<span style="color: #6495ED">"Jake, you don't remember the black pulsing mass that was infecting Borealis? The stuff that dissipated separately when she died and her body dissolved? That sure didn't look like it was naturally a part of her. Also, I was farther away and I could see; every time she looked like she was pausing, it pulsed, she screamed, and attacked something else."</span><br/><br/>She pauses as Eleyna interjects, considering her words.<span style="color: #6495ED">"They wouldn't have given the Suicune a name. It wasn't there to pluck out of our heads. I think that was a god. One of the kami. Not a supreme being, but pretty damn powerful anyway. This whole night... That dance had 'Tai enraptured in a way I'd never seen him, before. And the old ways work still, even if they've been largely supplanted by more, ah, rigorous studies."</span><br/><br/>'Tai shifts, slyly trying to burrow his head into Naomi's yukata.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>