p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Sleeping was a bit of a mess./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""My bed was a queen, and my sofa folded down, so we had enough space for four people to sleep on the beds, six if we could squeeze in together./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""That said, folding out both of the beds meant that there wasn't much space./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""So we had to go with plan B./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Elizabeth opened up the portal to the forest world again, and I dug the painting tarps out of storage. The geography of that world was more or less the same as this earth, but without any man-made additions./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""So, with Starfire, Raven and Mercy able to fly, we headed up north to a cave that would be a fairly dry place to sleep./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""It took us a while, but before too long, we were eating wraps around a campfire and discussing our plans./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""We should probably head to Tracer and Mercy's world first." I suggested, "Not only is it the safest from the point of view of wanting to avoid cosmic powers but, as long as we can make contact with Winston it opens up a lot of options for us."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Gwen nodded, "I've been looking at Tracer's Chronal Accelerator. If he can make something like that, being able to stabilize Liz's portals would be a snap."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""I've been trying to remember if there are any spells we can use to smooth our entries to my word." Raven stated, "But I don't really know how we would go about that."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I nodded, "The lore for the worlds you, Starfire and Gwen come from is pretty dense, but I do have a theory. According to some of the comics, at one point the two universes were a single one, and they were split, with a single man guarding the connection between them. I want to see if there's any overlap in the quantum signatures we get from the two of you so that we can make contact with him."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""We will be meeting our friends again?" asked Starfire./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Tracer nodded, "Don't worry, we will get you home as soon as we can."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I Turned to raven who I saw sitting on a bunch of clothes we brought over as sleeping surfaces./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""You know, we won't make you go home if you don't want to." I offered./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Raven looked up at me in surprise, her hood falling back./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I settled in next to her, holding up a plate of meat, salad, flatbread and hummus./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""As she put together a wrap we sat in silence. "It's just… I can't feel him here, you know?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""I suppose that, if I knew that, out there, there was someone that was able to reach me wherever I was, no matter what I did, it would feel amazing to slip his grasp."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Raven leant back an watched the other girls chatting, "Star wants to go home though."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""You would have given your dad the boot anyways." I mention, "Since we know how you did it, we can make sure you are ready for him."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""Would that really work?" Raven asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""It goes against the teachings of Azar, doesn't it?" I ask, and Raven nods, "Firstly, Azar's techniques were developed for humans, so you can't just assume that applying them to a demon would just work. Or well, he shouldn't have assumed that. I mean, considering my limited understanding of psychology, it's probably not great for humans either. Not to mention that Azar's practices might have created Trigon in the first place."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Raven looked at me in shock. "What!?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""Well, I don't know how true it is, but at least some depictions of your dear old dad have him formed from or empowered by the dark urges that the inhabitants of Azeroth severed from their souls. The timeline you seem to be from, considering your appearance, doesn't go into the details of Trigon's birth so we don't know if it's true for you."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I caught Raven as she leaned into my chest, "Did they know?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I shrugged, "I don't know if they knew what their urges were used for, but I can't imagine that a group of mystics wouldn't know about the mystical significance of cutting off portions of their souls. If every setting I've read about, that sort of thing is some pretty bad juju."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""You really believe I can beat him."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I massage her arm gently, "Even if we don't have the time to help you properly develop your powers, we will stand by you. Between us, we have access to nine different worlds at least. And we've confirmed that this one, at least, is beyond his reach. We have the resources and ability required to seal him again even on the unlikely chance that we can't destroy him."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Raven smiled, "It's hard to believe, but I didn't think I would ever be beyond his reach."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""Just relax for now. We've got a long day tomorrow." I say./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Raven nodded and returned to her food./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""The food's getting cold!" Arhi called out./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I laughed, "I'm coming!"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""After we finished eating, we got to talking about the worlds we came from. Angela and Lena - as Mercy and Tracer asked us to call them - told us about the Omnic Crisis and the disbanding of Overwatch, before their stories delivered. Lena told us of the missions she ran on her own and Angela told us about her work healing people and advancing biotic technology/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""I actually was wondering how that worked."