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The robot looked suspicious at Theodora and White Mage...Did the Veneficus on this generation hired a repair woman? She didn't look like the kind of robotic repair people he see's back in Metropolis. but he shrugged...Robotically. "Normally I would run a check for people like you. But since you want to fix stuff, then please, sit over there and you'll be transported into...The world." The robot pointed to a large purple couch beside the trio. Theodora looked at it before looking back at the robot.

"World?" She asked as the robot explained. "Well where our last two guests went to. Please, you three sit there if you want to go to the world owned by members of the Veneficus family." Strange, most of Theodora's relatives were dead. There was no way they could be other members of the family in the world the robot mentioned...



Could there?

Theodora was lost in thought for a bit, only breaking out of it when Gargos started talking. The robot's eyes widened when Gargos mentioned, astral projection. "A-A-a-" The robot stuttered as if glitched, his voice going deeper and deeper as he kept on saying the word A. Theodora took out her wand, hoping not to use it on the glitching robot. "You ok there robo?" Theodora asked the robot, who's head twisted around a 360 direction before stopping and looking back at the trio. All of the other robots in the area soon stopped what they were doing, and simply floated, looking at different directions.



"I'm...Not...Real." Just then the lights of the room began to turn red as the robot let out a blood curdling scream as the spot below him ripped open and caused him to fall into a purple abyss. The other robots soon fell into the abyss as well as the spots they were standing on also broke open, the floor in general started to crack open towards the trio. Theodora took a few steps back before landing on the purple couch the robot told her to sit on.

"The couch, quick, sit on it!" Theodora told White Mage and Gargos, as the walls and everything else in the room ripped away, revealing that the waiting room was in the middle of a large purple portal. As the last of the floor broke away, the only thing that remained now was the purple couch...Which started to fall deeper into the portal. "WOAH!" Theodora screamed as she tried her best to hold on for dear life on the couch. She quickly fell off the couch, but thanks to quick thinking, she cast a spell from her wand that summoned an aqua coloured hook that attached to the back of the couch, keeping Theodora from falling by herself again, although now she was hanging under her chair.

"Hang on!" Theodora told the others as she looked down, seeing a glowing light at the bottom of the portal. She gasped as she blinked.





Before finding herself back on the couch again. However now she and the others were in a forest, which to Theodora was a very familiar realm. "Wait...I know this place." Theodora jumped from the chair, and sighed in relief knowing that the grass she was now standing on was real, at least in this fake version of Sunrise Springs. She looked up and started to look around. "This is Sunrise Springs. My parents took me and my brother here when I was little...Before everything changed." Theodora revealed to the group.

"Why are we here? Did other members of my family came here before?" Theodora wondered.

[PSYCH]

The pretense seemed to have worked as the robot requested the "Guests" sit on a plush looking purple couch and ready themselves for transportation to the Veneficus family's World. White Mage obeyed, secured her staff against the backrest of the couch and sat herself down on it. Before she knew it, the couch and everyone who sat on it was suddenly being warped to another location. White Mage held onto the arm of the chair to keep herself from falling and watched as the world melted away and a purple portal brought them into a lush green forest.

"Sunrise Springs..." White Mage repeated, admiring the view, "You were lucky to get to come here as a child, Theodora. What an exciting place for a child to explore." She thought back to what the robot guest had told them before they had departed the waiting area.

"The host told us that their last two guests had come to this place before us... Maybe they were other members of your family? What a great opportunity this would be to learn from them! I'm sure they must have magical knowledge that has been passed down in your family for generations!"

Maybe she could have her very own set of music-playing ornate glasses to help grow a garden! The thought of that excited White Mage greatly - it would be an amazing space for reading and meditation.