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"How about this?" said Vissarion. "Ivan and I can be back outside again--" (he pointed off to his left) "--roughly THAT direction, in less than twenty minutes, and wait for you to emerge. There are two readymade openings on that side already, though the direct approach to one of them has a pit in the way. Once out, we'll stand by where we can see a large extent of the perimeter. Air drafts should give you a sign if you're near either opening; if really near, you'll find some of my trail marks. Your disappearing lady should be able to find our windows easily enough; both of them are pretty close to outside ground level. While we're waiting for you, I'll see if I can spot more bricked-over windows to open up for the ones who CAN'T phase through them. How does that sound to you?"
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"Nice plan," Veragoe said with a nod, "And the disappearing girl is named Meridia. But I dont think you'll have to open windows, Meridia can phase the others through. And be careful out there, I dont want to be the stewardess of a funeral." She said with a smile, "See ya at the top."

"I'll go with you," Jade said to the men, "If we meet one of those things I want to take an analysis of it.
 
"I hope you can be satisfied analyzing it dead," said Ivan to Jade. "That's the only condition I'm comfortable having them around in." Vissarion more courteously added, "I respect your wish to reason with those beings. But while you know many things which are beyond me, about those monsters I speak from closer and more detailed knowledge than I ever wanted to have. They are, as I said, intelligent beings; but all their logic is warped by the starting premise that they are better than every other form of life, and they are allowed to do ANYTHING they please to 'lesser' beings. But if dead is good enough, we may find again the carcass of the one Ivan and I slew together by one of the windows."
 
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"I hope you can be satisfied analyzing it dead," said Ivan to Jade. "That's the only condition I'm comfortable having them around in." Vissarion more courteously added, "I respect your wish to reason with those beings. But while you know many things which are beyond me, about those monsters I speak from closer and more detailed knowledge than I ever wanted to have. They are, as I said, intelligent beings; but all their logic is warped by the starting premise that they are better than every other form of life, and they are allowed to do ANYTHING they please to 'lesser' beings."
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"The Grimik philosophy," Jade said, "you see he was a tyrant and a rebel against Siad, the creater of life, after Siad blessed his brother. That mentality is hard to break but it can be broken. Grimik Vonn had a wife named Zerice, and she broke that mentality after several centuries. Im not saying Im going to redeem these creatures, I just want to know their physiology. You can kill them that's fine, I'll join you even. If they're anything like Grimik, who wanted his own daughter, Meridia, dead then I wont let my conscience get in the way."

"It never did anyhow," Veragoe added wryly.
 
"No need to exercise qualms of conscience on YOUR side," Vissarion assured the women, "when facing those tentacled abominations. You can be certain that THEY don't let any conscience impede THEM. Speaking of which, the main party mustn't let the young ones get out of sight; the monsters might make another hostage-taking attempt.

"Another thing. I have only fought them in conditions of material reality, because the Creator won't let them be able to try anything on me unless they're in a physical body which also can die. But they might be able to attack a phased person in ways I have never seen."
 
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"No need to exercise qualms of conscience on YOUR side," Vissarion assured the women, "when facing those tentacled abominations. You can be certain that THEY don't let any conscience impede THEM. Speaking of which, the main party mustn't let the young ones get out of sight; the monsters might make another hostage-taking attempt."
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"No need for worry, I have eyes on them like hawks on prey."

"Her kids were THE most sheltered kids of all time," Jade said.

"First they were mine and KEVEN's of course I did. You remember when we were young and stupid. Plus your boys needed a good whip sometimes too. Brenn especially."

"Yeah well I'm just saying Quenn should have been allowed on that date with that Yelserian prince."

"He was a player."

"Ugh so? She could have gotten the experiance."

"This is dumb, quit it."
 
Vissarion, having nothing to contribute to this argument of the ultra-super-duper-hyper-waycool-chicks, urges Jade to come along now with him and Ivan. "There wasn't much farther for the sun to go when we came back indoors," he tells her; "though this world's rotation--yes, I do know about planets rotating--appears to be slower than Ivan and I are accustomed to."
 
Ivan listened to the entire conversation in annoyance.
"Look," he said, obviously trying to restrain himself, "Nobody can reason with these stupid things. They're evil. Some things are just evil for no reason. Mr. Vissy and I are going out. Have fun having therapy hour with the monster things. Maybe you can create a monster book club."
 
Vissarion, quite certain that Jade did intend to accompany them, tried to keep both her and Ivan within his view, despite Ivan impulsively starting ahead.


OOC: Lonny, you can pick up Vissarion any time; I've merely written more for him since you haven't been.
 
When he realized that Vissy wasn't following, he stopped.
"Do we really need a Super-human-girl with us? Come onnnn." Ivan rolled his eyes. He remembered, however, Vissarion's warning about antagonizing powerful people, so he stopped talking before saying something ruder.
"Does she HAVE to come with us, Mr. Vissy?" he whispered to Vissarion, "Does she really think she can learn anything about the Monster-things?"
 
