Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

Crystal, excited, follows.
A bit hesitant, I follow as well.

 

"You seem smarter than that dragon bitch, I'm sure you can figure it out." Aquira says, sounding like she actually has some hope for Emerald.

Shadow Stephanie summons a black umbrella to shade herself from the harsh sunlight as she ascends the volcano, a bit of a path formed from previous people's trips. She occasionally glances back to check on you and Crystal to make sure you haven't fallen.

 

"I could bring in an Earth Guardian to tell you that the gold's real. Would that make you a bit kinder towards us?" Emerald asks, looking ready to teleport.

 

"You really think getting someone to verify gold is gold is going to make me bend over backwards in aplogising to you and that and begging for yours and thats forgiveness?" Aquira asks.

 

We haven't.
Crystal's doing fine, enjoying the heat and the volcano itself.
I, on the other hand, have taken my scarf and wrapped it around my waist, as well as taken my shirt off and am holding it above myself for the shade. Interestingly, my chest bears no hair and no nipples.

 

"Your order to fire almost killed Katie. Xlentia's shield kept her alive. Your blind rage is why you're where you are now. If you would've let her talk - just let her tell you what she felt was more important than your order for her to stay inside - you would be sailing home with your daughter and three tons of gold." Emerald says. "Unless you want a trial. Except your mentality suggests you would like to avoid your fate being held by shadows if possible."

 

Shadow Stephanie doesn't seem to mind much, that, or she simply doesn't care.

Shadow Stephanie waits for you at the top of the volcano once she reaches it, and when you reach the top, you can see a set of stairs sticking out from the inner edge of the volcano leading down to a house built into it.

"Don't fall. You'll die." Shadow Stephanie advises.

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"You should get into writing. You're great at fiction." Aquira says spitefully, having lost all patience with Emerald.

 

Crystal looks down inside anyways, mostly at any lava.
"Thanks."
I say, waiting for Shadow Stephanie to lead.

 

"I run a library, and actually, I've been writing everything you say into a children's storybook in five hundred and thirty-nine languages."
Emerald opens a visuals-only portal to the library, a wall of books being scribbled and thousands of draconians, guardians, and humans reading - and laughing - at the story as it's being written.
"I'd love you to stay longer. If I'm great at fiction, you're the new bestseller." She taunts.

 

The magma appears to be a fair distance below the house, though falling in would most certainly be deadly.

Shadow Stephanie walks down the steps toward the house, before knocking on the door.

"Coming!" Abigail shouts from inside, before answering the door.

"Oh, hey Stephanie! And...Thirteen and Crystal!" Abigail says happily.

"Hey. Thirteen and Crystal said they needed your help for something." Shadow Stephanie says.

 

"If you don't mind,-"
"We need help fixing a starmap!"
Crystal beats me to it, excited.

 

"Strange, you know, I wonder why my daughter didn't mention you, but mentioned someone called 'Sapphire' when she was explaining what she did here to me." Aquira says, her eyes showing that Emerald probably made a new enemy.

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"A starmap? Uh...jeez, what's broken about it?" Abigail asks, a little intimidated.

 

"Sapphire gets to travel. I'm stuck in the library." Emerald sighs, longing.

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Virei'tus appears near Katie, an urgent look on his face.
"I need you to calm down Xlentia. Aquira got stuck in her chambers and pissed her off." He says, straight and to the point.

 

Crystal seems too stumped on this to respond quickly.
"We're not engineers, so we wouldn't know except for the fact that it looks like a starmap, it doesn't work, and it's on a crashed ship that's been crashed for a few years."

 

Aquira mumbles something, smirking.


"That's where mum is!?" Katie asks, shocked.

"I'll give it my best shot, then." Abigail says, somewhat nervously.

 

Emerald opts to forcefully mind read Aquira's thought.


"Yes. Hurry, we have no time!" He urges, opening a light-rimmed portal.

 

"Yay!"
"In that case, we'll need to head back to Xelentia's palace. One of the portals in the portal room leads to the ship."

 

"Where you belong." Aquira's mind reads.


Katie seems a little nervous, before running through the portal.

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"Sounds simple enough." Abigail says, looking at Shadow Stephanie.

Shadow Stephanie opens a dark portal next to her, and Abigail steps through. Shadow Stephanie glances at you and Crystal, as if to usher you in.

 

Virei'tus brings Katie up to the ceiling of the palace, an irritated Emerald flying next to a caged Aquira.

"I tire of your insults. You are not higher than a god!" She barks.
"Emerald, I did not tell you to do this. Mortal or not, you cannot threaten to kill her over rudeness alone!" Virei'tus says flatly.
Emerald looks furious before leaving.

 

We go in, and I look around to see where it leads.