"You're correct."
Sia's voice drifted across the endless cloud-sea like frost on a winter lake. Her pale-blue hair swayed as though caught in a current only she could feel, and the living clouds in her eyes churned slowly, as she continued.
"First, everyone's existence must be recognized and recorded by the Records of Eternity," she continued, the words settling into the air with quiet weight.
"These records hold everything about a person's existence—usually you are recorded the moment you are born. However, you were inside of an artifact, so you couldn't undergo this."
"The Records of Eternity? Is this some sort of system?" Ash asked with an arching brow.
Fay shook her head, leaf-green eyes catching stray glimmers of light that shouldn't exist in this place.
"Well, we don't know. Maybe we will learn more, the stronger we get."
She shrugged, the motion graceful as falling petals.
