Uniforge? Cockpit? Affinity?
The words stood out to Sylas immediately, and his confusion was coloring through. He took a glance toward Lorien, but she seemed just as lost as he was. As for Megean, she was still lost in her own world, trying to figure out if she had anything on hand to memory wipe Sylas.
But then she started to consider if memory wiping Sylas might ruin her plans for the cockpit. And at that point, she began to weigh her options as though something like a memory wipe was really possible.
She was sure that there were some organizations out there that had some method of memory wiping, and she might be able to find a way to get her hands on it… but if it wasn't targeted and she accidentally ended up wiping Sylas' memory completely, she would just feel bad…
Especially if that ruined everything else.
As for Sylas, he watched the back of this frivolous almost little girl silently. She seemed… carefree. Carefree in a way he didn't think was even possible for this world.
'I see… so it ends up being pretty much the same out here, huh…?'
Suddenly, Sylas felt a bit bored again. It happened silently, and he almost didn't notice his ambition slipping away.
If at some point everything returned to level waters and things ended up being just as boring as it had been back on Earth, just with some extra flashy colors, what good was it? That sort of thing didn't excite him at all?
Who cared if there were battles? He was sure that there were battles back on Earth too. He had learned enough about enough wars in their history to know that this had to be the case.
But that didn't excite him either.
It was the process of looking for something new, of challenging himself in new and unique ways, of being in true control of his life that excited him the most.
When he could already see the end of the road, and he knew exactly what it took to get there… the fascination wore off quickly.
There was something about seeing the stability of the Golden Grove that reminded him exactly of that… that very same, boring, monotonous feel of moving through the laboratories back at his university.
There was nothing fun about this at all.
Ironically enough, it was then Megean led him into a very laboratory-like room—if you could call it that.
The room definitely had the stainless steel, fluorescent light components down to a T. But the main differences were the mess of wires that hung from every which way, plugging into sockets, while some of them just randomly vanished into the ceilings to connect to who knows where.
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