The duty to live

[Anastasia]

Then would you care to come over and observe events with me, dear Alicia?

[Ebiris]

Unless there's any sudden crises here I'll come visit you ahead of the battle, she agrees with that.

[Anastasia]

Lovely.

Going alone?

[Ebiris]

Yes it's a date for just the two of us!

[Anastasia]

You meet with Sulia in a mansion within her realm. It is tastefully decorated with maps of Daun as well as various scrying mirrors and the occasional weapon. Sulia rises, in a simpler sundress of soft white. "Alicia," she declares, "A great battle looms before us."

[Ebiris]

Alicia's armed and armoured as she always is when travelling.

She feels a bit bad about it really. It'd be nice if she was confident enough in both her power and safety to just go around in a nice dress to places, but you never know when a deific scale fight can break out or she'll need to rush back to Sylica to handle an invasion, and seconds count.

"It's good to see you again Sulia," she smiles nonetheless, walking over. "Our forces go with us in spirit if not in body. Lets have faith it'll be enough."

[Anastasia]

Sulia rises and lightly embraces you, "Always girded for war, as is proper for you," Sulia agrees with that greeting. "Now we pray that all our efforts are enough, and that we will oversee victory, rather than tend to the orphan of defeat."

[Ebiris]

"I'd like to be more casual, but events can arise with suddenness," Alicia says, patting Sulia's back as they hug it out before seating themselves to observe the ongoing battle for Daun.

[Anastasia]

"Ah, I actually considered Evergold," Sulia admits, "But I would not like to darken such a place with war, nor repeat Ebony's recent performance at Aurora if events called for it."

[Ebiris]

"You heard about that?" she asks in regards to Ebony. "Well, Aurora did invest a lot in its bathing facilities, and no one wants to bunk with smelly soldiers."

[Anastasia]

A light, airy laugh that brightens the room. "Oh, I did hear about it, the poor thing."

[Ebiris]

"At least she wasn't in the lava baths they have over there. Antenora likes things like that but it's never really been for me," Alicia says, just making casual chit-chat before the serious fighting begins.

[Anastasia]

"I confess, I don't understand how those work," Empress Sulia says, "It's still rock and hardly easy to slip into."

[Ebiris]

"I expressed the same concern one time and she just looked at me like I was being foolish and answered 'magic' as if that answered anything at all," Alicia admits with a dismayed shake of her head. "I'd always assumed she just put some muscle into it."

[Anastasia]

"The cultural differences still remain, do they not?" Empress Sulia shakes her head, "Come now, we can worry about Antenora's quirks another time."