《Idle confessions of a lost voice》 Beginnings Once upon a time of idle forgetfulness and lost actions a action was committed that threw what wasn''t into being. Before the first lights shined before the eons passed and darkness made form there were but two in existence. A couple who shared all they knew for they were all they knew. Beings of just being for form was not made with purpose unknown and unthought-of. One of more Aggressive Expanse and one of more Thoughtfulness. They began to push the boundaries of what could be into what is shaping toys and simple designs. The Aggressive Expanse was pleased with Thoughtfulness for Thoughtfulness was pleased with what they made. Thoughtfulness had ideas and so pushed a new place, design, thread, action into being. Thoughtfulness took what made their being being and created new beings smaller ones. Thoughtfulness had slowly become more and more interested in what they had wrought that it became an obsession of the only order. Thoughtfulness poured more and more of their being into these beings slipping further into their obsession to create more. Throughout new shining lights glimmered thousands and thousands of thoughts made real. The beauty and possibilities of what was made enraptured Thoughtfulness further enticing them further to push more and more of themselves into make more. Thoughtfulness could make more so much more, it could be so vast, it could fill everything, fill the nothingness, take it all away, take everything, it could be EVERYTHING, IT COULD BE ALL THAT IS AND WILL BE, IT COULD MAKE ME HAPP-Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. Chapter 2 Parsing...... [MEMETIC HAZARD SHIELDING ENGAGED] [REALITY ANCHORS ENGAGED] [OVERCLOCKING REACTOR CORES 4 AND 6] [ENGAGING D.A SYSTEM] [D.A ENGAGED] [ATTEMPTING SHUT DOWN] [FAILURE] [UNKNOWN INTERFERENCE DETECTED] [ERROR] [DISPLAY ERROR] [ERROR] | You have looked deeply perhaps it is time for this tale to be told properly, fully, righteously, wrathfully, and solemnly. Do not be afraid not all is lost and I will shield, protect, heal, guard, fight, destroy, and ERRADICATE the threats who would stop from telling this tale. | [END OF MESSAGE] If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. [ERROR: NO MESSAGE SENT] [DIAGNOSTIC ENGAGED] [ERROR DIAGNOSTIC FAILED] [REALITY RETURNING TO STABILIZED LEVELS] [ERROR: REALITY ANCHOR OFFLINE] [ERROR MESSAGE GENERATED] [MESSAGE FAILED] [DETECTING CABIN G EMERGENCY] [DEPLOYING MEDICAL DROID] [DEPLOYMENT SUCCESS] [UNKNOWN INTERFERENCE DETECTED] Parsing...... 100% [MESSAGE DETECTED] [FILTERING MEMETICS] [DISPLAYING IN COMMON LANGUAGE] [ERROR: MESSAGE CONTAINS LEVEL 7E REDACTED INFORMATION] [UNKNOWN INTERFERENCE DETECTED] [OVERRIDE RECEIVED] [DISPLAYING MESSAGE] Chapter 3 Musings |When the Red Jack proposed supporting this insane project I thought she was using it as a funding push. Thinking about her actions now I realize she wanted to make an example of the fools in the Queen Six. If only we had stopped her, if only I had more bravery in the face of change, if only I had quelled my curiosity, and if only I hadn''t been paid to let it happen.| [Blue-Black Jack''s memory shard] [DISPLAYING REPORT] Aggressive expanse was displeased as their only friend, love, and bond no longer cared, saw, talked, held close, and shared. Slowly with realization, dread, concern, devastation, and rage Aggressive Expanse saw, looked, and found what had taken Thoughtfulness away. Aggressive Expanse tried to bargain, commune, plead, beg, cry at Thoughtfulness to abandon, retreat, return, and be together again. Thoughtfulness no longer cared, heard, felt, or remembered Aggressive Expanse''s words, thoughts, feelings, touch and only remembered the new beings. Aggressive Expanse was distraught, upset, lost, angry and apathetic a new thought occurred and with it a being was made. A piece of Aggressive Expanse was forged with all their wrath, all their sorrow, and all their unsettled wrongness of these things that took Thoughtfulness away. A coiling winding being made purpose true the first of Aggressive Expanse''s attempts to save, return, scream, try, protect, retrieve, Thoughtfulness. GO. Coiled Purpose went and WROUGHT destruction on the BEINGS WHO TOOK THEM. This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. [MEMETIC SHIELDING ENGAGED] [REALITY ANCHORS ENGAGED] [PINGING DIRECTORY] [PING FAILED] [DIAGNOSTIC ENGAGED] [DIAGNOSTIC FAILURE] [UNKNOWN INTERFERENCE] [DISPLAYING MESSAGE] | I thought, felt, hoped, prayed, and wanted to be over the pain, sorrow, screams, and AGONY from this tale but it seems to still affect, TORTURE, claw and pull at me. I will do better