"What do you mean by most excitement?" Stell asked amusingly.
"Oh, you know, major advancements, changing ages, intergalactic wars, feuding empires, but the one thing all place will have in common with being the birth of a new idea" the voice seemed to be in a better mood now. Still, the lightning of Mesogalara's mood was doing nothing for me.
"Then we will just be thrown in the middle of wars?" I asked bitterly, this was starting to sound like a join no one else wanted to do.
"No, we like to experience each event from the start. You will also need time to blunder and have fun. You know the entertainment side of things." was that a chuckle I heard?
"I think you're enjoying this too much, my friend" Stell laughed with a booming sound and asked."What shall we call you? Mesogalara seems a bit long."
"Meso," the voice said with indifference.
"Well, Meso, how may we serve these gods? I am still really not sure about this whole thing." I said a bit skeptically.
"Your indifference is no concern of mine. I am just the guide on this ramshackle adventure. Are you boys ready?" Meso asked.
"For what?" I asked, but we were already gone.
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Floating in a void, a sea of the nothingness that I drifted in, my worries and thoughts were drifting just like me. Clusters pass by with no more notice of them than any of the infinite number of twinkling stars. The blind emptiness I floated in was peaceful and silent, but the lack of sound was almost like pressure around me.
'Are you ready?' A voice in my head asked irritatingly.
Where did that sound come from? Something seemed off. This vast void was not my home. I looked over to see Stell beside me with a glowing blue chain running from our feather marks on our forearms. I tried speaking, but no words came out. It was like there were no sounds and never could be a sound in this place of emptiness. Then I heard something.
'Dak!' -Stell.
I heard Stell's voice in my mind. I tried speaking again, like an idiot, but still nothing came out.
'Dak, you have to think the thought at me rather than speak it.' -Stell.
'Like this?'
I tried sending my thought to him, and I could see him visibly wince.
'Not so loud, Dak, think the thought quieter. We can use this way to talk to Meso without others thinking we are mad, and we can talk this way privately.' -Stell.
Stell rubbed his ear as though my thought had hurt it.
'Are you two about done now? I can not divulge anything about where you're going or what you're supposed to do when you get there. All I can tell you is that the planets name is Prismantica.' -Meso
'What is your place in all this besides being our guide? That produces all the attitude we do not need and none of the information we do need?'
I sent to Meso. When I sent to Meso, I did not think that was what I was doing. It was more of a group discussion inside our minds.
'I'm here to annoy you and wait for the big one to say something relevant' -Meso.
I felt Stell's rumbling chuckle inside my head.
'What he meant is, why are you with us?' -Stell.
'I am going to be your book of records, and you will learn many new things and ideas that will spark new uses of the magic on each plane of existence you visit. Some will be old; some will be new. The thing that makes me special is that I can carry those different types of magic across the plane and act as a conduit for you to use the spells in other lands that do not follow the same rules. Not all planes carry the same type of magic or use it in the same way. You two have been chosen because of your abilities to shape and hear and smell magic.' -Meso.
'Smell?'
'You will learn to hear magic better over time like your mother, and Stell will tune his abilities as well,' -Meso.
"You can smell magic, Stell?'
'I think I can. It was hard to tell on Loranth because the magic is everywhere. In the present climate though I can smell something faint like...taking a breath of raw energy, it practically makes my hair stand on end.' -Stell.
Stell sent the thought to me but and gave a bit of a shiver.
'With these abilities, you will be capable of acquiring other magic users and magical sources to support you in whatever trouble you two get yourselves into.' -Meso.
'What do you mean by, get yourselves into?' -Stell.
'Well, there is no right way to do things, so whatever way you chose to go is your choice. Know this; you will not be able to sit by idly until the event happens. No, the gods will have their entertainment, whether you like it or not. They will throw obstacles at you if you start to get boring. The best advice is to keep moving if you do not want natural and unnatural disasters following you everywhere you go.' -Meso.
'So what your saying is that for the rest of our unnatural lives we will be running from one problem to the next without rest?'
I sent the thought, but my confidence starting to waver. We had just walked into a trap. I knew I shouldn't have signed.
'No, you won't be running the entire time. The gods know that mortals need motivation, so other things will allow you to recover your will to go on.' -Meso.
Oh boy, he makes it sound more appealing the more he talks.
'Enough of this idle chit chat, it's time to begin.' -Meso.
And we were gone again.