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[mincingminuet]

[As animated as always, Prompto...]

This is an Alraune. I...think it's a kind of thing called a Yahri, at least, that's the word I remember. But it's definitely a subspecies called Alraune. Which after looking it up apparently means Mandrake in German. And that's a weird can of worms that involves Alchemy so I didn't dig too deep.

[Stooping, she scoops the little guy up and lets him sit in the palm of her hand. He's about the size of a Barbie doll, and when he realizes Prompto isn't going to like...squash him...he settles in and makes a weird chirping sound.]

I want you to take some pictures of this guy. Just. In case something happens, I think it'd be good to have proof he's real.

[mercurio]

[she doesn't even have to ask; he's already picked up his camera from the tripod and is zooming in on the creature, snapping several shots.]

You're talking about some kind of magic here, aren't you?

[he may not be big into science, but alchemy sure rings familiar]

[prompto sets the camera onto video mode]

Does this have something to do with what you did with your necklace?

[mincingminuet]

Sort of. Alchemy isn't magic so much as it is pseudoscience.

[Good thing he's snapping away, because once it realizes what's going on, the Alraune hops out and starts...posing. Arms out, like it's deliberately trying to look silly. Maybe because it is.]

It was like...trying to turn lead into gold and stuff, or make stones that you can eat to make you immortal. All debunked by modern science but something people thought was real up until about the turn of the 18th Century.

[Holding up the stone, she nods at it, poking the now empty center.]

Remember how it was red in the middle earlier? When I summon this guy out, that goes away. I think it's sort of like a Capture Sphere from the Pocket Creature games or something. I remember the rock being called Auracite though.

[mercurio]

[cute!]

[prompto grins and continues snapping a few posed shots]

Yeah, it definitely feels like something out of a video game. Did this come with a memory before, too?

[mincingminuet]

I actually got the memory afterwards. I spent a whole day chasing this little shit around town, and I remembered how to put him away when I cornered him.

[Okay, now the little thing hops up onto Pen's shoulder and strikes yet another pose, pretending to be off balance and spinning his little arms.]

Kinda weird, huh?

[mercurio]

It's kinda weird that it exists when this is technically something we'd only see in video games, or movies. I've never heard of someone being able to do this kind of thing.

[not to say that it isn't cool, because it is incredibly so--]

But you don't know where it comes from, do you?

[mincingminuet]

I hadn't either. It's really fantastical and outlandish and yet here we are.

[Frowning a little bit, she takes a breath, trying to think more about that memory.]

And no...not really. It was kind of a jungle landscape I remember seeing him in, but that's all. And I don't think it was South America either.

[mercurio]

[prompto hums, curious and equally perplexed. it seems convoluted, to be unable to put down exactly what your memory is supposed to be about or from.]

[he raises the camera in his hands]

Would you like to record video of what you do know? Just to have it filed somewhere, other than pictures and videos of your friend there.

[mincingminuet]

[She spins back to him and looks a little surprised. Because...]

That is actually a really, really good idea. I mean, I have a recording of myself, but the LOCKSS philosophy is probably safest for this kind of thing.

You willing to listen for a bit to all this again?

[mercurio]

Hey, I'm here for whatever you need me to do.

[prompto shrugs, then smiles. he's an easy guy like that.]

If you need me to stay with you all night recording every singe piece of evidence, I'm alright with that. Whatever helps.

[mincingminuet]

Let's just start with the basics. And I'll send you copies of mine too.

[And let's call it there!]