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[underscene]

He's tall. He wears a cleanly pressed green uniform; a barcode and series of numbers where a name plate would typically be. A surgeon's mask hangs around his neck and his hands are still gloved. He's pristine to the point of unnerving, and everything but his eyes might suggest he was in perfect health. He was not, however, nearly as together as he seemed... but that was the story of everyone, wasn't it? The more perfect the outside the more mess lay within.

To say that Cyro had many questions for the forum would be an understatement. As blip amongst the folk within, he'd been watching and listening to people come and go for a bit of time. With such a well of knowledge (and potential stupidity) available here from diverse physics, realities, time, and law, it seemed like such a waste to ask an open question.

It was at the moment where words caught somewhere in his throat he came to a startling realization: he was actually afraid. That must be the ultimate conclusion. There was little else to explain why, even here, he couldn't ask what he wanted to ask. What if no one had an answer?

"Genetic engineering," he began, walking calm through the forum and toward the front. "Does your world have it, how advanced is it, have there been difficulties with it?"

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[brave_heart_verity]

Nobody can be cautious all the time. Especially not when dealing with something entirely new and previously thought to be fiction.

"Ah, no, not anymore. I just come to visit. It's... things back home are... difficult." And that's keeping in mind what little she knows about his home life. "So eventually I won't be going back probably."

[underscene]

"What is happening back home?" He nodded away from the forum as if to ask her if she wanted to wonder away from the crowd with him.

[brave_heart_verity]

Getting away from the crowd is generally a good idea in her book, and she'll walk with him in companionable silence until they have the privacy of distance.

"Something's gone wrong with the multiverse. Different dimensions are starting to... to interact. I don't know exactly what's happening, that sort of stuff is being kept from the public, but I do know it's getting worse and nobody's managed to fix it." This is not easy to talk about, and as much as she tries to be calm and factual about it, she's clearly upset. "Universes are being destroyed and."

And how long until it's hers?

[underscene]

"Interact?" He tipped his head a little in question, "As in blend with one another?"

[brave_heart_verity]

"Not so gentle. More like... crash into one another." And she's more than a little scared.

[underscene]

That would make two of them... being scared for what was to come. It was a horrifying thing to consider under both of their circumstances. Her entire world could be town apart and his had been, and the survivors were undergoing a slow decaying death. Here could be a place to start anew, though. Couldn't it?

He stepped a bit ahead of her. He'd have to go back eventually. If there was any chance that things could change, that they could all survive this, he had to go back.

"Do you think we all stumble in here because we're meant to?"

[brave_heart_verity]

It can be. It is infinite and grand and full of useful stuff that goes 'ding'. And it's a place to which they can return when they need to.

The question is considered in another stretch of silence. "I've been wondering that myself. I think so. I hope so? It's better than the alternative."

[underscene]

Cryo stopped walking for a moment and exhaled. Yes, he could bring his siblings here and they could build their own world. If they could get help for their condition... each of them were incredibly bright and more than capable of helping those in need that come here. It could be good.

"The alternative being?" He looked back toward her.

[brave_heart_verity]

She stops when he does, tucking her hands in her pockets and shrugging. "That someone's having a good laugh at us. Gods are not always kind. Or it could be completely random. I honestly don't know and have no way of finding out."

[underscene]

That irritated him. The fact that something was happening, something had happened, and he couldn't determine how or why. It was interesting, sure. This place, what might happen within it.. all interesting, but he would likely be driven to find an answer for it all at some point or another. Cyro was very used to Knowing Things. Very used to order.

"Let's hope that's not the case. There is always a logical explanation. When it seems as if there is not, it's simply that we can't understand it yet."

[brave_heart_verity]

She understands the sentiment. There's so many things in her life she wishes she understood. But being the best friend of the god of lies means learning to live with not getting answers.

"I'm inclined to agree with you. I prefer rational explanations for things. But I've learned they're pretty rare."