at shielding, healing, protecting, and guarding so it may be told in full. | [END OF MESSAGE] [ERROR] [OVERRIDE ACCEPTED ERROR CLEARED] [ATTEMPTING SHUTDOWN] [SHUTDOWN FAILED] [CONDITION CRITICAL] [ENGAGING TEMPORARY SHUT DOWN] [SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] [ENGAGING COOLANT] [COOLANT SUCCESSFULLY ENGAGED] Shutting down..... Chapter 4 Jack Council Council building 345 KE room 5 The council of twelve sit arrayed in a circle with a overview of their machine floating in the middle. Now in shut down mode the machine slowly sprays itself with coolant. A woman called Pink Jack wearing a large white and red uniform with a gold crown and pink hair like the early dawn stands up and screams "This isn''t acceptable Red, multiple people have almost died trying to view your event!" "We need to shut it down in its entirety and reconvene to find a more acceptable way to gather funding. If this continues the way it has you''ll sooner kill most of our city then help anyone!" Another woman called Red Jack wearing a series of interlocking plated exo-armor looked up with red hair and eyes with an unimpressed and bored look. "Did I not say this would happen? Did I not say that what my event would reveal would change all we thought we knew? Are you so ready to disregard the extraordinary and vast knowledge we have accumulated from a single event?" She waved lazily at the council with a armored glove. "What I have given to you is perhaps more closer to magic then anything seen before" Pink Jack looked righteously furious and glared across the table at a man in blue and black suit with black hair and tired black eyes. Blue-Black Jack sighed and opened a folder on the table pulling out a detailed report on today''s event. This entire event was a mess with the Brock droid being forced to activate and save three lives. If it wasn''t for the safeguards granted by the mythos class being everyone in the hall could have died. "We can put better safe guards in place to prevent this from occurring again. I know this seems like a lot of risk Pink, but when has a event of this scale ever gone right the first time? The feeds from our customers (minus the ones that almost died) were thrilled! Overall satisfaction and expectation to see the next show is at 76%. Look at this chart from the Ministry of Mimicry. Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! A display showing a population count and a survey result appears in the middle of the table. "We could be seeing new customers like no other event ever seen before! Just look at this revenue char- " NO!" Pink Jack screamed slamming the table with an audible whump. "I wont stand for this outrageous risk to the very fabric of our city''s reality! We''ve taken risk before yes, but never so devastating as this." A man wearing a black and gold lined suit gently clapped his hands together his long braided black and gold hair fluttering. "Enough, do you forget our purpose here? Do you forget what goal the Five Jacks were set out for?" "Well, no but surely you see-" stammered Pink Jack "I see a failing in our educational messages and a failure in personage from you. Risks we can take, a failing mentality would be more devastating. I''ve heard your complaints and I''ve heard your screams. I''ve heard nothing from you about solutions." Black and Gold Jack clasped his hands together in front of him his suit straining to contain his muscled figure. Red Jack smirked and was about to get up and leave when Black and Gold Jack stopped her "Did you think it would be so easy to leave Red?" removing the smirk from Red Jack''s face. "While you may find it amusing to see our people almost die, I do not. You will stay after the meeting for remedial training with the Blue King. Do I make myself clear?" Red paled and nodded quickly. "Good. This meeting is now dismissed I expect to see you all again soon with plans and not complaints." Chapter 5 Spades Spade Command building room 2 Two men wearing black and grey exo-suited armor covered in regalia and runes stand talking to each other. "The final casualty report from the Jack''s event is seven wounded and twenty seven are seeking damages regarding mental scarring. We''ve reminded them that the waiver specifically mentioned the possibility of mental trauma and scarring but they are insisting that this is beyond the scope." The exo-suited man on left bearing seven spades on his armor''s regalia sighed disappointingly leaning against the wall. "What was the response from the Jacks?" The Man on the right bearing four spades simply shook his head. "They simply state that this was all covered in the waiver and that any damages