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Capítulo 63: Chapter 57: L’équipe de Scène

"Who are you?" Asked Clervie.

A simple question, one that would inevitably have been asked sooner or later and had thrown Carman into a loop when he first realized he would have to answer it. He had been puzzling over it for days, at first not even knowing why, he was Carman, a training engineer in Fontaine. But he was also Leo, a person who lived on earth and had seen many tragedies play out in this world through the perspective of a video game. He was also the Brass Wraith, a vigilante who was cracking down on Vasher's criminal underworld drug empire. Who was he? each of those things were technically true, but at the same time didn't fully encapsulate the essence of who Carman was, or who he wished to become.

And who did he wish to become? What did he want to do with this second life? He knew he wanted to improve the technology of Teyvat, he wanted to build a place of technological wonders and not fear Celestia dropping a giant nail on his head. He wanted to explore the world and prevent tragedies he saw in the game from transpiring in here.

But there was only so much a single person could do, he could not be everywhere at once, he could not deal with or prevent crisis's that were born from his interference with the story of the world, even with Ryuzu's help. And despite how capable she was, Ryuzu was far from the most powerful being in the overworld. No, if he wanted to change the world's progression, he would have to build his own organization, one working to save the world, one that would oppose the Abyss, the Fatui, and any other faction that seeks to bring disaster to the nations of Teyvat.

If he was going to have an organization, he was going to need members and staff to run it and gather intel, do missions, gather funds and resources, make deals the whole shebang. But he also had to be careful not to let members of outside factions infiltrate his group. His leaders need to be skilled, competent, and most of all, Loyal, the Fatui may have some of the strongest fighters in Teyvat, but their lack of Loyalty to one another would likely prove to be a major flaw in their organization, one that could be exploited by the right party.

What better potential recruit than a person actively trying to escape the Fatui? Sure, Clervie wasn't shown to be a powerhouse, but she would hopefully be able to offer some insight on how the House of the Hearth operated. Maybe if he offered to help her escape, she would be willing to work with him.

"We are.. members of L'équipe de Scène" Said Carman, his voice careful and confident.

Hearing Carman's introduction Clervie tried to stifle a laugh, "Pft, the stage crew? and what does a stage crew want with me?"

"Nothing, and yet everything Ms. Clervie" replied Carman, his voice level and measured.

"Quite cryptic, cut to the chase, I have other things to do, and don't have time to humor the whims of a... wait, how do you know my name?" Asked Clervie her grip tightening on her spear as she subconsciously started to pull energy from her vision and surround the weapon with it.

"I know many things about you, I would not have approached you if I hadn't done some preliminary research, it was the least I should do when one is considering a candidate to join their organization after all." Replied Carman

"What do you want from me? I am already running from my mother, who is the leader of a powerful group of operatives. What could you possibly offer that would benefit me more than simply returning to her?" said Clervie.

"For one thing, I know that you have been trying to escape that organization for years, often facing cruel punishments after being caught. You crave freedom, information further confirmed by the vision you hold in your hand. In joining us, we will do our best to help you evade your pursuers." Said Carman

"And why should I trust you? How do I know that you aren't just saying this to lower my guard so you can take me back to curry favor with my Mother?" Asked Clervie.

"I can't do anything other than give you my word, and the fact I would not work with anyone who willingly worked with ll Dottoree." Carman replied.

"What does he have to do with anything? Sure he gives me the creeps, and takes the children Mother doesn't want, but I don't know why cooperation with him would be your bottom line." asked Clervie.

"Count your blessings that you don't, let's just say, for the kids who went with him, a quick death is their best likely outcome." Said Carman

"..." Clervie was silent as she tried to process what Carman had said. Then reluctantly she lowered her spear. "Fine, one last question, what is the purpose of your organization?" She asked.

"Are you familiar with the prophecy about the end of Fontaine?" asked Carman.

"No, should I?" Asked Clervie.

"Given the nature of your mother's organization, I would have expected it to have been mentioned, they are quite good at information gathering, but the prophecy I am referring to is one that spells a great disaster to the nation. It goes something like this,

When the sun ascends to its zenith,

Fontaine shall face its final act.

