DragonierMan activated the panel on the wall at Lyntael's direction, creating an obstacle course of various targets. Then he and Aya watched as Lyntael began her routine. It seemed that the young woman learned a little martial arts from somewhere, but she was still quite the amateur. Her power was impressive enough - able to blow holes in the target dummies as she lay into them - but her movements were still a little unrefined from a trained warrior perspective. Despite this, no one could deny that she was as smooth and graceful as a dancer. Her flow was instinctual. Of course, she was also balancing her own actions against trying very hard not to explode like a target dummy herself. So one should give her some leniency.

Aya frowned and glanced at the melted lightning rod. It smoked a bit as a gold river flowed down to the ground below. It wouldn't be that hard for Lyn to burn herself out, if she pushed herself too much. And without the protection of her PET, Lyn might suffer terrible injuries. Or worse.

Quote (Lyntael)

"You could go run a few laps around this training area, until you're good and out of breath... and then when you come back, you'll feel your heart beating much faster than normal... but I guess you can just tell it not to, right? You just 'don't let it' beat that quickly, and just tell it to beat at the same slower pace it does at other times. Let me know how that goes, and then tell me how you do it, because I can't.”

Her student's words ran through her mind as she tried to pay attention to Lyn's form. Would Lyn suffer more from this exertion? Less? Was Aya right about what needed to be done? Or was she leading Lyn to an agonizing end if she didn't put a stop to this now?

With reluctance, Aya decided to hold out and not to stop Lyn from her course. It was a dangerous play, but thankfully it seemed that their efforts bore fruit. Lyn was seeming to struggle with her charge as normal, however, she was now claiming that she could feel where her limiters were. Aya was right, and very lucky, in giving Lyn the benefit of the doubt and letting it play out till the end. They were finally making some progress.

"Hold back," Aya called out to Lyn. "We don't want you to expend more if that will cause a feedback loop of greater power. Only expend if you sincerely believe it won't cause you more problems. Concentrate on the pulses. We need to learn how you can use them to your benefit."

"Does it synchronize with your heartbeat? Is it beating at a different rate? Where is the pulse originating from?" Aya asked Lyn. "If we could control those stabilizing pulses, we might be able to strengthen them through training. That would help a lot towards any further training of your powers."

Suzume released Nightshade, as the latter squirmed out of the former's grasp. She stood up and backed away towards where Drago was standing as Nighty approached Lyn. "Careful!" Suzume exclaimed as Drago placed a hand on her shoulder to steady her. "You don't want to hurt Lyn. Her powers aren't as stable as yours are."

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Magistrate continued to do a lot of administrative tasks on her computer system while Yumi padded into the room. She didn't even seem to look up or acknowledge the smaller dragon as Yumi quietly sat down beside her. However, after a few minutes of silence punctuated by loud typing, Magistrate reached over and patted Yumi on the head with one hand. Stroking her hair and fur with the kindness of a mother. Magi's other hand continued to type along. Her eyes never leaving the screens.

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After Nightshade showed his best impression of Aya to Lyntael, and he reverted back into his original form, his body language bid Suzume to hug him more. Suzume was inexorably drawn to give more cuddles to the smaller, soft-furred creature. Her arms wrapped around and pulled him into a strong embrace. It was warm and inviting. And the hugs lasted for minutes on end.

Aya listened to Lyntael as Suzume snuggled. Listened as Lyn explained her body processes and state of mind. Aya was also a little taken aback by Lyn's rebuff to her, but gleaned a good deal of critical information from it. Aya's eyes widened as the wheels in her mind were visibly turning. She then began to pace as she speaks, "Aha! Okay so... clearly we are coming at this from the wrong angle," she says, brushing most of what Lyn was trying to apologize for aside. It didn't seem like she needed Lyn's apology to forgive her snap. Aya seemed to wear her emotions on her sleeves more than the others, but was just as fast to move on.

"Yes, yes, we know that you are easily distracted and frightened. You have a good reason to be. Good reason. For now at least. Soon you will be stronger yes? Yes. But first to your problem," Aya babbled.

