A Return

[Anastasia]

The Cauldron bustles as the two of you come on, your cargo getting wide-eyed looks as the two of you pass. Amaryl smiles to people and waves as she answers in your mind, sidestepping kneeling worshipers and giving the murmured comments. 'I suppose everything must grow, and it is time then for us to grow,' she concurs.

[Corwin]

Seira's will ensures that the massive raven doesn't trouble anyone, such as dripping all over or even smelling badly! At least the Cauldron is set up so that she could easily pass through in her dragon form, and she doesn't need to do any remodeling on the fly.

'We should call Emily and Xera over for dinner,' she muses. 'With the way things are picking up pace, we might not have many more chances in the near future.'

She's wavering between taking Amaryl to Arvandor and hitting up Zaaman Rul for an attack on Akim, though recent events will ensure she stays home for at least a couple days.

[Anastasia]

You get cheers as you pass, cheers and prayers heard in your mind. Calls of thanksgiving, for victory, for success, for wealth. All echo within your mind as Lady Sanzha approaches. She gives you a curtsy before speaking, "Welcome back, Seira and Amaryl. This way," she offers.

[Corwin]

"Of course, Sanzha," Seira agrees, before glancing over at the raven and sending it to her positive energy research laboratory where it would be kept in stasis until she needs it.

[Anastasia]

Once away from the crowd, Lady Sanzha begins, "Emily's incurred you a bit of a cost with Waukeen," she begins, "She borrowed something called the Ring of Delaros from Waukeen and promised you'd pay for the rental."

[Corwin]

"What," Seira flatly asks, but her shocked calm doesn't keep. "Why?!"

K:A, K:P and K:R 10 for 81 for the Ring of Delaros.

[Anastasia]

You've heard of it. Something made that allows powerful outsiders to stay on the Prime safely. Waukeen got a hold of it a long time ago and occasionally rents it out. How it was made is a pretty good question, but the odds are it's expensive.

"She found some mage she wanted to investigate and go visit," Lady Sanzha softly exhales, "So she got that and ran off to visit them."

[Anastasia]

After a beat, Amaryl says, "She did WHAT?!" A gasp, a hand to her mouth, "Why?!"

[Corwin]

Seira closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. A myriad of thoughts runs through her mind, and she dismisses the rash courses of action while also, much to her regret, tabling the issue of repaying Waukeen. Her friend knows there's no rush there.

Instead, she turns her attention on Elle's location and then shifts herself there along with Sanzha and Amaryl.

Assuming Elle isn't showering/with Donald/etc

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d100
<Rei-chan> Kotono rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=94 ]{94}

Elle is found deep in a spellbook, while Donald isn't around right now. On your arrival she glances up, "Seira, how was Air?"

[Corwin]

"Total victory, beat YanC so hard he offered me a mutual defense pact against Shar, also beat some weird manifestation of Shar and unlocked the secret to behemoths-- none of that matters right now!"

Crossing the distance, Seira looms over Elle. "Emily! She lied to Amaryl and I, put me in debt to Waukeen over borrowing a priceless artifact and ran off to some Prime to visit some mage." Leaning closer still, Seira repeats with great emphasis, "She lied to us!"

[Anastasia]

Elle blinks, blinks again and then gapes, "Emily lied? Well...she is a teenager," she offers, finally. "Wasn't she supposed to be doing some business in the elemental planes?"

Lady Sanzha scowls, "It seems her education did not wholly take. It can be corrected, but we really must get her back here."

[Corwin]

"Shar attacked Air and Sylica, I wasn't worried for the kids because Celestia is safe and an attack on another Inner Plane would be dumb, but a Prime's another thing. Elle, I know this is zero notice, but I need you to fetch that idiot kid of ours and tell her-- fuck, tell her it's the first time I've felt disappointed in her. And if I weren't on call over Sylica and to defend the Cauldron itself, I'd be the one going."

[Anastasia]

Elle nods and takes a breath out, "Alright. Also, what in Mystra's name did Emily borrow from Waukeen?" Getting up and closing her book, "Where is she, precisely?"

"I have the details here, it's a mage guild built around a spell pool," Lady Sanzha says.

[Corwin]

"The Ring of Delaros! Instead of talking to us and asking me to make her a proxy, or any myriad of ways to visit!" Seira exclaims. That tight rein on her anger is a lost cause, and that's likely for the best, she muses as she uses her power to reach out to Oraga. 'I have need of your services,' she relays, intending to summon her towards them upon receipt of an affirmative reply.

Then Sanzha's words catch her attention, and she sputters. "A Spellpool? She went to look at one? Why not go see mine back on Balmuria?"