Yulia enjoys her meal with Drago, her mind a little less burdened.
Hadrinn comes by the Milocathe's table. "All finished or do you have room for a little dessert?"
"As far as I can tell the vessel is undamaged. Should we touch it?" She asks as her curiosity is peeked by the strange ship.
She looks at Celine for a moment. While it was true that she could probably handle dessert, she wasn't sure how much longer Celine would be able to stay awake, "I'd love something sweet to polish off that lovely meal, but we should probably get little Miss back home and ready for bed." She says with an affectionate smile towards Celine.
Hadrinn smiles and nods. "That'll be eight silver for dinner."
"I don't know about that," Sienna says. "There might be someone...or something in there."
She looks at Sadhana, "What do you think? What should we do with it?"
She smiles and hands Hadrinn a gold, "Could you please give the change to Nyder? He's a wonderful server."
Hadrinn nods. "I will."
She smiles, "Thank you Hadrinn, everything was delicious." She says as she gets Celine's coat and starts putting it on their sleepy daughter. "Come on Celine baby, help mommy get your coat on so we can go home." Celine yawns, but holds her arms out to help her mommy get her coat on.
Once Arista gets her coat on she wraps the scarf around Celine's neck and tugs on her gloves, "Okay baby, now as soon as daddy and I get our stuff on we can go home." Celine nods her head before laying it on the table. Kissing the top of her head, Arista gets her own winter things on and as soon as Alethiro is ready she picks up Celine and stops by Esme and Mirrin's table, "Have a good dinner you two, I'll see you both tomorrow evening okay? I really need to get Celine home now." She says as Celine lays her head on her shoulder and closes her eyes.
Esme nods.
"Enjoy your evening," Mirrin says.
She gives them a smile and nods as well, "You two enjoy yours as well." She says before they leave Hadrinn's and head home. Getting outside she shifts Celine to her side and holds her close to her as they head home in the cold night air, she was glad that she had gotten them the warmer winter wear.
"Well last time I touched something ancient and weird we got Arista." Sādhanā says with irony."At the same time I don't want to unleash some forgotten horror into the world either."
She thinks for a moment, "Is there anyone with us that can detect evil? Maybe if we could determine if it was evil or not that would help us decide what to do."
"I think we left her with Celia," Ylrhea chuckles.
"Well....one of them should be able shouldn't they? Think one of us should go ask?"
"I can quickly fly back and take Fae's place with Celia and have her come down here." Rhadaya suggests, looking at Tes and Sādhanā.
She nods, "You would be the fastest one....but when you get back to them just ask which of them can detect evil, or if they can detect evil. Just let them know what we need and be careful love." She says as she gives her a light kiss on the cheek.
"I will honey." Rhadaya says leaning her head against her wife for a moment before taking off in a rush of wind, rapidly flying towards the cells.
Her protective warrior nature wanted to ask more. What did these mercenaries look like? Where did they come from? Where did they go? A thousand questions to produce a target deserving of retribution.....but this was not the time for such things.
"I'm glad you at least had the time that you did, but I'm sorry that you had to lose someone you loved." she says softly
Looking at her eidolon she asks, "Is it terribly cramped for you Gyo?"
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A thought occurs to her and she looks over at Sadhana, "You said you touched something and got Arista? What does that mean? I know she can be a little hard headed....but I wouldn't call her a horror exactly." She says as she's confused by Sadhana's comments.
Once they finish dinner she gazes up at Dillon lovingly, "So....do you want to go for a little walk before going home, or are you tired and ready to get some sleep?" She didn't want to make him feel like he had to go on a walk with her if she was tired, even though she'd deal with the cold to spend a little extra time with him before going back home.
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"Nope definitely not a horror." Sādhanā says with a smile. "So unlike many of us, Arista is a native daughter of Zahvroma.... the Zahvroma that existed long before most of us were born. When we first began destroying these shards, after destroying one of them, I found Arista. Turns out she was here centuries ago when the shards originally fell from the sky and was trapped in stasis in one of them until destroying the shard freed her." the magus says, giving her words a few moments to sink in. "Consider waking up in a world vaguely similar and yet nothing like the one you knew. Most of us have lost people, but imagine losing everyone and everything you've ever known, your whole world really, in what to you felt like the blink of an eye."
Rhadaya finds Celia, Fae and the others where they left them.
"We can take a little walk," Dillon says, getting up. "Thank you for dinner, Asha."
Asha nods as she and Priya start cleaning up.
She shakes her head as she tries to process everything the magus told her, "I can't....I can't even begin to imagine what waking up to that might have been like for her. Any idea how long she had been trapped in there?" Suddenly a lot of Arista's seemingly erratic behavior started to make sense.
"A bit over five hundred years as best we could piece together." Sādhanā replies.
Getting up from the table she goes to her mother and aunt and gives them each a hug and a kiss on the cheek, "Thank you for dinner, it was wonderful as always. I won't be gone too long." She says before getting her heavy hooded cloak on and putting on her warm winter boots.
Dillon offers Rajni his arm as soon as they are ready.
Her eyes get a little large as she's surprised by how long the young Aasimar had been kept asleep as her world changed around her, "Wow....that's....that's a really long time. I'm sure you all were very understanding though and gave her time to deal with what happened. I can't even imagine how devastating that must have been....it actually explains a lot about her....except....I always thought that women from that long ago were more....I don't know...demure? You know...most likely to be at home cooking in the hearth or mending socks and clothes...she just doesn't seem that way for being from such a long time ago. She's definitely one of kind." She thinks for a moment, "Hey...doesn't she actually have family here in Valwick? If so that's at least something isn't it? At least she didn't lose absolutely everyone...though they probably weren't around in her time...so those people....all of her family....her friends....just gone." It's a bit much for Tesia to think about and finds herself leaning against one of the walls in the chamber as she tries to wrap her mind around someone being that far out of their own time.
Taking his arm she smiles up at him as they head outside into the brisk air.
"That was a nice dinner," Dillon says. "You certainly have a full house now."
She nods, "Yeah....Toni said the Paladins are gonna get started on the extension tomorrow though. So, they'll have some more room soon. I know it's quite a few people, but mama always seems to make room for everyone. Once we're married and I move in with you, Juhi will still have the room that we share. Hopefully they'll get the extension done quickly and then they'll have plenty of room." She says as they head towards the beach.
Dillon nods, enjoying this private time with Rajni.
"What happened?" Fae asks after seeing only Rhadaya return.