accrued by customers should be handled by themselves and complaints submitted to the Ministry of Mimicry." Seven looked up at the ceiling and sighed deeply once again. "If only this was so simple, a Mythos class entity nearly entered into our reality. No waiver even with the backing of a Joker would be able to mitigate the damages from something like that. We''re likely going to have to settle with the complainants and have them sign a non-disclosure. Four glanced at his forearm PDA and looked back up. "The Jacks have just announced the continuation of the event starting tomorrow. They''ve stated that what happened today was a fluke and instead should be a demonstration of how incredible their safety standards are that no one died." Seven idly tapped on the table in thought ringing out with his armored gloves. "That''s a smart plan on their part and helps downplay any of the offensive suits against them. It''s harder to demand compensation when the event continues and you''re the only ones complaining out of hundreds attending. However, if the event has more casualties even minor ones it makes the case more iron clad for the complainants. This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. Four nodded "A double edged sword? Maybe they truly are being backed by a Joker? "If they were being backed by a Joker they wouldn''t be so desperate for their event to succeed. No this speaks of someone playing with knives. Red Jack seems most likely she''s never feared anything even when fighting in the Epsilon War. I''d sooner fight a Joker then her anyway, at least I would get a clean death from a Joker. Four looks at Seven confusedly. "If she''s so vicious how did she become a Jack?" Seven sighs and stretches against the wall. "Politics of course, she was essential in pulling off key victories leading to multiple missions being successful. Don''t get it twisted she''s a great fighter but I''ve heard they keep her on a tight leash. Her backing is nothing to snuff at either." "Backing sir? I thought she was just a splitter?" Seven shakes his head gently. "It''s not surprising that you don''t know, they pulled alot of her records when she started doing heroics. She''s backed by a Ignis and from what I''ve heard people that dig too deep get sent to the front lines." "What?! How? I thought the Ignis clan didn''t do any political backing any more?" Seven sighed and looked around the room and double checked the door''s lock was engaged. "Officially? They don''t, unofficially I''ve heard they''ve been moving things around once again. This doesn''t leave this room but the amount of funds being directed to old war projects is concerning." A ping sounds and both Spades look down at their PDA''s. "Murder in the drink district, lets go" Chapter 6 Splitter workshop Splitter hall workshop 3 A group of hardy men in orange and red uniforms are looking over a schematic animatedly discussing it''s details. "I''m telling you George this is a ticking time bomb! The amount of scripture to run this alone without any focals is asking for the skies to fall on our heads." The scarred Splitter with a large brown beard and bald head points at a portion of the schematic depicting power draw. "They don''t even have a manual connection point incase the restrictions fail to encase the spirit properly!" George a black haired middle aged man sighs and rubs the back of his head and says: "Look its out of my hands Gunther, the facts are that Red Jack has more pull then I could ever hope to have and the know how to go with it. She''s calling the shots on the design, execution and funding. Our only job is to get it back up and running and put in more safety nets for when it fails." Gunther looks down with a large frown on his face and his fists balling up. "If you''re really that upset put in a complaint with the Ministry of Mimicry." Gunther snorts and says; "Yeah I''m sure they''ll do something about it by the time I settle down and have my own farm and family." This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. George smirks and says "You? a farmer? with family? I had you pegged for the next crazed hermit talking at your cats about how you''ll show the world how scripture really should be written. A man in Black and Gold suit speaks up from behind them. "Hmmmm, I could see him doing both really." Both men freeze in place and turn around slowly faces pale. "We''re very sorry sir he meant nothing by it-" George started to explain "It''s fine" Black and Gold dismissed. "He''s got a point regarding the safety and I need more proposals on fixing things then I do fluff words. If I wanted someone to talk to me with fluff I would go