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Prince Gold Wonder
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Now I am here. Or I am not? Structures are forming around me. My senses are coming, I would say, but my senses are not my own? Oh, this is disorienting - ah, I am not of flesh. This is my soul. Was it all a trick? Did Pillet kill me?
>"No, idiot, my life would be simpler if I could afford to kill you. Turn around."
"Oh, sister Pillet, hi. You can read my mind here, I see. Or can we read each other’s minds?" I feel I should be able to sense Pillet's thoughts, but I am unsurprised to feel that she has formed some kind of barrier around herself disallowing me the same privileges as she has. "This isn't the artificer's society, is it?"
>"No, this is a soul repository that only looks like it. It's the exact same as the afterlife except on a tiny scale I can carry with me. I'm storing your souls here because the alternative is for all of us to share meatspace, and Kara's brain doesn't have the mental capacity for the three of us."
Ah, that's right. The conductor is here. "Hello, Kara. I'm sorry we had to meet like this."
Kara lifts her hand in a mix of acknowledgement and dismissal while only barely turning to look at me before staring into the distance once again. She wants to indulge in this sight, but knows that her time is limited. Soon, Pillet will be wiping her memory of all of this, but she looks forward to returning to her train. I turn to face Pillet again.
"What are your plans now, Pillet?"
>"I'm going to hide your unconscious body in the lost and found while I revert everyone back to how they were. Those 'off duty' agents have been screwing around. Fuck, I think one of them had wine. I'm just going to extract it right out of him, because I can't have my falsified memories of good behavior running counter to physical evidence to the contrary - forget it, you don't need to worry about that. You just need to lay unconscious in the lost and found. I doubt even you can fuck up my plans doing that."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
>"You tell me, miss acts undercover and goes running around Winterheight like you're on vacation! Forget it, I can still barely believe you're going along with me on all this."
"Although it was and is my duty to resist you, I have been given a more important duty to make certain that the subdimension is destroyed. The risk in working with you is better than the risk of fighting you."
>"And just like that, having something go against my plans is nice for once. After I revert everyone including Kara, it'll just be us two sharing your modified Pillet body. We'll kill time until we reach Varther's Estate where I'll clear Gel. Then we navigate around the phenocosm's reaction to all this, eventually leading into the subdimension."
"And if Shuzenza succeeds in destroying it?"
>"Then we're going to be sharing a body until I find a chance to bail out, but I'm aiming to lock ourselves in with those megalomaniacs. I hope we stay on each other's side. If it was just one of us, it would be hard to do anything under the scrutiny of the founders. But so long as one of us is acting as Pillet, the other can operate behind their backs. Any questions so far?"
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