[The Vine opens on a setting that is uncharacteristic of the Gardens. It appears to be a dimly lit laboratory. The walls are pale gray, with dark screens that flicker with green, displaying data that may or may not be meaningless. There is a low humming, from the lights or machinery. In the background, there is another sound--faint, but sharper
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Hello, Kadaj.
[There is no reason to be anything less than pleasant.]
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You brought this human here, for what purpose-- are you so weak? Are you afraid to face me? No, you're so young. I'm the elder here.
[Then Kadaj does focus on the woman outside the partition. She smiles, but there is nothing open about it.]
Your name means nothing to me, human. Knowing mine gives you no power over me.
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No, my love, knowing it only gives me something to call you by.
[She smiles sadly, turning for a place to set her purse down onto, reaching into it for the package of sonando. It will not take her long to prepare.]
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[She asks Fela, a little concerned:] Do you need to make physical contact?
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I do not. It would be easier, but... [She trails off as her heart begins to beat more quietly, lights exploding into life around her. She closes her eyes, but that does not help, the energies on the world still blossoming. She inhales deeply and steps forward, placing her hand up, fingers spread.]
No... And you will sleep now, Kadaj...
[Her voices goes soft and warm, almost musical. With a fresh dosing of sonando in her skin, there is little she cannot do in the dreaming, even drag sleeping minds below with her.]
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But you are harming me, you always harm me-- now you bring a human to try to harm me, Sephiroth! As if human magic could touch me-- you can't touch me--
[She was going to say things. Not to the human woman (their little rituals and fearful magics and charms against sufferings they could not avoid, so foolish, needless) but to Sephiroth-- how dare you what do you hope to accomplish I am not... I am...
Then she hadn't said anything at all. Smothered. Sleeping, thoughts like echoes surround her. Dreaming her dreams, which are also Sephrioth's dreams which are Mother's dreams, floating in the cold dark of space like a little craft on the breast of the ocean.]
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[Sephiroth keeps her gaze on Kadaj as she speaks, then comes to earth, then rests her head and closes her eyes--
Sephiroth's own eyelids flutter briefly as a shudder goes through her, and she takes one step forward, then no more. She stands still, staring down at Kadaj as if Fela is not there.
--so much emptiness between the stars--]
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