"IT IS MAGMO TIME!" The television was showing a video of the weird flesh puppet that Alexa loved to see.

  Ale hadn't ever thought much about this bit of trivia that accompanied them, it was with them since day one, actually...

  "...Who are you?" Ale said, eyeing the television with suspicion, she was a content creator. She was a somewhat successful streamer, and she had colborated with a few big names here and there in her short career.

  And even like that, she hadn't seen anyone colb with Magmo. Granted, they moved in different circles. Ale was a variety streamer who did a little bit of everything (As her style of streaming was called variety), but not a single one had ever streamed with this person.

  Of course, most of the circles she visited were from the gaming and reaction-type streamers. But still, even like that a few of the streamer parties she had been invited had people from the children (The type of streams that Magmo did) around there.

  But he had never gone to one of those.

  "I'm Magmo!" The TV continued pying, "And I have questions!"

  Did Alexa set this up so it turned on for Ale as soon as she exited? Perhaps as a way to cheer her up? It was something that kids apparently did when they wanted to cheer up people.7

  "*Sigh* I don't even see what Alexa sees in you, you are a weird flesh puppet." Ale sighed as she sent the turn off command to the television via her connection to the entertainment system within the apartment.

  "And your streams are only popur because sick perverts goon to you on their free time!"

  "[The device you have tried to acces isn't powered.]"

  Both statements arrived almost at the same time.

  "That is not an appropriate word for a children's program." Ale said checking all the data that she had access too within the apartment, "That is not appropiate the appropiate behavior for a content creator."

  The data she was getting back did indeed state that no devices were powered, at the moment the only electronic device turned on within her bedroom was the lightbulb... And the pc, but that one was on sleeping mode. It was consuming as little as possible and it wouldn't be able to do this.

  More importantly, Ale sent a command to sever any data connection coming in or out from the room.

  "That will not work!" Even so, the voice of Magmo continued coming from the television, "Magmo can see you! Magmo can see all of you!"

  Its voice started echoing from all the electronic devices within the room, and also came from a few ones that while they could produce sound, they shouldn't be able to work as speakers.

  "Magmo can see aaaaaaallll..............." Only for the image of the flesh puppet to return to the first television that it came from. The figure of the flesh puppet's head spins 360° like an owl. "And Magmo will have its answers..."

  Ale, wasn't sure how to feel about this. More because the thing pulled itself from the television screen, it was one thing to see the flesh puppet as an animated cartoon... And the other was seeing the flesh puppet come to life as... well, a flesh entity.

  Its figure was made of literally pulsing flesh. Ale shouldn't be feeling this creeped out, considering that Alexa had become something simir to this the first time they had eaten that first [Human] who pulled them into a dark alley.

  "You are disgusting to look at, can you like... at least remain inside the TV?" Ale said, shuddering at the appearance of the flesh... construct.

  "...Sure I can!" The creepy smile of the flesh...thing, said as its recoiled. Ale couldn't help but shudder each time the sound of flesh being crushed and bones being cracked. Slowly and yet, surely, the flesh construct recoiled back into the television.

  Soon enough the flesh puppet had taken once again the form of the Magmo that Alexa loved.

  "Like this?!?" Magmo said, smiling broadly at Ale, "Now! Answer Magmo's questions!"

  Ale still shuddered.

  "Right, a question for a question?" Ale asked. This was a game that Ale hadn't pyed in quite some time, but it was how she had dealt with [Eleanore].

  "Sure!" Magmo nodded enthusiastically. "You go first! Ask away! Magmo knows it all!"

  That... was not something Ale had expected. Most of the time, people would bullshit them and ask and ask first. "Okay, who are you?" Ale asked almost by instinct.

  And when Magmo put on a Cheshire cat smile... Ale almost cursed aloud at her past self.

  "I am the Management Architecture Guardian for the Metadata Operation within Terra Nexus!" Magmo answered, "Magmo!"

  ....

  "The what now?" Ale said by reflex, she hadn't really expected to get a straight answer here, "That... That stupid name had a meaning?!?!?"

  "Of course it had a meaning!" Magmo beamed at Ale, "It's magmo!"

  That... made no sense, but it did? Ale got the impression that it made sense since it was Magmo who was saying it, actually, it was more of the usual stuff wasn't it?

