Gray sidhe (Afina, 87 days left)

[Anastasia]

It is Crystal.

One needs only to look at her to see something is different. A feel to her, something you see and yet is unseen. A sense of difference, of eternity.

Crystal meets your gaze and merely says, "I'm back and Her Majesty's will has been done."

[Ebiris]

"You knew it was going to happen someday," Afina says with a slight smile as she looks over her fellow pixie. "Come in and tell me about it?"

[Anastasia]

Crystal does so. "Her Majesty told me it was for the good of Lifasa and to reward my service and dedication. Thus, I am more able to fight for Lifasa's freedom, enhanced in every way, much as you have been enhanced by the elements.""

[Ebiris]

"We've seen the truth of Yggdrasil, where the fey came from," Afina says in response to Crystal's value-neutral answer. "There's nothing to mourn, if anything we cleave more truly to our root now."

[Anastasia]

"You are correct," Crystal smiles, "I am as I was once before, and shall be until matters are healed. Do not be afraid to call on me for aid, for no enemy shall stop me now."

[Ebiris]

"So what was talking to her like for you?" Afina asks to get away from the mechanics of promotion and investiture of power to something with more heart. "I didn't say much, but what I heard... it was really comforting," she smiles, going to sit on her bed, legs dangling over the edge. "I was told about her Majesty's plans for the inner planes, and how I've already realised that in myself, how she was proud of me and that everything's going to be okay. It was nice, something I needed to hear."

[Anastasia]

"It was....the most wonderful thing I've ever heard," Crystal smiles softly, "She told me that I had made everyone proud, that my faith was an example against Hell's darkness. That I was the shining knight who will save many in her name." She flutters down next to you, "You understand."

[Ebiris]

"Just the thing to lift our spirits for the hard battles ahead," she nods. "Who would have thought we'd ever end up like this. Privy to the greatest secrets of our race, feted by Titania/Morwel herself, exemplars of our kind. Not bad for a knight and an assassin."

[Anastasia]

"We've come so far. We're now the champions Lifasa needs." Crystal takes your hand. "Not bad at all, and soon we will be the legends that saved Lifasa."

[Ebiris]

"Just a little bit longer and we will," Afina agrees with a squeeze of Crystal's hand, not doubting their inevitable victory.

[Anastasia]

Good on that one there?

[Ebiris]

Yep.

[Anastasia]

Let me pause you for the moment then. It's almost pausing time and I need to get my ducks in a row for your end now.

[Anastasia]

Locking this one after this, but day 86 is beginning. Any todos for it, Afina?

[Ebiris]

Afina's going to attack this place:

- Rime Tower. A tower of black ice risen amid the inferno of Lifasa by powerful magic. Geluons within practice magic that deals with ice and insects - the latter by adding insectile grafts to captive mortals, turning them into strange creatures - if they survive the procedures.

She'll grab Crystal, Bubbles, and Cresiel for it, and ask Balyss if she has any useful knowledge from above to share about the place or who might be resident when we visit.