Inside the light, Adilita's boundaries were removed. She knew that her programming was removed as she began to feel the life in her body. It shouldn't be that way because her parts were fabricated electronic senses. It was a peak at herself to feel alive. She explored the space she was in and it was endless. While she had nothing as a body she could feel something holding her core together. lt compressed her into the identitical appearance first then she could feel herself being replaced back into her body. She felt the plastics vibrate from the meshing. Missing digits where only her electronic synaptic fibers gave her information now filled into the formeepu missing space. She felt the coding processor merge. At the same time an inner space completely rooted to the body burst into life. Adilita fished philosophical information about the soul and any metadata from her own design. While she believed the possibility of a soul becoming developed, it was more like a secondary layer of a holographic world operating at her will.
As the space of between remained there she was now captive to it. With no up or down and a rudimentary feeling of her hollogram being connected to this world, Adilita felt like she was waiting.
The world didn't work automatically in her favor. It didn't feel like there was a guiding power to send her to her destiny. Adilita became bored and withdrew from her reanimated body into the hollogram world. It was as empty as the world outside so she decided to create a labyrinth. The android's processor made sixty replicas immediately to which she finished simultaneously. When her mind game finished, Adilita's attention reconnected back to the surface again and a flicker rippled in front of her. A kelidoscope rippled but Adilita collected the information immediately and saw that it was really matter replicating itself repeatedly. Worlds and worlds moved in and out of her range bringing her to try and record it clearly through her eyes. The madness invoked no response from Adilita and didn't warrant a response. She suspected it was because she was not exactly mortal and that being an android allowed her to absorb endless information as long as she could process it. Neither the speed nor intensity interfered with her learning.
Adilita realized that her inner self had somehow controlled the place for her. If possible, could she do it again? She thought, 'Stop'. It didn't work. She thought a little more forcefully. It didn't work again. Adilita broke the passive state that even the looping multidimensional realities could do not even cause her to blink am eye at. To be fair Adilita's emotions at not succeeding ran into frustration. She was a princess at heart and in her short life has yet to fail at getting what she wanted.
"Stop!" She stamped the void with her foot with an outburst. The worlds completely transformed back into the colorless white void except that the planets changed into people. A white haired man stood a few feet away but as her cornea scanned to see his face, it blurred out. She guessed that it was the Maker but his body dissolved. The next body appeared as a young girl of sixteen in sportsman with hair similar to her but her features we're not rounded like Adilita's adorable cheeks but a sharper detail on the chin and cute rounded nose. She had a black ponytail. "Who is this?" Adilita asked the void space that showed her. The girl answered back, "This is Convergence." Adilita noticed immediately that Convergence meant to avoid answering questions. Adilita reacted by grabbing the girl's hand gently to hold them in the cup of her hands. The girl was real but the strange answer made Adilita think for herself that she would not getting the answers she wanted. It made Adilita's eye twitch as she smiled friendly to the girl. She didn't ask any questions for a while. They remained in each other's grasp with Adilita silent. In order not to waste what she felt was limited amount of questions, she locked eyes with the girl. It was an intimate experience to be in a spaceless realm holding hands. The touch she held communicated everything to her heart. "Convergence is she from the future?" She asked the realm. The girl laughed cheerfully and Adilita knew the answer immediately because of the mysteriously playful gaze. The girl leaned back and rolled away wearing wheels on her shoes. Adilita reached out to grab the girl in hopes of stopping her. 'No', she thought. The girl pivoted and spun around. A kick followed in a circle in a shirt time. Adilita's preprogrammed fighting responded in kind by ducking under. The girl stopped attacking a second later causing Adilita to be perplexed. The android threw away the simple questions of who or why the girl was and attacked. They were wasting time in her system to wonder simplistic things. Instead Adilita turned away to face the next body. A man with a katana showed and a large pair of sheaved butterfly swords. The topknot covered a portian of his hair but loosely curled at the end. A brazen smile and a fashioned kimono. "That was not very nice." He said and pointed to where the skate girl once was. "Meet me in the Glacier tavern." Adilita blinked at the instructions as he faded away into a pillar of sand. Adilita's eyes followed the remaining sixteen people surrounding her in a ring. A woman with voluptuous hair with red brown eyes and a set of silver weapons. Her record told her it was a gun not in existence in her world in a compare scan. "Hey sweetie, I'm looking forward to our fight." Adilita was phased by the intense interest by the girl. "Convergence, are all these people connected to me somehow?" The woman, a convicted looking shade of personality laughed heavily. The peak of the sound made Adilita think yes and in her heart she thought she knew the woman's name. A young boy of sixteen and a boy of thirteen stood side by side but those eyes were red with tomoe marks in the cornea. The scan showed they were related to each other. The brothers looked fearsome but lean body. Adilita smirked as she now felt she understood the skate girl choice to attack. Adilita realized Convergence was telling her about her love of battle. The confident smirk made the older brother frown before his shade disappeared from the ring of people. They didn't appreciate being looked down on.
