"I can show you the 'History of' book once we are back on the train, but in the meantime - they are in charge of regulating void travel, and given we are on a train acting anomalously, they do not much like us, and suspect we are victims of smuggling."
Which Webmind thinks is rather... unlikely. They appear to be the victims of a much weirder void crime, here!
And then Willow is horrified; Webmind's expression shifts to one looking quite uncertain.
"Given their awareness of our craft as being 'named after the legendary Voidtrecker Express'... it may well have been intended as a trap."
How do you attract void missionaries? Put a world in danger! Webmind's expression shifts again, to something grim.
"I hope I am coming to the wrong conclusions based on scant information, however; in this case, I do not want to be correct."
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Which Webmind thinks is rather... unlikely. They appear to be the victims of a much weirder void crime, here!
And then Willow is horrified; Webmind's expression shifts to one looking quite uncertain.
"Given their awareness of our craft as being 'named after the legendary Voidtrecker Express'... it may well have been intended as a trap."
How do you attract void missionaries? Put a world in danger! Webmind's expression shifts again, to something grim.
"I hope I am coming to the wrong conclusions based on scant information, however; in this case, I do not want to be correct."