Beneath the city's gilded splendor,

The waters from below shall awaken.

A sin born of the first Hydro Archon's hubris

Shall mark the Fontainians with their fate.

Those bound by this Original Sin

Shall stand before the judgment of the tide.

As the waters rise to claim their own,

The guilty shall drown,

Dissolved into the embrace of the depths.

And when silence falls upon the deep,

The Hydro Archon shall remain,

Alone upon her throne,

Weeping for a nation swept away." Said Carman.

"That sounds, ludicrous.." Said Clervie.

"I can prove it, but only if you come with me." Carman stopped as Ryuzu leaned down and whispered in his ear. "It seems that a search party has been sent out after you, we don't have much time before they come by and spot us, so which will it be Ms. Clervie? Will you put your faith in us?" said Carman.

It took Clervie a moment to ponder, but in the end she agreed, the boy in the mask seemed to be sincere with every word he said. He didn't seem to be lying, but if he was, Clervie was sure she could find a way to escape. He was only half her height after all, how dangerous coul he be?

"Fine, I'll join you, but only temporarily, prove that you aren't all talk and then we can see if I'll join you officially." Said Clervie

Carman nodded, "Alright, then we should get going. What do you think, Production Manager?"

Ryuzu paused slightly before saying, "Director, I can't help but think we should disguise Ms. Clervie before we go, lest someone spot her traveling with us."

A light flashed in Carman's eyes, "Ah yes good point, then lead us to somewhere secluded so she can change without any prying eyes."

Ryuzu nodded and picked up Carman, Clervie, and the dragonfly before running towards a cave she had found during one of her adventurer commissions.

Once she arrived, she put the three of them down, Clervie was surprised by how strong Ryuzu was, her slender frame made one think of careful grace and agility rather than the large amount of strength she exhibited

Taking some of the clothes Ryuzu had purchased from his storage, Carman handed them to Clervie. "Sorry I only have boy's clothing, but this size should still fit you, at least until we can go shopping. Make sure to take anything that can identify you off, we will keep anything important safe."

Clervie was a little surprised but did what Carman asked after he turned and walked towards the entrance of the cave to give her privacy.

Changing quickly, Clervie took off her dress, hairclip, bracelets, and got stuck pondering over whether or not to take off her pendent. It was the first gift she remembered her mother giving her, and it was given before she was taken to the hearth and seeing all the horrors her mother was committing.

Ryuzu leaned over, "There is no need to worry, your belongings will be taken good care of and be returned to you when they no longer pose a risk of discovery."

Sighing after some contemplation, Clervie turned her back to Ryuzu before asking, "Miss, I have trouble with the clasp, could you help me with this?"

Ryuzu helped take off the necklace and carefully placed it on top of the garments Clervie had shed as Clervie put on the clothes she was given. Ryuzu called out to Carman to let him know they were done.

As he walked in, Carman was handed the garments Ryuzu was holding and placed them into his storage. As he arranged them so he could find them later, he accidentally opened one of the descriptions.

[Item: Clervie's Pendant

Rarity: 4 * (Unique)

Description:

A pendent Clervie received from her Mother, Crucabena for her 7th birthday. 

The pendant was made using Fontainian jewelry making techniques and Snezhnayan materials. Magic has been imbued into the pendent using techniques developed by Il Dottore which create a compulsion of the wearer to keep wearing the pendant and a Hydro Tracker has been infused into it by Crucabena.

Warning: When equipped, the pendent sends the bearer's location to Crucabena, this function is rendered Null when being stored in the System Storage, or when in a domain as the energies used to construct the spaces interfere with the relaying of data.]

"...." Carman stood staring at the last thing listed in the description, cold sweat dripping down his back. Clervie and Ryuzu noticed that Carman had suddenly gone very still.

"Are you alright?" asked Clervie.

"Yes, I am fine, but I do have one question Clervie, in your past escape attempts, did it seem like your pursuers always knew where you were?" Asked Carman,

"At times, yes, but I think that is because most of them were adults who have trained in tracking longer than I have been alive." replied Clervie.