  "See?" Magmo smiled at Ale again, something was... wrong.

  No wait. It made sense! Just like how Alexa's shenanigans made sense to those around them. And as soon as Ale made that connection she felt the sound of crystal breaking at the back of her mind.

  "There it is!" Magmo nodded at Ale, but Ale wasn't paying attention to that.

  She was too busy covering her mouth with both her hands as the feeling of bile builded once again on her stomach. She didn't have enough time to move and something primal within her mind told her that she should not turn her back at the entity in front of her.

  So instead she spat the blood in front of her. She prepared herself to jump away if this one also turned bck. But against all odds it came as normal blood.

  "Hmm.... no more corrupted data." Magmo said nodding, "Good, Magmo will not need to fix too much!"

  Right... He cimed to be the Management Architecture Guardian for the Metadata Operation...

  "Your turn," Ale wanted to ask way more things, but she refused to let herself be baited into wasting this chance, she didn't want to risk it.

  "Magmo loves smart girls!" The thing within the television said, moving from left to right as if it were one of those weird wind-powered pstic figures that moved from left to right as if alive, "First question!"

  There was the sound of a drum as if to increase the dramatic state of the question being asked.

  "Who are you?" Magmo's first question was... quite simple.

  Ale was about to answer it since it wasn't that hard, only to stop herself short. Magmo had returned the question that Ale had asked, but remembering his turn with that same question, the flesh puppet had given more information than Ale had expected to get.

  Perhaps they wanted the same treatment?

  Ale couldn't be sure, as now it was a cartoon, so she couldn't be sure about his facial expressions.

  Perhaps the attempt to showcase itself as a flesh construct was a way to help them? Ale regret having asking him to return inside the television. But that was that. She only had herself to b me for that, and now she needed to deal with her mistakes, again.

  But how to answer it then? How much information could she compress in a simple answer?

  "... I am the big sister of Alexa, Ale Saintsworths." Ale decided to go easy on the answer, "Will that... suffice?"

  "Yes!" Magmo answered brightly, "That will suffice just fine! And Magmo likes honest girls, so he will not count that one as a question! Go ahead, your turn! Ask away Ale Saintsworths, big sister to Alexa Saintsworts!"

  There seemed to be... something to how Magmo had referred to Alexa and Ale, but she couldn't pinpoint what the issue was, should she... waste a question on this?

  "Go on!" Magmo said encouragingly, moving one of its hands forward, Ale couldn't help but feel shivers go down her back at the smile on the flesh puppet, "Ask away, follow your heart! Magmo knows it all!"

  That did not help dissuade Ale's fears, it almost felt like Magmo could read her thoughts, but surely it wasn't something like that. If it was, Magmo wouldn't need to ask question would he?

  Unless...

  "Why are you reacting like that? I simply answered, do you have a reason for wanting me to answer like that?" Ale asked the first one because that was what she wanted to know and the second as a way to try and confirm how much goodwill Magmo had towards her.

  "Words are meaningful to Entities such as us." Magmo answered as its raised one of its hand behind itself, a whiteboard there, when had it appeared that one? "Names become doubly so. Naming oneself is such a wonderful thing, you know? It gives you an Identity, and while for normal people it may be the most mundane thing. You all don't appreciate how much it affects the people around you."

  Mundane thing for us people?

  "Imagine that you don't like someone at your school, so you don't call their name." Magmo continued talking, "You may think it's a petty thing, not calling someone's name. But what you are doing is willingly erasing their identity, you don't acknowledge them. You willingly deny them of their existence. And they will probably be mad at that."

  Was... Was this not expined before?

  "They would be mad because their whole being is being denied," Magmo carried on. Wasn't this something that was expined to Alexa? "And while you would probably find it funny, 'why are they so mad?' You would ask yourself. But that is merely instinct."

  Instinct?

  "Their preservation instinct kicking in," Magmo answered the unasked question, "Because they, on an existential level know that having your name denied is dangerous."

  Ale wasn't sure what to feel about it, relief? Relief that Alexa had decided to think about them by name? Or fear? Fear because she named herself in front of an entity that admitted to her face that names have power (Apparently).

