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Come Forth Winter

One Felix away from home. One Felix here.

The immortality is powerful, but ultimately not perfect, and there was no way to account for inter-dimensional travel. Felix was captured in some extremely bizarre phenomena in the middle of the Bermuda Conflux and snatched to another world. As a result the immortality spring count him as "disconnected" and created a second Felix as usual, but also warned that it was a disconnection, not a true death. And a piece of the dreamshard was missing too at same time, no way a coincidence. And with a odd stroke of inspiration, Fenris decides to meditate holding the dreamshard.

It takes two weeks until they figure out that the dreamshard wanted to be used again, to have new dreamshapers, and another week after that to unlock some of it's power, to see that other Felix in another world, an Earth unlike their own, but an Earth nonetheless.

Fenris meditates with the dreamshard, unraveling it's secrets and desires and, after nearly two months he... strikes a deal of sorts. Three volunteers become dreamshapers. Three more if the plan is a success.

Then there is the other end of the bargain.

Fenris couldn't find a way to retrieve the other Felix back, it might truly be beyond the dreamshard power.

But Fenris thinks of an alternate solution, go to that Felix, be there for him, the immortality spring will mean a Fenris here to live his life, knowing that in the multiverse there is another Fenris keeping company to the second Felix. To patch the fucking flaw in reality that allows any version of his brother to experience even a second of misery.

That idea turns out to be rather controversial.

Two months and one day after the Bermuda incident, they have come up with yet another alternative. Fenris himself doesn't need to go alone.

So, after two months and two days there are twelve immortal skymages flying towards the Shattered Skies, the epicenter of the Bermuda Conflux weirdness and the place where one Felix disappeared.

The other Felix is flying right beside him looking concerned. If this plan works, it means... two Felixes in the same universe. A great boom for that universe, in Fenris opinion.

Their grandfather and sister are also there, they have been told everything and aren't going to come in this trip, but want a farewell of sorts. But they keep a large distant, too far to shout, too far to hear Maira crying, she still doesn't understand everything, but understand that these Fenris and Felix won't see her for a really long time. So both grandfather and granddaughter insisted on coming to watch.

They get in the general area where Felix was snatched away and Fenris takes out the piece dreamshard they brought.

The other nine that are meant to do this one-way journey reach out and hold it. They wait.

They don't have to wait for very long, the portals flare with tendrils of energy and they are snatched away...

...and now they are flying above a town, Fenris actually lets go of the dreamshard, but of course he chained it to his hand, so it doesn't fall.

There are only five of them, Fenris, Felix, Kato, Vera and Vii. This isn't a sign that the plan worked correctly.

Well, does this at least look like the correct place?

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"Kato and Vii only need to keep an eye on you when the rest of us go sleep. Until then we won't stand guard closely, but we can keep you company if you want."

Vera

"Don't worry, that wasn't a disguised way to say that you are bothering us. We're delighted to help and be around if you need us. And we should pick your bedroom."

hurt_someone

"How does all this work? It seems complicated."

Come Forth Winter

"What do you mean exactly?" Is Scott following them to pick a room to stay?

hurt_someone

"You can all do so many different things. How did this place come with you? Did Felix make it by himself?"

Come Forth Winter

Well, they are assuming he is coming with them through the stairs and corridors, which are wide and tall, almost like they are designed for flying people.

"Felix made it. Created out of nothing to be more exact. He can expand while asleep and create it's portals. I can do it too, but mine is a vast frozen sea and far less hospitable to life."

Vera

"Oh, right. Important disclosure. I know it looks like it goes forever if you look to the horizon or the sky, but this place is finite. If you walk far enough, your surroundings will turn foggy and gray. If you continue you disappear and reappear later, maybe in here or maybe on Earth. But you might appear in a confined space that you can't get out of, so it is better not to do it unless you really need to leave."

hurt_someone

"I can't fly, but I'll be careful."

He follows, looking around in bafflement.

"I don't mind sleeping anywhere, as long as you guys can keep me there."

Come Forth Winter

"We have a place in the basement that should hold you, but we can give you a suite until you actually need to sleep. We might devise a more permanent solution once we've seen how tonight turns out."

hurt_someone

"Okay. I should stay near you so when it's time, we're ready."

Come Forth Winter

"We should put a mattress on the basement, do we even have mattress that aren't skymage-sized?"

Vera

"Yes,I don't need the extra space for wings so mine could be used," Vera says, shaking her tiny wings to demonstrate why, then she turns to Scott, "don't worry we will keep you comfortable and maybe we won't even need to keep you downstairs every night."

hurt_someone

"It's better than hurting people. Do whatever you have to."

Vera

"Well, sure, but it doesn't means that we have to treat you badly while doing it."

Come Forth Winter

"Not if it is not useful. Would you mind we try chains tonight? The place we are going to put you in will have a metal door so it isn't that much of an extra precaution."

They find a bedroom and offer Scott the option of mattress or sleeping bag. Also, would Scott like to leave his things here or pick another room?

hurt_someone

It's fine.

"Chains sound smart. I don't know how strong I am."

Come Forth Winter

"I am pretty sure Felix is making you a set of chains and shackles that should hold you without harming your ankles and wrists."

Now that they have acquired the mattress they proceed to move it downstairs.

Scott is now walking through the corridors of a ridiculous mansion, accompanied by two winged people. Isn't his life weird?

hurt_someone

"That's nice of him."

Scott walks. He does not take a moment to appreciate how weird his life is getting, because it just keeps doing that. There's probably more.

Scott offers to help lift the mattress.

Vera

They lift and bring the mattress to an empty storage room in the basement level.

"With that out of the way, is there anything you would like to do?"

hurt_someone

"It's too early to sleep. What do you guys do for fun?"

Vera

"We haven't shaken out a routine here yet and we can't do anything on the category of 'be in public' for long. But you know, reading, cooking, watching movies, flying - which is still quite novel for Kato and Vii - playing video games, listening-and-dancing to music," Vera shrugs, "wanna do any of those things?"

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