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Black Pearl	Sometimes, words are said that change everything. Truths left hidden are uncovered, and people are forced to acknowledge them. And sometimes those truths change one's sense of self. And so Iselsi Salara comes to Amethyst's Apothecary, to see the other water-chosen, and with some very fine wine to share. Once within, her servants dismissed to a nearby cafe to enjoy themselves, she offers a smile, and for all her normal aplomb, she looks happy, almost giddy, and a bit nerveous. "Hello," she says, sounding...relaxed and open, far more so than she ever has sounded before.
Amethyst	The younger water-chosen smiles upon seeing Salara. So much has changed in the last few days, it's hard to consider everything. Quietly she wonders just how many loves she'll end up with. "Hey." She goes over, locks the door and flips the sign to closed, stretching out into her mutant fish-lady form. "I trust things are going well for you?" There's also a nervousness to her own voice. And with all of the training they did together, it's almost like her brain wants her to be all prim and proper and formal, even as Salara herself is relaxing.
Black Pearl	"So far...I...the issued a warrant to me to have someone killed. I set it up and it worked, but now Silk Lotus wants me to teach her some things," Salara says and comes over before setting the bottle down. "I may...also still be a little bit in shock from the vacation we took, and coming to terms with...everything." She licks her lips and smiles, "ANd since you already know about it all, I can be open with you," She says and reaches a hand out.
Amethyst	"Silk is pretty amazing, maybe I should train with you two sometime. Been quite a while since I've used those sorts of skills." Ametis says, and she takes Salara's hand. Mention of that vacation makes the dragon's face grow red, "It is pretty amazing, isn't it? Never imagined that I'd want to be male or even be willing. Honestly I don't even know if I ever really wanted to be female, it just, kinda happened." She rubs the back her head, ears down, "My mother changed a lot about me when we went to the wyld, and I can't remember whether making me female was her idea or mine. It's actually pretty hard to remember what things were like before then, now that I think about it..."
Black Pearl	Black Pearl chuckles a bit. "If anyone realizes I am working something offensively, something has gone horribly wrong," she says and shakes her head. But then she nods. "I...I had never guessed. But having been raised as a Dynast, I want to continue my Household. Have decendants. Just...I did not think anyone /here/ would be a suitable sire. And then..." She smiles and steps closer. "I didn't realize you felt that way towards me. I didn't think you did, and so kept myself from expressing all the feelings I had."
Amethyst	"You're the first Dragon I've ever met that seemed to regard me as a proper equal. You didn't cower or shy away from me for my mutations, hell, you came into my shop and all but demanded that I tell you about my anathema connections in that sweet, lovely way you do things." Ammie giggles and runs a hand in Salara's shoulder, "You had me in a real bind, I gotta say, till I thought of swearing an oath with you." She giggles with a little nervous laugh. "And well, I didn't initially think of you as a potential mate, but you are very attractive and someone who shares more in common with me than she might think. Far as I see, we're both in a world that we don't really belong to, and both very single-minded in what we do. And both plenty ambitious. That and the fact that I think a marriage between the two of us is the best either of us might be able to get, and it was just obvious." "Oh, and you weren't as good at hiding you feelings for me as you thought." Ammie chuckles, ears perked as she leans on Salara.
Black Pearl	Black Pearl chuckles a bit and leans back against Ametis, and reaches a hand up to stroke those ears. "I suppose I wasn't. Some of it, well...some of it is simply to play the game, to try to have /you/ have feelings for me. Then I discovered I was feeling them as well." She leans close and kisses her cheek, nothing more. "So...do you want that? To be my lover, have children with me? To be wed to each other?" She smiles and reaches out a finger to gently boop Ammy's nose.
Amethyst	Ametis gives a happy little squeak as her ears are stroked, she always loves that feeling. "Of course I do. Like I say, it even makes strategic sense. And even Rishi said she might've fallen for you, so I guess that works out Tho I do remember that actually being married to you would make me a Cynis myself, whether I'm man or woman." She returns the cheek kiss herself, giggling.
Black Pearl	Black Pearl nods. "Except you'd really be an Iselsi, but no-one else would know it, except the others of my House." She blushes a bit, "RIshi was...very affectionate and comforting. Knowing the rumors about them, and then hearing about her calling to shape bodies...I thought I might ask her for children, but I would rather have a dragon for a mate." She grins and holds close. "Cynis might be unhappy with me, but I think you will strengthen our household more than any they would choose for me. And beyond that...I don't care what they think. Not about this."
