It's time

[Anastasia]

It is not long. Vayley appears just before. She lays out light refreshments for you, a meal for the Commander and several cows for Ajan - cows bedeckoned in jewelry in strategic places, shining gold and glittering gemstones.

It smells surprisingly good to your draconic side, something about them enticing. It makes you want to lick your chops.

[Corwin]

"You are the best maid," Seira commends Vayley earnestly.

[Anastasia]

Oberuth sits down and tucks in - it's a meal of roasted chicken and vegetables. He looks over after a few bites as Vayley curtsies and teleports away.

"Why is there the jewelry?" Oberuth demands, gruffly. 

[Corwin]

"It's like gravy for dragons."

[Anastasia]

Oberuth is silent at that - what can you really say to that?

Fortunately, it's a short silence for soon the air stirs. From above he descends, a vast red wyrm descending down. He makes no great show of his arrival, instead coming with a steady pace downward, descending before all of you. Ajan is at last free, standing before you at the Cauldron.

[Corwin]

"Welcome to my home!" Seira greets him brightly. "It's been longer than I hoped. I'm glad to see you free at last!"

[Anastasia]

"At last," Ajan agrees, "The past is finally put to rights."

[Corwin]

"I trust the judgement was all you had imagined it to be through the millennia?" Seira inquires, before gesturing at the feast. "Ah, my head maid prepared some refreshments for all of us. There's no need to keep it formal between friends, so we can talk as we eat~"

[Anastasia]

Ajan's...aaaah! He's frightfully fast, a snap of his neck out and his jaws chomp down. In an instant one cow is gone, then another. Barely even time for a final moo for any of them.

"It was and it was not," Ajan admits, "It was unfortunate it was not the original Crimson Guard finishing the task - unavoidable by what you gained, but unfortunate."

[Corwin]

"Oberuth, Marianne and Lyris allowed me to experience it vicariously, at least," Seira voices. "Such is life, I suppose. And yes, I did gain quite a bit! This realm, to begin with. Perhaps it is not what you originally imagined, but would you like to make your lair here? I've played with space a bit, so there's a great deal more of it than might seem, and there are plenty of isolated areas as well if you'd still prefer that." She can't help but boast a bit, adding, "In fact, the entire outer slope is uninhabited at present, and has many caves and tunnels filled with gold veins!"

In fact, that would probably be a great draw to the Astral Reds, now that she thinks about it.

"My avatar would be around to help for the time you asked as well," Seira continues. "I pay off my debts, and aid my friends without fail."

[Anastasia]

Oberuth pauses his meal a moment at that carnage, but tucks right back in and finishes it.

There is a consideration here, "What is your ultimate goal now that the judgment is over, Seira? You have gained much." Ajan asks.

[Corwin]

"My ultimate goal is keeping Creation safe and leading it to what I consider to be the correct path," Seira immediately responds. She's unable to be explicit unless Ajan is proven to have some sort of protection from Ao, but she can definitely speak in more general terms. "I'm well on the way of leading an effort to ensure the Inner Planes are free of slaves and slavers, and once that campaign against slavery succeeds I'll devote more of my efforts to dealing with Shar and various evil undead. I'll challenge the evil deities in battles of ideas much like Alicia has been doing all this time, too, so that it's not just a string of martial successes. And through it all, I'll never cease seeking out draconic perfection. Bahamut and Tiamat have stagnated, so I've thrown my hat into the ring, as they say. The Astral Reds you've pointed me towards are coming around, and I intend to draw more and more dragons to my banner and present them an alternative to their current paths in life."

She grins all of a sudden. "I'll be sure to keep rescuing princesses here and there, too~"

[Anastasia]

The last gets Ajan to snort faintly, a hint of fire from within his nostrils. "You seem to prefer princesses," he says, "How many have you collected?"

Oberuth's lips twitch up at that, just a bit.

[Corwin]

"It depends on how you define a princess," Seira muses. "However, rescue is one thing but I've only ever kept the one! Amaryl's my princess-- ah, I suppose Emily and Xera are my princesses, too?"

[Anastasia]

"Emily and Xera? Who are they?" Ajan asks back, eyeing you from afar.

"Her daughters," Oberuth speaks up, finishing his meal and pushing it away. Wiping his mouth with the back of his forearm, "She's done well for herself out here."

"Children can be our pride," Ajan agrees, "When they live up to their potential."