Clean up (Afina and Jaela, 89 days left)

[Anastasia]

"An occasion worthy of celebration," The dragon-man notes, then turns his gaze to Jaela. "What just happened?"

[Corwin]

"There was once another occasion worth of celebration," Jaela reminisces. "We've just freed a thousand of our countrymen from the Burning Aeropolis, going through all manner of opposition there." She nods at the now-pristine ring, continuing. "Ferrum Incendia belonged to a Nessian we took down, but when I asked the Triune for a way to undo what had been done to it, her quest to me had been on the cryptic side. But recently, I've managed to figure it out with the elevation of Benfal and you've just seen how this quest ended." Smiling, she adds, "I like to think I'm getting wiser with time. As for the ring itself, please use it well. What you've witnessed is the best proof I can offer of wishing those deep differences you mentioned went a bit less deep, and the commonalities between us grew more pronounced with time."

[Anastasia]

"....An omen," The dragon-man finally says, "I will present this and your words to the Draco Paladin." He closes his fist around the ring and puts it away, "An omen like this cannot be discarded."

[Corwin]

Jaela nods, further words not necessary.

[Anastasia]

Anything to add, Afina?

[Ebiris]

Nope, I'm just floating there acting like I know what's going on.

[Anastasia]

Soon enough the dragon-man departs. Once he's out of the room, Elena pops in. "Wow," she says, dressed up in riding breeches and a tunic, a sword on her back, "What happened? I felt that one across Aurora!" Her eyes are wide and breathing quick, waving her arms.

[Corwin]

"That was the Triune doing this," Jaela responds with a smile, holding thumbs up to Elena.

[Ebiris]

"Whatever it was it worked well," Afina says approvingly. "I think we'll have a lot less trouble from metallic dragonkind. Lets all do our best not to provoke them either so we can stretch this out?"

[Corwin]

"I think we can do even better by following up on their lead," Jaela voices. "It'll display trust, and the information they received seems legitimate."

[Ebiris]

"Better to act before the information becomes stale," Afina agrees. "Think Harkin might be vulnerable while all those new troops are getting used to working under him?"

[Corwin]

Jaela nods. "Plus it's Yian's old haunts, so he can't be feeling too comfortable there. The best part, though, is that they'll strongly suspect they have a mole afterwards, regardless of the outcome. With the way Hell lords information on a need to know basis, where we got it probably won't be known to the traitors and with luck, they'll grow more paranoid and dismiss any recent reinforcements before they get backstabbed by someone jockeying for a better position at their expense."

[Ebiris]

"Draw up an attack plan and I'll back you up," Afina nods. "There's one more thing I need to do around here," her lips purse distastefully, "A recent arrival with a bad reputation I thought we could overcome. But given every crusade he's joined has ended in disaster and this happens the day after he came here? We can no longer afford the risk."

[Anastasia]

Going to go do that, Afina?

What about you, Jaela?

[Ebiris]

That's my plan.