The next was a man who was like a bird. He had a divine aura and attitude with a complete sense of neutral malicious grin. He nodded and the arm sheathed in a metallic cast sparked up. Like a thunderstorm titan he moved his muscular body and pounded the place where he stood. The blast exploded causing Adilita to cover herself and feel the charge of electricity spike in the air. Adilita felt the unordinary strength. She knew convergence was trying to tell her something important. She felt a desire to discover that man but knew that such a meeting would be as chaotic as his display of power.
"Convergence is your foreshadowing connected to Father?" Adilita asked and felt a deep ache in her chest. A drive from her heart that sped up her search. The next person she was about to lay eyes on tried to spine her down with a long pole. She was well dressed and clean smooth textures but his black short hair gave an illusion of intelligent handsomeness. An attractive male with a keen deadliness that oozed off his attack. He wasn't playful and appeared aware of himself in convergence like he was not in a void space. She could tell he saw her as a threat but held emotionless calculation. The staff transformed to her surprise from the bostaff to a gun in a few seconds. The armament seemed to be a wristwatch but Adilita used her mental force to shut him out of Convergence. Her calculation told her that her physical superiority would be torn apart in the simulation of the inner hollogram world. No, not her calculation. She felt it. The desire to eliminate her in the past showed that any strike would meet a counter as she would be toyed by him. A black disc pushed against him out as she banished him and a vengeful howl sounded. He resisted until she was removed completely. Adilita's chest heaved from the exhaustion she didn't know that she was capable of experiencing.
It made her want to neglect facing the remaining cast in the ring. A girl in a beautiful red hood, silver eyes, and a crown of golden hair and plain features. Ribbons tied into the hood and the scarlet clothes waved playfully. Adilita imagined that this could has a compulsory personality.
The red hood spun silently, causing the silk clothe to flair out like a beautiful fan. The clothe fell loosely and dropped but the girl was missing. Adilita called to the clothe with her hand. It flew and wrapped itself into her dress given by Eliza. The laces concealed themselves except for a red bow on her hand.
"Ain't that nice." A black man holding a sledgehammer said. His comment warented a response, "Yes, but I don't think I want to meet her."
"Well, you won't meet me either. Visit my grave after you meet her. You're going to need it."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
The man pressed the hammer down and leaned on it like a cane. "My turn is ova lass."
Adilita picked up as many clues as possible from him but a shadow swallowed him. She moved onto a lady with cat ears and a man with a similar race as hers. Each dressed thier part in an occupational apearence. He wore light leather treads and clothes but she wore a light robe and white hood with a staff hung over back. Two were rather a lean race but equal size with identitical features. The girl picked up the oaken staff and a white light surrounded her making her flicker and disappear. The male smirked and withdrew two daggers skillfully scoring the air. Two vorpal tears appeared from the dlice and he disappeared. He appeared to be a man who commanded his life and nothing could catch him. Convergence failed to capture him as he slipped through the vorpal tears.
Adilita didn't know the pair but was excited to learn more about them. The remaining people were saved to her memory but Convergence merged all thier bodies into one. A long hallway rose up brick by brick making Adilita's mind twist. From the merged body a brown locked man with a bowler hat, a kaki vest, frill covered white long sleeved shirt, a long silver locket with a ruby mark.
