Gold rush

[Anastasia]

Xandra falls in with you, "Sylvie's tongue would be acidic if let you go wandering by yourself."

[Nephrite]

"Are we so worried I'll be accosted in Celestia?" Moore asks as he rises further.

[Anastasia]

"Not at all," Xandra admits, "But is it prudent to risk Sylvie having a reason to say she told us so?"

[Nephrite]

"I'm glad she got the opportunity she deserves." Moore says as they continue up. "I know if she could she'd do everything the same again, because she felt it was necessary and wouldn't want anyone else burdened with her destiny. Even so... I don't think she'd ever express that she wanted to be saved."

[Anastasia]

"She never would," Xandra mentions, "What a curious friend you made with her, and perhaps you were the one person who could have saved her."

[Nephrite]

"I cheated a little bit." Moore says as they go. "Since I met her after everything, I didn't have anyone to know except 'the person chained to 21,' so it became a real focus for my attention there. I'm just... glad that it was another example of having hope and never giving it up." He says. "I think it's what helped me when we were Out There and all that... ...other stuff happened."

[Anastasia]

"That's a poetic way to say your stubbornness saved you," Xandra quips as you ascend further into the light.

[Nephrite]

"Perseverance and stubbornness are more or less the same thing." Moore replies with a smile as they go.

[Anastasia]

Give me a Charisma check here, pixie.

[Nephrite]

[15:12] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+36+16
[15:12] <Kobot> Nephrite rolled 1d20+36+16 --> [ 1d20=15 ]{67}

[Anastasia]

You wander a little time, in the light. Higher and higher. When you come out you are on Mertion, the 5th layer of Celestia. Below you is a quiet farm, small and sized for just a few people.

[Nephrite]

"I've always had a thought," Moore says as he starts to descend, "That these are just representations of things - ideas and so on - and aren't really farms, or whatever it is I perceive."

[Anastasia]

"Oh?" Xandra asks, "Why wouldn't you find farms here?"

[Nephrite]

"Because Celestia is a place where you'd think that sort of thing just... happens. Food just... appears, you know?" He says with a smile. "I actually - honestly - didn't realize until I came here a while ago that so much food was produced here and in Venya."

[Anastasia]

"In truth, spirits don't need food. In truth," Xandra gestures, "You could merely seek food and find it. It's not about the food, Moore. It's about the effort and the life you make." Her arm sweeps out, to encompass all the farm.