[Log - Who's there?]

[darrynmiquiztli]

The room had no windows, which was unusual for anything that Darryn requested. From his Scintillian background he always wanted large windows, stained glass and generally set high into the ceilings or spanning the whole walls.

This room had not a single window though, but it was still light inside. Darryn had crafted a sun from his own light and power - just a small one, that would fit between his hands, but it lit the entire room and hung high in the ceiling.

It was also filled with sand that Darryn had crafted. Piles of it that filled every corner of the room, sometimes crawled as high as the ceiling. In the sand Darryn could use his magic, create a swirling vision of Phosphorumbra to look over, or more specific parts of the whole world.

He was doing that now, sat cross legged on the floor with a small swirling whirlwind of sand that showed him the city of Lamsence which he gazed at even while he heard the door behind him open.

"Something you need?" He asked, gesturing at the sand so that it took his view back, to take in Passiada state as a whole.

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[ohmerghaaaed the future]

[darrynmiquiztli]

Darryn lifted his eyes from his work and looked over at the doorway, taking in the figure of his current youngest son carefully. Yorolaie was sometimes known for his temper and thus his need to be calmed down. Darryn wondered if that was the cause for the current awkwardness.

He smiled at his son, "Going to visit outside of the doorway, then?"

[Its so futuristic and later on and stuff...]

[oreooreo]

"I don't like getting sand in my shoes." He commented. "If I come in, keep it away from me."

[There are LASERS]

[darrynmiquiztli]

Darryn was sure Thanatos would have pulled the boy up on his manners, but personally Darryn had given up talking to a brick wall on that matter. Yorolaie just didn't understand how to read his own tone.

"Okay then."

The sand parted, crawling up the walls and reshaping itself under a perfect walkway of the room's original floor appeared, not a single grain of sand left upon them. Darryn even lessened the sand he was sat upon, so that the floor was not so far down from where he was sitting.

[The time machine now runs on Mr Fusion]

[oreooreo]

Yorolaie entered the room and stood in the patch of blank floor Darryn had made for him, wondering whether or not to sit down. It might have put him too low while Darryn was still elevated on the sand.

"Thanks." He commented, looking up at Darryn with dark eyes. "What are you doing?"

[Light travel man. Light travel. TO THE FUTURE]

[darrynmiquiztli]

"Checking on Phosphorumbra, basically." Darryn gestured with his hand, making the swirling sandstorm's image pull back and outwards under the whole of the planet was visible.

[oreooreo]

"That's cool." The boy commented with the same flat tone his father often used. "Can you look at individual people?"

[darrynmiquiztli]

"I can," Darryn answered with careful lack of tone. He restrained himself from lifting an eyebrow.

Just whom have you met that you want to spy on, Yorolaie?

[oreooreo]

Darryns tone made him change course slightly. He didn't want his father finding out about the girl he liked in Lamsense.

"Stygians too?" He asked. He was curious of that race, being that apparently he had inherited some of their tenancies.

[darrynmiquiztli]

"Stygians too," Darryn said in the same tone as before. As he spoke though, he moved the image of the world between them, tilting it and turning it so that the shadowed side of the world was on top, moving in towards the landscapes and sweeping over the snowy tundras.

[oreooreo]

Yorolaie watched closely. He was quietly impressed, which Darryn could easily notice, being that he knew him well enough to interpret the hitch in his breath which translated to the smallest levels of awe.

"Is that a settlement?" He pointed to an array of buildings erected on the snowy mountainside.

[darrynmiquiztli]

Darryn nodded, letting the image move towards that settlement. "Back in my time Stygians didn't settle. They moved constantly. These days there are a fair few large settlements.

"They still travel though. They hunt and others travel towards the equator to trade and bring things back to the settlements."