[ Welp, she's explained this once before to Serah and Noel-- although then, at least she'd been expecting to have to give answers and be long winded about it. ]
... We saved Cocoon, but then that wasn't the end of it.
[ She keeps her gaze on the ground ahead of her, although she's obviously focused on something mental rather than visual; a serious frown tugs down the ends of her lips and brows as she considers the utter fuckin' mess that grew out of what should have been nothing more than a miracle for mankind. ]
With our Focus technically complete, we were crystallized as a result- and likely would have stayed that way for who knows how long... if it weren't for the goddess. Etro took pity on us, freed us from the mark of the l'Cie... and yet in doing so, she-- , [ -- This is complicated, to say the least. Lightning shakes her head at herself, backing up a bit in her explanation. ]
The place where the goddess resides is Valhalla, the domain left beyond the end of time, where the souls of those who have died pass to after they've left the bounds of the timeline. When Cocoon began to fall, the Gate between the Seen and Unseen realms was opened too far, allowing the chaos in Valhalla that has no place in our world to fall through, infecting the timeline...
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and be long winded about it. ]... We saved Cocoon, but then that wasn't the end of it.
[ She keeps her gaze on the ground ahead of her, although she's obviously focused on something mental rather than visual; a serious frown tugs down the ends of her lips and brows as she considers the utter fuckin' mess that grew out of what should have been nothing more than a miracle for mankind. ]
With our Focus technically complete, we were crystallized as a result- and likely would have stayed that way for who knows how long... if it weren't for the goddess. Etro took pity on us, freed us from the mark of the l'Cie... and yet in doing so, she--
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[ -- This is complicated, to say the least. Lightning shakes her head at herself, backing up a bit in her explanation. ]
The place where the goddess resides is Valhalla, the domain left beyond the end of time, where the souls of those who have died pass to after they've left the bounds of the timeline. When Cocoon began to fall, the Gate between the Seen and Unseen realms was opened too far, allowing the chaos in Valhalla that has no place in our world to fall through, infecting the timeline...