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[someone is using the candle for the first time! he looks a bit troubled]
. . . Hello?
. . . Hello?
Mm. Give me a moment.
[sounds of quiet conversation flicker in and out, not quite audible, and then the sound of a wooden door quietly closing]
Is everything all right?
[sounds of quiet conversation flicker in and out, not quite audible, and then the sound of a wooden door quietly closing]
Is everything all right?
. . . Not really. A lot of things seem to be happening here.
No. Maleficent told us more about Aather and about why we're here, but it seems to be coming with a price.
Five of them were attacked, I think. They're safe in the book, but it doesn't change anything.
Ocean? You mean Percy?
Percy and Riku are okay, it was the others . . .
Percy and Riku are okay, it was the others . . .
[s-sighs]
Percy, yes. So we've--they've lost Hazel, Drift, Berry, Frost, and... The one that replaced me?
Percy, yes. So we've--they've lost Hazel, Drift, Berry, Frost, and... The one that replaced me?
Yeah. Two new ones arrived, one of them is from my world.
Ah. ...My sympathies, then. I'm never quite sure what the proper response ought to be.
I guess it depends? I know she's strong, but knowing why people end up pulled away from their worlds doesn't help.
That's true. Other than Joker, no one from my world was in Aather while I was there.
. . . Yeah.
It seems like we were beacons for darkness in our worlds, that's why we were taken to Aather. Otherwise the darkness would've been able to get in and destroy our worlds. Gaining our memories back somehow helps us get rid of whatever made us beacons, so that's why you could leave once you got it all back.
It seems like we were beacons for darkness in our worlds, that's why we were taken to Aather. Otherwise the darkness would've been able to get in and destroy our worlds. Gaining our memories back somehow helps us get rid of whatever made us beacons, so that's why you could leave once you got it all back.
[long moment of silence before he siiiiighs]
Is that what it is?
Is that what it is?
It looks like it. I'm willing to believe it's true.
It's part of the information we got from Maleficent.
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