"Now would be your reunion. We'll take to back to our home to reunite with your sister, it's just a matter of how." the magus explains. "While it would take days to travel the distance, we can fly there in roughly five hours. Or I can have you there in the blink of an eye by teleportation. The choice is yours."
Tesia stands quietly by to await his decision.
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"Perhaps it would be best if we got to town and clothes immediately, " Theon responds.
"Should we just wait here while you take him back to Arista? I didn't know if you wanted to leave from here or Valwick to get to Ilneas."
"Maybe better to wait here. No point everyone traveling the whole distance just to start over, and if you move much I'll have a hard time finding you to teleport back." Sādhanā replies to Tesia.
"Actually I can help with that," Celia says turning to the other women."I can link myself and any three others telepathically for the next 2 hours or so. So you'll be able to find us anywhere on this plane and we can describe what we're seeing for you."
"Well that would work perfectly!" the magus replies.
"Not that there's much out here anyway," Sienna says. "I'm sure staying put wouldn't kill us."
Mirrin looks up in the sky and points at the floating city. "Well, what about that?"
"Okay, so that's the plan. I'll take Theon back, then head back here. If we need anything before I come back we'll be able to talk. In fact it's a good idea anyway. Tesia, you can probably communicate mentally while in another form that way!"
"I'm extremely curious to see what's up there too, but not sure the detour would be the best idea with what we need to get done." Rhadaya says looking up at the floating city.
Tesia waves a hand, "That's just those serpent guys floating city. You know, the ones we have a nonagression treaty with? We don't need to go there. We'll be waiting here for you when you get back." She says in way of explanation.
"Ah right!" Rhadaya replies.
"So I'll link myself, Sādhanā, Tesia, and one other person. Cyna, Sienna, either of you have a preference?" she asks the longer standing members of the group.
Sienna shakes her head. "Not really."
Seeing that Cyna didn't have a comment either, Celia opts to make the connection with Sienna. The ranger seemed less likely to welcome the presence of another in her mind.
Completing her spell, she reaches out to connect to each of their minds.
"Alright, here we go." Sādhanā says resting a hand on Theon's shoulder as she incants her spell, tracing arcane gestures in the air. "Be back soon." she says before they vanish with a soft boom as air rushes to fill the void.
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Cyna appears confused. "Non-Aggression Treaty? Wait, how did I miss that?"
She kind of shrugs, "A lot has happened since then, and it was a while ago. When we went to find Clara and the others, and had to deal with that crazy sand stuff in the keep? We were fighting all those snake guys, who were pretty tough, and their leader agreed to let us finish our task there, in return for leaving them alone. It's okay not to remember every little thing."
"Yeah, I was somewhere else at the time," Sienna says.
Magestreia goes over to sit on a rock while waiting for Sadhana to return.
Celia sits down as well. "So how are you adjusting to....things?" the healer asks.
Magestreia shrugs. "It hasn't been too difficult aside from the visit to the Anizari."
Tesia finds a place for them to sit and wait where she can hold Rhy in her lap.
"Ah..sorry, that was probably rather awkward wasn't it?" Celia replies after a moment of thought. "The same inherent drive that draws us to each other is stronger toward "foreign" sisters...likely a means of ensuring our bloodlines remain strong."
Smiling, Rhadaya goes over to where her wife sits, settling into her lap and leaning into her as they wait.
Tesia just smiles and wraps her arms around Rhy before kissing her forehead.
Magestreia shrugs again. "I didn't have experiences like that as a dragon, but they tend to live solitary lives. Mating was merely a necessity. Few dragons find romance amongst their kind."
Mirrin keeps an eye on the floating city while the others talk.
Tesia looks over at Magestreia with an expression of curiosity on her face, "Didn't you ever get lonely? I mean...I guess you wouldn't if you were used to it. Maybe it's just because I couldn't imagine living my life alone now...but I would think it would be a very lonely existence."
"No, not really," Magestreia says. "I had other things to occupy my time."
She nods, "Well...I guess if you live a really long time you can kinda do whatever you want."
"Dragons mature much more slowly than other races," Magestreia explains. "I'm over a hundred years old and I'm barely into adulthood."
Her expression darkens. "The oldest of us have lived over a thousand years and people whose lives end much sooner think that we should be hunted for sport."
She sighs. "But I'm not a dragon anymore...I won't live another hundred years."
She shakes her head, "I'm sorry...people can be jerks. I don't think anyone should be hunted for sport. I mean...some battles are inevitable...but, I don't think anyone should have the right to hunt other creatures or beings just because they think it's entertaining to do so...or because they can. I...I'm sorry, I guess it's not my place to say. I haven't always made the best decisions when it comes to other people anyways....and I wasn't always a good person...." She gets quiet then, not wanting to bring down the mood after having succeeded in doing something so wonderful for one of their own.
She didn't mean to bring up that stuff now...even though she never explained herself to them after what happened with that ass Basir. That was old news now though wasn't it? Did they really need to know why she reacted the way she did? Did she really need to bring up those awful memories again?
She shakes her head to try and clear it before looking away.
Mirrin turns to look at Tesia. "I'm sure we all weren't 'good' people."
"Eh, I was sort of a good person."
She kind of shrugs, not sure of how to explain what's going on inside her head. She never was very good at explaining things.
She sighs and looks down, "I...I guess it doesn't matter if it's in the past. It's just...sometimes it feels like things happen and I just...I don't know. I probably sound stupid...it's just stupid. You just think that sometimes things are behind you, but then they creep up on you when least expected and sometimes it might cause someone to react badly to a situation. Like I said, it's probably just stupid."
Mirrin crosses her arms. "It's probably not stupid. At least, that's what Arista would say."
Sienna glances at Mirrin. "She'd be more supportive and cheery than that."
She shakes her head, wishing now that she had just kept her mouth shut. With Rhy on her lap she puts her head on her love's shoulder to kind of hide her face behind her, "I'm sorry....I didn't mean...it's nothing." Not knowing how to say it, she just forces herself to shut her mouth. This was not the time.
She sighs a little while hiding behind her wife, "Why can't I just be quiet?" She mutters to herself. She really didn't mean to bring anything up.
Kissing her love's head she rubs her hand along her arm comfortingly. "It's alright love, she has a point. I definitely stopped being a good person at some point, but that's what brought me to Valwick, wanting to start over. We're all in some way proof that you're more than the things that happen to you, or the people that hurt you, or who your parents are." she says looking around at the other women as she speaks. "We choose who we are and what we want to be, it's the reason each of us is here after all."
She nods, "Yeah...I know what you're all saying. I'm sorry...I didn't mean to be a downer. Sometimes I guess things just have a way of sneaking in on ya when you least expect it." Taking her wife's hand she gives it a gentle kiss, "Thank you, I love you."
"I love you too sweetheart. Forever and always." Rhadaya answers with a loving smile.
Tesia returns the smile, giving her wife a light squeeze before pulling out the book she was reading the other night. Opening it up to where she left off, Tesia continues her reading while they wait for Sadhana return.
Tesia tilts her head to the side as she puts her book away. We are here aznd ready whenever you are. Let's go see a lady about a tablet....or whatever it is we're looking for. She thinks towards Sadhana so the magus can lock in on them.
Celia looks around the area, focusing on the visual of where they are to give Sādhanā a solid visual of where they are. 'Ready when you are.'
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With one last glance in the direction of home, the magus blows a kiss into the air, before uttering the incantation and gestures that would take her across the distance instantaneously.
With the pop of a light pressure wave, the magus appears in the middle of the group.