Editing Once more with feeling/Logs/Small Group/Travelling to Denandsor/Aesin, Li, Sakura, Silveria, and Solitary Talon (in Solitary Talon's palanquin)

[[Once_more_with_feeling|Once more, with feeling!]]
==Part 1==
<font size="1">(28/09/09 12:49:39)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Scene)  Riding in the palanquin, leaving the city of Great Forks behind, the Exalts take further stock of each other and begin their conversations.</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 12:53:14)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon holds her bondmate's hands. <font color=purple>"So, Li, Sakura, exactly what have you been doing until recently?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 12:54:00)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria lounges, as she been found wanting to do a lot it seems.  She still has her reservations about the palanquin itself, but keeps such things to herself. Silent she lays theres, idly playing with a strand of hair, brushing against her lips thoughtfully.</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 12:56:04)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys> "Messing with the Deathlord who took over Nexus.  His patrols suddenly stopped responding until he started sending his deathknights out.  Before that?  Studying under the Lover in her court."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 12:57:28)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sakura)<font face=verdana> "Exploring, mostly.  Looking for unclaimed manses.  Acting as a messenger.  Working to stabilize the region politically."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 12:58:42)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys>  "And you ... you three?"</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 12:59:56)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Fighting the Mask's forces. And getting to know each other."</font> Solitary replies, deliberately leaving out exactly how they'd gotten to know each other.<br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:01:43)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sakura)<font face=verdana>  "Sounds like an exercise in frustration.  The Mask of Winters has so many dead and near-dead willing to face destruction for him ..."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:02:09)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"It was, yes."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:02:12)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Aesin)  "Yes.  Yes he does."</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:02:52)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria nods, <font color=blue>"Frustrating, infuriating, sickening, and saddening,"</font> she says absently as she she plays with that strand of hair, almost as if she is half listening.</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:03:40)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon raises an eyebrow. <font color=purple>"Silveria? Is there something the matter?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:03:41)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Aesin) (Over the Bond) Something I may aid with?  You appear distracted.</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:05:18)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria shakes her head, (OtB ^^) 'Just... thinking.'  She sits up quickly and chuckles, <font color=blue>'Something I shouldn't be doing, yes?  I'm going to get old and wrinkly fast doing so, no?'</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:05:58)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Aesin)  No, you won't.  One of the benefits of Exaltation ... eternal "youth".  At least for a few thousand years.</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:06:30)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys> *laughs*  "We make good looking corpses."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:08:14)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria tilts her head, <font color=blue>"Really?  No gray hair worrying?  No... sagging?"</font>  She smiles brightly and crosses her arms and legs, <font color=blue>"That removes a lot of worrying."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:08:51)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary snickers softly. <font color=purple>"It does, doesn't it?"</font> She smiles at the female Lunar fondly.<br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:10:44)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sakura)<font face=verdana>  "Such a morbid turn to the conversation."  She smiles, "Dare I inquire as to why, of all the cities available, Densandor was chosen as the destination?"</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:11:46)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"That's a good question, actually."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:11:46)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria raises a finger as is if she has all the answers and is teaching what she knows, <font color=blue>"Aparently it should hold a bunch of fancy toys that the Mask doesn't have.  By acquiring more toys than the enemy we might get an advantage."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:12:35)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sakura)<font face=verdana> "However, it risks attention from the Walker in Darkness, as he has been trying to claim the city for himself as well."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:13:30)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria blinks and tilts her head. <font color=blue>"Oh, well... that doesn't sound good.  Well...hmmm."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:14:14)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys>  "The Deathlords are like any other ghost:  They are cowards unless they have the overwhelming advantage.  I doubt the Walker will assault a relatively unknown group such as ourselves.  At least until he knows us better."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:14:35)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon nods in agreement.<br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:15:29)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'><font color=blue>"They really should just stay in their dark, depressing Underworld.  I never went do there to mess with their stuff."</font>  Silveria says crossly as she leans back.</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:16:27)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon snickers softly. <font color=purple>"I doubt any of us would disagree with you there."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:16:58)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys>  "The Dead hunger for what they had while alive.  