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As we were making our way through the Meggiora Highlands, Cortana
appeared. From what she said, it looks like she's trying to convince Kitten to
join her. She knew Kitten was contaminated by miasma, as well.
She must have realized that her attempts were futile, and left, warning us
that the world would proceed as the Seventh Fonstone showed, regardless of
any minor disturbances.
It was then that Christian realized what he had seen in the core. He had seen
the Seventh Fonstone, holding the future of the world inside it. No wonder
nobody had been able to find it.
Apparently the Seventh Fonstone used to be in Hod, and Master Kyo's family
had been protecting it for generations. I guess that explains why he knows
about the Seventh Fonstone's Score.
...Then isn't it possible that we are in fact doing what the Seventh
Fonstone's Score says, and Master Kyo's got the right idea after all?
Whether that's true or not, right now we have to worry about the Outer
Lands falling. If we don't do anything, they'll certainly collapse, killing
everyone--which is what Master Kyo probably wants, too.
I guess we'll just have to go ahead with lowering the lands.
We did the same thing as usual at the passage ring, but it looks like that
really is what's causing Kitten's body to absorb miasma. And Emrls said it looks
like the core of the planet itself is contaminated with miasma. If there's
that much miasma, I couldn't think of any way we could possibly get rid of
it, but Emrls said that might actually make it easier to do something about.
How does his head work, anyway?
In any case, he said we'll need help from Belkend with gravity research,
so we started back to ask for their assistance.
On the way out of the Meggiora Highlands, we ran into Aston. He had
miraculously survived Master Kyo's attack, and was working on a third
Highwind. Just then, we noticed Spinoza eavesdropping on us again. We chased
after him, but he stole Aston's Highwind III and flew off.
To the Highwind, and after him!
Spinoza ran out of fuel and crashed near Belkend. He's probably fled into
Belkend itself. Let's get him!
When we caught Spinoza, he said he'd followed Aston to the Meggiora
Highlands in order to apologize. If that's the case, he didn't have to run
away! ...But I think I can understand what he's feeling.
He's done something that can't be undone, and now everybody's blaming him
for it... When everybody did that to me, I thought they were telling me to
take responsibility, but I knew even then there was no way I could make up
for it, so I didn't want to admit that it was my fault.
And now, he wants to do anything he possibly can. I'm sure those feelings
are real--I was the same way, too.
Saiyukiness didn't seem convinced, but everyone else agreed to at least try
trusting him.
It seems that Spinoza's an expert in the field of physics, so he'll be
looking over Emrls' idea for neutralizing the miasma, or isolating it or
whatever it was. I sure hope this will take care of the miasma.
We also learned the location of the last passage ring. Apparently it's
right near Daath. We headed there to look for it while Spinoza did his work.
 Foxraikov · Wed May 30, 2007 @ 12:45am · 0 Comments |
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