The assault on Salty Pier

[Nephrite]

That's... not... a lot to go on.

Moore blinks and rubs his chin for a moment. "Well, that's... admittedly not the best starting point, but it doesn't mean it's impossible. Anything else you can remember, Sun?"

[Anastasia]

Jetina hmms at that as Xandra merely watches, calm.

"She seemed...resigned, in a way," He finally says. "Like she accepted something was coming."

[Nephrite]

I know it's a long shot, but that didn't match anyone from Aurora, right?

[Anastasia]

Blonde hair and resigned at the end matches Sylvie, you'd think.

[Nephrite]

For some reason I always thought she had brown hair...

Moore blinks.

Then he blinks again.

"...I know who it is." Moore says, a look -- resignation turned into conviction on his own face. "...And I know where she is, too. Now, the hard part of getting there..."

[Anastasia]

Jetina looks up, "Who is it?"

Meanwhile your host merely nods, "I thought you might. It felt like the sort of thing I was meant to reveal to you when the time was right."

[Nephrite]

"You remember Sylvie, right?" Moore asks over the table.

"Near the end of the battle for Lifasa, she... vanished. I'm pretty sure I know why and where." Moore explains, though his face has the marked look of concern. "But maybe now's the right time that I can finally get to where she is." He furrows his brow as he looks at his stew. "The trouble is, I probably have to overcome anathemic knowledge before I can remember how to get there..."



Before we go too further, would Moore be aware that 21 was made by the Incarnations to study good and evil? I feel like that must've come up at some point in his conversations with Sylvie.

[Anastasia]

http://www.soulriders.net/forum/index.php/topic,103836.msg1074724.html#msg1074724

Here. In case you want to review and revise. If not, let me know and I'll line.

[Nephrite]

Nope, that jives with my memory, I just wanted to make sure he knew that and I wasn't just from me cheating by reading the Guardian of 21 conversation.

[Anastasia]

Jetina sits back, stirring her soup as she considers that. "I remember her. She looked so detached during the battle for Lifasa. Like she was doing something that had to be done, it got worse as the battle went on."

[Nephrite]

Moore nods. "She herself has..." He looks up and over at Sun's Rise, pointedly. "...a heavy destiny on her shoulders." He leans back for a moment, his hand on his chin. "...Hm. All right. Now that I know that... I know what the next step is. Sun, if you'd ever like to come visit me in Lunia, you're more than welcome. If you ever need anything yourself, don't be a stranger."

[Anastasia]

Your host merely takes that gaze, unblinking. "I will," he says, "Like many things here, it'll happen if the time is right. It was right for you to find me twice. We may indeed meet a third time."

[Nephrite]

Moore lets out a breath, almost exasperated but not quite, more like humored.

"Would that I could be so sure of everything the way you all are around here." Moore just smiles as he pushes away from the table and offers a bow. "Thank you, the food was delicious. But you knew that." A laugh afterwards.

"There's one place that I think I need to go to figure this out... who's up for a trip to a library?" Moore asks.

[Anastasia]

"The question is which library," Xandra speaks up now.

"Yeah, which one?" Jetina asks, going and having a few more spoonfuls before pushing her bowl away.

[Nephrite]

"Well, we're already in Venya, aren't we?" Moore says with a smile. "I think that's the best one for us to use, unless directed by someone or something to try somewhere else."