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[saturations]

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[saturations]

We're working on it. We'll put it right. Don't drink what you find in the lab.

[ktiseos]

I assure you, I had no intention of doing so.

[he's touching none of this and let me tell you: i hate his ass]

[saturations]

[they nod, relieved.]

Sometimes I worry about you Crystallines. Supposed to be smart, but sometimes people can be smart in the wrong way.

[int: 9 talking here]

[ktiseos]

A phenomenon I am quite familiar with. When the best researchers of our world gather, the things they produce do sometimes make me wonder how often they consider whether they should create something, not simply whether they are capable.

[saturations]

[a slow rumble of a chuckle.]

Well. As long as you know not to drink what you find lying around, you'll probably do alright. [anyway.] Did you need something? Or just feeling your way around? Both is okay.

[ktiseos]

A bit of both, yes, as well as avoiding that whole mess. I wished to know where else we might go, and speak with those of you I had not.

[saturations]

[they nod.]

It's, uh, a lot over there right now. Always pretty peaceful here, and I like company. There's tea, if you drink it.

[ktiseos]

It has been that way since our arrival.

[it's just always a lot, so far. he is holding out some small amount of hope for it to calm down.

he'll learn better.]

But I do, yes.

[saturations]

Gimme a minute.

[they gesture to a small table and chairs set up near the garden. can emet's butt fit in them? actually yes it probably can. shale, fyi, is shorter than emet but a good deal taller than everyone else.

anyway, shale goes into the cottage. the windows are dark and can't be seen through and when they open the door, it also can't be seen through. but they come out of there a minute later with an old, antique looking teapot and two mugs. One has a duck print and one is floral and chipped.]

[ktiseos]

[thank god. he literally has not used any furniture here because he's not convinced it will support his weight, this is the first time he has not sat on the floor or the ground. he looks somewhat relieved that it works out.]

he definitely does try to peer after them from the table, quietly observing the way the cottage can't be seen into. honestly, he can't blame them, who wants these strangers just putting their eyes all over their shit...]

This place truly is more comfortable. [he comments, as they return.] Are you here because it suited you, or have you made it so yourself?

[saturations]

I grew this place. Took a lot of time and tending to make it my own, but some of it turned out the way it wanted to turn out, whether I meant it or not. A lot of things in the prism work that way.

[they sit, and stir a few leaves into the pot.]

[ktiseos]

And there is simply naught to be done about it, save for allowing the whim of this place to have its way?

[he likes the sound of that a lot less-- there should be ways to influence anything.]

Is there any sort of consistency to this, or will it simply happen where you do not expect it to manifest?

[saturations]

No. But that's not unique to the prism.

[should there be ways to influence everything?]

You seem like you don't believe that, but it's true. Things simply happen where you don't expect them every day.

[ktiseos]

They may occur, but they may still be guided. Altered. Set upon their proper course, if they have not taken it naturally.

[saturations]

Sometimes. Sometimes not.

[they finish steeping the tea and pour it into a cup, passing Emet the one without the chip. There's sugar and cream, too.]

You can't control everything.

[ktiseos]

Of course you can, given the appropriate circumstances. So long as all is maintained in the way it should be. Mayhap not here, but we have ever shaped the world in my own home.

[he takes the cup, holding it carefully, but doesn't drink from it immediately.]

[saturations]

You've always controlled everything? Nothing has ever gone wrong for you?

[they seem as though they're waiting for him out of politeness, but after a moment take a drink. it should be strange to see a statue try to drink but it seems to work.]

[ktiseos]

Well, there is the occasional incident, of course. The act of creation is not infallible... but the results may always be corrected. It is a part of my duty to do so, when such incidents fall within my purview-- as is the case with all of the Convocation.

[he finally takes a sip, there, slowly.]

Certain workings of the world are not interfered with. The laws of nature take their course, and natural disasters are not unknown to Etheirys. But should life fail to bloom in their wake, then we shall guide it back.

[saturations]

[the tea is delicious. bitter green tea, mixed with some herbs he likely does not recognize, but warming and refreshing.]

That must be hard for you. To find yourself in a situation like this when you've never experienced being out of control before.

[ktiseos]

[he takes a little more time to appreciate it, on the second sip. it helps a bit, with the way that needles at him, makes him think of their troublesome visitor and the future they claim to be from. one they will seemingly have no control over, should things proceed as they were told.

it's unsettling, to lack that certainty.]

I fully intend to be out of this situation as soon as we determine how to leave.

[saturations]

[shale seems very interested in this. they are listening intently, with a mild air of sympathy but also curiosity.]

So, saying you intend it means it's going to happen?

[ktiseos]

There is no other alternative. I cannot stay here, when I am needed among my own people.

[saturations]

[huh.]

Isn't the other alternative that you stay, and your people need something they don't have? Not the way you or they would have wanted it, but it's an alternative.

[ktiseos]

It is, nevertheless, one I cannot afford to consider. Not unless all other avenues are well and truly exhausted.

I do not belong here.

[saturations]

See, now that's something you have say over. That's getting somewhere.

[sniff.]

So, where do you belong?