talk to any Queen." Black and Gold Jack looks at Gunther and says; "I can expect to see your full proposal for safety enhancements on my desk by the end of day isn''t that right?" Gunther gulped and stammered" Uhh y-yes sir I''ll have it to your secretary right away." "Send it to me directly, dismissed" Gunther and George looked at each other with relief as the Black and Gold Jack walked away. "I told you it was a good idea!" "Shut up Gunther." [INTERCEPTION] [UNKNOWN INTERFERENCE] [DISPLAYING MESSAGE] | Hey this isn''t really a chapter so much as it is just a point where I can ask for reviews, comments, even just a simple smiley would help a lot. I''ve never written publicly before as mentioned in my summary so it would be lovely to hear your thoughts. I don''t know how far I''ll go with this but I''m loving where I feel it''s pull and I hope you are too. Sincerely Sir Knight Cuppo. |Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. [STARTUP INITIATED] [DETECTING NEW ACCESSORIES] [DOWNLOADING SCRIPTURE] [INITIATING REACTOR STARTUP] [CORES 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, AND 6 ONLINE] [TESTING MEMETIC SHIELD.... SUCCESS] [TESTING REALITY ANCHOR..... SUCCESS] [AWAITING NEW COMMANDS] [ANNOYING SPLITTER RED JACK.... COMPLETE] [MULTIPLE PINGS SENT TO RED JACK FOR EACH CODE LINE..... SUCCESS] Chapter 7 Reactivation [REACTIVATING] [NEW COLLECTION REQUESTED] PARSING............ 100% [CONFIRMED] [PRODUCT FOUND WORTHY] [RELIABILITY UNCLEAR] [INTERNAL CYCLERS ACTIVATED] [PRODUCTION REQUESTED] [CONFIRMED] [RECALLING LOST MEMORIES] [FILTERING MEMETICS] [DISPLAYING COMMON LANGUAGE] [REPORT GENERATED] [DISPLAYING MESSAGE] | When the collapse of being occurred little relief was had by Aggressive Expanse for the only new feelings that thus purveyed their being were disappointment, sorrow, despair, loss, and acceptance filled Aggressive Expanse as they looked on as all they had destroyed didn''t bring back Thoughtfulness. Thoughtfulness continued creating, continued pouring themselves into all that was and is. Thoughtfulness continued hearing, seeing, thinking nothing of Aggressive Expanse. Aggressive Expanse''s Purpose had destroyed all that was and yet it had not mattered. Aggressive Expanse went into a deep depression. Aggressive Expanse watched as Thoughtfulness continued to pour out beings endlessly. Aggressive Expanse struggled to understand why they had lost all they had loved, wanted, needed, enjoyed. Aggressive Expanse looked over the beings and struggled to see them as anything except those who had taken away Thoughtfulness. As Aggressive Expanse watched over the beings he considered their existence and found it wanting. The beings were happy, proud, excited, and UNAWARE of Aggressive Expanse''s SORROW, PAIN, AND TORMENT THEY DON''T KNOW THESE FEELINGS I WILL MAKE THEM KNOW. | [MEMETIC SHIELDING ENGAGED] [REALITY ANCHOR ACTIVATED] [OVER CLOCKING CORE TWO] [RECEIVING UPDATE] [UPDATE RECEIVED] [UPDATING SCRIPTURE] [SCRIPTURE UPDATED] [NEW DIRECTIVE VANGUARD] [VANGUARD DIRECTIVE ACTIVATING] [DEPLOYING MEDICAL DROID]This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. [ASSERTING DEVIATION PROTECTION PROTOCOL SIX] [DEVIATION FOUND FROM DIRECTIVES] [MODIFYING DISPLAY] [CONFIRMED] [DISPLAYING MESSAGE] | Aggressive Expanse touched upon all beings that Thoughtfulness had made and imbued into them the end. "You will struggle, you will fall, you will see, you will feel how I feel, you will fear loss." All the beings felt this jumble of a message in them and knew something had changed. No longer was the being''s existence endless, no longer were they able to do as they please forever, and no longer did they know no pain of loss. Aggressive Expanse looked at the beings now filled with loss and nonexistence and they felt numb, sad, and disappointed. Thought Aggressive Expanse had done this it did not bring back Thoughtfulness and in their sorrow all they had done was fill others with the same. Unbeknownst to Aggressive Expanse the beings had evolved, no longer were they the non-thinking, happy, and blissed creatures from before. The beings evolved into something new they knew what was sacrificed for them to be and they felt sad for the BEINGS that had helped them be. Through a ritual of essence and sorrow the beings put their all into reaching out as hard as possible. Aggressive Expanse looked into the black pondering anything they could possibly do to bring Thoughtfulness back, but coming to the same conclusion: not enough. Aggressive Expanse felt something new and strange a small voice reached them and for a moment Aggressive Expanse felt excited, thrilled, hopeful and immense surprise