And more.  They are creatures of passion.  They have useful knowledge, yet ... they don't have much to offer the living.  Outside of protection rackets."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:17:58)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Aesin)  "The Dead can offer protection, wisdom, guidance ... and it is an exchange like any other between mortals and the gods."</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:20:27)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria frowns slightly, <font color=blue>"Still I'd feel better if they were down there, doing the reincarnate thing, instead of being up here, weakening things.  Though..."</font> she sighs, <font color=blue>"I guess we don't help much in that area either."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:21:29)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sakura)<font face=verdana> *gestures towards both Solitary Talon and Ta'an Aesin*  "These Ladies have the power to help with that.  Its' innate to them."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:22:01)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon nods. <font color=purple>"I do, yes. But it requires that we kill them first."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:24:23)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sakura)<font face=verdana>  "Oh?  I would have though an animated corpse would count as already being dead."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:27:40)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'> Silveria turns to Aesin, <font color=blue>"Really?  You can put them in their place?"</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:28:14)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b>  The Zenith shrugs. <font color=purple>"They do, but the Mask's forces are not all animated corpses. Unfortunately."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:28:45)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Aesin)  "I am a priest of the unconquered sun, because of my exaltation.  I suppose I could.  Though I also happen to be an initiated priest in the ancestor cults ... so, maybe?"</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:30:21)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sakura)<font face=verdana>  "Oh?  You know the rites of the dead?"</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:30:36)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria nods at the two Zenith, somber once again. </span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:34:48)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary hugs Silveria, sensing the Lunar's worry.<br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:35:44)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria raises and eyebrow and looks to all present, <font color=blue>"So... what do you like to do, Aesin, Solitary, Li, Sakura?  I mean, I like dancing, did you know?  Pretty strange for someone who sneaks into rooms do... things."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:36:47)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary smiles softly at Silveria. <font color=purple>"You do? I'd ask for a demonstration, but I fear this might not be the best place."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:37:42)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Aesin)  "Song.  Especially someone else's singing."  (Li) <font face=fixedsys>  "Practice, practice, practice."</font>  (Sakura)<font face=verdana>  "I also enjoy dancing, and song, and singing, and most things people do for entertainment."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:38:35)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Huh. Sounds like we're an oddly well matched group, then."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:39:48)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys>  "I would hope so.  If we didn't have mutual interests of some kind, we'd drive each other mad over the years."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:41:00)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'><font color=blue>"Way too small,"</font> she says with a chuckle.  <font color=blue>"I need  a bit of room."</font>  Silveria smiles to the others, <font color=blue>"We can almost get a troupe together."</font>  She chuckles then.</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:41:49)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Oh, I'd wager we all have at least one mutual interest outside entertaining people, Li."</font> Solitary Talon says, smirking slightly.<br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:42:34)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys>  "That is less of an interest and more of a need."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:43:12)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'><font color=blue>"What do you practice?  You like it strongly, no?"</font> Silveria asks Li. </span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:43:40)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys>  "Martial Arts.  As many as I can learn."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:44:22)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'><font color=blue>"Really?  H, how many do you know?"</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:44:57)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys>  "Mortal, Terrestrial, Celestial?"</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:46:49)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria blinks in surprise, <font color=blue>"Uh well.  How many Celestial do you know?"</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:47:23)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon appears interested as well.<br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:47:23)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silvieria sits up, <font color=blue>"I myself could never get the mind and control to do Martial Arts."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:47:27)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys> *smiles*  "3.  Elegant Blood Dancer, Laughing Wounds, Lunar Hero."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:50:31)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'><font color=blue>"Nice, it bet it took long to learn them, no?  All of that work and dedication must have been trying, yes?"</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:53:43)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys>  "Not really.  They weren't easy, but its' not like they were hard either.  Most such things just come naturally to me."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:54:45)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Really? You must be lucky, then. I found the brief amount of time I spent studying them exceedingly difficult."