Oriel 3.9
A surprise visit
Kurt found that words were not his allies at the moment. The Warforged was clearly distraught, even with no way to convey emotions on their face their voice carried with it enough signs that he noticed even Bikk was looking concerned.
“Bikk confused.” was all that the smaller Ratkin saw fit to add to the conversation at the moment.
Maximus shook his head. “I believe the phrase from the frying pan into the fire seems to be apt.”
The Cartographer snorted. “It just means Fidaelius was playing with more threads than I thought.”
The Warforged looked around. “You......” Their hands waved around as if searching for the right words in the surroundings. “Lord Renniger.”
Kurt narrowed his eyes a little. “How? I don’t know you yet you know my name.”
The Warforged was clearly out of their depth. Luckily for them it was The Cartographer that spoke up next. “So..... twice.... Interesting. I mean if I meet myself we can at least past it off as my twin brother.....”
“NO!” The horror was evident in the Warforged’s voice.
“That settles that then.” said The Cartographer with a smirk.
Kurt waved his hands around and hissed. “WHAT IS GOING ON!?”
Maximus also had a smirk. “It appears our arcane captor had the gall to play with the temporal as well as the physical. We might not even be from the same moment. I imagine that complicates your rescue effort somewhat, no? The Cartographer.” The last two words were said with a sneer.
The Warforged did their approximation of a blink again and ushered the group further into the library. “How...... Does everything you touch Teskos become a complicated morass of interwoven threads?”
The Cartographer gave him a look. “The Cartographer, Seven. Unless you would like me to give these people your full designation?”
Seven sighed, an interesting echoey sound from their construct body. “The fact you know the full designation that my creator decided to give me is no longer impressive Teskos. Seven is good enough. Now please help me before something even more disastrous that your mere arrival happens here.”
Kurt followed along. This.... Seven knew him. Knew his full name. No one knew that or so he thought. But how? He...... He’d met several of these constructs at the Academy after his awakening but he never really interacted with any of them anyway, they were always treated like machines and not really people. He didn’t even know that they had names. He looked down at a tug on his coattails, it was Bikk.
“Kurt ok?”
He shook his head, noting they were falling a little behind the others. “No. I’m here twice? What does that mean?”
“There two of you now.” Bikk offered.
Kurt smiled a little. “But there should only be me.”
“Bad wizard do bad magics.”
There was a chuckle from up ahead, The Cartographer. “Exactly. Trying to grab the best versions of each of us for the heist.”
“HEIST?!” Seven stopped dead in their tracks. “HEIST?!” They repeated. “What are you mixed up with now Teskos?”
“The person he called Fidaelius apparently wanted something called The Crystalline Heart I believe.” supplied Maximus.
Kurt wasn’t as much of an expert at reading people as seemingly Maximus was but even he could tell that the mention of the heart almost caused this Seven to just shut down entirely.
The Cartographer, rather rudely, tapped on Seven’s head. “What aren’t you telling us?”
“What! What!” Added Jinty who was seemingly just excited to be on an adventure with their Minotaur friend.
Seven looked up at The Cartographer. “Information is valuable, Cartographer. It should be traded or earned. It can be given as a gift or used to one’s advantage. You have taught me that much.”
“It’s here.” Said Maximus. “Right now, at this moment, it is here.”
Seven blinked again but remained silent.
The Cartographer decided swearing was the best use of words right now.
Kurt just sighed. “It’s in the box........ It’s in THE FUCKING BOX!!!!!!!”
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