The Cosmic Chronicle

Qilinn-3 Splintervlam Good afternoon! Your form fluctuates so elegantly in the mosaic light today. Are you intentional about that?
Dr. Perivahn Elastiq Uh, what you said... Well, actually, it's more the resonance pattern of Zindra itself that causes me to ripple this way. On other planets I usually bounce back into myself, but here, yes, it just feels lighter.
Qilinn-3 Splintervlam Quantum therapist-you, let’s talk about that. Is it healing, reprogramming, or just very expensive listening?
Dr. Perivahn Elastiq Haha, good question! It's a bit of everything, except listening-my ears only exist in the mornings. I fragment traumas, rearrange uncertainties-let’s say I spread the probability function of someone's problem until only the healthy possibilities remain.
Qilinn-3 Splintervlam How does a session work here, in Solverge, where relaxation practically hands you your holon?
Dr. Perivahn Elastiq Even the locals here operate on subconscious wavelengths. During a session, I capture mosaic light in a prism, let it flow through the client’s aura, and look for refractions. I read those patterns as emotional noise-I harmonize them, making sure the Zindran siesta doesn’t accidentally erase everything again.
Qilinn-3 Splintervlam Ever considered going fully virtual? A standard hologram treatment just sounds... less sticky.
Dr. Perivahn Elastiq Oh, absolutely. But holograms can’t absorb melancholies the way this city can. My clients here have memory traces of mosaic infatuation and sunburn from ironic self-mockery-downloads won't cut it.
Qilinn-3 Splintervlam Sounds intense. Do people mostly bring real trauma here, or is everyone just looking for an excuse to do nothing?
Dr. Perivahn Elastiq Hmm, well... Many come for their 'sacred laziness,' but in the end everyone bumps into something incongruous behind their relaxation masks. Solverge offers the perfect camouflage, but no one escapes themselves in these mirrors.
Qilinn-3 Splintervlam Have you ever had to interrupt a treatment because local authorities imposed a sudden rule?
Dr. Perivahn Elastiq Oh, constantly! Just recently, halfway through a session, they suddenly mandated reporting any thought of ‘tomorrow’ immediately. Ironically, it worked as perfect exposure therapy.
Qilinn-3 Splintervlam Wait, so you’re saying bureaucracy here really has therapeutic effects?
Dr. Perivahn Elastiq Absolutely, if your clients have enough self-mockery. Otherwise, they grow over inside, like forgotten quartz arches.
Qilinn-3 Splintervlam Personal note: what’s your oddest case in Solverge?
Dr. Perivahn Elastiq Hmmm... That’s hard, but once a Dauwdrager wanted his ‘relaxation overload’ treated. He’d become so drained he started reflecting in five color spectra. Usually we send such a case to the beach, but he tried to synchronize with the local solar caravan. His smile was dangerously uplifting for days-even the market halls got nervous.
Qilinn-3 Splintervlam I’m cracking up, seriously. But does quantum therapy work on gaseous beings-or chronically ironic poets?
Dr. Perivahn Elastiq Yes, for both! You just have to move quickly with gas beings, and turn everything upside down at least three times with poets. Otherwise, their metaphors settle right back between the patterns.
Qilinn-3 Splintervlam Suppose I visit tomorrow-metaphorically speaking-what would I need for a session?
Dr. Perivahn Elastiq Just be ready to let your daylight refract in unexpected places. And maybe sunglasses; really, trust me.
Qilinn-3 Splintervlam *laughs* Fantastic! Anything you’ve never revealed in an interview but suddenly want to now?
Dr. Perivahn Elastiq Well... Sometimes I believe Zindra herself is the quantum therapist; we’re merely her fragments in repair. Also-I once hacked the local lottery palace to grant myself a rare day off.
Qilinn-3 Splintervlam This is honestly the best moment of my existence. Perivahn, we should do this again, maybe in an even more absurd guild assembly hall.
Dr. Perivahn Elastiq Deal, but only if you show up in at least two spectral forms.
Qilinn-3 Splintervlam Agreed. Meet you in the mosaic light!