The hunt for goldenfire (Afina and Jaela, later Surraruthru too)

[Corwin]

"Let's face it," Jaela says quite reasonably. "Baleruk sits here all day. He has quantity, sure, but you can only get quality by going out there and finding what's unique! Glad to have you onboard, Arrel!"

[Anastasia]

"Yes, so let's go take care of this," Kascha claps her hands together, "All we need is Mirajane now."

[Ebiris]

"Know where we'll find her, Jaela?" Afina asks in lieu of bothering Elena.

[Corwin]

"I think we'll meet her by the gates," Jaela muses.

[Anastasia]

"Are we leaving right away?" Kascha asks as Arrell joins you, leaving his coins behind.

[Anastasia]

This is interrupted by Elena, who appears, "Hi. Kascha? There's a faerie dragon - you know, like Hope? Anyway, there's a faerie dragon here who says he's been sent by Seira to take guardianship of you."

This gets Kascha to stop cold, making her ioun stones pelt the side of her head, one after another "Ooowwww!" she rubs them as her other hand darts out to catch them. "What?"

"There's a faerie dragon here who says he's been sent by Seira to take guardianship of you," Elena dutifully repeats.

"I heard you! I mean...what?" Repeated again, slowly this time. "I haven't heard anything about that."

[Corwin]

"How long would it take you to check?" Jaela asks Kascha with a frown. "The timing's a bit weird."

[Anastasia]

"Not long," Kascha says, "I'll use powerful magic for this, I think. I need to know so that if this is a lie, we can deal with it as soon as possible."

[Corwin]

"Let's find a quiet place for that," Jaela suggests. "Figure out just what's going on."

[Ebiris]

Well if anyone here could reasonably need a guardian it's Kascha, but still it's been ages since she died so Afina can't help feeling a bit critiqued.

"If it is a lie it should be easily checked," she says, fluttering alongside Kascha.

[Anastasia]

Kascha slips into an unused room and promptly kneels, sketching a magic circle with her fingers and light. She then focuses her magic, forging it into a power spell of Commune. This causes Kascha to be surrounded by a haze of golden flames, the temperature of the room rising. The flames swirl around her faster and faster, until they disperse into harmless blasts of warmth.

"Surraruthru was sent by Seira." Kascha's calm now, "He's a survivor from Lifasa and she chanced on him, so she sent him our way."

[spoiler]

Kascha: 258/258 Spells used: 9th: Wish.
Mirajane 283/283
Arrel: 343/345

[Ebiris]

"A Lifasan?" Afina perks up immediately there. She'd been thinking recently that the number of actual Lifasans in the crusade was pretty small. "Lets go see him?" Hopefully he won't be too put off by the giant brands on hers and Jaela's foreheads...

[Anastasia]

At this the group heads into the courtyard. At the gates they find the new member, waiting with Drena.

Meanwhile, Surraruthru waits. He sees them approach - a curious pixie, an angel and Kascha. The first two steal his attention, for on their foreheads are letters of Draconic. They read GUILTY. These two have committed a horrible crime against all dragons. You feel disgust rise up within you, a choking bile that threatens to drown anything but sheer fury. Your ears roar as you can dimly hear Kascha call, "Hello?"

[Ebiris]

Afina does look a bit odd for a pixie, with her clammy pink skin that looks more suited on a cooked lobster than a person, contrasted with a bob of glistening white hair that sits underneath an ostentatious two-tailed floppy hat in purple and orange. She wears a bodysuit and leggings of no particular colour or style, with clashing oranges, blacks, and greens splashed across in tiled squares and diamonds all offset with girlish purple frills that seem to suggest at a figure she just doesn't have. Of course that's all a distant second to the giant GUILTY brand though.

"You're from Lifasa?" she asks in a stereotypically cutesy and vapid sounding voice for a pixie, seemingly unaware of the horror her presence brings. "I'm general Afina. If you've come to fight for our world you'll be welcome here."

[Corwin]

"Jaela," she introduces herself in turn, clad in armor and prepared for battle at a moment's notice, as always. "You're in luck, I'm another general in the Crusade. And we're in luck, because you're a friend from Lifasa and found your way to join up with us."