[ChicletPrime]

• we haven't killed the flower yet. all is not yet lost. go, little flower! all i see to do is water you but hey, i'm trying.
  
• hey, Library of All Libraries! and the ice carpet thingie takes me right to a book called "Philos: Floral Inquiry". i guess we are about to learn us some stuff about flowers.
  
• The pages about jasmines appears well-read. huh! "When I turn to the title page, there is a single word on it: Zayne."
  
• i am a klutz. startled by the Foreseer and struggling to come up with a good lie as to why i'm currently in his Library, i manage to fall off my ice carpet but thankfully don't splat on the ground because he catches me. and apparently this "Zayne" is who i'm looking for.
  
• i thought i wanted the Creatio protocore. apparently i am wrong and the Foreseer... foresees it.
  
• this would have been good to know when the wedding banner came out. this is all that.. or more, that is all this!
  
• oh. so the crystal elevator that took me up to the book seems to be its own sentient thing. or a part of the Library itself?
  
• the crystal thing (a 'phantasm') resembles a spread jasmine (nice!) and the Foreseer remarks that its more forgiving than he is.  i'm forgiven for invading the Library at all. and it slides under me and picks me up! whee! and i can walk in the air as i want, as ice just keeps forming beneath my feet.  awww, the Library (or its caretakers, whichever) love me!
  
• we name the Foreseer 'Zayne' and he appears unmoved by it.
  
• later that night back in whatever passes for 'my' room, its definitely odd that even though we gave him what we are pretty sure is his actual name, he didn't get angry.
  
• I'm still dying to ice stuff.
  
• great! whatever the phastasm is, its part of the Tower (or is the Tower itself) not just the Library since its here at my command. Creatio Heist Is Still A Go!
  
• oh. oh dear. the phantasm has... taken me right to the Foreseer's sceptre, only its his bedroom and Zayne is bathing?
  
• bwahahahah! fantastic. that visual is not leaving my forebrain anytime soon. and again, Zayne does not appear in the least put out. wow. what would it take to get this man to blush?
  
• "With the slight curl of his finger, the steam around us turns into a white cloth that hangs around his waist."  well, after JUST seeing the Edge of Continuum trailer, i can picture that quite clearly! "And with another wave of his hand, an unseen force pulls me in his direction."  halp. oh, halp. somebody save meeee.... /buffs nails /hurriedly inspects teeth in hand mirror for unsightly green bits /smiles winsomely upwards into his impassive face. hello there, undressed stranger who is full of magic and foreknowledge. i am here to lick you dry.
  
• for once the girlfriend is on board with me! we are sympatico in our desires, tracing all the droplets running down his arms and chest with our eyes.
  
• oh no. "What is more astounding is the number of scars etched on Zayne's body".
  
• i have subverted the Tower. Zayne, again for some reason, does not appear upset that its now ferrying me around like we're besties.
  
• aaaand... i am banished from the bedchamber at a wave of his hand. sadface.
  
• "Those scars etched on his flesh... some has stabbed him. Yet no on else lives in this Tower. How could he have been wounded? He is also blessed by Astra. Who could be powerful enough to injure him?"
  
• 1) it happened before he caught the notice of Astra, however many eons ago that was 2) the envoys that come every hundred years had magical daggers and he was trapped on his throne, which is why they stopped coming back a thousand years ago as the Foreseer's magic kept wiping them out in retaliation 3) Zayne does it to himself as 'punishment' 4) Astra does/did it to His avatar as 'punishment'.
  
• And back to the Library we go only to be led again to the Floral book. what does the jasmine have to do with anything? it blooms, and Zayne is freed from his curse?
  
• oh no, the book is magic! we are... transported? or having a vision. on god, this is so pretty. wow. i would screenshot if i could! alas.
  
• Zayne in his Foreseer robes is here but doesn't recognize us. I guess we're in his past? yeah, we can see the sunlight streaming through his robes. he's not really here or we're not really there, whichever. oh, we're in the BOOK! its showing us something, or Zayne has hidden this meadow of flowers inside it. he calls himself "a lonely wraith' and his card title is "apparition".  awwwww!
  
• oh shit. the jasmines are his memories, each one of his lives. he's taken them away and hidden them in this book. and the single jasmine growing outside?!?
  
• /suddenly hauled sideways into the zero-gravity chamber and Professor L cursing the part of Caleb's brain that is warded against all interference, constantly resetting his personality away from 'weapon' to 'person who loves me'.
  
• its why the jasmines are buds only, never blossoms. because he never remembers past each moment. "I stare at the seeminly endless ocean of flower buds."
  
• oh, fuck. oh hell. even Dawnbreaker has a jasmine plant on his windowsill, blighted as his world is.
  
• "The Foreseer cannot see his own (fate). Such is Astra's will."
  
• well, hell.
  
• not a fan. this is terrible. oh, Zayne. no wonder you're always so cold and hard to reach. you see everything but yourself.
  
• wow, he REALLY likes hauling me around by magic. this is a man so solid in his power, he wields it like a hand. which is currently wrapped around my throat for the crime of asking if he has ever thought of leaving the Tower.
  
• The Creatio Protocure flares to indigo life and Zayne shoves me away. Brambles slither like snakes towards Zayne, binding him in place. he's... really not allowed to leave, huh. even the thought of it triggers these things. and then one branch rushes for me as well, drawing blood on my arm before Zayne shields me with ice. Apparently these things can kill (me, I guess, not him).
  
• "He is warning us". ohhhhh. all the scaaaars. And Zayne remembers nothing at all - not even that he ever tried.
  
• and the brambles disappear as Zayne moves past the moment and turns his mind away from it.