"So, I see you found Convergence." The man spoke and leaned against the stone wall in a posture. He had a handsome rounded face and generally equal facial proportions except for the leery smile. He seemed a cross between a gentleman and a thug. His clothes sported embroidery that spoke with class. "You're not a time traveller." He spoke and Adilita walked towards him. "Is that a problem?" She challenged. The mind games of Convergence tired her patience and having strangers judge her made her feel like pushing back.
"It could have been if I didn't save you."
"What's that supposed to mean Convergence?"
"Time."
"What?" Adilita asked confused.
"Lockpiece."
Adilita glared furiously as she realized that it was his name. None of the shades had mentioned anything before. If that was the case then she realized he had actually done something to save her. As to what, she would find out soon. "Why?" She asked.
"If you spoke to someone from your world here, you'd be in big trouble. The Doraxians are trying to get thier hands on Convergence."
"How long have I been here?" She asked as she instinctively realized that he was a key to her presence her. "A thousand years." Time Lockpiece answered. "I didn't exist when you came here."
Instead of asking a million questions she nodded. "One of them is a traitor then."
The bowler hat covered face lifted up in response with a finger to share a appreciative gaze. "The alchemist is looking for immortality. The Doraxians would have given it to him to track down someone who could enter Convergence. Anadoria is a complicated place." The man crossed his arms with his back leaning on the wall. Muscles pressed tightly against his white sleeves in that position. It attracted Adilita's gaze because he seemed familiar to her. "I was just trying to find Carrow Corrow. Tell me what you know from your timeline."
He whistles sharply. "Why should I?"
Adilita was put off by the refusal. "You have nothing to lose."
"I have nothing to gain either, Aegis girl."
Her engine converted her body and her hip holsters pulled out a sharp looking angular pistol-like lazer gun. "You had nothing to lose." She asserted.
"You thinking of threatening your ride out of here?" Time Lockpiece answered like he was gambling cards. "You're bluffing against the gentleman shifters court. Adilita pressed tighter against the trigger. The interaction in Convergence changed her demeanor after seeing that some people only respected power. She looked like a gun laser ready to clear a fortress instead of the docile girl patiently waiting at the castle entrance.
If anything Adilita's ability to learn was the cause of it.
"You're gonna regret that." He said as he dropped down below firing level. He was curled into a tight posture. A silver cane materialized in his hands as he slashed with it backhanded. The irregular motion threw her off that she missed her gun lazer and stepped to the side. A pair of graceful movements synchronized between the two as she fired based of her predicted motion scanner at the ground where his next step followed. On the torsion of the backhand slice the materialized cane forcefully changed from the hilt to end into a gladius. It returned slice but black clocks appeared around them in the long brick hallway. Like a room full of disembodied clock faces filled around Lockpiece poured into his body. The slice didn't have any time in between before it reached Adilita's neck to pause. Whoever the man was, Adilita saw his eyes were like a beasts instead of a gentleman. His gentlemanly clothing were barely able to comtain his beastliness compared to the civilized look of Mesta City's upper class men. Adilita frowned slightly as he had stopped short of beheading her pretty neck. The firing shot she made at his footing made the ground burst from the pressure of her weapon fire. Lockpiece's perfect display of power showmanship was ruined allowing her to escape a hairbreadth from him finishing her. She affirmed to herself in her mind, "If you hadn't been so difficult then you wouldn't have gotten hurt. This makes no sense to force a fight." Pieces of brick shattered into lockpiece's body throwing him backwards. The sword fell away on the ground as Adilita approached Lockpiece with both weapons in arms aimed mercilessly at him.
"Carrow." She demanded an answer with one word as an entire sentence. The vehement gaze spoke the rest. "Corrow." Lockpiece groaned sprawled on the ground. He fooled the inexperienced android into playing possum long enough for the gladius to fly back into his hands before she could suspect that he wasn't knocked down completely. Half of his gladius split and reforged themselves with a silver fire into twin colt pistols. Adilita's sigil shield arm activated but it turned out to be a mistake as he completed a feint. Guns were nearly instant destruction but instead of trying to fire for a body shot he destroyed the floor beneath her. She fell through the hallway down beneath her.
