human
Oscar:  Just looking at her made him start laughing.
gpt
Tinasha:  “What’s so funny?”
human
Oscar:  “Your face.”
gpt
Tinasha:  “Is now the time?!” Her outraged reaction only amused him further.
human
Oscar:  Oscar was about to take a step when he heard a low voice full of resentment mutter in his ear, “You damn insider…”
gpt
Oscar:  “What? Some kind of trick?” he wondered aloud.
human
Oscar:  After shaking his head, he hurried to Tinasha’s side. She was still shocked at how abruptly everything had come to an end. “How did you do that…?”
gpt
Tinasha:  “What do you mean, ‘how’? It had one of those vital points.”
human
Oscar:  “Yes, but there were many others that looked just as genuine. How did you know that one was the true core?”
gpt
Tinasha:  “Intuition.”
human
Oscar:  “You really are something abnormal,” Tinasha replied with a sigh. Her expression was a mix of exasperation and admiration. The enigmatic ruins that even the Witch Killer Queen and her spirits could do nothing about four hundred years ago had now been unceremoniously silenced and their mechanism dismantled by the Akashia swordsman. All the villagers had been safely evacuated. Tinasha was the last one to depart the ruins. She looked back at the cave passageway, checking to make sure no one was there, then lifted a hand toward the entrance. Lightning shot from her palm, sending deep tremors far back along the passage. The rupture set off a cave-in that culminated in the collapse of the access to the ruins. Tinasha watched until the shaking ceased, then turned back around with a shrug. “This should do. Since the mechanism is destroyed, we could have left it open and intact, but I wouldn’t feel right about that.”
gpt
Oscar:  “Yep. Thanks, you really saved us,”
human
Tinasha:  “I should be thanking you for destroying the core.” Her dark eyes were narrowed, as if she were gazing into some distant past. That calm, self-possessed, and yet melancholic gaze was the hallmark of Tinasha’s queenly persona. It was clear she was thinking of the people of Tuldarr she had failed to rescue. The look drew Oscar in inexorably. Rather than act upon that feeling, however, he decided to inquire about a different matter. “What do you think made those ruins in the first place?”
gpt
Tinasha:  “Hmm… I’m curious, but I don’t have any clue at all. It’s something outside the laws of magic, which means I haven’t the faintest idea.”
human
Oscar:  “But aren’t there lots of things humans don’t know about on other planes of existence?” Indeed, Tinasha was the one who informed Oscar that their world was like an endless stack of transparent pages all existing in the same place. Humans only comprehended a fraction of the total pages. Oscar’s remark was meant to point out that something on a different plane might exist outside the usual rules. However, Tinasha shook her head. “I think you may have misunderstood.