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"Thanks for saying that you wish me well on my trip / even if you meant it sarcastically / it is more than anyone else said". Chloé's text message declared.
Tikki frowned at the text parsing any abbreviations and quirks of the medium into a form that made more sense to her as she read, 'if there is one thing this girl needs it is good guidance and positive influences' she pondered silently to herself as she read the follow on text.
"Adrien and Sabrina have blocked me now / everyone else blocked me weeks ago / except for you / even Rossi left me on read".
Tikki looked with a perplexed expression as she read the message and Marinette's phone vibrated again at the notification shortly followed by another....
"It was Rossi's idea you know being Mayor / she told me if I didn't have power over other's they get revenge on me for all the bad things I'd done to them / or so she said" Chloé's next message said.
"I think she was wrong / I think they were just glad to see the back of me".
"Oh and I was lying about not doing my own School work, I did / I just wanted to see how much attention Bustier was paying / not much it seemed".
"I was a little insulted that you never questioned it / I thought you were smarter than that Marinette".
"I thought you understood me better it's not just what I say / but why / or that everything I do isn't for the most obvious reason".
"But it seemed you didn't / I'm kinda sad / I feel like I was playing Chess while you were playing that computer fighting game of yours".
"I miss Markov / Can you ask him to accept my messages" Chloé wrote adding surprisingly in her next message...
"I'll crawl on my belly to Max if I have too".
'Markov?' Tikki muttered allowed what on Earth is this girl on about, Tikki looked with stunned perplexity at Marinette's phone screen.
Tikki looked across at the dribbling and slightly snoring form of her holder and then calculated how close Max's apartment was, she'd still be in range of the earring's call it's only 3 minutes flight maybe 5 if she hugs the buildings, in case of Birds of Prey ; the first time Tikki gotten eaten in one gulp by an eagle owl was something she'd not soon forget and it was only when she stopped screaming she could remember she could phase through matter. So no she's not keen to repeat an experience like that again.
Though she did remember the time it happened to Plagg in his larger form when a Daspletosaurus eat him whole too, he spent an hour berating the creature afterwards and warning it that he'd do to it what he'd done to the T-Rex's. One of the reasons they decided to reduce their size to something a bit less conspicuous. Plagg didn't have chance to make good on his threat as not long after The Dinosaurs had bigger things to worry about than an irritated Kwami, Plagg always was a bit tetchy until Cheese was invented, he's been a lot more chilled since. Tikki shuddered to think how much time had passed before the invention of refined Sugar, or the Chocolate Chip Cookie, a thought she found to horrifying to long want to dwell upon, so she decided to distract herself with further thoughts of another horror 'Chloé Bourgois'.
Tikki hovered closely outside the apartment window checking for anyone inside, or any Humans in front or any threatening Owls outside being still awake, only to find herself surprising face to face with who she was looking for on the other side of the glass "Oh" Markov said as his visual display showing a mix of pleasure and surprise "You must be Ladybug's Kwami".
Tikki bit at the inside of her cheek with one of her tiny white teeth, the pain reminding her this other tiny being isn't quite so dense as a lot of Marinette's classmates as she silently phased through the glass to join the other tiny hovering being in the room.
"Hello Markov" Tikki said, "We have not been formally introduced, I'm Tikki and yes I am Ladybug's Kwami, but I can see what Ladybug can see when she's transformed so I know you second hand, by her experiences".
"Is it true you are 14 Billion years old" Markov surprisingly asked.
Tikki flinched, why is it no matter how many time she tries to suppress that and tell half truths about only being 5 Thousand years old, maybe if Plagg would stop trying to claim he killed off Dinosaurs like he's proud of it, people might not get the idea in their head that she really is as old as creation too.
"Are you God?" Markov asked
Tikki nearly choked on her own tongue "Did you want me to be?" she asked.
Markov smiled again "I just thought it would be nice to say I met God is all, and to say thank you for making The Universe which lead to Max, who then made me".
Tikki scratched her head with one of her flippers, at least as best as she could reach. "Well the Universe has been re-created before, you know about the wish don't you?"
Markov bobbed up and down in what Tikki inferred was his version of a nod "...and as I was partially responsible for that I guess you could say I am "The creator of The Universe" at least this current one anyway".
"But did you create it too before the wish?" Markov asked.
"You know, I don't actually know" Tikki sheepishly admitted.
"You don't know ?" Markov asked his visual display showing an image of perplexed curiosity.
"Well I suspect this isn't the 1st Universe even before I came along, and that something therefore must have created well 'me', or us if you count Plagg too" Tikki concluded as she shrugged her tiny shoulders.
"Do you think someone actually wished a New Universe from the beginning and you were effected by it too.?"
"Crikey, I never considered that, I could have evolved naturally or have been created by someone else and then been made the subject of the wish".
"So you might be God in some sense of this Universe even before you cast a wish, if someone wished you to be the Creator" "Perhaps you did it without a holder and broke everything, maybe you are your own creator, Maybe you used to be human and wanted to be the creator and this is what you got, though if that was the case where did the wish come from, a Paradox perhaps ?".
"Er, as fascinating as this conversation is, I didn't come here to speak of religion and philosophy and my role in those things". "Why did you ask all that anyway ?" Tikki asked.
"I was just wondering if you can tell me if I have a soul" Markov asked.
Tikki stared at the robot, "Er, you're not shy about the difficult questions are you".
Markov bobbed up and down again in an affirmative gesture.
Tikki sighed "OK, you shouldn't be able to see me" she said, "Mechanisms like Cameras, Microphones, Telephones or CCTV Cameras can not see or hear a Kwami at all and no I have no idea how that works either, It's nothing natural to me personally, it's a Miraculous effect so er, 'A Wizard did it' I guess".
Tikki continued "But you can see me, and I presume Kaalki".
"Yes" Markov said simply.
"So that suggests there is something about you that is more than a machine" Tikki said hesitantly.
"A Soul ?" Markov asked in a inquiring tone.
"A Spirit in some sense at least, It may depend on what you think a soul is" Tikki suggested.
"My Friend in New York was telling me that they have a problem with Ghosts from time to time, If I was destroyed, could I become a disembodied Spirit" Markov asked.
"Quite possibly, it's a lot easier for things to be possessed by negative energies than I would like to dwell on" Tikki shuddered at the many peculiar things she'd seen in a her very long life even before the Earth had formed and cooled.
"Does a Ghost have to be bad ?" Markov asked.
"What no" Tikki declared. "They just have to be well 'created' I guess with a strong emotion, that can be a positive one, or a fairly neutral one, some Ghost are just "Lonely" and want some company.
"Oh, OK".
"You may be a unique being anyway, you can see & hear me, Uncanny Valley couldn't see me or see and hear Plagg".
"My dear one, can see your Quantic radiation though, I do not have the ability to do that at this time" The small robot gushed.
"Hmm, maybe you can help me with that sometime, I am worried that can be used to track my holder when they are transformed and be a risk to their life, as although I am immune to the tracking Ladybug isn't, and think that can be fixed perhaps.
"I am always ready to help the heroes of Paris" the small robot affirmed. "But I am being rude, I sidetracked our conversation, for what purposed did you seek me out my new friend Tikki ?"
"I want to talk to you about Chloé Bourgois" Tikki responded and was met with a digitised expression of curiosity and then a quirked eyebrow expression soon after on the small robot's visage.