Knowledge shall lead the...

[Corwin]

"That's our enemy," Seira says quietly. "She doesn't yell in anger, or break thing. She's not intimidating, not in the usual sense. But Shar always tries to have you give into despair. She's like you to think that you're only prolonging the inevitable...."

She projects a massive image of Ysgard over the Silver Sea. "She lies."

In the projection, demons rush and are defeated by Sylica's forces, as Alicia faces off against Emmaline, flanked by Antenora and Latha. The image is sanitized to a great degree given Seira's intended audience, and that's before considering the fact that she needs to take artistic license due to only getting the highlights of the failed invasion.

"Shar convinced that poor woman that she had no one left, no one at all in the world except Shar herself, and that the best way forward was to deal the same sort of pain to others. But Shar was lying, for Alicia managed to reach Emmaline and gave her a better future."

The image changes to a scene of Sylica after Emmaline takes Alicia's offered hand, and the new setting contrasts the clashes of combat and bloodshed with its peacefulness. "Shar had taken her family and pretended to care, trying to twist her mind the way she does to everyone. But even at such times, you may be able to save these people by reaching out to them. That's why, when I'm teaching you girls, I not only focus on the combat to make sure you're safe and sound, but on history, ethics and a slew of other subjects. Because winning hearts and minds is just as important as triumph in battle."

[Anastasia]

Emily watches on carefully, clinging to you before she says, "Okay...but I'm scared. I don't want Mommy Amaryl to go away."

Xera watches calmer, cooler. "Because Shar's bad. She makes good people go away."

[Corwin]

Seira brushes Emily's hair with her hand gently.

"And your mother and I help good people where we can. So do our friends. We watch out for each other, too."

[Anastasia]

A sniffle, "So you won't go anywhere, promise?"

[Corwin]

"I'm traveling a lot. But I won't go and stay gone, that's a promise!"

[Anastasia]

You get a hug back at that, no other response needed.

[Corwin]

Ideas on where to proceed? Seira asks in Donald and Ranbar's minds. They can pray back to answer without disturbing the girls!

[Anastasia]

'I don't have a clue,' Ranbar admits, 'Do you?'

'Yeah, I got this.' Donald says. 'This is a test, both to set right what went wrong and to be able to let those two go to where they're supposed to be. Return them in the right place to stop this chain of disaster, Seira.'

[Corwin]

The room where we first saw Emily and Xera here?

[Anastasia]

Donald hums, 'That or the one with Antenora. Xera didn't vanish from the story when we took her, and Emily didn't right away, either.'

[Corwin]

"Girls?" Seira speaks up, kneeling again to look her daughters in the eye. "I think this is when time resumes its course. Like in my story, remember? Before it happens, I want to be sure that you keep it in mind and tell your mother and our friends everything, alright? Even if you think they already heard it."

[Anastasia]

Emily nods to that.

"Promise, Mommy," Xera seconds, meeting your look.

[Corwin]

"Good. That's good." Seira takes a breath, and then transports them to her chambers. If the first location is the right one, then they can be with their parents. Was that how her father had felt, when she-- no, this is the best for them. Emily and Xera are loved by their parents in any universe.

[Anastasia]

The transport is easy enough. All that awaits is to do something.

[Corwin]

It must be intuitive, Seira decides, and her divine power follows her wishes to send the children back to their family where they will live happily ever after in spite of Shar's best efforts!