Temple of the Universe, Discovering

Turns out Wren’s little hydroarcanic hobby isn’t as lame as I thought. It e̶x̶p̶a̶n̶d̶e̶d̶-̶e̶x̶p̶l̶o̶d̶e̶d̶-̶shifted- the other day into an inter-dimensional planer portal. (Suck on that Lian, it took you decades to find a dead god? I found a link to the heavens and hells in my own godammed house- and it only took two days of me being me. ) Luckily the gob guy- Thornelius, knew how to stop it from spewing other worldly creatures into my office.
 
Was it stupid to jump in immediately? Sure. But who, with a brain like mine couldn’t resist jumping into an inter-dimensional portal? Also the other guys did it first and their bones didn’t come flying back at me back through the well or anything.
 
On the other side were floating islands of fire that a poet could much more accurately and beautifully describe. If I had to try I guess, a collective of land masses floating in the air but their undersides were made of fire instead of earth. And if you looked down there was just opposite fire, then earth, then sky. Then sky then earth then fire. I’m not going crazy again, I swear. Everybody else saw it too.
 
The path took us directly to a building later pointed out to be a “Temple of the Universe.” To enter you have to defeat an angel in one-on-one combat. I like knowledge and all, but I’ve discovered recently I like living more. A lot more. Thornelius & Frichtimen tried, which was entertaining for a while at least. Until she directed us to a well that would take us even deeper into...wherever we are.
 
It’s just, one can’t exactly just jump into a different portal, see a temple, be denied entry and then go back home…can one? So we jumped again, after I assured Sha it was safe.
 
My brain doesn’t work in ways that can describe the fantastical strange place we went. It certainly didn’t look real, but it .. felt real? I guess you could say. There was a devil and an angel. The gob sold his soul! Eleonora and I told him it was a terrible deal but he took it anyway. It took us a while to kill that devil when he inevitably turned on him like WE TOLD HIM IT WOULD. But in the end Thornelius has a nice little coin with his soul on it now which honestly, is a pretty useful commodity to be able to place in the palm of your hand (or others, if the price is high enough).
 
Eleonora convinced us go back so we could go tell h̶e̶r̶ ̶D̶a̶d̶d̶y̶ Jhin what we found. I was kind of hoping she’d be down for a jaunt through some chaos planes with me, but I guess she’s not ready to explore that side of herself yet. Disappointing. And so, at Ele’s behest, back to Jhin.
 
Yes Jhin. Jhin, who was EXCEEDINGLY CREEPY when we told him about the temple. Jhin, who KNOWINGLY sent us to our likely deaths with his “friend”. Well he probably knew. .. Maybe he knew. Wait, did he know? Well nonetheless, he really wants what’s in that temple and he can’t get it himself. And the look that was on his face when we told him about it, unadulterated lust. Pure ambition. I know that look.
 
I’m not stupid enough to believe that Jhin is a good guy. That he wants the all the citizens of valley under his rule so he can let them romp and picnic about (that’s what normal people do right?) without excreting his control over them. But it’s the lesser of all evils really, I mean, it’s a natural fact at anybody who has the desire to rule other others that they’re psychotic. Best just to make friends and stand beside them while they rise right?
 
I just need to make sure I’m not used again. I’ll work for Jhin, I’ll give him the whole fucking valley if he wants it, as long as he doesn’t interrupt my gq̶u̶e̶s̶t̶-̶d̶e̶s̶i̶r̶e̶-̶ ̶ goal. I should probably apologize for running after his boat and calling him an asshole. I guess if there's one person left smarter and more death-resistant than me I should keep them as an ally.
 
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Speaking of used I went to the market the other day with the girls. Tied up a string Wren left loose.
 
Rhea.