Tali: So you had been to the Perimeter before you came for me?

  Kaelen: Yes. But it was a different part of the Perimeter. The Perimeter was a perimeter around the town, and beyond it the sun was considerably stronger and hotter. Hot enough to melt rock. And I was thrown out into the sun tied to a chair that prevented me from Blazing or Fabricating.

  Tali: That sounds horrible.

  Kaelen: It was.

  Tali: How did you escape?

  Kaelen: I went onto my front and had the sun burn the chair.

  Tali: Smart.

  Kaelen: Yeah. Smartest thing I've ever done. Then Brother Shade and Sister Spark tried to kill me anyways. Brother Shade was told to hold me down, but I Blazed him, and used the Luminosity I got to make that deal I mentioned for my Sigil which I used to kill Sister Spark. Then I got home after a day of walking and found a note from the Circus Lights saying they had kidnapped you and Ela, and to come to the Perimeter and face them. I killed Brother Green and got inside. You know the rest.

  Tali: You had it hard. Really hard. But that doesn't excuse what you did.

  Kaelen: And you? What happened to you?

  Tali: We got kidnapped. Lord Nerve used Ela and played mind games with me to make me join the Circus Lights and fight you. Hoping you wouldn't dare to kill me or something. You know the rest.

  Kaelen: We tried to save your sister.

  Tali: And what a great job you've done.

  Kaelen: I could say the same to you. We both failed and did- or considered doing bad things to achieve the same goal. Perhaps me more than you. But we both messed up and now your sister is being held hostage who knows where by Sister Mirror. I'm sorry for failing you, but we need to actually save your sister.

  Tali: Agreed. Can I ask you one thing first though?

  Kaelen: What is it?

  Tali: You said you were there for my sister, yes?

  Kaelen: I did.

  Tali: I thought you hated kids.

  She knew she had found something, another lie he was telling, she knew she had. He froze when she brought up the contradiction, he still wasn't telling her the full truth.

  Tali: Tell me why you were actually there? Revenge?

  Kaelen: I guess in a sense, yes. I was there for you, and knew you wouldn't leave without Ela, and so had to go and get her too.

  Tali: You were there for me?

  Kaelen: Of course I was.

  She didn't really forgive him, but she guessed it made a level of sense. Not normal sense of course, but she knew Kaelen enough to guess and follow his thought process, or lack thereof, and understand how he ended up doing what he did. It was something she would have to just deal with for now.

  Tali: Now what? What exactly is the plan? How do we find and deal with Sister Mirror?

  Kaelen: I'm honestly not sure, I have the suspicion she'll come and find us. Or rather me.

  Tali: So we can't do anything? At all?

  Kaelen: Unless you happened to get to know Sister Mirror well enough to know where she'd go?

  Tali: You said you were at a different part of the Perimeter, right? How about there?

  Kaelen: I don't really know where it is, and the distance to the Perimeter is so long that if we guess and get the angle wrong and be in the middle of nowhere.

  Tali: Then how did you get to the part of the Perimeter I was at?

  Kaelen: Pure luck. I just avoided following the sun. Any other ideas?

  Tali: No. I never even saw her face.

  Kaelen: Then we just have to wait. I'm sure she's busy setting up those traps she mentioned, and when she's ready she'll kidnap us or something.

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  Tali: That's it?

  Kaelen: That's it.

  Tali: But Ela!

  Kaelen: -Will be fine. Sister Mirror seems smart enough to not kill her hostage before getting what she wants. Probably.

  Tali: ... I guess.

  She couldn't do nothing about this. There had to be some kind of clue somewhere that helped her find Ela, and she would find it alone if she had too. She wouldn't be sleeping until she found something, anything to help her find Ela. She just couldn't leave her alone with Sister Mirror. Screw Kaelen, she'd-

  Kaelen: -TALI!

  Tali: H-huh?! What?

  Kaelen: You were spacing out. Don't go doing anything silly, Tali.

  Tali: I wasn't going to.

