Permanent Vacation
Apr02
As long as he keeps sending in reports…
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Hellena
I’m not going to like the answer to why you’re telling us this now, am I?
Trey
Probably not, but you asked. No point in lying to you. I’m not very good at that anyway.
This does mean that I can’t send you back now. That’s the bad news.
Michelle
Is there good news?
Trey
Mostly.
I need you out of my way for a while, but I would never harm you. I might even call upon you to help out again in a few decades.
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Hellena
What are you going to do to us?!
Trey
Think of it as an extended vacation.
I’m sending you where you’ll be safe but incommunicado with the spiritual realms. This’ll even break the curse on those clothes. Just a little something a goddess friend taught me.
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The ladies disappear as Trey snaps his fingers.
Trey
Oops. I forgot to ask if they can swim.
Well...
They’ll figure it out.
Naration
Hint: It’s someplace warm...
I’m not going to like the answer to why you’re telling us this now, am I?
Trey
Probably not, but you asked. No point in lying to you. I’m not very good at that anyway.
This does mean that I can’t send you back now. That’s the bad news.
Michelle
Is there good news?
Trey
Mostly.
I need you out of my way for a while, but I would never harm you. I might even call upon you to help out again in a few decades.
---
Hellena
What are you going to do to us?!
Trey
Think of it as an extended vacation.
I’m sending you where you’ll be safe but incommunicado with the spiritual realms. This’ll even break the curse on those clothes. Just a little something a goddess friend taught me.
---
The ladies disappear as Trey snaps his fingers.
Trey
Oops. I forgot to ask if they can swim.
Well...
They’ll figure it out.
Naration
Hint: It’s someplace warm...
really what do you have against the angels and demons? this the the second two you get rid of. and we still have no idea what is going on with cleo and spooky.
Second pair we know about, there is still the ones prior to Spooky and Cleo…
the angels usually had breakdowns
Come to Australia! You might accidentally get killed!
Nah, head East to the newly discovered submerged continent, we are going to need explorers
“May”…
Come to Australia, some of the sheep aren’t dangerous.
In Diskworld, Death was traveling to their version of Australia, he asked his magic library for all books on the dangers. He was nearly crushed by flying books. So he asked for the books on what wasn’t dangerous… he got one piece of paper that said ‘some of the sheep’.
There is a siren that is going to be a bit pissed. More tadpoles to teach.
Well, there’s this: they were investigating the status of the previous guardian-motivator team. There’s a good chance that mystery is about to be solved.
What I want to know is, are there about to be triplets (or quintuplets), nieces from the outback, for Iola to deal with?
[Gary Jordan]:
…& in turn, perhaps they’ll learn about the 2 sets of teams (that WE know of) who preceded Spooky & Cleo. We’ve (briefly) seen 1 such team (long ago, in Korea), & heard stories about the other.
I’m starting to suspect that Trey might be the “underlying cause”, that will (eventually) explain why Ace’s 1st 3 Guardians had nervous breakdowns [2013-03-21]. Perhaps he “crafted” the events that led to the creation of “Deuce”…
…as well as many (or even ALL) of the events that became “redactions” in Aces’s file:
[2013-04-26 / 2013-05-07 / 2013/10/06-to-2013/10/10]
For Ace, that was cold.
Yeah but this is Tre
Ok for An Ace clone.
actually not a clone. just another ace from a different time line.
True, “clone” is generally used in a BIOLOGICAL sense, not in connection with temporal paradoxes…
…& “time-clone” sounds kind of awkward to my ears…
…I should go archive-diving back to what Ace’s 1st “iteration” called himself, on that Korean rooftop (after saving Mei-Mei), before he NAMED himself.
AH-HAH! — ‘Deuce’ called himself an “Echo”:
Ref_Pg: 2008/10/20
What are the odds that Trey is an echo of Deuce, rather than Ace? That whole “something a goddess friend taught me was something I didn’t think Ace knew about, whereas Deuce spent a hundred or so years with her.
My exact thoughts, Good Sir!
First-off, Ace spent far too little time with her to learn any tricks.
Secondly, Mami Wata said that her time with Deuce would be just “a century or so”, but Trey said that they had about 150 years before the incident would occur that creates Trey.
Thirdly, Deuce also pointed-out that the century that he spends in isolation with Mami Wata would not age him, which means he’d be (physically) no older than his late 60’s, or early 70’s when that 150 years had passed. I’m a little fuzzy on this point, because Deuce already has 3-or-so years more age than Ace (due to the “Mei-Mei Incident” that created Deuce), & we’ve not yet seen a story-page that shows Ace celebrating his 21st birthday.
HOWEVER…
(…having thought about this a tad more, after the above posting…)
…a “Trey”, who was created in the time of Early Egypt, will have had MILLENIA in which to cross paths with, befriend, & learn from, any NUMBER of Gods, Goddesses, Demons, &/or other Spiritual/Supernatural entities…
…so who can really say WHAT the answer truly is, other than the Esteemed Author…?
(…the mind — she BOGGLES!)
😉
🙂
Except if Trey if an echo of Duece then how did he know that Mercy should be the Inspector, or that the harassment calls both to the various churches in the area and the noise complaints to get Officer Friendly to the house were necessary? All of those things took place after Duece went into isolation with Mama Wata.
Time travel
Don’t want to say to much to avoid spoilers
This is just a theory but when he finally emerged he might have learned of events that happened to Ace while he was away and retracing that to their point of origin he knew when he had to start interfering sending himself back in time and thus creating Trey. And he did already influence the past enough already that some events happened differently than what he remembered / discovered.
Also remember that Ace has been identified as having nanos that speed up his healing process. Depending on when he got the nanos, Duece might also have them. The nanos could easily extend out Ace’s life expectancy. Mind you all this is speculation and Andy might take a very different path. Also if Ace does survive for the 100 years, there is no reason she and Duece would contact and be friends with Ace
Just as well they are going somewhere warm then 😛
I was wondering how deep that whatever would get before they noticed, now we’ll never know.
The whatever is the mist of Limbo. It kind of does what it wants and is best treated similarly to fog.
That explains why it was at different levels on their legs, even though they were standing on relatively level standing
Well, looks like Michelle can stop worrying about cats now. Most cats don’t like the water.
Except for catfish (yes, you can find them in the wild)
many of the Big breeds actually love water.
How many of the big breeds are native to Australia? (Ass-u-me-ing that’s where Trey sent them.)
They have wild herds of camel wandering the Outback, don’t have to be native to gain a foot-hold
…Dammit, there’s another hint dropped. A conflicting one.
Shortly after his introduction, Trey expressed some knowledge that Deuce couldn’t have had, since the latter went into seclusion before said events in Ace’s life happened. Thus was deduced, that Trey had to have split off from Ace, not Deuce.
Now we have a possible contradiction: Deuce is the one who made friends with and hung out with the Mami Wata, who used this “turn spectral into mermaid” spell before; the “trick he learned from a goddess friend”.
Now on the other hand, Trey has stated Ace will still be around 150 years from now to accidentally throw himself back in time (supposedly creating Trey) and Deuce is getting out of the Mami-Wata cave somewhere around 100-150 years from now, so it’s possible Old Ace gets to meet the Mami Wata and having spent a century with Deuce, she’s fairly friendly with the original Ace, among other things, teaching him that spell (unintentionally I’ll bet).
I said it’s POSSIBLE, but as a hint dropped by our dear author, it’s pointing more towards Deuce.