[ A large part of the complexity has been created by Julie herself, spending so many months bonding further with the Singularity in secret. So many of the other Summoned, people she cares for and deeply respects, had told her to stay away from it, but she couldn't. She kept all those nights to herself, throwing herself deeper and deeper into the consciousness of a godlike being, learning all of its language and idiosyncrasies and moods. None of it was anything she expected to have to share like this.
But, like always, here she is, in a mess that's not of her own making but that she undoubtedly made worse for herself.
(Duke, forever sassy, sniffs in Jaskier's direction before he curls up on Julie's lap, his head lying on her thigh.)
While what she said was simplified, for a few reasons -- the Singularity also reaches for Rhy, but she's not sure if Jaskier is aware of the extent of Rhy's connection -- the truth is that there's a lot of it she doesn't understand on a much deeper level herself. ]
Well, it not findin' her was just a dead end that made me ask if it could find Nikodaemus. I already knew it could find us, 'cause that's what I've been doin' for two fuckin' weeks. Helpin' find us. That got me some messages people sent, and I was able to see things. [ Her lips purse tightly, as if images are flashing through her vision now. ] Askin' for a god was just a shot in the fuckin' dark. But... that got me somethin'.
[ There's a deep inhale, and she rolls her eyes to the sky for a moment before she tries to explain what she saw. ]
It was like, a whole different place. Like where I got stuck, 'cept it didn't look the same. I was in a desert. This was like... the ocean. Not the beach, the ocean. And it wasn't water, it was -- do y'all have mercury? Like, liquid mercury?
[ The only thing she can think to do is create a very, very old-timey thermometer, with a mercury core. She tilts it from side to side, makes the mercury slide around inside to show him. ] This stuff. Back home, we used it for a lot of stuff, but mostly to measure like, temperature and pressure. A whole ocean of liquid mercury is what I saw. And these big, silvery statues pokin' out of the water. A face with a lady comin' outta the mouth, both stabbed through with a sword. And a man, sittin' on a rock. He was holdin' his face in his hands, lookin' at it. There was a sort of coppery shield on his face. A fish skeleton, mounted on a display, but lyin' flat on a little sandbar thing.
[ Much like the desert she'd been trapped in, it's almost impossible to fully describe, and she knows it doesn't sound relevant. But -- ] Anyway, I think... I think those places, all the different ones we've seen, are where the gods live. They all have an arcana in the sky -- Nikodaemus is the Moon. I saw another place, a real long time ago, that had the Magician in the sky. The beach Rhy got stuck in had the Magician, too. [ The desert hadn't had one that she was able to find. ]
I'm not sure how the arcana plays into it, but I think that the illusion is usin' Nikodaemus to create a sort of bubble around the place they're in. A bubble that's reflectin' outward, like one-way glass.
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But, like always, here she is, in a mess that's not of her own making but that she undoubtedly made worse for herself.
(Duke, forever sassy, sniffs in Jaskier's direction before he curls up on Julie's lap, his head lying on her thigh.)
While what she said was simplified, for a few reasons -- the Singularity also reaches for Rhy, but she's not sure if Jaskier is aware of the extent of Rhy's connection -- the truth is that there's a lot of it she doesn't understand on a much deeper level herself. ]
Well, it not findin' her was just a dead end that made me ask if it could find Nikodaemus. I already knew it could find us, 'cause that's what I've been doin' for two fuckin' weeks. Helpin' find us. That got me some messages people sent, and I was able to see things. [ Her lips purse tightly, as if images are flashing through her vision now. ] Askin' for a god was just a shot in the fuckin' dark. But... that got me somethin'.
[ There's a deep inhale, and she rolls her eyes to the sky for a moment before she tries to explain what she saw. ]
It was like, a whole different place. Like where I got stuck, 'cept it didn't look the same. I was in a desert. This was like... the ocean. Not the beach, the ocean. And it wasn't water, it was -- do y'all have mercury? Like, liquid mercury?
[ The only thing she can think to do is create a very, very old-timey thermometer, with a mercury core. She tilts it from side to side, makes the mercury slide around inside to show him. ] This stuff. Back home, we used it for a lot of stuff, but mostly to measure like, temperature and pressure. A whole ocean of liquid mercury is what I saw. And these big, silvery statues pokin' out of the water. A face with a lady comin' outta the mouth, both stabbed through with a sword. And a man, sittin' on a rock. He was holdin' his face in his hands, lookin' at it. There was a sort of coppery shield on his face. A fish skeleton, mounted on a display, but lyin' flat on a little sandbar thing.
[ Much like the desert she'd been trapped in, it's almost impossible to fully describe, and she knows it doesn't sound relevant. But -- ] Anyway, I think... I think those places, all the different ones we've seen, are where the gods live. They all have an arcana in the sky -- Nikodaemus is the Moon. I saw another place, a real long time ago, that had the Magician in the sky. The beach Rhy got stuck in had the Magician, too. [ The desert hadn't had one that she was able to find. ]
I'm not sure how the arcana plays into it, but I think that the illusion is usin' Nikodaemus to create a sort of bubble around the place they're in. A bubble that's reflectin' outward, like one-way glass.