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[mtsilver_conquor]

Who: Eva and Najaran
Where: Standard Carriage.
When: After this (well, Eva's thread), but before any trainwide talk about it.
What: Eva fills Narajan in on what she knows about the tethering stuff.
Warnings: talk of What Happened Last Mission re: Halo

"You wanted to know how I understood all that stuff, yeah?" Eva asks once they've finished asking their questions, brown eyes far more serious than anyone on the train's likely ever seen them.

"Long story short: some of us found the remains of a voidcraft on the last mission. It's pilot died soon after and there was nothing that could be done to stop her death."

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[mtsilver_conquor]

All of that's well and good, but it doesn't answer the most important thing in Eva's eyes.

"Najaran-chan. What happens to your cards if you die? You told me they were living creatures, as real as pokemon are. What happens to them when you die?"

So. Much. Headcanon. Stupid short series.

[najaran]

She took a deep breath. Let it out slowly. "They are pulled back into their cards if I am not there to sustain them. They will rest like that. I don't know if the train will send them back to my world or not, but they will wait for another Cepter strong enough to wake them. They'll notice I was gone," she whispered clutching Goligan tightly, "and notice when a new Cepter takes them up. But my Master says that they're unaware of the time between their old Cepter dying and their new one claiming them. There are cards that are still being found from the War Of The Goods, and unless they were damaged by the Gods themselves, like the Elemental Lords were..." Well, two of them. Maybe three. She wasn't sure about the Lord of Flame yet, and probably shouldn't talk about the Lord of Water since she was a big secret and all... But the Dark Lord of Earth and the Lord of Flies she could discuss. The more people who understood that they needed to be stopped, the better. Well, the more people who would actually stop them, anyhow.

She caught her thread again, and shook her head. "If they're just banged up from combat they'll go back to their cards and heal up as if I summoned them back. And they'll be fine when their new Cepter calls them forth, and a thousand years would be the same as a say to them. I'd like to think they'd miss me but..." she shrugged. "Cards don't talk about their old Cepters."

[mtsilver_conquor]

Eva nods in understanding. She wouldn't deny a lot of it went over her head, yet at the same time, the context was pretty easy to grasp at the very least.

"And, if they don't return to your world? If they remain on another world because you, their link home, died there then they'll remain dormant forever." Or worse, someone else would find them, activate them, and use them in ways Najaran wouldn't like. But that's a card she can save for later if needed.

"Halo-san's SCA remained behind after she died -Seto has it last I saw- and it's certain the rest of her belongings did, too."

[najaran]

"Then they'll remain here and they'll live on the train until it picks up another Cepter. Or the Goddess will see to them. Also..." she hesitated.

"Ah," Goligan said.

She nodded.

"Lady Najaran has a theory that her being on the train might actually stop the Black Cepters from taking over our world, specifically because it keeps her cards from them."

Najaran nodded a bit. She didn't like thinking about it, but if that was the only way she could help save her world, by staying away from it... and by getting the train to keep bringing her cards...

[mtsilver_conquor]

"That's a good theory," Eva says with a nod to Goligan.

"Yet..." She starts, pinning Najaran with a look. Does she like doing this? Nope. Is she? Yes. It's her Duty as Team Leader. "If they remain on the world and another Cepter finds them? One of the bad guys who then uses them against that world?"

She holds up her hand to forestall the other. "I'm not saying I know the answers to those questions. What I am saying is that you owe it your cards- they rely on you as much as you on them- to the beings within said cards that you so boldly claimed are living creatures like us, to stay alive and make it safely back to your world. And to do that, it means you wear the SCA on missions. It's seven days out of thirty and out of every mission we've had so far, only one had the forced evac."

[najaran]

"They would no more ask me to stay out of a fight to protect me than I'd ask them," she snapped, eyes narrowing. "What I owe them is respect and trust! Which is what they give me as well. Are we done here?"

[mtsilver_conquor]

Eva's eyes flash angrily at what seems willful ignorance to her, but if this child has to learn because of fire, then who is she to deny it. "I want you to think long and hard on what your Master would say if he were here on the train and have gone through what you have, as I doubt he'd agree with this foolhardy stance of yours."

Does she know that for sure? Not at all, but it is very much a card she's willing to try. "But yeah. We're done here."

And with that, Eva turns on her heel and heads off to see what the rest of the passengers are doing.

Thank you for the thread!

[najaran]

Najaran and Goligan exchanged a long look.

"Let's hope Master Horowitz never arrives here..." Goligan said.

Najaran shuddered, rubbing her arms. "Agreed. For lots of reasons." The world needed him right where he was for one. For another he'd make her practice more. And... she wasn't sure who on the train would actually be stupid enough to go after him if they felt this way about keeping her safe. She wasn't so much worried about what they'd do to him as what he could do to them... NOTHING on ANY world was as scary as her Master when he was angry! Brrr.