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Rishi	At the door to Pearly's private suite, a bell is jangled in a coded way to alert her that her special friend has arrived. Shortly afterwards there is a special knock on the outer door, before Rishi flings it open and rushes into Pearly's arms. She looks worried...though Pearly can feel an odd undercurrent of ..irritation? through their link.
Black Pearl	Pearl stands and opens her arms to hold Rishi close. "Come. It's all right. Whatever has you flustered, we can handle, together." Her own face is schooled to compassion and confidence even if Rishi can feel a trickle of worry back.
Rishi	After simply being held for a bit, Rishi calms down slightly. "I..I am thinking that you are likely to be most of the disappointed in me. One of the Lookshy Dragons, she came to me needing the sleeping potion, because she was under much of the stress. She was feeling this, because she met the Anathema, and he was being most of the kind and the helpful and she was not knowing how to be doing the handling of this." She looks down. "To try to be giving her the help, so that she could be doing the sleeping, and, maybe so I could be trying to do the nudging away from the 'Anathema are being the evil demons' thing, I did the telling of her that thing the most senior Immaculates are doing the telling. That the Silver and the Gold Anathema are, yes, being Exalted, but the power is driving them mad after the time." She frowns again. "This is something that is doing the worrying of me."
Black Pearl	"I see...go on?" She settles down into a couch and tugs Rishi after to have her lie down, recline and relax. "Let me help calm you, and...speak. Why is this worrying you, that you said what the Immaculate Order says?" Then there's a blink, "But you dont believe that, and you aren't as skilled at shading the truth or outright lies as I am...Did this Dragon-blooded believe you?"
Rishi	"She was believing me, but now she is doing the thinking that she needs to be doing the reporting of her meeting and get the Hunters of the Wyld to be going after this man she was doing the meeting of. And...I let slip that I have done the meeting of the Golden Anathema before." She looks even sadder. "I did the telling of her that I could not be doing the talking about it because I cannot be doing the talking about *any* of the patients, which is being exactly what I am doing right now." Rishi frowns, a sad look in her eyes. "I do not like doing the violating of the confidence like this, but it is being most of the important." "She was being suspicious of me at the various points, but I think she was mostly trusting me, especially once I was doing the finding of the excuse to be showing my Anima. She should be much less of the suspicious now that she will be getting the good sleep too. If she does the returning for more of the medicine and the conversation, I can be trying to be helping her to be seeing the truth, but I am being worried that she might be doing the 'attracting attention' before that. I did the following of her back to where she is doing the staying, if you are needing that." She is still sad. "I am feeling like you will be much of the disappointed in me. And that your parents will be much of the disappointed in me."
Black Pearl	Black Pearl listens, and nods, closing her eyes momentarily. "Well, we have a new reason to be careful. And yes, I would like to know more about this other Dragon, to learn where she is who she is, as much as you can tell me. As for disappointment?" There is a sad smile on Pearl's face. "You do not disappoint me at all, but bring me joy. And complications, but if it were easy, anyone could play. And where's the fun in that? As for my parents? They would not be disappointed in you. If they knew what you were, well, they would either be furious with you, or coldly consign you as a tool to be used, or an enemy to be obliterated. They may be disappointed with /me/ for loving and being loved by you," she says, with a faint laughter. "All right, were you another Dragon, they would be disappointed in your skill--or lack thereof--in manipulating things to a desired end. So, you have brought this to me, which is well and good. And I should ask...should I meet this person, and perhaps give more sleep to her? I would rather Lookshy not look too closely at me. I think you have caught their attraction--um, attention--though."
Rishi	Rishi embraces her love. "I do not think we need to be doing the eliminating of her. And I do not wish to be causing you the problems with the Lookshy. But... I am not being sure I can be doing this. I am needing to be who I am being. It is being who I am." She looks intensely unhappy. "But I cannot be doing that and must be doing the lying all of the time. It is being so very, very painful." She looks very sad. "I...do not wish I could be much the better at lying, as you are, for that was not being why I was Chosen." She sighs. "But... I do wish I could be doing the handling of these situations much the better." "For now... if you can just be giving me the information you are having on the Amilar Ereyo, I am hoping it will be most fine. She is at the college and she is having the entourage. But whatever else you can be doing the learning of without the danger would be most useful. And...you are knowing your job better than I, so you should be doing what you think is needful." Rishi laughs at the slip. "I am not thinking she is being much the attracted to me... but if I am wanting to be doing the convincing, maybe I should be doing the trying of that most harder?" Rishi's face hardens for a moment. "We should do the talking about your parents at some of the point."
