"You're not even as attractive as I thought you'd be..."

[for_cosmos]

Characters:  The Warrior of Light, Matoya.
Progress:  Incomplete
Summary:  A meeting of the FF1 cast in its current entirety.
Location:  Matoya's Cave.
Date:  October 1st.
Warnings: ...Matoya?

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[tidesnpcs]

As usual, Matoya was seated with her crystal eye, hunkered down over it in fact. Of all the people to come and go from her cave, this one she knew the best. She'd watched over him and his companions from afar, seen their coming before they were born.

And as for his comment, she finished it off for him by raising her voice. "... is no different than the last time you were here. You're no better looking than you were then either."

[for_cosmos]

If the brooms had given him deja vu, the sight of Matoya was deeply familiar, and her words brought memory with them. He had come to see her before, with a different question in mind. He (and others- there had been others with him, hadn't there?) had come to her needing a potion. Instead, he had needed to retrieve her Crystal for her. The memory was blurry and incomplete, but it was there, and Matoya was right here, for him to ask questions of.

"You have not changed." he said, and it was true. The cave was exactly the same, despite being on a different world, and Matoya herself was no different from the way he remembered her.

He was silent for a moment as he considered the questions he had for her. More than ever now, he had questions that he wanted to ask her about himself and about his world, but it would be irresponsible to blurt those out when he had a mission to accomplish. Instead, he asked "How can I find the Chaos Shrine?"

[tidesnpcs]

To help him out, she summoned an image into the crystal sitting before her. The ruins of the Chaos Shrine, sitting in the outlying countryside of Cornelia. Standing before it was the Warrior of Light and his other three companions at that time, their crystals shimmering from pendants around their necks. That image she left for him to look at and consider, and she lifted her blind eyes to him as though she could see his face. He had been away, had his memories tampered with in a way that she could not fix. Only time and self-reflection could provide that. No need to point out the obvious to him.

"The way is the same as before, although the path more veiled than you last knew. The light of the crystals will light your path."

[for_cosmos]

He stepped forward into the cave to see the image that Matoya had called up in her crystal. He took in as much of it as he could. He was there in the scene, surrounded by things that were both recognizable and unfamiliar to him. The crystal he wore around his neck and the ruins that they stood before were immediately recognizable from his time in the Void, but this was clearly not the Void. It was a time before then, something that he should remember, but could not.

He continued to watch the image in the crystal for a moment, until he registered Matoya's words. Only then did he look up at her, wearing a frown. Speaking of crystals and the light implied to him that she spoke of Cosmos, and only the image placed before him made him hesitant. "Then we must have all of the Warriors of Cosmos present in this world before the way to the Shrine is opened?"