Amethyst	"And my house doesn't even know I'm alive." Ametis says, and then she pauses, "Should, should we tell them that I'm alive?" Ears middle, and she headtilts, "It may be a bit soon to do it now, but eventually we oughta say as much. Tho, if they learned about my connections with the Lunars /or/ with the Wyld, however did I forgot that dealing with the Raksha really isn't any better?" She rubs her head, "I guess I'm anathema in more than one way."
Black Pearl	Black Pearl thinks a moment. "No. We don't want them to prepare for when we go meet them," Salara says definitely. "See how things go once we are there. They may not be well happy to see you. Toss you out. Your brother might be against you," she says. "I hope not, but...it is my job to beware of the worst."
Amethyst	"Here I'd think they'd be happy to have another Scion." Ammie says, shrugging, "Shows how much I know about realm politics. And this is all assuming war doesn't break out sometime between now and whenever I go. I really don't think it'd be safe for us to go if the realm fell into civil war." "I wonder if I should just give up on my legacy, build something new. I dunno, my life has changed so much in the last year. I've gone from no one to sorceress to loving anathema to doing rituals that I'm sure they'd kill me for, to learning that my family's name wasn't struck from the ledgers and that my brother is still alive. Oh and during this whole thing I ended up calling myself 'The Silvered Dragon' for my connection with the lunars. Maybe I should take time and figure out what I actually /want/."
Black Pearl	"Indeed. I want....I want my house restored. I want to punish the others for what they did. I want an Iselsi on the throne--preferably me, but that is so long in the future..." She smiles and reaches a hand to start stroking, caressing softly. "CLoser to home...I had always wanted children. And since meeeting you, I have wanted you. ANd now I want...us. However that works out."
Amethyst	"Wanting us sounds like a good thing." Ametis agrees, "I want a place to work on miracles of the wyld in peace, and I'd like to be something more than just some weird dragon-blooded or a lunar wannabe. And moreover, I still feel like I need to prove something, though what and how remains a mystery to me."
Black Pearl	Black Pearl nods. "That...might not be the Realm. I remember hearing from cousins that it is, of course, the Pole of Earth, and is the order that is against the chaos of the Wyld..." She embraces and touches noses softly. "Maybe I should give up vengeance and tearing down...try to build things up instead...." Her eyes are soft, and she gives a smile.
Amethyst	"The pole of the earth in the Imperial Mountain. Or maybe it is the Imperial Mountain, or atop it? I'm not sure. It's also said that Pasiap lay slumbering somewhere deep beneath it. Whether that's truth or just a story, I dunno. But those of the wyld are certainly not welcome anywhere near that pole, it crushes Raksha and makes threatens their existence, and likely at least uncomfortable to the fae's offspring." "Maybe we should go somewhere and rebuild, make something new, something more beautiful than the war and chaos that will come to the Realm and eventually the rest of Creation. Build a bastion against those things where us misfits can gather and find refuge, where anathema are those who threaten Creation's existence rather than someone's power structure."
Black Pearl	Black Pearl nods. "So you might be uncomfortable, or worse, if we go to the Blessed Isle. If you want, we can make a place in the outer satrapies, but then..." She shakes her head, "I still want to make the Realm...better. And it would be easier to do that from the throne. If I give that up...it would be safer, but...smaller in scope." She sighs and just holds softly, "I don't know what the future will hold, but I know that we will be together in it. ANd that...comforts me."
Amethyst	"I'm afraid the Realm will never be better so long as the Immaculate Philosphy keeps calling every exalted except for the Dragons anathema. Especially now with the solars back." Amethyst sighs. "If we're lucky things will somehow end peacefully, but I have no doubts that these ideass, hammered into generations and generations, will not simply change overnight. I want things to be better but all I can really see is bloodshed coming in the near future. And for the first time since they first overthrew the Solars, I don't think the Dragons will win." "And unlike the Lunars, when our bloodline dies, it doesn't just come back."
Black Pearl	Black Pearl nods. "Then...we either brave the dragons' den and try to take the throne and change the Immaculate Order, or...we try to found something new. TO make it strong, a bastion...and perhaps be among the strongest dragons after the war." SHe holds close. "I don't know which would be better."
Amethyst	"For now?" Ammie grins, and all at once clings to Salara, "Let's just be happy we have each other."
Black Pearl	Black Pearl beams. "Indeed." The older dragon clings back and holds close. "But, just to be clear...that was a yes earlier when I asked about being married right?" She grins and runs her hands along your ears, and then the other inhuman features, caressing and exploring. "And whether male, female, both, or whatever..."
Amethyst	"Of course." Amethyst giggles, her scales are strong yet soft, gills that might've once served a purpose still on her neck, and her ears are oh so sensitive as always. She lazy leans her head on her love, "We're gonna find a way to make things better." She says, "Or, more likely, die trying." And she giggles again.