[Special 009: Voice] The inheritance of power
[To those who know her, or those attuned to it, Ami's voice seems to be struggling with its composure. The reason isn't evident at first; it's a straightforward question of the sort making the rounds lately.]I've been speaking with Hermione about magic in different worlds. We wondered who comes from worlds where magic power is hereditary, or from
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... And it figures that the Malnosso would kick her when she was down, if she had been. Aino Minako? Robert remembers her, vaguely, as one of Ami's very close friends - and the tremor in Ami's voice betrays that in a way that Robert can just about tell.
At first, he doesn't betray his own feelings, just answers.]
... My multiverse has no such thing as magic, as far as I was aware of.
... An experiment here in Luceti seemed to confirm this, if you would be... c-curious to hear of it, Doctor Mizuno...?
[Well, okay, "not betraying" isn't quite the right term for it. More like... not acknowledging out loud. The shake in his own voice says how he feels well enough, anyway. Says that he's sorry for being silent for the past week, for not making a better attempt to find her, for withdrawing into himself again like he used to do whenever he was terrified of everything. That he's sorry he won't be ( ... )
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Can you miss something that you don't remember even happening? Because, if not, Robert is pre-emptively missing all of his friends here. His mind is recoiling in horror at the very prospect.]
There must be some complex physics at work behind that phenomenon...
... I wish I knew more about this. But I suppose that everybody wishes that, because were we to know more about this situation, then perhaps we could actually escape it.
... But I will not stop trying to obtain answers, here. That is the only way that we can ever get out of this situation of our own accord... by understanding it and then finding some way to surmount it.
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[Her voice sounds slightly dull. So much had depended on it, so much pain and suffering that could have been averted, freedom that could have been claimed earlier but ended up only a tantalizing taste.]
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... The fact that you did not shows that this is something that is far beyond any sort of simple issue with recollection. It is almost like a complete... erasure of the time spent here. As if it never existed at all.
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But generally, events don't spontaneously cease to exist. [Though under quantum mechanics, things could spontaneously exist and not-exist...
... Is this some kind of quantum mechanical aberration, then?]
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[She's always felt that if the Malnosso could be taken out (of the equation, she hastens to clarify her meaning to herself), they'd have the time and resources to puzzle out the rest enough to get themselves home.]
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Stopping the Malnosso from doing their barbaric "experimenting" would certainly be beneficial to everybody.
I, for one, would be glad for the reprieve. Though I seriously doubt there's anybody that wouldn't be.
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