[Video/Action just outside Mysidia]

[crossofsaints.livejournal.com]

[A blond young man with a scar across his face is leaning in towards the screen, fiddling with it before stepping back and gripping the handle of his gunblade tightly in one hand, with a... fishing rod?... in the other. The phone seems to be propped up on a rock, as he is seen stepping back and the camera captures the seen at a slightly slantwise angle.

He glances back at the screen ever so often, even as he is fighting off the swarm of monsters, many of them Gaylas, an irritant he seems to be well accustomed to. He slices with his sword while flailing with the rod, seemingly using it as a bludgeoning tool, and had you not seen it in the video feed, you would not believe it.

He glares at the camera, obviously somewhat aware of what had happened to cause such a mass outbreak of monsters.]

I don't know who the hell you managed to piss off this time, Ice Princess, but HYNE-DAMN IT, Leonhart! This! [He gestures widely at the swarm of monsters] is NOT MY BLOODY FAULT this time!

[Seemingly tired of the onslaught, and done with shouting at the video, Seifer tosses up his gunblade with a whirl, punches out as mass of flame that appears to be the spell Firaga, before neatly catching Hyperion on its return trip down and lunging forward into the fray of half-charred monsters.]

[Video, filtered from badguys] (And apologies for making two threads in as many days.)

[dualcast]

[No she is totally not using this as an excuse to distract herself why would you even think that.]

I- apologize. In my time away from Gaia, it- slipped my mind that this information might be of use. The message left by the - Selkies? - reminded me. It- concerns the crystals.

The crystals exist in every world. The ones that have been brought here could be from any one of them, even a world that none of us represent - or from all of them at once. They- can exist in other forms. If what has been said in response to the Selkies' message is to be believed then that - Life Stream? Something like that - is one of those forms. It's possible there are others.

The crystals are an embodiment of knowledge. At birth, they grant us all the ability to form ideas. Throughout our lives, they keep record of our every thought and memory. And when we die, they reclaim the gift they gave us at birth. The thoughts they keep record of sustain them and the worlds upon which they exist, acting as the source of magic and life.

...even if a world is destroyed entirely, its crystals remain as a record of all that once existed.

-this is probably a great deal to take in. I won't blame anyone who doubts me. If anyone has questions- I can't guarantee I can answer them. But I will do my best.