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Casey slowly blinks each eye individually. She didn't get that at all. "Weh?"
You decide to explain it in terms Casey probably understands better. "You need to treat it like a stubborn costumer. Butter it up, try to work with it, push it if need be."
"Oh! Oh, yeah, yeah! I can do that." Casey, thankfully, points the wand somewhere AWAY from everyone else. She takes a deep breath before she begins to mutter to the wand. "I am a hero of justice. I am here to help my friends. I need YOUR power to do this. I am a hero of justice..."
She begins to mutter this mantra over and over and over again. Kiara nods approvingly once you two notice the wand starting to shimmer with an orange glow.
"Each one is unique but you have to work with it. Treat it as more than an object..." Kiara pauses for a moment. <<span class="mu-b">"I suppose like me, huh?"</span>> "I think in some way, they're alive. Treat them as such."
"Their own will. Their own desires." You feel your eyes glazing over. As if you're not talking but something more primodal is. "...Their own perspectives."
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A massive beam of bright orange light fires out of the tip of Casey's wand. It immediately melts through a handful of nearby shelves like a hot knife through butter. The beam only stops once it hits one of the concrete walls of the warehouse but even then, a watermelon sized chunk of the wall is melted away.
Casey's off-yellow eyes glimmer orange for the briefest moment before she puts down her wand. She tosses the wand back over to you, alongside her NOUVEAU SCARF. "...Hm." There's a look of contemplation washing over her face. As if something has clicked in her head. "So that's what it's like. I think I get what you're talking about."
"I hear it talking to me for a moment. It was subtle but...it was like I could've had a conversation with it."
Kiara nods. "I've handled a few PARADIGMs too and there's always that subtle voice once you start using them. It's interesting how even a simple object can have a sense of awareness and purpose. I envy them, really."
Casey looks up at Kiara with a cocked eyebrow. "Is it because you see yourself in them?"
Kiara doesn't immediately respond but she simply nods again. <<span class="mu-b">"Perhaps if even a simple object can have human thoughts, maybe I'm a human too in my own way, huh?"</span>>
Casey takes a moment to process all of this but she immediately puts on her happy-go-lucky smile. Seems like she's learnt something through your little discussion. "Hey. 'Humanity' is just a label people throw around. Remember that."
>PARADIGM PERSAUDER BOON obtained! Will be added to her sheet shortly.
Naomi is the first to call your group over, interrupting whatever metaphysical discussion Casey was going to start. "Hey. We got some time until the rain clears. Let's do one last search to recover what valuables we can."
Your party, still exhausted from everything, slowly travel back down the tunnel in the warehouse. The trip is long but soon, you're back on the first floor.
