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on Thursday afternoon

[Filtered from Hope, written]

I heard it takes a week for people to be revived. Is that just "about"? Sometimes it can be longer? [The top quickly scribbled out to leave only a period.] Li ~~She's la~~

[There's a sudden break into voice when Aerith mutters:] I feel sick. [She still has to check on Hope... she doesn't know what to say with Lightning not returning--yet. Because she is returning. ]

If anyone sees Lightning, tell her she's in trouble... [Not like it'll make her come faster.] ... for worrying people.

[Action (if people want?) open to Zack, Hope, people passing through the first two floors of C4, as she'll be passing through them herself later. Allie, if you want to do a backdated thread instead to play out her breaking the news, that's cool too? Up for anything, even if Aerith isn't quite. She's looking drawn and paler, despite the sun being out more.]

[ooc: Lightning will be back soon! Part of why this is dated to Thursday. I have to work, so responses will come in about six hours.]

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[Monsters and crystals... it's hard to not be reminded of the use of exspheres in her world and how unmounted they could destroy or absorb a person. And the crystal... that had almost happened as well. Alike and unalike.]

... It sounds like a complicated system. [Were they actually higher beings? That would need to be taken into account. Though she seems lost in thought at Aerith's words, musing as she considers.] If something in this brand can be neutralized somehow--to slow or stop the progress.

[... Aerith nods.] We were thinking that, too. Before the draft, I tried to seal the brand so it wouldn't change anymore. Most of the time, it just didn't do anything. The last time I tried... it backfired. Bad. [She finishes with a deep frown, almost a pout.] My abilities can't help. The brand reacted so violently.

... Violently? What did you try to do, exactly?

I can stop time for things and seal away their magic. I worked on changing it so it'd be stronger, but in a smaller area... I didn't want to Stop Lightning. And it worked like it should when I tested it, but when I tried it on the Brand itself, it started glowing. Lightning was knocked out--my magic doesn't do things like that.

And... it changed again, at that moment.

So the brand essentially warped the use of your magic... and not only that, it used it to continue it's growth further. [She frowns. That isn't good--it means that it might be unpredictable were any forms of magic tried against it. So time would be needed.] Does any literature on them exist?

[She hadn't even thought of it that way--she'd thought it was a safe-fail lashing out at her magic, not that it was using it for its own purposes. That seems... even more disturbing.] There's some at the library. They focus more on their looks and history than how they work, but it helped me understand things a little better.

All right. Where would I be able to find them under? I'm afraid I'm still not certain which world they come from.

[She starts to answer, then stops, frowning at herself.] That's right... I don't know how I forgot. Lightning never took those books back. I can bring them over later.

...About the worlds. Lightning and Hope are from a world called Cocoon, but they were branded by a fal'Cie from Pulse. The worlds have similarities between their fal'Cie, but there are little differences too, and sometimes the books talk about both... there was a war between them. So the Brand they were given is a Pulse one. It came from the fal'Cie Anima.

Would like me to take them back for you?

[She nods and listens to the rest of the explanation though, making some notes of the names for later reference.] I see...

Hm. Do we have to return them? I don't think there's anyone else they'd be as useful for... Lightning kept them because she didn't want to give up. But thank you for offering. And really--really--thank you for listening. [It hasn't lessened her worry about Hope, but at least, now, there's another person who might be able to help him.]

I won't mention it to the librarians if you don't. [It's not as if Raine hadn't confiscated books from there herself. But that was before the library's 'system' was developed.] Though in that case, may I borrow them from you?

You're welcome. It seems like you have a lot on your hands... perhaps you can introduce me to both of them sometime, after Lightning returns and they have time to recover themselves.

That's fine, I'll bring them over.

Mm. I'm sure Lightning will be back soon enough.

[Since she's not sure if Aerith knows-] I live in house 42, near the seventh community building.

And yes, I'm sure she will.

I've seen your garden. [She smiles.] So I lived in the community building... or one of the other houses by there?

Both, actually--you and Cloud and the others lived in House 50 for a long while, before moving over to building seven. We... had a plan once, to try and convince more of the children here to move to that building so we could keep a better eye on them.

I guess it didn't work out? Children can be very independent... still, it was a good idea.

Most of the initial children ended up being sent home, and the current number of small children now is very low, and they have others looking after them anyway. But yes, they can be fairly independent if they've a mind to be. [She thinks of Miu and Taichi especially.]

So it's not needed anymore--that's even better.

I'd still like for the option to be there, but... at least we did try.

[Raine's got a point, so Aerith pauses, putting her hand on her chin as she thinks.] Let's see... there's the Welcoming Center. What if everyone who was interested in taking a child in told them, and we got a list together? Of course, you'd have to watch who gets on the list...

Hmm... that's not a bad suggestion, actually. I can think of a few people who'd be willing to look out for others in the buildings anyway. The list would need to be maintained as well, with the way the population changes.

Right. With how people get sent back home... a lot can change, even in just a month. [It's been a month since Cloud and Tifa were both sent back, now...] Still, I think it could be managed.

If other groups could be managed for long periods of time, I suppose it wouldn't be too different.

Yeah! [She nods, seeming encourage about this.] It's not impossible. I'll have to ask at the Welcome Center about coordinating.

I'm sure that Rydia would be glad to help coordinate it. She was very helpful in stepping in when the Welcome Center needed someone to steer it.

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