A silvery-white glow stretched endlessly in every direction.
Lorne slowly opened his eyes. This time, he really had been dreaming.
"Silvery white..." he murmured.
"Calamity Premonition didn't react. It didn't seem to be warning me of danger."
"What does this mean...?"
"The snake in my earlier dream was the same color..."
"Silvery white must have some special significance to the Fate pathway..."
"Could it be... that the messages I wrote on the Paper Crane got a response? Did Will write back?"
Just as Lorne lowered his head in thought, his spiritual intuition was suddenly jolted! He instinctively glanced to his side but saw nothing. However, a letter had appeared out of thin air on the large desk in his office.
Lorne's heart tightened. He cautiously opened it, revealing familiar, scrawled Chinese characters.
Roselle's Diary...
"Queen Mystic's messenger really is unusual. It seems to be invisible and incorporeal..."
"Perhaps... I could write to her and ask a few questions..." Although Lorne remained quite wary of Queen Mystic, she was currently one of the few avenues through which he could obtain high-level Beyonder knowledge.
"I'll just consider it payment for translating this diary." He found an excuse for his idea. "I could also ask whether she knows a suitable Artisan..."
Several Beyonder characteristics he had obtained at sea still lay quietly in his Portable Space. They were all mid-sequence characteristics, and selling them outright would attract far too much attention. After all, Backlund was not the sea, where all sorts mingled freely. Official surveillance was everywhere. Having them made into suitable Mystical Items would undoubtedly be the best choice.
After all, the Winner pathway lacked neither spirituality nor "luck"...
Sometimes, he even thought that the Monster pathway, with its abundant spirituality and ability to use "luck" to avoid most negative effects, was