'll scout ahead. If I run into any danger, I'll alert you.

@Host

Are you sure that’s a good idea? That scientist was scared of something fast, just like you. Who knows how fast?

Myriad Reality

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I don't like the implications of that.
*Almost impossible to see footprints leading from the collapse line the trail ahead of us*

@Host

Just be careful. Someone doesn't want us moving on, I think...

Myriad Reality

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*Grimaces*
I don't know if I trust the structural integrity of this place. The whole thing might come down.

@Host

*Slowly starts to walk forward again*
I mean, as in I think that might have been intentionally displaced from the trench walls or something.

Myriad Reality

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*Waves away the dust with a cough*
I think this will be my last visit to this part of the lab.

@Host

I think we should be extra careful.
*Flicks my wrist and evaporates the rock away from in front of me*
That's... Not natural.

Myriad Reality

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*Lifts my arms up to my shoulders, palms up*
I'm just trying to make sense of it all, okay?
*With a great rumble, dust and debris fills the cavern, and once the visibility returns, a clean slice of the ceiling obstructs the path in front of you, itself pristine as if cut*

@Legend

*Looks up through narrowed eyes*

Myriad Reality

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Do you think that maybe the superweapon is dad himself? Like if he kept his body in storage or something?

@Legend

Why would they call him that?

Myriad Reality

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It sounds shortsighted to me. If you were a real visionary, you wouldn't put yourself in the middle of it all.

@Legend

Makes me wonder if I'm missing something. Maybe I just don't get it...