Mechanus Trip

[Anastasia]

Go ahead and make up and send someone, there's plenty of people so you should get close to something that lines up to your desires.

[Ebiris]

Alicia resists the urge to do something trite like sending an orphan to Emmaline so they can be surrogates to one another. Instead she chooses a young tiefling mage with a brilliant mind and lots of potential, but a rather lacking physique that he nonetheless refuses to let hold him back from the battlemagic he wishes to master for the benefit of protecting others and making the planes a safer place. Not out of any tragic backstory or anything, just out of firm morals and an unyielding belief in the goodness of the human spirit beating any stain of fiendish ancestry in his bloodline.

Orakio Chernorn may only be a teenager, but like Seira he's already a powerful one, and played a minor role in supporting the final battles for Lifasa. Inspired by what he saw of the heroes that saved that world, under Emmaline's tutelage he might even rise up to match them.

[Anastasia]

Done and done. As Alicia sets that up?

Meanwhile...

Antenora and Marie land in a thick, verdant forest. The song of birds is heavy in the air, underlaid by a gentle click-clack of gears. "Mmm, a forest and I don't sense any intelligent minds nearby," Antenora says, "How do you plan to vacation here, Marie?"

[Ebiris]

"I thought the whole point was you'd be showing me all the delightful well-regulated and orderly activities one can enjoy on Mechanus," Marie returns, having a look around. "I mean I like a nice walk in the woods as much as the next girl, but we can do that anywhere."

[Anastasia]

"I suppose I can, but that's hardly any fun for you," Antenora admits, sidelong looking over at you. "I want you to be happy, Marie. I know that if we sit there and listen to the song of the gears for hours you'll be miserably bored."

[Ebiris]

"Mmmph," Marie makes a soft little exhalation. "I was hoping we'd do those well-regulated activities and I could inject a little subversive fun into the mix, not just sit around on our bums listening to birdsong and clockwork."

[Anastasia]

"Marie," Antenora comes over and takes her hand, "Do you really want to drive Inevitables to irritation the entire vacation?"

[Ebiris]

Marie squeezes Antenora's hand. "I don't care about the inevitables, I wanted to needle you a bit though," she admits honestly, looking up at her. "Just a bit of playful mischief, see if I could make you laugh, that sort of thing. Are we really that bad at taking vacations?" she asks bluntly since nothing seems to be going to plan for either of them.

[Anastasia]

"...I think we have both failed vacation taking," Antenora says solemnly.

[Ebiris]

"Lets just go home and hole up in our room for a couple of days and not let anyone disturb us," Marie nods firmly. "If we're meant to be in Mechanus that's just as good as far as Alicia and the rest know."

[Anastasia]

Antenora matches that nod, "We'll just be quiet and keep ourselves company, personally. I'm sure we can keep each other occupied for a few days."

[Ebiris]

"Sounds like a plan!" Marie agrees, plane-shifting them back to Sylica. And how nice that she can just do that instead of having to go to Ysgard then walk in through the gate now!

Thus with her proxy and fellow deity occupying themselves, Alicia has to keep herself busy. As things are fairly quiet at the moment though she monitors how Ox is doing on Lifasa. As the subject of her competition with Auril she ought to keep an eye on him, though the lack of any desperate prayers is promising.

[Anastasia]

At the moment Ox is training, learning. Both physically and spiritually, practicing at one of your shrines.

You sense Auril's presence near him, watching as well.

[Ebiris]

Well, why not say hello? Keeping an eye on the Competition? she asks Auril.

[Anastasia]

Winter watches and waits when summer blossoms, waiting to see what shall be frozen under snow and ice.