[Lea listens to her as she goes on- and tries not to watch the image on the phone too closely to avoid potential dizziness-, and what he can understand of it brings up some interesting- and somewhat disturbing- thoughts.]
Well I can't say I know who any of those people you mentioned are, but I can tell you that if they have anything to do with this place, they haven't shown their faces. The nearest anybody's come to the actual forces running this place are spirits- one per city- that have shown up in the past on a few occasions when there's some disaster that the people here can't fix on their own. I've never seen them myself, but there's enough evidence that I don't doubt they're around.
Short of causing catastrophic damage to something keeping the city's running and protected, though, I don't know that there's any way to make them turn up for a conversation. And that's really not advisable for a lot of fairly obvious reasons.
As for the energy thing though... what if we <>are the energy? And I don't mean stuff like body heat and all that. See, where I'm from hearts- the part of a being that lets them feel emotions, connect with people, and that basically holds the essence of everything they are- have a lot of power. Put enough of them together and you get reality-changing amounts of power, in fact. Twice now it's been tried in my world, both times by very nasty customers who extracted the hearts of individuals or of worlds and tried to used the collected hearts- called Kingdom Hearts- to basically make themselves all powerful.
They did this by extracting those hearts- a very nasty process in a number of ways-, but what if the people running this place are trying to something similar, just without the extracting? What if it's all our hearts powering... whatever it is that they're doing here? That way, bringing in more people would offset some of the power it would take to do it, and ensure that there was a steady supply for later.
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Well I can't say I know who any of those people you mentioned are, but I can tell you that if they have anything to do with this place, they haven't shown their faces. The nearest anybody's come to the actual forces running this place are spirits- one per city- that have shown up in the past on a few occasions when there's some disaster that the people here can't fix on their own. I've never seen them myself, but there's enough evidence that I don't doubt they're around.
Short of causing catastrophic damage to something keeping the city's running and protected, though, I don't know that there's any way to make them turn up for a conversation. And that's really not advisable for a lot of fairly obvious reasons.
As for the energy thing though... what if we <>are the energy? And I don't mean stuff like body heat and all that. See, where I'm from hearts- the part of a being that lets them feel emotions, connect with people, and that basically holds the essence of everything they are- have a lot of power. Put enough of them together and you get reality-changing amounts of power, in fact. Twice now it's been tried in my world, both times by very nasty customers who extracted the hearts of individuals or of worlds and tried to used the collected hearts- called Kingdom Hearts- to basically make themselves all powerful.
They did this by extracting those hearts- a very nasty process in a number of ways-, but what if the people running this place are trying to something similar, just without the extracting? What if it's all our hearts powering... whatever it is that they're doing here? That way, bringing in more people would offset some of the power it would take to do it, and ensure that there was a steady supply for later.