Quartz by any other name... (Afina)

[Ebiris]

"I'll be sure to stay on guard against it," she says wryly, getting up since she's finished her drink. "Anyway, I was going to go check the outstanding jobs at the forge unless you have anything else to do?" she asks, fishing for any further distractions.

[Anastasia]

Crystal smiles and even laughs a bit. "Afina, are you for once not in the mood to smith?"

[Ebiris]

"It's more that most of it's being handled by Goldanariux and Hamogan so it's not really as urgent for me to stay on top of anymore," Afina answers. "I have more time to spend on leisure if I want, or training or personal projects."

[Anastasia]

"I'm glad we finally got you help besides Sylvie," Crystal seconds, "Care to celebrate with some cake?"

[Ebiris]

"Cake sounds good," she agrees, sitting back down again. "I never understood why I couldn't just make a pixie-sized bracelet that an elf could wear as a ring, it's just one of those immutable laws."

[Anastasia]

Crystal orders a rum cake to be brought over. "Nor do I. One can complain to Mystra?" Crystal ponders, "In our positions, perhaps we could do that literally."

[Ebiris]

"I was actually thinking of the guardian of 21 when I had to ponder it recently," Afina admits. "I remember Kascha went to it with a long list of questions as to the nature of, well everything, and seemed to get quite an exhaustive response back."

[Anastasia]

"I read that," Crystal says, "Do you think it's all accurate?"

[Ebiris]

"I'd be inclined to give it credence," Afina says. Maybe not take it completely at face value, but in light of everything she learned about Yggdrasil she doesn't have any better story of her own to cling to.

[Anastasia]

Silence from Crystal until your cake arrives, two pixie sized pieces from a pixie sized cake. She eats slowly, "Such secrets that we've been given to know, such privileges to meet those we have met. All to save Lifasa."

[Ebiris]

"Which remains stubbornly unsaved," Afina concludes, spearing off a chunk of cake and popping it in her mouth. "When they write the history of our Crusade it'll fill a whole library, not be some neat little tale wrapped up in an evening's telling."

[Anastasia]

"We're making progress. Willah's in our grasp and we're stronger yet. Soon...soon I think we can mount a real attack and not just a guerilla action." Crystal eats slowly, "We just need to gather a little more."

[Ebiris]

"Taking in Willah was very satisfying," Afina says, a smile stretching over her lips. "We went in the sneaky guerrilla way, but when it came time to strike I wiped out all her defenders and ravaged her fortress at a stroke. It brings home how powerful I've become, that entire armies are helpless before me."

[Anastasia]

"It makes one think," Crystal agrees. "We are the legends now, aren't we?"

[Ebiris]

"We are," she nods, having a bit more cake. "In other circumstances there'd be nothing keeping us from anything we wanted. But things as they are this is all we can do just to keep up."