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Mercy grinned a little sheepishly, "We don't really know how it does. I mean, don't get me wrong, we've tested it extensively, with trials going on for years without any signs of negative effects, but we don't actually know how it does what it does. It just seems to super-charge the body somehow. We learned how to make it from studying the healing powers of an Omnic monk named Zenyatta."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""Interesting, but I actually had a little experiment for us to try." I motion to Ahri who perked up, "I'm not sure if this Ahri can do it, but the version of her in Summoner's Rift is capable of absorbing life-force. I want to see if your biotic energy is the same stuff."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""We all paused./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Ahri was the first to speak, "I can do that, it's actually how I became a pop-star. I needed to find a profession where I could regularly meet with enough people that I could feed myself with just the excess energy that people release naturally, I found that enjoyed performing on stage and the rest is history."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""With that put forward, we turned to Mercy./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""She smiled, "This is fascinating! With this, we will be able to gain such an insight into the working of this mysterious force! Winston should be able to help me design some equipment to let us test this."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I nod, "We can try tomorrow in order to see if Elizabeth to make contact with your world. But I suppose that brings up one other thing. How will we be making contact with our worlds."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Starfire frowned, "What do you mean?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""Should we announce that we have the means to travel to different worlds to everyone. I know that my world is pretty unstable and if it suddenly came out that a small group of people knew how to travel to worlds that we thought of as fiction all of a sudden, things would probably go to shit." I stated./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Hinata sighed, "What you showed me on the internet… ninjas could cause a lot of damage very easily in your world. And I don't know if we could protect Elizabeth from the more powerful ninjas."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Yang paused, "A world without the Grimm… a lot of people would do a lot of terrible things to get that."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I nod, "Since the ability to travel between worlds is basically solely the domain of Elizabeth right now, we need to consider how we are going to release that. I for one am not going to allow Elizabeth to be forced to open portals all day against her will."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""We all considered it./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Eventually, a plan began to form./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""We wanted to protect Elizabeth first and foremost. We wanted to allow her to be free to do what she wanted, though, preferably if she dropped us off in our homeworlds first./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Other than that, we wanted to be able to protect our homes from this technology. Or at least, if it became one. If we were able to produce portals independently of Elizabeth, we wanted to make sure that the technology wouldn't be used to harm each-others worlds. Everyone admitted that they knew of people on their worlds that would do terrible things with this technology./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""With that, we had an idea of what we wanted./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""We wanted two basic technologies. One, that allowed us to travel between worlds without bothering Elizabeth. And another, that blocked travel to a world./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""We currently had four lines for developing that sort of technology./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Firstly, we had Elizabeth. While we weren't willing to curtail her freedom or subject her to invasive testing, Winston was smart enough to create the Chronal Accelerator for Tracer. If he can get a solid read on how Elizabeth's powers work, we should have a solid idea as to how we could replicate or disrupt those abilities./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""The next two options were much more dangerous. Both Gwen and Raven's worlds had access to technology that could travel between worlds. Gwen's had Fisk's collider and Raven's world had Bleed tech. Neither had been shown to reach beyond the boundaries of their specific multiverses, but it wasn't impossible for them to be refined into a technology that could./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Finally, we had the worst option./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""The Oostuki clan were able to travel between worlds, the extent of which was never shown. It was presumably a chakra technique, though how we would develop it without ticking off the genocidal farmers, we didn't know./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Still, even once we had that technology, we needed to be able to make sure it wouldn't be misused./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Which was how we came to our latest development./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""We wanted to police this technology, to protect our worlds from predation and to prevent our worlds from preying on others./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""So on that night, the Planar Pact was made. An agreement between all of us, that we would work to make sure that we could police the use of the technology we would be developing, and to make sure that we would be careful when giving out this technology./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""It wouldn't work forever, nothing would, but if we worked together we could at least make sure that decent people would be there to help us stop things if they get out of hand./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""My bed was a queen, and my sofa folded down, so we had enough