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[corundrum]

[A ponderous, quiet sound of crystal tinkling against crystal comes through the feed for a moment or two before someone takes over. It's a deep, androgynous voice, calm and somewhat light, as if with no concerns to speak of.]

I think that display earlier in the month taught us all a little bit more about these "talents" we grasp in coming to this world, huh? But I wonder if anyone knows even more than that yet. Do you think Dreamfolk past have written about this for us?

A strange thing happened recently, too. I felt as if I'd been leaving aside this so-called talent of mine, almost...but in my absence from it, it seems to have become ten times as powerful. It seems like even a neglected talent can flower unexpectedly.

Now I'm wondering whether all the people training so hard earlier this month know that as well. [There's a slight, rolling laugh before the message ends, with another shimmering sound like falling ice.]

Comments

[powertotearer]

Not so much that, but...well, I don't know if I'd even be able to control this. Or where I'd even start. Is there a way to turn off a Talent? I barely have to think about what I'm doing in order to use it.

[corundrum]

Trying to turn it off without knowing any way of controlling it seems a little hasty to me.

[Keep it away by force, and it might just find a way to break through regardless.]

[powertotearer]

I...I guess.

I just don't like not having control over something that's happening to me. Or because of me.

[corundrum]

I don't think anyone likes that, really. But it's something that's rarely possible to avoid.

[Even in their own small, isolated world, they had had no control over things like who the Moon People chose to take away.]

Dwelling on something prevents you from truly thinking about it.

[powertotearer]

I guess I don't know how to truly think about things, then.

[corundrum]

It's something that takes time to learn, and living things have precious little of that. It's why my suggestions to you can only ever be that.

[Padparadscha doesn't know the priorities of living things, or even just things that have a lifespan so much shorter than theirs. It's a difficult divide to bridge.]

[powertotearer]

Living things?

[corundrum]

Surely you've figured out by now that I'm not the same kind of being as you, little one.

[That silvery sound comes down the feed again, the sliding of crystal against crystal.]