Temporal pixies

[Nephrite]

Give me a minute. Or a few minutes. It's a big turtle.

I assume he can just use Miracle or Wish for Earth Glide to swim through the sand, which is technically rocks... or something like that, anyway.

[Anastasia]

Sure, you could work something out there.

[Nephrite]

Then Moore will glide out to meet up with the rest and follow the... mouth stairs, apparently.

[Anastasia]

The turtle isn't moving, but it is breathing. Its mouth is wide open, stairs seen within to go further in. Your companions await here, Cresiel falling into position once you emerge.

Sylvie waits with crossed arms, "The dragon turtle fell on you, didn't it?"

[Nephrite]

"I couldn't exactly teleport myself out of the way." Moore says, as if that explanation is sufficient. "It all worked out, anyway."

Onward, and into the stairs!

[Anastasia]

Cresiel's expression is utterly unamused.

"Later," Jetina cuts in before Cresiel say open his mouth.

Down the stairs you go. Down and down and down and down. It comes into a stone chamber with a large pool of clear water that stretches over a mile deep, no bottom in sight.

[Nephrite]

"I've kind of lost track of where we even are relative to this place anymore." Moore says as he peers into the pool. "I suppose we're being invited in."

[Anastasia]

Lady Sanzha adds with a slight smirk, "It's hardly good form to swim inside of an elemental, Moore. Even if this one is skilled at camouflage."

A split second later the waters surge up, a vast and bald head of water forming before your eyes.

[Nephrite]

"I've really got to be faster on the uptake." Moore admits. He turns his attention to the bald head.

"I would hear your explanation for attacking me." He says, firmly, but with no malice.

[Anastasia]

Sylvie waits, cautious and in a ready stance.

Jetina smiles, "It's a misunderstanding, we can talk about it?"

Gurgling words of Aquan follows. "I serve Istishia, I am commanded to protect this pool now and forever."

[Nephrite]

"That doesn't really answer my question." Moore says. "How long have you been here?"

[Anastasia]

"I do not count the years," Is the answer, "What is it you seek here?"

[Nephrite]

Rather rude!

"If we can fix what is broken, dimensionally, here, then I think we should." Moore says. "But we originally came here for a piece of an artifact - one that is hidden in this place, one of four parts. It looks like a fragment of a wheel." He explains.

[Anastasia]

"It will be in the Padisha's Treasury, where the master of this place lairs," Is the answer you get.

[Nephrite]

"If you know how to do get there, please tell us." Moore says. "If they're a key piece in setting this place right and resolving the problems here, we will deal with them."