Ammon simply stood in an out of the way corner, and stayed quiet.
Alethiro waved back as he headed home.
Despite what had happened, having Yulia with him certainly made it easier.
Yulia opens the door to their house and shakes the snow off her cloak. "I'm glad to be home."
When Alethiro gets home, he finds Arista in the middle of a cleaning and reorganizing frenzy.
"Everything alright?" He asked as he hung up his cloak.
"As am I," Drago said as he removed his cloak, "Care for a foot massage?"
She kind of stops for a moment with a strange look on her face, "Honestly honey.....I don't know."
The Elf grew a little concerned. Coming to her side, he gently took her hand, "What happened? Is Celine alright?"
She nods as she relays everything that happened that morning, "So...the good news is we all have new winter attire to help us stay warm, and Rajni will watch Celine for me any time I need to take care of stuff....but....but I have no idea what happened to Mirrin....I just...I don't know. Well...I did have a thought...but it's just bad and I don't understand why she would do something like that." She says as she tries to keep her emotions in check while talking a little more softly to keep Celine from hearing everything.
Yulia shakes her head. "I could use a lie down on the couch though for a few minutes."
She shakes her head, "After how many times we've gotten onto her for not telling us stuff...we need to tell her. If we didn't it wouldn't be fair and it would look like we made up one set of rules for her while doing whatever we want." She sighs a little and looks at Sadhana while holding Rhy's hand, "Should you and I go talk to her, or would that look like we were ganging up on her. I'm okay with telling her....but I really think we should suggest in a kind supportive way that she should maybe just stay home and take it easy. She doesn't need to be out in this weather....and who knows, she's been home for a little bit now....maybe with all the craziness yesterday she'll want to stay home?" She asks with a hint of hopefulness to her voice.
"I'll do it. Maybe take Ylrhea with me, you've been doing a lot lately and you're more tan a little stressed right now." Sadhana says looking at Tesia.
She nods, "Okay....that's probably for the best."
Ylrhea nods silently.
Cyna turns to Sienna and says. "This shouldn't take too long. I'll be back in a bit."
"Alright," Sienna says.
"Fair enough," Drago responded as he guided her to the couch and sat down.
Gently putting his arms about his wife, giving her as much support as he could.
Her energy spent between all the running around and cleaning she gratefully leans into him and lets him hold her. Arista didn't want to believe that Mirrin had ended her own life.....but the more she thought about their conversation, the drunk with her things and what he said about finding them on the beach, what the sailors told her....there weren't many other conclusions she could come to. Especially after finding out about her relation to Straubs creation. She should have seen it....why didn't she realize what Mirrin meant to do sooner, why couldn't she stop her? Why couldn't she save her? If she couldn't even save one person....how could she expect to save anyone else? Her heart filled with regret and grief she holds onto him and just cries.
"Okay, while you all go meet Fae, we'll head over to Arista and Alethiro's." Sādhanā says to the others.
She nods, "Okay, we'll see you in a little bit then." She says.
Alethiro just let her cry, she needed a release and he understood that need perfectly.
"Mind if I tag along?" Ammon asked.
Looking at him as tears stream down her face she says, "Why...why couldn't I see it? She was right here....why couldn't I stop her?"
Sādhanā hesitates for a moment. She didn't want Ammon to feel excluded, as she was sure he still felt like an outsider, but he seemed to have missed the discussion on why they were the only ones going to Arista's.
"I think this might be a bit delicate, it's why we're the ones going to talk to Arista. That way she doesn't have to feel like she's hosting too many people. We've both shared more with her than just about anyone else so there's a certain ease there. Why don't you stick with Celia and we'll be back with the rest of you soon."
"I'll be happy to show you around, and answer any questions Ammon." Celia volunteers.
"As you direct." Ammon replied to Sādhanā slipping back into his old habits. Despite Cassym's influence, he was still a Shield Brother, and that was something that was not going away soon.
Pulling her cloak back on, Sādhanā takes Ylrhea's hand as they head back out into the snowy streets, heading to Arista's home to update her and Alethiro.
