[Two days into Fridge Liminal]

[professorwolf]

Sorry to bother everyone, but I'm having a bit of a problem. Some of you may know I picked up a somewhat awkward but sometimes useful ability in the city of Melasurei-- I occasionally get flashes of the future in brief, context-less visions. And right now that ability won't leave me alone.

It's the same thing every time: standing on one side of a glass wall, with several others on the other side, unable to reach us-- there are hands pressed to it on either side, but it's impermeable.

I have never actually seen anything metaphorical before, it's always an exact representation of something that may happen. So... I'm wondering if anyone's seen a glass wall around here? Or run into one, I suppose, seeing as it may be a bit hard to see. And if we haven't... perhaps we'd best keep an eye out for one.

And before anyone asks, no, it's not the shelves in the giant refrigerator. I know what those look like.

Comments

[theflyingone]

Perhaps in the next change in environment we will see this glass wall. This sounds like it will be more durable than glass, however. What do you suppose it is made of?

[ How can they break it? ]

[professorwolf]

Plexiglass, or safety glass, or clear plastic, or whatever they make windows on the space shuttle out of... or some clear creation from a time well beyond mine, for that matter. It could even be solidified energy, for all I know. I do know it doesn't hurt to touch it, no one is flinching back.

[theflyingone]

[ So much for the "how". He tried for the "why". ]

Why would they separate us? To conquer? But we are already taken... Were we divided evenly in your vision?

[professorwolf]

I only saw a few faces, so I can't guess how evenly we're divided... I'm on one side, Hajime is on the other. So is Naoki. My pack, I think, is mostly with me... except for Hajime.

I don't have any sense that there's any great danger, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

[theflyingone]

[ Nothing bodes well at this point. Altaïr is all too familiar with how danger can hide in the most innocuous places. He does so himself. ]

Do you know why Hajime was singled out?

[professorwolf]

I don't believe he was, precisely. He's just one face I see on the other side, the clearest one. Probably because he is my pack, and so he's rather important to me in particular. There are others, though.

[theflyingone]

Was there any difference between one side or the other? Were you in more danger, for example, or was he?

[professorwolf]

No, not that I could tell. I wasn't worried about either of us, at any rate. I get the impression, really, that we're in the same place, just separated.

[theflyingone]

Can you hear each other?

[professorwolf]

None of us are talking in the vision, I'm afraid, so... I don't know.

[theflyingone]

Very well. Thank you for telling everyone of this. I will make a note, but... I do not know what to make of it all.

[professorwolf]

I'm afraid I don't, either. Usually these things come because I'm supposed to do something about them. I can't see what there might be that I can do, here.