human
Oscar:  "It’s set to be invisible.”
gpt
Tinasha:  “Since when?”
human
Oscar:  “Your coronation.”
gpt
Oscar:  “That’s pretty far back," Oscar said, rifling through his memories. Yes, he did recall having a barrier put on him. But something else had happened after that. "Didn’t you undo it?”
human
Tinasha:  “I did not. I only enhanced it and camouflaged it,” Tinasha explained, and she stuck out her tongue.
gpt
Oscar:  He barked out a dry laugh upon finally learning the truth.
human
Tinasha:  “It’s my barrier, so it’s connected to me. I’ll know when it repels magic. Did you battle a mage?” Tinasha went on matter-of-factly.
gpt
Oscar:  Oscar recalled the fight with the girl, grimacing. “I fought a younger version of you.” He pointed at Tinasha.
human
Tinasha:  “Oh… so I’m recorded, too, then?” she replied, pulling a face.
gpt
Oscar:  Confused, Oscar asked, “Recorded? What does that mean, and what attacked me?”
human
Tinasha:  Tinasha winced. “In short, this place is… a repository of sorts that records people and preserves them.”
gpt
Oscar:  “What?”
human
Tinasha:  Tinasha frowned. “I’m not sure how it operates, but this place captures people and creates duplicates of them. Normally, these copies are merely storage vessels that contain information, but when they sense an intruder, they will materialize to eliminate them.”
gpt
Oscar:  “So that’s what I fought?”
human
Tinasha:  “Yes. In Tuldarr, it’s known as the Harvesting. Four hundred years ago, I also came here in search of missing people. It caught me and made a duplicate of me. I thought I’d escaped before the process was finished, but it looks like I was wrong.”
gpt
Oscar:  “You’ve been here before? !”
human
Tinasha:  “I wouldn’t have been able to find you otherwise. It’s only because I got close that I was able to rely on my sense for the barrier on you to forcibly teleport closer,” she explained in a huff, cheeks puffed out in annoyance.
gpt
Oscar:  Oscar looked down at her. “So were you the one who blocked off the entrance? It was buried inside a cliff.”
human
Tinasha:  “You mean the entrance that you came in from? No. I destroyed all the entrances. This place isn’t inside a mountain; I don’t know where it is, exactly. Four centuries ago, I came in from a spot in Tuldarr.”
gpt
Oscar:  “It has multiple entrances?”
human
Tinasha:  “Yes. It can transfer those within and abduct any who are close by. Other entrances may exist, too.”
gpt
Oscar:  Shaking off the last of his shock, Oscar posed another question. “Why do you call it the Harvesting? That’s a really unsettling name. What happens to the people this place abducts?