"Did you ever take off your necklace back then?" Asked Carman.

"No, I didn't want to lose it, so I tucked it under my clothes, I also had trouble with the clasp and didn't want to break it." Said Clervie.

"Well, it wasn't just skill that allowed them to find you so quickly. They had help, the pendent has a tracker in it, thankfully I noticed it, and it is now isolated so it can't send any information but taking it out is out of the question for now, my apologies." Said Carman.

Clervie stood in silent contemplation, what Carman said had shocked her, him taking the pendent had been one of the best signs that he could be trusted, Mother taught them to be very possessive over their stuff, and had told Clervie in particular to hold onto the necklace and to never take it off as other kids might covet it and steal it when she wasn't looking. If what this boy was saying was true, there was no way in Hell that her mother had hired him, as he just exposed a well hidden secret that could, and likely had been used against her.

"Alright now all that is settled, we should probably set up a false trail to mislead the search party, Ryuzu, into finding a group of Hillichurls." said Carman as he traced a circle on the ground, placing some tall grass onto it, Clervie watched as the vibrant green changed to a bright crimson color. Then he made some alterations to the circle and placed the red grass into it, as he did, the Circle glowed a faint blue color, and the grass frayed and split into hundreds of long and thin crimson strands. 

Ryuzu soon came back bearing the location of a nearby Hillicurl camp Carman took out the dragonfly and handed it along with the red strands to Ryuzu. "Take these, attach the hair to the underside of the dragonfly as well as the chains, also take one of the Hillichurl's clubs and bash it real good, make it look like she was attacked and dragged off by the monsters after landing."

Ryuzu nodded and left with the red grass and dragonfly, Clervie felt a bit of heartache seeing the gift that had allowed her to escape be destroyed to use as a distraction. She felt a pat on her shoulder, "don't fuss, too much, I doubt that they will take it with them so we can take it back for repairs after they are gone, or if they do take it, I can build you another."

"How? It was a special commission, it's not like the blueprints for that thing are publicly available." said Clervie.

"Please, do you think that us finding you was a coincidence? We were tracking the Dragonfly, we got a signal every time it was activated. As for how I did that, you are smart, I think you can figure it out." said Carman.

Ryuzu returned, "It is done." She said before asking "Shall we head back now?"

"Yes, take us Backstage." said Carman

-To be continued

A/N

Been thinking about elemental bursts and how they would work in a more realistic world since energy building up in a character after triggering reactions doesn't make much sense to me, so instead I was thinking that In this Fic, bursts (in cases other than Mauvika) can be triggered once enough of the ambient elemental energy of a character's alignment is under their control, the most common way of getting elemental particles that are under a person's control is by using elemental energy from their visions in the form of skills as the person imprints their will onto the elemental particles in order to use them. Then, after the threshold of ambient energy is reached, the vision user can expend mental energy to take control over the particles again and activate their burst. The more powerful the burst, the more ambient elemental and mental energy required to trigger it. Thoughts?


Capítulo 64: Chapter 58: Denying Fate

Ryuzu carried Carman and Clervie back to the city.

"Why are you taking me back to the city? Isn't that too close to the Hearth?" Asked Clervie, she was giving Carman and Ryuzu, or Director and Production Manager as she currently knew them.

"Tell me, when looking for a runaway, what do search parties do?" Asked Carman.

"They spread out to cover more ground?" replied Clervie.

"Yes, and it would be assumed that a runaway would not stay in one place for too long right?" responded Carman

"Yes??.." said Clervie

"So, given that they do not have infinite resources and personnel, they will have to stretch their people thin to look for you. Given your proclivity towards freedom and the fact that runaway children seldom stay near the place they are escaping from, where are they least likely to focus their search after some time?" Said Carman.

Clervie's eyes widened, "the city?"

