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[urzaplaneswalkr]

[Pre-Milliways: So many worlds.]The door does not open, precisely. It is closer to say that where the door was becomes a shimmering wall of light. From the light steps a figure, shadowed against the glare for a moment until the door becomes just a door once again

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[fated_fox]

But then, this is Milliways. There is nothing new in Milliways; everything's been seen or done or heard about at least five times before.

Lir, the silver vixen says.

I know, is the reply, and Hale turns to look at the newcomer.

Who cleary has seen better days...

[urzaplaneswalkr]

Urza has been stared at before, so he takes little notice of the man and his animal except insofar as he takes in the presence of all those in the room.

[fated_fox]

Hale has been stared at though, many times. Not for the fox but for his eyes.

But then, perhaps Urza has seen eyes as yellow as a beast's before?

Magic, the fox comments. He seems to be made of it.

[urzaplaneswalkr]

Urza has seen a great manner of man and beast, and none shock him any longer. Nor does the undercurrent of mindspeech that he can sense between the two.

It would be rude to pry, so he does not. Merely cocks his head at them and gives a curt nod.

[fated_fox]

But it is not rude for lir to take note of when someone can hear them.

Powerful, she assesses. If he desired to be he could become a god.

Aye. I can feel it.

Powerful enough that he can hear us, though I doubt he possesses the lir-gifts.

Kya hops up onto a stool, the better to see the stranger.

[urzaplaneswalkr]

Urza grunts at the motion.

"A fine animal," he says stiffly.

[fated_fox]

"More than that," Hale notes, taking care to emphasise that the fox is no ordinary forest creature but more than that. "She is lir, and as gods-blessed an animal as Cheysuli are a race of men.

Her name is Kya, and I am Hale."

[urzaplaneswalkr]

Gods-blessed? Well, he's certainly heard that before. Particularly from the acolytes of Serra, but on plenty of other planes as well.

"I am Urza," he answers. "Is this place the realm of the Cheysuli?"

[fated_fox]

It would seem the folly of men to consider themselves above all other manner of creation, but that's not the subject of the tale.

"If you were, this place would be a Homanan tavern," Hale remarks. "But no. They call this place Milliways, where all worlds intersect at the end of time."

He's been here nearly two years and even he doesn't quite get it.

You are well come to Millways regardless of your rather unconventional manner of entrance, Urza, adds Kya.

[urzaplaneswalkr]

Urza tilts his head at the description.

"You say 'intersect'. This is a multiplanar nexus of some sort?"

He had read of such places but never expected to find one.

[fated_fox]

What a shame Hale doesn't have an icon to match his facial expression right now...

Because it's a real winner.

In a manner of speaking, Kya says, her understanding of "multiplanar nexus" no greater than Hale's. That is, if that is the term used to describe the junction where space, time and everything else meets.

Apparently there are things even lir don't know, though it behooves them to admit it.

Everyone just calls it "Milliways".

[urzaplaneswalkr]

"The description is close enough," Urza allows. Going into the intricacies of multidimentional physics is not exactly good conversational material for a first meeting.

"Milliways, then. A meeting place of many worlds. I had not realized so many had the capability to cross the planes."

[fated_fox]

Especially when the one you're talking to is starting to feel like some uneducated backwoods heathen.

It pricks at sensitive Cheysuli pride to think that there are things in the world beyond one's mental capacity to understand.

And nobody likes to be seen as stupid.

"They ... do, though for the most part it is ... involuntary."

He's thinking of the time when a water spout appeared out of nowhere and brought him to Milliways.

"They just ... arrive, through some kind of magical force.

The will of the gods perhaps."

Hey works for Hale.

[urzaplaneswalkr]

"Perhaps," he says, as unpatronizingly as possible, considering his rather persistent atheism.

In his experience, it doesn't take that powerful a sorceror to summon beings from other worlds.

[fated_fox]

For the best. No need to start a quarrel over gods and their existance, or perhaps lack thereof.

"Sometimes we go back to our worlds," he continues on. "And normally it is as it was left during the moment of one's departure.

But there are others who cannot leave. They remain here for however long the bar intends them to stay."

Bound, the fox remarks. They stay in the bar until the bar releases them.

Word from the rats says that if you cannot see the door that you came through, you are Bound.

[urzaplaneswalkr]

Urza does not bother to turn around. He did not enter through a door; he is confident he does not need one to leave. He is more and more convinced, though, that a powerful sorceror inhabits this Milliways, possibly even another planeswalker.

"And what of you, then? Are you also 'Bound'?"