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[ There's no chess motif in this video. No fancy metaphors, no elaborate symbolism. Just Wilhelm staring into the Compass, as if in a trance. It seems almost as if the terminal nearest to his makeshift office turned on without him realizing it, until he begins speaking. ]

It's almost time.

[ How long was it for him? Years? Centuries? A millennium? It doesn't matter. To someone who is possibly billions of years old and existed in previous cycles of his own universe, it might as well have been a week. Being that old, and being a cosmic entity, gives him a very odd perception of time compared to humans. He's completely indifferent to this event, even though it did affect on him. ]

I know you can see what I refer to, Yeshua. And I know that you can feel it as well.

[ That affect, of course... was him sensing Animus beginning to awaken. Though whether it actually was, or if it was just a sensation he's feeling due to the event itself, remains to be seen. ]

I was unaware that is possible in this world, but it was a hypothesis I was willing to test. Perhaps now, Tohko, Shion, Allen, and 'Wretched Egg,' your question can be answered.

[ He pauses slightly when he says 'Wretched Egg.' He's still unsure why she insists on being called that, but c'est la vie. ]

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[temptestament]

*After hundreds-or is it thousands by now?-of years in the tower, Allen's taken to wandering the tower rather than hovering in a few interesting places. So he notices this on one of the terminals and, like a good intelligence gatherer, runs through the other conversations before he replies. His mask is in place, as it ever is these days when he's not around his outright friends, but his tone is slightly less cold than it's been for the past centuries, a little bit more personally interested.*

Mary...here?

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KOS-MOS is here, Allen. Did you not consider the possibility?

[temptestament]

After all the centuries, I was starting to think that it was impossible for her to awaken within KOS-MOS here.

[oforder]

More difficult, yes. But not impossible.

[temptestament]

Do you think she'll awaken properly, even without T-elos?

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She did so in my own universe. She rejected T-elos's body.

[ There was a bit more to it than that, but that's not anything Allen needs to know about. ]

However, Mary rejoining with T-elos was the final prerequisite to the Recurrence of my timeline being assured.

[temptestament]

So what are you going to do if she does awaken fully?

*He asks the question in a completely calm tone, maybe a hint of curiosity the only indicator that he has any personal concern. But then, he has become awfully professional in the more recent centuries.*

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When she is awake, I will not need to do anything but wait.

[temptestament]

I should know better than to ask specific questions like that by now...what are you expecting to happen?

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You should not need to ask.

[temptestament]

Is there really anything you can do without the Vessels and the rest of Zarathustra?

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Do you truly believe me so powerless, Allen?

[temptestament]

I believe the Administrators will be able to shut down anything that relies too much on what we are.

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But they did not shut it down. You are insinuating that they tampered with it. This would mean altering the entire collective subconscious itself.