"We thought that we should build up your power. Strengthen your control. But no, that was the wrong way to think about it. What we really need to do is the opposite of what we have been doing up until now," she continued, her voice chirping more excitedly as she seemed to have thought up a revelation. "We train you to constantly expel your charge in small doses. Yes? Yes! Keep the ejections small. Keep the re-build small."

"As long as you keep a small bit of current in you all the time, while you emit the rest in small doses, the charge won't try to refill. The vessel remains partially full. Constant repeaters... That is the ticket!" Aya exclaimed as she jumped for joy.

Aya was quick to catch herself after a moment and brush down her clothes. She coughed into her hand as she calmed down. "Ahem. So hopefully this causes your 'stabilized pulses' thing to activate more often. Try to focus on them if you feel them. Try to sus them out. If you can somehow control that system inside you, then it will help you a lot."

"In the meantime, I will need you to try to hold a medium amount of charge in you. Not too much as to hurt you and not too little as to cause the feedback loop to build up even worse. And while you do that, you will need to consistantly expel small amounts of your charge into that lightning rod. Now remember: you must not expel enough to lower your overall charge level that much, but just enough to keep up with the building pressure. Just as long as you don't let it increase or decrease too much, you should be fine."

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"Oh, of course. One moment," DragonierMan replied to Lyntael's request to return the grassy lawn. He opened up the controls again and pressed the Grass Terrain button. Once more the wooden floor transformed into a field of soft emerald green. The ceiling opened up into a sunny azure-blue sky, radiating warmth and a light cool breeze, one that ruffled the verdant sea. Aya shaded her face with her hand as her eyes adjusted to the light of the glowing golden sun overhead. "Ugh, I can never get used to rapidly changing light sources," she grumbled.

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"A limit?" Suzume asked Lyntael after listening to her go on about her connection to Rogan's PET. "I wonder if that connection that weighs heavily on you is the Ejection Protocols. You did say that you feel freer without the link, but when you travel outside the link's range you suffer bodily strain. Perhaps the PET is dampening the harm done to your body. And it is something you feel as physical pressure," she speculated.

As Lyn continued to describe how she felt and how her charge system felt as she used it, the twins frowned. "But wait... Why would the charge, when released, build up faster and more powerfully? Why does it keep doing that until you damage yourself? Can you not stop its progress? Shouldn't it stop generating after it is released and you don't activate it again? How are you still alive?" Suzume asked through a barrage of questions, before Nightshade entered the picture.

Nighty paws wrapped around Suzu's neck in a hug as she bent down to the feline's level. She in return wrapped her own arms around Nighty's back and patted him in that same hug. "Well I missed you too," Suzu replied back. Nighty then introduced himself to Lyn over Suzu's shoulder. A little chit-chat passed between them as Aya watched from her position as Lyn began to strain against her own powers. Suzu stood back up again from her hug as sparks began to crackle and pop behind her from Lyn's position.

Suzume turned back towards Lyntael to see the struggle the girl had to clamp down on her building charge. Suzu made sure to form a barrier between Nighty and Lyn so as to protect the former from the latter. Nighty made a comment about Lyn's familiar energy, as she choked down her own power with a pained expression. Aya stood up from her own position and frowned. "Ugh... Control, control, you must learn control. Regardless of whatever distractions are going around here, you need to fo-cus," she enunciated.

"Look here, one moment," she said before turning around and opening a big burlap sack. She rooted around in the sack for a moment before producing a long silver-metal staff with a golden bulb at one end. The other end was a sharpened stake that she drove into the grassy ground between her and Lyntael. "Okay, so, any time you feel like you are about to lose control of the charge, you touch this lightning rod. You send everything into it, okay? I want you to fully drain yourself whenever you are about to pop-off."

Aya pointed her index and middle finger at her own eyes, then at Lyntael's, and back at her own eyes. "Look. At. Me. Alright? Now, do that again: build up your charge steadily. Build it out throughout your whole body like before," she commanded. "You said it was going to come back stronger and faster than before right? Well you don't let it, okay? You force it to build up just as slow as before. If you have to expel the excess charge through this lightning rod so that you get the same steady rate, you do that, okay? But you CONTROL that. Don't let it control you."

