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Sādhanā frowns slightly. "Hmm...this was built by druids. It's like it drained my magic and turned it into a divine form of it, better than nothing but it's still not what it needs." she says turning to Tesia and Rhadaya. "Given that it didn't reach to Arista's touch, it's not just divine magic but natural magic that runs it." she says giving them time to let her words sink in.
"I still think we should deal with the shard first," Ylrhea says. "If it does the same thing to Tesia, we're doubly screwed instead of kinda screwed."
"I agree. I'd rather we took care of whatever threats might lie below before we did anything that might put anyone else in danger." the magus says with a nod.
"Let's get back to Cyna and her...family," Ylrhea says. "I'm still getting used to her not being alone...well, she wasn't alone with Sienna. Damn it, you know what I mean."
"It can't be a coincidence that I ended up here right as you and your friends arrived. What is this place?" Fae asks.
"It's a tower that can protect a large area of land from magic and monsters I guess." Cyna shrugs. "I know it's powerful and important enough that until recently it was held by an evil wizard and some devils." She explains.
She swallows and nods, "Shard and other dangers first, then we'll deal with this." She says nodding towards the contraption as butterflies flit about in her stomach. Taking Rhy's hand she asks the others, "Maybe we should take the statues with us and seal this room again? Just until we destroy the shard?"
"Sounds reasonable," Ylrhea says.
"Absolutely. The last thing we need is one of the keytons getting in and setting some kind of nasty trap when we use it later. No unnecessary risks" Rhadaya says emphatically as she squeezes Tes' hand reassuringly and glances up at her.
This was all happening so fast and again no one was explaining anything and her head felt so dizzy. Taking a breath she tries to process what Sadhana is getting at. Putting her hands up as she tries to slow things down she looks at her family, "So....so we're just gonna let Tesia experiment with it and see what happens to her? How....what if...."
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She nods her head at Rhy and sighs as Arista seems to be coming undone again. Giving Rhy's hand a light return squeeze she pats it before letting go and walking over to the emotionally unstable Aasimar. Putting a hand lightly on her arm she says authoritatively but kindly, "Arista...it's alright, you're not alone and none of us are dealing with this on our own. I will be just fine, but right now I need you to pull it together because we have a job to do and you need to keep a level head. You spend far too much time assuming things and worrying so much about other people that you ignore your own needs. Right now honey we need to stop thinking so far ahead of ourselves and just deal with the here and now. Okay? Now....we are going to leave this room and take the statues to keep the nasties out like Rhy said, and then we are gonna rejoin with the others and kick some serious evil Ass before we completely annihilate that shard. Then we will deal with everything else....deal? We will all do everything we can to make sure everyone stays safe, you are not the only one responsible for our safety. You don't have to carry that burden alone anymore. So...are you ready to come with us then?" She asks as she offers Arista her hand. She had no idea if the warpriestess would take it or not, but at least she could offer it.
"Ok let's get back to the girls and head to the lower levels." Sādhanā says with a nod of agreement. Smiling at Ylrhea she winks. "I know what you mean."
"Glad someone does," Ylrhea says with a slight chuckle.
"Always."
For possibly the first time in a long time she is stunned into almost complete silence as Tesia cuts off her thoughts with her words. She didn't have much time to stand around and ponder things because she knew that time was running out, for a lot of things. It was strange having someone talk to her that way and it kind of snapped her out of it a little bit. She stares at them for a minute or so with her mouth slightly open as she tries to form a response. Shaking her head to try and clear it she looks around at everyone before looking back at Tesia. Taking a second or two to close her eyes and clear her thoughts she takes a breath before slowly reaching out with her hand to take Tesia's. She nods her head slowly, "Y..yeah, okay...I'm ready I guess." There were still things that confused her, but she pushed them to the back of her mind for now. She couldn't afford to be distracted by idle thoughts.
Leaving the ancient chamber and grabbing the figurines, the door closes and the majority of the group rejoins the three tieflings below.
Taking Arista's hand and leading her back to her husband she pats the warpriestess on the back, "Good girl." Looking at Alethiro she says, "Here you go, you two go on ahead. We'll be right behind you once Sadhana gets these things and we seal this room. I'm sure you might like a second or two to talk." She says shaking her head as she walks back to Rhadaya, "Alright, let's get out of here and get ready to get this party started."
As they head back to the others she looks at Alethiro, "Tesia is right...we probably need to talk, but not right now. There's just too much going on and I don't think I can really vocalize my thoughts right now....but once we're home and things are semi normal again...we really need to talk." She says as she tries to plaster on at least half of a smile before they reach Cyna, Lea, and Fae.
"Anything happen?" Lea asks as the others return.
She nods while shrugging slightly, "Yeah....kinda." She says with a glance in Sadhana's direction. "It's all a bit over my head though...." She gets quiet again.
Alethiro looked at his wife, ”Once we’re home, we will.” Giving her a loving peck on the cheek, he followed her down to the three Tieflings.
