To infinite Shadows (Dan / Mae)

Dante gives the barest ghost of a smile as he looks at the broken and glowing pattern upon the floor, "oh I can speak with experience...it wasn't..."

Dante shakes his head "until this very moment I didn't even know if such a thing was possible...let alone how I would do it. Instead I've been focusing on the portraits, experimenting with drawing places that I've seen either in person or in my dreams and attempted to go there, as was written of in the murals you see around you...ummm...here this one" He says as he points out a particular section of wall depicting a very old man with a hunched back drawing upon a stone in his hand and offering it to a scarred and disheveled man, "best that I could figure through translations, the old man has crafted an image of a place and gifted it to the broken prisoner, and here it shows the prisoner holding the image aloft and then, suddenly, is somewhere else...It's taken me quite a while, but I figured out that it wasn't merely an allegory for transcendence or some kind of higher plane of being, I believed that it was literal. And after a few years of trial and error..." He pulls out a tarot sized card of a sandy desert with a crescent shaped canyon carved into the ground and shows it to her, "I was able to make my own"

He nods "I have, was one of the first ones attempted in fact...considering it was so important to the people here that if anything were to happen that I get back here quickly...it only made sense."

He raises an eyebrow as she looks around "so, I was right, these aren't just figures portraying events...these are people...this...is a historical record...amazing.." It actually takes him a few moments to catch up to her question and he blinks and looks a bit embarrassed "oh? Um...yes! yes I mean of course, it would allow me to explore my theory and...maybe find a friend. But before I do that, I need to find this...Amber? If for no other reason than to see it for myself"

"I'll do that...if I make it that far"

He tilts his head slightly and shakes it "I've often considered the approach, but I've never attempted it, mostly out of uncertainty of what would happen were I to try."

Dante nods as he listens to her explanation and nods "makes all sorts of sense really. Lighthouse of Cabra? Hmm...alright, I'll remember this." He then chuckles quietly and a bit sheepishly "does this mean that perhaps you will allow me to make one of you? I have made one of a friend I met...in a dream a long time ago...I've tried contacting her but...well, she said that she was so far away that it might not work..."

Dante nods with a smile "thank you...um...would you like to have it drawn here? If you'll pardon me but, I think the back illumination of the broken pattern would help make a more striking portrait of you." He offers then nods "Interesting...well, once it is finished, I can attempt to reach out and contact you?"

Dante raises an eyebrow and chuckles, "is everyone out there beyond the Nexus a shapeshifter? My friend showed that she was and spoke of everyone from where she was from was one, though I can see the advantage of having such abilities, it would allow you to travel to otherwise hostile environments rather easily I would imagine." He pulls out his pad and positions himself to catch her just right in the light, "though, I hope that you don't mind my saying so, the purple is quite striking."