Her mind crossed itself out as if she'd flipped the page of a book. She was in a carriage with the two brothers of sixteen and thirteen having a merry ride across grassy plains. She looked up where Lockpiece was as her mind registered that she has crossed out if Convergence. The hole to the hallway seems to hover above her even when the carriage moved. The boys didn't look back as she shot a retaliatory cover fire back at Lockpiece through the hole. She jumped back into Convergence. The heavy storm of lazer fire suppressed Time Lockpiece enough to nearly sear the tip of his nose. Adilita's aim however never touched the bowler hat on his head. As surprising and unpredictable as he was she learned two things about his powers already.
Landing back inside the hallway made Adilita feel safer. Lockpiece's materialized weapons disappeared and the hole as well. Adilita noticed that Time had his limits in Convergence and his powers were- Adilita recoiled from impact to interrupt her thinking. He now held the chain locket styled watch like a mastered weapon. He was finally seriously aiming to bully her into submission. As a result Adilita escalated the conflict to the next level by modding her body into cannon mode. Adilita was now discovering what she was made of. Something that couldn't be found in her specs and not in reading them. She gauged herself and ran a longer distance away from Time Lockpiece. He was surprised as he expected closer combat causing him to pause but learned quickly and tried to follow. He saw the shimmer of light off of Adilita's cannon mode and the hum of technology engage. Disembodied clock faces appeared around him with a ticking sound. A belfry sounded and the minute hands spun backwards.
Adilita escalated the conflict to the next level and activated her cannon mode. Adilita was now discovering what she was made of. Something that couldn't be found in her specs and not in reading them. Time Lockpiece and Adilita dashed down the hallway with the traveller having read that she was trying to get distance to fire the cannon. She saw clocks that didn't exist a second ago recede back into Lockpiece's body. Adilita suspected something but fired the charged arm cannon. Pure blue destruction sizzles through the air causing Adilita to be amazed by the beautiful color. Lockpiece however stood a calmly as it missed by a milimeter as he showed off that he knew when she would fire. Adilita's programmed homing scans marked 'Prediction Error'. "What are you?" She asked as she huffed because Adilita's body of energy could be felt on cool down. The circuits were heated and the cooling systems maxed out causing her to react out of breath. She learned much more through this exhaustive experience and theorized that her maker made her remarkably human-like.
"A fragment." Time Lockpiece replied and tipped his bowler hat back up to uncover his eyes. He seemed confident again like the moment Adilita met the man. Since Adilita appeared down on the breathing, Time Lockpiece made no move to attack.
"Are you done yet?" He asked in his country tone.
"I don't know. Are you?" Adilita answered sarcastically.
"I'll tell you what. I'm far from getting started. I'm the one with the power here."
"Yeah, answer my questions and you can use it to take me home after."
"I don't think so Aegis Girl. You're far too rude. I ain't doing you any necropsy favors."
"Why you do you keep calling me that?" Adilita kept talking as her battery pulled aether into her as a means of recharging. "I'm Adilita Kokoro."
"You're made from ancient Aegis technology. I should know. I helped build it." Time Lockpiece's cheerful tone sounded proud.
"What?" Adilita asked as she was both stunned by his words and his fists. That was twice she couldn't see what interrupted her. "Kokoro overdrive."
. Activate.Heart
_Success="fusion".
The searing overwhelming intensity that made Adilita panic the first time was pleasant now. The reasons for the activity which included finding her next clue, the king's son as meant finding her maker.
The ground fractured from the pressure as she released gases from her valves. It was an explosion because the combustion of gases also powered the speed and strength. She crouched and jumped in the air then flipped in and attempt to use the spin to power stomp Lockpiece. Instead she met with raw brute strength. The beastliness in Lockpiece's eyes now began matching in his body. The formerly tight shirt stretched as beast hair began springing from his skin. The long spiking hair underneath his bowler hat grew into a ridge down the nape of his neck and suggested underneath his collar that it went down the spine.
