Session

Myriad Reality

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So that wasn't all a joke of some kind, then?

@Multifarious

Nope.
*Isolates five layers and stands them up vertically around you*
This place is my best shot of getting back to business.

Myriad Reality

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I could only imagine.

@Multifarious

But for me, it does what I need it to do when I'm not rotting away in isolation.

Myriad Reality

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Who wouldn't?

@Multifarious

*Leans over to get a closer look at a few layers*
Anyone who likes the idea of self-defense would scoff at hands like mine.

Myriad Reality

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Huh...

@Multifarious

Wishing you could? Can’t say it isn’t helpful.

Myriad Reality

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Could I learn to do it?

@Multifarious

That’s a great question. Maybe—
*Flings the upright layer of static back to you with a sharp tap to your heart*
But it sure doesn’t look like it.

Myriad Reality

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Is this projection something you’re doing entirely on your own or is it some sort of hidden part that we can’t normally see of ourselves?

@Multifarious

All I do is show you the energies you already have inside yourself. So... both.

Myriad Reality

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They do.
*Blinks and looks down from the spectacle to you for a moment and blinks, snapping out of a daze*
Oh, uh, mine is Rea. Doctor… Ah, screw it. Just Rea.

@Multifarious

Rea, I like that. Good name for a niece.
*Raps the back of my hand across your shoulder, reprojecting tiny bundles of multicolored static from the previous figure to a new, vertical shape of your body within your field of view, most of which are moving in a way that outlines your circulatory system*
These, Rea, are the life forces that live in you, but aren't you and don't help you. There aren't too many of them, and you can probably guess what they are.

Myriad Reality

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I’ll try, but… I’m sorry.
*Lays back down but is still clearly trying my best to watch everything you’re doing with my head rested against the bed*
It was so easy to be skeptical, but I suppose that I should never have expected anything conventional…

@Multifarious

Don't be, it's all par for the course in this profession. Any chance they give you names here?
*Slams a closed fist down onto your arm, again causing no discomfort, but causing a layer of burnt orange dots to retreat into your body*

Myriad Reality

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Wa-
*Sits up slightly and looks up above me at the spectacle in wonder, immediately calmed from a sudden panic*
Woah…

@Multifarious

That, my newly met friend, is your collection of energies. Put together, it's what you might call a life force. It's also why I need you to stay calm.
*Knocks at different points of your body and limbs which seem to shuffle and shift the points, gradually layering them by color one on top of another*

Myriad Reality

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*Rolls my eyes, and grabs my shirt to roll it up to the bottom of my ribcage*
That last bit would have been fine left out, “doc”.

@Multifarious

You never know with patients, right?
*Rolls my arm to pop my shoulders and lifts up a hand*
Let's get this party started.
*Swings my fist in a clean arc, delivering an overhead punch directly down into your abdomen, but despite its speed, the strike causes no pain or damage, and instead ejects flittering point particles of countless dark, muted colors like static in the general shape of your body directly above you*