"Exactly, your mother might have a few hundred to a thousand people to send looking for you, but Fontaine is a large place full of places for a person to hide, furthermore, after a while, it would be easy to assume that you managed to escape to another nation. Now your mother belongs to a powerful organization with the might of a nation behind it, so she could request aid in searching for you. But she strikes me as the prideful type, so I don't think it is likely that she will ask for assistance, especially as it would put her in a humiliating position as she cannot find her own child." Said Carman

Clervie was nodding as she listened to Carman, his logic making sense to her. Originally she had been planning on trying to escape Fontaine, where would she go? She wasn't sure, she could have either headed to Sumeru through the desert, or Liyue and possibly later Mondstat through Chenyu Vale. But with Mother's spies, it would be a difficult journey to make, and there was no guarantee that she would be safe even after reaching her destination.

Ryuzu carried them back into the city, scaling the wall with quick powerful steps and hopping over the top before jumping off and landing on the top of a building. With quick movements Ryuzu navigated to a familiar alley. Landing on the ground, Ryuzu put the children down before moving a pile of boxes and grabbing the wall behind it by a hole large enough for a child to fit through, before pulling a large section of it out.

Clervie and Ryuzu stepped through, the latter pulling the wall back into place behind her. Carman pushed the boxes back into place, leaving a small gap for him to squeeze through as he shimmied himself through the hole and into the room.

Didn't think that this room would still be this useful when I left. Thought Carman.

"Well then, Ms. Clervie, for now, this will be your base, I will drop by to drop off supplies, but for the next few weeks you will have to take shelter here. If you need to leave, ensure that you are not followed, but before all that please step over here." Said Carman as he directed Clervie to stand on a medium sized circle he had Ryuzu carve into the ground in preparation.

As Clervie stepped up to the circle and started looking at it suspiciously, Carman said, "I will be using this circle to change your hair and eye color, then Production Manager will help you with changing your hairstyle, we can't afford to leave any easy identifiers for your mother's people to discover you. This change isn't permanent, as your hair will still be red as it grows and your eyes will slowly change back to their natural color, so you will need to undergo this procedure several times in order to maintain this disguise."

"I see, will this procedure hurt?" asked Clervie.

"Your hair has no means to convey the sensation of pain otherwise cutting hair would be considered a form of torture, as for your eyes, you will only feel a slight tingling, there are no nerves in the area I will be changing." Said Carman as he placed a few chunks of Condessence Crystal onto the Transfiguration Circle to power it.

Clervie watched the circle glow as the masked child placed his hands on the circle after placing chunks of crystal onto it. After a few seconds, she felt the tingling sensation he had mentioned, at the same time she could also feel something in the air surrounding her. She wasn't sure what it was, but she felt it as it concentrated, condensed? Neither were quite the right word as this substance moved from one of her eyes to the other.

After a few more moments, Carman was finished, He had changed the melanin content of Clervie's eyes, changing her emerald orbs into sky blue peepers, and her once pencil straight red hair had been changed to a wavy woody brown. Stepping away, Carman let Ryuzu take the lead on helping Clervie decide on her haircut.

After some discussion, Clervie settled on a short haircut, short around the back and sides with the top left a little longer.

While Clervie's hair was being cut, Carman was placing furnishing and supplies into the room. He started by placing a cot with some pillows and a blanket, a table with two chairs. Books and newspaper articles on various topics, shelf stable snacks, fresh fruit, a jug and reserve of water, cups, bowls, and other miscellaneous items.

Clervie looked around the room, wondering how the small boy had managed to carry these supplies. It was clear that the boy was a Vision barer, as there was a Hydro Vision hanging from his belt, however, as he was pulling out the various objects, she hadn't seen a hint of him using it. It was as though he was using magic rather than elemental energy, wherever he looked objects would just appear. She wanted to ask about it but as they barely knew each other, it was unlikely he would give her a straight answer.

"Well, thats should do it Ms. Clervie, these supplies should last for the next few days. I have provided you with materials to stimulate you intellectually and a few weights to exercise with. I will be stopping by in the evening every few days to replenish your supplies, so if there is anything you require, please let me know." Said the masked boy.

"Thank you, but could you stop using "Ms. Clervie" when talking to me, it feels weird." said Clervie.

