Yeah. I wasn't worried about her though.
No, seriously. See, before all that mess... and I mean right before, Kannadi sat me and her mother down and spilled everything. I say spilled but I mean laid it all out, like glass figures in a cabinet. We weren't worried.
... Well, most of what she said's private, sorry. Family stuff. Let's just say I'm glad one of her cousins is gone without a trace.
... If you insist, the short version goes like this.
She's always been into monsters and magic, see. Loves studying both. Still does.
So one day she got it into her head that there was a way to reproduce monster abilities with nothing but magic. Some of the things monsters can do are just crazy, so Kanna thought they must be tapping into some new field of magic to do them. Problem was, she couldn't prove it, and needed a ton of time and resources for experimenting.
So she got into this academy to use their library. Wasn't a bad deal. Did some writing for them, some of that "professional adventuring," just brought in her keep, y'know? The place eventually folded anyway.
So she kicked around for a while, solo research and stuff, worked off and on with different groups of her adventurer friends, and got up pretty high in the Flames. Officer's commission at twenty-six. Brilliant girl. You should see her pile of notes, we still have some in storage.
Anyway, so one day Dalamud came off his leash. Kanna was sort've holed up in her apartment for a while, just her and a telescope and a forest's worth of paper, watching that thing get closer. And when she got to the other side of wherever it was her brain led her, she was convinced all the circles and patterns and things on it indicated some new kind of magic. It might not be what she was looking for, but it was new, so it was a mystery, so she was set on discovering it.
After that... or maybe before, I forget, she joined this Adventuring League to, y'know, help out the crazy world. So she did, but she kept up her notes. Seriously, got drawers of 'em.
... I dunno what they did. Adventure stuff? Kill this, find that, go to parties. If I was her age I'd be right in there with her.
... Are you kidding? Avani'd break my face.
Naaaw, I kid, that's terrible. She'd only break my leg.
Nothing, hon!
... So then news comes out about the joint op in Cartenau. Kanna said she'd have to go, but she'd go with her cousin. They used to hate each other, but something about the end of the world can make all that look petty, y'know?
So she went. And you know what happened.
... It was the magic. That's all I'm saying. The way she talked about it and the ec-- uh... nevermind, yeah, basically we knew she'd be okay because of whatever it was she saw in all those lines and circles. Magic. I'm done.
Want another drink?
~ Torrent Albedo, to houseguest
No, seriously. See, before all that mess... and I mean right before, Kannadi sat me and her mother down and spilled everything. I say spilled but I mean laid it all out, like glass figures in a cabinet. We weren't worried.
... Well, most of what she said's private, sorry. Family stuff. Let's just say I'm glad one of her cousins is gone without a trace.
... If you insist, the short version goes like this.
She's always been into monsters and magic, see. Loves studying both. Still does.
So one day she got it into her head that there was a way to reproduce monster abilities with nothing but magic. Some of the things monsters can do are just crazy, so Kanna thought they must be tapping into some new field of magic to do them. Problem was, she couldn't prove it, and needed a ton of time and resources for experimenting.
So she got into this academy to use their library. Wasn't a bad deal. Did some writing for them, some of that "professional adventuring," just brought in her keep, y'know? The place eventually folded anyway.
So she kicked around for a while, solo research and stuff, worked off and on with different groups of her adventurer friends, and got up pretty high in the Flames. Officer's commission at twenty-six. Brilliant girl. You should see her pile of notes, we still have some in storage.
Anyway, so one day Dalamud came off his leash. Kanna was sort've holed up in her apartment for a while, just her and a telescope and a forest's worth of paper, watching that thing get closer. And when she got to the other side of wherever it was her brain led her, she was convinced all the circles and patterns and things on it indicated some new kind of magic. It might not be what she was looking for, but it was new, so it was a mystery, so she was set on discovering it.
After that... or maybe before, I forget, she joined this Adventuring League to, y'know, help out the crazy world. So she did, but she kept up her notes. Seriously, got drawers of 'em.
... I dunno what they did. Adventure stuff? Kill this, find that, go to parties. If I was her age I'd be right in there with her.
... Are you kidding? Avani'd break my face.
Naaaw, I kid, that's terrible. She'd only break my leg.
Nothing, hon!
... So then news comes out about the joint op in Cartenau. Kanna said she'd have to go, but she'd go with her cousin. They used to hate each other, but something about the end of the world can make all that look petty, y'know?
So she went. And you know what happened.
... It was the magic. That's all I'm saying. The way she talked about it and the ec-- uh... nevermind, yeah, basically we knew she'd be okay because of whatever it was she saw in all those lines and circles. Magic. I'm done.
Want another drink?
~ Torrent Albedo, to houseguest
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