[Mars attention shifts, practically boring into Athena now. How as it connected? How wasn't it connected. Those people weren't in the Nexus Code. Those people...two of them had Personas, Leia was a Jedi Knight, and Saber was some manner of heroic spirit like Archer. The other baubles she wasn't going to paw through, the stain of death upon them, but she was willing to bet they fit the pattern. And there was a pattern, one that Athena should pick up on.
Blood Sacrifices weren't CERES's style, but...]
It may be. But only by location. This place looks older, more worn. Less...advanced. Athena, I know you got the reports from the jungle. There was another. This is just a theory, but what kinds of beings expect sacrifices? What kinds of being here take sacrifices?
[Was this what the ghosts meant? This was where they'd come from. This...was their sacred place. They'd called what was back here an aberration, and after feeling the lack of any spirituality here...that had to be what they'd meant. This couldn't be a sacred place, for good or ill, with no sense on a spiritual level. Of course, deaths led to returning to the Nexus Code...but...those people weren't there. They'd seen that themselves.]
If someone disappears, they return to the Nexus. But not these people, if these things are indications that they were actually here and this isn't a cruel joke. They vanished, but they didn't go to the Nexus. They came here.
[They came here, and what? They were sacrificed? Murdered? Probably. But to what end...?]
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Blood Sacrifices weren't CERES's style, but...]
It may be. But only by location. This place looks older, more worn. Less...advanced. Athena, I know you got the reports from the jungle. There was another. This is just a theory, but what kinds of beings expect sacrifices? What kinds of being here take sacrifices?
[Was this what the ghosts meant? This was where they'd come from. This...was their sacred place. They'd called what was back here an aberration, and after feeling the lack of any spirituality here...that had to be what they'd meant. This couldn't be a sacred place, for good or ill, with no sense on a spiritual level. Of course, deaths led to returning to the Nexus Code...but...those people weren't there. They'd seen that themselves.]
If someone disappears, they return to the Nexus. But not these people, if these things are indications that they were actually here and this isn't a cruel joke. They vanished, but they didn't go to the Nexus. They came here.
[They came here, and what? They were sacrificed? Murdered? Probably. But to what end...?]