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Amethyst	Finding Amethyst isn't the hard part, getting to her though is a bit more difficult. There's not exactly a direct path, but it doesn't take that much wandering to get to her. Along the way there's various rooms sealed off, a chamber or two, but Amethyst herself is hiding in a smaller room with a single bed in it, and other, various things. Little nicknacks here and there, a pile of various weapons over in another corner, and various books, including a particularly shiny one that probably has something to do with the immaculate order. It looks like someone lives or lived in this little room before.
Black Pearl	There's a knock at the door and then Pearl comes in. "Ametis? Are you all--*yawn*--all right? Scratch that--you aren't." He apuses, "Is there anything I can help with?" She sounds a bit tired, but still concerned, adn warmth is well in her voice.
Amethyst	Amethyst is sitting on the bed, a journal in her hand, and a violet gem that Pearl is well familiar with by this point -- Amethyst's soul gem. The journal itself has at least three different languages worth of characters just on the cover: Forest Tongue, High Realm, and Old Realm. Looking up to Pearl, she doesn't speak, but she does close the journal and grabs the gem, holding it close. "I guess mom told you I wasn't doing so great." "Welcome to my old room, my little hideaway. I'd ask how you found me but I think I have some idea." She grins just a little. "Did you know that at one point I was quite a little thief? Very good at pocketing interesting things from merchants I'd pass by. That's how most of this stuff ended up here." "As for what you can do for me? I dunno, maybe fix my soul so I can actually remember the me that wrote this journal?" And this little room is in stark contrast to the somewhat orderly way she keeps her room nowadays. The messiest place in her whole shop is her lab, but even that has a sense of order and organization to it. This place... it /feels/ like it belongs to someone else. And Ametis hasn't been one for much of anything that isn't functional in some form or fashion.
Black Pearl	Pearl shakes her head. "I sort of felt it, and Rishi...acted odd as she carefully didn't speak about you," she says. "So..I wanted to come and talk, find out what was wrong..and for helping..." She lowers her head, "I might have an idea for that...it came to me in a dream, if that makes sense?"
Amethyst	"In a dream?" Ametis considers, "What kinda dream?" "As for what's wrong? My mom decided to finally tell me that the reason my soul's screwed up is 'cause of something she did to me. And she deliberately hid that anything was wrong all this time." Ametis grumbles. "So I stormed out and hid and somehow I ended up here."
Black Pearl	"She tried to make you into a Dreamsouled like she is," Salara says. "I...think I was talking with her in the dream?" She shakes her head. "She wanted to have you share in what she was, but...everything is run down. The equipment failing...I don't know if they can do that anymore..." She shakes her head, "But one ting from the dream...defeating an unshaped would allow...something to happen to your heartgem to make it go back into you...."
Amethyst	"You know about this?" And Ametis holds up her gem. "I wonder why she didn't tell me any of these things..." She rubs her head, "Like she trusted you but not me?" And an unshaped? She doesn't want me to try doing Sapphire level sorcery but somehow thinks I'd stand a chance questing against an unshaped Raksha... I mean, maybe if I were a Raksha myself that'd be different, but I don't even know how one would react to a dragon challenging them..."
Black Pearl	"I...don't konw why. But she sees how you act towards me--she thinks you idolize me! I'm not sure you do, myself" she admits. "But that's neither here nor there. She...I think it's because I'm the only other dragon here, and because /you/ trust me. So she thinks she can trust me, and that I will pass on...what I pass on. Which should be everything, but..maybe it's better coming via a messenger?" She tilts her head. "If you would rather hear from her...if it would do your relationship better to fear from her...I'll tell her that."
Amethyst	"Or maybe she just doesn't have the guts to tell me herself." Ametis considers. And then she gets up, walks over to Pearl and gives a little hug. Sometimes one forgets that Ametis is one of the smaller ones of the group. "I do look up to you though. And I trust you." And she breaks from the hug. "I guess I just wanted to be alone with myself to try to figure out this little purple thing that apparently contains the rest of my soul." "It makes me feel weird to hold it, like, imagine looking at yourself in a mirror and seeing something different than what you remember. That's kinda how it feels."
Black Pearl	"I don't know..I'd..want to talk to her more myself," Salara says, and hugs back. Taller though she may be than Ametis, she's the one feeling more out of depth. "Well...if you want me to leave, I will. But I'll be here to just..be with you if you like. Sorcery is beyond me. Fighting. Even getting well from sickness." She smiles a bit, "But...I felt like that...once. When my mother told me of my true heritage. But that was...years and years ago. I had not lived a lie so long as you have.
Amethyst	"I love my mom, and I'd love to talk to her more." Ametis says, "But, I dunno. Maybe things wouldn't be so great if I tried." "We can teach you how to fight and strengthen your body in time." Ammie says hopefully. "It's not your skill that makes me look up to you. It's that I think you really, really care about me, some random outcaste, despite the vendetta and everything. And maybe in time we can find something to live for that isn't just, well, for the sake of our betters." She gives her own little smile. "I just gotta learn to be more myself, and less trying to be other people. Maybe just maybe learning about who I used to be will help." She looks at her journal.
Black Pearl	"Maybe. But I'm here for you. For the you of the now, and the you of the future, whether you bring the you of the past withyou or not," Salara replies. "And I need to be stronger...need to learn...my niche. Where to focus. How to..." SHe shakes her head. "Sorry. Really..." She hugs and smiles. "I'm glad you wanted me along for this. And...well, there's work to do." She gives Amethyst a precis of what both she and Silk found, ending with, "And I'm supposed to go back to be inducted into the ranks of the infiltrators by the Princess tomorrow...It promises to be interesting."
Amethyst	"And Rishi /didn't/ threaten to cacoon you? Lucky!" Amethyst giggles as Pearly finishes. "And as far as getting stronger and learning to fight." She goes over, grabs a staff, tosses it at Pearly and grabs another for herself. "I could train you." And she grins. "Most of my technique is rooted in things my father taught me before he vanished." She explains, "And with my blood whip I'm never without a weapon. I know a little about hand-to-hand but probably not nearly as much as you would."
Black Pearl	"I...know...almost nothing about true hand to hand. I just know how to make a touch, a caress, into something letha, while making it appear as though no such attack happens," Salara says. "And I have been teaching Silk...and she owes me for it. But...yes, I need to learn more," she says with a faint grin. "And I think she's going to try to cure me before I go. Otherwise...it is a chance for me to infiltrate their infiltrators...of course I have to take it. And spy from within, yes? How is this different from the Masquerade I play of Cynis to foward Iselsi's Vendetta?"
Amethyst	"Not terribly different I'd say." Amethyst notes, nodding. "Do you want me to hide in the shadows too? I'm not bad at stealth. Not as great as I could be, but I'm pretty good." "But yeah, getting lethal with an actual weapon is something I can very much teach you. At least some rudimentry things about how to use the power of fire to strike hard and fast." And with that, the staff she's holding bubbles. "For now though, I'm alright. You may stay with me if you want, but I will insist you rest if you do given everything, as to get ready for tomorrow."
Black Pearl	"All right. I'll rest, and be ready. But...your mother loves you. I hope things can get better between you. And if they cannot, I hope they do not get worse." She squeezes Amethyst's hand gently. "We have a month before they attack...hopefully we will make things better before then."
Amethyst	Ametis squeezes. "I'm sure they will. My mother's just a bit of a mess sometimes, but she does mean well. In time maybe things'll get better. Especially if we can find some way to get me and this little gem to, I dunno work together or something." She shrugs. "For now, I think I'll go back to reading my old journal."