Temporal pixies

[Nephrite]

131 in that case.

[Anastasia]

Your missive is sent.

You shortly after get a reply.

Come. I will expect your presence.

[Nephrite]

Well, there's no need to keep her waiting!

Moore will let the others know where he's going and then Greater Plane Shift himself over!

I think since this isn't a divine realm there's no 'knocking,' and I seem to remember the last time you get diverted to a waiting room of sorts, so he'll just go along with whatever is customary.

[Anastasia]

In this case the Padisha is personally directing it so it's moot anyway.

You step through and appear. You appear in a stony room, a vast noise drowning all else out. Waterfalls come down from all sides in this large, circular chamber. You stand amid the center, where all about are chairs facing the waterfalls. Soft and decadent chairs, comfortable as the spray from the waterfalls causes a misty splatter to fall over everything here. Rainbows cascade behind the waterfalls, a hint of color and light mostly obscured by them, but not all the way.

Below the waters churn from the waterfalls, and deeper below where the waters at last grow still, are great rows of giant clams. Clams bigger than Hanna, truly impressive specimens.

[Nephrite]

It must be a place to come and relax for the Padisha's inner circle, or perhaps only for herself.

He won't sit in a chair since he wasn't asked to, and will merely wait politely!

The pearls in those clams must be enormous, he muses.

[Anastasia]

One of the chairs - one far from you, takes to the air and turns towards you. Here the Padisha sits, "Moore," she greets, "Sit." Her voice easily overcomes the din of the waterfalls, as if it wasn't even there to your ears.

[Nephrite]

A polite nod as he goes to take a seat!

"It is good to see you again, Padisha." Moore says simply as he takes his seat.

[Anastasia]

"You have prospered," The Padisha of the Marid agrees, "Beyond any reasonable bounds."

[Nephrite]

"I cannot disagree with that statement." Moore admits. "But I am bolstered by those who I call allies who I owe a great deal of my prosperity to."

[Anastasia]

"They have prospered, too," The Padisha agrees, "What a wondrous thing you've done. Tell me, what motivated Ao to accept all of you?"

[Nephrite]

"That, I don't think I can answer." Moore says. "But Creation always needs a little bit more hope in it."

[Anastasia]

"Creation needs many things," The Padisha banters back, "But gets vanishingly few of those hopes answered." She smiles ever so slightly and sharply, like a little knife glimpsed beneath someone's sleeve. "So you understand the curiosity."

[Nephrite]

"Of course." Moore agrees. "I can't give all the secrets away, or else they are no longer secrets." A small smile after that. "But I can likely answer your curiosities with my actions going forward. Or I hope anyway."

[Anastasia]

A wave of her hand, as if to bat away the entire subject. "So, you've been exploring old places again."

[Nephrite]

"I'm an adventurer at heart, it seems." Moore admits. "Yes, my companions and I visited Ereshin Palace and found... quite a few things in it." He says.

He will give her an explanation of the being there that was assigned there by Selune and others, the water elemental guardian of the Elemental Lord of Water Whose Name I Can't Spell, as well as the demon parasite thing. Oh, and the other guy, who I really ought to remember the species of.

Oh, also all the horrible dimensional instability.