| The door she'd gone through, of course, had lead into Probe's study.
She'd stumbled in (still invisible) past him while he'd been "online"......
And of course, her unique nature of being a masterless djinn
allowed her to be able to just waltze in without being detected, Probe
sighed to himself, Otherwise the wards and such would have screamed
bloody blue murder.
Probe had been security conscious before coming to Terra Prime, and
remained so now...
"Before we go further, somebody would like to speak with Astra," Rule
1 says, "You probably will recognize one of them."
Two figures appear, and Astra the Djinn's knees go weak. Though she
feels a twinge of compulsion at seeing one of the figures before her, it
is nothing more than a twinge. She is the rarest of the rare, a masterless
djinn. As such, her magical abilities had been curtailed to a large extent
(powers stuck, waiting for a wish that would never come), but she still
recognized the person before her.
"Fred?" she whispered (barely holding back the compulsion to call him
Master).
Fred was dead, but he had returned....in the form of a warrior angel
of the Army of Light, with Velus (now "restored" to a human seeming form
after death) as his sidekick....
"Astra, I'm so glad to finally be able to see you again," Fred says
softly, leading her to the side, "we have much to speak of."
"It's been tens of thousands of years." Velus adds, causing a few to
blink.
"Oh, don't be surprised," Dragon Synizn says softly, "That's how long
it takes for a djinn to recover....if they ever do. Usually, in these rare
cases that I've heard of and the one I've actually seen, they walk throughout
creation in a permanent, invisible daze. Never acting or interacting with
the outside world...only locked inside their minds."
Several things appear clear, however.
One is the fact that the story of Fred, Astra, and the Dragon of the
Southern Caverns (by Allarian reckoning) has been playing itself in other
realities for much longer than previously believed. What that exactly meant
isn't clear, nor probably never will be clear.
The other thing is this:
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 The djinn
is lucky indeed to have come out of her trance!
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