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Geez, this place really is quirky. Just when you think the glitches stop, there's something new to distract you. That's what all this is, don't you think? In the last world I was in of this nature, the illusion was that we were students enrolled in school and had to attend classes as well as return to our dorms at night. It was just something we did and while there were social events to fill up our time, in the end it was a distraction from what it truly is.

I've been trying to break this place, but that's a difficult task when you have no idea where the cracks are. Troublesome really.

[ Propping her head up lazily, she'll ask with a raised brow: ] I suppose none of you have had any better luck, have you?

If you can't answer that, why not tell me about your Digimon? I rather not talk to them since they're nothing like Servants, but if you insist on being a dumb coward, I'd have little choice. Maybe one of them can answer the question about what this place really is.

[ Isn't she the most PLEASANT person to talk with? Yes, yes she is. ]

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[fuhrinkaed]

...five? No, I've got uh... six basic elements, a lot of minor elements though really I've only ever seen Cass use those and some more basic, non-elemental techniques that are limited but easier to use.

The big ones are Light and Darkness, Wind and Earth, and Fire and Water. Each controls things that are related to it, as well... like how Darkness also controls gravity and nonexistence or Fire controls passion and drive.

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Huh, Light and Darkness?

[ Now that's interesting. She's never heard of that as an actual element. ] No Wood or Ether--but explain this concept of Light and Darkness. It controls gravity, does it have to do with space?

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Uh... Darkness is... [It takes him a moment to remember it all.]

Darkness controls shadows and stuff like you'd expect, but it also is the void--absence of everything--and the forces that bind the universe together like gravity. Its Sealholder has a really crazy power that lets her travel through the nothing-space between shadows, and actually harnesses it to see the forces that bind other stuff together. She's kind of scary.

Light is basically what you'd expect--creation, life, and light itself. Its Sealholder is still just a little girl, but she can convert herself into light and make illusions as well as turn the light of anything into laser beams. Really powerful ones too... Oh, and she's really fast.

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Just because someone is associated with darkness doesn't make them scary... Really, it's the light you should be worried about. [ Hmph. ] Doesn't it reveal everything lurking in the shadows in an attempt to scare you further?

Yeah, light's the real enemy here.

[ Rin's gone terribly off-topic, but only in an attempt to slow him down while her mind digests this new information. Light. Darkness. Nifty! ]

[fuhrinkaed]

Well, but that's not right either.

Too much darkness is bad, but so is too much light. The world needs balance--a mix of everything. To say that any one thing is the enemy is to misunderstand how life's supposed to work.

...N-no offense.

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[ She might have been upset at being told essentially that she was wrong if he didn't exactly prove that she was with her words. ]

Hoh, so someone here really gets it... That archaic type of magecraft is strange, but you still believe in it even when you're away from home. So tell me this: would you keep this world shrouded in a bit of darkness just because it needs the balance?

[fuhrinkaed]

Well, yeah. If the world was all light all the time it'd be every bit as bad as if everything was darkness. Most people sleep in the dark, and everyone needs to do that. Besides... while too much darkness can be scary because you're not able to see anything and lost in a void, too much light is scary because it burns your eyes and keeps you from being comfortable.

The key is that all the elements are in balance with each other, and they work in this big harmonious circle thing. And problems occur when people try to break out of that circle--like what's going on here. Something's out of balance, and we just need to figure out what so we can fix it.