John: Look to your right.
This will at least buy you some time. If you stay calm, and we work together, we can get you out of this. I'm practically an expert at escaping fires by now. ok, thank you rose. hey, how do you know these things anyway? can you see me somehow? Yes. I have a crystal ball. oh man, really? Yes. like a magic one? I think so. can it show you the future? is that how you know what's going to happen? No, it can only show me various locations in the present moment, as far as I can tell. My perception of the future has been informed by other sources. like what? Informants. durrrrr. Whispering gods, memories sifted from dreams, cryptic readings from unearthed talismans, conclusions drawn from riddles deciphered - every gambit you'd expect a quest to extend to an emerging seer. Just as I presume an heir would be supplied with what's needed for his maturation, assuming he's looking for it. oh... yeah. point taken. i guess i should be looking, huh? You should probably be doing what you're doing. okay, so... with what you've learned from your dreams and gods and magic and stuff... do you have it all mapped out now? do you know everything? I didn't know why you were asleep, did I? yeah, but... neither did i! I have more pedestrian sources too, you know. Sometimes trolls blither tidbits about the future, and I can't help but take note of it. Just as they do with you. You also have access to the oracle clouds in Skaia, whereas I do not. oh yeah. Knowing the future is no remarkable feat here. It appears to be a fact of life. I'm not all that special, John. ok, buuuuuut... i guess that's not all i'm talking about. you seem a little different. kind of, um... spooky? Really? i just mean that before, it felt like we were in this adventure together, figuring stuff out as we went along. and now you have all the answers! because of magic, and other mysterious reasons! and you want to use your powers to break the game, and i still don't really understand why, and... bluh. I'm not actually trying to caricaturize a grim sorcerer. There's still a perfectly intact piece of my mind which realizes how ridiculous it is to be flying across rainbow oceans with a couple of magic wands and a salamander in a little cowl. And it wasn't without swallowing a little embarrassment that I revealed I was using a crystal ball just now. It's all pretty absurd. And yet, It's been fun, and above all, practical. For solving our problems. ok, yeah, you're right. i guess i just started worryin'... that you are getting away from us! because you know everything, and you're magic, and you have a crystal ball, and a salamander, and you are basically a wizard. and that's cool, and it sure does sound fun... but i kinda think it was more fun when you just did things like read books, and tell jokes. I still read books and tell jokes. BA-DUM PSHHH! John, That was mean. sorry. :(
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