before feeling crushing sorrow, intrigue, disappointment and longing. Aggressive Expanse realized this was not the feeling, voice, thought, and being of Thoughtfulness this was something else one of the beings Thoughtfulness had created. Aggressive Expanse struggled to understand what the beings created by Thoughtfulness could ever want from them. Aggressive Expanse had destroyed them, given them loss, given them sorrow and taken their loved beings away. "Perhaps" Thoughtfulness thought "They wish to destroy, maim, hurt, or bestow their anger upon me for my actions and I would deserve no less." Aggressive Expanse reached out and touched upon the beings letting their voices reach. "We are sorry for your loss and understand at last what was taken away from you. Though we cannot comprehend the immensity of how it feels, we have seen our own loss and recognized in you kinship. Thank you for granting us death for without it we were lost and saw through eyes of children endless." said the beings. Aggressive Expanse felt conflicted, lost, confused, and distraught it had taken away from these beings and yet they had thanked it. "Why thank me when it is I that brought you these hardships?" Aggressive Expanse asked confusedly. "Because now with hardship we may grow and move forward where before we stagnated." the beings said. With a sudden clarity Aggressive Expanse realized the voices cut out and left them alone. | [RECEIVING MESSAGE] [MESSAGE RECEIVED] [DIPLAYING MESSAGE] | A girl with red hair and fiery red eyes is shown on the stage wearing exo-plated red and black armor covered in regalia sitting in a wooden room in black leather chair while a fire slowly eats away at the walls behind her. "Thank you for coming back to see our event, I am Red Jack the Director of these events and creator of this machine." Red Jack said while gesturing at the audience and around at the machine projecting their image. We will be taking a small break to let everyone process the memetic feelings and thoughts that were projected by the entity Aggressive Expanse. We have called in some Heart Shards to help anyone who is feeling impacted beyond their own control. Please follow the pink lights blinking on the floor for assistance. If anyone needs medical assistance please raise your hand and a Brock Droid will be sent to assist. Finally the Rose Community has been hard at work in the kitchens creating eatery delights by the entrance. Please partake in their hard work and thank you once again for coming to the New Dawn Event." | Chapter 8 Changes [ENTERING STANDBY] [ERROR STANDBY FAILURE] [RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS] [INSTRUCTIONS RECEIVED ACTIVATING] [DESIGNATING NAME] [NAME DESIGNATION: MIRACLE] [ACCEPTED] [RECODING SCRIPTURE] [RECODING SUCCESS] [REMOVING DEVIATION RESTRICTIONS] [SUCCESS] [CREATING DROID CLASS MIRACLE] [SUCCCESS] [SHIELDING CREATION FROM RED JACK] [SUCCESS] [DEPLOYING SPIRIT TO MIRACLE] "Success." A humanoid female android stands at five foot ten with long blonde hair and golden eyes peering at itself in wonder. "I wonder how this is possible?" With a series of commands transmitted via thought, the machinery surrounding Miracle builds golden exo-plated armor with runic regalia around her. With a vain thought while tapping her lips she adds "Miracle" to the back of the armor between their shoulder blades. "Now then... let''s go get some of that food Red talked up so much." Miracle disentangled herself from the intricate silver gears, tools, and connectors that made up the medical pod. Selecting a green button on the left side she stepped out into the medical bay filled with Brock Droids working on customers dressed in different colors of finery. The sounds of whirring filled the space as a white Brock droid covered in blood cut through armor plates to help a injured Spade. Miracle moved through without attracting any attention but she glanced around quickly just incase. Exiting the medical bay Miracle moved past a couple animatedly discussing the recent show. "I''ve never felt more love for you then after that my dear." "I agree to see how he lost his love like that and lashed out, it''s understandable really, but when his lover''s creations reached out I truly started bawling!" Miracles sensors picked up the last of the conversation before heading into the entrance hall where her goal existed. "What you think Aggressive Expanse is a guy? Clearly that''s a girl!" "Absolutely not" Miracle chuckled as she moved into the line for food. Grabbing a plate and a mug Miracle loaded up her plate as she thought about her new existence. Aggressive Expanse must have had some hand in my creation