Welcome to Gaia! ::

Rivera listened politely and tenetively to what Lorelai was saying. It was the usual muddle about time, but it would take even more time to elucidate the concept fully. She had no doubt that Lorie would quickly grasp the facts and put it all together at the speed of light but she wasn't exactly willing to go into details about her past so much. It seemed like Lorie had somehow traveled too far back in time and her timeframe measurements were very far off. Then again, so were her own. Technically, she was about two millenia old or so. But since she had been frozen in time and space in a stone crypt, the rule didn't apply to her. She was still only about 14 or 15 years old. It was like breaking the time ruler an taping it back on in a different spot. She wasn't about to say that now. There were other things on her mind.

"You must be from the future then... very far in the future..."

"Aww..." he murmured, frowning. "And here I was going to ask you to that ball in that manor outside the school too." He ran a hand through his hair, and brushed it to one side, careful to hide what the hair did as he did so, and he did quite a good job at it as well. Like everyone, he had secrets. Hundreds of thousands of them. In truth, she was interesting, and he would have appraciated learning about her. Curiosity killed the cat. Or in his case, hurt the incubus. But that didn't matter. Learning people and their secrets were never really boring. Especially like this one.

Destiny awaits you... Destruction is afoot... Join the Zephyr Knights Army!

Rivera was very thoroughly confused. Her perception of time was so skewed that she had no idea what really happened. If Atlantis really sank near 9 BC and the decendents still remained after 800 AD and stayed until the fall of King Arthur, they must've been the ones to preserve her body in perfection... so perhaps when their magic finally died out, she was able to come back to life again... unless... that wasn't the case at all. Lorie had said something about Martians and Vulcans and a war... The asteroid belt wasn't entirely made up of a single planet, unless if there was a bi-orbitary somewhere... or if any of Vulcan's moons had been closer to its own size than the moons of other planets, on ratio, that is. There were other sources she had read from and believed only after research on the remains of the planetary bodies themselves and close analysis of their stellar compositions. It led her to believe that there was a relation for the migration of all survivors after a disaster.

"So you're saying... our ancestors blew each other up?" Rivera inquired after a long moment of thought.

Rivera simply waved the suggestion off. "Let our thousand-fold great grandparents fight that war. It's not our place to compete in a conflict that's been dead for both of us. I don't wake up everyday with a desire to bloody you up, so I won't." Usagihana bounded onto the table and jumped into Rivera's lap. She stroked the strange robot, which seemed to have turned into a more docile creature, curled up and purring like a cat, the long leonic tail swishing back and forth with the whizzing of mechanical functions.

"Besides, how are we supposed to get along in the same club if we try to kill each other?" Usagihana snuggled closer. A regular person would get very uncomfortable with the numerous sharp metal points on the robot so close to them, but Rivera didn't mind it. She couldn't percept pain very easily or very often. The few times she did was several minutes after she was severely wounded or when she was just ill.

Usagihana uncurled and looked up, looking more like a cat than every in the way she perched on Rivera's lap. "Well... there has been some research done concerning it and your all too coincidental arrival. Rivera and I have been working on the calculations for a long time... and it's come to the conclusion that there's a strong connection between this meeting and the number Phi..." Rivera stroked her android fondly, enjoying the little vibrations given off in a steady purr.

"Because the most stable of all numbers is the number three and the ratio for the golden triangle, called Phi, gives one of the most stable forms of the different onsets on a temporal spatial plane... however, that is only if the chanced meeting occurs on a plane. If the plane was not a plane, but a bent surface, the number Phi would have to be converted to the correct form by non-euclidian trigonometry according to the degree of the bend..." Rivera sighed, "I'm ranting, aren't I? It's just a concept that I managed to find... not all that important. But there is a specific equation for fate's decision and I'm trying to find it. Our coincidence was by literally a 'twist of fate' where the glitching of the temporal-spatial alliance, of the chaos and the order continuum was wavered, causing fate to throw off the equation acutely in the favor of attractive chance..."

Usagihana nodded. "It's all a big project, which in on the line for publishing... but there's so much speculation that we have to find a specific fact before we can register it for publication. A missing chapter, that is." She bounded onto the table, her ears straight up and her tail swishing back and forth vigourously. "Rivera-san... My global seeking system tells me that Kai is heading through the door... you think he can pass the securities okay?"

"Pass what securities?" A nearly seven feet tall, lithe young man of 16 or so entered the room, a silvery aural shield flaring around him. His hair was silver-white and his eyes were both blue and slit, like a dragon's. The ghostly fair skin and the grace in which he carried himself marked him distinctly as an Atlantean, even more so than Rivera. He was nearly pure blooded while she was only half. "You must be Lorelai..." He streatched out his hand and smiled at Lorie, the hard muscles on his body didn't really bulge, but gave him a shape and form that was more like water than like steel, much like Rivera. "It's nice to meet you. I'm Kai'sekillre, call me Kai..."

"Hey Kai." Usagihana greeted him with an enthusiastic chirp. Rivera looked up at him with a slight smile and bowed to him courteously.

"How was your seminar? Did it go well?" She inquired politely. But Only Kai knew that tone... she was teasing him, despite her soft and gentle expression.

"It went quite well, after the manipulation point on the parallel continuums, I got through it smoothly." He remarked thoughtfully. His voice was deep an rich, with a regality that didn't match his cool, modern-black leather biker looks at all.

"Interesting..." Lorelai said, nodding at Rivera's explanation. "I've never delved into the numbers concerning a scientific theory behind the machinations of fate and destiny before." She pulled out a pad of paper, jotting down a few notes as she muttered incomprehensibly to herself, tucking the pad away into her jumpsuit a few moments later. "That may actually throw a bit of a wrench into the temporal-spatial theories by which I've been operating for these past few years, but I think it's more likely just another piece of the same puzzle."

It seemed as if Lorelai wanted to say more about this, but she was momentarily distracted by the sudden arrival of Kai. She grinned inscrutably as he entered, nodding cheerfully and giving a short wave, pen still in hand. "Kai, I presume!" she announced happily, extending her hand to shake. "And yes, I would be Lorelai. I've been having quite the intriguing conversation with your friend Rivera here. I'm honored to have two minds as bright as yours on the project."

"I am honored by your presence as well." Kai smiled warmly at her. "There has been a small problem concerning Rivera here... " He took her hand and began to lead her away. "Rivera, you're due for a check up. If you miss it this time, you'll be in serious danger... Excuse us please." He was smiling still as he dragged Rivera out of the room.

"G-good-bye!" Rivera called out behind her. Usagihana snorted and half laughed as they left. There were little snatches of arguments heard as they left.