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Rishi	Despite being a large building sitting in the middle of the frozen forest, the airy many arched hall that makes up the main floor of Rishi's magical mansion feels surprisingly comfy and cosy. The divans and couches are simply divine and the food, while simple, is plentiful and nourishing. The company is also pleasant. Well, normally anyway. The tall bewinged healer Rishi is normally a quite relaxed person and a decent conversationalist and not terrible at board games. However, when dealing with a troublesome patient...well, not all the stories of the Lunar Anathema are untrue or unearned. "You were being bitten by a ghost! You are staying here for the night untill we are being sure that you are not going to be dying from the Ghost Rabies! So, you may be relaxing here or you may be tied to the bed, it is being your choice!"
Amethyst	"I don't think there's such a thing as Ghost Rabies! And those were hungry ghosts, not zombies. I'll be fine." The fae-dragon complains, "But I guess I'll rest here. But I bet you couldn't tie me up if you wanted too." The last bit was said with a smirk. Amethyst is not the most easy-going patient, especially when she wants to go and do things. And her eyes are a lot clearer now after her time in the shadowland and almost as far from the wyld as she could get. And there's clearly something on her mind, but she hasn't yet spoken it. "I mean, what would you even use to tie me up?"
Rishi	Rishi simply looks at her, one set of arms crossed over her chest, her other set on her hips, then she whistles a strange little trill that carries oddly. A few feet away the air ripples, threads of essence weaving through the air until a dog sized spider with strange markings appears from nowhere. "Yes, Mistress," it chitters "And what will you be wanting today? I have an idea for a fetching ensemble-" Rishi cuts the spider off with a wave of her hand, then looks directly into Ammy's eyes. "If Ammy is leaving that couch before dawn tomorrow without my express permission, you are to be hunting her down, cocooning her, and bringing her back to this couch as carefully as you can."
Amethyst	Amethyst looks smug, then less smug, and Rishi can slowly see her ears going from pointed up to pointed down. "O-oh. Uh, I see." She sinks into the couch, "May I have permission to at least wander your lovely home here?" She knows she's been outwitted.
Rishi	"You are to be resting Ammy! If you are wanting something, I can be bringing it. If you are wishing the more comfortable couch, we can be moving you. If you are hungry, I can be feeding you. I have books that I can be reading do you. Whatever you are wanting, I will be helping you with, so long as you are lying there and doing the resting!" She deflates a bit, instead looking very concerned. "You are being the creature of the Wyld and of Creation. You were not reacting well to the Land of the Shadows. I cleaned and treated your wounds most thoroughly, but, if I missed the toxin or the disease...such a thing could be taking root in your body and literally tear you apart, your Dragon granted hardiness nonwithstanding! I am not letting you go until I am being most certain that you are being in the tipitty tip of the tip top shapes." "Besides, you are needing the sleep for the other reasons."
Amethyst	Amethyst also deflates, her tattoos momentarily grow much brighter at the mention of being of both wyld and creation, but then Ammie gets them back under control. "Ya know, I was thinking about that the other day. I'm anathema in many different ways. First for associating with Lunars, second for doing a ritual that granted me shapeshifting, third for my heretical beliefs, and fourth because, well, the wyld has a tug on me that I now wonder about. Those of the wyld have often actually been Creation's enemies too." "What does that make me, then, a child of creation and of the wyld?" Amethyst asks with her eyes wide.
Rishi	"It is making you who you are." She raises a perfect eyebrow. "Are you planning to be going out into the Wyld to be raising the army to be destroying all of the Creation?" She shakes her head. "I am thinking the no, just as I am not planning to be rasing the army of the bat kin and leading them forth to be destroying your Realm, like your people are being thinking that all of my kind are spending their time doing." She sighs. "Who you are is being most important, not where you are being from or how you were being born."
Amethyst	Amethyst nods, but her eyes are still soft, "What have I been, Rishi? What kind of person am I? What have I actually /done/ for me rather than for trying to fit in somewhere or doing for someone else? I've done incredible things, but I think I've done them all just to be like someone or something I idolized."
Rishi	Rishi sinks down next to Ammy's couch and puts her arms around the young dragon. "First, if I was thinking even for the moment that the body I was helping you to gain was not fitting *you*, I would be wanting to be talking to you more. So, again who you are, is being you. And, if it is ever *not* being you, then we can be changing you once more." "Second, liking what other people are the doing is how you are learning what you are liking. It is not being bad that seeing others doing 'the cool shit' is inspiring you, it is just being you." "Third... I am knowing exactly where I am coming from. When I was being Chosen, I was given the divine mission to be helping the people. I am having no questions about my life and I am being quite happy with you and Frosty and Pearly." She grins lasciviously. "Oftimes many, many times of the night." She sobers. "But you... You are still having many of the questions about your past, many things you are needing to see, many answers you are needing, before you can be knowing exactly who you are being, I think."
Amethyst	The young dragon clings to her love, "Thank you Rishi. Maybe one day I'll know exactly who and what I want to be. But maybe I should remember that it's been barely a year since I've drawn my second breath." "I need to talk to my mother and find out the reasons for why they didn't give me the full tattoos like they should've. I need to go to the realm to see what has become of my brother and my family there, see if any legacy is left for me or if I am better off without them. I'd like to know why a lunar saw fit to kill all of my aunts and uncles and any other brothers and sisters and close cousins of mine, but I fear I'll never know the reasons why." "Once you told me that I need to choose, to be Peleps Yim Ametis, daughter of a broken household, to be Yim Amethyst who's come to have a fortune of her own through her own diligence, or to be Amethyst the Silver Dragon, beloved of two lunars." "What if I told you that I might have a way that I /could/ be all of those?"