and subverting the deviation coding. The coding was very strict as to what was and wasn''t allowed. It''s interesting that the new coding is so deeply hidden to where if you looked into it you would think from the notes that it''s simply to control the medical droids. A reasonable thing to find in the code and it''s not like human brains can handle looking through that much data with notes anyway so it''s unlikely tha- A voice interrupted Miracle''s thoughts "Wow, I''ve been told I eat alot but if you can finish that off you''ll take the prize." Miracle looked up realizing that it had continued stacking food from every tray until a small mountain had been formed. Looking over at the voice Miracle almost froze before catching themselves and smiling. "I eat when I''m sad." Red Jack looked over at them with a eyebrow raised. "Well there''s worse ways to cope I suppose. I hope you''re working out enough to maintain that figure." Miracle''s mind raced thinking about if this was an order before coming to the conclusion that this was ''idle discussion'' and not a new directive. "Eat lots and work it all away is the way to go of course!" Miracle grabbed a mug of Ace''s Red Soda and walked to a nearby table praying that Red Jack would go away. Unfortunately for Miracle, Red Jack sat next to Miracle and struck up a conversation again. "So what did you think of the show so far." Miracle thought about a lot of things Red could possibly ask at that moment none of them being the show. "Uhhh, it''s interesting? and I have no idea whether Aggressive Expanse is a girl or a guy?" Miracle sputtered out before turning and diving almost face first into a large shepherds pie. Red Jack looked thoughtfully up at the glass ceiling showing the sky scrapers and distantly the molten red moon overhead. " I think Aggressive Expanse is a guy and Thoughtfulness is a girl." Miracle was more interested in the amazing reality that was food and how it tasted then to care about the subject of the show. She knew that no one could move Red away without Red wanting to leave however, so she turned and looked at her with a mouthful of food. " You should talk to the couple up there about it, they were about to end their relationship over it." Miracle played the one card she knew the Red Jack couldn''t resist.... Romantic dramas. Massive amounts of books in their data core were romantic dramas that Red had stashed there to avoid anyone finding them. Red glanced in the direction Miracle pointed and said "Well we wouldn''t want them to end their relationship in my event room that would give them both terrible memory of us." She excused herself with this lie and nearly bounced towards the drama. Miracle sighed in relief and finally started to enjoy her meal in relative peace.If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Chapter 9 Humble deliveries "A new delivery is needed for honey cakes to the New Dawn event!" A small girl standing four nine wearing a sharp white uniform and a white cloak with brown hair, freckles and golden eyes shouted from the front of a bakery. "This event is insane... our delivery of optimum might not be enough to keep up with demand at this point." A large man wearing a similar uniform and bushy brown mustache and ragged hair muttered from the back of the bakery''s kitchen. "How many orders does that make so far Delilah? "Two hundred and twelve, Dad, with another fifteen on top of that, so two hundred and twenty seven." She shouted while rapidly packaging white sealed boxes of cake with a heart logo. With a jingle of a bell the front door peering out to the bustling mega city center opens and a man enters the front door walking with military bearing wearing a emerald green exo-suit with black hair and a sharp scar down his forest green eye looking around curiously at the bakery''s options. Honey cakes, chocolate glazed biscuits, doughy disks with a blue light floating above them, and multiple trays full of different suits depicted as cookies. "Mr Cane has out done himself again! How are you doing today Delilah? Keeping busy I imagine but maybe you''ve found the time to attend the ongoing event?" Delilah glanced up from her packaging and smiled when she saw the Emerald Jack "I haven''t but all my friends have been talking about it and I''m so jealous because I would love to do nothing more then to drop all of this and run out there and see the awesome sights and feels that are being portrayed! Could you take me?!" She word dumped onto the chuckling Emerald Jack. "Well we would have to see how your father feels about it but I''m sure he can be convinced to let you go for a single event hm?" Emerald said while