Suzume turned back to Nightshade as Aya took control of the lesson from her. "Her energy seems familiar Nighty? What about it seems familiar?" she asked her adoptive little brother.

Meanwhile, Aya continued to instruct Lyn on her training. "Okay, so after the charge is flowing throughout your body at a steady rate, you are going to hold it there as long as you can. Again, if you need to bleed off excess charge, you grab a hold of this lightning rod. If you have to constantly expel your energy down this rod into the ground, then that is what you are going to do. But I don't want you to stop keeping a steady charge throughout your entire body. You need to be able to control your feed - your ebb and flow - if you ever truly wish to master this power of yours."

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From Nightshade's description of what Yumi was up to, she was probably walking into the lobby where Magistrate was busy watching her computer screen, fussing with various vid-windows and muttering to herself angrily. "Once again my genius is not appreciated by yet another person who does not have the wherewithal to do what is necessary. As if training alone would be enough to deal with the numerous flaws that the creator cursed that poor girl. Well whatever, I gave her a chance at a more normal life and she refused my good graces. If she wants to suffer, who am I to stop her?"

Magistrate did not hear Yumi come into the room.

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Nightshade flew from one door to another, passing behind Magistrate on her computer desk, and entering the gymnasium in a blurred streak of dark blue fur. Rounding a corner, the streak bounded through the open doorway and latched itself to DragonierMan's waist. Drago was in mid stretch and stumbled forward a few steps at the sudden impact, before he stabilized. He looked down at the paws wrapped around him and smirked, "Hello Nightshade. What brings you around here today?"

Aya and Suzume looked up from their teaching of Lyntael to smile as well. "Great, our lil' bro is awake," Aya said with a teasing tone in her voice. "Hey Nighty, how're you doing? Is Yumi with you?" Suzume paused, stepping away from Lyntael, and crouching down to talk to Nightshade over Drago's hip.

"Meet Nightshade," Aya pointed out the small ball of fluff to Lyntael. "He was like you, a new recruit to the Neo-Shoguns, and he just sort of adopted us as his NET-Family. He is an affectionate little terror, but he means well. Hey, Nighty, come greet a new member of the Neo-Shoguns, Lyntael. I wouldn't suggest hugging her though, she might give you a shock."

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"Don't worry about that ol' stick in the mud," Aya replied to Lyntael. "She's always too serious and gets heated easily when things don't go her way. Give it a couple days and she'll be back to her normal dour self," she continued. "As for implanting things into oneself, some people would see it as not much different to SciLab upgrades. I'm sure you are using Navi Customisers, and maybe even some Buster Upgrades right? What about Hit Point Memories? Signature Upgrades also give you new abilities. Do you not think of them as something flowing inside you, making you more powerful?" Aya asked Lyn.

"Don't worry about going all-out here," DragonierMan said to Lyntael as they walked into the Training Hall. "We can easily replicate new equipment without any problems. And even though those walls look like fragile glass, they're not objects, and won't shatter to anything less than Terrain changes. So try not to use Panel Break and the like." As they entered one of the empty rooms, Drago paused at the door to show Lyn a control panel on the inside of the room.

"You can adjust what Terrain the floor of the room has. Like so," he said as he tapped an image of green grass. The wooden floor shimmered a little and was suddenly transformed into a lush Grass lawn. The ceiling above faded away as well, leaving an open blue sky with a shining yellow sun overhead. A calm, yet refreshing breeze blew through the area, rustling the emerald sea beneath their feet. Drago then touched the control panel again and the wooden floor and the deco ceiling returned. Artificial lighting and air circulation took over again from the absence of the sun and wind.

