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Bright Journey Never let it be said that the people of Great Forks don't know how to have a good time. Especially if you have the silver to arrange for a private table at what can only be described as an altar for the worship of ones own taste buds. Here, in one of the most prestigious, high-class, and dare we say it, expensive restaurants in the Little Yu-Shan District, Bright Journey is in a finely cut, sleek black dress with shimmering golden trim. Her hair is done up with a pair of black chopsticks to hold it in place, and she's sitting elegantly, one leg crossed over the other, with her back to the altar to the Divine Matron of Pasta.

In a place like this one, famous for the finest pasta dishes anywhere east of Lookshy, Bright's letter of invitation expressed a desire to get together outside the bustle of ordinary life in Holymaze. This place normally isn't on the menu if one isn't of the koruphai, but Bright has of course made "special arrangements" just this once. Here, one can dine and yet still have a reasonably private conversation.

Here, one can dine fit for a trio of successful, fortunate, triumphant sorcerers.

Silk Moon Lotus Silk had arrived at the nice restuarant that Bright has been going on and on about for the last few days. She had on a jade green dress that klings just enough to be fashionable but not so much to be tacky. Her hair users to look much nicer until a couple of random gusts of wind ruined the stylist's work. It is now half down and half up. She had what she can bound with a set of jade hair pins she recently aquired.
Silk sits down next to Bright and smiles, "I tried to keep my hair as it was, the wind had other ideas. I may just start keeping it in a top knot or something so it will not matter how much the wind dislikes it. The music of this place is very soothing." She straightens her dress a little as those fidgeting for some reason.
Amethyst It's not every day that she gets to dine at such a high class resturant. Even the Chateau isn't quite /this/ fancy. So of course the young and successful dragon has to show off just a little. Her usual alchemical attire has been left behind for more fined regalia. A colorful demon silk dress, complementing her strange pale-violet skin tone with a deep ocean blue, featuring some impressive water dragon on the rear and interesting geometric patterns on the front. She's covered up most of her tattoos for this, though it'd be hard to hide all of them. But she surely has at least a vial or three in her robes somewhere.

And she has her hair in this crown braid ending in twin ponytails. Pearly would be proud of how much effort she's put into looking /nice/ today. Probably too much effort.

And if all of /that/ wasn't enough, her hair is held in place with a jade ornament, worth more than the annual income of the lesser merchants. She's not showing off.

Amethyst walks in confidently, and takes her seat. She's a little giddy. "Man, I don't think I've see anything quite like this place in my life. I've read about places like this, I've heard stories, but never have I actually been to one." It's all she can do to hide her excitement.

Bright Journey Bright offers Silk and Amethyst both one of her patented winning smiles and reaches for her delicate goblet of hot mulled wine. "That, my dear, is one of the reasons I decided to do this," Bright replies. She takes a small sip, an expression of decadent indulgence on her face. "Oh, this is amazing. I hope we will all be saying that plenty of times tonight! Rest assured this is not something I intend to do often...aside from breaking the bank, quite frankly, it might attract more attention than we can afford to do this all -that- frequently. But we are each successful and talented in our own way, and I think a night out like this on occasion is fitting for all of us. Sometimes the day calls for being casual, you know, and I don't mind good, homestyle food as well, but the three of us in particular are getting to the point where we may be speaking with, and dare I say it, dining with some highly placed people indeed. I thought that we could use an opportunity to get used to that kind of thing, apart from simply celebrating our accomplishments. Each of us has hit a significant personal milestone lately, have we not? Make no mistake, we have all -earned- this.

"My, my. Both of you are looking absolutely ravishing tonight." Bright giggles a bit, sipping her wine again. "Don't worry, I'm not making a pass at either of you. Perhaps it's just as well Rishi isn't here, though, or I fear she would ruin your hairdo, Amethyst. Anyway! Please, join me. I have been looking at the menu and the anticipation is driving me insane."

