All That Glitters

[Anastasia]

...Save for a single sigil, your sigil, over the heart.

"Let this protect me until the end," Cresiel vows, taking the chain shirt and putting it on.

"Good look and good hunting," Raliel bids you, "I've ran into Sharrans a few times - be careful. They're all tenacious monsters."

[Nephrite]

"I'll tell you about our fight with Taelfagn some other time, Raliel." Moore says and offers a bow.

"Thank you very much for all of this. I'll return once our mission is complete." He turns to Cresiel at that. "Do you mind if we visit someone on our way back down? It's been some time and I promised I'd see them again, so I'd like to make good on that."

[Anastasia]

"I don't mind at all," Cresiel says, adjusting his newly bolstered gear, "Who is it?"

[Nephrite]

"Do you remember Xandra? The one you helped me find before -- she helped point us to Yggdrassil." Moore explains.

[Anastasia]

Gimme a link to her section real quick, Moore?

[Nephrite]

Here you go

[Anastasia]

Your trip there is uneventful. The same stone building is there, awaiting you without anything obviously different as before.

[Nephrite]

"I did expect it to be a -little- different." Moore admits as he flies in.

[Anastasia]

"Oh?" Cresiel asks as he flies in with you.

[Nephrite]

"I don't know, I guess I expect things to change a little bit around here every now and again to represent the progress that people have made with their various steps towards higher tiers." Moore says.

Oh, he ought to visit the others he met while he's out and about. Maybe after this mission is done, then.

[Anastasia]

The chimes are the same, but the music they play is different. It is a sound of discordant notes and faraway flues, reedy and distant.

The same child awaits you, gaze on you even as you enter. "Welcome again, Duke of Songs."

[Nephrite]

"Xandra, it's good to see you again." Moore says. "I wanted to stop back in and see how you were doing and share a few songs with you that I'd learned in my time away."

[Anastasia]

"Do you hear it?" Xandra asks back, "The music of the outer spheres is restless. Melodies to make them whole are harder and harder to manage in recent times. Are they afraid of Chronias? I know not, but the light shines ever brighter. Do you see it, Moore?"

Not yet.

"...no, you do not. Not yet," Xandra continues, "Yet his soul is free. The poison is drained from him. All is not lost and much is well."

[Nephrite]

He looks off the side like he's listening to something for a moment. "I'm working on that." He says with a smile. "Seeing, hearing, remembering... all things I can do better."

A pause, as if to listen the chimes for a moment. "You may or may not know, but I'm on a bit of a mission. I have a base at in Lunia, if you're... er... allowed to leave, you're more than welcome there anytime. I wanted to at least come back in and see you to make sure you were well."

[Anastasia]

Xandra is silent a moment. Not yet. He is not yet ready.

After that moment she merely nods, "I will go with you," she says, "If that is what you will."