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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eeralai" data-source="post: 2688198" data-attributes="member: 15008">Krystal“Are you gonna sleep all day, too?  I’m getting bored with no one to talk to.”“What?  Who’s there?”  Gwen lifted her head and realized she had slept on the floor all night.  Dust stuck to her face, but she only swiped at it absently while she looked around the room for the person speaking to her.  “I’m over here.  You made me last night and then fell asleep.  I know it probably took a lot out of you to make me, but I think I’ve been patient enough.”“The rock,” said Gwen, sitting up.  “I think Krystal would be a prettier name, don’t you?”“Uh, sure.  Why do you sound like me?”“Because I used to be part of you.  How can you not know that?  You shot a bit of your personality into a rock, I’m assuming to help you on this adventure thing you’ve been doing.  I’m the one who got your parents to agree to let you go, by the way.  If I hadn’t made you be persistent in insisting that you could adventure and live, you’d still be on the farm fighting with the cow for a pail of milk.”“I would?” “Yes.  I’m your resolve.  Of course there’s still some resolve in you.  It would never do to put all of it in here.  Then you’d never do anything.  I’m just here to encourage you a bit more than the other parts will allow me to do when I’m entirely inside you.”“What do you mean?”“I mean the other parts of your personality talk you out of doing a lot of things.  Like when you left Greerson and you wanted to give Jalik a big kiss when you were saying goodbye to him.  I wanted you to go for it, but then Insecurity said he’d never like that and you’d just look foolish, so you didn’t.  Too bad, too.  What if that creature who eviscerated you had actually killed you.  Then you would’ve died without ever knowing what it was like to kiss Jalik.  It still might happen.”“Oh, that’s a great way to look at things.  I’m going to live and make it back to Greerson.   And then maybe I’ll kiss him.”“Hello, Optimism.  I’m glad your still there.”“Optimism?  Oh, I see.  Do you think I could make more of these jewels?”“Of course, but do you really want to?  Then we’d be arguing all the time and you’d never get anything done.”“Hmm.  Probably true.  Were you the one who told me I could heal myself in my dream last night?”“I have no idea what you were dreaming last night.  I’m in a rock now.  I wonder, though, if I could still connect to you while you are dreaming.  I will have to try that.”“If it wasn’t you, I wonder who it was.  I almost want to go out and hurt myself to see if it would really work.”“Why don’t you try some more hammering today.  You’re bound to hit your thumb.”“Very funny.  I think I might’ve found a way to damage someone elses mind too.  I’ll have to wait for a battle to try that power out though.”“Chani would make a good target.”“Krystal!  That would be wrong.”“Yeah, but it’s not really my job to decide what’s right and wrong.  Just to encourage you to do the things you want to do.”“Well, I don’t really want to hurt Chani, so you can just forget about her.”“If you say so.”Gwen and Krystal spent the rest of the morning getting to know each other, or at least Gwen was getting to know Krystal.  They had quite an argument about how Gwen was to carry Krystal.  Finally, they decided on a black velvet bag that would always be tied to Gwen’s belt.  At lunchtime, Gwen ran out to find some members of her party to share the good news.  The first one she ran into was Ternell.  “Look, Ternell!  I have a new companion!  Her name is Krystal!  Say “hi” Krystal.”“That’s a jewel, Gwen,” said Ternell.“I know that.  But it has part of me in it.  Can’t you hear her?”“I can’t talk to him,” said Krystal to Gwen.“You can’t?”“Can’t what?”  asked Ternell.“She can’t talk to you.  Well that’s great.  You probably think I’m nuts don’t you.”“Uh,” said Ternell.  “Are you feeling all right?”“Oh, forget it,” said Gwen.  She walked away and said to Krystal, “Why didn’t you tell me you couldn’t talk to other people?”“I didn’t know.”Gwen walked through Orlane describing things and people she saw to Krystal.  It really didn’t matter if the rest of her group could'nt hear Krystal because at least she had somebody to talk to now.</blockquote>

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