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[VIDEO .001 | username edward.elric]

[There are a few things Ed is quick to concern himself with upon arrival, and even though they certainly relate to "how the hell do I get back where I came from?" he's seen this play out enough times to know that asking that question directly is never likely to get results. At least not the ones he wants. He's well aware that this change of scenery isn't just some new challenge, because if it was there certainly wouldn't be any point to the mark outright disappearing, but it was gone. Which likely meant one thing, they were telling the truth - at least about one aspect of all this, and he was not in Muir anymore.]

Does anyone have any idea what's really going on here? Has anyone been doing any research on this place? Or been here long enough to know whether or not it is what they claim?

[Ed's skeptical about this whole situation, but cynicism wasn't enough to go on that something just wasn't right here. He had a hard time taking everything in that little introduction at face value.]

If we can just ask to be sent home given enough time, has anyone actually pulled it off?

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*She'll just give the blond a sorta weary look. She had as much reason to be wary of officials as anyone. But if you go into every place not trusting anything it makes you all twitchy and weird and she had enough issues.*

Nobody has tried to execute me for what I am. The local terrain hasn't tried to kill me either. The local wildlife is a perfectly normal sort and not trying to unmake reality. The food is good, and the people are nice.

I have been to a lot of places that were dangerous, this doesn't feel much like any of them. Although this is the first moon I've been to.

*What happened to him to get him this paranoid?*

[woah, woah, woah. Ed's going to stop you right there.]

People don't build walls for no reason, so either the terrain or the wildlife is probably not as innocent as you think.

[Yeah, he can tell you some stories but frankly he's not going to. Only because you haven't really asked and he doesn't know you. If the average person in this place had been through the things Ed had seen they'd probably wonder why he was being so calm in query.]

Oh, there are plenty of dangerous animals outside of the city. But they're totally normal dangerous. Not like- you leave them alone and the moon turns to a dusty lifeless boneyard dangerous. They're just big and scary and easily deterred with a lot of fire.

*Chandra has yet to meet a problem fire couldn't solve.*

Have you been outside the wall? Cause that's where I spend most of my time.

[Oh so flatly.]

I haven't had time to explore much of anything, considering I just got here. It'll be part of my job apparently, not much different from what I did before.

Well, maybe you should look around. But I haven't seen any of the locals... well, being oppressed. No people vanishing into the night without warning. No soldiers throwing their weight around.

*There's definitely some emotions at the edge of her face as she says all that. She's... smiling, just a bit, as she goes over all the ways people could be oppressed.*

If there was a lot of this city would be on fire.

You act like those are the only ways people could be messed with.

I haven't been here long, so no I haven't seen anything - but that's why I asked. To see if anyone else had. If this place is what they say it'll be a cake walk compared to some other possibilities.

[ By 'other possibilities' he's including the concept of worlds he's never been to, or even been aware of. He knew well enough that he didn't have it nearly as bad as some of the other people he'd met in the past. Even people from his own world were exposed to horrors he only knew of in stories, everyone's experience was unique and that was something he'd learned by force over the last few years. ]

I got oppressive governments, and if it was a reality distorting horror there'd be... um, reality distortions. Those are hard to hide.

What'd I miss?

*She's curious, because she'd been looking for a sign of, well, suffering when she arrived. But she was pretty quickly clear this place wasn't like Kaladesh. It wasn't even like Ravnica, that place had a sorta a weird tension like a barfight would start at any moment. If it was like Regatha the walls would need to be taller to deal with wildlife... what's this guy looking for?*

I guess you could call it reality distorting. Starving, but food doesn't satisfy you. Freezing, but fire isn't even warm to the touch. Gods, or so they call themselves with the power to block out the sun.

It's not all the time, most of it anyway. Everything's perfectly fine for a few works and you're going about your life, working or ... whatever you do. Then you wake up one day and everything's different. It lasts a week or two usually, then something else happens.

Maybe some day the wall comes down and a giant venomous reptile attacks the city.

Something like that.

*Excuse the wide eyed stare at all that, that's some impressive levels of power manipulation. But this is still more Jace or Lili's area of understanding, not her's.*

Most planes don't really have gods. I mean on Zendikar they were just beings that don't fully exist in reality that ate worlds. Well, I guess certain planeswalkers could pass themselves off as Gods... still, that sort of power isn't something I run into very often.

I wonder how the freezing thing would work on me...

They were powerful enough to control everyone they brought in, and that's about all they needed to be.

[She's saying a lot of stuff that would take some time to digest, but that wasn't something Ed was unused to at this point. Maybe another time Ed would question her about half the stuff she brought up in this conversation, when he wasn't so concerned with the bigger picture.]

Why's that? You immune to freezing or something?

That's how Lili described walkers from before... when they could make whole planes out of nothing.

*Centuries ago, well before Chandra's time, Liliana and the other walkers that old could do whatever they wanted in the world. Warp everything to their magic and whims. But Chandra had never seen this sort of power.*

Never tried it before. Maybe if I was unconscious I could freeze... but I doubt it.

*Chandra's hand burst into flames.*

[Ah, okay. He thinks he's following now.]

For starters, that wouldn't work. Sure, you could make fire still. We all could, in our fire places or ... whatever. It would just not provide any warmth. Being close to other people provided warmth...

Take me, for example-

[A pause as he considers how to explain this example without revealing too much. He hadn't decided how open to be about the automail in this new world yet.]

If I was stuck in a blizzard, I would be the first to get frostbite. I just get cold easier, it's part of ... being me. But this- curse, I guess you could call it. Me being near people made them warmer, even though under regular circumstances I'm cold to the touch. You could make fire still, but it only worked as a light... We had to rely on touching other people to stay warm. Not fire, or clothes, or blankets.

The way our bodies work normally didn't seem to matter.

Hmm... yeah, that's a really big magical undertaking. The sort of work needed to put that sort of curse in place is massive. Still, undermining my own magic so my flame isn't hot would be something I'd wanna play with.

And see if I can still burn them. Because I also just naturally produce heat. Cats love me.

*Her hand is still enveloped in fire. This is like the least on fire Chandra has ever been.*

It would be interesting, I could see that. I don't think we had anyone there that was like you, so it didn't... factor in. But, to be honest, I didn't know everyone there so it's hard to say from my limited knowledge.

Which is weird since I'm pretty sure there are plenty of fire shamans and pyromancers in the blind eternities. I'm far from the only one.

And it's not really worth pointing out you're only talking from your limited knowledge, that's all anyone gets to do.

Guess you're right about that.

Most people get surprised I can be right about stuff.

Well, no one can be wrong all the time. By default you must be right about something.

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