They then got to stretching. Lyn explained how she felt and what her charge was doing. The air shimmered around Suzume as her defensive barrier came up and she walked over to Lyn. The fair skin of her hand sprouting little hard scales as she reached out to touch Lyn's arm. "First, show me how much of a charge you can safely generate and hold throughout your entire body without releasing it. Do it slowly. Evenly. Spread across every sinew, muscle, and bone."

"Do not, under any circumstances, generate anything beyond the point of pain. A dull ache is fine, but a sharp pain is not," Suzume commanded. "We should not torment ourselves if we can avoid it." If Lyntael allowed it, Suzume would trace her hands up and down Lyn's arms and legs as she concentrated, trying to feel out the currents. The tingles. The sparks. The ebb and flow.

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The Wanderlust II with Lyntael and DragonierMan
Posts 34-78 are between Lyntael.EXE and DragonierMan.EXE for evaluation.

Magistrate stared at Lyntael as she fumbled around with her words. She sighed as her work was mostly rejected and turned away to walk over to another table to gather some bottles of pills she had left there. "Very well. I did some more research on human females and have prepared a variety of medications and supplements that should work for your body, given our scans." She placed them in a large paper-bag sack with handles and returned to Lyn to hand it to her over the table. "If you need any further help, you have our number."

She then turned around again to walk to her control console and clicked a few buttons. Most of the vid-screens closed down and the words [ALL DATA DELETED] appeared on the remaining screens. "There," Magi stated before turning and walking towards the door back into the lobby, leaving everything else on their tables. "We are done here. You are free to do whatever you wish with your remaining time," she said as she left the room, not even bothering to look at Lyn as she addressed her. Her voice still professional, but clipped.

Magi returned to her desk to continue whatever she was working on when she was interrupted by the group. Any further interaction with her only returned silence as she began actively ignoring them. Like Achilles in his tent.

DragonierMan, Suzume, and Aya shrugged at Lyntael and started leading her out of the lab room and towards another door that said 'Training Hall'. Inside looked like an expansive gym, with various exercise machines, and several glass-walled rooms with wooden floors. There was even a door near the end labeled 'Pool and Spa'. "Here we are!" Aya exclaimed as she was trying to drag Lyn along with her. "My home within my home."

"I think you mean 'home away from home'," Suzume corrected her. Then she caught herself, her brow furrowed in thought. "Although I guess that since this our home, it would make sense... But then again, if our PET is our home, then this would be our 'home away from home'." She stopped as all her faculties began going over the philosophical theories of existence. Aya rolled her eyes as she continued to pull at Lyn to follow her towards one of the glass-walled rooms. One could probably use them as dance studios or basketball courts with the proper modifications.

"Aaannnyways, while Suzu ponders, let's get started over here. We'll need to first do some stretches. Get all loosey-goosey. As we saw in your scans, it looks like the energy seems to flow through your body like blood. So what better way to feel where the current is going than to do some yoga. Now follow along as we go slowly, I want you to concentrate on where your charge goes as we go." Aya would then go through some basic yoga forms, trying to teach Lyn them if she didn't already know. Drago was there as well, trying to go along with them, but having some trouble, as he wasn't as flexible.

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"Just put it back in one of those kiosks and say the word: 'Reclaim'," Aya waved Lyntael over to device she originally used. Aya then quickly devoured the rest of her cookie and downed her drink before jumping up to walk over to an empty kiosk. She placed the tray with the discarded banana peel, cookie crumbs, and empty glass on the shelf, while the computer screen lit up. "Reclaim," she said, a little bit dramatically, and the hum returned. The contents of the tray disintegrated, like a statue crumbling to dust in mere moments, and vanished into the aether. She then stacked her now empty and scoured tray back into the alcove with the other trays.

Aya then turned back to Lyn. "Building up your courage is good and all, but I was talking about more of a non-combative training regimen. You don't learn how to use a sword by getting into a sword fight. First you learn proper techniques for wielding a sword: how to hold it, how to swing or stab it, that sort of thing. The sword fighting comes after you've gotten the basics down."

