A return home

[Ebiris]

"Just a little one," she nods. "We were debating what you three would be wearing - I expected Marie and Antenora would come naturally, Jessica bet otherwise. I suppose it was wrong of me to underestimate Marie's appetite for fashion."

[Anastasia]

With a chuckle like the summer sunshine, filling you with warmth, "Yet here I am, the one wearing naught but a lei. I didn't feel like dressing up when I'd be sunbathing like this much of the day."

Meanwhile Antenora swims in the waters, Syala doing the same. Jessica lies on her back and floats, enjoying the lagoon as she relaxes and looks up at the sky.

Oh hi, Alicia. Sharess sounds in your mind. Do you mind us dropping in?

[Ebiris]

Not at all, we're just having a quiet celebration.

"Luckily Syala's put up spells for privacy, I'm not sure the clothes will last that long."

Indeed Marie has already tossed her ungainly skirt aside so she can go running about and splashing in the water.

[Anastasia]

Latha merely nods knowingly as you feel them appear within your realm - Sharess and Mystra, a moment later appearing in the one teleport capable spot on the island, just up the beach.

Sharess is naked and purring, "Alicia, Syala," she calls, you made a party and didn't invite me! For shame!" A moment later she's a blur as they all look up, about 50ft up before cannonballing down into the waves, sending them all flying with a loud splash.

Mystra is wearing a short dress of blue and silver, simple and plain. Purple flowers are woven into her hair as she approaches you and Latha, "Congratulations," she says, "Perhaps it is frivolous of us, but we all enjoy our celebrations. So often our roles occupy and dominate our lives."

[Ebiris]

"It was meant to be just a quiet thing," Alicia says wryly as Sharess drops into the lagoon and sends Marie flying onto the beach with a thud.

"Thank you, though," she smiles at Mystra. "Yesterday was a big step for us and Sylica. Though you're right, my avatar is still having to keep busy. At least she'll have an extra pair of hands in a year."

[Anastasia]

"Blame Sharess, she insisted I come," Mystra comes over and gently hugs you from behind. An entire human sensation, warmth on warmth for a moment. "So often she says I lose myself in the Weave, lose the simple things that make us more than unknowable rulers of all Creation. What Sharess wants, Sharess gets, even if she has to pick you up by the scruff of the neck and drag you to it."

Latha chuckles at that, while meanwhile Antenora scowls and splashes Sharess - who splashes a recovering Jessica in turn. Water starts getting thrown everywhere, the sound of laughter coming from the beach.

[Anastasia]

Go ahead and intro yourself, Seira.

[Ebiris]

Turning herself giant sized, Marie scoops up a boats worth of water to splash over everyone as she rejoins the melee in the lagoon!

"The weave is an all-consuming thing," Alicia admits, recalling the glimpse of it she was shown as she leans back against Mystra. "Mmm, but how do you like the expanded Sylica? Now we're on the Oceanus it should be easier to move into Elysium later. And it'll be even bigger by the time we're ready for that."

[Corwin]

Seira appears in her usual adventuring outfit, only to take in the scene and blink slowly. "Huh, so this is where you were going," she tells Mystra. After another look around, she is then standing clad in a black eladrin gown tinted with fiery red, a gift that feels appropriate to wear under the occasion.

Approaching Alicia and Syala, she says with a grin, "Thanks for having me over!"

[Anastasia]

Syala's off swimming and Alicia's marinating a roast pig while getting hugged by Mystra, so it's a one or the other sort of choice.

Meanwhile Marie's giant waves send the rest of them sprawling out everywhere, wavers wrecking the other swimmers.

Amid that, "It's beautiful," Mystra says, "I'm proud of you, all of you. Even Seira," she looks up with a pleasant smile at her, "You're not one of mine, but you've done well. But all of you have, Syala and Antenora, you and Marie, Latha as well."

[Corwin]

I misunderstood Sharess's greeting, but it's okay, I'll be with Alicia rather than teleport into the water.

"And speaking of doing well, poor Donald. I really should throw him a celebratory party with how often he misses out on those!"

[Ebiris]

"Yes, Marie's doing well with her new station," Alicia sends a disapproving look over at the titanic eladrin now dominating the lagoon. "Hello Seira," she adds, greeting her friend. "Zariel's taking some time to herself in the forest, so we're celebrating Sylica's expansion. It wasn't meant to be anything too big."

[Corwin]

"These things just happen organically," Seira agrees. "When I asked Syala to come over for a chat, I figured it'd take place at a Cauldron lab rather than on a beach."

[Anastasia]

"These things have a way of getting bigger," Latha says, "A drink?" she offers, going over to the iced chest, where so many bottles are.

Mystra glances over and suddenly the tiny waves the others send back are as big as Marie, great tsunamis that threaten to sweep her away. An exercise of sheer will and something more, the Weave singing when Mystra touches it. A song of beauty and joy, resonating like the final piano note of a song.

[Ebiris]

"Mmm, I've been reminding her she needs to look into that behemoth research," Alicia nods as she tends to the roasting hog. "Perhaps giant cats could even reign in Marie's exuberance."

Said tulani is currently stomping around the lagoon chasing everyone else with enormous splashes of water that Alicia is keeping from inundating the beach. At least until Mystra intervenes and Marie cries out as she's swamped under the reprisals, struggling in vain to keep her feet until she's knocked flat on her back!