Robert Wilson
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"Ma'am, He was in charge of the evacuation. Of course he was in charge of the evacuation. Syvila had said it was because he was a noble, and his status would help some of the people trust him. As far as Helix was concerned, he was about fifty-fifty on that. There were certainly people who trusted him because of his status. There were others who hated him because of it, and there were still others that just didn't recognize him. The last one was a little bit insulting. He was a very handsome and…-
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The ruins of Elyra were spread out across kilometers, along broken rocks that floated on separate islands. Vex saw cracks in the ground beneath led to a pure nothingness; Derivan identified that nothingness as the Void, and so they collectively chose to avoid falling. Not that they weren't going to do that already. Now that they knew these were the ruins of Elyra, Vex had a better idea of where they needed to go. "There's a vault near the center of Elyra," he said. "No one's been able to open it —…
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The ominous red door loomed in front of them. Vex had chosen to deem it the ORB, for "ominous red boundary". No one had really taken on the name yet, but they hadn't disputed him on it, either, so he was confident they'd pick up on it eventually. "About time we go through," Misa said, eyeing it. "If we do, I'm not sure we're going to be able to help the rebellion if anything goes wrong," Sev said. "This thing—" "The ORB," Vex supplied. "Yes, Vex," Sev sighed. "The ORB. It looks like... it looks…
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Figuring out what to do next was rather more complicated than it should have been, Vex thought. Jakka and his children could not be allowed to go free, that was a given. The rebels would have to capture and house them — far easier said than done, although Helix was insistent that they would be able to do it. Vex had no idea how. He seemed fully intent on just dragging their bodies through the streets. "You're not going to just drag them through the streets, right?" Vex asked his brother…
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The nice thing about It took him That amount of dilation gave them the time to inspect the details of everything that was happening with the rebellion — to look through their plans, to keep an eye on things in case anything went wrong. They'd made sure to check in from time to time, and everything seemed to be going about as well as could be expected. The rebellion used the glyphs that Vex had taught them to set traps and cast magics they never could have otherwise, and even developed a few new…
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The nice thing about It took him That amount of dilation gave them the time to inspect the details of everything that was happening with the rebellion — to look through their plans, to keep an eye on things in case anything went wrong. They'd made sure to check in from time to time, and everything seemed to be going about as well as could be expected. The rebellion used the glyphs that Vex had taught them to set traps and cast magics they never could have otherwise, and even developed a few new…
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"You didn't file form E27," Larok replied promptly. Helix gave him a dumbstruck look, and Larok waved him off. "That makes you liable to a seizure of assets." "And you thought you'd take it yourself, and enlist Ashion to steal from me?" the old orc asked. His voice was pompous, as if he didn't consider either of them a threat despite everything they'd just done. Helix supposed he had a point. If they were willing to show themselves after they'd seen everything he could do, then they were very sure they…
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"Vex better be grateful for this," Helix muttered. He didn't mean it, of course. At this point, he was fighting for far more than just his brother. It had taken him time to see that Vex had been right all along, but he'd figured it out eventually. He owed it to his team the most; Larok in particular, the one member of his team that was with him today. Helix hadn't known Larok particularly well when he'd first started talking to the man; Larok had just had the misfortune of being nearby when Helix…
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Derivan's next steps were what he had already planned to do, system power or no. It seemed only right. He couldn't spend forever in the Void, of course. His friends were waiting for him, and even with Stability being his new Sign, there was only so much it could do in the face of the Void; given time, even that would erode away. But there was so much here to remember, and with every second he wasted, more of it was lost. "What happened to your arm, anyway?" Jelevar asked him before he went to speak with…
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Derivan moved through the Void, his mind still racing. The ant was two or three steps ahead of him. He'd asked it for its name, and it had produced an impossible-to-replicate series of clicks, then sighed. Derivan had nodded. Now, they were making their way through the Void. He had no idea how the ant managed to find its way around — as far as Derivan could tell, it was a featureless emptiness. The fact that he'd even been ...That was a rather depressing way to navigate. Derivan almost regretted…
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