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He rose and held out a hand to her, "Then we shall return to our Kingdom above, we shall view the great stones and puzzle their meaning." Upon taking his hand the two would break down into mists to be carried off to the main audience chamber, reconstructed upon their thrones.

Slowly he rose from his throne, but did not extend his hand to Terra, he would need to focus. His eyes closed as he stood and slowly walked around the pair of thrones, crouching just behind his own. Streams of golden light passed out from his form as he slammed an open palm into the ground. Slowly as he rose the ground shifted and the entire kingdom seemed to tremble. Four great pillars began to rise in the alcove behind the throne, each one shod with gold and positioned close to one another in a dimaond, making it difficult to read the innermost passages. At the very top of each a single gem blazed with light. One ruby, one saphire, two topaz, the ruby closest and the spahire the farthest with each topaz to either side.

As she laid her hand upon the pillar a female voice seemed to sing within her mind and her mind alone. The words were unintelligable, but the voice would seem familiar. The voice was that of a woman who had visited Citadel at a time when Mindblaze would not have known, his Vaultstone destroyed and Crimson Mists not yet established in the area.

The pillar with the saphire produced a scream within her mind, a voice she would not fully recognize. The voice was that of Soulscour, one of the consciousnesses freed from the mind of Torment Nusradai after two selves from different timelines had joined and produced a third distinct mind, holding three within one body.

Mindblaze, meanwhile had risen and was now looking at Terra, "Did you pull that word from the memories of the Dominion...? The words are vague upon the pillars, it took me months to figure out that the month it mentions constantly was not, in fact, November, but September. The Gaian calendar was changed after it was inscribed, apparently."

As she laid her hand upon one of the topaz pillars a very familiar face would flash in her mind, but the coloration around the face would be slightly off. The pilot Akaran`ni...but also not. Mindblaze looked to her rather confused, "How so?"

Mindblaze seemed rather confused, "What do you mean they represent people? As in they commemerate them, or...?"

He stepped up to the only pillar she had not touched, and when he did nothing happened. He glanced around to her, "I don't get it, how do a month and a craft qualify as people?"

It is doubtful any would be able to decipher the complex language upon the pillars, even with Mindblaze's help, for he didn't know how to read them but when he looked at the words he seemed to know them. An odd situation, granted, but the pillars were built in such a way so that he could never reproduce the knowledge upon them accurately.

Despite this fact, however, the first Pillar did indeed represent September. This was mostly a history, telling who she was and what she meant, the inner portion of the pillar holding the end of the tale as it seemed to read up and down. It described how she learned of The Far Ones and how she came to revere them of gods. It told of how they changed her and how she evolved.

The second Pillar was of The Pilot, who was not a part of Akaran`ni, but his predecessor. It told of how September progressed, losing her genders in a display of how the human aspect could be altered by force of will. She was an experiment, nothing more. At this time Utopia had not yet been born, the inner and hidden portion of the Pillar describing as such and postulating its creation.

The Third Pillar was not the saphire one, but the other topaz, The Ship. It described the creation of Utopia and the process by which they become wholy involved in Mindblaze's evolution. It would be noted that the name Mindblaze had not yet been mentioned, always September or September of the Stars. The inner portion of the Pillar described The Far Ones' influence in Utopia and the contract.

The fourth Pillar was the saphire tipped one, the consciousness of Soulscour bound within. Here there is still no mention of Mindblaze until the end, but it details how September of the Stars found an image of Torment and consumed it. The history details how this being was intrigued by Torment and sought out his images to consume them. One such supposed image was Soulscour, whom he consumed. Soulscour replaced another consciousness that had been present in this pillar and the gemstone had thus been replaced. The inner portion of the pillar is surrounded by blank spaces that have not yet been written. The hidden portion tells of his future, what his purpose is. He is meant to expand Utopia to encompass all of Gaia.

Mindblaze, meanwhile, was oblivious, He had not the ability to turn the pillars and see the inside writing or even decipher it. He shrugged, "Whatever you say, my Queen."