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001 🔖 Crystal Broadcast ~ The Gullwings Reborn

[The voice that calls through the crystal is happy and energetic and... maybe a little too loud at first. These aren't like Shinra's commsphere's and she's still getting used to it.]

Yuna here!

I wanted to introduce myself but I also wanted to announce the formation of "Your friendly neighborhood gullwings!"

We're here for any odd jobs you have. We'll be protecting the city and exploring beyond the walls. I hope to bring back information and learn a little bit about this place and maybe why we were brought here. Anyone is welcome to join the Gullwings or these adventures. It might be dangerous so make sure you have a way to protect yourself if you want to go out there with me.

If I find anything I thought I'd bring it to the Hysterium? Is that what it's called? [Her voice gets softer and it doesn't sound like she's talking to the crystal.

After a pause, her voice gets louder again.]

Anyway. I'm really excited to meet you all. I can't wait to meet you.

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Yes. I sometimes jump into things without always thinking them through. It isn't on purpose but people need help and I can't stop myself. I think we all have something like that, you know? And that's why a team is important. Not just for me but for all of us, we need people who balance us and friends.

We'll all protect each other.

[She smiles as she explains more than he'd probably asked for. Yuna is a lot of things but she isn't good at hiding how deeply she cares for others. She also isn't a very good liar.]

If you'd like to join, could I ask you to be in charge of the exploration in the city? And if you need help, you can call on me. I don't think anyone will do just one thing but all work together to pursue what we think is best.

I can certainly understand that? It’s not a compulsion one can fight easily. I admit I’ve yet to do so, much to the chagrin of my own team at home. But they put up with it anyway, and they back me up in a similar fashion.

That’s what a team should be, at its heart. A group of like-minded individuals that can balance each other out.

[He responded with a softer smile. Now he’s a wee bit homesick, if only because to him the team was practically family. They were like a second pod to him, especially when work had taken him farther from the shores he grew up on.

The offer of course warms him up to the idea of joining a little more,]

Yeah? Well that would be a little more of my speed to start, I’m more at home exploring city settings than I am forests and fields. I’d offer to help with the seas but the docks are in a sorry state, a team might not have as much luck going that way.

[But the city would give him a chance to figure out a little more on how this place worked, and give him a feel for what people might join them. Then... Then maybe he might offer more, but until then Caelan would continue to be cautious about sharing his other abilities.]

[Yuna smiles, her mismatched eyes warming at the agreement.]

I think so too. My cousin was with me on the Gullwings but even if we hadn't been family, they were all close to me. I miss them but I know that they're doing okay, wherever they are now.

[Rikku and Paine, Brother, Buddy, Barkeep and Shinra: they will keep going and keep Spira safe until she gets back. Yuna can't help but feel a little homesick too but she's sure she'll see her world and her family again. This is her story and it's going to go how she wants it.]

It actually might be best if we both explore the city to start. If this is to be our home, for now, we should make sure it's safe for those who aren't used to fighting. [Yuna's grin tilts into a bit of a smirk as a silver burst of magical energy gathers in the palm of her hand. The magic shapes itself into the form of a gun before becoming solid, silver and metal.] And don't worry, I got your back. I always protect my friends.

[Because they were friends now, right?]

That’s the nice thing about working with capable people, you know they’ll be likely to still function well enough without you around, yeah?

[He’s hoping so, anyway. Caelan had been in the middle of a heist when he’d been scooped up and brought here, and hadn’t gotten to the meet point to see if everyone was all fine and accounted for. They probably were, but he disliked not having a chance to see everything through to that point.]

I’m glad you think so, I’ve heard and seen a few curious things since I arrived. I think it’d be sensible to start working out what might be going on in a few places, and to see what the boundaries for safety are for those who might go wandering around.

[Caelan’s eyes dart curiously to the light, a surprised smile spreading across his face at the display. Another human with magic, and quite interesting magic at that... Very useful magic considering her ambitions.]

Well isn’t that a particularly impressive talent, you’re definitely well-equipped for exploring, aren’t you?

[Well... He wouldn’t deny being friends, they’re at least well on their way to it. It just takes a little time for someone to properly earn his trust. Especially those who were human. Yuna seemed like an earnest sort of person, and fun. He liked that a lot, if they worked well together, and she proved to indeed have his back? Yes, they’d be good friends.]

I definitely look forward to the chance to work with such a capable sorceress!

I think so too.

[She's really excited to know that they're thinking along the same lines. It's nice to have like minded people around and Yuna already really liked Caelen.]

I am. I have explored all of Spira and I hope to explore all of this world too. You never know what you might find.

[Yuna's cheeks flushed.]

Well. Not a sorceress exactly but I have a few different types of magic. I first learned white magic, to heal, when I was growing up in the temple.

[If there was one thing that Caelan had been very interested in since arriving, it was the fact that many humans seemed to come from worlds where magic was more common to them. Even in his own, humans and magic were a rarer thing. Not entirely uncommon, but not just anyone had it. Those with it in their family were usually due to there being actual faerie folk in their bloodlines. Others were gifted by those with power, or had borrowed it from deals with those of the magical community.

