Gate of Memoirs/Operation Gremlin

If you can't hit them from the front, disable them from the back.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Devil's Heart"	Music: "Devil's Heart"
 	
*The robotic guards go down without a hitch, and you step over them gingerly into the laboratory proper.
*You feel a vague sense of familiarity despite never having been here before.
*What is it about this place?
*Was it the panoply of mechanical components lying strewn about?
*Or the abandoned models of strange, robotic creatures?
*You shudder to think if Gazia would have even entertained the idea of such a cluttered workspace.
 	
*To your left, Azius is flipping through stacks of old papers and documents.
*Azius: Do me a favor and go through that section over there.
*Azius: There should be a file documenting all twenty-six functions of the high-speed particle emitter I developed...
 	
*Azius: As much as I'd like to sift through them myself, we'll have to settle with the most important ones.
 	
*You hold your tongue on comparing him to a certain young blue-haired scientist.
*The rusty orrery in the corner depicting the movements of celestial bodies catches your eye.
 	
*Azius: Do you know who set me on this path, ?
*Azius comes over, a strange expression on his face. Definitely not one you expect to see on Gazia, at least.
*Azius: Her name is Avyn. A young demigod—youngest among us.
*Azius: If you say you've been to this other Athensphere, you might have met her...counterpart, in some manner or another.
*Azius: Unlike the rest of us, who were molded from aspects of the old gods, Avyn was...as close as one could get to our progenitors.
 	
*Azius: Yes. She could skim across that expanse, that impenetrable barrier, that none of us could see.
*Azius: Someone who could traverse that "Veil", and see into the other space...
 	
*Azius: Ah, to be free of these boundaries. Truly divine.
 	
*You've known someone like this...
 	
*Zenia. The Void Walker.
*Once the subject of cruel experimentation under Gazia,
 	
*she was eventually liberated from a lifetime of suffering when she shifted part of Athensphere back into the Void.
 	
*Azius raises an eyebrow at your carefully worded inquiry about Avyn.
*Azius: It was sometimes difficult to ask for her time, but she has been nothing but a fantastic subject in every sense of the word.
*Azius: She does everything with singular purpose and fervor. Naïve, maybe, but who am I to judge?
*Azius: If it reassures you, I bent every effort toward deflecting orders to augment her.
*Azius: Such a waste to cover up her talents with mere machinery.
 	
*Azius: After all, I *am* in charge of all this. Do you really want to go against my word and risk a limb or three on a futile attempt?
 	
*You try very hard not to roll your eyes.
 	
*Azius: Speaking of which...
*Azius: You've gotten me very curious to hear about my counterpart over in your version of Athensphere.
Music: "Sky Fort" 	Music: "Sky Fort"
 	
*Before you can start thinking of excuses, the sounds of whirring machines come echoing down the halls.
 	
*Azius: Never a better moment...