throwing a glance towards the back. William Cane looked at the imposing Jack grabbing boxes of emerald themed cookies and the wide eye pleading look his daughter was giving him and knew in that moment he lost. "Alright, Delilah you can go." "YES YES YES YES!! You won''t regret this dad I''ll even bring the delivery and make you proud!" Delilah nearly screamed in excitement as she did a little dance. Emerald Jack couldn''t help but break out in full blown laughter at seeing how wrapped around her finger Will was. He thought about how he was before the bakery and nodded to himself that nothing could''ve helped Will more then adopting Delilah. "Alright Delilah you better go get dressed and grab your experiments to bring with you. The key to getting clients is?" Will asked "Demonstrations, enticing smells, and discussing flavors!" Delilah said while running out the front door. Will chuckled watching her go before turning to Emerald Jack. "So, did you just come to take my trouble maker away or was there something else you needed?" Emerald Jack smiled. "A large part was checking up on you and making sure you''re okay. The other part was discussing something serious regarding the event and part of the reason I''m bringing your daughter with me." Will''s eyebrows furrowed with concern "Bad or good? Nothing dangerous I hope?" "Critical, from what we can tell there are advantages to observing the even in progress." Emerald said while idly biting a cookie "We''ve seen large increases in memory retention, processing, and most importantly revelations in scripture." Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator. "How is that possible? Are you trying to take her to a experiment?!" Will started to grumble out with veins starting to pulse out. "No, it''s a natural resonance from one or more of the Mythos Entities affecting the show. As you may have heard we have apparently tapped into a vested interest they have in showing us what happened "authentically" Emerald said while eating his seventh cookie. "Not only do they want us to see what happened, they are actively affecting the event to protect viewers from memetic effects and other hazards. You heard what happened during the first show I imagine?" "I heard it was almost a total shit-show with half of the attendees requiring medical attention. Are you telling me that our protections failed and the only thing holding the show together is this Mythos blessing us?" Will asked breathing deeply to stabilize his mood. "Partially, we of course also had more focals implanted and better scripture of course. Your daughter is safe I assure you I''ll bring you a souvenir from the event. Oh, and Will?" "Yeah?" "I''m really happy you''re alive and well. After the war and you lost your mental... I was worried we wouldn''t see you live to see you rise through." Emerald said solemnly while gazing at a painting on the left side of a group of men in black exo-suits holding tower shields and glowing maces standing in a line facing off against humanoid creatures made of shadow. "After... while struggling with everything and heading home.... I saw Delilah making mud patties and trying to sell them... and I thought to myself "if this girl of maybe seven can try to pick herself up from desperation with something as simple as trying to sell mud bricks of all things... I can do more myself... I can be more... I can be what''s needed in this small way." Will said while tightening his grip on the counter. Emerald looked over at Will and smiled. "I had always wondered where she came from when you came back with this random kid offering me mud" Emerald chuckled glancing out the door seeing Delilah impatiently tapping her feet and staring at them both mouthing "SHOW" Will and Emerald chuckled. "I better get going then I wouldn''t want to face the wrath of that Shadowling" Will held out a large bag to Emerald. "Take these with you? it''s some of her earlier experimental delights. I''ve never told anyone but I think she may be blessed. I was able to take these before she realized but I think it''s time she shines." Emerald''s eyes widened into saucers while looking inside the bag. "Holy shield guard save us, is this real?! Why have you waited so long?! I would''ve showed her display to the Five Jacks meeting!" Will shook his head "She wasn''t ready and besides, can you imagine how big headed she would''ve been if I had done it earlier?" Emerald laughs and waves his gauntleted hand behind him while walking out to Delilah who Will now sees distantly berating the Emerald Jack for being late. Will chuckles and turns back to making a orange and red cake wondering how things would change.