Eighth Order

[coolblueiceman]

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[Chrono's return from the outskirts of the Adventus base is, much like the last time he returned from an Adventus mission, marked by exhaustion and mana depletion, though it's from the Asura's dedicated teleport bay, and it's with the Fury (and Arika and Kamille) in tow taking up most of it; after taking Tatsu to the Chalice's infirmary for

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[chases_aliens]

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is wait. [And have a Dita, leaning on the doorway as she stepped up towards Chrono.]

How are you? Rested yet?

[coolblueiceman]

Don't I know it. The whole time I was gone before, I worried about what trouble everyone was getting into... and now that I'm back, I'm still worried, I just get to watch.

I'm all right, Dita... a little tired yet, but that should fade quickly enough. Did you manage all right with all this mess? [He gestures at the screen, showing a convenient still of the battle.] We had to fight pretty hard to keep up out there.

[chases_aliens]

I managed. I let everything guide me in that battle. If I didn't, I probably wouldn't have been able to get the finishing blow in. I do wonder though about Yolanda's last words.

"In another world..." sounds really like anything's possible, doesn't it?

[coolblueiceman]

...I was wondering about that myself. But then, I fly a spaceship, through dimensional space. I've seen a lot of things. There are all kinds of theories, about other versions of yourselves existing in other dimensions, about places that exist outside time. There's one tale of a restaurant perpetually moving before and after the end of the universe, though nobody's ever found it.

There's a legend of a colony, somewhere in dimensional space. It was called Al Hazred. Their technology, through magic, was amazing. It's said they could bring the dead back to life, travel through time on demand, their weapons were - are - the stuff of legend... The whole colony was destroyed in an accident that caused a chain reaction, and the remaining artifacts were scattered across space-time. They're the prime examples of what we now call Lost Logia.

[chases_aliens]

How interesting. And do you think some of them could be on earth now? And what would qualify for them?

[coolblueiceman]

Well, I know there were some several months ago. It's how we first met Nanoha. [He holds out Durandal, which obligingly displays a hologram of a small, diamond-shaped jewel.] This is a Jewel Seed, one of a set of twenty-one. Individually, they're insanely powerful. All of them at once? I try not to think about that, myself.

Now? We know the Book of Darkness is somewhere on Terra. It's actually orders of magnitude more powerful than the Jewel Seeds were, combined. There may be other such items too, we just haven't found them. The All Spark that was aboard some time ago has the power for it. Fate submitted a request to classify Shoutaro's hard-boiled eggs as a Lost Logia, with a sample; I examined it but haven't passed judgement just yet. She claims a single egg took out three people.

[chases_aliens]

That does make a lot of sense. Strange how so many things are congregated on this planet. Do you think the Pexis could be one? It apparently ignores physics.