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Black Pearl	The tops of Elderloch are not private as they would be out of the water, so Black Pearl is instead in an abandoned, though sound basement. Her scales and fins out, and alluring patterns running over her form, and yet she simply floats in the middle of the room, as she has for some time since she extricated herself from the army. In one hand is an amulet, a sigil from the fae of some sort that she stares at.
Rishi	Rishi smiles as she pokes her head around the corner and begins to speak... but she quickly turns pensive seeing Pearl's mood. Swimming in, her form that of a silver winged mermaid, she wraps herself around Black Pearl, before saying quietly, "are you wishing to be talking about it?"
Black Pearl	Black Pearl thinks a moment then says, "My family would laugh at me. Think I am weak. Soft. Unfit for..." She shakes her head. "They would think me decent for stealing the army. And the assassination...that he knew what I did and still turned to me for the sake of those under him...it was a master stroke." She leans against Rishi. "But the grief. Sorrow. They would not understand..." Fins flex instinctively. Naturally.
Rishi	"..." Rishi strokes the other woman's hair and pulls her into a hug, wrapping her wings around them for increased safety. She says nothing, just holds the other woman and hurts alongside her, providing what comfort she can, just being next to her.
Black Pearl	It is the closeness that finally breaks the walls. Waing beyond sobbing. Grief. Terror. Everything she didn't let herself feel from the time the physical changes were first put on her, through the deeper changes, and the mission. All finally comes out now, and the water, her element, storms around the pair in sympathy. A timeless release that finally ends, Pearl going limp, relaxing perhaps even if only because there is no more energy.
Rishi	Rishi rides it out with Pearl, holding her close, keeping back the stormy water, cuddling her, making soothing noises, whatever she needs. When she is finally empty, Rishi finally speaks once more. "...You are knowing I left my people, because they could not be accepting me. So...I am not perhaps being the best person to be talking to about the issues of the family. But. I am wishing to be here for you. To be helping you with whatever you are needing. I am...most sorry I could not be better at the protecting of you through everything, but I promise to be here with whatever you are needing through the process of the healing."
Black Pearl	Black Pearl nods. "I...I do not know what I need to heal." She embraces softly, pressing face to neck as they sit. "But...I know I am /me/ again. And...I have chosen to accept that. To grow, not reject." She offers a slight smile. "No need to take these away from me. But thank you for the offer." "But...I won. Triumphed in what I set out to do. So did Fudou. And then all of you against Glorious..." She closes her eyes. "I would share a secret with you, that none other here knows save Amethyst. A secret worth my life. If you will swear to not tell any."
Rishi	Rishi nods, quietly saying "You are already holding my secret, along with many. I am swearing to be keeping yours."
Black Pearl	"You know I am a Dynast of the Realm: Cynis Rendili Salara." Pearl takes a deep breath, "But I am truly Iselsi Rendili Salara. And my House has a Vendetta against the others for betraying our service to the Empress." Electric blue eyes gleam.
Rishi	Rishi frowns. "I am not remembering you telling me of this house when you were teaching me of the Realm. But the people who are hating the Realm is being most large. What is making your house so much the different? What was the Realm doing to you?"
Black Pearl	"Each House serves in its way. We were..." Salara swallows, "Intelligence. Secret Police. As such, the other Houses hated us, though we only did what was demanded for loyal service. When she disappeared..." Salara shakes her head. "We were mostly massacred. My branch of the family hid among the Cynis, so that is who I am to the rest of the Realm." She pauses, "If we could destroy the others, we would do so, at the cost of the Realm. If one of us could take the throne." A silent moment. "If /I/ could take the throne..."
Rishi	"...are /you/ wanting the throne? Or is that just being your house talking?" Rishi sighs. "I think you are knowing this already, but...Those who are Chosen of the One who has Many Faces have been planning how to be destroying your Realm for ages, longer than your Realm has been existing. From what I have been hearing, the only reason they were not sweeping over the Isle of the Blessed after your Empress did the vanishing is that they were thinking they would be needing many more of the decades before they were ready to be destroying it." "Now...they are just waiting for you to be destroying yourselves with the wars before they are doing the cleaning up." Rishi sighs. "Well, and we are not being the "team players" so the deciding of what the world will be looking like after is being the ...heated." She sighs again. "My point is being that... Are you wnting to be fixing this mess? Or bringing it further down? My people are only likely to be agreeing to one of the two."
Black Pearl	"If I am on the throne, I can do more. I can change relations with those Chosen as you and Fudou are. Or as Journey and Silk are. If it is just /an/ Iselsi...who knows what she will do?" Pearl licks her lips. "Even if I am in fact just vicereine for those I have come to trust here...surely being the power behind the throne wouldbbe useful to you?" She sighs. "Or I can give it up and find a place away from everything, marry Ametis, and raise children."
Rishi	Rishi pulls her in for another hug, before pulling back and looking her in the eyes. "I hope that you are not planning to be giving me the up too? I should also be liking to be trying this marriage thing." her eyes are twinkling as she teases Pearly. Her eyes cloud over as she considers the rest of what Pearl said. "I am not being the one to be ruling any of the things, I am thinking. Fudou and I can be introducing you to the others who are like us, but ...I am not being sure they will be accepting anything other than the total destruction." She sighs. "But...maybe if you are bringing the Bright Journey... Perhaps she can be finding the way?" She remains looking pensive. "But...Even if you are managing this thing... Will your Realm be accepting of it? Will your House of Cynis or House of Iselsi? Your Northern Pure Way is doing the teaching that we are being the monsters? Will they just be saying "oh, sorry, we are being wrong, they are being Holy Ones sworn to protect us?" Will the people be accepting that?" Rishi shakes her head. "I am not being sure that what you are asking is being the possible. I am thinking the safest of the solutions is for us to be hiding away with Frosty in her forest, living together in my mansion. We can be raising many babies there and everything will be most adorable and happy." She smiles for a moment...before her face turns sad. "...But if I could be happy with the safe, I would never have been leaving the home." She sighs one last time before facing Pearly and looking her directly in the eyes, her gaze firm. "Whatever *you* are being wanting, not your house, not your people, but YOU are wanting... I will be helping you as best I can be helping. Whatever form you are wanting, I will be giving you. The introductions you are needing...the protection you are needing...everything. Let us be saving the Creation."
Black Pearl	"They will accept one of us on the throne more than one of you. And I am willing to destroy the Immaculate Order--they turned on us as well--" Pearl smiles a bit. "I have been brought up to have vengeance and destruction as my be-all end-all. If you want the Realm destroyed, helping Iselsi destroy the others because they mostly don't care if the Realm is around afterwards is the best bet. As for me...Ametis--and you--are making me believe that there is more than Vendetta. And perhaps it is the hubris of youth, but...I want it. Not just my House but /me/. For then..." She blushes, "If I didn't think I could, there would be no point in trying for it." She leans closer and gives a smile. "Indeed. Let us try. And strive for a happy life together."
Rishi	Rishi smiles back at her before giving her a kiss. A long one, before she settles back, smiling at Pearl "There is being oh so much more than vengance. I am being so, so happy to be helping you to be seeing it, Pearly."