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:55:28)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sakura)<font face=verdana> "I am certain that each of us has things that are as simple as breathing, while we struggle over other things."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:57:42)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary nods. <font color=purple>"What are those styles like, Li?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 13:57:43)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria nods, <font color=blue>"Definitely."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 14:07:40)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys> "Effective.  Blood and Dancing.  Whips and Pain.  Instinct. Though that doesn't actually answer your question.  Sorry.  Um ... one is of flowing instinct, knowing and reacting.  The other is the power of blood, of my own and others.  And the last is an exploration in the limits of what is pleasure, turning it into pain and turning it back into pleasure.  Making it just sensation that you can take as you wish it to be."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 14:12:59)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria manages a slightly impressed nod.  <font color=blue>"That's pretty impressive sounding."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 14:13:23)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sakura)<font face=verdana> *grins*  "It just lets him hit stuff better."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 14:14:02)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys>  "Well, that too.  It also lets me understand the world better."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 14:14:09)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon snickers slightly. <font color=purple>"I don't know, angel, I can see where controlling sensation might be useful. So, Li, any chance you'd be interested in teaching me this Laughing Wounds style?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 14:31:23)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys>  "I ... can.  Yes.  I don't think you will enjoy the experience, but II will do so if asked."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 14:34:59)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"I don't know, love. I've enjoyed some rather kinky experiences before. So, Silveria, what was your life like before we met in Nexus?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:43:37)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'><font color=blue>"Oh mine?"</font> She frowns, <font color=blue>"Well it... uh... interesting."</font> She chuckles, since when has an Exalted Life not become Interesting.  <font color=blue>"Anyway, my life before our meeting in Nexus was rather... uh unique."</font>  She continues. <font color=blue>"You see, I'm a troubleshooter, a self proclaimed one.  I would visit a place, weed out all sorts of problems and well destroy them.  Yes, nothing ever was hard.  Until I came back to Nexus. Lots of people have seen benefit in my sneaky, assassination skills, only a few would ever get a chance to use them.  And rarer more those that escaped me."</font> Silveria sighs, <font color=blue>"Granted I wasn't get rich quickly either, I took many jobs that well... I never took a payment from.  And then again... nothing I've done yet has further my own.... goals."</font>  She smiles though.</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:47:37)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Oh?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:47:38)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'><font color=blue>"But that's it in a nutshell.  I never do suffer much, always had a bed to sleep in, nice food to eat."</font>  She nods and looks away, <font color=blue>"Well, its really uh not something I think I should tell anyone yet.  Last time I told someone my dream, my desire, Shatar Nagi actually bent me over and whipped me a few times."</font> Silveria laughs, <font color=blue>"Old lady Shatar never did like me though."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:49:38)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Aesin)  "No one here would ever do such a thing.  Unless you asked nicely. And probably not even then.  What is your dream?"</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:50:31)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon nods. <font color=purple>"It seems to me that this 'Shatar Nagi' might need a lesson after we conquer Denandsor."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:52:03)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria looks twiddles her thumbs, <font color=blue>"Uh... well.  Its to see a Unified Creation, to ... well actually Unify it.  And to do so I thought... to use the Realm for that cause.  But... its rather difficult to do, no?"</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:53:10)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sakura)<font face=verdana>  "The Realm is rather broken, given the givens.  But if you could fix them, then fixing everyone else wouldn't be so hard."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:53:37)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"And with enough time my army should be capable of conquering the Realm for you."</font> Solitary Talon says, smiling at Silveria.<br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:54:20)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria nods, <font color=blue>"Yes, see, my thoughts exactly.  Its not like creating one from nothing.  The Realm is pretty much there, it may need a bit of work but I feel its far better than any of the other Projects the Elders use."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:54:34)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys> "I think she meant to use the Realm the way a Lunar would, as a part of the Thousand Streams, rather than just taking over."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:55:35)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Aesin)  "Lunars perforce more subtle than Solars."</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:55:54)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Really? But I liked the idea of presenting her the Scarlet Throne as a gift."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:56:13)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Aesin)  "My point, exactly."  She smiles.</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:57:01)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria smiles to Solitary warmly and looks to the others, <font color=blue>"But see before that was the method.  