Crystal escort

[Anastasia]

Baleruk eyes you and finally says, "You've grown greatly, Moore."

[Nephrite]

"It wouldn't be possible without the help of beings like you and places like Lifasa." Moore says. "But, I didn't come here to just impress you. I actually recall you and Sylvie having a conversation. I'd like to know what that was about."

[Anastasia]

Link me real quick?

[Nephrite]

http://www.soulriders.net/forum/index.php/topic,103953.msg1090663.html#msg1090663

[Anastasia]

"Sylvie in particular?" Baleruk challenges right back.

[Nephrite]

"Yes." Moore says. "I know before she left, she was likely empowered by 21 in a way none of us could've realized. I'd like to understand if the conversation you had with her after Benfal was some portend of that. I'd also like to know if you had any other conversations like that with her."

A pause.

"I'm trying to find her." He says -- then shakes his head. "No, I WILL find her."

[Anastasia]

Baleruk eyes you quietly.

"You're still hoping to see her before the end, as she'd say it," he intones.

[Nephrite]

"I am an eternal optimist." Moore confirms.

[Anastasia]

In a deep, rumbling voice, "Then you'll see her before the end." Baleruk declares, voice like rolling boulders.

[Nephrite]

He nods. "Can you tell me anything else about any talks you had with her that might help?"

[Anastasia]

There's a silence, a long one. Baleruk eyes you all the while until he slowly hisses, "She does not think she will survive and believes it is too late to turn back for her. What she has seen in...21..." Baleruk's voice has a hint of displeasure, "Has lead her to becoming absorbed in it and resigned to her fate. That what she has to do is more important than herself, now. That her entire purpose in carrying 21 was to destroy the Child of Lifasa and prepare 21 for another bearer."

Baleruk flares a wing out, "BUT KNOW THIS EDICT BY THE MIGHTY BALERUK! KNOW THAT 21 STAYED WITH HER DUE TO QUARREL AND SHE HAS INHERITED THAT DESTINY!" The words rumble heavily throughout the lair, gold coins bouncing up from the ground and rattling when they land, a chorus of golden clatter.

Then back in that same hissing whisper, "That once she saw Cantasa Alexandria it was the point of no return for her. She saw a perfect being without sin and could not turn away from a seraph. I believe she is destined to the fate of most heroes in the end: martyrdom, but there will be no paradise or eternal reward for her. Not with 21."

[Nephrite]

Moore nods along, then he smiles as he flies up to be face to eye with Baleruk, standing there within the large dragon's eye vision, looming.

"I will bring her hope she doesn't even realize she still has." Moore says, quietly. Then, "THIS I SWEAR TO THE PRISMATIC DRAGON!"

[Anastasia]

Baleruk bares his teeth at that, not that you can see it from this position. "You can and you will. I still have use for her."

[Nephrite]

"Good." Moore says. "By the way, you probably noticed, but the crime has been erased from Jaela and the others."

[Anastasia]

"As it should," Baleruk declares, "NATURALLY, FOR IT WAS THE WILL OF BALERUK!" Rearing back, Baleruk declares that loudly before, "NOW GO! GO FORTH AND ENACT MY WILL ON CREATION!"