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[oblige]

[ The technology may as well be magic. ]

You are most welcome. They're native to my world, though the variety grown in my homeland has white petals.

[ He likes these better for their meaning and the memory of the gift his old tutor made of one such flower. ]

[numinousname]

[white, huh...]

I don't really know much about plants, but I find I like to see white flowers the most. Especially in dark places. Like stars.

[oblige]

[ Like stars... ]

Do flowers naturally exude light in your world?

[ He takes a fiddling moment or two to turn off his camera. ]

There is s rooftop garden with a variety of flowers someone requested that you might consider visiting.

[numinousname]

I don't think they do, but it's nice to pretend. Some of my magic can help with the make-believe.
I think I would like to see that garden. Is it somewhere I can ask Aurora to guide me? Or should I seek a map?

[oblige]

So you are also capable of wielding magic?

I believe either option would suit, but I can mark a map for you.

[ There follows a pause during which Dion finds a copy of the map in their device and marks the location, then he sends the file as an attachment. ]

[numinousname]

You're very kind, thank you! And so fast.
Yes, I can use magic. Mostly light and healing, as far as I have learned. I hope it will help everyone here.

[oblige]

I have had time to adjust, and others helped me since first I was summoned.

As it happens, light is my element as well. Skill in healing is invaluable, so I've no doubt your aid will be appreciated.

[numinousname]

I would hope the work doesn't the need of so many healing hands, but if it must, then I will do what I can.
I had been told that the last minute involved a great deal of darkness...perhaps I arrived a little late.

[oblige]

Indeed, the darkness of that world posed a challenge. Those exposed to it were affected by it, and only light could ward off its influence.

But you had no more say in the time you were summoned than any other brought here.

[numinousname]

The darkness was penumbral?
Such a thing is rife in the world I hail from...

[oblige]

Nights and dark locales alike posed a danger.

In my world, 'tis not the darkness itself but that which might lay within.

[ Unless they're talking about Odin, but hey. ]

[numinousname]

So the darkness did not have the sickness imbued within it?

[oblige]

I know not whether it was illness or ill influence. It affected behavior, from what I observed, but there may have been worse cases. Those around me had my light to ward off the worst.

[numinousname]

You all may very well have been in my world, without my knowing it...
If that is so, I am sorry for what you endured. I hope none have kept the sickness in them...but I should be able to heal them, if they show signs of the disease.

[oblige]

Is your world called Mesa? That was the name we were supplied.

I know not whether more severe cases have lingered, though it may be worth asking Aurora.

[numinousname]

It may go by many names, depending on where you are. Even...the side of the world that was under the true sun may call it something else, but I wouldn't know, unfortunately.
I apologize. I wish I knew more.

[oblige]

You owe me no apologies. If there is any fault, it does not lay with you.

[numinousname]

Maybe not, but the notion that I am to...represent the totality of where I am from does feel as such. Does it not feel the same way to you?

[oblige]

I've questioned why I would be summoned here. It is a grave responsbility, and I would not have selected myself over others.

Yet I feel there must be a reason that we were, even if we do not ourselves see it.

[numinousname]

Something pre-written?

[oblige]

A certain will or logic, rather.

[numinousname]

I see.
It's a lot of mystery, either way. I imagine...if I stayed too idle, I would become very uneasy with all of my thoughts. I will strive to not let it come to that.

[oblige]

I believe you'd find it a common sentiment among our fellows.

We've more idle time than I am accustomed to, and that can be both bane and boon. In my experience, it helps to take up pursuits. Training, learning prsctical skills, hobbies, whatever may fill the time.

[numinousname]

Have you any recommendations?
Which of them do you enjoy most? If it is alright to ask.

[oblige]

It will depend upon what interests you, of course, but I've enjoyed reading the literature available here. The library has a great many works from a world called Earth.