"It seems that the....machines that power the tower's defenses runs off of magic. Druidic magic specifically. Foundry that out the hard way when I tried to activate it and it drained every single arcane spell out of my mind. It was enough to start it up but nowhere near what it needs. Figures since it was built by druids." Sādhanā replies to the question.
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"So we go kick some ass now?" Lea asks hopefully.
Cyna smiles. "Couldn't have said it better myself." She turns to her twin, unarmored and weaponless. "You should wait here until it's over."
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"She can follow behind us, Cyna," Lea says. "Alethiro can watch her since Arista doesn't let him fight."
Fae nods mostly in agreement with Lea. "I can help!" She insists.
She blushes, the metallic tone of her skin darkening from her cheeks almost up to her ears. She shrugs slightly as she wasn't sure exactly what to say to that. She didn't mean to make it seem that way, it was just that he didn't have the experience that they had and these things were dangerous and she didn't want him getting hurt. Though she wondered how much attention he would actually pay to the tiefling and if he would truly watch out for her since he couldn't even seem bothered to pay attention to his own wife. She sighs inwardly as she wonders if he told her what he did on their way downstairs just to pacify her or blow her off in a way because that's exactly what it felt like. Whether he realized it or not, the way he was treating her made her feel like he took her love for granted and that was the worse feeling of all.
Pushing her own feelings and thoughts back down she looks from Cyna, Lea, and Fae to Alethiro and nods, "It would be alright with you honey wouldn't it? Since you stay in the back and offer support, she could stay back there with you right? You'll keep her safe right?" She asks as she looks into his eyes with her own emerald green ones.
She looks at Fae and remembers that kind of enthusiasm from her youth and chuckles slightly, "Alright...alright Fae, as long as it's alright with your sister. Everyone who is going needs to gather round though for another dose of this wand. We are going to take precautions to make sure that this fight goes well and that we're as safe as possible. I'll also need anyone's weapons that can't change them to silver so that I can do this spell on them like last time."
She waits for everyone to gather around and then uses the wand of Protection from Law on them. She likewise takes everyone's weapons as she did before and causes them to radiate with an aura of good. Once done with those preparations she says, "Now we're ready to go kick some evil ass." She says smiling at everyone around her, she really was very lucky to have such friends....well, family really. They were her friends as well....but more importantly they were her family and she would do anything for any one of them, for all of them.
"Alethiro is armored and has his spells." Cyna responds.
She shakes her head in disbelief. "I don't see how Fae, you look like a mild breeze will topple you over."
"Yeah, I'd rather not leave anyone behind in case a kyton runs off," Ylrhea says.
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Fae huffs at her overprotective look alike. She closes her eyes and chants a blessing with an angelic tone very much unfitting of a Tiefling. She crosses her arms at the magic takes effect. "I'm not as useless as you seem to think."
Arista nods her head in agreement with Ylrhea, "Cyna...I really think she'll be safer with us. At least we can all look out for her if she's with us, if one of those things got past us....there would be no one with her to protect her from it. She doesn't have to be in the fight and Alethiro can make sure she's safe. We wouldn't let anything happen to your family Cyna...not after you just found them." She says reassuringly to her sister.
Tesia smiles as they all witness the power of a determined sibling to do her part to help them, "That was pretty awesome Fae....so, where did you learn to do that?" She asks before realizing that they needed to hurry, "Oh well...we can talk later, I really think we ought to get going before these spells wear off. Don't all of you think so?" She says looking around, clearly impressed by Fae's abilities.
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"She's like us," Lea laughs. "No breeze could ever topple us."
Arista goes to Fae and pats her on the shoulder, "No one is saying any such thing, are we Cyna....we just want to make sure that you're safe, that's all. We've all been through quite a bit and Cyna just wants to make sure you're safe, I would feel the same way if you were my sister and I just found you after everything we've been through." She gives her a smile before looking back up, "Alright, let's do this thing." She says as she heads for the stairs going down.
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Cyna throws her hands up in defeat. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean it like that."
She sighs. "At least take my armor I don't want to explain to our parents why I let you walk into battle without any if something happens."
Tesia runs after Arista and stops her before she actually walks down the stairs, "Whoa there girl, hold your horses. Let's wait for everyone to be ready and then Ylrhea and I will go first to make sure they didn't lay out any nasty traps for us, you, Rhy and Sadhana can follow directly behind us with our ranged and caster people behind you all. Sound fair?"
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Fae blinks in surprise. "Our... parents?" She asks all too quietly as Cyna slips the chain carefully over Fae's horns.
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She sighs as she rolls her eyes slightly, "Fine....we'll do it that way as long as that's okay with everyone else. I just wanna get this over with." She says, her voice tinged with a bit of anxiety as well as sounding a bit pouty.
Cyna glances as the group makes their final preparations. "We can catch up later." She says with a smile and another embrace.
The ranger casts a spell on herself to make up for her own lightened defenses.
"C'mon, Tesia, let's head down," the gnome says, taking the lead and looking out for trouble.