Afterwards

[Iron Dragoon]

"Focused anger is easier to deal with than wallowing in it. She won't respond to me right now, but she'll be more open to others. She's not a soft touch Jarem. She's a dragon, even if she forgot it for a moment. You're probably the best to help her. Emily might be the worst. I won't tell you to council her, but you've probably seen this more than anyone else here."

[Anastasia]

"I have," Jarem agrees, watching Emily go. As Bastian goes and gets some water, "I've seen good soldiers self destruct over too much anger, too. She's not a soft touch, but she's still fucking flammable."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Yes, she needs lots of support. I doubt she's faced anything like that before. But her reaction to you proved what I was worried about. She was likely to lash out at anyone. I wanted to focus it on me so the rest of you could get through to her."

[Anastasia]

"Yeah," Jarem shakes his head, "Hey Bastian, hold on a minute."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Hopefully now she'll let all of you pull her out of this. If you need anything from me, let me know."

[Anastasia]

"Yeah, speaking of that," Bastian comes over, "Glad we got a chance to knock some heads in. About time, wasn't it?"

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa gets a look of distaste, "We smashed her outpost but I wanted to beat her champions. We did the wise thing, but still. Grates a bit."

[Anastasia]

"We still won," Bastian says, as...

You feel it. A connection with Bastian, sharp and strong.

Node update, go read and note you've read it.

[Iron Dragoon]

Read it.

"We'll, glad to see you're finding fulfillment at least."

[Anastasia]

"Again?" Jarem says, "I was about to say I was happy for a chance to use my skills," he admits.

Again it happens, the same connection, Jarem and yourself linked.

Another update.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa raises an eyebrow, "If all it takes to make this work is my tossing you about, this'll be easy."

[Anastasia]

Jarem just smiles back as meanwhile...

Next move here?

[Iron Dragoon]

Not much, honestly. Now that the Sharrans are out of that Outpost, I suppose I can use it as leverage to intro myself to the new Ash archomental.

[Anastasia]

Okay, and how do you plan to do that?

[Iron Dragoon]

Well, elementals generally don't like outsiders so I figured kicking a cult off their rock would be a good in. Figure I summon an ash elemental and use it to send a message to the new one. A calling might be better than a summoning? I dunno there.