Artifact

Myriad Reality

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*Stays my course, accepting its approach like a game of chicken*

@Valiance

*The corner of my wing that clipped the statue flakes with gold, which slowly spreads like gangrene across its surface*
Careful!
*The statue slams into you with tons of force*

Myriad Reality

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*Follows behind in swift bursts, leaping from platform to platform of Chickpea's creation*

@Valiance

*A gold dragon statue flies down the street toward us, nearing the speed of sound, and I barely flit out of the way*

Myriad Reality

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*Shifts my gaze in its direction*
Sometimes a clue is more obvious.

@Valiance

If only it were always that easy.
*Takes off flying in that direction*

Myriad Reality

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It’s the safest assumption.

@Valiance

*Scans across a gold-laden building, looking closely at each individual captured in the reflection, when a rumble echoes from across the streets*

Myriad Reality

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Then for all intents and purposes, consider me a tool to that end. I’ll put my feelings aside for the mission.

@Valiance

*Nods with a suppressed aggression in my eyes*
If these imprints are a window to the past, then one will reveal what happened here. We just have to find it.

Myriad Reality

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The last thing I want is to assume and leave their fates permanent if we're wrong. If saving them is something you're sure we can and want to do.

@Valiance

It’s my responsibility that brought them this fate, and it shall be my responsibility to free them. I am willing to shoulder that burden.

Myriad Reality

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You could, regardless of this dragon’s wishes?

@Valiance

*Growls*
The dragons conscripted don’t serve willingly. Once consumed, their wishes are unimportant.

Myriad Reality

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It’s not collateral if they’re already gone. Take it from my experience- recovering from this isn’t in the cards.

@Valiance

Their life force is still there. Once I eat the dragon’s flesh, I may have the power to free them.

Myriad Reality

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If someone had come along before with the chance to do everything they could to stop that dragon before it came here and did this to them, I know all of them would have wished for it in a heartbeat. No one can afford half measures.

@Valiance

How much collateral are you willing to bear on your shoulders?