She lets out a happy little sigh as she sits at the table, "Did Juhi go to bed yet? I was just wondering since she slept so much today."
Asha nods. "She was feeling tired again and, seeing that it's past her bedtime, I let her go to bed."
She nods, "Understandable considering what kind of day she's had. Arista might be bringing Celine over tomorrow because I told her I'd watch her for her if she needs to go to Priroda. If Dillion doesn't have to work tomorrow I told him he could stop by if he wanted to after mid morning....and I sort of asked him to dinner tomorrow night too, over here with us if that's okay mama? I can help you again if you want me to mama...I'm sorry I asked him before checking with you first. I was getting ready to leave and it just came out."
She looks at Sadhana as the magus comes back into the chamber, "So....do you need to study it first to see how best to strike it, or do you just whack it?" Tesia asks as she wonders if the magus is gonna have another internal conversation or not. A lot of times when these things happened, or right before a battle, the magus would get the most curious look on her face. Almost as if she was having a brief, yet important conversation with someone.
Coming back down the stairs, the magus once again draws Oblivion. As she stares at the shard she hears Tesia's question , nodding slightly distractedly. "Study it for a moment."
Sādhanā guesses Oblivion might be right.
Asha smiles. "It's fine. I cook for an army these days."
Drago finsihed bathing, dried off, and headed to the bedroom, with only the towel about his waist.
She gives her mama a smile before yawning, "I guess I should go on up to bed. I have a feeling that tomorrow is going to be very busy, no matter what. Thank you mama, I love you." She says before going to her mama and giving her a hug and kiss on the cheek.
Yulia props herself up on one arm. "Well, hello there."
"Good night, Rajni," Asha says, returning the hug.
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Holding her lovingly, "It's alright, I know how you feel. You thought someone you cared for was gone, only to see them alive. The mixture of joy, anger, sorrow, it's utterly exhausting."
"Hello to you too," Drago replied as he sat on the edge of the bed by Yulia. He began to lightly rubbing his finger tips along her arm, "Is there anything I can do for you?"
"Night mama." She says before setting her boots by the door and heading upstairs. Getting up to the room she shares with Juhi she's very very quiet as she takes off her things and puts them in the dirty clothes pile. Slipping on a warm violet colored nightgown, she gets under the covers and sighs quietly as she feels the days stress start to fade away. She smiles to herself as she looks at Shamara curled up next to Juhi. She was so happy that Juhi could just be a kid now and not have to worry about things that no child should have to think about. Unable to keep her eyes open anymore she lets them close as she falls into a deep peaceful sleep.
She nods while sighing at the same time, "It really really is. With everything going on today I don't even know if I mentioned maybe going to Priroda tomorrow with Jelks? I didn't want to bother her about it today, plus I had all the shopping to do....but those people are just living in tents and if they don't get decent housing soon...they'll freeze to death and I just can't let that happen. I have to go talk to Jelks in the morning after we have breakfast and I get Celine bathed and everything. Don't worry though...if we go, Rajni said she could watch Celine for me. Had I told you about all this before? I'm sorry if I'm just repeating myself...." She trails off as she tries to slow her breathing and relax.
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"Mmm, I could use some...personal attention," Yulia says seductively.
"You hadn't mentioned yet, but given the day you've had, I'm not surprised."
"And....," Drago leaned in closer, "What sort of attention might that be?" He whispered in her ear.
"I'm sorry honey....well, at least I remembered to tell you this time before I left. I know things have been stressful...but sometimes I just feel like...I don't know, like I'm going crazy or something." She sighs again while taking comfort in his embrace. Leaning against him a little more, she wraps her arms around him and snuggles into his chest.
Yulia draws back and looks in Drago's eyes. "Surely you can figure out what I mean."
"I guess we'll... keep an eye out for anything dramatic happening?" Rhadaya says looking at Fae with a shrug.
"How did it look out there?" Fae asks.
"Hunh"Sādhanā mutters frowning.
"What's wrong?" She asks, concerned by the look on Sadhana's face.
"Not too bad, at least until we got to that weird glowing crystal shard and the odd cylindrical thing. There are bodies littered here and there, whatever Jarrah did here...she was pretty thorough." Rhadaya replies.
"Well there's traces of my essence in this shard. Proabaly the one used to bring me back....seems so long ago. I'm trying to figure out what destroying it might do." Sādhanā answers distantly.
"Oh, I have a guess," Drago responded before giving Yulia a deep, passionate kiss.
Alethiro just held her, lending her what emotional strength he could.
"It shouldn't do anything, if you're all you," Ylrhea says.
Her eyes get a little large, "Oohhhh Sadhana...." Is all she can think to say.
Yulia returns the kiss. "Good. Otherwise, I'd start to worry."
She leans close and nibbles Drago's ear.
She yawns as he holds her, "I think what I really need is some sleep. It's gonna be a long day tomorrow." She says, pulling back from him so she can get under the covers. Once in the bed she holds out her arms for him.
The Elf climbed into bed and took his wife in his arms.
"True." Sādhanā says staring at the shard for another moment. Taking a moment, she glances at her companions, her eyes settling on Ylrhea's as she gives her love a small smile. Her lips silently mouth the words 'Love you', before she turns, raising Oblivion high to deliver a powerful executioner's strike to the glowing shard.
Snuggling up to him while in his arms she smiles and lays her head back against his chest, "I love you. Let's get some rest my love." She closes her eyes as she feels comforted in his arms. Sighing softly her breathing slows down, becoming deep and steady as she falls into a peaceful slumber.
As the shard shatters, everyone in the chamber sees a swirl of grey smoke which quickly disappears.
Tesia looks at Sadhana and then the others, "Well...that was...unusual...right?"
"Yeah. That was refreshingly underwhelming." Sādhanā says with a grin.
"Sort of," Ylrhea answers.
"I wonder what that grey smoke was....that was a little weird wasn't it?" She asks as she worries about the possibility of letting something else loose on Zahvroma yet again.
"Probably an after-effect of having souls pass through the shard," Sienna guesses.
"I guess this place is safe now," Lea says. "It's another town that can be used."
She nods, "You're probably right. So...should we go see if anything is in that strange lookin' thingy? Couldn't hurt could it?" Looking between Lea and Sadhana she says, "I guess we should go see if all those bodies are still there, and if they are....what do you want to do with them? I don't think this is something that we can "fix"." She says with a slight catch to her voice.
Ylrhea looks to Sādhanā. "It's your call."
She nods in agreement with Ylrhea, "Yeah...whatever you want to do Sadhana, we'll do. Why don't we go back up and figure things out?"
The somber look returns to Sādhanā's eyes as she contemplates putting the Anizari to rest."We check to make sure there are no other survivors, check out the cylinder then deal with the dead. And funeral pyre on the beach outside the caves would be best. I don't want any possibility of some necromancer defiling them any further."
She looks around with a sigh."Once we get things cleaned up and restored, we may have a solution to our Priroda overpopulation problem. The natural heating will keep the city down here warm, and the transplants from the dark dwarf caverns that choose to stay on Zahvroma are more at home, underground. I'll run that by Arista.
She nods, "Okay, we'll do that then."
Lea nods.
She turns to head up the stairs, "Come on, let's go back upstairs and start looking again." Tesia gives Sadhana an understanding look before heading upstairs to continue with the search for survivors. Things looked pretty bleak, but she wasn't willing to give up yet.
Taking their time, they go building by building. Searching one at a time, leaving nothing to chance.