So this was all a very new, every interesting experience. It also made it easier to pretend he didn’t know much about magic at all when dealing with magics he hadn’t come across before.]

Not a sorceress exactly...? Forgive me, what would that make you then? Your world sounds very interesting, Una. To know more than one kind of magic?

Or magic at all, I suppose.

[Her expression softens as she begins to speak about her home and Spira as a whole.]

There are people who can access the magic around them and shape it in various ways but my training was different. I was born with the talent, like my father before me, and I became a summoner. Summoners are practitioners of the dead and able to manipulate many types of magic.

The magic I use now is from one of ShinRa's inventions that allow me to do the same thing but instead of pulling it from my own life, I take it from this sphere.

[She pulls out the sphere-grid and shows Caelen the water magical orbs set into the metal machina that allows her to access the sphere's magic with ease.]

This was made just for me.

[Caelan listened with interest, this was all very different from magic as he knew it. Especially different from magic that humans could do in his world. In a way, it wasn’t a surprise. Different worlds likely meant different ways of magic and systems, but it was still fascinating.

His eyes ran over the sphere-grid with some obvious curiosity, he can get a light sense of the magic in it, the element in it. Like tended to call to like, even in other forms after all. It’s still very unfamiliar, so he looked up with a little hum.]

What a strange and interesting system...? [A pause, as there’s something nagging at his brain.] If this is to prevent you pulling magic from your own life, where does this magic come from then?

This comes from Spira.

[Her expression falls into a stoic pain as she recounts what she'd heard in the forest; in that spot that she'd held so dear to her heart.]

It grows.

But the magic has been weakened. Ever since the Faith were finally allowed to rest. Magic comes from life. I don't know how much longer my world will have magic. I am the final High Summoner and I will likely be the last to wield the summoners magic. The teachings aren't needed and machina have begun to replace traditional methods.

I’m sorry, that’s very sad for your world... I imagine that’s a difficult thing to come to terms with.

[Magic always needed some form of price, and a balance. The fae had certain obligations to make sure the balance remained, and not all of them were pleasant when the need came around. So many humans had very little idea of what was going on in their world, and what the balance did for them. Even some fae had been getting a touch complacent in recent years.

And so much in his world, of fae kind, relied on it to even exist. Were there creatures and beings of magic in Yuna’s land? Caelan would have liked to ask further, but... that could get to be rather telling. So he lets the matter rest, and focused instead on the other thing she’d said.]

Machina...? Like mechanical things, inventions? My world has been progressing a lot with such things in recent years.

[Yuna shakes her head.]

It's alright. I have fought for Spira and while it's sad... everything will fade in time. I will miss them... the people connected to the woods and I want to try and keep them alive but I'm only one person and the world has changed and grown, just as we do.

[Her smile becomes wistful but warm.]

Yes. They aren't common everywhere but they've gotten more common and cities have finally had the chance to rebuild. Everything is changing but... that's why I don't mind being here so much.

[If Yuna didn’t sound so sad about it, if she hadn’t admitted to wanting to do something for the people connected to ‘Spira,’ Caelan might have shifted in moods. He didn’t like hearing about situations like that, where worlds changed to the point entire peoples were lost. Nothing was forever, even for the fae, but there were some ends that were harder to swallow than others.]

This place is definitely a little more magical than mechanical from what I’ve seen, though I wonder if that has something to do with the need to bring people here to build things. Progress without those to generate it tends to stagnate.

[Not that he’s complaining. Caelan had found he fit in to the place rather well, inconvenience of being picked straight out of a job and finding himself away from his friends aside. Aside from the forges (too much ironwork), he felt comfortable enough roaming around.]

I don't know. The magic here is different from what I am used too. I hope to learn more as we explore... right, I only have more questions.

[It's hard not to be sad when her friends disappear but Yuna knows that it happens. Death has always been apart of Spira and while she's fought against it, she hadn't been able to save everyone... not even those most important to her.]

We'll find out more and maybe those answers will teach us something too.

[Magic here was very strange. Not that he could comment on that, but the strange misty boarders around the city in the forests and out near the reefs in the waters were unsettling. He didn’t like feeling like he was in a fishbowl, which was what it was. For all the space they were given, it still felt very contained to him.]

Hopefully, though I expect we’ll end up with more questions before we find proper answers.

Probably but we'll have some answers and no matter what, we'll be moving forward.

[She smiles confidently at Caelan.]

And I'm happy that you'll be by my side when we do.

Forward is certainly the only option here, can’t go backward if there’s nothing behind ya.

[He grinned though, he liked her confidence. It would bode well for whatever came next.]

I certainly look forward to joining, I’ll offer what help I can. Do keep me updated on when you’re ready, and in the mean time I’ll see if I can’t find something useful beforehand.

I will. Thank you Caelan.

[She smiles.]

We'll speak again soon.

You’re quite welcome, I look forward to hearing from you soon.

[He responded with another little dramatic bow, before turning to take his leave.]

Take care, Yuna. I expect we have some excitement on the horizon.

[He departed then, moving away and humming an old sea tune to himself.]

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