You bat the orb, feeling only a momentary slight pressure.
"Don't worry, it can't hurt you, but if you're not comfortable touching it I believe I can still evaluate you, the presence of your god is coming in strongly now."
Freya closes her eyes and concentrates, "oh this is interesting, I wouldn't have expected this. I am getting the feeling you are an automation, though that's not an issue at all, you don't appear to have an alignment... ok, there is a god here but he... it? seems to be here just out of curiosity."
Her brow furrows and she seems perplexed, with her eyes still closed you see her eyes move rapidly under their lids. "I'm afraid I don't have any way of verifying you through the orb... wait."
She continues to concentrate a moment then nods, "I have successfully communicated with Primus of Mechanus, I believe this is who Ashley saw but he is not your god nor is he willing to vouch for you, he is merely an observer... he invites you to Mechanus by the way... his presence is masking another."
She stops and opens her eyes, in her pupils you could swear you see intricate mechanisms whirring. She closes her eyes again, "well um... this was unexpected and I welcome you to our realm Alice. I am in contact with a demigoddess who claims to know your creators and is herself a creation, she keeps repeating a symbol that I can only interpret as kin or sister, but she's unsatisfied by my interpretation. Oh, so she's a demigod..." she opens her eyes, a red glow of gears whirl in her wide open pupils, "... and so are you, Alice. Or at least you have that potential."
She pauses then continues, "She cannot vouch for you but I can, because you have no alignment and no diety to vouch for you, I can only accept you based on your loyalty to your leader or current master, I will accept this if Yulya wishes to vouch for you. In any case, she will have to vouch for you whenever you wish to level here. "
She concentrates a moment longer, "she's incredible, as are you Alice, though in different ways. She's imploring me to accept you, and I will grant you copper status, but only if Yulya is willing to vouch for you... so she's imploring Yulya to do that. She won't tell me her agenda, or if she even has one, nor her name, but there is something I can only interpret as divine action at work by your creators."
