[ Gray doesn't know very many things, and she's known less with every new world she's booted to. It makes it easy for her to look to others for knowledge and guidance, even when their information would readily turn everything she believed on its head. The state of being educated and disproven is normal for her, and she's rarely shaken by it anymore, open to the idea of any manner of creature and multiple layers of reality, magic in the truest sense.
But this — a confident, matter-of-fact assertion that she can return home and even see it right now — is almost too much to bear. She believed completely that her world was done with, that she had no recourse but to look forward and create a new life for herself.
Her hands are shaking as she reaches out slowly to take the bead from Cyrus. Immediately her consciousness is split, and half of her is taken to the bustling streets of London with its vibrant double-deckers, busy pavements, and proud old architecture. One thought later she's taken to the Clock Tower, to the El-Melloi classroom, where Lord El-Melloi II himself stands at its head and delivers a lecture exactly the way she remembers him doing.
It's an awful first impression to make on a presumably influential leader, but before she can try to stop it, Gray is crying yet again. She cries like someone used to crying, quietly and with little attempt to pretend she isn't. She continues to hold on to the bead, and probably will continue to until Cyrus indicates he'd like it back. It takes her a long while to find words again. ]
What happens... if Meridian doesn't get the Oracles?
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But this — a confident, matter-of-fact assertion that she can return home and even see it right now — is almost too much to bear. She believed completely that her world was done with, that she had no recourse but to look forward and create a new life for herself.
Her hands are shaking as she reaches out slowly to take the bead from Cyrus. Immediately her consciousness is split, and half of her is taken to the bustling streets of London with its vibrant double-deckers, busy pavements, and proud old architecture. One thought later she's taken to the Clock Tower, to the El-Melloi classroom, where Lord El-Melloi II himself stands at its head and delivers a lecture exactly the way she remembers him doing.
It's an awful first impression to make on a presumably influential leader, but before she can try to stop it, Gray is crying yet again. She cries like someone used to crying, quietly and with little attempt to pretend she isn't. She continues to hold on to the bead, and probably will continue to until Cyrus indicates he'd like it back. It takes her a long while to find words again. ]
What happens... if Meridian doesn't get the Oracles?