No One Can See Us Here, Alone; or, The Behaviors of Binary Stars
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Nino and Alya finally get around to that quest burning a hole in their inventory (well, Nino's inventory, because Alya is strangely superstitious about magic and magic items, and simply refuses to have an exact thirteen in her inventory). The quest is simple enough– until it gets complicated.
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An incandescence swallows everything, blinding them, and then they are passing through that impossibly short, incomprehensibly distant passageway, tumbling along the starry waves like antimatter, being pulled in and then pushed out, arriving in glimmers outside the galaxy gate.
It takes a moment to get reoriented to the stale and frozen conditions of the mountain spire.
Alya breaks the silence first, blinking the lingering stars from her eyes. "Do you think it actually worked?"
". . . Let's find out,"
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