mental link;

[shri]

[ Knock-knock -

- or something like the creak of city gates of her wanting to reach out to anyone else in the hive that will respond. ]

( These ability we have aside from communication. I require a trainer for my own.

And a decent explanation of what they are and their pitfalls. I am not familiar with this kind of... magic. )

[ Yeah she can't think of another word for it. ]

Comments

[perroquet]

(Mr. Cohle and Bellamy I trust well enough. I do not know this Commander Shepard, but if they have your trust, then... alright.

Though I must still answer yes, I feel suited to it. I have magic and skills that can potentially bring you back to your senses faster, and I am brood.)

[ He's a bit sour on that note. Sour like the scent of old blood. ]

(You already reject your brood enough, so please.)

[perroquet]

[ The others are welcome to guess at the science behind the symbiote, but Gildor is ready to accept it as magic. Magic unknown to them, but still magic. ]

(Perhaps the original maker of the symbiote was magical in nature. A witch or sorcerer. Though I suppose it's not worth pondering over right now...

This power of yours, before it drained you of emotion - it filled others not of the Nest with what you were feeling? That exuberance after the races?)

[ He remembers the emotional high, and then the crash - perhaps one of the only hosts to remember, being among her brood. ]

(Do you wish to practice this?)

[shri]

[ And to that scent, she pulls, hard against the bit she feels shoved into her mouth. Stung by his words, almost, even if she knows the merit of them. ]

( - I must. She will poison us all. Even if no one else will see it. )

[ But saying that, would be too much, she pulls back removed. The slam of those gates, the kick against fences. Because she is herself again, and she will never. ]

( Very well, join me then. )

[perroquet]

[ The memory of the smell grates on him as well, but for less volatile reasons. He merely dislikes it, as the scent makes him ill. Her reaction makes him sigh inwardly, his pull to her growing gentle with careful honesty. ]

(Would you still wish for me to join you knowing I harbor no ill will towards Miss Gilbert for what she is, and that I would support her just as I support you?)

[ Part of him cannot believe he is having this conversation with her here and now, but it had to come up eventually. ]

[shri]

[ And just like that, she shuts herself out it completely. The veil that falls over her face, the gate that creaks on its hinges. The palatable thought that - that is his right, isn't it? - and - she has no business being hurt over such a thing -

Not so much gone and forcefully removed from herself. ]

(You will do as you will, I am not your keeper. ) [ a pause, because when it is happening she will not be able to care, will she? ] (I will let you know when I require the assistance. )

[aluminumandash]

[ Nights? Knights. A growing feeling of unease, his sense of who she is slipping. ] ( You wanna argue the nature of reality, so be it, but we do that face to face. )

[ Two minutes ago Rust would've—if not accepted what she's saying, at least granted the premise. Now it meets with doubt. ] ( How do you know? )

[shri]

[ And at least, she's just bluntly practical about it all. ]

( Because I might have a presence to myself, but not one that invokes such intense joy in others simply because I finished part of a relay.

And I could not ignore the fallout that came afterwards. I am not one inclined to feel... nothing. )

[perroquet]

[ The veils are drawn, but he still recognizes the outlines of her face, once cradled in his hands. She tries to hide herself, but she never fully can, can she? Not from him, not from Mirfac - not even from Elena. The strain those two go to keep each other at arm's length weighs on him. Just like how she did not name him, to feel her withdraw pains him, and he doesn't hold back sharing it. ]

(You sound as though require the assistance now. Do not shut me out like you do to her, Rani. We must all know and come to accept one another-)

[shri]

( I will accept her when this body no longer has breath. I will not forget myself so easily as that. I will not forget my people's -suffering- like that. )

[ It's spat out, how could he - ? How could he do so much for her, slide his fingers on her skin so carefully, be so adamant to not see her title, only herself with his hands at her jaw, and then say as much to her. Like it was Shinji's childish petulance to refuse Elena. ]

( Enough. There is more important things than that. )

[perroquet]

(We will never get to anything more important as long as your prejudice stands in the way of our brood's unity. The Nest's unity-)

[ And really, isn't unity the point? Why have this ability to communicate and these unique powers suited to them if they are not meant to use them in a coordinated, joined effort. Their lack in doing so has yielded them a whole lot of nothing so far.

She snaps at him, and it's all Gildor can do to keep his mental voice calm and level back. Her emotions are contagious, but a good marker of distinction to divide them from his own. All he desires is peace between them, and though he realizes that is easier wished for than done, he tries- ]

(I do not want to draw comparisons to your people's suffering at the hands of vampires, but know I have my own share of experience with them. Listen to her, learn from her experience, and allow her to learn from yours with compassion, not hatred. Miss Gilbert is not the same as the monsters from your world nor mine. She maintains her empathy.)

[greentech]

( Sufficiently advanced technology is completely indistinguishable from magic. To someone without an understanding of... oh, modern electricity or the combustion engine, a car or a lightbulb seems impossible. But once we understand the underlying principles, we know that it's just natural phenomena. I think it's the same thing with the symbiotes. If they impact the universe, we just have to find the right way to study it, you know? )

[wille]

( Find a willing test subject? Well, they don't have to know the whole thing. )

[huntsmachines]

( Ah. I haven't explored mine yet. I'm not... really sure what it does, honestly. )

[ Here's a mind Aloy hasn't talked to much yet. She seems interesting, though. ]

[somnifacient]

(And what happened afterwards?

And as you can see, people aren't really calling it magic. Though I guess it might seem that way.)

[shri]

( ... I felt nothing. Not happiness or hatred, nothing at all. )

[ Which still feels strange, she can't even fathom it being outside of it. ]

[shri]

( As to say you haven't found it out or you have and not elected to use it so much? )

[shri]

( Working on it at present. )

[shri]

[ Her words are dry as can be. ]

( You sound like Tesla. )

[ but that is only fond, from her. ]

( I didn't grow up with any of those things, I'm afraid. Though, I did go to see the first light bulb on display. )

[shri]

[ It doesn't take much, sometimes, for her to lose her temper, and from him - this only other she has let it, even slightly, and undoably so, let him, let him have her quiet, her stillness, and she cannot take it back - it's too much. ]

( Enough! )

[ It's snarled loud, directly cut. The thunder of canon fire at wall. If he thinks she won't cut her own arm off to save the infection he's wrong. ]

( I have had enough lectures from children about her -empathy- let alone to receive one from you. Come back to me when you have something of merit to say. )

[shri]

( If that is not too late. I need to start using this immediately. )

[shri]

( Well, as everyone is fond of telling me, we are not in our homes anymore - is there some one you wished to marry? )

[sistershoggoth]

( Uh. No? That'd definitely get in the way of me sleazing my way through the galaxy's pants. )

[shri]

( That is my goal - do not bother carrying a weapon if you do not even have the slightest idea how to use it. )

[shri]

( If I can manage it in others - calmness can be harder than it seems. )

[shri]

[ Oh, you kids today. ( I suppose I do, and if you are certain in it. )