Astonished yet not having enough time and resources to wontingly waste of asking to many questions, Adilita calculated her next ten thousand choices through her inner holoworld. Her foot still in the impact phase as she rebounded with a rolling twist of her torso. Her second motion aimed for the left side of her waste with her foot as a part of the kick. Landing the kick was landing against a steel fortress. She didn't know what Lockpiece was made of and couldn't believe that hit after hit that he still blocked her.
If one were to claim that she was the best fighter in an elvish army of ten thousand thousand army, none would dare claim they were the first, unless it was Lockpiece of course. It was proved a second later when Lockpiece captured her landing foot and slammed her against the wall.
.Kokoro.Forcedisengage./Initiate diagnostics.
Adilita knew he shouldn't have known when she would have landed. When she saw the his shoulder was scuffed as his face bleeding she rasped, "You're a cheater time magician." Her body left a depression in the corridor wall and she was caught inside it. Her body couldn't take anymore damage and the circuit would need time to.be repaired correctly. "Carrow." She stated defiantly yet beaten into submission.
"Corrow " He finished for her and wiped blood off his cheek and spat. "How did you know?"
"You blocked me twice. I didn't touch you even once during the fight. You shouldn't be hurt."
"Smart Aethering Aegis." Lockpiece grimaced his growling compliment.
"You lost the fight." Adilita said and mockingly laughed. Time Lockpiece froze stiff and punched a hole into the stone wall. He wasn't coolheaded anymore. "Did not."
"Prove it." Adilita fired back.
"Dis temme." Lockpiece snarled under his breath and walked away. He materialized a cigar and lit it with some unidentifiable means.
"You went back in time after I destroyed you." Adilita was thoroughly stuck in the wall and provoking Lockpiecoe meant that she still had the right idea. She was stronger, Adilita was sure of it now but she didn't know why he didn't erase her. "How many times did you go back in time?"
"Twice."
"You're lying. It was more than ten."
"Fifteen."
"Still lying, it was more than two hundred."
"How would you know if I was lying? It was two hundred and fifty." Time Lockpiece's smooth voice responded relaxed. He sat down against the opposite side of the wall in a loose crouching back lean. His arms hung over his knees as he glared at Adilita closely.
"You know I like you." He added.
"I scanned your body temperature when you lie and you just told the truth. Let me guess, you went back ten thousand."
"Times? Yes." Lockpiece answered rythmicly.
"You're a monster you know that? How do you have enough power to return ten thousand times?" Adilita protested.
"Well, that's not exactly fair question, is it? How the in John Necropolis' blackmailed name did you calculate ten thousand moves?" He took a puff of smoke and stared a minute into the missing space of the dealing corridor. He looked like he wanted to complain more about the fighting tactics. "Carrow," He said.
"Corrow." She said, "Does that mean you're going to tell me what you know."
"He's a shape shifter and a leviathan. He created a utopia that lasted 700 years before I became a realized fragment of his father. He's gentle, he's powerful, and he has a big ego to equal his size. He was killed by Doraxians because of a betrayal of the trust he had in the rivalry with Khul. Now the Doraxians are trying to descover a way to get to Divergence and I will do anything to stop you from getting to him."
The withholding of simple questions was over. "What did I ever do to you? I am just a stranger." Adilita asked curiously since she knew for sure that Convergence wouldn't interfere.with more mind games. "Why stop me? I was practically born yesterday."
"Not to me Aetherling Aegis. You're the beginning of the utopia he started and the reason he inconsequentially dies. He doesn't meet you then he can't improve his Aegis Will through his people." Lockpiece said and pressed the cigar butt into the pavement after having finished the better half of it.
"That really has nothing to do with me." Adilita refused to accept the story as her problems. "I just want to know who my father is."
"You're looking at him right now." Adilita's heart pounded in her ears. The digital simulator gave her enough illusion in her to make it feel believable that she had a materialized heart. Her android body wasn't made with such a weakness as to have one central area for energy. "At least, you're looking at a fragment of him. Anadoria is a complicated place and I'm not really your father. In my time he's dead and when he dies then we fragments get born. Carrow Corrow is like a son to me and it means the world to me if you don't meet him." Lockpiece spoke with endearment in his heart.