  Kaelen: I know you Tali. You were going to go around tormenting the town, looking for clues about the Circus Lights and then hunt Sister Mirror down.

  Tali: I was not!

  Kaelen: You didn't get that far, did you?

  Tali: ...! -Sh-shut up!

  Kaelen: Ha! Knew it! Anyways, you're not doing that.

  Tali: Why not?!

  Kaelen: Just think about it. You're just assuming Sister Mirror is the only other Circus Light. You even said they mentioned a Lord Stella. There is nothing to say that's true. If you get unlucky and ask someone who is secretly a Circus Light what do you think will happen?

  Tali: ... A fight will break out in the middle of town.

  Kaelen: -And?

  Tali: And what?

  Kaelen: Sister Mirror will know we're coming after her early, and may take that as a sign to kill off Ela since she's no longer useful as a hostage. If you go ahead with that you may get your own sister killed.

  Tali: ... I... I didn't-... I didn't think about that...

  Kaelen: I know. We just have to wait, there's nothing else we can do without being suspicious and potentially grabbing the attention of other Circus Lights, leading to Ela's death.

  Tali: You... You have a point.

  Kaelen: I'm sorry. I really am. But there's nothing we can do without putting Ela in danger. And I know you don't want that.

  Tali: ... Damn it!

  -Kaelen-

  "We aren't going to go to the Big Top straight away? Why not?"

  We need to be way more prepared. We died almost instantly both times we entered before, we need to train just like we did before winning against Brother Shade and Sister Spark. Besides, under normal circumstances there would've been no way for us to know where she's being kept, so Sister Mirror must have some kind of plan to get us there if we don't know the location.

  "If you insist..."

  By the time a week had passed and nothing had happened, Kaelen was beginning to get extremely suspicious of what Sister Mirror was planning. There was no way she had spent a week only setting up traps, and if she had there were either an obscene amount, or they were all overly complicated. He knew that the Big Top was already a death trap, so why spend so long doing whatever it was she was doing.

  "Perhaps she's been killed for giving herself a promotion?"

  We can only hope, but we both know that our luck isn't good enough for that.

  Tali had ended up living with him during that week. She just couldn't sleep in her own house knowing Ela wasn't in it. Besides, if Sister Mirror was planning on starting this by kidnapping them, it was better that they were together when it happened to hopefully have the other one get the jump on her whilst she kidnapped one of them. But still, a week and nothing? It didn't make sense, and neither Kaelen, Abel, nor Tali knew enough about Sister Mirror's abilities to also start planning. He hadn't thought to check her stats when he was in the same room as her, he had been too focused on not slipping up and leaking the fact that he could die and redo things, meaning he would be going in blind.

  They had made numerous guesses using the single case of Tali seeing Sister Mirror do anything that could've been a Sigil. When Sister Mirror had Fabricated the exact same gun as Tali had when she was trying to kidnap both her and Ela. But considering she had [The Sigil of Mirrors] that wasn't particularly surprising. Most Sigils had specifics about activation. For example Kaelen's [The Sigil of Weaponry] required Kaelen to recognise something as a weapon to make it, it's why despite being able to use it as a weapon, Kaelen couldn't summon a fork using his Sigil, and why Kaelen and Abel could summon different items due to their knowledge of weapons.

  "We aren't summoning a nuke Kaelen, we would all die."

  It was just an idea Abel. Why bother telling me about your world if it wasn't to inform me of new weapons we could make with our other Sigil?

  "I just wanted to make sure we were actually on the same page. I know about your world so it's only fair that you know about mine."

  There had to be some kind of activation requirement or big down side. Like Lord Nerve's nerves being his own nerves. There were, however, two major exceptions to that. Brother Green and his main Sigil. Kaelen didn't know how Brother Green's ability worked even now, and his main Sigil, [The Sigil of Resurrection] had no obvious downsides. It didn't really make sense. He also didn't really know anything about Brother Shade or Sister Sparks' abilities to be sure his theories were consistent with how Sigils actually worked. His theories about Sigils didn't really work even with what he was sure of, there were too many inconsistencies.