GalaxyRaider

Myriad Reality

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*Waves with one hand and with a single step, sinks into the canyon as if it were liquid*

@Memory

*A ring of floating metal parts flash in individually over my head before summoning a beam beneath it, flashing me away. Upon returning to my own facility, the light leaves my eyes, and my body starts to dissociate into tiny specks that swirl through the air and filter into a large cylindrical container which closes itself*
...
*After a long silence, the real me enters the room, bags under my eyes and tablet in hand, staring lifelessly at the cylinder as it whirs to life, purging its contents of foreign contaminants*
Mark Trial Hex...-31D as successful.
*Turns and leaves the room again, this time the lights shut off behind me as I go, leaving the room in darkness*

Myriad Reality

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I do hope so.
*Nods*
Until next time.

@Memory

*Nods back in acknowledgement*
Thanks again.
*Summons a device into my hands in a small flash of light and begins tapping away*

Myriad Reality

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*The door leads us back to the canyon's surface, with no trace of the original compound*
And I expect you to demonstrate your continued trustworthiness. As I anticipate you intend to.

@Memory

I'm a consistent person, to say the least.

Myriad Reality

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Well, it is among the most convenient for you.

@Memory

*Nods*
That, and I personally feel it's safest in your hands over most anyone other than my own.

Myriad Reality

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Perhaps not. I have not observed that your kind tends to seek out Tier Five's members, in any case.

@Memory

Some do. I hate it. We'd not be speaking right now if Nemid's Heart had ended up in someone else's hands, but this is admittedly among the most preferred outcomes.

Myriad Reality

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Those who attempt to ingrain themselves into the affairs of Tier Five tend to not last long.
*Pushes against space, which cracks in a rectangle pattern of light, opening like a door*
Not by our choice, either.

@Memory

*Nods and shifts to a head-shaking motion in a short span*
Not such a unique characteristic, in my relatively very small experience.

Myriad Reality

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Tier Five has no single points of failure but no redundancy. Data interacts with you by choice, but by no means represents the Tier as a whole.

@Memory

I suppose I never would have expected that to be the case. But I know that you know Data isn't even remotely the only one I could be talking about. Just the most prolific example... Admittedly, from a smaller pool now than it was not long ago.

Myriad Reality

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Fishing for information?
*The torches flicker and the ground falls away behind us as we walk, tile by tile*

@Memory

Maybe a little. I've spent so long working on things and being at most a single degree of separation from a lot of your group's work, minor curiosities like that tend to develop. Can't help it.

Myriad Reality

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*Raises an eyebrow and holds my hands behind my back*
My own.
*The passage gives way to a pale yellow darkness lit by hovering bundles of torch flame radiating along a single corridor, the rest of the maze now out of sight*

@Memory

I always wondered how exclusively you guys relied on him, in the handyman department.
*Glances down toward the floor as we walk, and the tone of my voice drops slightly, almost unnoticeably so*
Interesting to know there's some... Overlap in skills.

Myriad Reality

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There are better forums for arguing the aptness of an allegory.
*The environment and gravity twists sideways, walking us through several turns of a spiral*

@Memory

*Waves my hand dismissively*
Not important regardless of even that. I get the message. It's impressive. Data's work?