Sunny remained silent for a few moments, then scowled.
"What do you mean, good luck? Aren't you going to be there to mediate the negotiations?"
Master Jet took a sip of her coffee, then shook her head.
"No. While the government often serves as a neutral party and the connective tissue between the Great Clans, this is not one of those cases. Besides… I simply can't. I am being transferred out of the city. This is my last day here, for a while."
He stared at her, dumbfounded.
Master Jet… was not going to be around anymore? Sunny suddenly felt a pang of discomfort. He had grown accustomed to her being present out there somewhere... not exactly close to him, but at the same time within reach.
Noticing the expression on his face, she sighed.
"Actually, that is the second thing I wanted to talk to you about. The bad news."
Soul Reaper casually looked around, then summoned a Memory that looked like a music box. Immediately, a dome of silence appeared around them, cutting off all outside noises. Sunny frowned, confused by the need for secrecy.
She had seemed to be perfectly fine discussing private matters of a great clan in the public. What could have been more sensitive than that?
Master Jet lingered for a moment, then said:
"To be honest, Sunny, I was not going to have this conversation with you… at least not yet. But since the situation changed, and the things we are going to talk about can affect the decisions you will make tomorrow, I decided that there is no point in postponing it."
He shifted uncomfortably.
"That is… very suspenseful. What is the matter?"
She smiled, then activated her communicator and summoned a projection. It showed a map of something that looked like a big chunk of the Dream Realm. Sunny saw a lot of water and several large landmasses, each no smaller than the Forgotten Shore by the looks of it. However, no matter how he looked, he could not find the familiar landmarks — the Hollow Mountains, Bastion, Ravenheart… either he was not as proficient at reading maps as he had thought, or he had never seen this land.
confused, he glanced at
that a previously unexplored region of the
with a strange expression,
planet Earth, you
froze in embarrassment, then
right. I
Soul Reaper grinned.
know more about the
He cleared his throat.
not like I spent a lot
grin dimmed a
Sorry. Sometimes I forget how young you are… it took me a while to
sighed, then
not in great shape. A few centuries ago, it looked very different… there were around twelve
She sighed, then added:
the seven continents. Do you know which continent we are currently on? What our city is
her with
Asia? And the city is called… wait, it has a name? I just thought it's called… uh…
She rolled her eyes.
and most populous city left on Earth. It is also the industrial, military, and administrative heart of humanity. Around one-tenth of all humans live here… that is
a moment, then said with a
spelltech and modern science, they are not capable of sustaining everyone. Hence the outskirts, where around twenty percent of the total city population is offloaded to slowly die out, out of the sight of the rest of humanity. But that is neither here
and then pointed to a continent directly connected to
used to be known as Europe. It was turned completely unsuited for human life long before the Spell
across a large body
it not long before you were born, when a Category Five Gate opened there. That was… a big disaster. Because of its proximity to the Gate, South America was mostly abandoned, as well. Now, we only maintain a small presence in its southernmost part. Those settlements are incredibly important, however, because that is where most
for a bit, and then gestured
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