"What can it hurt?" said Vissarion to Ivan. "In an environment SO unfamiliar to us, who knows what information might prove helpful? Besides, why NOT be cooperative with others when we can be? Why NOT make alliances? You know, it is possible to relate with people in other ways than anger and fear; aren't you and I proving this by being, um, companions in this adventure?"

"Are you just saying all this because you're afraid of those women?" Ivan suddenly asked.

"Not a bit," replied the swordsman. "God has taken care of me so far; and in the very worst case, if they had a tantrum and used some super-duper-power to kill me, nothing in the universe, least of all them, could prevent Him from bringing me back to life in my own world if He chooses. But I'm a little afraid for YOUR sake. Will you please TRY to get along with people?"
 
"Well, Mr. Vissy," said Ivan, "I'm not the most relational person, and if your God can bring you back, why couldn't he bring me back to my world? I do think, Mr. Vissy, that you're mistaken about this God. I had a friend once. Do you know what happned to him? He got chewed by a shark, and was slowly dying from loss of blood, lack of water, and exhuastion. And he always said that God would take care of him. Well God didn't stop the bullet from entering his brain. God didn't stop him from sinking to the bottom of the sea to be shark bait. Do you know where he is now, Mr. Vissy?" Ivan glared at him. Then he looked at the super-human girls.
"They don't scare me. They won't kill me. I'm not going to die. I refuse to die until I've reached the Lake House, even if I'm one-legged and bleeding."
 
"My friend," said Vissarion, "your attitude is like this castle itself--blocked off from a whole world around it. We didn't know what environment was outside until we GOT outside. Likewise, your bitter view of things is not enlightening you, it's BLINDING you to so much that you're missing. One of the biggest hurdles you need to cross is the delusion that God OWES us happiness and safety. We are HIS property, not He ours. As for your unfortunate friend, you DON'T know that God could not compensate him in eternity; and as for yourself, God is not ignoring you--at the risk of seeming to brag, He sent ME to befriend you. Now, I expect Jade to catch up to us any moment now. In return for my not objecting to 'Vissy,' please try to be civil to her."
 
"Nobody owes me anything, least of all a God I don't believe in. He doesn't seem to do his followers any favors, so why should he do me, of all people any? I hope, however, he does exist. That way, at least, my poor dead friend is happy after death. I, however, will probably just go back to the earth.
As for Him sending you....that could just be luck. Whether it be luck or some Cosmic Force, I'm glad He did. How much is He paying you to be nice to me?"
He looked back at Jade and gritted his teeth.
"For you, Mr. Vissy, I'll keep my sarcasm to myself."
 
"You may not yet understand this, Ivan," said the warrior softly, "but the 'reward' is bound up in the deed itself. It makes me happy TO BE someone who prefers to be friendly with others. And your not being aware of clearly recognizable interventions by God proves only that you still have plenty to learn."
 
"You're weird, Mr. Vissy. Friendship is fine while it lasts, but it never lasts fovever. People die, and the friendships break." Ivan said, shrugging. "As for 'interventions of God", no mystical man came down from the sky to save me from the monster-thing. That was you. How is there a connection between you and some mystical man in the sky?"
 
"Let me give you an example. As you know, those things can only threaten me if they take on a bodily form in the material plane. But in my world, there was a time when some of my people grew so deluded as to worship those things as gods--which gave them a sort of opening to exert their influence EVEN while staying safe from retaliation in their incorporeal form. Those of us opposing them were powerless to harm or hinder them physically; but when I and some others with me PRAYED in faith, God used His superior power to banish them from our world forever. Afterwards, I was called to visit other worlds for a time, to fight the same demons there."
 
"Gentlemen," Jade said, "This super-human woman can not take anymore theological descusions, can't we focus on the way out of here?" She turned to Ivan, "Besides the information I gather will be very helpful. No offense, or anything, but what weaknesses and strengths I can uncover about a species will blow your mind." She said as she pulled out a gold and silver triangular device, called a physo-septor.
 
"Well," said Ivan, "he must have some power, then, but His Power may be useless here." He turned to the Super-human girl.
"We don't need to find a way out. We've already found it. Vissy and me." He was trying to hide his annoyance.
"And I think Vissy knows about these monster-things, anyway, without the help of funky jewlery."
 
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"Well," said Ivan, "he must have some power, then, but His Power may be useless here." He turned to the Super-human girl.
"We don't need to find a way out. We've already found it. Vissy and me." He was trying to hide his annoyance.
"And I think Vissy knows about these monster-things, anyway, without the help of funky jewlery."
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"I know you two know the way out," she sneered, "I meant lets keep going with out all this bickering on religious differances. And this, what did you call it funky? Well this funky jewelry will help us know its blood pattern and its glucose tolerance."
 
"Why the hell should I care about glucose level? All I know is the *bleep* thing wants to eat me!" He kicked the wall. When he had calmed down, he turned to the super-human girl.
"Look," he said calmly, "What does blood-pattern have to do with anything?"
 
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