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'Shamans.' I said, landing on the floor behind them.
They had been silently discussing among themselves when they saw me, and promptly were spooked.
[SPEAKER 1] "Gah!"
[SPEAKER 2] "Huh!?"
[SPEAKER 1] "Who in the devils are you...?! How did you get in here...?!"
'Goddess. No time to explain. I've come to help Eskart and break the troubles that haunt Belkinsire. But I think you both deserve to know first that one of your fellow Shamans, Goessioto-'
[SPEAKER 2] "Is an Afterseas worshiper?!"
'I... Yes. How did you know?'
[SPEAKER 1] "The Oneiromancy. It divined that for us when we engaged it."
[SPEAKER 2] "We predicted the outcome by looking into the future through our dreams, as dreams are connected inherently with the Milky Way's timestream."
[SPEAKER 1] "But we did not know who exactly it was. The details of this kind of divination are fuzzy at best, and speculative. We predicted an Afterseas agent among us, but we did not predict his personage. Do you have proof of this claim howe... Ahh..."
I showed them the tome and placed it on the round table of the speakers.
'This was in his possession.'
[SPEAKER 2] "You came across this... by killing him, did you not?"
'There is no choice when confronted by the devilry of the Dark One's blight.'
The Speakers breathed in. A sigh of both relief, and dismay.
[SPEAKER 1] "We predicted that too before our divinations ran short. I just wish there was another way..."
[SPEAKER 2] "So then it's true, like we suspected. Goessioto summoned the Ginnungagap here to exacerbate these problems."
'He's done more than that. He's capitalized on the Trinity infiltrating your public and trying to subvert it from the inside.'
[SPEAKER 2] "My god. The horror won't end, will it?!"
'I'm afraid not. Goessioto plotted to unleash horrors here, that way a Trinity flotilla would have to respond with purification. And I think you both know what their idea of "purification" is.'
[SPEAKER 1] "That's the thing. A gathering Trinity armada already is present on the Opaltic. We gathered this from student exchanges. I fear they may already soon be willing to invade. I had no idea of their meddling in this situation! How frustrating it is! But we always knew they were planning to strike somehow!"
[SPEAKER 2] "We'll be defenseless without Eskart. Only he could protect us, but now he's drowning in despair..."
'Then you have to show me to him. I am a Psychic Goddess, and I may be able to prevail him in his dreams that he awakens.'
[SPEAKER 2] "Are we sure we could risk that? Even now, we still are forced to hide a lot of issues from the public to prevent the rioting from getting too badly now."
