For a moment, Finn considered whether Akrivar and Myshala balanced each other the way Aværys and Varvara did, or Eikæn and Naori. Finn and Arvælyn. Finn and Arkænyn. He remembered a song that bade the audience abjure binaries, and yet, they were clear in his experience and the wisdom of the Gods.
Huh.
"I like Qalanar," he noted. Arkænyn probably didn't care; at least, the Solunarians cared less about liking a person than for their utility, but they were all encouraging him to be more his authentic, Kalzasern born and bred self.
"Not only because he appreciated my music." It was quite possible the prince would become Finn's brother-in-law, at least, if Solunarian custom counted the connection between husbands of siblings. Some didn't, he understood from his academic study of ancient and divers musics at the Kalzasern Academy.
"Aværys and, by tacit association, Varvara seem to have assumed a more Aurisian view since their incarceration in an Aurisian volcano. My position under His eye is proof of that, I think. But, at my wedding, he bade us seek outside Solunarium for our hungers and ambitions. That might mitigate and slow internal change, but we can hope and work toward that change all the same.
"If I am successful here and do become præfectus, I shan't institute mind control. The Sentinels may be required, but I would rather guide their thoughts with a gentler touch, an honest propaganda."
As for their experiences across multiple realities, "Perhaps our minds touched different realities." Or perhaps their foci and divergent characters guided what they saw. Phædreon wasn't exactly helpful in understanding. Finn could pin him down for answers, but it seemed to distress the elf, who seemed adamant that Finn not delve much deeper into those mysteries. The legate had no intentions of exploring the edges of traversion where it was closest to chronomancy, but he was only human; he sought context for the mysteries.
He dreamed of other Finns in other realities sometimes. He just wanted to know what it all meant.
"Thankfully, I'm less vexing than ruling the Luxium..."
