Xana awakens!

[PepsiYuuka]

Yuuka kept her smile on her face as the girl repeated her name, but forced herself to shut up for a while as she took it upon herself to "behold the nature of Omnilium." Best let them learn from experience. In her own, humans were all hardheaded unless taught a lesson by their own doing. Not unlike children.

But finally, she was getting to asking questions like Yuuka had expected. The Youkai shifted her weight in her chair a bit, uncrossing and recrossing her legs again. "Called the Nexus, apparently." She gestured a bit to the fountain with her right arm. "Everyone shows up here when they're brought here- or dragged back from death, so I've heard." This was punctuated with a bit of an unhappy sigh. "And it's damn boring, at that. For someone all powerful, the guy in charge here could stand to hire a better decorator."

As for a reason, it took Yuuka a moment to think. Her smile briefly turned into a puzzled look as she tilted her head back and forth. A reason. The only reasons she cared about were the laws of nature- and such things likely didn't matter to anyone else, let alone this girl. So Yuuka simply shook her head. "Nope." It was blunt, a bit terse, really. But Yuuka wasn't feeling a creative nonanswer. "Not unless you make or find one for yourself. But that's not my problem." That smile rapidly returned. She didn't want to sound too grim, despite the circumstances.

"As far as death goes-" she glanced at the teapot on the ground. To be honest she was thinking again, but somewhere inside of herself she felt a bit- embarrassed? Potentially? It seemed like she was slightly upset at herself for being unsure. "I don't remember dying before I got here. So I'm going to say not as far as I know." For a brief moment she had considered just lying, as she felt that perhaps this answer would convey some sort of weakness. But at the very second before she spat it out she'd decided against it, so out came the truth.

The last question, at least, was more definitive in answers. "Of course there's more. I'd have gone crazy months ago if this were the only place to be." That was her lie today, she decided. That she hadn't proverbially "gone crazy" hundreds or thousands of years ago. Briefly she paused to take another sip of tea before continuing. "There are eight ways out of here, apparently. I can't speak for all of them, but that one," she paused to wave a finger in the direction of the gate to the Pale Moors, "is horribly dull, and full of very inconsiderate things."

She could have said specters, or zombies, or monsters, or anything better than... things. But that would have been strange coming from the mouth of a Youkai, wouldn't it?