#knives is vibrating so hard he's gonna make a hole in the sand

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Knives had told him about the cube? Other worlds' Knives could travel between reality too? Meryl shuddered slightly at the thought, trying not to flinch. "He's here? And you just–did you at least, I don't know. Human jails probably can't hold either of you, right? So he's just... loose?"

Like he was some sort of stray animal, she thought vaguely.

"He hasn't hurt anyone right? You'd stop him if he did obviously–do you know what he's planning?"

Wait no, this wasn't her world and it probably wasn't her Knives. (And since when did he ever use Knives instead of Nai anyway?) She didn't have a responsibility here to stop him like if this was home. And this Vash probably knew what he was doing. (She hoped.)

"No, never mind I don't–I have to find the boys, I don't have time for him."

Things were very, very different here-- as shown in the lack of horror or familiarity in the blond's gaze as he looked over the object. If anything, he looked confused, blinking at is as he leaned in to get a better look.

"... I've been to JuLai, yeah, but this is..." Vash furrowed his brows, wracking his brain for whatever was trying to connect with this thing in his head. Had he seen this before? Or maybe he'd-- oh! Oh, right, he'd heard about this thing before, didn't he?

"I think Knives-- er, not this world's Knives, but another Knives," it felt like that needed clarification, "mentioned this before. Your Vash condensed a lot of power into this... cube, right?"

He reached out and gave it a gentle little tap with a gloved finger, right on the corner.

"But whatever caused this cube to exist in your world, it didn't happen here. As far as I'm aware, anyway. I don't know how much help I'll be."