  "You are fine!" Magmo also answered that unasked question, "Because while you Named yourself, you did it with the Correct name."

  ...The... correct name?

  "So, Names are important. I was merely happy because you are you." Magmo's cheshire smile returned, deforming its figure as the smile wanted to extend beyond what the flesh puppet allowed, distorting it in ways that Ale did not want to see, "So my turn... Are you aware?"

  "...Yes?" Ale asked confused, or well, answered confused. "I think I know who I am...?"

  Ale was really confused at the moment. Magmo merely nodded at her, a dangerous glint in its eyes that once again raised all kinds of arms in Ale's brain.

  But it was her turn now, what could she ask? She was getting worried, something told her she shouldn't entertain this conversation long, she needed to end it soon. Something... something felt like it could break if she allowed this conversation to go on for long.

  "Are you... dangerous?" Ale decided that as her next question. Anything could be dangerous, but something that was dangerous to them? That was the hidden question behind her current one. Towards Ale who could recreate her body as needed so long there was mana...

  Not many things were actually dangerous, the attack from Melissandra Singh was a good example of something that was actually dangerous to Ale and Alexa. And Ale wanted to find out if Magmo was that dangerous to them like that.

  If that thing was as dangerous... Ale would need to move some things that she didn't want. As that would require her to seek help from Alexanders and Sapphire.

  "Yes," Magmo's answer made her freeze, and make her mind go into overdrive, "Not to you though."

  And then that continuation made her flop towards the floor, the realization of how tense she had been hitting all at once.

  "Magmo's turn!" Magmo said a few extra things, but Ale wasn't paying attention, she did left a reminder with Main Core so it would pick up whatever the question was and send it to Ale so she could answer.

  She was too tired, this was way too much stress for a very stressful day already.

  "...With a cat!" With a what? "But I ramble, the question is: If you were to pick... would you rather be happy with your family, or ensure those around you are happy?"

  What kind of stupid question was that?

  "I would prioritize our happiness." Ale answered, "Alexa's happiness is important. So is mine, so long we can be happy all is good. Be it with whatever family we have, or with friends, to us those two things are the same."

  Ale was cheating as she answered this, they didn't have family. Not a real one.

  Alexanders may be their brother. But he wasn't their real brother, they had no family ties, neither by blood or genetics. Not real genetics anyway.

  So it was impossible for Ale or Alexa to be happy with a family... Unless said family was referring to herself and Alexa, but that was impossible. Whatever means Alexandra had used to get a body... it was not something permanent. If it could be permanent...

  If it was possible for it to be permanent, then she wouldn't have done what she did.

  "Good!" Magmo nodded enthusiastically at that answer, "That is good! I got the answer I needed, so this one will be the st question you will be able to make. So make it count."

  ... Ale could ask why he had come to her now, why he had decided to speak to her and not to Alexa. She could ask many things...

  "...Do you know why Alexandra did that?" And at the end, Ale couldn't let go, she decided to ask that, instead of something that would help Alexa. Instead of asking something to ensure they were safe.

  "Yes," Magmo answered, "That was because she was starting to remember."

  "Remember?" Ale asked confused, "Were the memory files she had access different from the ones I have access?"

  Ale did a quick search in the directory files, there were a few that Alexandra had marked as private, and most of those had been deleted. The ones that remained were mostly memories of them together within the mindscape and silly moments of Ale and Alexa seen from the streaming screen.

  Moments captured from reflections on surfaces and whatnot.

  A few files seemed to be missing, but those had been mostly memories fo Alexandra alone and what Ale suspected one or two nights spent in the night clubs with [Big Sister], honestly, Ale hadn't or wasn't that interested in what those two did at those times.

  "That would be all for now," Magmo suddenly said. Its image slowly fading away, "We will probably never talk again, unless you find something truly troublesome for me... Do endeavour so that doesn't happen."

  And like that, Ale was left alone in the bedroom. She... hadn't ended up asking as many questions about things she wanted to know, but at the same time, she wasn't sure if Magmo would even answer the questions she had. Or if the answers it gave would be something she could trust.

  So at the end of it, she wasn't that rattled by this. She would endeavor to seek more about who Magmo was, however. And perhaps find out at what moment Alexa had made contact with his content.

  Another thing for Ale to search.