It might have been Deepfrost and Tal might have been protected by his Frostbite Cuff, but the courier felt himself starting to sweat under Maea's intense regard. He was pretty sure he'd had nightmares about this too. Not involving Maea, but about being called on to answer a test question he hadn't studied for.
At least he wasn't in his underwear?
"Uh, well... so I guess it all started when I got a letter from this 'Seren' lady..." With much hemming and hawing and pauses to search his memory - not to mention a few wait, shit, I forgot t'mention--s throwing the timeline off a bit - Tal related the events of the void-essence testing on Aumakua. Who had been there, what Vox had said about being able to go into pocket dimensions and shrines, and most importantly what the various elemental magics had done to Seren's strange black sphere.
He might have left out one teensy little detail when it came to Noah's Atomic Roar knocking half the gathering down and doing a number on poor Remi, but otherwise Maea was able to wrangle the pertinent information out of him, leaving the courier feeling wrung out and jittery at the same time under her interrogation.
...an' then we all kinda broke up after that," he concluded, relieved to finally be at the end of the tale. "So, wait, when th'hail did y'run into Dahlia?" Though it wasn't hard to imagine her going back to peruse the Collegium library in Stormbreak and running into the Reaper there...
At least he wasn't in his underwear?
"Uh, well... so I guess it all started when I got a letter from this 'Seren' lady..." With much hemming and hawing and pauses to search his memory - not to mention a few wait, shit, I forgot t'mention--s throwing the timeline off a bit - Tal related the events of the void-essence testing on Aumakua. Who had been there, what Vox had said about being able to go into pocket dimensions and shrines, and most importantly what the various elemental magics had done to Seren's strange black sphere.
He might have left out one teensy little detail when it came to Noah's Atomic Roar knocking half the gathering down and doing a number on poor Remi, but otherwise Maea was able to wrangle the pertinent information out of him, leaving the courier feeling wrung out and jittery at the same time under her interrogation.
...an' then we all kinda broke up after that," he concluded, relieved to finally be at the end of the tale. "So, wait, when th'hail did y'run into Dahlia?" Though it wasn't hard to imagine her going back to peruse the Collegium library in Stormbreak and running into the Reaper there...