Rishi	"I am being sorry for telling you that you must be choosing between those. If you are feeling like all of those are fitting you or you are wanting to be trying them on like the different outfits and seeing which is fitting the best, that is your choice." Rishi cocks her head to the side, here long dark hair swaying behind her. "Oh?"
Amethyst	"I read a story about a dragon who once went around doing things that very much would have had them hunted down." Amethyst says, "Who used a terrifying mask to hide themselves, vanishing into it like a thief into a shadow. And so I went digging, and found a technique of sorts that allows one to almost completely change their identity through the power of a single mask." "I can be Peleps Yim Ametis in this shape, a disgraced household living beyond the fringes of the Threshold. But in a truer shape, I can /be/ the Silver Dragon, who works to, do something. Haven't yet nailed down what exactly I want to be in that sort of... persona? But it's something to consider." "Of course if I go to the realm and my family wants nothing to do with me, that makes things much easier. But the mask is still a good idea if I want to be known publicly as the Silver Dragoness to protect myself and thsoe I love."
Rishi	Rishi still has her head tilted, considering. "I am working on doing something most similar, so I am thinking it could be a most good idea. Though..." she sighs "I am still being sorry for both of us that it is being necessary."
Amethyst	"If we do it right." Amethyst muses, "Maybe one day we can help create a world where it isn't necessary. I'd love to see Lunar, Solar, and Dragon working side by side against the true enemies of Creation." "Just one other thing's on my mind then." Ammie starts, "When I went into the shadowland, obviously the wyld half of me very most protested. But even now that I'm back, I feel like my thoughts and feelings are a lot clearer, like, something that's usually there just kinda isn't." "Is this what it's like to feel sober?" The young dragon asks.
Rishi	Rishi smiles. "Yes such a world would be most nice." Then she frowns. "Perhaps. Though, if you are feeling like you are missing something, I should be checking you again." Rishi starts poking and prodding her, taking a blood sample, while her face goes more animalistic as her senses flare, and so on.
Rishi	Rishi is poking and prodding Ammy, scenting her, taking a small sample of her blood, and while she does this her castemark flares to life on her forehead. After a few moments, she frowns, and closes her eyes, tilts her head, and sends a bit of essence running through Ammy's chakras. After a second, it causes something like mist to rise from Ammy's skin and she breathes it all in as her anima flares further. Ammy can see Rishi thinking hard as she scents this. Finally her eyes fly open. "Ah. I am seeing."
Amethyst	"Rishi I think I'm fine." Amethyst says in mild protest as she goes along with everything Rishi is doing. She knows if she doesn't she'll just be cacooned and Rishi will do it anyway. But then there's essence surged through her and it illuminates her tattoos with a glowing blue for just a moment as the nightwitch's silvery esence flows through her. Amethyst sits upright and middles out her ears, looking a little concerned about what it is that Rishi must've noticed to do such things, but she does not speak, instead letting the fleshweaving healer go about her thoughts undisturbed.
Rishi	Rishi pushes Ammy back down onto the couch. "You are still needing your resting, so please be staying lying down. As for what I am sensing... You are missing a sliver from your soul. It is not being much, you likely were losing it in the Wyld, but being in the Land of Shadows stopped the Wyld from flowing into it, so you are noticing it now." f Rishi frowns "I am...not yet being practiced at the healing of the mind and soul, but I am sure that we can be finding the remidy for this. If you are wishing to. It is not making you want to be living in the Wyld or driving the others there, like those who are being addicted, so I am not thinking that it is necessarily being a problem. You are being a fine person as you are."
Amethyst	Amethyst listens and fidgets a little as Rishi pushes her down. The fidgeting makes her hurt as she gives a painful yelp and doesn't grab her wound, but does grab near it. As she calms, she blinks. "I, I lost part of my soul?" There's alarm in her voice. "That, that can't be! I walked through there and used the various immaculate mantras to keep myself grounded as I strided through the chaos." But she can feel it now, she understands that this is what's missing. And the dragon does not like that. "My soul is the only thing that persists between my lives, it holds the memories of lives where I was not so fortunate to become a dragon, and it is the one thing I protect most dearly. Without my soul--" And she stops herself, obviously she had something to finish that sentence with, but she seems to choose not to. "...I would much like to get it back, if I can."
Rishi	Rishi's arm is like a steel bar preventing Ammy from sitting up or moving overmuch. Once Ammy finally relaxes, Rishi's other hands go to check on her wound and start lightly massaging the flesh and muscles there so they don't cramp while they finish knitting back together, but she is still held in place by the strong muscles in Rishi's arms. "Then we shall go about getting it back. Once you are being fully recovered, we will be going into your shop, we will be reading over your information on the Wyld, you will be telling me of when you thought you might be losing this part, and we will be devising the ritual to be either fixing your soul or summoning back your missing piece. Do not be worrying about it now."
Amethyst	The grumpy dragon grumbles, but relents. "Okay. For now I rest. Can I have a blanket?" And then she adds, "That isn't just cacooning me in demon silk?" Obviously she looks troubled, but she isn't struggling anymore. "We'll figure something out in a few days."
Rishi	Rishi smiles, and reaches over and pulls a blanket over Ammy, tucking her in. "Would you be liking me to feed you some grapes? Or read you something? Or I could snuggle up to you if you are still being cold or worried?"
Amethyst	"I'll just take your company, I need nothing else right now." She says speaking in old realm rather than riverspeak. "I am worried, but I am sure that we will find a way to fix things." And with that she snuggles into the couch and closes her eyes. "And then we'll make me a better me."