[Day 9 - EE] The Last Cappuccino

[Dapper Dog]

Time and space was certainly relevant to interdimensional travel.

Alright, wrap your head around this. God is the Ancient of Days, the I am, the source of everything. He created time and space. But like maybe this is a subaltern angel of time and space?

It was a lot to take in.

But maybe quite helpful.

"What does she look like?"

Xaos gestured to the door.


She manifested through the door, as if she had always been there in one smooth stride. Graceful, timeless, otherworldly; it spoke with a powerful feminine voice, "Xaos, must we play these games over and over."

She turned her gaze on the elites and added, "I am Krono, or at times Kronos, either will suffice. We have met before, or will meet in some cases. I know who you all are. I can see every version of you."

[Babble]

"Welcome to Elite Chai. Can I get you anything?" Arturo asked.

[Dapper Dog]

"Welcome to Elite Chai. Can I get you anything?" Arturo asked.

"I do not need sustenance but since you have asked, a glass of water sounds appropriate," it responded.

[Babble]

He filled a glass with water and set it down for her.

"Xaos was telling us that we're doomed."

[Frankie Reynes]

"You can see every Frankie?" She said, looking up, "Could you like, give me their numbers or something? You know, if I want to get in touch with them or anything like that."

"Also, yes, we're doomed."

[Bee Haw]

Bea felt relieved. This woman would help! Hopefully!

"Krono, welcome." Krono had said she knew her already. No introduction needed.

"We are concerned about the danger coming to this world. Is it within your power to stop this coming invasion? To close the door to the ultrum empire universe?"

[Dapper Dog]

Bea felt relieved. This woman would help! Hopefully!

"Krono, welcome." Krono had said she knew her already. No introduction needed.

"We are concerned about the danger coming to this world. Is it within your power to stop this coming invasion? To close the door to the ultrum empire universe?"

"I cannot interfere in such matters, you know they are coming, that is enough. Acting directly is not our way," they said giving Xaos a pointed look.

"But not all of us adhere to such strict rules. I am aware of your concerns, but this is a challenge for you and your universe. Either rise to meet it or bow to the invaders. What will be, will be."

"Frankie, I cannot do as you ask," they added.

[Babble]

"But, you've already interfered." He said. "You wouldn't have appeared if Xaos' influence wasn't disruptive. Or, was he being disruptive because you were meant to appear? Either way, you're here with a purpose. The water isn't that good."

[Frankie Reynes]

"Bruv..." She shrugged, getting what she was expecting, "...at least like, tell me I didn't cause all this with my blood or whatever, yeah?"

[Bee Haw]

She was trying to make sense of it all.

"Your blood opened the door in a way that ... our doubles from *your* universe came through. And the Necro-dancer. Right? Your blood, your universe."

"That was probably proof of concept and then the warlord used *her* blood to open a path back to *her* universe which just happens to be the ultrum one."

"I think? Is that right?"

[Dapper Dog]

"Bruv..." She shrugged, getting what she was expecting, "...at least like, tell me I didn't cause all this with my blood or whatever, yeah?"

"It helped to alleviate this issue, if that brings solace. Your reality is stable and they are no longer entangled. I can say, Beatrice, that your guess is near the truth. Your worlds will have many hardships ahead, but it will be as it should be," Krono said.

"Stay true to your essence, and success or fail you will have no regrets. But it is not my place to take sides in a conflict like this, it must progress as all things must. The grandness of the multiverse is that even when something ends, another begins."

[Babble]

"What we need is information. If you can't provide it and Xaos can't speak it plainly, perhaps there's an alternative?" He asked. "Where could we get the information we need?"

[Camilo Batista]

After drinking the Doom Chai, Camilo slumped back into a chair unsteady on his feet and even so while sitting. He looked a drunk who'd had two too many and was fighting a battle against gravity and losing.

He kept ahold of his drink, cradling it between his hands and muttering quietly while staring into it, looking for answers. He mostly ignored Krono's arrival until something she said fit with what he'd seen, what he intuited.

"Ours is stable, but theirs isn't is it? The blue Ultrum people. Their reality is unstable. No? How long do they have before what you threatened would happen to us happens to them?"

[Dapper Dog]

"What we need is information. If you can't provide it and Xaos can't speak it plainly, perhaps there's an alternative?" He asked. "Where could we get the information we need?"

"You have the tools, and more knowledge than most," they said calmly.

"Ours is stable, but theirs isn't is it? The blue Ultrum people. Their reality is unstable. No? How long do they have before what you threatened would happen to us happens to them?"

"Sooner than they would like," they said with a devious smile.

[Bee Haw]

"Tools?" Bea asked. She had a brave and honest heart. That probably wasn't what they meant.

[Frankie Reynes]

"Anyway we can like... speed it up further? Maybe I can help by punching a hole into their universe like I did this one, yeah?"

[Bee Haw]

"Frankie, their universe is likely full of the enslaved. People who would be destroyed if their universe collapsed, who have done nothing wrong, and could perhaps yet be freed."

[Dapper Dog]

"Tools?" Bea asked. She had a brave and honest heart. That probably wasn't what they meant.

“You have more knowledge and tools than you should, thanks to Xaos,” they admitted. “I can see all of your successes and failures. But they are your choices and your actions, this is your ordeal. We cannot do anything more.”

“We must not.”

Krono said, “Now we must go. I cannot take a side in this, but you must have faith in yourselves. If I was to aid you, I would be obligated to aid those acting against you, to maintain the balance.”

Then both are instantly gone.

[Frankie Reynes]

"Uuuugh... I *guess*," she answered Bee, then saw the two space-time gods disappear.

"...I wonder if there's a Frankie in their universe."

[Bee Haw]

Bea was silent a moment, taking it all in.

"I like her non-interference for the sake of fairness, for balance, better than the thought that they are indifferent to what happens to us. And perhaps he does care, a little. It sounds like he has helped us more than harmed us, from her judgment of it."

"It still feels overwhelming. But she is right. All we have are our choices. If we do the best we can, with what we have and know, staying true to what is right and good, there is a peace in that. But also a heavy heavy responsibility."

"I feel like much has happened that I was not part of and still don't understand. But maybe it is enough to understand that this needs experts in dimensional travel and doors and even stuff like tactical readiness and emergency response. There are experts, baseline and elite, who can figure this out. We can just make sure they know so they can prepare. And help make sure they are willing to talk to each other."