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[attr="class","textbody"] He isn't sure what is and what isn't. By the time that Beast bryan delarosa takes him to the Medbay, Jayden spends the next several hours in a cursed sleep. It's not at all like the peaceful slumber incurred by declan walsh's DARK VOID.

[break][break] It's hours of feverish nightmare, full of fitful sleep. As if he's being plunged into deadly waters by Dmitri's hand, again and again. The sight of a snarling MATIAS SILPH, which warped into the memory of Ashley Shepard plunging a sword into his chest again and again.

[break][break] Eventually, when the sky dips into purple-black paint and stars peal across the night-time sky, he lapses into wakefulness. The admin groaned, shifting, expecting to see fern delaney by his side but instead sees his sister.

[break][break] "Nomi...?" he says, ice crystallizing around his bed. "Is.. is that you?"

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She wasn't the first to visit him - she'd accompanied parker jones to the infirmary (blood dripping from bruised knuckles, a confusing mess of deja-vu) and then she'd had to deal with the book. She hadn't wanted to leave Parker's side, but the other woman had insisted Nomi do what the "big bad" Rocket Boss wanted...and anyway, the book was dangerous, wasn't it?[break][break]
The last thing they needed was more suffering.[break][break]
As she locked away the mysterious violet book in her office, intent on studying it as soon as possible with Amor Rose's assistance, she'd convinced herself that fern delaney's presence ought to be enough to keep jayden cross safe - stable - until she could go to him. She hastily discarded her blood-soaked blouse and skirt in favor of the spare clothing she kept in her office, then hurried back to the infirmary. She rushed over to Parker, only to be urged to go sit with Jayden - "I know you wanna check on him, Nomes."[break][break]
Except, then she'd been called away to the RKS Machine. Then she had nearly died at Holo's hand. Then she had become an Avatar and her world changed forever.[break][break]
It was two days (an eternity) later when she finally arrived at Jayden's bedside, skin pale and clammy, expression haunted even as he lay unconscious before her. Fern had departed - to wash up or find food or get some sleep, she figured. As she sat, she took one of Jayden's hands in her own, and found it so cold, she worried for half-a-second that he might really be dying. When his eyes fluttered open, she noticed the ice spreading out from his body, coating the metal bedframe with a crackling groan.[break][break]
"It's me," she assured him softly, doing her best to hide her distress. "I came to check on you. Are you...how do you feel?"

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[attr="class","textbody"] The sight of Nomi jerks him awake. He flinches for a moment, overcome with the sight - the memory? - of her screams. Of shards of glass and diamond. Of a snarling beast and declan walsh's call for his removal.

[break][break] Moonlight streams into the window, his sight growing blurry. It nearly feels the way it did that night at Sootopolis Bay, PALKIA'S influence tearing apart the seams of reality and ultra space. Then, looking at Nomi, he is back again.

[break][break] His fingers grip the edge of his bed, crystallizing the edge of the blanket into a sheet of ice.

[break][break] "Where am I? What happened?"

[break][break] Breaths of air puff out laboriously, his forehead clammy with feverish sweat.

[break][break] "Did I die?"

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Die?[break][break]
"Oh Jayden..." she breathed, and this time, the grief came unbidden. The pain must have been horrible, for him to, upon waking, assume he had died. "No, you're alive. We - we saved you."[break][break]
Had they saved him? If Elisabeth Fiorelli's Avatarship was any sort of testament to the life one lived after bonding with a ruinous beast, Nomi couldn't help but wonder if killing him would have been the greater mercy. It wasn't resentment that rolled off Jayden in waves, as it did her, but there was...something. An emotion bubbling beneath the surface of his weakened state, a storm threatening on the horizon.[break][break]
Hate, she thought, remembering. Chien-pao's weapon is hate.[break][break]
She ran her fingers over the ice until they met flesh that was nearly as cold. With a sudden fervor, she grasped Jayden's hand tight in her own.[break][break]
"You don't remember any of it?"

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[attr="class","textbody"] 'Saved me.'

[break][break] Jayden's thoughts can barely connect, so fraught they are are with pain and suffering, but one look at Naomi Sato seemed to stitch it all together.

[break][break] His sister's inherit warmth and concern stitched him back into the pieces from just a single look.

[break][break] But her fingers ran over his stained flesh (stained with blood, with hurt, with hate) before suddenly gripping his own. He flinched at the contact.

[break][break] "I - "

[break][break] What could he remember? He couldn't remember.

[break][break] "I can't -"

[break][break] Sudden panic gripped him as the inner recesses of his mind struggled to combine all the thoughts and feelings that he had at once. It was overwhelming. His fingers gripped her harder, perhaps a little too tightly — Jayden gripped onto Naomi Sato like a man on the edge of a cliff, desperate for safety.

[break][break] Flashes of a memory took over him. The sight of MATIAS SILPH and burning amber. The dagger-sharp smile of Alexei dawning upon him, threatening his very existence. The look of betrayal from the likes of CIAN MAHER as he disappeared behind the border's smoke.

