Terran Bounty Hunter in Black and Pink

"I'm not mad or anything Mum, I mean if anything it means you really cared about her, to let her be apart of us knowing..." Well knowing her Mum's reservations, or more so former reservations towards possibly making her and Sophia the natural way.

And trying to avoid just a standard cloning, the oddity that became two girls, all traced back to one amazing hero from the stories Gates used to tell them both.

"Maybe that's all it was. We were perfectly sisters, but being two halves of an amazing girl..." Charlotte tables her thoughts, but they seem to make the most sense to her. How together, the lack of the sustain energy of their Mom, was fixed.

And Charlotte's interactions had helped spark her awakening, perhaps if Sophia had been the one to live, she might have popped away with ears instead?

"I want to find that ocean world I kept dreaming about. The fox woman Harune, she was someone who guided you into that galaxy where you met Mom."

Charlotte closes her eyes, "I know that the end of that galaxy was sudden. I know you and Mom were ejected out like everyone else, that anything that seemed foreign to that place was pushed out. Sezja the Shatter, the Red Witch, Ziatrix and Deva, this Harune and even possibly... what remains of that Yugveer, Core."

The ocean world... right, Harune's, not that village from weeks ago. "The Shatter found me, really, but... eh, doesn't matter." Charlotte knew so much already, it seemed. Just how deep into her mother's data banks did she dig before now? Mother sighed and smiled.

"Were it up to me, Charlotte, you'd stay right here, in our time, until we figured out how to purify the Red from others afflicted with it." She lifted her left hand, to show the distinct lack of crimson presence on it. "Like how Celune did with me, but with deeper wounds, deeper stains. Just in case it reclaimed you and your bird friends were unable to fix it again. But it sounds like you already know where you have to run off to next. And what am I gonna do, tell you no? I couldn't even..."

A grimace as she gestured at Charlotte's midriff, where a giant hole used to be. "...well, you know."

She spun in her hover chair to stare at the data Artemis had compiled and was still compiling for the family to browse through. Info about the ocean world was front and center. "All kidding aside, I'm thinking the same thing. That the ocean world's gotta be your best bet for unlocking the rest of your potential... even after realizing so much of it already!" That pink glowing form of Charlotte flashed in her mind's eye. "Or at least answering all the questions you have that snooping through my private files didn't help with."

"Hell, I'm sure you still have a few about me, even. Unless you already convinced Artemis to gossip about me while I was out last week?"

"When you put it that way, maybe I really need to double down on making you suck up to me a bit more." She hangs so easily off her, she doesn't bend or buckle considering how much she's gone through to even be standing here.

That doesn't last long, she's right there again in his arms, a frown with red across her face returns for the trip before she bounces back to her feet.

"Hard to believe someone can just... save the world like that, but there they are a solid reminder that all legends are rooted in some sort of history." Yukichi looks through it, then back to those around her.

"At this distance, I can't tell if it's the light, the ice and snow, but it all blends together so far away..."

She was right, though. Even with the closer view, the actual sight of Vopahu was usually a neat blend of lighting at best. There was always that chance, though, to see him in full, hence the repeat visits.

"Like everyone else?" ...right, the soul vision!

"...well, those that say he's still watching over us would feel relieved and vindicated, I can say that much for sure." One of the guards nodded ever so slightly. "Don't say that to a Ko-Korian though, unless you're looking for a ten minute impromptu sermon." Another guard nodded.

"Our souls look blue though, huh?" He looked through the binoculars himself after Yukichi was done. "Fascinating... I was thinking they'd be colored based on element, like armorite is. Well, good that there's still plenty of common ground betw--"

A great and terrible rumbling echoed through the skies in which they stood, a rumbling originating from far, far southwest. It was such that the floating island itself quaked, with Lesago and Yukichi feeling like it was about ready to fall from the sky at any second. The guards, prepped for such, kept themselves steady and their eyes on the two tourists until the quaking subsided.

Lesago, with bruises around his eyes from the binoculars. swiftly rushed to Yukichi's side to make sure she was alright, even if she was used to a little rumbling from her profession. Still, rumbling? At this height? On this island???

"Okay, seriously, what in Zarktha's name was that??" shouted Lesago to one of the guards.

"Relax, private, I'm calling Qilia to find out." True to his word, the guard, whose name was Miunae, had already pinged the secretary from the main island on his local communicator. "Probably just a meteorite again."

Qilia immediately responded. "Standby, Miunae. I'm pinging Up High for info. Over."

"Copy, Qilia. We have two civ's up at lookout. Employee with visitor. Shall we shepherd them to main? Over."

"Affirmative. Congregate to main until-- wait, standby. I have word from Up High."

A short, painful silence followed. Then...

"Code GaiShu! Repeat, Code GaiShu! Get all civ's indoors! Code GaiShu! Over!"