Find someone there to make this work, but with the Mask force's rampaging across the East... Its a little more desperate to think more than the Mask is at play here."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:57:58)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Aesin)  "With enough power, and Solar's have plenty of power, you can make even the impossible work.  Lunars approach the topic sideways, by bending the enemies power around them rather than crashing into it in an overwhelming wave."</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:58:03)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon nods.<br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:59:13)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Aesin)  She looks at Silveria.  "The things I learn from her dreams."  She smiles, blushes and manages to look serious all at once.</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:59:42)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon raises an eyebrow. <font color=purple>"Am I in any of those dreams?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 15:59:58)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria chuckles and blushes slightly as well.  <font color=blue>"Uh well."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:00:34)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sakura)<font face=verdana>  "Solitary!  Thats' a rude question.  Though worth asking, its' still rude."</font>  She laughs.</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:01:35)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Don't worry, Angel, I love you too."</font> Solitary Talon says, kissing Sakura gently.<br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:13:22)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sakura)<font face=verdana> *blushes and returns the kiss*  "Before we get distracted, we were talking with each other.  Right?"</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:17:29)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Anyway, I still want to know whether I'm in any of those dreams of yours, Silveria."</font> Solitary says, smiling at the other woman.<br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:18:29)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria squirms a bit, <font color=blue>"Some of them lately."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:19:27)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Oh? Come on, I want to hear all about it."</font> Solitary says, leaning forward eagerly.<br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:20:41)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Li watches this conversation with much amusement.</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:22:25)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Sensing her bondmate's amusement, Solitary shifts slightly, so that he can see down the top of her kimono.<br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:23:48)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'><font color=blue>"Oh nothing... major, you know."</font> She says evasively, as she leans back a bit, <font color=blue>"I don't remember those dreams all that clearly.  Y, you were there yes, and... this... and that happened in a few."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:24:40)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Li) <font face=fixedsys>  "Oh?  I've heard the best way to remember your dreams is to either live them out or write them down.  Did you want to try the former?"</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:25:18)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary nods. <font color=purple>"It's a pity, too. I was thinking maybe we could enact something of the things you were dreaming about."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:27:53)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria blushes and bites her lower lip.  <font color=blue>"Well some of that would be bad.  'T, this' and 'that' dealt with a lot of... bareness."</font>  She gets thoughtful suddenly.  <font color=blue>"Silken sheets, soft pillows, sweet perfumes... Oh and a then one of them had that Abyssal woman in it tying us up.  But uh..."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:28:45)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Abyssal woman?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:28:47)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Aesin)  *laughs at the image of the abyssal tying anyone up*</span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:29:41)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"The rest would be fairly easy to arrange, but getting hold of a specific Abyssal would be somewhat more difficult."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:30:20)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'><font color=blue>"You know that one with the ... whispy clothing.  The one that Cael seemingly has an infatuation with."</font> She chuckles.  <font color=blue>"I wonder if that darnable power of hers has infected the both of us."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:30:21)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sakura)<font face=verdana>  "But only somewhat."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:32:52)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Sounds interesting. Especially if she could get hormones going in an eleven year old. Not even Summer Fruit managed that."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:37:20)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'><font color=blue>"Well she has and odd, allure to her.  She... distracted me quite thoroughly the last time we actually passed words."</font>  Silveria blinks and frowns.  <font color=blue>"Darn it, and she promised I could use the baths. Sadly I still suspect the baths would have still be tainted."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:39:27)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Oh?"</font> Solitary Talon says. <font color=purple>"Was she as distracting as I am, light of my life?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:43:44)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria is thoughtful, <font color=blue>"You know... its wrong for me to say it, truly.  I had to restrain, I had to force, and even then it was almost not enough.  A moment or two later, had not... "</font> she shakes her head harshly. <font color=blue>"Well the outcome would have been me and about 2 or 3 Caels having some fun ... maybe."</font></span><br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:45:25)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b>  <font color=purple>"Well, I hope the four of us can more than make up for that."</font> Solitary Talon says, pulling Silveria in for a brief kiss.<br/>
