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The quest of looking for her Mistress. Open for anyone.

Vita, still dressed in a strange dress that actually was magical armor, was exploring the ship.

In other words, what looked like a kid with a weird fashion sense, armed only with a criquet mallet, was walking alone through possibly dangerous terrain. What could go wrong there?

To be more precise, she was actually not exploring, but looking for wherever Hayate was now. She knew her mistress was on the ship, after all.

"Oi, Hayate." She tried to send telepathically, through the link, though she wasn't sure if this would work here.
The ship sure was big...

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"So I take it the government is not feudal." That made sense. This ship had certainly not adopted a governing body similar to a king and the aristocracy, so presumably the majority of people aboard did not operate under such a government themselves. Though that demanded another question, one that almost certainly would seem to come out of nowhere.

"Does your world have any active gods?"

"Gods?" Vita replied. "Like nature spirits? I don't think so, no, I don't know of any."

Indeed. Not even the church was praying to a particular god. They prefered going after the teachings of the Belkan Saint King.

"You ask all that, so... how's your world, then?"

"Gods... that is, as I understand them," he qualified, "are beings of immense power and might. Our land once belonged only to the elves, but when the humans came, their gods helped them to all but take over the continent, driving elves into smaller and smaller forests as they chopped down the trees and settled. Humans, dwarves, and most other races worship gods, praying to them and giving them honor and tribute, and in exchange the gods grant them favor, and to their most trusted followers, spells and other powers."

Aibghalian settled into a comfortable professor-type tone, though he took care not to let his vocabulary run wild, as it tended to. "Many of the elves, in anger and fury, fell under the sway of an evil human god, named Azrai. That god started a great war with the other human gods, one that nearly destroyed all civilization. To stop him, the human gods sacrificed themselves, and basically blew him up along with themselves.

"When the gods dies, their essence flooded all over the great battlefield. The people closest to them absorbed enough essence to become gods themselves. Many, many other people absorbed a lesser amount. They found that the blood gave them deep ties to the land -- a divine right to rule. So over time, the humans built a great nation, with an emperor at the top and many other positions of power below them."

He paused a moment for questions.

"Hmm."

That did sound like a problematic world, to Vita, in some ways. Especially the part about the civilization destruction, and the divine right to rule.

"That's very different. I think our Belka did believe they had a divine right to rule, too. But they fell, despite all their super weapons."

Well, she didn't really remember the details, as too much time had passed since then. "The other worlds I hear sure sound different from ours."

"This isn't just a belief though, Vita, it's very literal. Only someone with the blood of a god can truly connect with the land and make its wishes his, and his, its.

"Nudge me if I start getting out of hand in the future about that, though," he added with a grin. "It's so out of what I understand for these things not to exist, that I may say or do something undiplomatic just out of sheer culture shock. You seem like the sort of person I can count on to not let me get too full of myself."

Vita nodded. "Sure, if I spot it."

That wasn't really hard to do, since she was prone to point out when she thought things were stupid. Of course...she rarely did that in a very diplomatic way, but nobody expected that of her (nor should).

...Okay, Hayate was allowed to expect that, if she asked. But that was different.

"I guess things just are all weird in other worlds, so people probably get used to that."

Like not having Armed Devices. That seemed to be really silly to Vita, but it just was how things were, it seemed.

"Certainly different," Aibghalien agreed. "But you know, I was raised in the elven woods, and when I first came out into the human lands, I found them so very, very weird and unusual too. But doing that is something I have never regretted."

"Oh, I know the feeling." Vita murmured, then shrugged.

She had gotten used to it quickly the two times she had had to adjust. Earth, and later Mid-Childa, both so very different worlds.

"Had to get used to two worlds, too, but it was for the sake of mistress Hayate, so it was alright."

Devoted indeed.

"Your mistress must be quite a person, to inspire so much loyalty," Aibghalien replied. He was, in fact, trying to lead her to say more without asking directly; how she says more might be as important as what she says.

Vita nodded emphatically.

"She is! She's pretty, smart, and the kindest person in the world!" Vita stated, apparently meaning every word of it. "And we owe everything to her."

"Everything? What's 'everything'?" Vita needed to be more aggressive about asking questions if she ever wanted to stop the wizard from asking her more, and more, and more...

"Everything is everything." Vita replied, thinking the answer was clearly enough. After all, that's what she meant. Including her own existance. "That should explain it I think."

