mingle on the pathstone

[dawnwillcome]

Who: The Pathstone crew and anyone brave enough to come say hi
Broadcast: not this time
Action: I mean obvs
When: all month? all month!

[Contrary to popular believe, the Pathstone isn't THAT useless. Yes they can go months without an upgrade and sure they're kind of a mess at the best of times, but they still function!

Most of the time. Flying sideways in space is all about perspective anyway, and they haven't done a barrel roll in like... well probably awhile.

So welcome, new Pathstone dwellers! We're probably very sorry in advance.]

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[neverknight]

A little. They might still be alive out there. [He spears another piece of dessert with his fork.] They would have given me up. Not because they didn't want me, but because I was supposedly meant for greater things.

[Except... well, that didn't go anywhere. He swallows again.]

[princessia]

Greater things, like what? I think mothers and fathers would want to stick around to see their child do great things...

[ That's what she thinks good, loving parents would do. Now she's just listening, prodding the piece of dessert around on her plate. ]

[neverknight]

[... well, it's not like Cole doesn't already know. There's no harm in it.]

Like becoming a Jedi. I was born with a sensitivity with the Force. It allows me to do things like this.

[For a demonstration, he holds out a hand and after a second, her plate begins to levitate a few inches off the ground. A moment later, he lowers it again.]

Jedi are raised in the temple from their youth to learn the ways of the Force.

[princessia]

[ The sudden demonstration surprises her and she lets out a small gasp, lifting her hands away from the plate as it floats for a moment. ]

The Force? So that's like spirit artes! [ A pause, then she uses a more familiar term among the fleet. ] Magic?

[neverknight]

[A head shake.]

No, not magic. Though I guess the difference might not matter to most. What I'm tapping into, the Force, is an energy that exists all around us. There are some who are born with a special sensitivity to that energy. It can be used for a lot of good, but it can also be used for evil. That's why people like me are taken in by the Order to teach us to resist using this power for selfish gain.

[princessia]

[ It still sounds like some form of magic to her, much like how she has to channel spirits in Rieze Maxia. Spirits composed the natural world, her world. As far as she knows, all Rieze Maxians have mana lobes to channel spirits. Not just select people.

She tilts her head slightly. ]

Did you have to live in the temple for most of your life, learning from the Order?

[neverknight]

I did, at first. But the Order was destroyed when I was about your age. After that... [He lifts the glass to his lips, but doesn't drink just yet.] I made do on my own.

[He drinks and doesn't dwell. Cole had already made all those memories fresh and painful. He didn't need to go revisiting them a second time in one day.]

[princessia]

Oh...

[ She frowns. It doesn't sound like she has much to say on it, but she's thinking to herself about how lonely it must have been for him. She looks back down at the dessert, but she doesn't pick off another piece to eat. She's back to idly prodding off bits and pieces with her fork. ]

...The laboratory I was raised in, it was destroyed too. It wasn't that long ago. My previous caretaker took me to a village and left me on my own.