Walking back to the pot, she would note Yeni there. Just, standing, watg, with a gentle smile on her face. Sagi looked over and nodded, as if impressed by something.

  “That’s some dedication you’ve got. Few reach such a level” she excimed, taking a seat and a bowl of stew with gratitude.

  “Thank you, My Lady. It es with age” Yeni would reply, drifting over and taking a seat. Kiko found herself marvelling at how elegant and graceful her mother was these days. Like she ure embodiment of femininity. Whatever she was doily was really w for her. Maybe Kiko would ask one of these days…When she wasn’t grounded.

  “You have done pretty well for yourself after we left. It’s o see” Sagi would ent out of the blue, her yellow eye looking around while the red oayed focused on the food.

  ‘Isn’t it though? Their diligence is inspiring’ Va would say within Kiko. The Kitsuook a breath to repeat it, but Sagi just turo look.

  “Heya Va. It’s good to see you found yourself a nice host”

  That, cause her off guard and Kiko jolted a little, staring at the woman.

  “You…you, , hear her?” Kiko asked, incredulously.

  “Ahh, my dear little Vana. There is a world beyond the world you know, and a world beyond that. But yes, I hear her. Like I see the Blood Moon runes in you, r and roiling. Feeding you and feeding off you. Ohh, that must be quite the sensatiohat’s rushing around you, hmm?”

  There was something about the sensual way Sagi put all that that had Kiko blushing. Ele sehis and appeared by Kiko’s side to silently take advantage of the situation. After all, when opportunity knocks, don’t be sat ooilet.

  “It’s…errr…” she’d stutter, hand reag out to take Ele’s. “Not great” she eventually managed, filling her mouth with some stew so she didn’t have to talk anymore.

  “Ahh, yes. I guess without Hao Ren Sho, it would leave you rather mentally paired back, I guess. That’s not something I teach of an afternoon, and I don’t have a lot of time here before I have to get back. But….” she’d pause for a moment before flig her hand and creating a detailed map. From Kiko’s limited geography experie looked like the tral Pins.

  “Here. A map to the Megalith where I first cast the runes upon my people. Runic Magic is sort of like….aetheriputer programing, so here you’ll be able to do a software update, as it were” Sagi would hand the map to Kiko, and it glimmered gently, revealing her position and a few paths to get where she wao go. Magic, as said before, was fug handy.

  “You think it’s still going to be there? This is like, however many thousands of years ago” Kiko put in, looking at the map.

  “Megaliths like these are self-sustaining. Cruxes of the ndscape that always were and always will be. Points where the Leylines of the p intersect to draw and deposit as needed”

  Sagi seemed to know what she was doing with this whole magic thing, but it was still pretty outside Kiko’s wheelhouse. Still, she got the general gist of it; it wouldn’t be eroded by time or petty vandalism.

  “So, onto hopefully a less fusing topic. Why do you look so normal for being an alien?” Kiko would put in, just throwing it out there before she got in her own head and decided she wasn’t going to ask the thing she really wao ask.

  It didn’t seem to offend however, as Sagi let out a chittering ugh. After a few seds, she waved the woman off.

  “Ahh, I am sorry. I’m not ughing at you. It’s just I asked the very same question when I saw my first, extra-terrestrial, if you will. He had a totally different reason for looking the way he did, but that’s a different story. Long story, or short story?” Sagi would ask.

  “Long. I always like learniuff” Kiko would reply. A long story would also help her settle down from all the roiling and study the map a bit.

  “Alright. Get fortable, this is a long bit of sce” Sagi would warn. With that, Kiko would look around and find a more perma chair. These carved logs were fine for a few minutes, but Sagi made it sound like she’d be here for long than that.

  “It’s all to do, with gravity. You see, every humanoid being will take roughly the same shape as you see before you because there is a point in gravitational for the p, where it is to to create fully se life. Evolution is too focused on not going spt and not enough on brain power. “Standard Gravity” as it were is designated as 1G. There is nothing standard about it, people just need a point of refereo scale around.

  This p’s gravity, is 1G. A p get about 2.5G, before it bees to. And about 0.3G before it bees too weak. Life evolve, but at a staggeringly slow pad it ’t leave the p without specialized pressure suits or it will quickly die from either asphyxiation or being crushed into a pulp

  People from different ps may appear shorter and stockier, or taller and more limber depending on the gravity of the p, but the general shape remains the same. Pary aspects add iions. My p is mostly night time, so I am a very pale thing, but Alric here is not super pale because his race has evolved to metabolize melonin very quickly in the few hours of sunlight a day.

  The whole two arms two legs two eyes thing is an efficy standpoint. A brain is expensive, both to make and to run. Your brain takes roughly a fifth of your eake by itself. Add in the need for muscles, eyes, ans…Starving to death makes it hard to pass on yenes, so with trial and error the body finds itself a tle niche”

  Sagi had a very engaging way of talking. She would pause here and there as if letting people catch up, but never seemed to breathe, not fet her pce. There was silence for a few seds, as everyone just sort of basked in the glow from the long monologue.

  “I’ve met spider people. Like, four arms, six eyes, spits webs. How does that fit in with it all?” Kiko asked, leaning forward

  “Ahh, now yetting into Bioaetherology. Either by themselves or others, they bring themselves up into a shape remi of their ins. They are ily, intuitively magical beings at this point, and so their biological inefficies are shored up by the Aether they are ected to. It’s why you find magic easier to learn than you’ve heard it is, because your blood and bones are already part aether”

  It was as good an expnation as any, so Kiko would nod and just ruminate on it some, looking at the map as she did. It was quite the trek, probably a week or so at a good pace. But that was fine, she was hardly weak, and she had her Talon and Magic to back her up now. So, dramatically, she stood up, and nodded.

  “Alright! I’m going to get my stuff and head out! Fixing all this up will be great. Being able to actually trol that pet when I flush up…game-ger” she’d nod again, full of vigor, and turned around to go to her head a her stuff for this grand new journey into the not-quite known.