[ChicletPrime]

7. STELLAR GUIDANCE

• Jeremiah out here, giving away the game. Hands me all my secret identity stuff with a chatty little "..don't be so formal! I just never thought I'd actually be able to help you. It's so..."
  
• Xavier better get out his sword again, information is happening
  
• "Silently, Xavier positions himself between Jeremiah and me."  boo-yah! god, i am really growing to like this guy the more i look past the soft voice.
  
• did Xavier just... just pierce my ear?!
  
• oh. secret transmitter. phew.
  
• they'll be able to track my location even if there's no signal. i'm going to end up in an abandoned warehouse being worked over by rough guys with rubber hoses, aren't i?
  
• aaaand a poison counteragent.  this is getting serious. and a needle with a knockout drug. lovely. i am armed for bear. and rubber hose guys.
  
• i don't think this is the time for a bouquet, bunny. but i appreciate the gesture? you better pay Jeremiah, he might also be sunshine but everybody needs money to eat.
  
• are these flowers weapon grade?
  
• "The girl's figure fades into the dawn. The light in the greenhouse dims like a fire on the verge of being extinguished."  please don't tell me Rafayel is lurking under the rhododendrons.
  
• Xaxier: "It's flawed." oookay, now THERE's a line out of nowhere. the plan? yes. its a deeply stupid plan but we're going with it because we're the Main Character, damn it.
  
• eeeeeeee!!! "Were you able to stay calm when you saw her for the first time?"   EEEEEEE! okay, hi, excuse me, just choking for a gleeful second. c'mon c'mon lay it ON ME already!
  
• Thank you Jeremiah for being not okay with just letting me go into the N109 Zone (implication: alone). You are my new favorite floral guy.
  
• "It will be safer compared to Linkon City in a few days."  What the fuck.
  
• oh my god, there's a Prime Directive going on.  excuse me "Non-Intervention Principle", or NIP.
  
• there we go. at least direct confirmation that my home exploded because of Nefarious Things, and hidden truths.
  
• okay, sure. i'll bite. how long HAVE you guys been here? and what's a Backtracker?
  

i am thinking. i got nothing beyond haze. a registry of people that came over, scattered maybe on landing and that's way to try and identify them all again? 

• "Don't you have the feeling that people's memories of us are also becoming fuzzier? Especially in recent years." Jeremiah, you're are SO going to get a sword to the throat in a minute, this is GREAT.  i have no idea what any of this MEANS but this is fantastic.
  

• You're here by mistake? EVEN BETTER.  poor stranded aliens.
  
• what do you mean you might be being erased (implied: from memory)? This isn't some Aeon Flux bullshit is it? oh wow, could it be Aeon Flux bullshit? i am thinking SO HARD.
  

just like a planet that strayed away from orbit, only to be ripped apart by gravity.

• what in the bleeding hells is going ON here? hello, Caleb? or is that just a throwaway line for poetry.
  
• what the fuck is Traceback II??? my head so asplode here. there's more in this chapter it feels like than the rest of the main story up til this point, this is boggling.
  
• traceback, backtracker... are they trying to find people through time?
  
• oh no, just trying to communicate through the Tunnel. which, honestly, WOULD be trying to talk through time.
  
• "You will return in one piece. I'll make sure of it."  wow, Xavier. okay. lets just save your whole civilization, one florist at a time i guess.
  
• this isn't Philos and we're not truly immortal. wow. okay. how not quite immortal is not quite immortal? AM I HALF IN LOVE WITH AN ELF?
  

Okay, Challenge level time. More tea needed. Maybe something with a LOT of sugar.