TEXT ✦ un: scion

[shtola]

[Hey, City network! What are you up to today? Having fun exploring the liminal spaces, reliving past memories, getting locked into vaults — or maybe just fucking around? Because apparently someone's in the mood for the latter.]

what's a girl got to do to get a little attention around here? ;)

[A short time after that initial post, a follow-up appears.]

because i certainly wouldn't mind being asked out for a meal and an evening in good company, myself. by someone worthy of the honor, of course; naturally, i'm a lady of discerning tastes.

[And then, a little bit later still: ]

takers must feel the unquenchable thirst of the pursuit of knowledge and be willing to participate in intellectual debate for bells on end. oh, and graciously accept defeat when i inevitably hand it to them. or don't — i'll best you at it whether you accept it or not. i'm ever so brilliant that way. how's that for sharing?

[OOC: If the content of this post sounds suspiciously unlike Y'shtola, that's because it isn't — Thancred (onlythans) and his sticky fingers have "borrowed" her network device for a short time. Responses will come from both Thancred and Y'shtola or possibly just Y'shtola after she murders Thancred in cold blood for this!]

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[shtola]

One could say I dabble in the circle now and then.

The short of it is thus: there are weaknesses in what little remains between our star and theirs in a failed attempt to merge the two. Due to this unique arrangement, all manner of being continually bleeds into ours through the fractures scattered about. Some mages have even been known to summon them with dubious success. Travel between the rift is most often documented to be from theirs to ours, but does show that a corridor for it exists and can likely be made use of by us as well.

I'm all but certain that I was not the first to make such an attempt, but the corruption beyond would have made the return unlikely. At least, not in the same form of which they were originally.

[justscribing]

[Star, presumably a term for world. He can get the gist of it all, though the bleedover certainly seems less natural that everything that goes on in Teyvat with the light realm and abyss realm.]

Yet you were able to return. [At least in similar enough form that she would not include herself in the unproven plight of others, long lost.]

It sounds like you have more experience ending up in otherworldly places than I do. I'm curious to know your assessment of this one.

[shtola]

I had the fortune of allies and the pleasure of collaborating with some of the finest minds in the land. For our aether to remain untwisted by the influence of the void is a wonder credited to their tireless efforts.

To speak plain and without fanfare, I am not without worry. The land is barren of life in ways I am more familiar, save for us. There's a yawning chasm where there ought to be aether, even leylines I am usually able to draw from are nonexistent. Theoretically, there is but the one place I could fathom where this may be possible, but my imagination fails me in conjuring up reasons why we would find ourselves summoned into such a territory.

[justscribing]

It's possible there's an issue of compatibility between this world's ley lines or elemental energy and our own, or it doesn't exist. Is your ability to discern it innate or learned?

Putting the reason aside for a moment, what's the most likely place you think this could be?