[break][break] He shattered.

[break][break] Hands slipped into his hair, gripping with a sudden ferocity as agony tore through him.

[break][break] "I can't...!"

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He flinched at her touch, and it stung more than Nomi would have liked to admit. It's not you, it's...he's under a lot of stress...[break][break]
But then his grip on her hand tightened and he pulled himself closer to her in a frenzied panic. She'd seen this look on his face before - a lonely corridor, a sudden anxiety, the ghost of Chu-e Choi's love - and it scared her: Jayden was normally so calm, so stoic, so serene.[break][break]
But when ice was too cold, it burned.[break][break]
Nomi did not know what to do. She wasn't a doctor, and she wasn't a therapist, and she wasn't actually anybody's sister by blood. That doesn't matter, a part of her insisted. But what if it did? If she and Jayden had grown up together, would she know how to take care of him? Would this feel more natural, easier, less heartbreaking?[break][break]
She did the only thing she could think to do, lest he rip his hair out in his distress - or, Arceus's forbid - attempt to claw out his own eyes. She directed her thoughts at Kallistatus and demanded, mentally, HELP HIM![break][break]
All of a sudden, they were ripped through time and space: no longer in the infirmary, but laying together beneath an infinite starry galaxy. Jayden tumbled over her, and she caught him, holding him close in her smaller form, both of their breathing coming in quick bursts.[break][break]

The Unown Dimension. Kallistatus had brought them here. Nomi gaped at it, the second time she had been blessed by its ethereal beauty. Would being here temporarily remove Jayden from Chien-pao's influence?[break][break]
Even if it doesn't, it should weaken it. Maybe enough to actually get through to him.[break][break]
"Jayden...?"

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[attr="class","textbody"] He sucked in a sharp breath.

[break][break] In an instant, the world whirled beneath his feet and then, all of it was gone — everything. Ground dissolved into an expansive void, blue-tinged space swallowing everything in it's path. When Jayden blinked, he realized that he was no longer in the Rocket sub. Was no longer in the hospital room, where things went to die.

[break][break] They were somewhere else, no longer confined to the restrictions of the normal world and the new sort of suffering that he had inherited from his patron's bond.

[break][break] It felt, suddenly, easier to breathe.

[break][break] His sister clutched at him and his fingers curled around her shoulders, already feeling the warmth seep into his skin. Whether it was because of the influence of the Unown cloud that swirled above them or her presence itself, his heart stuttered eventually into silence.

[break][break] "Nomi," he whispered, as he held her in his arms. "What did you do?"

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Nomi felt tears of relief welling at the corners of her eyes. Jayden was looking at her with wide-eyed confusion - but there was a lucidity to his gaze that hadn't been there before. She could actually see her brother staring back at her, instead of the crazed, panicked, unfamiliar man in the hospital bed.[break][break]
"I took you to the Unown Dimension," she explained, hugging him close. "I thought - I thought maybe it would help."[break][break]
Ruination has no power here.[break][break]
The Unown danced and swirled about, forming incoherent sentences with their letter bodies - every so often, one would separate from the larger group to loop around the two humans, curious and whimsical. Nomi smiled at them, reassured by their presence.[break][break]
"Isn't it amazing?" She squeezed his hands, as if to ground him amidst the stars. "It's one of the powers the Unown bestowed upon me. The ability to take people here."

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[attr="class","textbody"] 'I took you to the Unown dimension.'

[break][break] Understanding dawned on him as soon as his sister spoke the words, but despite of what she may have expected, it was not relief that followed it. He did not feel an ease upon the absence of the frigid emotion in his chest. He did not alleviated at the absence of the crushing weight of his hateful potential being released from his senses.

[break][break] No, instead, he felt an ache. A loneliness that could never be sated, echoing forever in the crater that was now his heart.

[break][break] He blinks slowly at the floating shapes in the sky, suddenly remembering the report that he'd only heard murmurs about. Behind closed doors as he flashed in and out of a feverish sleep.

[break][break] The Unown? What? They -

[break][break] His mind suddenly clear, the pieces finally came together.

[break][break] "You're an avatar too."

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Avatar.[break][break]
The word had grown far heavier as of late.[break][break]
"Yes," she answered, that simple admission carrying with it the storied history of all creation: as if it were an incantation - or perhaps a softly spoken magic spell. "The Unown call me The Visionary."[break][break]
As they pulsed with white-hot cosmic power, ethereal and lovely, the Unown spelled out various words - innovator, seer, prophet, dreamer, kin - and as they did, shimmering blue crystal sprouted from the ground and morphed into a wide, flat slab: the Unown Dimension's version of a projector screen.[break][break]
Within the crystal, a scene began to play out: Nomi and Isaac Merlo, venturing into the RKS Machine. Things go well, until Nisa Holo of the DRK Triad traps them inside the simulated universe, hoping to kill them. When all seems lost, Nomi is able to summon the full set of Rocket Unown, and together, they help her and Isaac escape to their dimension - the one Jayden and Nomi are standing within at that very moment.[break][break]
As the scenes from Nomi's ascension played out over and over, on a continuous loop, she let her gaze drift back to Jayden. Hesitantly, she reached for him, taking his hand. It was so very cold.[break][break]
"Does...does Chien-Pao call you anything? Did it...give you a title too?"