"Have you even figured out all the ways electricity flows through your body yet? Can you control when, and in what quantity, it produces that energy? Where exactly it goes?" she asked. "From what you've told us, it seems like you are just jumping into the deep end without knowing how to swim, and are just flailing desperately to stay afloat, while also having to fend off sharks. No wonder you've had problems and have gotten hurt. Right now you need to take a step back and assess. Maybe your courage won't falter as much once you are more confident of your own control."

Suzume looked up from her mostly-eaten sandwich at Lyntael's suggestions of reading books and dancing. "I guess we could branch out a little bit more, it just never really occurred to us. We weren't really created with those kinds of hobbies in mind. Just to always be ready for another virus bust." Suddenly, her eyes unfocused from Lyn and started darting back and forth in her skull, as if she was reading something insanely fast. When her eyes stopped moments later, and refocused back on Lyn, they had a little extra motivation behind them. "Perhaps we can form a... 'book group', as the NET calls it. And you could recommend books for us to read."

"As for dancing, we were taught a few two-partner dances after it became clear that we would have to do a bunch of socializing as a part of the Neo-Shoguns. Not mastery-level capabilities, but just enough to get us by. I guess we could teach you that as well if you are interested," Suzume said to Lyn, pointing a little teasingly to Drago. The guy currently had a bowl up to his lips, draining away the last of his soup. When he was done, he set the bowl down on his tray, and wiped his mouth off on his cloak sleeve.

At some point in their conversations here in the cafeteria, the three dragoniers had put on gray t-shirts and shorts. The wonders of being able to change clothes at the drop of a hat. They still had on their cloaks, and probably their swimsuits underneath, but there was no flash of light to show the change. Perhaps they didn't actually need to broadcast their changes, but did so earlier for Lyn's sake. But at least now she wouldn't have to be in a room with a bunch of attractive late 20-somethings in skimpy clothing.

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Anyways, it seemed that they were wrapping up as Drago and Suzume started gathering their trays to recycle and put away. With a little clatter of plastic the cafeteria was all cleaned up and the group heading back to see what Magistrate had to say. When they arrived, Lyntael's worries were brought back to the fore. A set of invasive-looking devices were laid out on a table, along with some not-so-invasive-looking arm and leg braces. Several vid-screens floating above the table showing where they would either be inserted into a Lyntael silhouette, or worn on her body over the skin like protective clothing.

"These devices should help regulate your electrical impulses, to a degree. The chaotic nature of your body's pathways makes it impossible to fully regulate. I give you a choice between a set of protective outerwear, which may restrict or slow movement by a little bit, and we can try to adjust it as necessary... or a set of implants that should not bother you once they are grafted to your electrical system," Magistrate offered. "This is what I can do for you to get a handle on your system now. I could also offer you a set of prescription-style medical drugs, like pain medication, or whatever else your biology requires."

She continued: "Anything other than this would require extensive training that I am too busy to provide you. And you may never be fully protected from the negative biological effects that would occur from continuous use of your electricity. With that said, what do you wish to do?" Magistrate asked Lyntael.

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Magistrate listened to Lyntael as she went a little into her 'medical' history. She was interested in her creator Eric and this 'Sunseed' program that brought forth such a unique Navi, but Lyntael's concern for her designer's feelings stopped her from pursuing that lead. "Hmm, I see," Magi shook her head. "That is too bad. I would have liked to have called Eric up and pick his brain about potential treatments. But, if you do not want him to know, then I will have to figure this out on my own."

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In the cafeteria, DragonierMan and Suzume sat down with Lyntael and Aya after selecting their food items. Drago had a bowl of clam chowder soup with some warm, soft bread sticks. For his drink he had a huge pint-sized cold glass of green iced-tea with three big square ice cubes floating around in it. Suzume, meanwhile, had a nice looking turkey sandwich with sliced cheddar cheese, some apple slices on the side, and a 12 oz plastic bottle with the label: 'Diet Soder' emblazoned upon it. They listened as Lyn aired out her feelings in the more casual setting. She reiterated her rocky relationship with her Operator, Rogan, again and the reasons that brought her to this point. Given how many times the group had heard the story now, they could make a good effort at publishing Lyn's autobiography.

