And then Luke figured out Insight [Jaunt]

[returnofme]

Hi. This is Luke. I've got some news. First the good (I think) news: I got in contact with the Walkabout, although I could only talk for a couple minutes before I got cut off. Like Lyall said, they're in Sarmatia. There's only three of them now who're Investigating. The rest are Infiltrating. Cassandra says there's some people--'Americans?'--shooting a 'movie' about vampires and werewolves, but the real ones just want them to go away. They still aren't sure what they're supposed to do there.

I filled her in a little about everything that's going on here. When I mentioned Nevermore's 'Edgelord' title, she said that evidently Devil's been called that before, so I don't know if that means that Devil is mixed up in this too. She did say something else interesting, though. There was another Investigator there, Melissa, that she hasn't seen all week. And I know through my work for Agent Jules that Malik's wife Melissa just woke up from her coma.

I also asked about Raidou and Lupa. None of them know who Raidou is, but Cassandra's seen Lupa and he's an Infiltrator again. So that might be what happened with Melissa? Since it sounds like she might be our Melissa.

So that's the news from the Walkabout.

The other news is that, well, I tried to use the Force to help me gain insight into everything going on here. I didn't get any insight through the Force... but I think my Mark just told me something. And I know that sounds ridiculous... but it's true.

It told me that Malik was actually complicit with 'Auriel's' most recent schemes... because he wants to be in charge of human-Pogemon relations. So... I think this might be what the Emperor meant when he was telling people that 'chaos can't be a servant of order.'

Comments

[professorwolf]

[There's a moment's pause, then a somewhat contrite, somewhat reluctant:]

My apologies. I'm rather on edge right now. I feel badly blaming Lethid, but all this news recently has really upset him, and there may be a little bleed-through since we're both sharing the same brain right now. It's no excuse, but at least it might explain it a little.

[seestheworld]

It's okay, really.

...And that entire situation has to be really weird for both of you even without this whole mess.

[professorwolf]

It really has. It's a useful situation to be in, and I've gotten access to a lot of privileged information as a result, but it's also rather confusing to experience. Like there are times when he's more in control, and times when I'm more in control, but we're both still here. I don't know how much of this he'll remember when I'm gone.

[seestheworld]

Is he entirely aware of you?

[professorwolf]

Well, we don't talk, if that's what you mean. I don't think he is, but... I've been doing a lot of things with his body that, if he remembers them, would probably confuse him. Like this conversation, or if I go into liminal space for the full moon next week. I'm admittedly a bit worried about that one.

[seestheworld]

...Yeah. I can see why.

[professorwolf]

But it's worth the risk. Otherwise there's a real possibility that I'd wind up taking his body on a hunting trip across the city, which I think would go a bit worse for him than simply remembering a surreal trip into another world.

[seestheworld]

Oh, I'm not arguing that it's not the better option. I'm just saying I can see why you'd be worried.

Maybe he'll think it's some weird offshoot of the Pogemon world?

[professorwolf]

I suppose we'll find out. Or we might not, unless we make a return trip here... there are a lot of worlds I wonder about, sometimes, how they fared after we left.

[seestheworld]

Yeah... me too.