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Post by Secernia on Jun 22, 2012 16:11:37 GMT -8
Secernia tilted her head slightly, concentrating and focusing on what he was saying, as though to absorb every syllable of information. It was as though she was taking notes with her eyes, nodding occasionally to let him know she was following what he was saying. Whether or not she really was was a different story, surely.
"Perhaps it's marked by the brilliancy of the imagination?" She responded simply with a wide smile.
"No, it's fairly ornamental really. The indigenous species is called the Leats. They've been here for eons." She explained, "Perhaps though you are on to something with that. Perhaps when they built the school, whatever it was they had to take down they replanted in order to keep the Leats around..."
She looked down towards the forest, pushing some of her hair behind her ear and readjusting her glasses. "They are oddly fascinating though... They have such unique behavioral patterns as well. Sometimes, you'd almost believe them sentient."
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Post by Gleam on Jun 22, 2012 17:04:36 GMT -8
"Possible." Jacob noted with a nod, his eyes clearing as he slips out of his analytic funk. Certainty memory would have something to do with it, being able to reconstruct the precise location you wish to go to. I assume you never get mixed up?"
His eyes begin to focus as he smiles. "You know the more I think about your gift the more it fascinates me. It's so . . . simple. Elegant. Translocation."
Jacob laughs and waves his hand as if to brush the subject away. "The Leats are probably an island gigant species, one of those minature amphibian breeds that's grown huge in the absence of predators. Sort of like a frog dodo."
He plops himself down on the edge of the roof and grins up at Secernia. "Thank you. It really is quite a view."
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Post by Secernia on Jun 23, 2012 15:06:09 GMT -8
Secernia gave a small smile, "I never get mixed up, no... Although, I don't have to have been there before to get myself there, so I doubt memory is involved." She explained, curious as to how he was working all this out in his mind. She presumed it had something to do with the years of research into the subject. She assumed he had a lot of time on his hands. He never exactly ran out, she mused within.
"Thank you for the complement." She said with a wry smile, "I'm very happy the my gift is so..." She searched for the words, squinting slightly at him, "Thought provoking." A grin reappeared over her lips after the words were said.
As for the leats, Secernia walked back over to him as he spoke the words. "I'm sure... And you're welcome." She said smoothly, "I'm happy to oblige in getting you here... Now, where on this horizon would you like to go? I have quite a range..."
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Post by Gleam on Jun 24, 2012 8:15:08 GMT -8
"That sounds like you've got some kind of autonomic guidance . . . mapping system." Jacob muses. "Though I sincerely doubt it's something as basic as wildfowl's migratory senses, and more akin to the monarch butterfly's genetic memory. Some kind of nerve coding that maps geosynchrous location, accounts for planetary spin and velocity, then plops you right where you want to go."
" . . . So yeah, anything that makes me think is good." Jacob said with a sheepish grin once he realized he had drifted off into musing again. "I'm here to learn. "
He glances out at the connecting island and squints at it. "What's that other island? Purdue something? How about there, presuming nothing angry and violent lives there that will attack and eat us?"
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Post by Secernia on Jun 24, 2012 8:36:40 GMT -8
Secernia nodded and smiled, as was fully expected. She listened once again to what he was saying intently, actually finding the majority of what he was saying to make a good deal of sense. She herself however was unsure as to whether or not it would be considered a genetic memory. After all she knew that it would be quite funny to know that her foremothers (in her case) had all been around the world. She just doubted it is all.
"I always find that being intellectually stimulated is indeed quite important." She said, whenever he had turned all sheepish. "Aren't we all." She replied at him saying he was here to learn. She considered briefly rearranging his reasonings, perhaps correcting him on his reasons. Perhaps he was here to find an end to his curse, which has plagued him for many lives...
Surely, there will be a more promising opportunity She realized. Secernia didn't say a word about it.
"Perdu? Yes of course! Well, there are a few things that are wild in the area, but as always, if you do not harm them, they tend not to harm you. Besides, I have good spacial awareness, I should be able to know when something is coming and get you out in time. I wouldn't want to get you hurt as your tour guide, would I." She said with a friendly smile.
She didn't indeed. She figured that his power worked as such that if she was the closest person around, his soul might kick her out. That would be unfortunate to say the very least. It wasn't something that Secernia wanted to chance, so she would be sure to keep him safe, if Perdu was where he wished to go.
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Post by Gleam on Jun 24, 2012 8:58:34 GMT -8
Jacob nodded. "I wonder what, then . . ." he asks, half to himself. "Secernia, I have to get my things moved in soon, but if you could take me out to Purdue first I would be grateful. Island wildlife always fascinates me. Well, moreso than everything else I see does."
He picked himself up off the edge of the roof and shook the dust off his legs, and then offered his hand to Secernia again, less hesitant than before.
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Post by Secernia on Jun 24, 2012 10:04:32 GMT -8
Secernia gave him a small nod, "Of course, I wouldn't mind at all." She said generously. He offered his hand willingly. She smiled to him, and then placed her hand around his.
The next secret she grasped was of the same scene as before. The man on his death bed. But there was another detail here. It was from the man's view point, this vision, and when the world became dark, he seemed to be in a world of glass. He was there, in this glass world, suspended like something in amber, for hundreds of years... c-c-Cursed.... Daidamus informed her.
Again, what went on in her mind wouldn't be visible to anyone on the outside, her simply pausing once taking his hand, blinking once, and then looking fully present once again. "Off we go~" She said cheerfully, moments before they both disappeared from sight.
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