Silk Moon Lotus Silk seats herself and looks over the arrangement of plates and silverware, she adjusts a few of the pieces then nods her head. "It has been quite some time since I have dined at a restautant as fine as this one. I agree that we have all acheived much recently and deserve to celebrate. I do look forward to some of these pasta dishes."
Amethyst "Becoming one of the Koruphai should be on my agenda, as I'm not going to be buddies with the Realm, and I've already made my operations here. Maybe it's time I actually sit down and become a proper citizen of this city." Amethyst muses. "After all I've accomplished here I think I deserve to call somewhere home, and why not here?"

"As for Rishi? I think it was smart to not bring her. I love her to pieces, but she's not exactly the sort of... refined individual who'd fit in somewhere like this. Gods what is it with her sort and their lack of manners?" She rubs her head. "I might've been an open book before I met Salara but at least I /always/ knew my manners."

"And I'm starving. And all of this looks good. Even if we don't dine here regularly, we gotta come back sometime. Maybe after our next successful venture, whatever that's gonna be. Speaking of, I never did get a chance to talk to you two about what you wanna do next."

Bright Journey Bright smiles briefly. "Well...I'm pretty sure it's more about when the next census is than anything else. I don't think you become a koruphe by...what? Turning in forms to the government? Honestly, I know next to nothing about the bureaucracy and unlike some other topics, this one bores me to tears. I'll leave you to that one yourself. Mind you, you've certainly earned your place here. I think you would make a fine addition to the leaders of the city.

"As for Rishi...well." She sighs, just a bit. "I did not want to say it out loud, but yes. I'm sure we'll celebrate our sorcerous accomplishments with her at some point as well, but she would not appreciate the need to behave properly here. And make no mistake, there -will- be times where that skill will come in handy. Politeness is completely free and opens many doors, some that nothing else will. Like I said earlier, that is partly why I wanted to do this. And I also very much want to discuss the future with you two as well."

Bright leans in close, her expression turning more serious for just a moment. "Mind you, I remember very clearly what Salara was suggesting, and in all honesty I'm not sure which was worse: Her naked ambition, or the tack she used to try to get us on board. I will happily lend my strength to defend you all, or even her if one of you asked, but her -cause- is one I don't feel much about at all, in all honesty. My focus has always been on threats from without, and how we may all come together to stand against them. Turning our strength against each other does the exact opposite of my goal."

At this point, a perfectly accoutered and mannered waiter approaches, and Bright shifts her tone as the table begins to order.

Silk Moon Lotus Silk places her order as though she has dined here a hundred times before. Once the waiter departs she nods her head to Bright. "I fear that in my own thirst for knowledge, I may a poor bargain. I have agreed to help her. I did not say how I would help her through. With my skillset, someone is going to get hurt. Unless she wants me to aquire something from the Blessed Isle. They it may not be so bad."
"You really should find out how to join their ranks Amethyst. I'm not really the kind to join an organization like that myself. Mostly because I don't want harm to come there way due to my disposition. To your other question, I hear the music all the time now. It is amazing and I want to follow it to wherever it leads me. I know that's dangerous though so I will restrain myself. I think a trip to the West may be in order. I feel a need to travel that way, I know not why yet."
Amethyst "I'm not exactly sure about the beauruacry myself, but I'm sure I can figure out how it works sooner or later. And a Dragon not beholden to any of the major powers but still has a dedication for the Elemental Dragons will make for an interesting player. But Salara." Amethyst considers,

"I don't really know what to say about her. On the one hand I feel more at home with her than I do with either of the Lunars, but on the other, I feel like I'm in over my head. She's got plans and ambitions I can't hope to realize. I might sometimes wonder if my sorcery will one day eclipse what the Empress has managed, but I never really dreamed of trying to put someone on the throne. Maybe, maybe if we could restore Elderloch to its full glory and how someone with the fighting prowess of the Bull of the North, we could make a play."

"But that's a bit much even for me."

