Galaxy Raider

Myriad Reality

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*Two meteors immediately crash on either side of you, and a solar system’s worth of space—and requisite celestial bodies—manifest between you this planet, separating us*

@Meta

*My body poofs into a ring of black flame out of the collision point of the meteor sandwich, and manifests from a nearby surge of flame from the planet’s crevices*
Outsiders getting involved just makes more people get hurt, Rythian. Were I in a worse mood, the guilt of their loss would be your burden.
*An unseen pressure manifests in the air centered around my position, but seems to be an intense inward pull rather than an outward push you’d expect from someone manifesting power*

Myriad Reality

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…
*Looks up at ES*
I think that you’d better not touch a single one of them before we try to fix things.

@Valiance

*Raises my hands nonchalantly next to my head*
I acknowledge your intention with that question. Could have chosen different wording, but unfortunately, this is one thing I did not come here to debate.
*The nearest frozen individual to us bursts into a buff of dust and debris, and a flash of black flame burns for an instant beneath it before exhausting immediately, and the same thing begins to happen in rapid succession outward from our position to all the rest in sight and off into the distance*

Myriad Reality

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Why are you helping your self-declared enemy?

@Meta

Enemy's enemy, the saying about those. You know the one.

Myriad Reality

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You’re in front of us—who do they need to be worried about?

@Meta

Who's to say? It's not me- never was. But I'll tell you what I can say: Rythian, you'd better find a way to your students as soon as possible. I know for a fact that they're in big trouble soon, and you'd better be there.

Myriad Reality

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It’s not. But if they can be saved, they should be saved.

@Meta

As much was never on the table even if it were possible. Besides, the other world is full of folks who are a lot more alive. You lot should shift your concerns to them.

Myriad Reality

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Then where do we go from here? You’re letting us go, and I can’t imagine you’re going to kill these people here and now.

@Meta

Oh, I am. I figured Rythian would appreciate knowing that Maelstrom wasn't the true killer for most of the world. I think we can both agree that it isn't right to leave them suffering here.

Myriad Reality

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You were the one who showed up and filled the planet with whatever that was. It's not that much of a stretch.

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Right. He's going to be fine.

@Meta

Hm? Oh, I do that every time. It’s like a tripwire, since I can’t just watch a place as boring as this at all times. Don’t read into it too much.

Myriad Reality

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It wasn't you, then?

@Meta

I do make that good of a scapegoat, don’t I?

Myriad Reality

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If Maelstrom could do it when they were just 8 years old, then Ridge could almost definitely undo it now.

@Valiance

That’d probably be true if someone hadn’t already taken him out.