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[What looks like feathers is actually, well, masks and hard crystal. It is not soft at all and looks like it is both heavy and they really don't fold. What a bad design for wings!]

You know considering how peace loving your world appears being the best with a gun seems a exclusive club.

[He taps his chin.]

Walk with me. Perhaps I will think of something along the way.

It's still in the Olympics! Pistol is part of the pentathlon and pistol and rifle have their own events.

[They nod in acquiescence to the walk.]

Are these wings from a particular creature...?

They have a sport for it. Delightful. You world did try, you know. It seems they got very close.

[He shakes his head.]

They are mine and mine alone.

[Emet-Selch's words evoke a brief, melancholy look, but it is swept away by astonishment. They skip back a couple of steps so they can get a better look at them.]

Like, ones you've had before? When?

[He extends them for Cardinal to inspect.]

Forms are like water to us. We can change into anything. My form was quite more monstrous at the time, but I these wings were ones I had when I fought the Hero from the Source.

[Cardinal traces one of the masks, eyeing the wing patterns and trying to guess what the rest might even look like.]

A monster? Can I see the full form sometime?

Of course you are fascinated. And I don't see why not. Though if I had to wager a guess you would enjoy phantasmology as well.

Phantasmology? [Thinking, perplexed.] The study of illusions?

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And the unnatural. 'Tis Cosmo's specialty.

'The unnatural'... [they certainly sound interested.]

But what would even count as something 'unnatural' in a world where you can make anything?

While we can make practically anything there is a natural order to it all. For example, animated armor is still considered strange and hardly can be found in the wild on its own.

But I thought the ability to make intelligent constructs was normal? Just not ones with 'souls'.

Normal, yes, but not natural. Life does ebb and flow without our meddling.

Mm... And did anyone think it was a bad idea? Making 'unnatural' things.

[He shakes his head.]

Not at all. To dabble in such is to learn. To study. To grow. 'Tis why we have an Office for it. Ever has the seat of Lahabrea been a key pillar in our halls of academics.

Like you said. my world was close. But I finally got the brain-washing accusation I told you I was going to get; it was even worse than I thought. The Minister of Education said my sibs and I were all set-sets along with Mycroft Canner, the Humanist President, the last Mardi survivor, and a bunch of other people all directly related to everything going wrong.

I'm sorry I missed that.

Now I am curious. Were you meant to work with Mycroft or against him? I know you became fond of him.

It was the first meeting of the Senate after everything went to hell. [They smile slightly, with some pride.] The rest of the memory wasn't so bad.

[A shake of their head.] Mycroft's just a friend. Eureka found out Mycroft was still alive a few months after their trial and we were curious—It's not like there's a lot of other professional homicides running around our planet. And my siblings knew I had a crush on them. So Ockham went and got them, and they've been in and out ever since like a stray cat.

You have always seemed one to take the positive in everything. Or at least look for opportunity.

Ah, they were not the cannibal you were referring to in the last game? Well, I stand corrected. I thought you were romantically involved.

And I suppose I do have one more order to give you, do I not? Then here it is. Execute one of the tasks on your card. There is no reason we can't double up.

No, I was in love with them. Let's just say they weren't in a position to return the same sentiment.

[Hmm.]

You can fly, can't you?

Care to explain?

[He nods.]

Start flying. I'll catch you. Is a five minute head start enough?

You don't have win---

[It's Cardinal.]

Very well. That should be more than enough time.

[And he does take off.]

[Cardinal just grins at him and waves.]

[Cardinal has never seen Emet move with haste, so this is no different. But he does get a decent head start and he ends up hovering high into the air with few tall trees or buildings around him. They did say 'chase' and not 'hide' after all.]