Underneath Infinity(Azurite thread)

[Anastasia]

"It's a Daimon egg," Eudial comments, as she gets some space,d ragging you to near the door!

It floats at the machine, starting to glow a moment, weakly! The aura expands some at this, a nasty aura indeed! It reaches out to the machine, trying...and trying....

[thepanda]

“What’s it doing?” Azurite asks, noticing the odd activity of the egg. “I think its try to bond to the drink machine.” A tad fascinated, Azurite stops to watch. “It is trying to bond! I think I might know a spell to stop it,” he says, fishing through his memory for some such spell. Probably a barrier spell, as the egg doesn’t seem too powerful.

[Anastasia]

"That's EXACTLY what it's trying to do," Eudial says, half shouting. "We need to..."

The egg continues to glow, but starts to sputter and shudder. It's magical aura flickers out, the Daimon seed falling to the ground with a hollow crack! Split open by the fall, a bit of black, smelly smoke comes from it.

The aura from it is dying fast, too, almost gone now.

"...stop it?" Eudial finishes, coming up short and blinking owlishly at the seed. "Or not." Taking a breath and walking over, she kneels by it. "Good - it's dead now." Waving her hand in front of her nose from the smoke, she breaths a sigh of relief.

[thepanda]

“Ok, so what’s a Daimon and why’s its egg laying around here?” Azurite moves toward the red-haired woman, pondering. “This have something to do with that Ziria guy?” He reaches for the shattered egg bits, wondering if they might make a good spell component one day.

[Anastasia]

Glancing up at Azurite out of the corner of her eye, "Nothing to do with Zirae. Just...let's not worry about it right this moment," Eudial decides. Standing and dusting off her lab coat, "I should go talk to Professor Tomoe about this...,," she states, resuming a solemn demeanor.

If Germatou left any more surprised or failed experiments down here... I should go talk to Professor Tomoe as soon as possible. And if Azurite or someone so inclined sparked it back to a form of life...

Damn!

Taking a breath, "I don't think the shell is worth anything," she replies, shrugging.

I wonder if they reacted to magic, or to the fact that he's Kaolinite's brother? If...

[thepanda]

Azurite pockets the egg, not in the least detoured.

“Perhaps not, perhaps so. You never know what might come in handy one day.” He looks about the room, his magic senses alert for any other Daimon eggs that might be in the vicinity. “Did you find what you’re looking for? Because I can think of a few things I’d rather be doing than dungeon crawling right now.”

[Anastasia]

You do not sense anything else in the area like a Daimon egg. In fact, it feels relatively quiet right now. Relatively, for this school.

"I'll come back later," Eudial brushes it aside. "Come on. You're right - it's better to get out of here than wander around these damn halls."

[thepanda]

“Lead on,” Azurite says, motioning to the door. He falls into step behind her, happy that at least one of them knew where they were heading.

[Anastasia]

Eudial is rather quiet as you head back through the shadowed halls, frowning and glancing at you once or twice as you head on. By the time you finally reach a familiar elevator, she breaks the silence.

"How is your family doing," she asks plainly. "I heard that's why you went off."

[thepanda]

“Well enough,” he says, once again realizing that he’d probably has more awkward moments in a single day than he’d experienced in the last year, time back home explaining Kao-chan’s death not withstanding. “Well enough.”

[Anastasia]

A simple nod there. Just as well, perhaps, for the moment. The elevator arrives, rising you upward. "So..." Eudial says, picking away at the sticky silence that formed, "Your parents said it's okay to come back? Kinda surprised considering your sister."

[thepanda]

“My mother is a huge education buff,” he shrugs. “Mugen has a fairly prestigious reputation, so once I’d told her I’d gotten accepted already she didn’t have much to say in the way of stopping me. My father seems to think this is a, how did he put it?” Azurite ponders for a moment. “A trail to test him, ‘him; being me of course, on his path to manhood.” Azurite nods to himself. “Or at least something close to that. The rest of the family wasn’t so happy to see me leave, but this is something I feel strongly about. I’m not going to let anyone else’s doubts cloud my judgment.”

[Anastasia]

This story takes up the time to rise to the floor with Professor Tomoe's office, Eudial nodding. "Azurite...tell you what," she says, pausing. "Here." Frisking in her pocket, she withdraws what looks to be a small, laminated ID. "Go on and get yourself something in the cafeteria with this, and I'll meet you down there in a bit."

[thepanda]

"Ok," Azurite agrees, taking the badge. "Sure you don't need the egg?"

[Anastasia]

"Keep it," Eudial smiles a bit, trying to raise her mood. "Hell, make an Easter Egg out of it for all I care."