just this once, everybody lives!

[sageprincess]

Characters: Everyone.
Setting: Anywhere.
Format: Party style.
Summary: Post-Ex Machina catch-all mingle.
Warnings: See individual threads.

[After a long, drawn out battle, the infiltration team returns to the residential portion of the Tower, weary, battered... but victorious. Some catching up is in order.]

Comments

[warriorscribe]

We have the machine. We don't know what Riki was doing with it, but we have the device that can help Zo restore our worlds.

*The tired-sounding response comes from a cushion on the floor, on which Enoch has curled up; now that he's not watching Naoya like a hawk he's letting the relief and adrenaline crash ease him into proper rest.*

[neverbeamemory]

[He rests elbows back on the note-strewn tabletop and uses both hands under his hair to try to get rid of the tension in the back of his neck. Idly, Sephiroth's gaze rests across the table and towards the floor space on which Enoch is occupied as the other man speaks.]

And so it's claimed for Aria's resistance. I suppose we are all on the cusp of all the truth now, as a result.

[He's still not all that secure within himself, whether World restoration is really a viable option and Sephiroth is still too tired to attempt to try and hide that fact. But the energy draining that the rest of the Tower had been subjected to, had been vital enough for him to haul himself up here at least, despite his deep reservations.]

[warriorscribe]

*There's nothing but a yawn at first in response.*

If not truth, then safety. We must...keep Ruana from being able to simply destroy them again somehow. Imprisonment or power nullification...

[neverbeamemory]

[Yawns are contagious, Sephiroth turns his head downwards and rests his forehead on the table while he tries then fails to stifle his own. He tries to shake it off before looking back up to Enoch's position again.]

Destroy them?

[He thinks Enoch means the worker units, but just to be sure-]

[warriorscribe]

The worlds. She destroyed them in the first place...simply setting them back to rights won't protect us.

*It's funny, how he can say that while still curled up on this cushion like he's about to fall asleep.*

[neverbeamemory]

[Ruana being the virus that had killed off their worlds is a popular theory and one Sephiroth used to spend a lot of time considering. It had been pushed so far to the background though when he had developed his own escape plan. There was little point considering old, dead worlds if there were new ones available.

Sephiroth blinks back more sleep as well as he considers Enoch, he should just not reply- then he'd just fall asleep. But it's rare thoughts are so transparently expressed.]

What proof do you have of that?

[It's always, been about proof with him.]

[warriorscribe]

*In Enoch's state, it's kind of funny to him. He can't help but crack a smile. What proof? How about the proof that's been there for a good while before you "pulled your little stunt" with everyone's souls?

Instead of being quite rude and saying this, however (which is good because he has no idea Sephiroth was spending all that time preparing), he props himself up on an elbow and points at the wall of research his team had found.*

Dax's research.

[neverbeamemory]

So that's what it is.

[He's noticed the wall of research before, but never really asked anyone or formed much of an opinion with regard to it's origins. There are bits of it that stood out to him when pondering a solution to their energy-problem. Notes on CHIPS. Notes on MACHINE.

The RESEARCH section of the wall was interesting enough but Sephiroth hasn't had any reason to personally ponder on it at all; until very recently he hasn't spent a significant amount of time on this floor at all. Intra-universe metaphysics isn't something he's got much of an idea about after all, despite how similar theories he has already might be expanded to fit them. To do with souls, to do with Glamour.

Now that he knows it's apparently Dax's research, Sephiroth narrows eyes at that Wall for a long moment before looking once more back to Enoch. The other man is probably asleep by now, though.

He won't mention, he knows how much Enoch is a zealot in his faith in Dax; that it might not be the truth nor the whole of it even if it were. It certainly left more questions than answers revealed.]