Ahead lies...?

[Anastasia]

"Just...get Afina or Sylvie or someone we know, okay?" she finally says, "I know them and I trust them." With a small sniffle, "If you can get them."

[Nephrite]

"All right." Moore says. "I'll see what I can do."

[Anastasia]

Elena smiles faintly and is gone once more.

[Nephrite]

I'm, OOC, not really sure of the ramifications of asking Afina to help with this. Moore would be happy to ask her to come help IC and then assist with the whole thing, but I leave it in your hands how to adjudicate all of that.

[Anastasia]

I ran it by Eb and we agreed that it's best not to have Afina cameo as run by Eb. So if you invoke her it'll mostly be handwaved so she has minimum on screen time and is instead an offscreen force of terror asset.

[Nephrite]

He doesn't really have a lot of other options at present, so yes, he would indeed Break Glass in case of emergency.

[Anastasia]

It turns out Afina can spare the time and comes forth, diving right into it. Once she's at it Xandra adds, "Will we stay now?"

[Nephrite]

"I'd be a bad friend if I didn't help however I can." Moore says.

Intent will be to give the +21 worth of bonuses to ensure everything goes as well as it can.

[Anastasia]

It takes time and effort, but sure enough with Afina being the third piece, the cube is completed. It sits before you now, the enchantments finished and bound together.

[Nephrite]

Nothing to do now except... use it?

...

...How does it...

"Elena, do you just absorb this?" He asks aloud.

[Anastasia]

"Allow me," Morniel's voice, approaching, "It has to be used by the Celestial Key. Stay there, Elena will know when it's activated."

[Nephrite]

"The what?" Moore asks. "You know what, I probably don't need to know."

[Anastasia]

"It was before our times," Morniel agrees, taking the cube and off. Soon enough Elena flickers several times before she lets out, "Aaaaah!" and falls to the ground. "Ow," she murmurs.

There's just one thing - she looks solid now, not ghostly in the least.

[Nephrite]

Moore reaches out to poke her in the shoulder.

Experimentally.

[Anastasia]

It's a solid shoulder. Very fleshy as you'd expect.