03-31-2016, 12:54 PM
While the sun hadn’t yet risen above the walls of the city, the light of dawn still illuminated everything brightly, scattered by the clean white stones that made up the buildings. It was more than enough to conceal the sun spirit’s natural glow, and with the bandage now tied firmly around his head thanks to Kasumi’s wondrous ability of fine motor control, he didn’t need to skulk around with his hood up like he was some sort of criminal. Just hiding his light and injuries wouldn’t really prevent him from looking suspicious if he needed to “question” people like he had been intending to do.
That plan had been, both parts fortunately and unfortunately, done away with. Now readily apparent to Sonny was the figure of a giant lump of earth and civilization, floating, of all things, in the distance. He wouldn’t need to make himself out to be a common mugger now. On the other hand...
“You seriously didn’t notice that earlier?” came Kasumi’s accusational voice. “It’s a giant, floating city. How did you not notice it?”
“One can only wonder,” Sonny responded vaguely, staring blankly at the airborne isle. The sheer magical power needed to keep such a thing afloat would be absolutely massive. He wondered how many rather powerful wizards, magicians, or various others needed to work together around the clock just to hold that up. Either that or they had the Philosopher’s Stone locked up somewhere in there. That would definitely do the job, and it was a real possibility they could have gotten a hold of it. He wasn’t quite sure where exactly it ended up when he “disposed” of it.
Of course, that still left the whole issue of how to get up on it. There had to be some way possibly open to the public. People had to get on and off of it somehow, after all. However, just because there was a way, didn’t mean that it would open to the public. He really just had to hope, and ask around. If there wasn’t a public way, he might even have to improvise somehow. Omnilium was still a thing he could use.
“Apparently you can hop on something called a Pegasus and fly on up there.” The small spirit’s voice broke Sonny out of his trance. Had he been plotting longer than he’d expected to?
“Uh...” was the only sound he managed to eke out, quickly followed by a few stutters as he tried and failed to ask her a few question, his gaze turning away from the floating island to meet Kasumi's.
“I asked a guy who was walking past,” she answered, pointing her thumb behind her, towards the flow of people.
“Not that, how did-”
“You were staring.” Knowing what he was going to ask, she cut him off halfway.
“Well, uh...” The sun spirit trailed off, mumbling half to himself, “Pegasus... Things just keep getting weirder...”
“Says the glowing monster.”
“Alright that’s enough let’s get moving,” he responded rather abruptly, turning forward again and setting off with a pace that would be hard for the shorter girl to match. Her little exclamation could easily make his nature public knowledge, which he wanted to avoid. Even last night’s bright shining had been more subtle than that. He hoped it hadn’t been heard by too many people.
“Slow down a bit.” An unexpected whisper came in the form of his own voice, his other half hijacking it to quietly bark an order at Sonny. He cast a glance to his side, eyes falling on the pale figure of the spirit to find that she was keeping up perfectly. That sight spoke for itself, and the sun spirit hoped it would be enough to keep Somerled quiet, at least for now.
The sounds of the crowd had now muffled somewhat, the full brunt of the din just around the mouth of the alley Sonny had ducked into. His back was nearly pressed against one wall. Across from him, standing there stoically, was a man in full armor, who the sun spirit assumed was some sort of law enforcement person or guard. Over his armor, he wore a brightly-colored shirt, likely in the colors of the kingdom’s flag. Of course, not having seen the flag yet, he wasn’t quite sure.
“What is it?” The guardsman asked, seemingly confused by this random citizen pulling him aside. Sonny hesitated for a moment, he hadn’t actually thought through how to explain everything. He needed information, but he wasn’t sure how to not be suspicious about it. Especially since he didn’t even know what kingdom he was under right now.
“I’m a bit lost, would you happen to know how I would get to the library from here?” The spirit responded, feigning an embarrassed smile. In a city as big as this one, there had to be a library, if not several. It would at least serve as a good starting point, if nothing else. He would be able to read up on that floating island, see if it really was the hub of magical knowledge he thought it was. If it wasn’t, then it was no big deal. After all, time was on his side. If he needed to spend centuries just locating such a hub, then that was what he would do.
“Ah, that’s an odd request” he shifted on his feet slightly, armor rattling lightly. “Most people who are looking for it already know where it is. There should be some stables further up the road to the north. There, you can rent a Pegasus that can take you up to Dalaran. From there, you’re on your own.”
“That was all,” Sonny said, bowing slightly. “Thank you for your time.”
The guard nodded to him, before turning away and stepping out of the alley, heading back to whatever task it was the sun spirit had pulled him away from. Those directions where quite a revelation. He had to assume that ‘Dalaran’ referred to the island, if Pegasus were the way to get there. But why a library on Dalaran and not here in this city? Any one here would be much closer. The only reason he could see that would make the guard direct him there would be if there’s some special library up there. In a similar vein to how asking for ‘the library’ around Alexandria would get you directed to the Great Library and not Serapeum.
