Ahead lies the great light that...

[Anastasia]

A slight nod from Sylvie as you go, the party walking ahead.

Light. The light is growing brighter.

Incandescence.

So much radiance.

No further.

You come to a stop at words that are not words. A figure on the horizon, a figure of many wings, of many that gaze on at you. A woman seen in the glimpse of the light, "Stop. Do not come a step closer."

[Nephrite]

Is this Cantasa Alexandria or can I not tell?

[Anastasia]

It is her voice.

[Nephrite]

Moore will stop.

"You're a difficult person to learn about." Moore says with a smile. "I never gave up on learning about you. I think it's what gave me the dogged determination to find myself here in your presence today."

Moore takes a breath in. "I will not waste time with idle words: We are here for what is buried before the Empyrean Gate."

[Anastasia]

Sorry for delays, canine happens.

"You may seek it and reach it, but you will not return even if you obtain it," Cantasa Alexandria states, plainly. "Nor is she welcome here."

Sylvie merely looks on at that visage of light and wings and eyes. "It's necessary that some of us come here and I am one of them," Sylvie states. "We have been given blindfolds by Xerona that will aid us in this venture, so that we may obtain it and return."

[Nephrite]

"You know what it is, so you know that us knowing that it is there means we have been given someone's blessing." Moore says. "I would ask for that consideration while we go to retrieve it, and that the understanding be we all come under that same blessing." Moore says.

"You know I speak only the truth, as lies could not withstand even this distance from such a place." Moore adds.

[Anastasia]

Diplomacy, pixie. You said something right.

[Nephrite]

Take 10 for 120.

[Anastasia]

"You three may come. She may not," Cantasa Alexandria states, with finality. "Go further at your own risk."

[Nephrite]

Moore turns to Sylvie. "I don't expect we're going to run into much trouble, but what would you like to do?"

[Anastasia]

Sylvie finally shakes her head, "There's no prize for pressing that fight," She says at last. "I'll go back. I don't like it, but I have no illusions about what happens if she rouses herself to battle."

[Nephrite]

"I'm sure you can keep an eye on us anyway." Moore says. "Do we need to find our own way forward?" He asks.

[Nephrite]

if it wasn't clear that was directed at Cantasa Alexandria

[Anastasia]

"Go forward at your own risk," Cantasa Alexandria commands, and then is gone.

"Good luck," Sylvie says, "Just put on the blindfolds before you go further."

[Nephrite]

"The blindsense should help us avoid any real trouble." Moore says.

With that, he does put the blindfold on to see what he can actually perceive like this.