"We only know that, as sadly Amaphu is confirming, none of our peoples are able to see as far as before. Once we could read the tapestry, even if only glimpses and possibles but now there is nothing. It is supposed to be kept low key, but I know of a great number of organisations who will find this out soon enough and possibly report on it. The council and even the technological organisations will try to keep this quiet but yes many see it as an end. I choose not to believe this ending is inevitable, I've been given visions for a reason and choose to follow them."

inks is unlikely to normally do much auguring, but with her mothers delay she would likely look. Has she noticed anything? "Has anything of this sort happened before? It would be odd if anything in this 'verse is so predetermined. Of course finding the proper path is difficult. Do your visions give you a guide to follow? Is this part of your reason for interfering with the machine incarnation?"

Looking into the future is never easy, and it only shows possible outcomes... One can usaly tell what is more probable with some entropy but as one goes out further into the future things grow more con elites and muddled. It is as if the tapestry of fate has frayed and the ends have knotted up together. The world, rather than spiraling out into infinate possibilities seams to be collapsing in on itself to only a few possible futures that are close a hand yet seam to distant to see. Past a point there is just nothing, but it's not like time just ends it's like a vail cast over the future or perhaps the outcomes are something the mind just wont except or can't understand.

"I have not been as lucky as that, all I have been shown is challenging to interpret. Aspects of former lives, people I've come to meet and learn they are woven into this. Though this is indeed a reason for my helping with the machine incarnation, for one the timing seems to helpful to the entity and lastly." turning and smiling to the fera. "Helping gains friends and allies, who I am sure will be strong against what is to come. I cannot leave people defenceless when I am able to help. The darkness comes, and their machinations complex."

"The 'central's mission of protecting humanity through control, order, and the restraining of supernatural forces into orderly scientific explanations and duplicatable by technology.... It is bad enough... To think what it might have truthfully desired but would not share with human subordinates is even more frightening. Now that thing is on the cusp of godly power, I think that is enough a reason to do something."

"Your explanation of why you would engage the entity is enough. I just wondered if it was part of the overlying structure. It does seem opportune for this incarnation to seek its fortune at this moment. Certainly, given its nature, it is untrustworthy. I merely wonder how you seek to engage this and your other enemy."

"Its nature is governed by rules, and it's power and complexity has grown with the number of sides it has..... it only stands to reason if it has less proper sides then it will be weakened."

Smirks some and chuckles. "or the 'arge me hit big shiny ball with stick' tactic."

"Machines do classically seem to be vulnerable to the indelicate approach(^^). So following the 'rules' doesn't seem like a bad idea."

"I seek to take on the enemy and this sphere in much the same way all tasks, focusing inwards and projecting out. We are will workers in one form or another. Allies, training and collecting of artifacts." Smiling along with the two, "There is a plan, and when our allies arrive I'll be pitching it to them. Mostly it will involve their holding off this sphere's antibody like agents till we have landed a final blow. If things go wrong I have an idea of a rote which will help me ascend temporarily, but also if needed I can wake the dragon spirit within me. Though plans can only take us so far, what happens in the moment and how we react are key."

"When do you expect your allies? Ascend temporarily?"

"Let me reply by sharing a story of one of my people." Often stories of rotes and ways of Do were passed to others through stories, who was he to destroy such a beautiful tradition. "Vibansumitra, who would later become one of our orders greatest teachers was born being able to look back in time through his Avatar even before awakening. The boy grew up knowing who he had been through history, even before being able to see the world in front of him for what it truly was. Knowing who he had been he spend much of his time focusing inwards, developing his soul and later awoke as many of us come to do. With this previously unseen connection to his avatar he was able to learn and teach others to release and reveal it to the world. In this way he and his students could ascend to beings that were their avatars given physical form. Vibansumitra stood before his fellow students of the way, his skin turning blue as the sky. Instead of two arms, he stood with six. All but one hand holding something important to him, this last hand held to his chest in a sign of respect to his avatar that had given him this new form." Huoshui held his own hand to his chest in such respect. "All who saw him were said to be humbled by this heavenly form before them, but knew in their hearts it was a being of enlightenment and peace."

Taking a calming breath and smiling to Inks, "This is what I believe I could if needed attempt. To release a form my avatar chooses me to take to aid in the task before me," laughing, "Do you not think that appropriate, multiple arms and blue skin." Taking a bit of his hair on his head in his fingers, "Its is not like I am not already wearing the marks of my will working, besides the avatar form cannot last. Unlike the spirits, fae or even the fera. We are children born much from static, my form would snap back without my concentration and even then I am unsure if I could match such a feat."

"As for our friends, after tea I can try calling them. Send a message, we shall have to move with haste against the sphere. Though I would never presume they would accompany us."

"Cool...Although multiple arms would be kinda hard to control. What form do you think your avatar would give you? If we get a chance could you teach me more of what you know of this rote?" inks takes another small sip of her tea, contemplating what form her avatar might give her. After a moment still thoughtful, now wearing the mask of a 'serious' scientist, "Still that sounds very complicated, I can see why you would hold it in reserve. You would likely have a better chance beyond the veil. Do you intend to attack umbrally or from normal space?"

"If you will be a student maybe, but I am no teacher." He laughed, he was not even sure of this girl's will working potential or ability. Besides to bring her along to teach her would also bring her to danger. "Now you curious kitten child, I shall have to stop you there. I do not really feel it appropriate to fully tell you how we plan to fight. Secrets and things."