space for four people to sleep on the beds, six if we could squeeze in together./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""That said, folding out both of the beds meant that there wasn't much space./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""So we had to go with plan B./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Elizabeth opened up the portal to the forest world again, and I dug the painting tarps out of storage. The geography of that world was more or less the same as this earth, but without any man-made additions./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""So, with Starfire, Raven and Mercy able to fly, we headed up north to a cave that would be a fairly dry place to sleep./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""It took us a while, but before too long, we were eating wraps around a campfire and discussing our plans./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""We should probably head to Tracer and Mercy's world first." I suggested, "Not only is it the safest from the point of view of wanting to avoid cosmic powers but, as long as we can make contact with Winston it opens up a lot of options for us."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Gwen nodded, "I've been looking at Tracer's Chronal Accelerator. If he can make something like that, being able to stabilize Liz's portals would be a snap."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""I've been trying to remember if there are any spells we can use to smooth our entries to my word." Raven stated, "But I don't really know how we would go about that."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I nodded, "The lore for the worlds you, Starfire and Gwen come from is pretty dense, but I do have a theory. According to some of the comics, at one point the two universes were a single one, and they were split, with a single man guarding the connection between them. I want to see if there's any overlap in the quantum signatures we get from the two of you so that we can make contact with him."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""We will be meeting our friends again?" asked Starfire./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Tracer nodded, "Don't worry, we will get you home as soon as we can."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I Turned to raven who I saw sitting on a bunch of clothes we brought over as sleeping surfaces./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""You know, we won't make you go home if you don't want to." I offered./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Raven looked up at me in surprise, her hood falling back./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I settled in next to her, holding up a plate of meat, salad, flatbread and hummus./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""As she put together a wrap we sat in silence. "It's just… I can't feel him here, you know?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""I suppose that, if I knew that, out there, there was someone that was able to reach me wherever I was, no matter what I did, it would feel amazing to slip his grasp."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Raven leant back an watched the other girls chatting, "Star wants to go home though."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""You would have given your dad the boot anyways." I mention, "Since we know how you did it, we can make sure you are ready for him."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""Would that really work?" Raven asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""It goes against the teachings of Azar, doesn't it?" I ask, and Raven nods, "Firstly, Azar's techniques were developed for humans, so you can't just assume that applying them to a demon would just work. Or well, he shouldn't have assumed that. I mean, considering my limited understanding of psychology, it's probably not great for humans either. Not to mention that Azar's practices might have created Trigon in the first place."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Raven looked at me in shock. "What!?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""Well, I don't know how true it is, but at least some depictions of your dear old dad have him formed from or empowered by the dark urges that the inhabitants of Azeroth severed from their souls. The timeline you seem to be from, considering your appearance, doesn't go into the details of Trigon's birth so we don't know if it's true for you."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I caught Raven as she leaned into my chest, "Did they know?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I shrugged, "I don't know if they knew what their urges were used for, but I can't imagine that a group of mystics wouldn't know about the mystical significance of cutting off portions of their souls. If every setting I've read about, that sort of thing is some pretty bad juju."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""You really believe I can beat him."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I massage her arm gently, "Even if we don't have the time to help you properly develop your powers, we will stand by you. Between us, we have access to nine different worlds at least. And we've confirmed that this one, at least, is beyond his reach. We have the resources and ability required to seal him again even on the unlikely chance that we can't destroy him."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Raven smiled, "It's hard to believe, but I didn't think I would ever be beyond his reach."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""Just relax for now. We've got a long day tomorrow." I say./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Raven nodded and returned to her food./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""The food's getting cold!" Arhi called out./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I laughed, "I'm coming!"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""After we finished eating, we got to talking about the worlds we came from. Angela and Lena - as Mercy and Tracer asked us to call them - told us about the Omnic Crisis and the disbanding of Overwatch, before their stories delivered. Lena told us of the missions she ran on her own and Angela told us about her work healing people and advancing biotic technology/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""I actually was wondering how that worked."