A pervasive clash of temperatures enshrouded Solus enveloping him in their conflicting embrace, the sensation of which rippled through him like raindrops in a lake. The flipping sensation pulled at Solus' very soul, clawing his resolve into shreds as he stirred into his inner world. Upon opening his eyes, Solus silently stared at the pale yellow sky, watching the fluffy dark yellow clouds gently flutter across the sky in resignation at his failure to escape the flash of light. He sighed deeply as he shut his eyes, despite the relaxing aura perpetuating the realm. He basked in the light of the realm's artificial sun while taking in the sounds of the waves and the happy cheers of the many spirits relaxing on the island's silver sand beach.

"Better get out of here before the fossal ropes me into listening to one of his stories... again," Solus grumbled exhaustedly. A hearty and girly laugh bellowed directly into Solus' ear, filling him with utter defeat as the girly laughing drilled at his psyche and brought him to bated breath.

"Hah! If I weren't as old as him, I'd totally call him that," Kyoshina proclaimed cheerfully, slapping her chonky tail into the beachy ground and kicking up sandy dust clouds. Her remark was both condescendingly playful and painfully infuriating to Solus; Kyoshina happily clapped her hands away to show her praise to Solus but also to tease him for getting caught off guard by a crystal.

(Kyoshina is a human kid-sized anthropomorphic humanoid; she has sharp fangs, freakishly long trailing dark cyan glowing flame-textured hair which floats around as if it were submerged in water, glowing bright pink eyes glowing pitch-black scleras, dark skin, from the neck down and above the hips is covered in fuzzy faint cyan fur so faint it's practically white, a circular cream white fur belly area, lower body is covered in dark cyan metalic dragon scales, an anthro a black cat nose, large fluffy cream white hourglass-shaped rabbit ears, chonky thighs, and a chonky trailing dark cyan dragon tail with a football-sized ball of cream white fur on the end of it)

"Could you quit it with the tail flopping, you're getting sand in their eyes," Solus requested with an exhausted huff to his voice. Kyoshina narrowly halted her tail from striking the ground, stopping her laughing as well, and took a peek behind herself to see the short and young spirits in swimwear rubbing their eyes.

"Oh...," Kyoshina uttered before breathing in through her nose. She effortlessly shot a mini blast of concentrated air from her mouth at the trio, dispersing the sand from their eyes in one go, trying her best to be gentle but ending up sending the spirits flying into the pale pink ocean encompassing the island.

"Now onto what I wanted to... say?" Kyoshina said before her voice turned from confidence to confusion at seeing the empty Solus-shaped dent in the ground. With the feeling of being ignored hitting her right in the soul, Kyoshina clicked her tongue and kicked at the sand, cursing herself for letting Solus get away. As she poutily flailed her limbs, the surrounding spirits slowly backed off from the immediate area, hoping Lord Solmeuetzo would deal with Kyoshina before she destroyed Solus' beach again.

Back in the physical world, Solus snapped his eyes open, using the brief moment to catch his senses before instantly frowning at registering Kara looming over his head with her face mere inches from his. Kara stared daggers into Solus as her book-shaped pupils glowed, inspecting every minor reaction he had to her staring before unamusedly huffing.

"What are you trying to do?" Solus asked as he sat up with Kara moving out of his way while keeping her eyes locked onto his, emulating a predator eyeing its prey.

"Who can say, one certainly wasn't trying to see if one could see into your Shinsokuko Realm, most certainly not," Kara stated defiantly, crossing her arms and antennae to strengthen her words. Solus rolled his eyes as he bunched up his tails, pushing them against the ground and launching himself to his feet.

"Didn't Gramps tell you the reason why you can't see into other's Shinsokuko Realm with your heavenly qi powers?" Solus replied as he raised his head to the faint god ray drumming against his head. The gigantic dark oak trees towered high above the ground, their trunks twisting and weaving between each other like knitted cotton while their canopy of black leaves blocked the majority of incoming light, making it impossible to tell the time of day while inside the forest.

"Even if that's the case, how can one take pride in one's title if one cannot confirm knowledge with one's own eyes," Kara retorted, angrily huffing and puffing as she pouted like a child with her face remaining perfectly neutral. Solus rolled his eyes, raising a hand to the forest canopy before slapping his hand over his eyes.

