Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

"Hey!" Katie says happily.

"You must be Xephyr, the draconian my daughter was talking about. My name's Sidus, it's nice to meet you." Sidus says, offering a handshake.

 

Xephyr accepts the handshake.
"Yes, it's nice to meet you too, Sidus!"

Eklir hesitates.
"...This is going to be a shitty two weeks."

 

"You'll live. In fact, that's the entire point."
I finish, turning to Aral'hrah.
"I feel like I should talk to the other two tribes."

 

"My name's Aquira, I'm Katie's mother." Aquira says happily, offering a handshake too.

"I believe you wanted to talk to us about caring for your child?" Sidus asks.

 

"Do we have the time?"

"Nice to meet you too, Aquira. Yes, I was wondering if you'd be willing to take care of my child. See... I'm a few millennia over my life expectancy, so my day will come sooner over later. I was wondering that, when that day comes, if you'd be willing to keep an eye on them. It's strange, but... due to my circumstances, my child will be born the moment I die. I'm looking for good parents for them."

 

"Well, raising Katie was a wonderful experience," Aquira says, ruffling Katie's hair, "I don't see why we couldn't raise another child, as we're both still young and able."

"It's quite an honour to be considered worthy of looking after someone else's child, and I promise you my wife and I will do our best to raise them properly." Sidus says happily.

 

"Really? Oh, thank you so much! But... I do want you to keep one thing in mind; this won't just be any old child. See... they'll retain my memories. And the memories of those before me. Magic techniques, manners -hopefully-, and any combat skills. Do you think you can handle all that?" Xephyr asks.

 

"We have two weeks."

 

"Look, I'd love to agree, but I don't even know where their borders are anymore. They've been pushed so far out into the lowlands, I don't know if they even would recognize us."

 

"Wouldn't it still be necessary for them to understand what's going on? Or are they really that far away?"

 

"Well, that'll make potty training much easier to teach!" Aquira says happily, laughing lightly.

"I am sure we'll be able to manage. We've raised Katie from having no knowledge other than instict, so raising a child with your memories should be much easier." Sidus says, smiling.

 

"Look, so right now we're on the highlands, right?" Aral'hrah says, drawing a rough roundish shape with a line sticking out one edge. "This ramp is the safe way down to the lowlands..." He says, pointing to the line. "...and the last recorded defeat that the other two tribes met..."
He walks four body lengths, or about eight times the length of the highlands, then marks a cross.
"...is about here."

"That should be fine, then! Just... watch out. The young me didn't like things that weren't made of ice. My grandmother was raised as a princess and then a queen in a palace of ice. I... and my mother... sort of didn't lose her habit of trying to freeze things we don't like. And by things, I mean everything."
Pause.
"And I have the ability to freeze anything to a standstill, even light."

 

"Point taken."

 

"I'm not saying they're dead to me... but due to time constraints, the best we could do is to send some runners to go over and tell them 'we're working on throwing something together, just thought you should know' at this point."

 

"Well, you know everything around here better than I do, so it's your call."

 

"Well, you've probably chosen the best people for the task of raising a child who loves ice and freezing things." Sidus says, spinning his hands as an ice double trident forms in them. The trident snaps in half, and Sidus flicks the two halves into cutlasses, before bringing them together to form an icy fish. Aquira surrounds herself in water which freezes to ice, before simply stepping out of the ice like there's nothing there.

Katie smiles at her parents.

 

Xephyr freezes a makeshift scepter before tapping it on the shore, revealing an old regal scepter with some kind of insignia on the handle.
"Give my child this when you first meet them. It will be their clue that they can trust you, and not try to fight their way to the realization." She says, holding out the scepter.

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"Do you think it's worth a couple weeks to send someone to let them know something's in development?"

 

"If it'll take that long, not really."

 

Then it's something we can do later. Unless, someone where you come from can make the trip in a shorter time, at least."

 

"Certainly, there is. I can go ask him, but I don't know how fast he flies compared to how fast you lot run. Although, it is a lot faster."