<font size="1">(28/09/09 16:49:10)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style='background: #ffffff;'>Silveria smiles and enjoys the momentary kiss.</span><br/>
==Part 2==
<font size="1">(29/09/09 12:37:41)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <font color=blue>"so... hmm"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 12:39:09)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Yes, my love?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 12:42:21)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <span style color: #0000ff;'>Silveria tilts her head with that curious look of hers one could almost think she was a cat totem not a snake, <font color=blue>"Solitary dear, you have a major dream, no?"</font>  Though she is only slightly curious if she has little dreams of her, which in turn brings her to wonder of Aesin's.  She shakes her head and focuses forward.</span><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 12:44:35)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"I do, yes. Two, in fact."</font> Solitary Talon replies. <font color=purple>"The first is to seat the five of us on the Scarlet Throne, and the second is to annihilate the Mask and all his forces."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 12:46:19)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Li)  <font face=fixedsys>"I would make a poor ruler.  Good at bossing people around, but lacking the understanding to rule.  One of the reasons I don't have a project of my own;  I don't feel ready for such."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 12:51:10)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Oh?"</font> Solitary Talon asks, curious. <font color=purple>"What about you, angel?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 12:52:46)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Sakura)  <font face=verdana>"I've not started a project.  I was thinking of the Ten Tribes ..."</font>  She shrugs, <font face=verdana>"But the Realm would work.  It would be a tremendous challenge to manage all those dragon-blooded, let alone the mortal population."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 12:53:27)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"The Ten Tribes? I'm not sure I've heard of them before."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 15:56:00)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Sakura) <font face=verdana>"The Ten Tribes are a smallish group to the south and east of here.  Nothing much of interest at the moment, but it would be easy to step in and turn them into a project."</font>  She smiles, <font face=verdana>"Of course, that would take me away from here ... and I like here for the moment."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 15:56:59)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Oh, ok."</font> The Solar pauses for a moment.<font color=purple>"What exactly does turning something into a project involve?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 15:58:57)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <font color=blue>"A lot of work, a lot of patience, and a lot of hoping things go well."</font>  Silveria remarks with a frown. <font color=blue>"But then I never was a part of one, just what I understood from my former mentor."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:01:59)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Sakura)  <font face=verdana>"Power behind the throne, society shaping, introducing new habits, taboos, ideas.  Turning the people and the society into an experiment in building societies.  Ultimately so that you can take what you learned from there and go forward to make better socieities.  Halta is an example, by Silver and Rain, of a Thousand Streams project."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:03:28)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"I see."</font> Solitary Talon frowns.<font color=purple>"But would that not require you to have a definition of 'better societies' to begin with?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:04:42)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Sakura) <font face=verdana>"Yes.  A better society is one that survives conflict with other societies and with the dangers of the world.  Anything that lets a society survive makes it better.  Its' a Lunar thing."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:05:39)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Li) <font face=fixedsys>"You can blame the elders for that.  They saw society die.  So they decided to try finding a society that couldn't.  And that takes time.  They are still looking."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:06:47)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon's frown deepens.<font color=purple>"Strange. It seems to me that the only society which cannot die is one which never lived to begin with."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:08:12)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Li) <font face=fixedsys>"And there is the reason why I'm not interested."</font>  (Sakura)<font face=verdana>"There is that argument.  But they are bound to try."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:09:08)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Aesin) "Sounds more obsession than rational action.  Like scarred survivors, they want to make sure they can never be hurt again."<br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:11:08)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"It does. But I suppose they have reasons to be scarred, as they did survive the Usurpation."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:15:00)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> Silveria is silent for a moment,<font color=blue>"Which is why this cycle of things must change.  This current order isn't sound, the old order required much on the old things.  So I hope to help create a new order, one that I hope is able to defend Creation, as well as remember the mistakes of the past and endure."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:17:09)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon smiles at her lover.<font color=purple>"Oh? What do you plan to base your new order upon?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:17:44)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Sakura) <font face=verdana>"So you wish to turn the Realm into a project.  We would help yet ..."</font> (Li) <font face=fixedsys>"I don't think we have the time it would take.  There have been rumblings along the edges about a potential wyld crusade ... One has to hope they are wrong, or that our Elders are more powerful than they appear."