"What's next?"
Noah asked it calmly.
The Ancestral Voice was quiet for a while before it answered, and the quiet itself was informative.
|Capability, stripped of everything, is the first of it. You have that.|
|The second is a test of your character. When you have been stripped bare of everything, what choices do you actually make?|
|For this, you will have to give access to memories.|
Noah kept walking, and said nothing yet.
|THE Aurate Collar of the First Purity does not care about your secrets, and it cares nothing at all for your power. It wants memories of what you are, and of those you normally associate with, because a character cannot be tested in the abstract. It has to be tested against the things a person would actually lose.|
|You are free to deny it. Say so, and we stop here, and the two of us will have had a somewhat pleasant afternoon.|
HUUM!
Above the road, the manifestation bloomed.