"As for becoming part of the Dynasty, I could marry Salara, thus becoming part of House Cynis. Or I could try to prove that I'm the long lost Peleps Yim Ametis here to claim her place among their ranks. I dunno how much I'd like moving to the Isle tho. And they'll find out sooner or later that I'm a weird mutant DB."

"And I'd love to get a chance to go sailing in the West. Maybe we'll have to arrange an extended trip out that way sometime."

Bright Journey Bright chuckles faintly and smiles, shaking her head slowly. "No...believe me, I understand. Silk...put it this way. You did not sign a contract with her, did you? While I don't encourage you to renege completely, I'll say this: Don't feel like you owe her anything she might ask. Be ready to say she's going to far if she is, because..." Bright sighs again. "Because people like that tend to. I won't lie, I have a large, next to impossible goal as well, so I can't be mad at the scale of her objective. But the fact is, she's a friend of a friend, at least to me. I know she's far more than that to you, Amethyst, but I just don't feel as though I owe her anything. All I can ask you both is to be careful, and, well, try to not bring the Realm succession to our front doors." She smiles wanly. "Not that I ever believed either of you intend to. We are not armies, after all, and while we can account for much I'm not sure even we can stad against a Legion."

Bright sits back again and relaxes a bit. "Anyway. Dire topic over for the moment. Silk, you want to travel west? I...well, I'm curious why, of course, but that sounds like a grand adventure! Is it the music calling you?" She gets a conspiratorial grin. "Perhaps that special tattooed significant other of your own? Hmm?"

Silk Moon Lotus Silk nods her head to Bright "I can agree to what you are suggesting. I think guidance would be more valuable than almost anything else I can offer her. I still think some kind of a council would be better served than any kind of military takeover."
"The music is calling me to the West. It is not urgent or anthing like that, just somewhere I need to go." She rolls her eyes at Bright "Perhaps you are correct and maybe it's to something else entirely. It will be some time before I'm ready for such a trip. I need to hire or buy a ship and crew, then figure out how to sail. I have no chart and no true destination yet. Then again, I will probably not have one until we are closer."
Amethyst "As far as me and Pearls go, I don't know how I can break away from her and her goals. Technically we oathed to help each other in all of our goals and vendettas. I can't exactly go against that without breaking my oath to her and it never ends well when a Dragon breaks their oaths to one another. Maybe instead of going for the throne we can try to establish our own nation somewhere, somewhere that all are welcome. Hopefully the Realm will be too busy fighting themselves to care too much about us by that point."

And then the alchemist gets this glint in her eyes, "Well, don't worry about figuring out how to sail. Though my father intended on teaching me when I returned from Elderloch, sailing's in my blood going back generations and generations. I'm sure I can get the hang of it as soon as I have a ship of my own." Amethyst grins.

"And there is something I want to do in the West. Maybe something impossible or suicidal, and I know I'm not ready yet, but. It's rumored that at the very western point of all Creation, there's a giant pillar that anchors and represents all of the water, and it's said that Danaa'd herself sleeps atop it. Obviously I'd need to do more research, but a chance to actually meet one of the elemental dragons would be too good to give up. What I'd actually ask of her, that's debatable." She shrugs.

Bright Journey "Well, ladies, I don't even know where to begin with that," Bright replies. "But I think it's worth a toast." She grins and gestures behind Silk and Amethyst. With her back to the altar, Bright could see the waiter approaching with the libations requested. She still has some mulled wine left, fortunately.

After the drinks and bread are delivered, Bright raises her goblet towards the center of the table. "A toast, then. To secrets delved and battles won. To homelands secured and hearth and home safe. To endeavors realized and projects complete. To westward quests and the ever-distant horizon." She beams happily and raises her glass a bit higher. "And last but certainly not least: To a Creation safe and sound. It's been a long road behind and an even longer one ahead, but we have made progress. May we ever always do so."

And with that, Bright drinks deep.