To make the glass full (Afina)

[Anastasia]

"Nothing," Kascha replies, "You've slept through four days of us fussing over you and spending time in the Cauldron."

[Ebiris]

"Well it was definitely worthwhile," Afina says, leaning back a little. "Even with the aches I've got, I feel so much more whole. Everything's balanced nicely now - even if I still favour fire, there's a better harmony to things. It wasn't easy though," she shakes her head, "Leaving Air till last was certainly the right decision. If Earth had been in opposition when I tried to absorb it I wouldn't have had nearly as many tricks or exercises to help me adapt as I did for Air, and it was still a close thing."

[Anastasia]

Kascha's face grows grave, "Yes. Afina..." she trails off her, "Seira said your soul had, ah, she described them as, well...metaphorical cracks. If things had gone any worse, she thinks it would have broken apart from the force of what you were trying to do." Quickly holding her hands up, "But don't worry, they've healed now that you found harmony. But it was a dangerously close."

[Ebiris]

"Well have no fear, now that I've become prismatic I've no further intentions towards toying with my internal essence." Admittedly she'd like to become a fey again but she's found peace with her status as an outsider and what most matters is that she chose it for herself, it was never forced upon her. Besides even if her connection to most of the courts is tenuous at the moment she's surely a shoe-in for the Rainbow court if she petitions to join!

[Anastasia]

"Please be careful, Afina," Kascha says, reaching out and taking her hand, "If your soul breaks apart, it's over for you. Forever."

[Ebiris]

It's no worse than what the devils would do to her given half a chance, but Afina takes the warning in the spirit it's intended. "Don't worry Kascha, it's done now," she says, clasping the bigger woman's hand back. "And now I have greater strength with which to defend myself and others. It was well worth the effort."

[Anastasia]

"Good!" Kascha sighs in relief, "You made a big breakthough, you know. Everyone's excited over it. They've been spending hours going over divinations on you and the results."

[Ebiris]

"Well if anyone wants to interview me I'm happy to answer any questions," Afina offers. "I couldn't have done this without so much unstinting support from you and Sanzha and Seira, and everyone in the Cauldron." She turns her gaze to Mei with a smile, "You and 27 helped as well with your advice and warnings the other day."

[Anastasia]

Mei blushes and smiles slowly, nodding.

"Oh, 27 helped you?" Kascha says, "What did he say? As for interviews, I'll pass that on."

[Ebiris]

"He told me to be myself, and warned me of a fifth trial - I think that was the omni-elemental I had to fight."

[Anastasia]

"It's a relief," Kascha says, "I'm just glad you're back and safe, and thank 27 for the help too."

Okay, how much talking and interviewing do you want to do? I can move you along if you'd rather skip past it.

[Ebiris]

We can skip past it unless anything interesting is likely to come out of it immediately. She's just gonna describe stuff as it happened from her end so no need to get deep into recapping.

[Anastasia]

Soon enough the four gather, returning to the Astral and then to Aurora. A planar bubble keeps you for getting wet and you enter. Home again. Nothing's immediately happening in the court yard.

Okay, chance for you two to decide what you're going to do next. Together mostly for convienence, Surraruthru will likely split to a new thread.

[Ebiris]

Afina's going to get a situation report and then go see Baleruk

[Iron Dragoon]

I can go with the situation report, depending on who's there I can do the Balyss Info Dump, the Myr's Sword thing, and mention the Grand Weaver idea for Aurora, then hit Tannin for loot locations and Myr's Sword. If any of the Anarchs are around, I'd like to get the Filbrez's Surprise out of the way, too.

Also planning to gift the painting to either Afina or Kascha. Not sure if Afina's into paintings.