But they were content enough to play the courteous friends that lent an ear to a deeply troubled girl. It was in a way a fascinating development that a group of combat programs primarily built for war, had ended up becoming emotional counselors to various Navis they had ran into amongst their travels. Suzume and Drago nodded in turn as Lyn thanked each of them for their thoughts and feelings. Drago still had a furrowed brow in thought about all the ways he would go about murdering this Vigilance character, as he ripped into some of his bread. His sharp hand talons and fanged maw ripping and tearing it to pieces as he devoured it. He would probably fantasize about this blood sport every day until he succeeded. What sweet ecstasy that future day would bring.

"Sounds to me like you just need more directed training," Aya commented on Lyntael's efforts to use her electric powers without killing herself. "Assuming you don't want Magi to go in and install regulators like she mentioned." She paused to drop the empty peel of her banana on her tray and pick up her large chocolate chip cookie, snapping it in half. "I know too many people who don't train enough and then complain when they lose," she mulled over as she looked at the far wall, chewing absently on one half of her cookie. "If you are ready to put in some more effort, I can probably help you along towards that goal."

"I spend most of my time honing my skills, or sleeping," Aya stated in relation to Lyn's question about what they do for fun. "We don't have much free time between busting runs or missions, so why bother trying to do anything else?" Suzume slowly nodded towards Aya statement. "I was given a modicum of oratory skills, so I practice a little singing in our time off," Suzume added. "But training with Aya takes up most of that time. So, I try to make up the difference where I can, such as while out in the field. Singing a rousing battle hymn or soothing song of healing."

Aya motioned over to Drago who was slurping up his soup by the great spoonfuls. "Our Master doesn't have time off unless our Operator is sleeping, doing all the things that Navigators do for their Operators. And even then he is probably doing some task assigned him by Our Lord before he went to bed. Otherwise he is probably doing what we are doing: in the Training Hall with us, or resting off the last battlefield." Aya then pointed a particular sharp piece of broken off cookie at Lyn, "Why? What do you do for fun?"

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"No you don't need to whisper, you can talk normally, just don't shout," Suzume clarified as she lead Lyntael further inside. "The walls have amplifiers installed so that our voices don't get lost due to the curvature of the room, or something. I don't know the specifics."

Magistrate smiled a little as Lyntael gave her, and her space of work, a modicum of respect. Unlike the three other dragoniers who just barged in and out of the space as they pleased, demanding the use of her time whenever they wished without any consideration to her own situation. "At least one of you seems to have some proper mannerisms," she said in compliment to Lyn. "Yes, this way please."

As Lyn expressed her concerns over the procedure, Magi sighed. She turned to the small, hesitant woman and tried to put on a calming face, and spoke slowly. "Yes, this will be just a standard scan. I will not do anything else while you are inside that capsule. After the scan is done, you will be free to exit the tube. And just to clarify, the door is not locked, so you can exit whenever you wish. However, if you leave the capsule before the scan is completed, I will not be able to get all the data we need to help you in whatever manner you wish to use this data," she explained.

Lyn further specified that she wanted any gathered data deleted after. Magistrate's face frowned a little, but then nodded. "Very well. After we are done here today, I will purge the data collected from our systems. Just know that if you need any further help, you will just have to go through this whole process again. And any further solutions that a more in-depth study of your data would reveal, would of course not be available. Shall we proceed?" she asked as she motioned toward the capsule.

Assuming that Lyntael had the assurances needed and stepped into the capsule, Magistrate pushed another button and the clear door would shut behind Lyn with a little click. Even though Lyn was in an enclosed space, there was a consistent air flow from the top and bottom of the cylinder, probably an air recycler for ease of breathing. "You may stand or sit, it will not affect the test results. Please continue to breathe and move around normally. This will only take a few minutes," Magi tried to assure Lyn as she started to press various buttons on her control console.

