| Because SHE, of all these people, seem to be the most calm (the others
seem about ready to have a fit about something)!
"The short of it is that I regained consciousness here….wherever here
is……" Inquirer begins.
"It's a Dragon's Lair," Alicia stated calmly. "The piles and piles of
treasure kind of gave it away….along with the magic wards that made my
teeth itch when I wandered near the exit looking for you."
Everyone looks at the princess, who looks amazingly calm and collected.
She doesn't seemed worried.
"I figure that I might as well stay calm and find out what is going
on before I start to panic," Alicia smiles. "It isn't like whichever one
of you is the dragon is going to eat me….for that would have happened BEFORE
a awoke."
<Well, that wouldn't hold true for all dragons…..> Malachi
thought to herself. <One dragon in particular would have fun toying
with you before devouring you…..but I won't bring it up….and I pray
the others won't, either.>
Fortunately, nobody did.
"Actually," Fred began, looking and getting a slight nod for him to
continue. "Except for Carradene over in the corner….the manwolf ….and the
Rosepaw…..the vixen by your foot. The only people who ARE NOT dragons here
are….you, the demifox, and the Golem."
"And I'm only not because I caught a benign form of lycanthropy," the
demifox murmurs.
The Golem and princess stare as the dragons assume their natural form.
And then watch silently as the dragons change back!
After getting over the initial shock, the pair seemed to take it in
stride. The Golem then smiles because she recognizes three from pictures
from their bios.
"Ah," she smiles knowingly. "We must be in Ethiopia if YOU are here,
Malachi! But I'm surprised the others are here, because the last I heard
you analogs were in the city of Panaras with Probe. But….I don't remember
reading about any of the Fred analogs being able to assume dragon form!"
Princess Alicia, sensing something amiss, also senses that perhaps a
little light should be thrown on the subject by this Golem….and the perhaps
that calls for a little….sneakiness.
For her Sixth Sense, which had come into it's own from intense training
under her father's guide, is tingling. So she stays silent and watches
this play out and NOT protest the Golem's mispronunciation of Aethiopia!
"I got interested in seeing what the other side was like….and had some
powerful incentive to try this out." Fred said smoothly. "But please….tell
us all about the others….I'd like to hear what you know for I wasn't aware
that Probe was…..sharing with others about what we did."
Fred hoped that this worked….because it'd be a shame to kill this Golem
out of hand when they could peacefully gather some much needed information…..
"Hey," Inquirer chuckled, holding up her hands. "No problem there. Considering
the fact that you got me out of a dangerous situation and you might find
it annoying that the Golems share information about those around them with
the Family-though it's just standard procedures so it's only buisness and
nothing personal-I figure that a little sharing with those who I owe shouldn't
be a problem!"
So, she give the information found here: (and if you thought I was going
to type all of that information OVER again…..8-P )
http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Alicia.htm http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Astra.htm
http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Carradene.htm http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Fredmanfoxe.htm
http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Loam.htm http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Malachi.htm
http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Minor.htm http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Synizn.htm
http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Willian.htm http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Astra1.htm
http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Fred1.htm http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Astra2.htm
http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Fred2.htm http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/dragonsynizn.htm
http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Astra3.htm http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Freddemi.htm
http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Synizndemi.htm http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Sigin1.htm
http://www.chattownusa.com/Avenues/Fun/griffin/Dredrick.htm
"And I listened in a bit through Probe lecture about the effects of
the Enemy's bombs on the world…." The AI continues and relates what happened
in episode 2574, and the UPPER half of 2575.
Inquirer blinks in surprise as her listeners look slightly sick by all
she said.
"Hey," she says softly. "I'm sorry if I shocked you with what we know
about you. It's just us Alliance folks like to REALLY know about those
we deal with before…..we deal with then! Much was by deduction, character
model analysis, and a whole bunch of methods us intelligence folk need
to keep abreast of the situation."
"It's….not that," Alicia says, feeling she just walked into a nightmare
(which she had….in a sense). "It's just that……we….."
"We aren't who you think we are," Carradene says, suddenly throwing
off his shock. "We are not in Ethiopia. I am not the Carradene of that
Pack. And these are NOT the people who you think we are!"
"And no Alliance….instructor taught me how to….reboot you," the demifox
sighs. "Rather….I used my knowledge on how to make golems to get you back
into condition when my….Rosepaw put your conscious in the receptacle….."
"But it did free you from the pain?" the vixen suddenly asks in sorrow,
drawing shocked looks from Alicia and Inquirer.
The Golem nods yes, causing the mercurial fox to start to wag her tail
happily…..….then….
"What do you mean by receptacle?" the AI whispers.
She then catches her reflection in a mirror on the wall. It's the same
face that she's become used to seeing while working through this female
Avatar unit….but in the middle of it's forehead is a blue sapphire embedded
there that is sparkling…along with the mysterious glyphs that are somehow
etched into the syntho-skin at the sides of the magical gem.
She runs a self diagnostic….and finds that the unit isn't receiving
any input from her body…the robot ship….high above this world…..it's receiving
it from a place….in contact with her body!
-
 Inquirer does something
very human for a AI OR a golem…..she faints…..again causing the mages to
stare….because they've never heard of a fainting golem before.
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