exsilium | 1st Memory

[So... arriving here was a shock enough. Now... she's still struggling to absorb everything she's learned. It's so overwhelming, really. And Xion is not comfortable at all with just... putting her face and her voice and herself in general out there, but she has several questions and nobody she knows nearby to ask. So, text it is]

So we can't go home until we help the Initiate win this war? What if we've never fought in a war before? Why do they choose who they do?

I'm sorry if that's a lot of questions. I just don't understand what's going on. [Or why they picked her]

Is there any way of telling if there's anyone you know here?

[It seems like that's it, but at that moment, Xion slips in a puddle in the real world and nearly drops the tablet, fumbling with it and accidentally activating the video feed. It shows a small hooded girl, though her face is difficult to see. She seems to stare at a moment at the feed in surprise before she mutters "Sorry", and a hand clutching the bow she got when she arrived reaches up and clicks it off again]

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If someone knows you, they will likely see this and respond.

[The voice belongs to someone who looks roughly around the same age as Xion. He has black hair in a horrible mess and incredibly long ears, and he seems more interested in the book he's reading than whatever she's going through. His eyes glow green, though. Like a Heartless, but... green. Tha fuq.]

As for the rest: the Initiative has no idea of what they are doing, or how to work their inferior machine.

Yeah, I found someone.

[Xion peers with slight interest at the person on the feed. The ears were different from most of the ones she'd seen... People from different worlds looked different, sure, but Xion hasn't been around quite long enough to have achieved the same level of nonchalance when meeting more strange-looking people some of the others from her universe have]

That makes sense, if the machine takes people randomly... but why do you think they don't know how to do other things too?

Because the very nature of time makes it difficult to control. If the machines are not shut down and we are not returned to our worlds, the timeways will inevitably collapse and cause a paradox spanning countless worlds and timelines. At that point, it may be too late for the Bronze Dragonflight to intervene, and they will have to destroy everyone involved just to preserve the rest of the universe. Or, if they are not involved, we could be trapped in a lifeless, timeless vacuum for the rest of eternity.

[Oh god, he's a nerd.]

Either way, timelines are not to be tampered with. Any skilled mage understands that bending space and time to that extent will cause an escalating amount of chaos in everything around it, like dropping a pebble into a lake. It gets more and more distorted the further it goes.

1st Memory - Text//Video

video;

text; I thought I recognized the art style of that icon

spoilers: IT'S SAFFY