Star 33 (The Hero returns to his mama)

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

[Isaac looks like he's been crying - his eyes certainly look scrubbed at enough - but sitting at the bar with a large mug of something, he doesn't seem at all sad. In fact, quite the opposite. He looks....lighter.]

I know I wasn't dreaming this time. I think...yeah. Everything's gonna be alright.

Comments

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I don't think it'll take too long. There's still a lot of trees around, and a bit of psynergy should get us all the rock we need.

[oliverplus]

Ohhh, yeah, you can do earth magic, right? That's great!

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

It'll really help with rebuilding, and with regrowing lost crops, too. It's too late in the year to completely replant them, but we'll need something for the winter.

[oliverplus]

[curiously] Can you make crops grow quickly with your magic?

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

With some Mars Djinn, I can use make plants grow quickly, but it's difficult.

[oliverplus]

What's a "Mars Djinn"?

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Oh, Djinn are elemental spirits that we released when this whole thing started. They're aligned to one of the psynergy elements, and can increase our power when we use them. Mars Djinn are aligned with fire psynergy, so Garet and Jenna usually hang onto them.

[oliverplus]

So...your mates can use fire magic, then?

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Yup! Sometimes I can, too, if I have some of their Djinn.

[oliverplus]

Wow. I wonder if anybody could do.

As mun scrambles to check djinn combos....

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

I know Garet and Jenna definitely can, and I think everyone else might be able too, if they borrowed some Venus djinn.

[oliverplus]

Well, I meant like...anyone. But that's cool, either way!

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Oh! No, they only respond to adepts, so...

[oliverplus]

[disappointed] Oh. Oh well...

I'm glad you've got so many adepts around, then, so you can rebuild!

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Everyone in Vale is an adept, pretty much. I guess we don't need to hide anymore, now that Alchemy is free. If the eruption of psynergy stones was any indication, I think a lot of people are going to start realizing that they're adepts.

[oliverplus]

[blinks, trying to understand] You mean 'cause they'll find stones and be able to use them?

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Well, psynergy stones are concentrated psynergy, and a lot of people who came into contact with them developed the ability to use it. Being near one for a long time had the same effect, which is why everyone in Vale was an adept. Alchemy being free should spread it out a lot more evenly, so it'd be like being near a Psynergy stone all the time.

[oliverplus]

Ohhhh! So that's a good thing, right? I mean...nobody's got anything against magic where you're from?

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Most people didn't even know it existed.

[oliverplus]

[shocked] A world full of magic, and people didn't even know?

[but then he thinks about his own situation, discovering about aliens and time travel. is it really so different?] Then again, maybe that's not so surprising. You think they're ready to learn about it? The people who didn't know, I mean.

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Alchemy has been sealed for thousands of years. I guess people just forgot.

I don't know if they're ready or not, but the world was going to die without it. We didn't really have a choice.

[oliverplus]

Wow. [Oliver is, naturally, used to planets being in need of saving, but Isaac seems so young...]

But things are better now, right? Your world's been saved?

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

[Isaac nods]

Should be. At least, it shouldn't erode away, anymore.

[oliverplus]

Your world was eroding?

And you saved it. You know, that's amazing, Isaac.

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Gaia falls was eating away at the edges of the world, and would have kept going if Alchemy remained sealed up.

Ah...not really. When I left home, it was to prevent the Lighthouses from being lit. I...I was lied to.