I don't know, but if someone's able to snatch me from...from worlds away so I can't even feel my Planet anymore? I have so many questions! I didn't think that was even a thing.
[She lifts the serpent high enough to peer at its face, and it stares back. Whatever answers she seems to want are definitely not found in the creature in her arms.]
I have no idea where I am, the world around me sounds so different, and yet... [She peers up at the canopy high above, at the great crystal wrapped in a tree older than any she'd ever seen. Her gaze turning back to Emet's, then.] I feel like I should know this place. It's so much louder here than it was back home.
I guess it fine if I tell, since you feel like... [She chews her lip, brows furrowing, her head slowly canting to the side.] I can't really describe it, other than you're more like me.
Back home I was the last of the Cetra. Human, but different. We could hear the Planet's voice, feel the Lifestream, care for it. We could cast magic even without materia. So because of that they kidnapped my mother and kept her in a lab; they wanted to know how to get to the Promised Land, to use mother's powers for their own reasons. See what made them tick, I guess.
Doesn't do them any good when the Promised Land is just returning to the Lifestream, but they had no idea. Then my mother died of her injuries and I was the last, but apparently I was a poorer specimen.
[She snorts, nose wrinkling as she stared down at the serpent again.]
I was worth picking apart even if apparently I only had...what did he say? Eighteen percent of my mother's capabilities or something? In the end we were just numbers to him. Toys to break, not people. He didn't even remember my name even though he murdered both my parents. It's a really long story, sorry! It's been a while since I had other people to talk to. Basically they thought they could take me apart and use my powers to somehow siphon the energy from the planet's Lifestream so they could get rich. Well, except for Hojo. He had some pretty sick ideas for experiments and really shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near other people, much less run a government science division.
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[She lifts the serpent high enough to peer at its face, and it stares back. Whatever answers she seems to want are definitely not found in the creature in her arms.]
I have no idea where I am, the world around me sounds so different, and yet... [She peers up at the canopy high above, at the great crystal wrapped in a tree older than any she'd ever seen. Her gaze turning back to Emet's, then.] I feel like I should know this place. It's so much louder here than it was back home.
I guess it fine if I tell, since you feel like... [She chews her lip, brows furrowing, her head slowly canting to the side.] I can't really describe it, other than you're more like me.
Back home I was the last of the Cetra. Human, but different. We could hear the Planet's voice, feel the Lifestream, care for it. We could cast magic even without materia. So because of that they kidnapped my mother and kept her in a lab; they wanted to know how to get to the Promised Land, to use mother's powers for their own reasons. See what made them tick, I guess.
Doesn't do them any good when the Promised Land is just returning to the Lifestream, but they had no idea. Then my mother died of her injuries and I was the last, but apparently I was a poorer specimen.
[She snorts, nose wrinkling as she stared down at the serpent again.]
I was worth picking apart even if apparently I only had...what did he say? Eighteen percent of my mother's capabilities or something? In the end we were just numbers to him. Toys to break, not people. He didn't even remember my name even though he murdered both my parents. It's a really long story, sorry! It's been a while since I had other people to talk to. Basically they thought they could take me apart and use my powers to somehow siphon the energy from the planet's Lifestream so they could get rich. Well, except for Hojo. He had some pretty sick ideas for experiments and really shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near other people, much less run a government science division.