The Primarch Keeps Breaking Things

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> YES let's fix it with our big boi brain
>Throw your phone thing into the fountain, due to having already forgotten it has a force field around it.
>Make up a ridiculous story that no one would ever believe.
>Say you can't make it because... You're busy.

OK, OK.

Breathe.

The megaverse won't end over a melted baton. Elana may not be above cold-blooded fratricide, but neither of you will suffer if she never finds out. Besides, training-grade foci were meant to be abused. There's gotta be some way to fix it.

Minutes tick by while you debate a course of action. You hate to betray Elana's pure-hearted trust like this, but you're gonna have to lie. Dramatically.

You swipe out a message on your screen.

- oh jeez I can't leave right now
- I'm surrounded by dying sand wyverns and Lucien's been captured by a sisterhood of Cervo succubi
- Fate of an entire village/Lucien's honor is on my shoulders, this aint something you just awalk away from
- port away etc.

- time passes way faster on this plane, I'll be back soon
- don't tell moms k? its under control, I'm a licensed Lv. II Warp Mage now & I can handle a couple adventures no problem
- g2g i think they're stripping Lucien, screen too bloody
- later Ellie

You hit 'SEND' before your conscience can press you into deleting this bizarre string of messages. For good measure, you throw the device in the fountain—

"Ow!"

—only to have it ricochet off the ward and into your face. You forgot about that.

"Classy," says Barth, who resurfaced just in time to watch you catch a comm with your nose bridge. The antlered woman who'd been chatting him up lingers in the background. "May I ask why you're bouncing things off your head?"

Um.

>_