Beastland wanderings

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa smiles, "Yep."

Alyssa looks at the workers, "Alihana didn't say stop."

She turns back to Alihana, "So, how are things? Where's mom and papa?"

[Anastasia]

Your words get them moving, if many eyes are still on you. "T-they're...home, I think," she says, voice small. "Y-you..." she manages, weak.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa bumps her with her hip, "Yeah, I know. Let's go find them and have this conversation all at once."

[Anastasia]

Alihana follows, eyes wide as they can be. "You're..." she says, "It's so much more now." Her voice is soft, radiant with shock. "Are...are you really Alyssa?"

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa snorts and pulls her along, "You just said it, so much more. I'm still me, just more. We'll get through all that with mom and dad all at once."

[Anastasia]

In a daze Alihana follows you - and soon enough you're home. Father and Mother are there - as is another. Shaundakul is there, feet up as he sits in front of the hearthfire. He drinks from a mug of ale you overhear him say as you enter, "There she is," he says. "It's not such a long road to here for her, now."

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa smiles at Shaundakul and nods, before giving her parents a hug.

"So! This is going to be a strange conversation for everyone. Has our new friend properly introduced himself?"

[Anastasia]

"Yes," Mother is calm, not a bit of panic. "He explained everything moments ago."

Shaundakul turns towards you, feet down as he finishes off his drink. Once done, "Go on. I came to lay protections here - the wicked have even more reason to find this place and take your parents for their own advantage."

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa nods, "Well then, that makes this a bit shorter of a conversation. Mom, papa, sis... I'm a fully fledged Goddess now. Well, a Demi-Goddess, one of the lowest in power, but... well, there it is. I know you have lots of questions, but the core of it is this... I'm still me. There's just... More of me, so to speak. The ideals I always strove for are less goals now and more of what makes me, me. Like, in the same way a courageous person doesn't just strive for courage, they are courageous. Learning things, seeking stories and new places... Those are less things I want to do like before, and more... Things that define who and what I am."

[Anastasia]

"It's like who you are and what you are are the same thing now?" Father asks after some thought.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa nods, "Yes, exactly that. Like my goals and dreams become less things that I attain and things that I am. But, at the end of the day, I'm the daughter of a blacksmith and a seamstress, and a sister, still."

[Anastasia]

Your answer is a hug from your mother.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa smiles and returns it, waiving the others to join in.

[Anastasia]

Thus amid hugs and family, you...

Next move? There's going to be a Shaundakul interrupt, just wanna know what your aims are here.

[Iron Dragoon]

Well, need to sort out what's gonna happen with the demi-plane, then I imagine there's going to be new divinity/cleric stuff? But for actual adventuring, need money to make gear and stuff, though I am toying with the idea of going back and smacking that eye around.