Day 1: Complications
Characters: Jade Curtiss, Vandesdelca Fende (closed)
Location: on the way to the Fonic Academy, Grand Chokmah
Time: morning, day 1
Warnings: none yet
Sleep over the last night had been a luxury Jade had indulged in for one hour. No more, no less. The only reason he'd gotten any at all is because he did not want to risk even the smallest bit losing any edge to sleep deprivation. Other than that, he'd been analyzing the data he'd gotten from the tests he had run on "Blade," writing notes on spare paper about the things that stood out the most and anything that came to mind as to what in this world seemed to correlate with it.
The plain fact of the matter was that Jade was almost shocked this person hadn't dissolved into a spray of Seventh Fonons ages ago. Almost. He'd monitored Blade (for Jade didn't want to think of him as "Luke" any longer) nearly right into dawn, and his fonon levels were...well, the textbook example of "unstable." There was no decipherable pattern in how strong or weak his fonons were; sometimes it seemed like only hope and ignorance keeping them from separating completely, and other times they were so strong it was like he was superhuman.
Either way, his body showed too many weak points (rather like Luke's early fighting style, Jade's cynical side noted), and consequently too much interaction with outside forces would be dangerous--he might be absorbed into something else as part of the contamination effect, or might simply break up and vanish. It was for his own health that he should be isolated whenever possible, as soon as possible. Still...the others didn't know this yet. If only because of that, Jade let Blade leave without telling him anything. He knew Guy would be going to see him as well. Better to let that meeting happen while he takes care of the messy details.
Speaking on that subject, Jade had noticed lately that fonon levels hadn't been dropping as steadily as he'd originally predicted, after they had stopped the Planet Storm. He'd thankfully come up with the idea right after the fall of Eldrant of measuring this by casting a cycle of fonic artes each day, and marking down their power level based on the concentration of fonons and their effect on the environment as judged by equipment at the Fonic Academy. It would give the Colonel a far more accurate frame of reference for his now-necessary research than if he'd started that all only recently. True, he'd told the others that not much would happen in the first couple of years, but it had already been a couple of years, and there should be more than this. If Blade were indeed from another world, and he came through with unstable fonons...
There was also the fact that his fonic frequency was that of Lorelei's. Jade had a strong hunch that whatever happened had a lot to do with Lorelei's release into the fon belt, though he didn't think that was all there was to it. He'd actually thought back to the time when Asch and Luke had created the hyperresonance from the top of the Tower of Rem--a tower that, according to legend, was originally built in a revolutionary plan to evacuate to another planet if necessary... Well, that idea Jade didn't much fancy, because there was one person who was there around that time who might have have some information about that, who was in Grand Chokmah and perfectly available for questioning at any time--and also one of the people Jade liked talking to the least.
He'd get to it eventually. For now, he had to bring this data to the Fonic Academy to run further tests, for example if there would be any other people from Blade's world crossing over, or if this was an isolated event--and if there was any way to reverse the process. Jade had to give the Academy credit: though it wasn't a military institution, their equipment and facilities were top notch. Having graduated from the school as valedictorian and done the school credit with all his accomplishments--and donations--gave him so many perks that it would be a crime not to use them.
Location: on the way to the Fonic Academy, Grand Chokmah
Time: morning, day 1
Warnings: none yet
Sleep over the last night had been a luxury Jade had indulged in for one hour. No more, no less. The only reason he'd gotten any at all is because he did not want to risk even the smallest bit losing any edge to sleep deprivation. Other than that, he'd been analyzing the data he'd gotten from the tests he had run on "Blade," writing notes on spare paper about the things that stood out the most and anything that came to mind as to what in this world seemed to correlate with it.
The plain fact of the matter was that Jade was almost shocked this person hadn't dissolved into a spray of Seventh Fonons ages ago. Almost. He'd monitored Blade (for Jade didn't want to think of him as "Luke" any longer) nearly right into dawn, and his fonon levels were...well, the textbook example of "unstable." There was no decipherable pattern in how strong or weak his fonons were; sometimes it seemed like only hope and ignorance keeping them from separating completely, and other times they were so strong it was like he was superhuman.
Either way, his body showed too many weak points (rather like Luke's early fighting style, Jade's cynical side noted), and consequently too much interaction with outside forces would be dangerous--he might be absorbed into something else as part of the contamination effect, or might simply break up and vanish. It was for his own health that he should be isolated whenever possible, as soon as possible. Still...the others didn't know this yet. If only because of that, Jade let Blade leave without telling him anything. He knew Guy would be going to see him as well. Better to let that meeting happen while he takes care of the messy details.
Speaking on that subject, Jade had noticed lately that fonon levels hadn't been dropping as steadily as he'd originally predicted, after they had stopped the Planet Storm. He'd thankfully come up with the idea right after the fall of Eldrant of measuring this by casting a cycle of fonic artes each day, and marking down their power level based on the concentration of fonons and their effect on the environment as judged by equipment at the Fonic Academy. It would give the Colonel a far more accurate frame of reference for his now-necessary research than if he'd started that all only recently. True, he'd told the others that not much would happen in the first couple of years, but it had already been a couple of years, and there should be more than this. If Blade were indeed from another world, and he came through with unstable fonons...
There was also the fact that his fonic frequency was that of Lorelei's. Jade had a strong hunch that whatever happened had a lot to do with Lorelei's release into the fon belt, though he didn't think that was all there was to it. He'd actually thought back to the time when Asch and Luke had created the hyperresonance from the top of the Tower of Rem--a tower that, according to legend, was originally built in a revolutionary plan to evacuate to another planet if necessary... Well, that idea Jade didn't much fancy, because there was one person who was there around that time who might have have some information about that, who was in Grand Chokmah and perfectly available for questioning at any time--and also one of the people Jade liked talking to the least.
He'd get to it eventually. For now, he had to bring this data to the Fonic Academy to run further tests, for example if there would be any other people from Blade's world crossing over, or if this was an isolated event--and if there was any way to reverse the process. Jade had to give the Academy credit: though it wasn't a military institution, their equipment and facilities were top notch. Having graduated from the school as valedictorian and done the school credit with all his accomplishments--and donations--gave him so many perks that it would be a crime not to use them.