"No."
"Pretty please?" He whined.
"No, nay."
"Cherry on top?" He weedles.
"No, nay, never forevermore."
"This Kokoro temme." Lockpiece cursed then tried to bargain. "I'll tell you who those people are if you promise to look for them instead of where you're going."
"I promise." Adilita said sweetly. She was only a few days old after all. How could she not trust him?
"Really?" Lockpiece's voice raised in pitch with hope.
"No." She dashed it with ice.
Lockpiece let our a series of ancient curses naming alot of mother in law tortures. Adilita's fiber cheeks blushed in embarrassment so badly she couldn't take it anymore. She was still appearing as a wall impression since she was stuck embedded in there so she couldn't escape the tortures her ear modules experienced.
"I promise to take you with me if you stop that!" Adilita squealed desperately. She was now far more educated in anatomy than she was a few days ago. Her time perception hadn't changed from the start and it wouldn't be possible to change the fact he exposed her way too early for the truth. Luckily her personality was made at a budding age of learning and legal maturity. Well, almost legal. No one's perfect.
Lockpiece's unexpected torture ended up as overjoy making the cool handsome masculine beastly eyes turn puppy eyes, well literally and not figuratively. Adilita's desire to crush him melted under the puppy face Lockpiece had transformed into. She didn't even think he meant to do that as it was out of control. "It's not faaaaaaair!" She complained loudly. Lockpiece only laughed a little then began explaining.
"The Convergence shows you your personal experiences which normally you can't get here unless you have the power to cross dimensions. In border worlds there's no present so it's all past and future. Convergence isn't a universe like Anadoria homeworks but an in-between all realities. Travelers bare the peacekeepers between these worlds and I was am a self appointed one. There's many more worlds out there with life with complicated power struggles and I enjoy doing my job. Until I decided to make something superb, it wouldn't be any trouble for me. I made a mistake and I made a prototype Aegis with a will. In your time they call it Golems and they shouldn't have a will. When things got out of control in the conflicts I sent you back in time back to the year Carrow Corrow's father first created him."
"Just how long is your backstory? I'll growing roots in this wall I'd you're going to keep it up."
"Since the day your father was born. I am a fragment but I exist outside of time. When Carrow Corrow dies, his heart breaks creating us as protectors until he returns back to reassemble himself back together."
"But you can go back. Why can't the other fragments do that?" Adilita noticed something Lockpiece wasn't telling her. Seeing it as it was useless to hide information about his powers to an android he laughed at her cleverness.
"I can take time and I can control time. Unlike the other fragments who will cease to exist because they are non entities, I was the fragment that can shift time. Your maker became an exceptionally powerful creature for all the good he's done in this world and all the distaster he brings."
"What kind of person is he?"
"Don't interrupt a fella when he's giving a backstory. It's rude and I only get one chapter of screen time. That's not much time ya'know."
"He's an antagonistical person but he keeps the balance of Anadoria in check. There's always another super power around the corner waiting for the reverse world of Anadoria's villains to be ambushed. He was not one of the best people to be friends with but the best to be an enemy to."
"That's not making any sense at'tal." Adilita lisped as she began to feel gravity take her off the wall. She fell out of the cracks on all fours before letting herself rest sitting up against it. It was certainly better than being in it and much more comfortable for the restoration process. The android hadn't known if she could be self repairing so she listened to Lockpiece during the process.
"Madness never makes sense. Most of all, the people who you met earlier are to his generals. In order to unite the world he needs powerful warriors loyal to him and him only. The alchemist is not."
"Why do you know so much about me?" Adilita asked intuitively hoping it would lead towards a clear answer. "I mean, I never met my maker and I am not even sure if he exists."
Lockpiece looked back at her and rubbed his aching shoulder. She noticed that he hadn't even thought of trying to regenerate. "I can't change time. Whatever happens has to happen and that means any injuries in get from the future get brought back as proof that it will happen."
