Lillend and courre (Calleigh)

[Anastasia]

Vivantha isn't terribly hard to find. After all, you see her go into the portal and a quick question to Elena reveals that she's at the memorial wall. When you arrive, you find her standing before Muirfinn's inscription, head bowed.

[Yuthirin]

Calleigh buzzes up, all joy and cheer and trailing mist. "Hello!"

[Anastasia]

"Hm?" Vivantha asks, a musical sound from her practiced voice.

[Yuthirin]

"Hi! You're Vivantha, right!? We wanted to check up on you because you looked sad when we were in Hades and even though it's Hades you shouldn't be sad because Hades isn't that bad and you shouldn't be sad at all 'cause you're a lillend and you're pretty everything is pretty great and stuff!" Calleigh rambles.

[Anastasia]

This draws a small, sad little smile from Vivantha. She reaches out to Muirfinn's name, hand hanging just before it. "Muirfinn meant to stop the Father. He understood it had to be stopped. But now that cup passes to us."

[Yuthirin]

Calleigh blinks, then looks at the wall. "Ohhhh, what happened?"

[Anastasia]

"Muirfinn didn't come back from a mission. Hell holds his soul now," Vivantha says, "The risks that we all deal with came to ruin him. The Duke of Destiny took the field and overwhelmed Muirfinn and Lief, only Sylvie and Ithea were able to escape."

[Yuthirin]

"Ohhh, yeah. Dying is scary. I've died before. Coming back isn't fun, but it happens. Was he a mortal?"

[Anastasia]

"It doesn't matter. He hasn't come back. Hell has him, in body or soul," Vivantha says, "You should already know this."

[Yuthirin]

Calleigh shrugs slender shoulders. "Pale Night had a bunch of my brothers and sisters for a long time, and that didn't end up working out too bad. Took a while, though. And of course it matters if he was mortal! If he's not a mortal, his soul probably wasn't just stuffed into a lemure or something. I mean, that's not exactly a great prospect, but if he died and he was from another plane or something, he'd have reformed there, right?"

[Anastasia]

"He hasn't," Vivantha's voice is just a little short, "He would reform in Water and he has not."

[Yuthirin]

"Okay, so we know he's not dead. That's...ehhh, good and bad. He didn't die, so we know they didn't kill him, and he didn't die, so he didn't get away. Oh my gosh! Do you know what this means!?" Calleigh looks at Vivantha with big excited courre eyes, hands clenched together under her chin.

[Anastasia]

Vivantha takes a long breath, softening before your eyes. "That I have a reason to pray each day?" she asks.

[Yuthirin]

"No! Well, yes, but..." Calleigh leans in, whispering, "It means...rescue mission!"

[Anastasia]

Vivantha smiles - gently. "Oh child," she murmurs, "Lixer, the Duke of Destiny and the Lord of the Ninth all reside in Nessus. An attack on Nessus is suicide in both body and soul. If I felt we had any chance of success, I would have organized it myself. I have prayed and been touched by Selune. Muirfinn is held in places not even Aurora can reach."