human
Oscar:  "A powerful, high-output attack would be out of the question."
gpt
Oscar:  "The Lake of Silence, huh? Who knew there was something like that underneath the castle."
human
Tinasha:  "That timeline was the only one where it was excavated. Travis seemed to know about it, but maybe that was because he heard about the excavation. I can probably teleport us there if you want to see it."
gpt
Oscar:  "Hmm… No, I’m good. I feel like I’ve got a general idea already." Oscar replied, sounding like he’d accepted the crazy story. He patted Tinasha’s head.
human
Tinasha:  "What idea?" Tinasha questioned, cocking her head to the side. Reclined on the bed with her cheek resting on one hand, she resembled nothing so much as a curious cat.
gpt
Oscar:  Oscar kissed her forehead. "Those outsiders’ artifacts or whatever have powers that defy the laws of magic, right? But even before you knew about them, you’d already encountered something else that works in mysterious ways."
human
Tinasha:  "I had?" Tinasha had no idea what Oscar could be referring to. She had lived a very long time and had seen many things, but only a few of those were things Oscar could be aware of. As Tinasha fell into deep, serious consideration, Oscar flashed her a chagrined look.
gpt
Oscar:  "Come on. You don’t need to think so hard. I’m talking about Akashia."
human
Tinasha:  "Oh!" He’d meant the royal sword, the only blade in all the land capable of nullifying magic. It was prodigiously effective, but no one knew how it functioned. The sword had been passed down since the founding days of Farsas without ever getting lost to the ages. "The legend says an inhuman creature pulled Akashia out of the Lake of Silence. So wouldn’t it make sense if whoever that was came from outside our world? Didn’t Travis call the Lake of Silence the insiders’ lake?"
gpt
Tinasha:  "O-Oh yes, he did…" Travis had said, “While she was an outsider, she also wasn’t. She chose to be an ally to humans and lived and died among them.” What if the person he met was the very one who’d pulled Akashia from the water? "The first queen of Farsas…Deirdre?" Tinasha wondered.
human
Tinasha:  "The name of the first queen was never recorded."
gpt
Tinasha:  "I heard it directly from a member of the Farsas royal family four hundred years ago, though not until after I became queen. She traded her own power for the sword and gave it to the first king. But in exchange, she could no longer return to her birthplace. So the story goes." If the inhuman creature who pulled the sword from the lake was the same person as the first queen, it explained why Travis was surprised that Oscar didn’t know about the existence of outsiders’ artifacts. Travis believed the Farsas royal family would have passed on the truth about the first queen and the royal sword.
human
Oscar:  "Then does that mean I have outsider blood in my veins?" Oscar posited.
gpt
Tinasha:  "It happened twenty generations ago. It would be very diluted by now." Tinasha replied.