Free Worlds

[ketaro]

This wasn't getting him anywhere fast. Although he wasn't in the mood to go fast anyways. Something in the corner of his eye now caught his attention. Turning his head to look back, a rather bright light seemed to have appeared back in the direction of the ruins, not actually too far behind him. Well it's not like he'd taken the time to searth the place so of course he must have missed something, two somethings apparently. A second Alberio now appeared and was quickly shooed off towards the direction of that light behind him. While the real Al continued to float towards the city, backwards now, at much the same pace as earlier, the illusionary Al headed back to check out the light and whatever made it, incase it was something hostile of course. No need to endanger himself.

[Ninmast]

"Uh-huh!" the child nodded enthusiastically. "Lots of stuff! Code-breakers and lock-pickers and short-range radios! And Tetris! But I can't tell you any of that because a Purifier's gauntlet is classified above the level a Carbon is permitted!" That she had just told him seemed to be completely missed by her cheerful disposition.

She suddenly looked ahead and pointed like a girl in the circus. "Oh, look, mister! A floating man!"

[shinaobi]

"What do you mean, a floating ma--" trailed Caelus, his eyes tracing the invisible line created by Beta's finger. He immediately jumped in between the floating man and the girl, and, as he shifted into a ready stance, his arms began to radiate the faint blue glow of his own personal form of supernatural power.

"Listen up, demon. I'm not fooled by this crappy disguise of yours, so I'd appreciate it if you would save us both a lot of trouble and drop the disguise before we get this started, though I would be more than happy enough to beat it off of you."

[ketaro]

"Hmm? Disguise? Demon? Well aren't you an interesting one." the illusionary copy of the floating hooded figure made sure to remain off the ground and out of reach of Caelus, chuckling a bit at his 'welcome' as well. "Hellooo," he said and waved casually at the two. "Ignoring that bit about demons and such, would either of you two happen to know, uh, hmm. How do I put this? Country? Yes, what country is this? Oh, right, also, are you hostile? I'm just rather not up for a new game quite yet, so it'd be nice if you were friendlies, maybe?"

[Ninmast]

"I'm friendly!" Beta chirped cheerfully, her wrist clearly identifiable as the light source he had spotted. "We don't know where we are, either, so we figured we'd just walk toward town! Where are you, anyway?"

The way she said it made something clear that she hadn't even mentioned to Caelus: She could tell the "Magnificent Floating Man" was just a side attraction.

[ketaro]

Well that helped things little he thought. He noted that her wrist seemed to be the source of the light he'd spotted, however being unable to identify it as magical he left it at that. He clapped his hands together once, enjoying this girl's cheerfulness. "Well then! That wasn't helpful at all. As for where I am....oh, well, you're even more interesting than the fellow there." Al made a small gesture towards Caelus at that and now gave up all interest in him. Floating down closer to Beta, he turned about and pointed seemingly randomly at a spot a bit ahead of them and in the air. "Can you see me? I am actually only a little bit ahead of you. What? A hundred feet at best? I don't know, I'm not good with distances. Oh, I'm waving at me, us."

A short distance ahead of them, the real Al was indeed waving at himself, and Beta. However he wasn't exactly expecting Beta to be able to spot him as it was certainly quite dark right now, and to simply make things harder, he had also turned himself invisible. Well, he was only wanting to know just how well this girl's sight was afterall. She did manage to figure out his illusion in a single glance apparently, or was he assuming too much?

[Ninmast]

The girl looked ahead and peered into the darkness. Indeed, she would have been able to see him if he hadn't been invisible, but still she was able to detect the readings of a Carbon ahead. "Ooooh, you're using another trick, aren't you?" she asked eagerly, like a child being shown a streetside magic trick. "'Cuz I can tell you're there, but you're hiding from my eyes!"

[ketaro]

"My are you interesting! Oh, but I've been delaying for too long now. Ahem." Al certainly made quick time as only seconds later he appeared before the girl, dropping his invisibility as well as dismissing the illusion of himself that had been interacting with her so far. He bowed before her, adding some unnecessary flourish to it, then proceeded to introduce himself in a much too cheerful tone. "A wonderful pleasure to meet you miss. I would be known as Alberio 'theonewhopreferstobecalledAlbutyoucancallmeanythingyouwish'. How about yourself?"

[Ninmast]

The child giggled at the show, clapping her hands excitedly. "That's great! I'm Beta," she introduced herself with a bob of her head. "It's nice to meet you!"