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Okay which of ya idiots 'round here was tapping into the Azure Flames? That stuff's not meant for any sorcerer or whatever ta go mucking 'round in. 's real dangerous stuff fer literally e'ryone who ain't me. People've tried and probably blown themselves up while I was takin' my nearly dying nap. I'm 'ere ta make sure ya city ain't on fire and maybe help put down whatever idiot's tryin' ta tap inta it.

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It's late morning. The sun is shining, and there is a man on foot in Domino, cursing 'damned brats' and 'I left my bike in an intentionally safe place with boring people'. He's maybe investigating screams somewhere, that sound like a man being thrown through the sky. Or maybe he's just lost. The city got bigger and weirder since the last time he was here.

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Okay. Let's say that somehow, Enkidu carried my kid for 5000 years or hit a weird time vortex, or walked the roads where time stops mattering with him, 'cause ya'll think it's Kaz. That makes a real uncomfortable amount o' sense and is ALOT ta take in, so ya'll forgive me if I ain't immediately hoppin' on the theory with wide arms and bright eyes.

'Cause yeah, it wasn't me manifesting through her. I felt someone else like... Imagine my fire's a mostly locked room that has me in it, and sometimes some idiot sorcerer tries ta tap in and ends up gettin' themselves fuckin' burnt ta ash. But it's like someone else 'ad a key and was able ta open that door, 'cause they were meant ta be there.

I'm considering changing that, the short and flat part, Gils. Since noone will take me seriously.

::Clicks her tongue. Stomping a foot on the ground::

So why are you back here at the farthest innermost shore.

Is the pun intended or not?

It's important, yeah.

But it's not like, as possibly apocalyptically dire as I thought it'd be. I got time to sift through this, but I'd also like ta maybe not think about it.

Look, man, I didn't say you have to LIKE the theory, but you asked and I've got what I got. If you can find a way to debunk it by all means.

Cause, yeah, I don't think even being your like, Spirtual Wi-Fi Hotspot for however long she was would have given Gina this metaphorical 'key' to the Azure Flame. And even if it did, doesn't that imply she had some sort of uncanny affinity for the whole thing?

"Huh? Walk with me, Di."

He offers his arm and a cigarette.

"Well, I thought one o' the dumbass sorcerers here or in America tried ta tap inta my fire, so I was comin' ta 'elp put it out if someone was. Semi false alarm, but it opens a big ol' fuckin' can o' worms. Nothin' I can't handle. If anything, it means I can finally make people act out that Game o' Thrones show I liked."

A pause.

"I mean, appearance 'elps. But I can't 'elp but think ya've always been a lil' easy ta tease."

::So Cyril, you find yourself wandering near some ritzy joint, passing it by, probably not pausing too long, but you see something interesting.

That rich chick in the nice black dress with the intense bust line and white jacket there looks like your bike-stealing buddy. She's tapping her foot.::

Ugh, another utterly useless dinner. Sorry, honey.

Yeah, it would of been. Not a mess if Aunt Noriko was able to show up, I guess.

::There's a cute lavender haired girl with twin tails in a dinner dress with her.::

Blah blah, need to learn to deal with high society, I know, Mom, just.

::The kid makes a face.:

Though if the limo doesn't get here soon, I'm gonna have to hotwire a car, this place makes me skin crawl.

::Noticeably, your biking buddy, if it is 'er, gained like 8 inches. The kid with her looks... 12-ish?::

... You probably should stop stop doing that, but after the host of that party's stunt, yeah, maybe we should find his car and take it...

Me damn it, 'sides the time, that makes sense. But Ennie was always a lil' uncanny an' weird, an' time can get bent an' broken in tons o' ways, so like. It's REAL plausible. Does my maybe son know what ya'll're thinkin'?

Yeah, it shouldn't have. If she like, asked, I'd 'ave probably 'eard the prayer or whatever and granted 'er access. She always had a big ol' pyro soul, so that's why I thought it was easy fer me ta like, tap in. I ain't exactly the reflective type so I don't know what my own soul'd look like. But if it's close ta me...

Ya do know what the extrapolations from 'ere are now, right?

::Takes the arm.::

I don't mind a bit of joshing, but I deserve some respect, damnit, as the Gatekeeper of the Underworlds and Otherworlds!

Cyril stares. First at Shiyoko. Then at Kamala.

"Shiyoko? That you?"

He's keeping a polite distance, and seems. Respectful?

Who can say, your majesty.

I don't think Gina's brought this up to Kaz, or if she has, she never told me, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's also thought it a time or two. Kaz can be a meathead but I never met a man who so thoroughly follows a trail of thought to its dead end. Could be he's suspected the whole time for all I know.

I mean, I don't actually know the extrapolations beyond her being the Queen of Neo New Babylon or whatever the hell you've been building out there beyond the black.

Who. What.

::Kamala nervously steps behind her mother who's taking a moment to think.::

CYRIL!? When's the last time you popped up? A decade ago??

"Respect's a damned hard thing sometimes, Di. And the modern age really fuckin' sucks at it. These nuveau godlings, kinda arrogant, but..

Look, part of the problem with being a jailer for the ol' nasty shit is that if you're doin' a good job, no one knows that you're doin' a good job. An' yer job's gettin' 'arder ta do, 'cause the age is turnin' again, like when I was young. Hell, compared ta ya who's still been kickin' 'round, I'm still damn young."

He takes a drag.

"So, like. Cut the kids a lil' slack. They weren't there when everything was fresh an' new. They're at the helm of a new age, jus' like we were. Did we respect our elders?"

"Honestly, with all the weirdness I'm feelin', who knows? I kinda wanna talk ta someone more in the know, but I've got enough dumped on me today."

He smiles easily at Kamala

"Sorry lil' queen. Don't mean ta spook ya. I'm an ol' friend o' yer mom's, we were up ta some mischief in the ol' days. May I approach?"

Yer bein'... weirdly formal with me.

Ya can jus' call me Cyril, Niyo. 'less it ain't Niyo anymore an' this is jus' one o' the many, many things I missed.

Niyo's mind burned out like a candle, and turned to white ash.

I'm Katie, a pleasure to meet you.

No, I'm pretty sure you killed at least one of yours.

::Walking with you.::

I don't want thees and thous, but c'mon, don't fucking tie me to a fucking fishing line.

Bastard's almost as good a detective as m-... oh. Yeah. Fuck. I guess I gotta arrange that meeting.

Yeah, Gina's my heir apparent, 'cause Kaz took after Ennie and is jus' full on DARK and she's the first one that can claim that right. No one can dispute that, least of all me.

Problem is, Onni. I'm big shit from the ol' days. I can trace my lineage near directly ta Sophia an' Tierra, some o' the very first duel spirits. Ennie's prolly the first demon outta the depths o' the Makai or somewhere else, deeper in it. What does that make that entire clan?

"Yeah, lord of the cedar forest my ass. Lord of fuckin' bein' burnt an' punched ta death is more apt."

"They tied ya ta a fishing line? Fer what?"

He blinks a few times.

I guess, but you smell like cigarettes and the kinda cheap beer Mom got before she married Aunt Noriko.

::Wrinkles her nose.::

And I'm not a queen yet.

...My gut's telling me "the biggest batch of old blood this side of Pandaemonium" and I got a really dreadful suspicion it's right.

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