“Of course, it’s not like I know for sure it’ll work. But I have solid reason to suspect it will.”
His horns light up with Psychic, and he floats something over out of one of his boxes, which were pressed into the back corner of the room. It’s a ripped page from a book, with crude scribblings etched into a blank space. Information, clearly, but it’s hard to tell what it means. Luckily Anthony seems perfectly able to decipher it; it’s his own writing, after all.
“See, after asking everyone how long they’ve been here, I noticed a pattern.” He gestures to some numbers on the page. “Year-long gaps in-between each prisoner. But!” He gestures to the numbers again. “More specifically, different amounts of time between each new capture by the Warden; it’s not uniform. So why, I wondered, was there a difference?”
He sets the paper on the ground and reads some of it aloud. “Anthony, Girafarig (me), 18 years in the tower. Tarrai, Seviper, 15 years in the tower. Goldie, Pikachu, 5 years in the tower. And Gravity, Musharna, just arrived.” He glances up. “All recently updated to the current time. I had to wonder….why was there only a three-year gap between me and Tarrai, but a ten-year gap between her and Goldie? And then, after talking with them more, I figured out the difference. It’s proportional. Specifically, proportional to how long it takes each of us to stop testing the barrier.” He stamps a hoof for emphasis.
He levitates the page back to his box, lifting it away from his tail as it attempts to bite it. “Which begs the question: why would she wait for that if the barrier is infallible? Is it possible that it can only take so much stress at a time, and she’s trying to lessen the risk of too much at once?”
The tail gives an excited nod. “Chomp, chomp chomp!”
Anthony nods, as if the limb had said something profound. “I think that if enough stress is put on it, from enough strong attacks, we could push it past its limit. The Victini is crucial, surely stronger than the rest of us, and a key part of this plan now that I know they’re here. They could put so much stress on the barrier. So much.”
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