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Who: Edward, Wander, anyone
When: Day 40, early afternoon
Where: coming from the 4th floor
What: TRIUMPHANT RETURN

[Look who's back from their nature exploration! Aside from both obviously being worn out and the bandage on Wander's leg, he and Edward seem to otherwise be unharmed.]

[There is a lot of nature stuck to Wander's sword, which he is kind of looking at now.]

Wander: Well, um, that was a good hunt.

Edward: It's too bad we don't have anything to show for it.

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I did, when Kakashi was going around the apartments to get everyone's opinion on it. Ah, we left for nature right after that though, so...

...you were gone that long?!

Er, yes. It sure did not feel like it!

...those sort of things do tend to do that.

Hm? Have you gotten lost in nature as well?

Caves, actually. When I was younger.

Caves?

[Caves.]

Oh, ah. Yes, I heard about the caves...

[Nods.] It was a HUGE maze out of the main area.

That sounds awfully confusing.

It was. Even with phasing, I couldn't get out.

Phasing?

[Nods.] It's a skill I have. Go through stuff.

Is it like...magic?

....not really, but it could be mistaken for magic. It's a biological function of a ghost.

Biological?

Er, ghost?

Natural function of the body. Like breathing, that's a biological function.

Yep! Ghost. I'm half ghost.

...which gets into a really complicated bit of explanation for how that happens.

Oh, like, um..sci, er, science?

[He remembers Aoko mentioning biology and science.]

[Wait half ghost?]

You are half spirit? I did...not think that possible.

Yep!

And it's usually not. It's kind of a tricky thing to manage, only three fully stabilized exist.

Fully stabilized?

[Nods.] Because of how it works, there is an inherent instability in the DNA. When saying a halfa, a half ghost, is fully stabilized, it's saying that the DNA is stable enough that it doesn't fall apart while retaining the halfa traits.

If we're counting not fully stabilized, then the number goes up to seven.

[what did any of that mean?]

D..NA?

Basically the building blocks of the body. DNA is what decides what you are, what you look like, what gender you are, all of that.

Building blocks. You mean all of that stuff is not decided by gods and fate?

Considering I'd be a pretty pissed god if some other gods kept stealing my people, I doubt gods are deciding that. I'm not even sure if they exist in my world all things considered. And we already have plenty of proof here that our destinies aren't decided since we got multiple timelines and dimensional doubles running around.

There's several worlds that have studied things like genetics and biology extensively, studying how the body works and studying those building blocks. Genes and DNA decide what we are and what we look like. That's why families often look similar. The genes, the DNA, goes from parent to child.

[absentmindedly reaching for his hair. red hair, which neither of his parents had, nor anyone in his village. DNA decided that? Or did the gods give him red hair as a warning to everyone else? a warning that turned out to be... warranted.]

[quietly] Gods can curse you, where I am from. They can curse you from birth. Perhaps it is not the same everywhere.