Artifact

Myriad Reality

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It’s a home. But if it sees a threat coming, who wouldn’t hesitate to escape? Make a new one, somewhere else. On top of someone else’s.

@Valiance

Then we’ll catch it trying to flee and destroy it. Trap it in its own den. We should not harm these people.

Myriad Reality

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We prance around being careful and methodical, the dragon catches wind of what we’re doing, gets away, disappears and does this to someone else. This place isn’t in our hands, but if that happens, whatever comes next will be.

@Valiance

If it intended to leave, why would it have waited? We cannot indiscriminately destroy their second chance.

Myriad Reality

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Even if it means foregoing whatever chances anyone thinks there are of saving these people.

@Valiance

...
*Frowns*
Why? These people cannot get worse. But we may be able to restore them.

Myriad Reality

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A second chance is more than they can have. We need to give them justice, and strike so hard and fast that this abomination can’t connive its way out.

@Valiance

That is what I like to hear! No mercy.

Myriad Reality

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Not this exactly. But a massacre that strikes a massive resemblance to this one, was the responsibility of someone you helped me kill.

@Valiance

I see... Then I sense a responsibility to ensure these people receive a second chance.

Myriad Reality

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It’s familiar. More familiar than I expected it to be.

@Valiance

Do you deal with these regularly? This is the first I’ve seen this effect.

Myriad Reality

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*Walks a circle around a particular couple of folks, such that they land within my sight as I gaze into a bazaar of sorts that was ripe with activity. I stop walking and stare at the scene with a furrowed brow, and a gaze of growing contempt*

@Valiance

*Looks down at the non-reflective but still golden walkways throughout the city and then studies another building closely*
You seem perturbed.

Myriad Reality

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Which does what if not provide answers?

@Valiance

Only as useful as the moment that was frozen. We could look at reflective objects to see more, but that doesn’t help us very much.

Myriad Reality

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Already?

@Valiance

Nothing that brings us answers.
*Leans in toward the inscribed image, and then walks across to the parallel image on the other side of the street*
But we would be able to reconstruct the moment these people were frozen.

Myriad Reality

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Let’s have a look, if you think there will be reactions to see without already being relatively close.

@Valiance

*The reflection of the market doesn’t contain any noticeable fear or panic on the faces of residents, but a newspaper vendor does appear to be distributing papers about the upcoming annual draining and cleaning of the waterway*
I have a small handful of ideas...