The woman watched Mystique with strange inhuman eyes that swirled and changed every time she blinked, which wasn't as often as one would expect someone to blink. It was when the child started crying the woman knelt down to meet her eyes rising on when Mystique lifted the girl up.<br/><br/><span style="color: #00FF00">I did not crush the rock, but nor can I interact with matter on a physical form.</span><br/><br/>She held out her hand and the rock materialized into her palm, though it was the same it was made of the same dust as her. The rock cradled in her hand as it had been in the child's. She held the stone out closer to the child so the little girl could see that she hadn't destroyed the treasure but simply changed it.<br/><br/><span style="color: #00FF00">If I returned it, it would become solid again.</span><br/><br/>She regarded Mystique once more letting the stone and her hand fall to her side. Her hand closing around the stone holding it tightly in her palm. For a moment she was silent considering the questions that had been asked and again she began answering without pausing for breath as she did not actually breath. She was a being of energy.<br/><br/><span style="color: #00FF00">I may be called Alaiariash, or if that cannot be pronounced by your tongue Alai. <br/><br/>My very given name means guide. I was created to ensure that Ediaz never died. That should others come who were capable of seeing the wonders and not destroying them I was to take them down into the city itself and show them how to work its wonders. I am Ediaz and Ediaz is me traveler. It speaks to me directly. You will meet others like me in Ediaz, they might know the answers to your other questions. Each of us hold various knowledge and each of us are a part of Ediaz.<br/><br/>The Magea held power that cannot be defined. It would take many days to speak all of their power and what it held, but your imagination is limited. Thus even you could not fathom the sheer size of the power that the Magea held. The Magea in the universe now a days pales like shadows to what the true Magea held.<br/><br/>I exist because the Magea were connected to the very dust around us. The dust that can be seen even as you arrive on Ediaz is the very magic that combined with life on Ediaz to form the Magea. I am a being of the dust, thus I am part of Ediaz.<br/><br/>Ediaz is the planet fair friend. The city you saw with your technology is called Azor. Yet now that matters not as Ediaz and Azor are the same. They are both one, and yet all that is left. Yes I can show you how to reach Ediaz, but you will have to find how to get down for I am not of the material world and cannot help you down into Ediaz.<br/><br/>Time is known through my very being young one. As the world changes, as the time goes on, I feel it. Unlike you I do not change, but still my bones feel the shifting of time. Every day, every week, every month, every year is felt in my blood in the dust on the world.<br/><br/>The Magea that were taken have bred with their captors some even with their spouses that were taken with them, or other Magea they fell for while in captivity. New races rose upholding Magea blood, but none were as strong as the pure Magea. You yourself hold a small amount of Magea blood and the child you hold holds even more. The very young always feel the Magea blood stronger than the older ones. They are more open to it. You would be much more powerful Mystique if you opened your mind and allowed the Magea dust within you, your blood calls to it do you not feel it?<br/><br/>Young Rose does.<br/><br/>I have no interaction with the material world, thus no I do not eat, I do not sleep, I do not have pets, I do not have any directive beyond that of to watch, to guard and to guide. I am dust, and dust is me. I am Magea magic, raw and untaken. Unbound. Free. I consider the world above the city to be wild and the world bellow the city to be dying.</span><br/><br/>She fell silent then regarding the woman and child. Her eyes never looking to Eduian who stood unobtrusively staring at them both his eyes wide as coins. So wide that if they got any wider they would fall out of his face. He considered himself lucky that she had not turned those eyes to him. Unfortunately she did.<br/><br/><span style="color: #00FF00">You as well Eduian are Magea born, though you know this. You hide it. Why?</span><br/><br/>Eduian stared at her for a long moment before he said softly<span style="color: #00FFFF">"I was disavowed from my school. It isn't our culture to use our power to solve all problems only to use it when there is no other way around it. I was not making it a secret, I simply do not feel the need to use it all the time, it is physically taxing to do so."</span>He said and the green female frowned at him staring blankly and not responding. Eduian looked nervous under her gaze.