“A library prestigious enough to be known as “The Library” on a magical flying island you can only reach by magical flying horse,” Somerled broke into his train of thought, undoubtedly reaching the same conclusion his other half had. “I don’t know about you, but that sounds like it could be what we’re looking for.”
Sonny simply hummed an affirmative, casting his gaze just a bit deeper into the alley, towards where Kasumi had wandered over to. He'd assumed that he would have found her trying to entertain herself somehow, maybe even just moping around bored, but instead, his eyes locked onto hers. Dissatisfied with the lack of bloodshed, that deceptively silver gaze betrayed hints of lost expectations and disappointment. She shouldn't have expected such a thing from him in the first place, however. He was not his other half.
“What’s with that look?” Somerled asked, genuine confusion in his voice. The sun spirit figured that he likely forgot that the small spirit’s glance was directed at him and not the storm spirit.
“That was Somerled, not me.” Sonny tacked on quickly after his other half’s statement. He really needed to find a way to indicate who was the one doing the talking. Which of course meant a completely new thing to try and figure out. The lack of body language associated with the other speaking was a dead giveaway to anyone paying attention, but if they weren’t bothering to keep up...
“What look?” She responded innocently enough to the storm spirit’s question, mouth turning up into a mischievous smile for a fraction of a moment, quickly fading back to a serious look. Sonny turned away, ready to head back out of onto the streets and make for the stables the guard had directed him to. “So... Wanna tell me what’s going on?” Her voice drew closer, stopping the sun spirit in his tracks. As he turned back to face her, he tried to recall whether he’d explained everything already. Maybe he’d overlooked it in the confusion earlier?
“It’s a long and complicated thing,” he began, starting to speak before Somerled could jump in and begin rambling on for years. “Basically, Somerled and I got spirited away to here. ‘Here’ being something called the omniverse. Said abduction did something weird with our already weird split, two bodies became one, our mind is still split. Thus, we’ve actually gotta spend time working out this split so we aren’t stuck like this. Hence why I’m looking for some place where we could find a lot of magical information.”
“I thought that was strictly impossible or something?” She asked, a quizzical look coming across her face. “Which is why Somerled was so hopeful about...” The small spirit trailed off, leaving her unknown thought unfinished.
“About...?” He tried to coax her on, curious about where that sentence would lead.
“Nothing. You always said something about it being badly made and unreadable.” At this point, he couldn’t tell if she deflected his question or was making a rather bad joke. Either way, he couldn’t really press it any more.
“Something like that,” he answered. “The rules here are different though. It won’t hurt to see if we can get any further in fixing this. And it looks like Dalaran could provide that.”
“Alright,” she seemed satisfied with that answer for now. “But you better give me the full version later. We have all the time in the world, after all.”
“Somerled can give you the full rundown later,” he said, turning back towards the street. “For now, let’s get going.”
That plan had been, both parts fortunately and unfortunately, done away with. Now readily apparent to Sonny was the figure of a giant lump of earth and civilization, floating, of all things, in the distance. He wouldn’t need to make himself out to be a common mugger now. On the other hand...
“You seriously didn’t notice that earlier?” came Kasumi’s accusational voice. “It’s a giant, floating city. How did you not notice it?”
“One can only wonder,” Sonny responded vaguely, staring blankly at the airborne isle. The sheer magical power needed to keep such a thing afloat would be absolutely massive. He wondered how many rather powerful wizards, magicians, or various others needed to work together around the clock just to hold that up. Either that or they had the Philosopher’s Stone locked up somewhere in there. That would definitely do the job, and it was a real possibility they could have gotten a hold of it. He wasn’t quite sure where exactly it ended up when he “disposed” of it.
Of course, that still left the whole issue of how to get up on it. There had to be some way possibly open to the public. People had to get on and off of it somehow, after all. However, just because there was a way, didn’t mean that it would open to the public. He really just had to hope, and ask around. If there wasn’t a public way, he might even have to improvise somehow. Omnilium was still a thing he could use.
“Apparently you can hop on something called a Pegasus and fly on up there.” The small spirit’s voice broke Sonny out of his trance. Had he been plotting longer than he’d expected to?
“Uh...” was the only sound he managed to eke out, quickly followed by a few stutters as he tried and failed to ask her a few question, his gaze turning away from the floating island to meet Kasumi's.
“I asked a guy who was walking past,” she answered, pointing her thumb behind her, towards the flow of people.
“Not that, how did-”
“You were staring.” Knowing what he was going to ask, she cut him off halfway.
“Well, uh...” The sun spirit trailed off, mumbling half to himself, “Pegasus... Things just keep getting weirder...”
“Says the glowing monster.”
“Alright that’s enough let’s get moving,” he responded rather abruptly, turning forward again and setting off with a pace that would be hard for the shorter girl to match. Her little exclamation could easily make his nature public knowledge, which he wanted to avoid. Even last night’s bright shining had been more subtle than that. He hoped it hadn’t been heard by too many people.