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[attr="class","textbody"] The Visionary.

[break][break] Without Chien Pao's hateful influence reigning over him here, in this netherspace, there is nothing but pure admiration in his eyes as he regards his sister. His mouth splits into a smile.

[break][break] "Of course. I always it knew it," he says, reaching for her hands. "You are something special, Nomi."

[break][break] His gaze drifts towards the slab of blue and then to the movie that describes how she got her avatarship. He can't help but be keen, kneeling forward to examine each and every detail presented before him. However, his expression goes cold once he recognizes the glimpse of blond that is undoubtedly Isaac Merlo. And despite no presence of his Ruinous patron in this cyberspace, hatred closes around his heart like a prison he's never meant to be free from.

[break][break] He flinches away from her touch, eyes sharpening into a vicious glare.

[break][break] "You - you're friends with Isaac Merlo?"

[break][break] "He stabbed me, Nomi."

[break][break] He bares his teeth like a wolf cornered.

[break][break] "He betrayed us."

[break][break] The US that he speaks of — is it he and Nomi, is it Rocket, is it him and CHIEN PAO?

[break][break] Because no matter how much she tries to pull him away from it, his Ruinous influence remains. He is CURSED.

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How quickly he turned on her; how swiftly the fangs of his patron sunk back into his heart. She'd thought bringing him to this place would sooth his soul, and it had, but only temporarily: an ill-fitted dam to block the raging river that was Chien-pao's hatred.[break][break]
Cursed, cursed, cursed, the Unown pulsed.[break][break]
"He was my friend," she lied, holding up her hands in a pacifying gesture. "He - he what? Stabbed you?"[break][break]
That part was new; she'd read the reports around Isaac Merlo's defection, but the primary focus had been on his unexpected release of a Rocket prisoner: Zev Harcourt's younger brother, a Ranger named Caleb. She found it difficult to imagine Isaac doing such a thing in cold blood - but in self defense?[break][break]
"I'm sorry, Jayden," she murmured, meaning it. Isaac had meant something to many of them, and his choice had been a painful one - physically and mentally. Cillian had gone after Isaac, had nearly killed him. To Jayden, that would have felt like a victory: vengeance the obvious consequence of such a betrayal. But to Nomi, it was all rather sad.[break][break]
A waste.

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[attr="class","textbody"] "YES."

[break][break] "HE DID." [break][break]

"RIGHT HERE."

[break][break] Those frosted hands reached for hers — his sister's, his family, the only thing that he could trust in such a frozen tundra of a world — and brought it to him. At first, it may have appeared that his hands hovered over his heart. But then his hands shifted, gesturing to his shoulder.

[break][break] "Right here," his fingers closed a bit tighter. "It was where Ash stabbed me too."

[break][break] His face twisted then, an expression of immeasurable pain.

[break][break] Not even ones that her apologies could fix.

[break][break] "You have to understand," he whispered, his voice a soft, urgent plea. "He betrayed us. Not just me, but us."

[break][break] And it was hard to tell - in that moment - what he meant. Did he mean him and her? Did he mean him and Rocket?

[break][break] Did he mean CHIEN PAO?

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Ecruteak, Johto

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Prophetess

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5'2" / 157 cm height

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

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She pressed warm fingers to cool flesh, feeling the beating of his heart radiate up to his shoulder, connecting with her own. It was a relief, she realized: knowing he was still alive underneath the layer of frost that clung to him like a wintery cloak.[break][break]
"I understand," she assured him, keeping her voice from wavering. "Trust me, Jayden. I understand."[break][break]
It was the best she could do. She would give him whatever he needed: a shoulder to lean on, a hand to hold, arms to hug. She would give him her loyalty, the promise to fight beside him if he asked, even if it was against Isaac. But she could not abide Chien-Pao controlling her brother, using him as its puppet.[break][break]
She would find the cure for his curse, one way or another.[break][break]
"Let's go home," she coaxed, feeling the gaze of the Presence beginning to turn in her direction. They were never going to be able to stay here long; always, a temporary fix. To be perceived by whatever else was in here never felt like it would bode well to Nomi.[break][break]
Perhaps someday she would find the courage to stay.[break][break]
In a swirl of blue crystalline energy, she brought them back to the infirmary. It felt as empty and sterile as when they had left, nothing like the pulsing rhythmic energy of the Unown Dimension.[break][break]
"Don't worry," she squeezed his hand. "I won't leave. But try to rest, okay?"

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✦ Directly following the events of DISSEMINATE II

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