Lost in goldenfire (Jaela)

[Anastasia]

You find Origin where you last left him, the trip back unremarkable. "Not bad," he remarks on seeing them, "Not bad."

[Corwin]

"The outcome was hardly in doubt, if Lathander sent us over," Jaela muses. "Still, the details are another thing entirely. Do you know more about the embers we found and what they did to Kascha? I don't want to guess, not with something this important."

[Anastasia]

"Lathander informed me," Origin says, "As you said, he's openly interested in Aurora's progress." The golem laughs, a heavy, metallic sound. "He seems to like all of you, too. He said to tell Kascha this: She has to live up to her true name now."

[Corwin]

"Well, if we can laugh about it...." Jaela shrugs. "Wanna come along, or that we just give you a Sending when we're ready? And come to think of it, did Lathander want to send troops our way?"

[Anastasia]

Kascha reddens, "How does..." she begins, "...oh. Right." She looks down and blushes even more, wincing and falling back after. "Owwww! But how do I do that?"

"Oh, he'll take care of it somehow or another. The Dawnbringer's good at that." Origin sighs ever so slightly, a dramatic gesture, "You'll get an influx of support, expected or otherwise. As for myself, a sending is sufficient."

[Corwin]

"Glad to hear it! It'll brighten Aurora up to have his people over," Jaela says. "Where can we gate back home from?"

[Anastasia]

"This one," Origin says, fist slamming into the wall behind him. It crumbles, revealing a little recess with a swirling white portal within. "Get Kascha back to Aurora, she needs rest and time to recover."

[Corwin]

How considerate! "Lathander really is great, I think I just swooned a bit," she says with a grin, heading into the portal. "See you on the other side!"

[Ebiris]

"Even if I have to decline his offer of employment, I do think he's very nice," Afina echoes Jaela's sentiments before going through the portal. "Farewell for now, Origin."

[Anastasia]

From here you find yourself in the Positive Energy Plane, not far from Aurora's gates. The rush of life energy is invigorating without being long enough to be damaging, and soon the party is through the gates. Home!

"Infirmary," Kascha groans, "Ow!"

Go ahead and set up Kascha and deal with anything immediately related to that, then we're going to wind down this thread. More on that when we get there.

[Ebiris]

Taking Kascha to the infirmary first, Afina helps her get settled with some ice cream or other nice cold food before she goes to drop the embers, adamantine, and sun sword in the workshop for later use.

[Corwin]

After making sure that Kascha arrives at the infirmary alright, Jaela asks Mirajane to watch over her and heads off to tell Mirima and Hanna that she's back.

[Anastasia]

Very good.

What's next is a post in nagging to line up all of our odds and ends things before getting on your retaliations on Lixer. Once that's sorted out, new topics will be made as needed. For now, this topic is closed.