Moving on

[Iron Dragoon]

"It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance Lady Latha, Lady Syala. I'm quite surprised to have you calling on me. Please, make yourselves comfortable. I've sent for a light meal, considering the hour. What task do you mean, and how do you know I've been called to it?"

[Anastasia]

"Thank you," Syala sits, watching the proceedings as Emily sits as well.

"Oh, do you mean...?" she murmurs, a hand to her mouth.

"Yes. We have learned that you were chosen by Io." Latha joins you, smile radiant. "Would you confirm that, please?"

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa get a cagey look for a moment.

"I suppose if you have suspicions enough to come here in person, then you all but know already. So yes, that is my understanding of my empowerment."

[Anastasia]

"We all but know, but I ask that you be honest here," Latha says, "More than you realize may be at stake. What else do you know of this situation?"

Emily coughs lightly in the meantime.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Not enough. It seems I found an aspect of Io in a labyrinth. It empowered me; pushed my magic far above what it would have been otherwise. This gained the attention of many entities such as yourself. Shar being the least welcoming. There also seems to be some sort of bond with those that travel with me."

[Anastasia]

"I see," Latha says, smiling warmly all the while. "Then it's true - the same bond has manifested in Sylica in recent times as well. It is safe to say that Shar wishes to see you dead for reasons, surely one of them being that bond."

"More than usual, as Shar wants to kill everyone," Syala adds in here, getting Emily to sigh.

"Yes, I'm reminded of that whenever we run into Sharrans. So hateful - we had an assassin here that was quite difficult to capture." Emily says, leaning back in her chair and looking up, an open expression of pique on her face.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Difficult to identify, not so difficult to capture. Shar placed protections on him that blinded our best diviner. So, you have the same the bond... Interesting... Jarem would be interested in speaking to you, he's rather doggedly researching it. Would you mind if I sent for him? A battle cleric of the Red Knight, in service to me by alliance."

[Anastasia]

"By all means," Latha says, "Invite anyone that's a part of that bond that you'd like."

"We're still figuring out how it works, but we've gotten a decent idea," Syala adds here.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa nods and calls for a page to bring Jarem and Ianvasah.

[Anastasia]

As that's done, "Could you tell me more about the assassin while we wait?" Latha asks.

[Iron Dragoon]

"A Sharran posing as a page. Targeting our leadership, but never me directly. The protections on him required multiple wishes to overcome. I turned him over to Emily's mothers."

[Anastasia]

"He was a complete as-jerk. A jerk," Emily frowns, "We finally got him, though."

"Elite Sharrans aren't easy to catch, since they're almost always defiant of typical divinations," Latha asks, "How did you pin him down?"

[Iron Dragoon]

"Emily here used Time Stop to put a force cage in place around him. We've got a teleport beacon that prevented him from getting out of it. Then I pinned him to the ground with telekinesis."

[Anastasia]

"Good work," Syala smiles over at Emily, who perks up.

"Thanks, Aunt Syala!" Emily says brightly, "It worked great."

Meanwhile, Jarem and Ianvasah enter, "You called?" Jarem asks.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Jarem, might I introduce Emily's aunt Syala and Latha. They've come to inquire about my empowerment and already know about the bond. Apparently they have one as well. I thought you'd like the chance to ask questions and possibly gain some insight from another source."