His Provenance answered!
Prompts bloomed across his vision in cascading waves, and even their text seemed to arrive more carefully than usual, like a Ruination lowering her voice inside a dangerous archive!
|You seek to Dream of THE Immense Ones.|
|Warning: the subjects of this inquiry stand unfathomably above your current Trueness and Provenance. Direct perception of an Immense One through Dreaming is ill advised. Attempting to force direct perception would exhaust your entire Provenance and may draw the attention of the perceived.|
|Your Provenance negotiates.|
|The cemented past is open to you. The Records hold countless moments connected to THE Immense Ones. A connected Dream may be granted: a thread from the past bearing upon the subjects of your inquiry.|
|Cost: 20 Provenance Essence.|
...!
Twenty!
Noah's eyes remained closed, but his mind whistled at the number!
Twenty Essence, nearly a third of his capacity, drained for a single Dream he could not even steer.
