"What is a suouis coin?" asked Avere, feeling almost compelled to do so.
"It's rather simple, " the voice began, " a suouis coin is a physical promise of a god, a tyrant, or someone higher to do something unspecified, so, if one had such a coin of any being able to conceal and had the power to destroy ehetria themselves, it would explain the weird patterns and the grotesque but rather easy-to-create monsters." the voice explained as a single drop of silver slowly rose out of the infinite ocean and flattened itself, turning into a coin that was in front of the nailed corpse that was still dangling down from the twelve foot high cross.
The coin was thin, about an inch across, it was about a tenth of one thick, and it had ridges on the side, irregular, but polished to reflect a great shine amidst the endless ocean of silver they were standing atop of, a single depiction of a drop on one side, and a straight line with two horizontal short ones cutting through it around the top, seeming much newer and more powerful than the one that had been given to lady crisis, though Avere had no way of knowing of that transaction.
"This is mine, but it isn't like I can't change up the design a bit, and in the end most people just use their own name of holy semblance to put atop, having often gained one around that rank... just like you already have..." he remarked as the coin changed into liquid once more, quickly catching Avere's attention who had been lost in the knowledge and had begun to treat the pillar almost casually as he would later notice, his heart skipping a beat as he did.
"... what would you recommend I do to get my revenge?" Avere asked bluntly.
"Grow stronger, gain freedom from the forsaken realm, become at least a god, do a few other things, maybe get a few more pillar contracts, I would actually recommend lesser pillars as well, their tests are more deadly, but don't take as long if I may be frank... and you should definitely know your given name now that I think about it..." the last part sounding almost as if he had hit himself on the head as he remembered something.
Avere looked up expectantly, having intended to ask that question later on.
"A given name is a name given by yourself, and oneself, it is most often the name that the passing itself graced you with, and it is a good sign on the way to becoming a god, that I can tell you already, and even more so it should prove you are relatively close to becoming a titan." he began, quickly deciding to come to the end.
"Your name was given to you by the passing, and the Sekaria should have already been aware of it" the voice almost sounded as if someone had winked, " your given name is the two-sided lie, though I am not exactly inclined to explain it to you yet."
Avere hesitated a moment, ingraining the name into his mind, but just as quickly as the name had been said he already turned his attention to the fact that the pillar had said he was relatively close to becoming a titan already, intent on asking how to finalize that step.
"How do I become a titan?" Avere asked bluntly.
"A titan is born once one gains a manifestation, a, well, manifestation of who you really are, so you really just have to get a bit more experience, maybe be trained by someone with a different perspective, or do something like your other self Leyk, that guy is soon to join the vampi-" it felt as if the voice stopped itself abruptly, the ocean starting to ripple despite that having seemed impossible before.
"Huh... no f#cking way..." said the voice.
There stood a small figure, about 4'3 in height, wearing wide pants and a small haircut, it's eyes glowing in no colour, instead simply being brown, a simple human child, one that had to be see everywhere, and yet, it just stood amidst the endless silver, like a statue, smiling and showing a face of great interest in whatever it had appeared here for.
"Well, " he voice said, now sounding slightly constricted, " before I send you away, I should probably give you a hint to escaping the forsaken realm..." it seemed almost as if the voice was smiling slightly
"You need my contract, as well as the temples you have already entered, those are all the hints I'll give you." the voice finished, the faceless body moving it's hand to send him away, but quickly noting that it did nothing, the body's faceless lump of a head moving to look at the child that was slowly coming closer, the palish skin full of freckles under the brownish, slightly red, hair shining under a sun that was not there, a now confident smile across the childish face, quite unbefitting of it actually.
Avere blinked once and the small person stood right in front of him a mere instance later, touching his hand that had stretched itself outwards almost by itself, Avere being stuck in a kind of trance as the bodiless voice remained silent and a childish voice seemed to resound within Avere's ears.
"So you are his little project?" it felt as if the child was smiling brightly, hiding everything there was to hide and everything that could not ever be hidden.
"I always wanted to finally meet one of you... it's quite interesting..." the child said as the body of Avere began to drop of silver and something deep inside him began to both burn and melt, to freeze and fracture, as something more important than anything else began to exit to the outside.
"Don't worry" the childish voice resounded once more, "you won't like it, but it also will be very helpful to you and your goals..." they said with a wide grin that showed the glinting of the childish lips that were still a bit too put together to belong to an adults.
They took a breath, and they faced away, Avere just standing there, the faceless body staring and not staring at the same time, Avere finally fading, and only a single question resounding within the endless realm that conducts all experiences to be had.
"Why are you here?" asked a voice, visibly annoyed by having their conversation cut short, just as the queen of hands with wooden feet had once been at the old man when he had called her.
"I am here because I am." said the child, seeming to be slightly annoyed by the voice.
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End of Volume 3 ~ Worlds Inside
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