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:20:20)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <font color=blue>"Well, yes I agree time is short, no Project can be done in that time, so we have to snag it quickly and with certainty.  I... I don't know how to break the current Realm to allow this, but... unless those Dragonblooded fools don't understand it, soon it will be only they.  So maybe there is something in that.  No one in Creation can rely on the chance that power in the realm will remain idle."</font> Silveria sighs,<font color=blue>"I just don't know... how to go about doing it."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:20:55)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon nods, sighing.<font color=purple>"I fear you are more right than you could ever know, light of my life. Actually, I just had a thought. The five of us should be powerful enough to get to the Imperial Manse, right?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:34:51)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <font color=blue>"I... I think so."</font> Silveria nods. <font color=blue>"I know very little about it myself.  Rather that it was just a powerful weapon that protected the Isle."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:36:35)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon nods.<font color=purple>"Unfortunately, Grandmother never allowed anyone in as far as I know."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:36:43)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Aesin) "Maybe.  Getting there won't be the hard part.  Getting in will."<br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:41:16)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Li) <font face=fixedsys>"Grand Mother?  So we are worried about someone very old getting in the way.  Exalted Old or Mortal Old?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:41:39)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> Silveria tilts her head curiously looking to Solitary,<font color=blue>"W, who was your Grandmam, that she would ..."</font> Silveria falls silent her thoughts drifting for a moment.<br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:42:23)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Mortal Dead. Exalted, well, are we going by Celestial standards or Terrestrial ones? And Silveria, think about it. My birth name was Mnemon Opile. My Grandmother held the Imperial Manse. Two plus two equals?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:47:37)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> Silveria nods,<font color=blue>"Yes I kinda got it half way through,"</font> she smiles softly.  She chuckles and leans back,<font color=blue>"It actually makes some sense."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:48:44)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> Solitary Talon raises an eyebrow.<font color=purple>"It does? How so?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:51:13)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Li) <font face=fixedsys>"Your hair should be red then, shouldn't it?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:52:40)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Sakura) *whacks Li on the knee* <font face=verdana>"Behave, you."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:52:49)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> Silveria gives her a side long glance and smiles, <font color=blue>"I admired your Grandmother, dad and mother thought it was quite unhealthy for me as a child."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:53:03)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"That would be more likely, Li. However, Father was a Lost Egg from the West. He had blue hair. Somehow that combined with Mother's red to give me purple. And truly? Why did they do that, Silveria?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:54:51)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> Silveria shrugs, <font color=blue>"I haven't a clue.  I never did ask."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 16:57:11)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"I see. Who were your parents, if you don't mind my asking?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 17:00:17)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> Silveria is thoughtful,<font color=blue>"Cathak Zhao and Cathak Azeala, were my parents, unexalted of course."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 17:02:06)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Oh, I see."</font> Solitary Talon thinks for a moment.<font color=purple>"Hmmm. I seem to remember one of my aunts marrying into the Cathak household. Maybe we're kissing cousins?"</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 17:02:21)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Aesin) "Literally."<br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 17:02:40)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> Silveria chuckles,<font color=blue>"Quite possibly."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 17:02:48)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Well, yes, Aesin. Where did you think the term came from?"</font> Solitary Talon says, smiling at the other Zenith.<br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 17:05:32)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b> (Aesin) "Badly written romance novels." She smiles back, "But your reason works just as well."<br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 17:06:51)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Maidens, don't remind me of those."</font> Solitary Talon moans.<font =>"I wasted far too many months on that drivel."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 17:08:02)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> Silveria chuckles softly,<font color=blue>"I suppose that means I should not attempt to find any."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 17:08:39)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"You won't. Mother destroyed them all while we were traveling to Nexus."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 17:10:08)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> <font color=blue>"Oh that's almost tragic."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 17:11:32)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Yes, well, bringing two barges filled with trashy romantic novels might not have been the best idea, in hindsight."</font><br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 17:11:53)</font> <b>Myllinnia:</b> Silveria blinks,<font color=blue>"Well uh..."</font> she nods.<br/>
<font size="1">(29/09/09 17:12:46)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b> <font color=purple>"Not all of it was mine, but still."</font><br/>