["This way?" was on the tip of Raine's tongue, yes. Well done pre-empting that.]
[Raine listens to what Bisi lays out at the basis of her query, nodding. She's warming to the girl already: they're well-reasoned thoughts.]
What is a Warframe, exactly?
[That out of the way, Raine moves on to some of the answers.]
The Dreaming is, as the name suggests, much like a dream. It responds to intent, emotion, and familiarity, and the rules of reality as we generally accept them don't always apply. It's a separate plane of existence, although...
[Hesitation, mostly because at this point, Raine just isn't sure. She'll come back to reaching it if Bisi is still curious.]
There have been some irregularities. I believe it may be closer to Life than it once was, somehow. You were told about the fight with Malicant, correct? Then you should also have been told about how we were trapped in the Dreaming for roughly a year. It's my understanding that drastic measures were necessary to free us.
[Raine sighs. It's not entirely pretty, and it cost Eva's life, apparently. Now more than ever she wishes she had queried Milyn more thoroughly about that time.]
You've confused Eva and Eshai, however. The Emperor Eshai was the first Emperor here, the one who began summoning Foreigners to combat Malicant.
[At the apology, though, she offers a little smile, despite the subject matter.]
no subject
[Raine listens to what Bisi lays out at the basis of her query, nodding. She's warming to the girl already: they're well-reasoned thoughts.]
What is a Warframe, exactly?
[That out of the way, Raine moves on to some of the answers.]
The Dreaming is, as the name suggests, much like a dream. It responds to intent, emotion, and familiarity, and the rules of reality as we generally accept them don't always apply. It's a separate plane of existence, although...
[Hesitation, mostly because at this point, Raine just isn't sure. She'll come back to reaching it if Bisi is still curious.]
There have been some irregularities. I believe it may be closer to Life than it once was, somehow. You were told about the fight with Malicant, correct? Then you should also have been told about how we were trapped in the Dreaming for roughly a year. It's my understanding that drastic measures were necessary to free us.
[Raine sighs. It's not entirely pretty, and it cost Eva's life, apparently. Now more than ever she wishes she had queried Milyn more thoroughly about that time.]
You've confused Eva and Eshai, however. The Emperor Eshai was the first Emperor here, the one who began summoning Foreigners to combat Malicant.
[At the apology, though, she offers a little smile, despite the subject matter.]
It's fine.