Thread:StoryGirl83/@comment-35141042-20190414103424/@comment-3452092-20190414135417

Not sure off the top of my head how much of this is from the scene and how much is free, but here's what I remember. She told us that our mom, Theia, was the sun source and that she and Nome, the moon source, locked Kane up and Gemma, the earth source sealed him. She described the various sources reactions to humans (well six of them: Theia, Nome, Gemma, Kane, and two others whose names I forget off the top of my head, so we have the names of seven of the nine sources, not sure which ones the last two are, because that was not mentioned. Kane's air source . . . my air-att mind is not happy about this, not sure what my air-att character thinks).

So Theia and Nome switched off being in human form to make sure that Kane didn't escape, but Theia spent more and more time in human form, wanted to experience human things. She went to school at Penderghast and met both Dean Snow (who considers her her best friend, although Alma told her that she didn't know her "best friend" at all . . . air quotes implied in context) and our dad (name not mentioned). Theia married our dad and had us. Since we were born while she was in human form we will never be immortal, but we do seem to have a higher connection to the elements, which surprises Alma. In addition she doesn't understand why we can access the refraction energy. That is something that we just shouldn't be able to access and yet even in that scene one of us (I think the MC does with Atlas accesses it later in the chapter when she's frustrated). I think this is done when we touch the sun-stone in the sun-att room which was apparently left there by our mother (and what Kane is after).

We try to use our premenisence power (or whatever that word is) to see if we will ever see our mom again. I'm not sure what makes this work, but seeing as I didn't take the diamond scene with this power until my current playthrough of book one, I would say it always works (maybe it works better if you took said diamond scene, but I doubt it . . . I'll figure that out eventually). We see a brief seen of some sort of area (I forget what, sandy mountains with a crack in them?). Whatever it is, it looks abandoned and there is a crack in it and we hear our mother's voice saying something along the lines of "Oh, my daughters/sons." Earlier in the scene Alma tells us that our mother is definitely alive and yet she says she hasn't sensed her in a long time (the better part of nineteen years is mentioned somewhere). This causes Atlas to be upset at various points in the chapter, mad that our mom is out there, no mention of being injured, and yet didn't help them with Raife, didn't contact them once over the years.

Alma says that Nome cannot do anything about Kane without Theia, indicating he is with her somewhere, and so she will train the two of us, especially given that we can use refractory powers for some reasons she cannot understand.

Seems like there was more, but that's all I can recall right now. Hope that helps.