[Area] The Virtuous Victorian

"Could be that she doesn't really know that there's an entire species modeled after her appearance. Happened to Seth and I, so it's possible."

Elsey seems to be posing not unlike the characters in said oddball anime. Her face is entirely serious.

Kat is just eating, not really phased by the strangeness.

"To put it this way; until recently, the only one that was aware of Korous' existence was Chronos..."

Seth wakes up in his bed. He changes into a suit with triangle shades and grabs his technoscythe identity disk. He walks out of the room and down the hall, going the way he didn't go before. He has to find Kek and Isaac to stop them from making him the adopted son of a seedy shoe-selling lizard consort.
Remembering that this is a dream, he pulls out his scythe swings it in midair to open a rift to somewhere, hopefully where Kek is located.
"YOU'RE NOT GONNA BECOME MY FATHER, KEK! I'M NOT LETTING YOU!"
And with that, Seth blindly jumps into the rift, not even sure where it leads to.

Minutes in the future... perceptionally speaking...

An aquatic Heir of Time zaps aboard, on the Upper Deck.


(Time gear on the shirt instead of Judd)

"3Э --Soo, thanks foor letting me stay a few days, Isaac... 3Э" He pauses, not expecting to be zapped over mid-sentence. Looking around, he tries to see if anyone is nearby.

"3Э ...Helloo? Anyoone aroound? 3Э"

After waiting for what seemed like hours but was probably only a minute or two, Kalmaro decides to head further inside the ship. He takes the obvious stairs down to the Living Quarters level, and continues looking for signs of life.

"3Э This has too be the right place... I woouldn't have been toold aboout a ship that was entirely deserted... right? 3Э"

With the meeting of the two heirs of time, the watch began to tick properly once more...

(Optional BGM)

Seth sits in his room, left hand covered in bandages. In his recent dreams, December has been approaching. In this waking dream however, the day has not changed.
It's annoying.
Christmas should be on the horizon, and yet it isn't.
Seth thinks about attempting to turn The Wheel. The Wheel of Time, of course. More of an abstraction than anything, but still a useful one for channeling his time powers. He's never personally used it before, but he's felt Thoren use it in the past. To put your hands upon the Grand Disc and have control over the date for all around you... To have such great power is tempting, but clearly something that could piss off more than just a couple people if used wrong.

The thing is, the wheel hasn't been turning along any axis higher than the hour axis for... quite some time now. Assuming 19 Story time is the "True Time", that amount of time would be approximately... 80 days?

Holy shit that's a lot of days.

Seth looks down at his hands. His well one and his damaged one. Considering The Wheel is an abstraction, the physical conditions of his hands shouldn't matter.

But the question is, should he do it?

...maybe later.
He wants to make sure Kat knows well enough what he's going to do.
Come to think of it, couldn't she heal his hand? Time heals all wounds after all.
But would she be willing to mend yet another injury?

Seth wonders if she could fill the void left where so many have left him.

Maybe a nearly broken hand can't stop him from turning the wheel of time, but a nearly broken heart surely could.

He calls upon his flame from his hand, the intact one. He keeps it held aloft and stares at it for a while, cast into a trance-like state of concentration. It burns in a brilliant red hue.
He watches it waver and flicker above his hand, feeling the great warmth radiate from it.

Minutes pass, perhaps even an hour. It all seems to blend into a single moment, but sure enough time passes.

Seth recalls the magic flame, clenching it away from the world with his shaky grip.
It never went out, it simply just doesn't have a physically combusting form anymore. It continues to burn within him, on some level.
That is the secret to this type of fire magic, after all.

Seth climbs back into bed, tired from his extended fire magic training session.

Maybe tomorrow will be the day.
Maybe "tomorrow".
Maybe it will become tomorrow.
...Maybe.

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Hours later, Seth falls out of bed.

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The crew goes through the morning routine and Lycoris tells the rest of Medicine's story. Fannie and Seth listen to it and Seth doubts the affectionate nature of his father's motives. Fannie, despite knowing the true nature of Chronos, fervently denies that his love would be false. At the end of it, Seth has hope about reaching closure on things with his father. Kat also takes a nap for a little while too, for once.