SpecterTheGreat wrote:

"What is the purpose of the investigation?"

Heaven hesitates, thinking how to answer the question, "For the safety of of others. A portal to this location showed up in the area, and I'm investigating it. Simple, right?" She refrained from mentioning the area happened to be the Clocktower, and the "others" were other clocktower mages.

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Well, there's no avoiding that one, "Heaven Dean." she responds.

Time wrote:

Well, there's no avoiding that one, "Heaven Dean." she responds.

"Heaven Dean," the voice repeated. "Your answers match known information. You are no stranger. You are free to continue on to the main area."
Was the wall at the mage's right always an entrance to another staircase, or was it a solid wall before? Somehow, the steps from the (new?) stairs looked like they were made of stacked scroll parchment. 
A shower of starlike sparkles flashed on the edges of Heaven's visión for a second before vanishing completely. And just like that, the strange prescence is gone, the hallway as empty as when the mage first arrived.

Jenny frowned, thinking. "I suppose you could just stay here and I'll go look by myself," she said, aware that he might not like this plan at all.

Known information... what could that exactly mean? Was this mysterious place expecting her? She turned around, only to find the entity vanished from view (I'm just assuming that). Her eyes travel across the walls, trying to search for any indication of the presence watching her, or for anything abnormal.

She then moves down the staircase, taking a wide, cautious survey of both the hall and the stairs before traveling down. What an interesting looking staircase. Hopefully this scroll paper or whatever it was was stable.

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"You're not understanding what I'm saying. The point is that if you thought about this more, you'd go back. Or at least try to, and look for an exit. Because..."
He wavers.
"If this is dangerous, you're the one at a constant disadvantage in so many ways. I didn't want to phrase it like that. Don't you get it? Getting into something you can't control at all is worse than getting nowhere. That's the sort of thing you usually would say to me." He pauses and works up some semblance of a grin. "In less impressive terms, of course."

(I'm sorry for the pacing but I have to say, Jenny is literally giving the worst responses (': )

"It does to me."
The grin seems to have fallen off. There even seems to be something in his normally unimpressive eyes.

(Does that mean I can blame this on her)

"That's also my question." He furrows his brows. 'Except I'd word it nicer,' he wants to add, though he doesn't. "What's up with the recklessness?"

"'Those peering in from the outside see the scene framed by the window more clearly than those within it,'" the boy quotes.

He gives her a look that more directly translates to: "Don't try using that to distract me, I use it too much myself for that to be possible." Impressive.
Looks like he just wants her to say something--something that she hasn't said yet. What could it be?

Looks like they'll have to endure some period of silence.
It doesn't seem as if Lianhuan enjoys the delay, either, but he's stubborn in this sort of way. He moves his feet a little and looks towards the fields as he waits for her to either piece together a response or ignore everything he's been saying entirely.

He tilts his head, seemingly oblivious to her inner turmoil. "And?"

He untilts his head, silent again for a few more moments. To him, those moments are merely abnormal; to her, perhaps they're agonizing. 
"You don't have to worry so much," he finally says, less sternly but with the same earnest look about him. "I just...I just don't want you to get hurt. Or si." 
To die. 
He purses his lips. "I know this might not be that serious, and it's probably connected to Yvonne...but I don't know how direct that connection is. If someone used her to get into the Clocktower, we don't know how dangerous it could be. So I thought that there are some things that we should get over with in advance."

"A plan. Kind of."
He thinks about how to vocalize his thoughts.
"It's harder to use magic in here. At least the magic that I learned in the Clocktower, and I'm guessing the kind you use. It kind of gets sucked away? I'm not sure how to describe it. But as you were asking, that means you do have a disadvantage if we have to fight at all. And I know it's not logical to just talk about it, so..."
He gives her a Look.
"What I'm trying to say is, don't be so reckless, okay? Stop trying to get me to stay behind. I want to do things too. But we shouldn't go too much past our capabilities no matter how much the situation tries to get us to. Just agree with me on this, okay?"

(The next thread: Lianhuan running straight into a monster's mouth [again])

"You think?" He raises an eyebrow, revealing a slight grin that slopes the side of his mouth. "If you say so, I guess."
He fidgets a bit, rolling his shoulders back. "Then just give me a moment, and we'll be off towards the center."
There's a little "pop," and another Lianhuan appears. Oh no! Now there are two of him!
"I'll send this me off to the side for reconnaissance," the original him explains, like splitting into two is perfectly normal. Both Lianhuans look pleased with himself, though he probably shouldn't be seeing as how he just badly butchered the pronunciation of "reconnaissance." Looks like his French needs more than some work.