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"'Interesting experience,'" Mergo parroted. He held an arm to the side and bowed like a performer. "I've been told that a lot. I see that hasn't changed either." Which was good to know. His arms folded behind his back as Mergo stood up straight once again. And as he did, a single stray leaf...

"I'd say it taught me more," Mergo answered. "Discussing philosophy could only get me so far, but this? What I'd done? Regardless of how you feel about me right now, I can tell for sure that I would have liked you if we were on the same side. You fill a similar role to a friend I made here. And...

"It wasn't you who I was testing," he replied in the same distant tone. "I was curious, yes, but only as much as you had been. You seem mature. I believed that if I spoke with and saw who you were, I could get an answer that I sought. I was testing myself." Mergo drew in another deep breath...

Slowly, Mergo shut his eyes and drew in a long, deep breath. There it was. He could smell the tension in the air, and it had been far, far too long since he'd felt that. "You yield," he echoed. "A shame. You were winning, too. You were closer to pinning me down than I was in return. My safest...

"Passable, for most of it," Mergo answered, though a lot of it had no effort to be hidden. If leaving at the very beginning to get some air didn't scream that he liked his distance from others, he didn't know what would. "But you're still missing something. Everyone misses it, of course, so...

His eyes grew wide as he watched Brisa suddenly stand as tall him. Mergo tried to jump back, but her haymaker had too much momentum. He could feel tiny bolts arcing from her fur straight towards his face, and a dozen memories ran through his head at once. The strongest amongst him was amidst a...

Opening yourself up already? Mergo spun a little bit faster, but these weren't a warrior's movements. He couldn't evade in time. The tendrils went to engulf him, and when they did, two tiny glints in his shadow formed, and his entire body turned black as pitch as a barrier formed. The tendrils...

Brisa approached, and Mergo picked up his pace. With each step his waltz got faster until he into something that was almost a run. The wind picked up around him as he made a handful of fluttering steps until he took off like a feather. The branch he landed on some fifteen feet in the air didn't...

And he returned this with, seemingly, nothing. The wind danced around him as he shifted his weight from one foot to the other, to the other, to the other. His gown started to lift as he twirled a little faster. No shadows around him darkened to an abyss, no light shone like a sun beneath the...

Hm. So he’d been a bit too hasty on that one? Already he’d underestimated her— one point in her favor. Apparently this Mergo had let himself get even rustier than he realized. That would have to change. “I’d return the question to you, but I think I might learn more about you by speaking your...

“The foundation,” he answered with theatrical arrogance. “Without any real guidance from our handler, I had to take charge and pick those among us whose opinion I trusted. People to keep me in check. I didn’t need it, of course, but it made my public image better.” He wondered how that would...

He watched with muted interest as she spoke. Brisa hadn't struck him at the type to have an answer like that ready. The subtle movements of her face and the smells in the air spoke more, but he didn't give that much focus. Instead he just remeasured her, head to toe, almost as if he hadn't...

He glanced over his shoulder and looked her over. One of Team Spectrum? For once, it wasn't Aria or Owen or whoever else chasing after him when he'd needed to get some air. Good for them, honestly. "Have you ever had a really vivid dream?" Mergo asked, levitating back until he was on his feet...

Even the air was different. Mergo had checked. It was the same place geographically as what he'd remembered. The native plants were much the same, the distant hills and mountains loomed where they always had, and the soil was the exact earthy, sandy soil he'd walked upon before. All the...