The duty to live

[Ebiris]

"On the existence of the daemon, gloom, and leshay?" Alicia asks. "Obviously I wouldn't have told her about your connection with the fey."

[Corwin]

"A good point," Seira muses. "What exactly is alright to be shared with allies?"

[Anastasia]

"The information about the three," Morwel concurs, "Selune is already aware of the Queen of Air and Darkness's origins, but do not spread it farther."

[Ebiris]

"Very well, I'll be circumspect in what I say," Alicia acknowledges. Morwel gave her the goods, she can decide how they get used.

[Anastasia]

At this Morwel smiles faintly, "Seira, how have your own efforts been?" she asks "We have talked about Alicia's but not your own yet."

[Corwin]

"Unlike pretty much anything I ever tell my closest friends, this is something I don't want going past the two of you," Seira responds. "I've been traveling through the Iron Tower, so that's why I seem a bit out of touch. The stories really didn't do it justice."

[Ebiris]

Alicia sits up straighter and looks at Seira. "You've made progress?"

[Anastasia]

Morwel sits up as well, "You've gone and returned? Few can say that, Seira. Tell me more."

[Corwin]

Seira shakes her hand to and fro. "Progress,yes. And we weren't discovered, either. But I still haven't finished mapping the Tower, nevermind finding Yemimah's prison."

[Anastasia]

"How big is it?" Morwel asks. "At least that you've seen?"

[Corwin]

"As big as a Prime, by my estimates," Seira responds, summoning a copy of her map to show Morwel and Alicia. "Spatial manipulation on a massive scale. Without some of these noted shortcuts, you'll likely be walking for weeks just to reach the first town inside the Tower. There are other towns that I know of, too, and while appearing on the small side at first the same effect is used to increase their area as well. It's not all two-dimensional, either, as some towers within seem to go much farther than you would expect."

[Ebiris]

Alicia peers at the map Seira made, memorising it in case it's ever useful for her. "He has had a long time to keep adding and adding to it."

[Anastasia]

Queen Morwel studies it, "He's known as an abjurer, but his skill with dimensional manipulation is far greater than most suspect."

[Corwin]

"The defenses are insane. I don't mean just very good, but they've reached a point where stopping would've kept things cost-effective and just kept going. And going, and going, and going. At least I got some ideas about actually sensible defenses for the Cauldron out of it-- and I'm rambling, sorry. From what I could see, escaping if discovered would be next to impossible. Getting past that many redundancies without alerting Dispater would take so much power you might be better-served going after him directly. In fact, Amaryl thinks that he's the weak link in the whole thing, so we're looking into his weaknesses before trying the Tower again. If we knew enough to unbalance him... an actual threat to his life, no matter how unlikely, is bound to be magnified to someone like him."

[Ebiris]

"Does he ever leave the tower though, rather than just sending avatars?" Alicia asks. "You might have to go in there to threaten him anyway."