Numance

I would like to ask you a question.

Emery

He doesn’t listen to my answers.

Olric

And since when do you answer to questions?

Emery

Each time they concern me.

Olric

And does this concern you?

Emery

How could it be otherwise?

Numance

It concerns the work of the Master.

Emery

You see, I was right.

Lumin

What is the question?

Numance

Upon the Master’s paintings, we often see an index finger pointing out.

Lumin

Isn’t that its function?

Numance

Only in the case of the Master we know what it points out to.

Lumin

Is it that important for your eyes?

Numance

Just for my thought.

Lumin

Is that which is supposed to understand it?

Numance

Definitely not!

Emery

Then what’s the problem?

Numance

The purpose of all this.

Olric

So evolution in itself is not enough for you?

Numance

Didn’t you see that people are pointing their finger at us? That we are being blacklisted?

Lumin

And are you afraid that the Master’s purpose will be the same?

Numance

Yes. Silence. Is that bad?

Lumin

That depends on you, not the Master!

Numance

No one asked my opinion when they decided I was going to be a monster.

Lumin

Would you have a different opinion?

Numance

No, most probably not. But I would love to have given my opinion.

Emery

Just like us!

Olric

There is one difference though in any case… Time.

Emery

I do not understand.

Olric

Yet again it is a big one. Time. Numance thinks in order to answer, whereas Emery answers in order to think.

Emery

Is it my fault if I need a dialogue to express me?

Numance

Yes, yes it is Socrates’ mistake!

Olric

Nobody spoken about a dialogue.

Lumin

It is true that Emery has a social side .

Emery

Without it what would my beauty be? Shouldn’t I explain it?

Numance

Beauty cannot be explained when it is monstrous.

Emery

Nevertheless, someone has to say it!

Lumin

This precisely is the role of the Master.

Numance

To point out to us the beauty we don’t see.

Olric

This is how the bookmark becomes an index finger.

Emery

Is it true that a bookmark can’t be elsewhere but within a book.

Lumin

In such a manner that the index can contain them all.

Numance

How many books can an index bare?

Lumin

As many as the dead.

Numance

And not more!

Olric

But not less either!

Numance

How many paintings could an index handle?

Lumin

As many as those alive.

Numance

No less than that?

Olric

Not more either!

Numance

Are we alive or dead?

Lumin

We are dead.

Emery

We should have be like this when alive.

Olric

Nothing is certain.

Numance

We’re not even good alive ones.

Emery

We’re not even bad dead ones either.

Olric

It is true that no one will cry for us.

Lumin

They prefer to laugh at us.

Emery

No one can challenge us within the ridiculous!

Numance

So much for the glory!

Olric

We are rare books.

Emery

This cannot be enough.

Numance

But then why?

Emery

Why we ought to become paintings.

Olric

Don’t you see what a painting we form?

Emery

He would not do it, but only for the sake of being . Time. With the Master we will become models.

Numance

Who else could follow us?

Emery

The Masters of the future.

Numance

You are completely crazy! All this is reckless!

Lumin

Don’t be so sure!

Numance, surprised.

How;

Olric

Masters are monsters who travel through Time.

Lumin

They don’t create but only the future.

Olric

But each one of them is taught through the works of their predecessors.

Numance

So we can constitute the message…

Emery

The coded message…

Lumin

Of the index!