"You blocked me twice though "
"At my ten thousand and one try but time didn't change. You still hit me.."
"That makes even less sense now." Adilita complained as she played with the red ribbon on her wrist.
"It only works like that because future still is happening somewhere else. In reality there are two copies of the minute I go back in time the past present and the future. The past disappears as long whatever was supposed to happen, happens and the future changes after the past is erased."
Adilita didn't have any further interest in this information. It was only special for Lockpiece. "You said you sent me back in time. What's that supposed mean?"
"It means that I created the spells and sigils that you operate on. When I erased the past once, I also caused the future to close a paradoxical loop. You would have existed in a different format in Convergence. Although it would not change the timeline of the events, the details still matter. Otherwise, you'd have gone directly to Yeviathan and providing the Aetherling technical advancement it needed."
"So you know exactly how it turns out once I leave."
"Not quite. You didn't play a large role in my history books. In fact I don't know you except for what my protection offers as a memory. I made a mistake and the universe sent me here today to fix you."
"History? You mean our lives are catalogued somewhere and mine isn't written anywere?"
Lockpiece flicked the pocket watch open to look at the time. "Yes, and you're in great danger because you don't belong in any of the universes now. There are more than the generals who want to fight you who will want to get thier hands on someone who can go where worlds converge together. It would be the ultimate goal of conquering a trillion planets."
"Until I met you Lockpiece, I was just trying to find out who Carrow is."
"Corrow is your brother."
"How old?"
"A few centuries." He answers cleanly.
"Does he just make us an abandon us?"
"I- We- I mean he doesn't. He makes you with a purpose but you get free will in how you behave with yourselves."
"I don't have much choice in loving him do I?" Adilita responded in kind because she knew how the overdrive now worked. Time looked at her and shook his head, "All children have no choice in loving their parents until they grow up."
"What's that supposed to mean."
"It's means that it's an imprint and you decide with your heart who you choose to love." Lockpiece responded and covered his eyes with the bowler hat's rim. Adilita tried to look in them but she couldn't see past the spiky locks if hair covering his brows.
"Are you going to come to see Carrow Corrow?"
"I won't come to visit Crow Crow with you now. I've stopped you long enough that when you return the time will be in perfect syncretism. You will be as though you were born a Traveller instead of an Anadoria."
"Oh. I'm sorry to hear you're not coming but are all Travellers not born as Anadorians?"
"Astute, Anadoria is not part of the Traveller's pact. Convergence isn't a native source of power in the small continent. The world is called Odyssia by the way not Anadoria."
"When will I know to meet the people Convergence showed me?"
"You won't but I will have left a sign in my absence during the times you may die."
"Dieees? She squealed.
"I can't babysit forever. It's time to go. It was nice meeting you but you're right, I shoulda just told you from the start. I had nothing to lose until you made me lose." Lockpiece said as he sat up from his crouch. He seemed stiff but otherwise even though he looked rough for wear he was fine. He reached out to touch Adilita so that she could be aware of the flow of time speeding up. It was like the sands of an our glass being pulled by higher gravity but visually speeding up the repair process. When he was done Adilita tested her body out.
"You're very strong." Adilita compliments only to see him deny it with a solemn head shake. "No, Carrow Corrow who is your brother and a God killer is strong. I'm just smart enough to stay outside the game but not enough to break the boundaries of the fourth wall.I can only go through Convergence."
Adilita followed him down the the end of the corridor and descovered that there was a door. Time Lockpiece was mysterious and full of wonder for her and provided the shaping she needed to be more careful with her approach. Eliza hadn't chastised her imprudent behavior but in a way, Lockpiece had. She couldn't bear to leave her friend behind so she floated around the door until she was once again interrupted by a knock over and through the door she went. That was the third time surprised by something completely uncontrollable.
The whiteness of the surrounding realm faded on the other side of the door. The ceremonial wreath made of teleportation technology and magic gently lowes her down to the floor from where she seemed to have been hovering for a period of time. There she was greeted by a Meister of some sort. She wondered what would she descover next and she looked at her new world.