[Orb]

[dash_dynamic]

[There is a man in very princely clothing staring down into the orb. He looks...well, "worked up" would be a good way to put it.]

This is for communication, right?

[And he takes a deep breath...]

SOSUKE! RENN! HANT! SAKI! MIU! GUNPHERD! ...Hiroto? IS ANYONE ELSE HERE?!

[Nope, he's not freaking out at all as he's yelling into the orb. He's calm. So calm. Ever calm. Staying PERFECTLY calm.]

Does anyone at least know which of the Brane Worlds this is? I need to find my way back to Human World or Engine World as soon as possible! And WHY everyone here seems to think I'm some kind of prince?!

[Yes, he is PERFECTLY calm. Ever calm. So calm. Just ignore his...twitchiness.]

Comments

[shadow_sage]

Are they? And you freely travel between them?

[dash_dynamic]

Yeah, they're all linked.

[He nods.]

We don't do it very often, but with the Engines, it's very possible! It just takes a lot of energy and a little bit of guts, that's all!

[shadow_sage]

Engines?

[dash_dynamic]

Yeah, Engines! They're from Engine World, and they don't do so hot in Human World--they separate right into an Engine Soul and an Engine Cast, so they need human partners to help them out.

[He's trying to think of a way to describe them. There's a lot of gesturing going on as he tries to sketch out what he's thinking of in the air.]

Think of a car. A REALLY big car. Gunpherd, he's my partner, he looks kind of like a dog. And a police car.

[shadow_sage]

So they are...what? Sentient machines?

[Suspicion touches her voice a little there]

[dash_dynamic]

[There's a nod. He's too wound up to have picked up on the suspicion there.]

Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what they are.

[shadow_sage]

There doesn't seem to be a great preponderance of machinery in this world, let alone anything advanced enough to think for itself.

Unless you have some other way to travel between worlds, we probably don't have a way to send you back any more than we have to send ourselves.

[dash_dynamic]

Well, I was kind of hoping he came with me...but if he got separated into his Soul and Cast when we got here...

[He looks a bit worried there.]

I can't think of a way between worlds that doesn't involve the Engines.

[shadow_sage]

You picked up a book. Blue cover, edged with silver thorns. You opened it, and then you woke up in the castle.

We all did.

There's one that had nothing to do with Engines.