“Slow down a bit.” An unexpected whisper came in the form of his own voice, his other half hijacking it to quietly bark an order at Sonny. He cast a glance to his side, eyes falling on the pale figure of the spirit to find that she was keeping up perfectly. That sight spoke for itself, and the sun spirit hoped it would be enough to keep Somerled quiet, at least for now.
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The sounds of the crowd had now muffled somewhat, the full brunt of the din just around the mouth of the alley Sonny had ducked into. His back was nearly pressed against one wall. Across from him, standing there stoically, was a man in full armor, who the sun spirit assumed was some sort of law enforcement person or guard. Over his armor, he wore a brightly-colored shirt, likely in the colors of the kingdom’s flag. Of course, not having seen the flag yet, he wasn’t quite sure.
“What is it?” The guardsman asked, seemingly confused by this random citizen pulling him aside. Sonny hesitated for a moment, he hadn’t actually thought through how to explain everything. He needed information, but he wasn’t sure how to not be suspicious about it. Especially since he didn’t even know what kingdom he was under right now.
“I’m a bit lost, would you happen to know how I would get to the library from here?” The spirit responded, feigning an embarrassed smile. In a city as big as this one, there had to be a library, if not several. It would at least serve as a good starting point, if nothing else. He would be able to read up on that floating island, see if it really was the hub of magical knowledge he thought it was. If it wasn’t, then it was no big deal. After all, time was on his side. If he needed to spend centuries just locating such a hub, then that was what he would do.
“Ah, that’s an odd request” he shifted on his feet slightly, armor rattling lightly. “Most people who are looking for it already know where it is. There should be some stables further up the road to the north. There, you can rent a Pegasus that can take you up to Dalaran. From there, you’re on your own.”
“That was all,” Sonny said, bowing slightly. “Thank you for your time.”
The guard nodded to him, before turning away and stepping out of the alley, heading back to whatever task it was the sun spirit had pulled him away from. Those directions where quite a revelation. He had to assume that ‘Dalaran’ referred to the island, if Pegasus were the way to get there. But why a library on Dalaran and not here in this city? Any one here would be much closer. The only reason he could see that would make the guard direct him there would be if there’s some special library up there. In a similar vein to how asking for ‘the library’ around Alexandria would get you directed to the Great Library and not Serapeum.
“A library prestigious enough to be known as “The Library” on a magical flying island you can only reach by magical flying horse,” Somerled broke into his train of thought, undoubtedly reaching the same conclusion his other half had. “I don’t know about you, but that sounds like it could be what we’re looking for.”
Sonny simply hummed an affirmative, casting his gaze just a bit deeper into the alley, towards where Kasumi had wandered over to. He'd assumed that he would have found her trying to entertain herself somehow, maybe even just moping around bored, but instead, his eyes locked onto hers. Dissatisfied with the lack of bloodshed, that deceptively silver gaze betrayed hints of lost expectations and disappointment. She shouldn't have expected such a thing from him in the first place, however. He was not his other half.
“What’s with that look?” Somerled asked, genuine confusion in his voice. The sun spirit figured that he likely forgot that the small spirit’s glance was directed at him and not the storm spirit.
“That was Somerled, not me.” Sonny tacked on quickly after his other half’s statement. He really needed to find a way to indicate who was the one doing the talking. Which of course meant a completely new thing to try and figure out. The lack of body language associated with the other speaking was a dead giveaway to anyone paying attention, but if they weren’t bothering to keep up...
“What look?” She responded innocently enough to the storm spirit’s question, mouth turning up into a mischievous smile for a fraction of a moment, quickly fading back to a serious look. Sonny turned away, ready to head back out of onto the streets and make for the stables the guard had directed him to. “So... Wanna tell me what’s going on?” Her voice drew closer, stopping the sun spirit in his tracks. As he turned back to face her, he tried to recall whether he’d explained everything already. Maybe he’d overlooked it in the confusion earlier?
“It’s a long and complicated thing,” he began, starting to speak before Somerled could jump in and begin rambling on for years. “Basically, Somerled and I got spirited away to here. ‘Here’ being something called the omniverse. Said abduction did something weird with our already weird split, two bodies became one, our mind is still split. Thus, we’ve actually gotta spend time working out this split so we aren’t stuck like this. Hence why I’m looking for some place where we could find a lot of magical information.”
“I thought that was strictly impossible or something?” She asked, a quizzical look coming across her face. “Which is why Somerled was so hopeful about...” The small spirit trailed off, leaving her unknown thought unfinished.
“About...?” He tried to coax her on, curious about where that sentence would lead.
“Nothing. You always said something about it being badly made and unreadable.” At this point, he couldn’t tell if she deflected his question or was making a rather bad joke. Either way, he couldn’t really press it any more.
“Something like that,” he answered. “The rules here are different though. It won’t hurt to see if we can get any further in fixing this. And it looks like Dalaran could provide that.”
“Alright,” she seemed satisfied with that answer for now. “But you better give me the full version later. We have all the time in the world, after all.”
“Somerled can give you the full rundown later,” he said, turning back towards the street. “For now, let’s get going.”
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