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[defyingreality]

[ In writing rather his usual voice memo tactics. However he will still answer in voice since it's easier to pull off. ]

For all coffee drinkers, I've managed to find a few suitable brews to grace our shared kitchen as well as the needed tools to brew it. There should also be a larger variety of snacks to go with - if there's a craving for something specific leave a note.

Wreck, there should be some energy drinks as well. Nothing quite like home's but still good enough.

I also managed a few simple tools for repairs and a simple first aid kit. Both can be found in the laundry room.

Wreck, Nice, time for a talk.

-X

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[awreck]

[ Wreck is silent for a long moment as he makes an attempt to process everything that X has told him so far.

Really, the most important thing is that Nice survived. Somehow. And if he lived, even if it was through the power of Fear, then something can be done to save him. Lucky Cyan was able to quell something like that... right? Whatever was going on in that district? She fixed it. ]

Okay.

[ Wreck takes a deep breath to ground himself, then exhales it slowly. Nice is alive. He survived. That boy who stole--who had Nice's visage forced upon him--is Lin Ling. He does have one more question, but he doesn't care enough to ask about how the difference in timelines is possible. How for Nice, he'd come to the Library the day he was on the roof, but for him it was weeks after... and for X, even further in the future. Even if X knew, and he might know, the answer would probably just hurt Wreck's head. ]

I... thanks. That's... all I wanted to know. At least... Nice isn't infected by Fear here.

[ For now. He hopes it stay that way. ]

What... was it that you wanted to talk about? Because I'm not like you. I doubt I'm going to have any helpful information for you, about our world or otherwise. But I'll tell you whatever I know if you have questions, and listen if you have something else to say.

[defyingreality]

[ Lucky Cyan had a lot of Trust and Luck of an entire plane of people. She had something that no one can counter - even the gift of a single coin started his Hero journey which was something X really didn't want to think on. He doesn't know what the future is going to bring, but he did know that he wanted to fight against the Fate that determined what they were.

Fate. The Commission. And the still Living Zero. ]

Shang De uses Fear to create Phobiaclones. He used Fear to enforce Nice's Values. I'm pretty sure that it's there, just dormant.

[ He took out his coin and started flipping it over his knuckles, thinking about what he was allowed to feel given the state of the Library. Of what he was told concerning the Librarian. Looking up at the sky, he could feel the pressure of the pocket reality around him. ]

You and Nice are created through Trust - I know, it works differently for you, but Trust is still the main force behind all of it. I have a feeling that it will mutate here. My abilities aren't exactly the same - I think the Librarian and I share a few traits and this is their realm.

Have you seen if Nice's Trust has changed?

[awreck]

Right. Nice... told me a little about that.

[ Or rather, Nice had admitted that he'd been involved with the Ruins incident, and the Smile incident. But, even if that was something X knew himself, Wreck wasn't going to re-share it. Nice did tell him that in confidence, after all. ]

I don't think his Trust has changed so much as this place can't determine what his Trust is. Or mine. It's sort of scrambled. My understanding is that things are probably "frozen" back home, so our Trust is probably whatever it was back home. Otherwise, it'd be weird for us to still have our abilities, right...?

And--what do you mean "mutate?" Mutate how?

[defyingreality]

[ He would never ask someone to betray the trust another gave them, even if it might come back later to hurt them. That isn't what he was and what he would want to become - which is why he steered clear of all those Hero agencies. ]

Mm, I think that they are frozen to what we held back home, which is why I think we are like a lot of these unfinished books - stuck in time.

But, did you ever think that we may build Trust with the people here?

[awreck]

[ From the way Wreck frowns, it's clear he hadn't thought about that. ]

I guess not. But how would that work? Even if they believed in us, would it even count since they're not from our world? And how are we supposed to make them believe in us enough to get Trust?