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Mercy grinned a little sheepishly, "We don't really know how it does. I mean, don't get me wrong, we've tested it extensively, with trials going on for years without any signs of negative effects, but we don't actually know how it does what it does. It just seems to super-charge the body somehow. We learned how to make it from studying the healing powers of an Omnic monk named Zenyatta."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""Interesting, but I actually had a little experiment for us to try." I motion to Ahri who perked up, "I'm not sure if this Ahri can do it, but the version of her in Summoner's Rift is capable of absorbing life-force. I want to see if your biotic energy is the same stuff."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""We all paused./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Ahri was the first to speak, "I can do that, it's actually how I became a pop-star. I needed to find a profession where I could regularly meet with enough people that I could feed myself with just the excess energy that people release naturally, I found that enjoyed performing on stage and the rest is history."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""With that put forward, we turned to Mercy./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""She smiled, "This is fascinating! With this, we will be able to gain such an insight into the working of this mysterious force! Winston should be able to help me design some equipment to let us test this."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I nod, "We can try tomorrow in order to see if Elizabeth to make contact with your world. But I suppose that brings up one other thing. How will we be making contact with our worlds."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Starfire frowned, "What do you mean?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color="""Should we announce that we have the means to travel to different worlds to everyone. I know that my world is pretty unstable and if it suddenly came out that a small group of people knew how to travel to worlds that we thought of as fiction all of a sudden, things would probably go to shit." I stated./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Hinata sighed, "What you showed me on the internet… ninjas could cause a lot of damage very easily in your world. And I don't know if we could protect Elizabeth from the more powerful ninjas."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Yang paused, "A world without the Grimm… a lot of people would do a lot of terrible things to get that."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""I nod, "Since the ability to travel between worlds is basically solely the domain of Elizabeth right now, we need to consider how we are going to release that. I for one am not going to allow Elizabeth to be forced to open portals all day against her will."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""We all considered it./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Eventually, a plan began to form./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""We wanted to protect Elizabeth first and foremost. We wanted to allow her to be free to do what she wanted, though, preferably if she dropped us off in our homeworlds first./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Other than that, we wanted to be able to protect our homes from this technology. Or at least, if it became one. If we were able to produce portals independently of Elizabeth, we wanted to make sure that the technology wouldn't be used to harm each-others worlds. Everyone admitted that they knew of people on their worlds that would do terrible things with this technology./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""With that, we had an idea of what we wanted./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""We wanted two basic technologies. One, that allowed us to travel between worlds without bothering Elizabeth. And another, that blocked travel to a world./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""We currently had four lines for developing that sort of technology./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Firstly, we had Elizabeth. While we weren't willing to curtail her freedom or subject her to invasive testing, Winston was smart enough to create the Chronal Accelerator for Tracer. If he can get a solid read on how Elizabeth's powers work, we should have a solid idea as to how we could replicate or disrupt those abilities./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""The next two options were much more dangerous. Both Gwen and Raven's worlds had access to technology that could travel between worlds. Gwen's had Fisk's collider and Raven's world had Bleed tech. Neither had been shown to reach beyond the boundaries of their specific multiverses, but it wasn't impossible for them to be refined into a technology that could./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Finally, we had the worst option./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""The Oostuki clan were able to travel between worlds, the extent of which was never shown. It was presumably a chakra technique, though how we would develop it without ticking off the genocidal farmers, we didn't know./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Still, even once we had that technology, we needed to be able to make sure it wouldn't be misused./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""Which was how we came to our latest development./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""We wanted to police this technology, to protect our worlds from predation and to prevent our worlds from preying on others./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""So on that night, the Planar Pact was made. An agreement between all of us, that we would work to make sure that we could police the use of the technology we would be developing, and to make sure that we would be careful when giving out this technology./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #cdc9c3; -darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; -darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; -darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -darkreader-inline-color: #c5c0b9;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" data-darkreader-inline-color=""It wouldn't work forever, nothing would, but if we worked together we could at least make sure that decent people would be there to help us stop things if they get out of hand./p