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He was here walking around, talking to people. Like his history was his own. The nerve.

[Dorian would prefer to have at least some idea of what people might have learned and which ones might know more.]

Yes, precisely. A hole between our world and the Fade. Very unhealthy for a number of reasons.

I can't imagine how you must suffer thinking about it. Except I can because it's occurring to me that if I die, Billy's Doctor Strange might show up in my place.

Creepy.

Seeing another similarity between your story and mine.

Dorian is torn between laughing and trying not to think too hard about the horror of their existence.]

Yes, we do seem to share quite a bit of common ground.

But we were discussing magic, I think, as enjoyable as this digression into my uniqueness has been. What do you think the chances are that whatever is under Norfinbury is related to time magic?

[He'd meant to bring up that idea more smoothly but oh well.]

Time magic?

[He's honestly surprised by the question. For once he hesitates, though it only lasts the briefest of moments.]

Not very high, if I'm honest. There's not a lot you can do without the Eye of -- the infinity stone, the time stone --

[His efforts to head himself off from naming the artifact backfire, leading instead to tighter clarification.]

-- which is definitely not in a library in Kathmandu inviting some kind of invasion if anyone finds out it's there -- oh, for --

Well, then. Alright. I will note that I have no desire to experiment with this or invade Kathmandu, but, this Stone. Is it a green sphere by any chance?

Capable of holding immense power. Arcane lore practically wafts off it. That sort of thing? Roughly three times the size of a man's closed fist as a wild example?

[Stephen would be more worried if he thought there was a chance of this getting back to someone who could actually do something about it. And, well, if he had more of a choice about blabbing. He lets out almost a choking sound in surprise.]

Ye -- no? Green yes, sphere, yes, immense power yes. Crystal ball size? No. It's tiny, it's a little rock in a pendant.

I'd be more comforted if I knew whether the size was necessary for a somniborium or yet another instance of Magisters being unnecessarily melodramatic. Does it have any connection with dreams or travel between worlds? Most of my experiences with such devices have been overwhelmingly negative.

No? I don't think it does. It's...an infinity stone. I don't -- I don't know what that means. I know how to use it, but I have no idea what the thing is.

A somniborium is a Vessel of Dreams. It contains immense power that can be put to a number of uses evidently. They're Elvhen so I don't know as much about them as I might. There seems a strong likelihood the elves brought them to Thedas when they crossed worlds.

[A hesitation.]

The time travel I experienced was only possible while the escaped energy from a broken one was warping reality.

Not the same thing, then. This thing wasn't broken; you just had to know how to tap into it. How not to tap into, too, but the casing helped with that.

Well, no. But that was one somniborium. There were others. And if the power unleashed by breaking it could threaten the fabric of the world, then I imagine the same could be said of an intact one in the hands of an experienced wielder. Which Inquisitor Cadash wasn't. More of an accidental wielder.

A special casing? Made of anything in particular?

I mean, there are other infinity stones, too. That new guy today, Peter the Whatever, he was just telling me he and his friends used one to disintegrate some guy who was trying to use it to kill a bunch of people. From the way he told it I should have been killed the second I picked the thing up, but -- I don't think it's the material of the casing, again, I think it's the shape of it. The Eye is latticed with the same symbol as the one of the sanctums, it's some kind of seal -- the Vishanti? Seal of the Vishanti.

I'm going to guess Vishante doesn't mean the same thing to you as it does to me. Or maybe it does. "On my tongue" could have some sort of greater symbolic meaning.

[English's lack of an imperative case made that statement less clear than in Tevene. It was missing the verb that would complete the command.]

I would talk to Peter about this but I'm not sure of the quality of information I'd receive.

No, they're -- a power. Beings. I'm not sure. There's a book. Didn't quite make it onto my reading list yet.

Listen, I need to go. I could talk to you all night -- I could talk to anyone all night, I literally cannot shut up right now -- but I'm going to at least try to sit down and meditate because I don't know the next time I'll have a chance at sleeping.

Sleep well.

[Dorian logs off before Stephen can reply.]

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