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it was the lights, really, that had brought her here. she had never seen such light in the darkness of the night, so much shining brightness that it drowned out even the stars. a part of kida couldn’t help but be sad—after all, she had spent millennia without the stars. here, in the surface city of spirale, she had finally seen them for the first time since she was a child, and having them snuffed out made a part of her ache. and yet... the lights. they spun around kida like the fireflies of atlantis, from small sparkling clusters to huge, blaring beams. she could not help but spin, almost helplessly, mouth open to take in the sight. blue, red, purple, green, white. the colors were endless, streaking the buildings and surrounding areas of this ‘fibonacci ward’ with swirls of rainbows in all different shades. taking another light step to whirl around again, kida could not help but give out a musical, delighted laugh.
it was not until the plane of her back gently pressed against another that kida stopped, twisting her ankle to turn towards whoever she had lightly spun into. before she could fix her gaze on their face, however, she was distracted by the flare of blue light from the crystal around her neck. curious fingers cupped the shard of the atlantean heart to her face as it pulsed again, and kida made a small noise of surprise before once again lifting her eyes towards the new stranger.
❝ You have technology on you, yes? ❞ kida lifted the crystal a little higher to watch it glow brighter again, seemingly responding to both the stranger and her own curiosity. ❝ Would you show me? ❞