after I had told Steph that she should look for the pulse of the Æther we sat down next to each other and tried to condense the Æther like it was explained. my rib still hurt a bit but it felt like with each bit of Æther that I condensed to protect my body it hurt a little bit less.
It took me some time till all the Æther was changed and kept to my skin like clothes. I opened my eyes and looked around to see that Steph was at the screen looking at things. I called out to her with
"Hey Steph, what are you doing?" she turned around and smiled at me and said, " Oh are you finally finished too?"
I looked at her and thought, ' Is she for real?'
then I asked, "you're already finished?"
"Yes it didn't take long for me with your hint the Æther moved pretty smoothly and once it reached my skin it just stayed there," she told me with a smile on her face. "wait yours didn't try to return to your center?" I asked her surprised. " what? yours wasn't scattered around your body?" she asked me in return. I stared at her for a bit and then said, " no mine was gathering in my centers like a small vortex or something of the sort I had to constantly fight against it. So how was it for you?"
" For me, it was scattered inside my body I could move it with every pulse but it stayed where it was once I had moved it. So does that mean Æther is different for every person?" she asked me. "Don't know. So what were you doing?" I asked her.
She turned back to the screen and then said, " I was looking at what to buy, I'm getting hungry and thirsty. Sadly everything we can buy is for the wilds and the dicks are still watching them closely."
"Ok, that is bad, do you think we could manage to sneak something out before they could react?" I asked Steph.
I watched her as she thought about the possibilities then she said, " maybe in some hours but, I want to increase our chances as far as possible so we both should invest all our at the same time and then rush out and grab as much as we can." "That's a good idea but how are we going to time it and I need to return to my plot before that," I said to her.
she looked at me and then said, " right you didn't have the time to look at the screen yet it has a watch integrated, so you just need to sneak back to your plot. I would say we should take the time that isn't too predictable, let's go with 19:24."
I nodded at her then she continued to look at her screen. the screen was the most interesting thing to me right now but sadly I couldn't see anything on Stephanie's screen. As I was watching Steph using her screen my sight shifted to the wilds and I saw how Pedro and his lackeys were entering a plot on the other side of the wilds. Seeing my chance to get home to my plot I rushed past Steph, said a quick goodbye to her and sprinted to my plot right next to the one I just left. One of the lackeys saw me and started to sprint in my direction but had no chance as the difference in the distance we both needed to cover was just too great. He didn't even cover half of the distance before I had already reached my plot.
I turned to the lackey grinned and showed him my middle finger.
The lackey was not amused and finished the rest of the way in record time and banged his fist against the invisible barrier. I didn't continue to watch him and started to look at my screen which seems to enrage him. Amused at this a small chuckle escaped my lips before I fully concentrated on the screen.
the Massage from before was gone and in its place was something that looked like an online browser with multiple tabs at the top of the page.
They were named the first one was called the shop, the following were the Libary and the Plot. I looked at each of them and there wasn't much to see plot was the settings of my plot, the library didn't have much just one entry and a sidebar for goals. the shop was the most interesting to me. It had my points that were at 18 and many options what to buy it even had a search function. I looked at the option available at the main menu and found three plants, animals and sources. I knew what animals and plants were but not what sources mean. So curious as I was I opened the category and found things such as air, water, earth, light and more of such aspects. I choose the first option and looked at it's a description.
Air a mixture of different kinds of gases. buying this will provide a new unit of air every day. A unit of air is enough to support one animal or plat for one day. the extra air is removed at the end of each day.
I started at this for a bit. then I thought, does that mean we even need to purchase such things as air, that is insane, who would think of that. I moved back to the main menu and then looked at animals the prices were extremely high I looked for a cheap one and I found a rabbit it did only cost 64 points more than four times my budget. I opened it and the description was not what I expected.
The rabbit is a small animal known for its cutness. buying this will restock the wilds with one extra rabbit each day. Evolution is possible.
wait does that mean that this rabbit can become something else. I looked at the description before me and at the bottom, I found some additional options I could use there were only three.
The first was to remove the evolution option which would double the price, then there was the option to make the rabbit unfertile which would reduce the cost to a sixteenth from before and then there was the option to make it into a baby which would reduce the cost to a fourth. So I could reduce the cost of rabbits to 1 if I wanted but it would be an unfertile baby rabbit. but if I understand this correctly then the rabbit will be able to grow and evolve so it wouldn't be bad it would be an investment for the future. then suddenly I had an idea. I closed the shop and looked through all my options then under plots i saw what I was looking for and an evil grin spread on my face.