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[Anastasia]

"All the more reason for us to know one another, so we can talk it out when our territories overlap," The Red Knight declares.

Jessica meanwhile bows her head in thought, "...Sister?" she asks, interrupting. "I thought I had to go out, fight some great evil to get ahead, to do something. But as I am now, what we did today did something, did it not? Something important."

[Ebiris]

"We did. Think of the stories you read to your children, what ones sink in best? Ones with a dramatic clash of swords, or ones where someone learns an important truth about themselves?" Alicia asks Jessica. "You have to get used to thinking of yourself as that sort of mythic actor now, the protagonist of a hundred stories. Better that they have a moral than just be a lot of flash, yes?"

[Anastasia]

Jessica's answer is a bright smile. As she does, you feel it, the connection to Jessica quickening, strengthening.

Node update for Jessica, go read and note you have.

[Ebiris]

Noted.

She smiles back. "And it seems like Seira has seen off that attack at the Cauldron Elle contacted me about earlier, so my avatar can stand down in Sylica. Our friend triumphs in her own battle, and we can conserve our strength a little bit longer."

She turns to Red Knight once more. "Though our participation there is inevitable, and will be sudden when it occurs, we are also taking the time to sally against Demogorgon on the world of Daun. I would be pleased to return your hospitality and give you opportunity to inspect our troops before they set off in a few weeks."

[Anastasia]

"I have but one question," the Red Knight asks, "When?"

[Ebiris]

How's our schedule for Daun looking? I'd like for Red Knight to inspect them a few days before departure when they're almost ready to go but any criticisms or comments she makes can be taken on board.

[Anastasia]

12 days, training's going fine.

[Ebiris]

"Eight days from now," Alicia says.

[Anastasia]

"To then," The Red Knight toasts and...

Ready to head back or do you want to add anything here while you have her?

[Ebiris]

We're good to go.

[Anastasia]

Thus you return back. Once you settle in briefly...

Alicia, please come to me for a few moments.

[Ebiris]

Alicia teleports off to wherever Antenora happens to be.

[Anastasia]

Antenora is on a vast cliffside plateau, the radiant light of the Opal Mountain shining bright. Here celestials work, magic forging a fortress city into the mountain itself. Antenora watches them from atop a raised cliff. Emmaline is with her, sitting with leg dangling off the edge of the cliff, watching quietly.

[Ebiris]

"Antenora. Emmalline," Alicia greets them both as she walks over to join them in overseeing the construction.

[Anastasia]

Emmaline rises with grace, bowing deeply to you, "Alicia," she murmurs.

"Alicia," Antenora echos, but with a smile, "It may not be Yetsira and Chronias, but my Opal Mountain will bring the fruits of good and redemption to those who seek them here. Strange how natural it feels to take this role now, how the elemental parts of me respond in a instinctual joy at the prospect of rulership. Is it my devilish birth or is it my lawful nature and my nature as a deity now? I know not."