She had been trying to be good and stay in her room, but she didn't like to hear mommy crying. Putting away her toys she goes into the living room to see Daddy holding mommy....but he wasn't saying anything. Why was she crying? Why wasn't he saying anything? She goes to mommy and wraps her arms around her legs, "Mommy crying? Don't cry mommy, I love you...don't cry. I good girl, don't cry." She didn't understand why mommy was crying, but it better not be because of daddy. Looking up at him she squeezes between them and pushes at him, "My mommy. No make my mommy cry." She says as she wraps her legs around her mommy's legs, and while grabbing onto mommy's shirt, she just climbs up her side and into her arms. Wrapping her legs around her waist for support she uses her little hands to wipe the tears off mommy's face before kissing her, "I love you, it's okay mommy....don't cry." She tells her a little more softly as she hugs her.
Shocked for a moment at Celine's strength and dexterity she just stands there for a moment before she hugs her back, "I'm sorry baby...mommy is just a little sad right now. You are a good girl and I love you too. Daddy didn't make me sad so be nice."
She nods her head, "Okay mommy." Looking over her shoulder at daddy she says, "Sorry daddy."
She nods, "That's better. Thank you Celine...now loosen up your grip, you're hurting my tummy Celine. You're holding me too tight." Looking at Alethiro she says, "I'm sorry honey, I'm sure she didn't mean it. I guess she's just really attached to me and doesn't like it when I'm upset." She wipes her face again as she fights to regain control of her feelings.
"I suppose I'll loiter around here until you get back," Magestreia says.
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"You're more than welcome to," Sienna says. "I'm sure at some point we'll form two or three teams and have less of this going on."
"What do you mean by 'this'?" Magestreia asks the tiefling.
"The whole coordinating with others and having to gather them up," Sienna says. "Our group has gotten rather unwieldy as of late."
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"But isn't having an army handy?"
"Sometimes..."
Tesia goes with Rhy and Cyna to talk to Fae.
Yulia reclines on the couch with a sigh. "So any idea what you'd like to do now that you're not a summoner?"
"To be perfectly honest, I have absolutely no idea. When I first became a full Summoner, I lost my connection to my original abilities. But now......now I feel completely empty. Not soulless or anything like that, but just devoid of any power of any sort. Does that make sense?"
Yulia nods.
"What do you think?"
"Even though you don't have that power, isn't there something you want to do to help the Summoners?" Yulia asks. "Or are you ready to settle into a quiet life?"
Taking a quick walk through town towards Arista's house, Sādhanā heads up the walkway with Ylrhea, knocking on the door once they're there.
Hearing the door she wipes her face again and goes to answer the door with Celine on her hip, "Oh....Sadhana...Ylrhea...what are you doing here?" She asks as she opens the door a little wider and steps back, "Come on in out of the cold guys."
"You have 'cry face'," Ylrhea points out. "What's going on?"
She sighs and puts Celine down, "Celine go play in your room sweetie." Celine looks up at her mommy, "Okay...no crying mommy...no crying." She looks suspiciously at Sadhana and Ylrhea before turning and going back to her room. She hoped they weren't here to take away her mommy again.
Arista goes to the couch and sits down, "I think Mirrin...I think she might have drowned herself." She says before telling them about her conversation with Mirrin earlier, then finding out she was somehow related to the Anizari that Straub had turned into his plaything and what the drunk and sailor had told her and the reason for her conclusion.
Nodding Sādhanā stamps the snow off her boots walking in and immediately looking to see if anything was wrong with either Alethiro or Celene.
At Arista's revelation the magus gets a striken expression as she plays back in her head, seeing Mirrin earlier that morning at Hadrinn's. If she'd said something to her then, approached her. She'd taken it upon herself to save the Anizari, and so far she'd let Jarrah go, set free an ancient evil that threatened the world they were assigned to protect from the beginning, and failed to help a sister in despair. One whom she could have at least let know that her loved one had been freed from the necromancer's control.
So far she'd offered them nothing but failure. Some leader.