She sure needed to be, but then, currently she was acting like she had while talking to a group of generals she knew from Mid-Childa, or the old people she had played croquet with while on Earth, so it was easy on her.
But she did think it probably was good to ask something now, simply because she couldn't really explain this well, so he could be distracted away from this. Ehehe.

"So, err, what were you in your world?"

Seemed fair, he had asked about the knight stuff.

"Not really, but then, you may have noticed I'm the sort of person who wants very detailed explanations of everything." He has no problems making fun of himself, and he elected not to press further, especially as she had asked a question which required a certain amount of delicacy to answer without creating the wrong impression.

"I was a skilled wizard, of course. I also looked after a reasonably-sized domain, which is what we call a group of lands under one person."

"It's pretty much all that's to say about it, though...Hayate's just Hayate."

As for his answer...

"So you're some sort of magistrate?"

"Elves have different titles in this case, but one that applied very broadly to anyone in my position was 'regent'." The elven title, in his case, was 'king', but he didn't want to advertise that. "I also controlled many of the sources in the lands and surrounding ones."

Better that he didn't, really. She might worry that people'd abduct him to force him to control giant orbital weapons or something like that.

Vita nodded, either way. "I've talked to people who do something like that before, you seem to be among the better third of the bunch."

The other two thirds being the incompetent and obstructionist ones, respectively. "So, you get voted in that regent spot, appointed by someone, or is it all blood decided?"

Giant orbital weapons?! He'd go willingly!!

"Thank you," he said with a slight bow and a broad smile. Vita's opinion did actually matter to him; he doubted she would hesitate to make her feelings clear on anything she disapproved of. People like that were invaluable.

"My master-in-magic actually founded the -- domain." He'd nearly said kingdom. "It used to be a nasty, evil place full of goblins and trolls and whatnot. He, with my aid and those of several of my friends, brought the goblin tribes to heel and brought civilization to the area. When he died, the land respected his wishes, and control fell to me.

"To my complete and utter surprise at the time!"

"Uhm, you're welcome." Vita said sheepishly.

"I guess if the people're generally fine with it, it works out fine?"

She wasn't really used to countries run like that, but her memories of the more distant past wasn't exactly perfect, either (and she did suspect that Ancient Belka had not exactly been a democracy, anyway, with their Saint Kings and orbital bombardements). "You must have lots of motivation against the Ohm, then, to get back to your lands and people."

"A land not governed by a scion would quickly descend into unmanageable chaos. As my lands once were."

At the mention of the Ohm and what they had taken, the easy smile on his face vanished. Aibghalien lifted his gaze from Vita to stare coldly at a random point in the season. Cheerful, maniacally-curious mage was only part of his personality; now a different part had been briefly awakened. Cold determination and dedication to an unpleasant task. Aibghalien had lived decades, after all, and had gone through one war of world-shattering importance already. And he had won it.

"Yes. I do. And when the time comes, they will reap exactly what they have sown."

"Your place sure's different."

She did spot the change in his poise, and nodded. "That they will. One from my world saw exactly what happened to our world. She actually asked me not to ask to be shown the same. It was that bad. Yes, those Ohn will... .... reap what they have sown. That's for sure

And Vita was perfectly willing to do her part.

"I can't imagine it's pleasant," the wizard said. "I know some of the worst that can be done... Still, one of my last opponents was a god, and we one that one," he added more cheerfully. "I'm stronger now than I was then. A little more effort and I'll have finally pushed past the barriers of conventional wizardry to..."

He stopped, sheepishly, realizing he was about to get maniacal.

"Don't overdo it. Mages who do tend to burn out, and then..." Vita pointed out. She did know one who had, after all... and who she still wanted to protect because Vita had been there when it had happened.

"And then?" he asked, curiously. "I don't believe such a thing would happen to me, because I am an elf, and do have divine blood in me. That should make it possible, but... what happened, if I may ask?"

"Get mortally wounded or die. I don't think the Ohm care too much about mercy. I mean, using lots of magic is fine, but going over and over your limits could really be dangerous in the long run!"

She was clearly still talking about the 'manic' part.

"I have no intention of dying when there's still studying to be done," Aibghalien said with a grin. He meant that seriously, oddly; that seemed to be his reason for existing. Was that worrisome?

The quest of looking for her Mistress. Open for anyone.

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Have a nice day!

Stupid day! Don't be over!

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Thanks for the fun threading either way, hihi :) I need to make a CR chart someday oO

TONS of fun. Vita has a friend for ship-life. ^.^

Works well! ^^

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