"What would you rather be called?" the boy asked.

"Just Clervie is fine. Also how long will I have to wait in this place? I didn't escape one prison just to run into another cage." she said.

"Let's see how things settle after a week of your disappearance. With your mother's forces, searching the city should be a rather quick affair. And with hopefully nobody spotting you on your way here, they should assume that you did not circle back here and continued onward in the direction your escape vehicle was left." Said the boy.

"Alright, I will trust you on this. But I am only going to stay here for a week, I don't like being confined in a room" Said Clervie.

"Perfectly understandable. I assure you, you should be able to venture outside soon, in the meantime, please come up with a name to go by while you are outside, the disguise will be a mute point if someone under your mother hears someone call you by your real name." said the boy as he and the lady in the veil walked to the wall, pushed it open, and then pushed it back into place.

Clervie settled down in a chair, and started to contemplate what had occurred within an hour of this escape attempt. This series of events had strayed far from what she had originally planned, but somehow, she felt that the outcome would be favorable to her. The oppressive feeling she had felt after landing the dragonfly had mostly disappeared after knowing she had help, very competent help at that, in this escape attempt.

[One Week Later]

Carman was sitting in the middle of class, his class was in the middle of a hands-on assignment, opening up various dog gardemek models and trying to identify the issues each one had. Suddenly a notification noise rang in his mind.

-Ding-

[Prerequisites of Secret Quest: Deny Fate have been fulfilled]

Not moving his eyes off the gardemek he was observing, Carman mentally navigated to the quest tab of his system and opened this new hidden quest.

[Quest: Deny Fate (Secret)

Prerequisites: 

Reach level 20 Change one detail in the backstory of a lead character from GI.

Details:

Due to your intervention, the fate of a person has been changed, albeit in a minor way. However, fate has a powerful corrective force, the person known as "Clervie" while managing to escape the eyes of the House of the Hearth must eventually return, and in doing so will face her death by the machinations of her Mother Crucabena.

Task: Deny fate once again, subvert the canon event of Clervie's death in Peruere's (Arlecchino's) backstory.

Rewards: 1 million Mora, 20 thousand system points, 1x Derivative Skill Ticket, [Alchemy Recipe: Transcended Water], Research Notes of Raiden Ei, [Artifact: L'Œil du Réplicateur (Mythical rank)].

]

Carman's spine tingled in excitement as he read the rewards for the Secret quest. That was a lot of mora and system points, but given the task he had been given, he understood why it would be so high.

'It seems that I have to help her get stronger, or convince her to never go back to the Hearth… then again.. if Clervie hadn't died, then Peruere would not have resolved to kill Crucabena. Now that Clervie is safe, I don't think she has anyone she really cares about, at least not to the extent where she would proactively work to protect or avenge.' Carman sighed as he finished writing down his observations on his paper before handing it over to his teacher.

'At least this means that Clervie has actually managed to escape the eyes of the house, at least for now. She should be able to move outside without worrying about being caught. I doubt Crucabena would be stupid enough to stop looking after only a week, but it seems she is no longer actively looking in this area.' Pondered Carman.

Ryuzu had been spending time with Clervie, making sure the girl had the supplies she needed, and offering social interaction. From how quickly she had bonded to Ryuzu, despite Ryuzu never letting her see her face or know her true name, they had managed to bond over a few stories that Ryuzu had picked up to read while Carman slept.

Clervie had initially settled on the name Clarence, as it would allow her to easily learn to respond to the name rather than Clervie and offer an excuse if she messed up. However, it was too close in Carman and Ryuzu's opinion. After another day, she came up with the name Sylvain while a bit on the nose in regards to her now brown locs was at least distinct enough not to draw suspicion.

Finishing work for the day, Carman once again ignored Camile's pointed looks, he still wasn't sure why she was bothering him of all people. It didn't seem to be a matter of class or agism oddly enough, but he didn't have the time to find out, as he was rather busy preparing for future projects.

Carman made his way back home and put his school supplies down before changing into his Director's clothes once more. It was time to visit the new member to his organization and initiate her.

-To be continued


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