Black Pearl	"Then we need to get to a position where you can tell the truth, and need not lie. A place where we have power, and hunters come not at us. Or if they do...we fight back against them. A safe place we can put down roots and grow together. As for handling things better...I don't know. You'd have to learn more what she thinks, guess how she will react. And then be yourself in such a way that she does something you'd prefer she do. That is the best advice I can offer, because even telling the truth to manipulate things you might think is dishonest." She runs a hand through Rishi's hair, and teases her ear gently. "Thank you for giving me the information on her. I will see what I can do that is appropriate to the situation," she says. "As for trying to be attractive..." She thinks, and shakes her head, "Mere desire is not going to convince someone to give up their upbringing. It didn't convince /me/, after all. You need to learn what they believe--the emtional underpinnings of it--and undermine the foundations. Only then can they be swayed." She smiles wryly, "You did that to me by offering companionship. Not being alone, no matter what." She smiles and leans over to touch noses. "And what about my parents. Do you want to meet them? Simply stay away from them?"
Rishi	Rishi nods. "Then I will see what can be doing to be learning about her." and then she almost purrs under Pearly's ministrations. "Well I am knowing what it is to be feeling the lonely too. I am not being sure what this one is doing the wanting yet. I will try to be doing the getting to know her. ...And maybe I shall be trying the observing of her dreams..." Rishi smiles, laughing in that beautiful, musical voice of hers at the nose touching, before she sobers suddenly. "....." She hesitates, then says, "...When...when we were doing the merging together in the pool, and we got to be seeing each of the other's memories..." Rishi isn't sure how Pearly will like this, but she continues "...Your Parents did the hurting of you. Much of the time. And, not simply the things with the secrets, either."
Black Pearl	Pearl goes still. "They did as they learned from their parents, I suspect. Sought to keep the family, the House, going, with each of us playing our parts..." She shakes her head. "I...want to do better than they did, but...I love them. And hate from time to time. But I still feel strongly about them, either way. Had they not made me who I am, I would not have come to Great Forks, and been lonely. Perhaps I would have been happier, but it would have been a /different/ happiness. And you...you are worth /everything/."
Rishi	and now Rishi is embracing Pearly and tearing up. "Thank you." Her wings enfold you both, protective shields against the world. "...Regarding the secret of the family... You are having the council that is doing the coordinating of this plan you are having?" Rishi sighs. "....I am wishing I could be doing the yelling at them too. Everyone is doing the 'getting angry' but...they are doing the forcing of all of the children to be the lonely, like us. To be doing the hiding, like us. All so that they can, one day, be doing the 'winning,' they are doing the murdering of their children." She sighs. "...But then, it is being the same with the Elders of my group. The Realm is needing to be doing the changing, yes, but murdering all of the people in the wars, for things that were doing the happening the thousands and thousands of the years ago? Why are we doing this thing." Rishi sounds quite cross, before she goes limp in Pearly's arms for a moment, then kisses her. "...I am being sorry."
Black Pearl	"Yes, but I am not able to do more than bring reports to them. I have neither the seniority nor power to influence them," she says. "We...we must be right, for if we are not right, we are wrong, and to be wrong is the worst that can happen." She slides close between those wings and kisses back. "They are taught that the chosen of Sun and Moon went mad and did terrible things, and they must be stopped lest they destroy what still remains. And we have seen ruins, histories, places where terrible things have happened. So it could well be true. But even if it is, much of this is about power, and we do not want to be broken or destroyed. Where is justice? Is there justice?" She shakes her head. "There is just us, and what we choose." She nestles against Rishi and stills contentedly. "As long as we are together, we have hope, though."