If you see a bear. That's mine.

[whereishe]

"Come back here!"

Yuna was running down the hall after a brown ball of fuzz running in front of her. She had changed back into her gunner outfit after the mishap. It was much easier to chase after the young bear in short shorts than it was in a floor length dress. Her feet lightly kissed the ground as she flew forward her eyes locked on the bounding bear.

She hoped that someone would stop him. He wasn't a bad little bear and he usually listened to her but this time he had gotten a little to excited. She could hear his claws click on the hard floor and she really hopes whomever he runs into likes heavy fuzzy creatures licking their faces.

"Daigoro!" Calling it's name did nothing and Yuna's heart sank as her bear turned into the lounge.

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[whereishe]

"I don't know yet. He might like it now but I think he'll get bored here. The holodeck is nice but you can't really run around there." At least no in the way the little bear was going to run around.

Yuna sighed softly and then finally lowered herself completely to the ground petting the bear as she spoke.

[element_wizard]

"The holodeck is better than you think it is at creating spaces to run around in. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but you can create entire cities to wander around in. Or an ocean even that's deep enough to hold a boat and make it so you have to tread water," Alec said.

He saw the sad look in her eyes at the thought of her not being able to stay with her bear friend and wanted to at least offer her a slight suggestion that might be helpful.

[whereishe]

It was different but he wasn't wrong. "I'll try it." Yuna smiled then her lips curling up at the corners. "If he likes it and promises to behave then he can stay."

She looked down at the bear as if he could understand every word that she said.

[element_wizard]

Alec completely believes that the bear can understand her. Why not?

"I suppose you should also ask your roommate too," he said. "Unless you're lucky enough not to have one."

While he understands the necessity of roommates, it doesn't mean that Alec has to like the idea. He spent most of his life without a roommate - only sharing a room with his twin sister when they were in the nursery. Then he got his own room.

[whereishe]

"Ah, I have one but I admit I don't see them very often." Yuna looked down at the bear. "I think they would notice this though."

Yuna hadn't see her roommate except in passing having had a weird schedule when it came to sleep. Mostly because it wasn't something that Yuna didn't often. She looked very nervous about the idea of approaching her roommate about her bear. Maybe she could keep him somewhere else? She hadn't seen many other pets on board though.

[element_wizard]

"Yeah. He's a little bit bigger than a cat, inne?"

Hesitantly, Alec reached out to pet the bear. "But he's intelligent right? And doesn't attack people?"

[whereishe]

"He does if I tell him too." Yuna's two toned gaze looks up at Alec. "He was trained to fight so yes can but no he doesn't."

Her world was filled with war and so it was common to have animal companions who were used to fight.

[element_wizard]

"That's different. Lots of people are trained to fight. But that doesn't mean we'll up and randomly attack people like animals," Alec said, waving the worry aside. "It's the whole randomly attacking people that we need to worry about."

[whereishe]

"He won't attack unless he's attacked first."

Yuna clarified with a smile.

[element_wizard]

"That sounds fine to me. I've known people who'd attack just to attack things..." Then after a beat he said, "Admittedly on occasion they've been me but I'm usually not myself at the time. And while we're at it, normal pets would be like that too."

[whereishe]

She could agree that normal pets were like that too though none nearly so deadly as the bear that was now sleeping in front of them. Yuna's head tilted curiously to the side at his other comment.

"What do you mean,not yourself?"

[element_wizard]

Alec tries to come up with an easy way to explain it because sometimes he's not really sure why or how it happens himself.

"I sometimes get possessed by alternate reality versions of myself. So it's me... but not me at the same time. You know?"

[whereishe]

"I think I understand. I've shared my body with someone else except it wasn't me." It was Len and in a way Len was still with her.

"Is it scary when that happens?"

[element_wizard]

"It depends on the situation, really. Who and where I am at the time. Usually it's my older self that drops by to be irritating when I'm myself. But when I visit other worlds it's a bit of a toss up on who gets to be in charge of the body." He shrugs. "

I've been doing it so long that it's not really scary any more... just a thing that happens. Like rolling out of bed."

There are a few worlds and a few lives that do still give him nightmares but he healthily deals with it by completely suppressing the memories most of the time.

[whereishe]

"Rolling out of bed?" Yuna smiled at that. "Well, if he ever shows up here I'll try and distract him until your back."

At least so he didn't do anything bad.

[element_wizard]

It's more true than Alec lets on. Often times when he wakes up in the morning he doesn't know where or who he'll be.

Alec twists his head for a moment as if pushing a thought (or more likely a self) a way before saying, "Eh. He's not so bad. More of an arrogant ass than anything else. Kinda like Q but..." he pauses trying to find a word, "Crabbier at times..."

"What about you? With your body sharing? If you don't mind my asking."

[whereishe]

Yuna laughed at the comparison.

"I don't mind. It was a side effect of my dresspheres. Len was a summoner and songstress from a thousand years ago. She had been caught up in a war and yet an imprint of her soul remained in the sphere I carry because of there dresspheres she was able to enter my body and at times control it. I was usually present and until recently I didn't know what was going on."

It was a long story but she hoped that made sense.

[element_wizard]

"What's a dressphere?" He shuffled through his mental cards of Magical Shiny Objects to see if he'd ever heard of them before.

He hadn't.

Yay new things!

[whereishe]

"Oh, it's something Shinra invented. It takes the powers of spheres which contain raw magic and help you channel it." She was about to show him when she stopped.

"Maybe I should start from the beginning. Sphere's grow on my world. They are pure magic and they sort of look like water even though they are a solid. They are able to record sights and sounds among other things. Some spheres have special properties and the souls of the dead connect with them. It's those spheres I can use in my garment grid."

[element_wizard]

Raw magic? Raw Magic!?

Alec's eyes gleamed eagerly at hearing those words. That's something he would love to have. He rarely got stuff like that. Or got to see it. Still, he needed to know a bit more...

"Garment grids are?"

[whereishe]

"It's technology that can merge with the spheres to make them easier to use. Most can't use a magic in it's raw state so its formed into weapons or other trinkets. Though with enough practice you can."

Yuna held out her palm and focused on the energy around them gathering magic within her palm. It was dark with streaks of purple and blue shooting through it. After a moment it was gone, dissipated back into the air around them.

[element_wizard]

OooOooooh...

Shiny.

Do want.

Do waaaaaaant.

"Can I touch it? What's it feel like? Does it always look like that or does it change depending on what you want it to do?"

[whereishe]

Yuna smiled. "That wasn't a sphere. That was magic in it's raw form. I'm just learned to control it"

She shifted slightly careful not to wake the sleeping bear and pulled out a bright orange softly glowing orb. The surface shifted like water as she handed it over to Alec. "This is a sphere and yes, you can hold it but I need it back. That one has something on it."

[element_wizard]

Alec took the sphere carefully and making sure she saw him do so. At first her words confused her but then he realized 'on it' meant recorded on it.

Could he see what it was?

He held it up to eye level, running his hands over it, feeling the texture, trying to get a feel of its very existence. What made it. How did it exist within reality? How the strings of life and reality twist to create it?

If he could figure that out, he could replicate it.

It'd take some work, of course. His powers weren't perfect in that regard, but ... still...

"How do you ... turn it on? Would you be the only one who can do that? Or anyone who can use a sphere turn it on?"

[whereishe]

"Anyone can you just need to know how." She took the sphere from him holding it up and running her finger along the bottom. The video is fuzzy obscured by water drops and hard to make out. A voice can be heard over it and it sounds like Yuna's.

The sphere was grown over time and holds the power of the planet. It's life and energy is connected to the planet and it is also connected to Yuna.