A hum of machinery started up around Lyn before circles of various colors of light began moving up and down the tube she was in. It was possible that the electricity flowing through the systems would react with Lyn's body, raising hairs on her arm or something. Meanwhile, several small vid-windows began popping up around her capsule, and rotating slowly around it, displaying various bits of information for anyone to see. The displays were double-sided, allowing Lyn to read them just as well as those outside the capsule could. Magi's eyes darted around as she tried to keep up with all the information flowing around the capsule.

"Hmm, interesting," Magi's lips parsed as she brought up a readout of a silhouette of Lyn. As she moved her hand across the control panel, the silhouette filled out with a skeleton, then various organs, than musculature. "She has a fully simulated human system, including normal biological impulses. Pain and hunger tolerances are normal. Looks like she is still in need of some rest and a good meal," she remarked. She also noticed other things about Lyn's biology that were more of an intimate nature, but she wasn't really interested in drawing attention to them. Both for sake of privacy and the fact that she didn't really care. It wasn't the reason for this particular exercise anyways. If Lyn wanted help dealing with those later, she could come back and see Magi directly.

She pushed away that window, and pulled up another one. This one was an image of Lyn's Navigator emblem. A bunch of data spilled down both sides of the screen like waterfalls as Magi's eyes darted about. "Looks like her emblem is performing similarly to a Navi-core in most respects - without actually being a Navi-core - sending and receiving signals. As we all know, the Navi symbol is linked directly to the core of most Navis, acting as sort of an identifier and signal booster... But... Hold on..."

She pressed something on her console and the window she was looking at shot out a line of data-energy towards another window that was clustered around the capsule. It tethered to this window and pulled it up to where she was working. This vid-window showed what looked like a bunch of wires running through another Lyn silhouette. "Ahhh, but what is this? It looks like we have our culprit," she stated as she tapped on the screen. The vid-window segmented into five smaller screens, each zoomed into a spot on the silhouette. One was displaying the center of Lyn's chest, where her emblem was featured, and the other four showed similar points on her wrists and ankles, all with the wires running through them. "Looks like her emblem is a powerful generator for her electrical current, which follows along a main thoroughfare, and ends in batteries tied to her limbs... Which apparently store up the charge, pass it back into her emblem again, and then discharge the collected energy through one of her exit points. Her emblem thus pulling a strange form of double-duty in this multi-circuit monstrosity... Very inefficient... And I do not see any proper regulation systems between any of these parts," she said with a frown.

Magi look past her screens to Lyn in her capsule. "Why would someone strap an electrical generator and multiple capacitors to your body... and then not also install at least a few dampeners, or something?" she asked as she pressed another button on her control panels, shutting off the scanner. The vid-windows continued to float and rotate around the capsule, but the lights turned off and the door clicked open. "You may exit the capsule now, I found what we need to be working on. If you want something to eat, I am sure that someone can show you the way to the cafeteria," Magi stated as she tried to shoo everyone out of her lab so she could think.

DragonierMan, Suzume, and Aya were waiting patiently, and silently, during the whole ordeal. "I could get a snack," Aya commented before heading out of the lab and back into the lobby. She crossed the floor to a door on the far side and opened it, showing another white room like the two others before. This one was a cavernous rectangular room with several long tables that could seat a dozen or more individuals each. Several kiosks lined the walls, little alcoves with empty trays stacked besides them. Aya ran up to one of them and placed a tray on a shelf attached to the kiosk, which lit up. "One glass of orange juice, cold, a banana, and a large chocolate chip cookie," she stated to the console.

There was a little hum, similar to the one in the capsule Lyn was placed in, and the items materialized on Aya's tray. She grinned and took the tray with its contents over to one of the tables to chow down on. Drago and Suzume escorted Lyn to the cafeteria if she wanted to go there. "As you can see, you can ask for anything your heart, or your stomach, desires. If you need help, or can't think of anything, you can browse the kiosk's NET system. You can even ask it for suggestions based on time of day and regional meal variations," she pointed out.

Suzume then paused and looked at Lyntael directly, attempting to place her hands on Lyn's shoulders. "Are you okay?" she asked. It was a loaded question.

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