"Perhaps you are not a teacher(^^), but I find it wise to be a student always. Students can learn together and thus even become teachers, if only to them selves. Today you both have generously taught me much, and I hope I have repaid some in kind." A nod of acquiescence at the last along with a return of the crooked grin. "I will try not to pry into this plan...much. Have you spoken to your avatar about this rote? Is yours as gnomic as mine can be on occasion?"

"To be a teacher is to be a student aswell."

"So now we can complete the loop. A 'virtuous cycle' maybe(^^). I think Houshui called you Am-a-phu-tha." inks stretches out the sounds in a attempt to concentrate on saying the name correctly. "Is that your name? Would you be offended if I asked to call you Amp?" A slightly more self-conscious smile here.

"Wise words, maybe I can teach you and learn from you then. Maybe I can teach you some things I have learnt, if you wish and are willing I can even tell you the tales of the dragon bound to me." Looking to Inks with a smile still crossing his features. "You don't owe me anything, much of what I am taught as a Akashic monk I am supposed to pass on and to teach all who are willing to listen. As for if I've discussed with my avatar, no but she has been quite the obfuscated one when it comes to much of its teachings. Though I am supposed to seek the fruit of knowledge our people once ate from. Which reminds me, I am meant to also meditate and read the akashic record. Searching for what my next move has to be."

She nodded some "Amaphutha Owusu, many people have problems pronouncing my name, so I am use to nick names... Though most have been less kind or just calling me moggie."

Hums some contemplementing the value of a tail, how much has been shared between them, she can so eat with the child she just happens to be there to listen besides she could always make up for such later... She did not wish to seam to lack cunning. "The is a secret shared among the Fera of such the fruit of the world tree and it's value is as much mediforical as it is truth. For the world tree is a great thing of wonder that has its roots in they very depths of the underworld where those that never saw life dare not dwell and it's branches stretching into the hights of though where even a consept of a consept is to complex a though for the raw energy filling its leaves." She smiles some porting some more tea and laying back "the tunk of this mighty thing is guarded by great beasts, reflections of your lord and lady, a great bird that flighs through the clouds driving down those that would climb into it super branches protecting the trees fruit, and a dark serpent with heads at both ends of its body coiled at the roots devouring those that would crawl down beneath the earth and eating the fruits as they fell to the ground."

"But it is said those who eat of the fruit are forever hunted by the serpent till it enevably devours them, for its desire for the fruit will not suffer any other having it."

"I am happy to learn what you have to share. Of magic and the dragon. I know some of the ways of spirits, some of the past and future some of the nature of beasts, and would be glad to add that too the pool of knowledge. If you have something to attend to I can pester Amp while she is willing to put up with me." A thoughtful look at the bastet's words, "Why would they be mean? Why Moggie?" inks takes another small sip of tea as she listens to the story. "That is a rather vengeful snake, I wonder how he can protect his fruit while he is gone. What great properties does this fruit have that draws some to eat it despite the danger? Why do the fera keep this legend secret."

"It's not a big one, but no one what's people to seek the fruit for its a foolish thing, and the fruit that falls has riled long ago and roots with little to no of whatever spark it might have had.... So it don't care who might eat it while it is away as much, that and it is veryveryvery long with heads at both ends of it. One may guard while the other hints. Besides space isn't so constraining as we think it to be, spirits so great as those may be in many places at once. The only true secret people keep is that the bird guards the ripe fruit from the snake aswell. That is how people have made off with them, as the two fight the make there move..... But no one knows of anyone to have done so and not be devoured by the snake."

She hums "well there rumors of a monk or the like that takes refuge in the realms of high thought but can never leave least the snake strike his frail phisial form down. It very well may be true, so many stories of an old man at the highest peak that knows all and will answer a single question"
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"Well maybe I can retire briefly. Your story Amaphutha, and recalling what my avatar said... if you two do not mind I might try to read the akashic record on both subjects. Focus on my avatar and follow what it desired me to do." Nodding as he shifted his seated position, coming to sit on the floor in a meditative stance. "I promise friends, I shall gift your understanding and allowing me to do this by sharing anything I learn from the record."

Spirits, opening himself through the knowledge he had of the arts, using his medium status and ability to listen to all he could. Prime, to cling to the strings of the tapestry of the universe along with it the akashic record itself. Mind to synch with his connection to it as a monk of protecting it. Entropy, guiding and using his Avatars words, Amaphutha's words, to seek what he was meant to find. Pouring all of himself, even the memory of reading it before into drowning himself in the Akashic Record.

"One question...Puts me in mind of wishes. Likely only a waste." inks sips her tea and is silent for a moment to give the monk time to focus. Then quietly, "Are you one of your people who can see into the future? I have seen some things but I don't know if I have seen his tapestry."

( i don't have access to those books could you give me a brake down of the rotes for accessing the book?)

( Sensing Akashakarma: In the book as mind 2, Spirit 1. Accessing the Sangha through the record. This does not constitute true telepathy, the brother receives all impressions about an event after it has occurred. The information manifest as a vague sort of urge or intuitive flash. This method can reach beyond the brotherhood through the use of other spheres and such, which is my hope. With meditation, and other spheres pushing this rote higher I was hoping this could be used to follow what was asked of Huoshui in the seeking.  )