Gate of Memoirs/Cosmic Thread

In that "other" space, where the threads of fate unravel in another direction, a new destiny awaits another familiar world.
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Music: "A God"	Music: "A God"
 	
*You're almost certain the altercation was even less than a spar.
*Only a test to ensure you were willing and able.
 	
*At any rate, the Queen looks pleased—or perhaps it was merely the way her mouth angled upward in approximation of happiness.
 	
*S'eljah: We will meet again. But remember...
*She leans in to you, an almost conspiratory whisper.
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*S'eljah: Remember that you hold not unconsiderable power in your hands.
*S'eljah: Remember what you've wished for...
*S'eljah: Athensphere, my dear, was only the beginning.
 	
*S'eljah: Choose wisely...
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*You wake in a cold sweat on a stiff, white-sheeted bed.
*Your wild eyes dart around until you focus on the familiar ceiling of the medical bay in the Summoners' Hall.
*Was it all just an insane dream?
*Where did reality end for you?
*Groaning, you roll yourself off the bed, grateful there isn't any staff around to ask you nosy questions.
*You're not sure if you can manage much more than a terse grunt, anyway.
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Music: "Hazama"	Music: "Hazama"
 	
*Still in a mental fog, you wander around the blessedly empty halls aimlessly in an attempt to shake yourself out of your reverie...
*...Only to find yourself before the doors to Noel's laboratory.
 	
*Noel is the first to notice you, and he gapes for a minute...
 	
*...While Giselle sports a milder, but no less surprised look on her face.
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*Until you croak out words that you're not sure were—or should be—there,
*and the clarity and conviction behind them stirred something close to fear in you.
*"I've seen the Void."
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*A week later...
*It turns out that you had fallen out of thin air while Noel and Giselle were working feverishly to locate you.
*Your signal had completely vanished off every radar in the lab, only to reappear in the same location as the aberrant Athensphere signals.
*But before they could crack their heads over creating an untethered portal in the middle of space, the portal bay spat you back out.
 	
*Giselle had an odd look about her as you described chasing after Kranus.
 	
*You kept those visions to yourself at the time after your harrowing escape from being shattered alongside the demigods,
*but with things as they are now, there wasn't a point keeping it a secret.
*Especially because it was also fairly likely Kranus attempted to drag you in.
 	
*Noel: Well, I wasn't about to take you seriously even back then, but now?
*Noel: I guess we don't have a choice. Not when it's opened up an entire *world* of possibility!
*Noel: Now, what was that you said about that other Gazia again?
*Noel: What was the gentleman's name, Azius?
*Noel: Go over that part about the "Veil" again. Everything he said.
 	
*Noel: I did tell you once that it takes a genius to understand another genius, right?
 	
*After trying to satiate Noel's seemingly bottomless curiosity and stopping short of telling him to jump into a portal himself,
 	
*you take a seat next to Giselle, whom you assume you're about to get a second interview with.
*But what unsettled you was how uncharacteristically silent she was as you spoke of S'eljah.
 	
*Giselle: Huh? Oh, no, I'm fine. I'm just thinking...
 	
*Giselle: About how she said Athensphere was only the beginning. The "other" Athensphere, that is.
*Giselle: You mentioned that Draegar had died in that alternate Athensphere you've been to, right?
*Giselle: Do you think this would have changed things elsewhere, following those events?
Music: "To the Top"	Music: "To the Top"
 	
*Noel: That's it!
*Noel: That's what was bothering me!
 	
*Giselle: Noel! Don't yell!
 	
*Noel: Sorry—but, this is huge!
 	
*Noel: , do you remember what Draegar brought back to Gazia?
*Noel: Besides the sliver that would become Kranus?
 	
*Your eyes widen in realization.
*Elysia.
*Draegar would have never gone to Elysia in that sequence of events.
*Which means...
 	
*Noel: I'm going to need that entire coffee batch brewed up and ready, stat!
*Noel: We're on the cusp of a scientific breakthrough! This could change our understanding of space and time as we know it!
 	
*You sink back in your seat, rubbing at your temple.
*There's no getting off this wild ride for the time being.
 	
*Next to you, Giselle offers only a small smile of sympathy,
*but you can't help but feel like she knew more than she let on.
 	
*Giselle: (Perhaps in time, , you will know...)
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*"But time does not wait, my dear; it never has."