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"Would it kill you to talk normally?" Solus grumbled while lightly squeezing the sides of his face and offering a hand to Kara. Kara huffed at the notion and lightly kicked Solus in the elbow of his raised arm. The kick sent a shivering ripple through Solus, making him freeze up for a split second before he jaggedly lowered his raised arm back to his side.

"She sure showed you, Kiona," Kyoshina whispered, her snarky voice echoing through Solus' mind.

"Knock it off," Solus mumbled mentally, getting a cheeky snicker from Kyoshina before he felt her presence fade from his consciousness. Solus closed his eyes, threw his head back to the sky and deeply exhaled as he lowered his shoulders. In his resignation, Solus lowered his head and slapped his arms against tails.

"The trees sure are noodly," Solus remarked defeatedly.

"So, we're moving on from the last convo?" Kara asked, rhetorical snark chiming with her voice. Not feeling like responding, Solus remained silent but eventually sighed as Kara's antennae wobbled their way under his head. The antennae teased Solus with their wiggling, goading Solus into speaking his mind or at least expressing it in some way and even booping him in the nose for extra measure.

"Good grief...," Solus uttered before raising his head from Kara's relentless antennae strikes. As she suspended herself upside-down off the ground with one of her wings, Kara peered up at Solus with callous energy behind her blank expression as she crossed her arms at him.

"Chronicle Codex?" Kara asked emotionlessly. Solus simply rolled his hand, leading Kara to flex her wing before bouncing off the ground and landing on her feet as she rewrapped her wing around herself. With her first bit of emotion, Kara swung her arms up bombastically, waving her hands with determined jazz as red heavenly qi(dense particley energy) gathered on them. With violent confidence, She slapped her hands together and blasted a cloud of qi in front of her. The heavenly qi began to condense, mould and culminate into the shape of a book before the qi exploded off the book, revealing the Chronicle Codex in its normal-sized mode.

[The Chronicle Codex is a purple magical book with black spikes and an octagon lavender gem on the front cover]

Kara carefully placed a hand on a spike from each side of The Chronicle Codex, ensuring her grip was firm and secure before violently swinging her head back as she struggled to pry the Codex's spines apart to get access to its content. Despite her huff and puffing, The CC showed no signs of giving way, not even for its owner, leading Kara to angrily pout in resignation as she whispered the password to The CC. With the password received, The Chronicle Codex sprung open and speedily spun through its endlessly flicking pages until landing on the page of Kara's desire.

After taking a single glance, Kara closed The Chronicle Codex, retracted its spikes into circles and hid it under her wings before turning to Solus and calmly addressing him, " Another reality, currently in a forest called Quionvail Forest, and you should hide your none human features given demi-humans aren't a thing in this world.". Solus raised a hand to his head, itched his horn lightly before retracting them along with his kitsune tails and ears into his body.

"Anything else I should know?" Solus asked reluctantly as he watched Kara's antennae sway from side to side. Kara mildly raised an eyebrow, her face remaining neutral as she watched Solus' demeanour for any sign of deceit in his question but eventually concurred with the conclusion that Solus was sincere.

"Did you get the strange sensation of being surrounded by both the hot and cold?" Kara asked. Solus nodded, his face a clash of a poker expression mixed with his pupils slightly constricting into vertical ovals.

"One will take your silence as a yes. So, to put it into simple terms, this reality appears to have some sort of ambient energy that neutralizes most spiritual types of magical abilities, and that is what caused the strange stimulation around you," Kara explained. At hearing their predicament in its entirety, Solus mildly huffed, raising a hand to the spot his horns previously were and pressed his thumb against the spot, caressing his forehead with mild annoyance as he mulled things over.

"At least tell me if Tree Enthusiast knows of our predicament," Solus grumbled as he freed his forehead from any further thumb attacks. Kara couldn't help stifling a smile, smugly planting her hand firmly on her hips and playfully hopping onto The Chronicle Codex with one foot as it hovered above the wooden ground.

"One doesn't even need one's heavenly qi to tell you that," Kara remarked, her antennae snuggly wobbling like audio waves as Solus rolled his eyes.

"I suppose the answer is rather obvious, isn't it," Solus uttered. With his face being a conflict of apathy and self-deprecating amusement, Solus silently turned around and marched off, informing Kara he sensed spirit energy ahead as he went. Kara sat on Chronicle Codex and hovered behind him, asking if it was purely spirit energy or if it was mixed with something else.