[ It feels tenuous to Matt too. He was warned he wouldn't really be able to prepare for the Oracle trials, and he realizes he was assuming there'd be some physical manifestation of them. Something to interface with, scry into.

Still, he has to try. He knows he doesn't want to play the game as it's presented to them. ]

Yeah, [ he agrees. He's a little ways behind Liem, but picks up his pace when Liem does. ] I have this idea about it, which ... honestly, I got from Set. [ Matt's not sure if it's awkward to bring up Set to Liem? After the whole thing where Set dragged him around Liem's guest bedroom mattress like a beautiful sleep paralysis demon, and then they both cried, and then Set left to presumably go be intimate with Liem, and then the next day Matt was like welp, bye without explaining any of that? Is it awkward? ] That there was a Shard-Bearer who eventually became the Iconoclast Oracle. So I've been trying to track down the Advocate and figure out, um. Who they used to be.