She appears above a bit of frozen wasteland. She falls, conscious but without making a peep, to the ground, and breaks a few more bones.
She lies there.
She appears above a bit of frozen wasteland. She falls, conscious but without making a peep, to the ground, and breaks a few more bones.
She lies there.
"All right." And Leareth gets a map and then ushers Promise up the narrow winding staircase all the way to the surface. There's a heavy door which opens into the back of an overhang at the top of a cliff, invisible from most angles. They're about halfway up into the Ice Wall Mountains, on the northern face; it's windy and frigid.
Leareth unfolds the map and shows her the relative locations of the two sites, squinting against the wind. "...Can you fly in this weather - will you be cold?"
The mountains are very pretty, despite being freezing cold. The ground falls out from below her, flattens out, and then becomes very boring tundra, stretching out for hundreds of miles ahead.
It's not as nice as a Fairyland landscape, even a winter one, but it's all right. It's nice to stretch her wings. Zoom zoom zoom.
The half-excavated wreckage is right there where they left it. Most of the Tayledras seem to have departed back to the Pelagirs; there's one small, lonely-looking tent still pitched on the nearest intact ground.
The Healing-Adept from before emerges. "Yes– oh, it is you." She ducks her head. "What do you need?"
"I don't think there exists a way for me to get to the Moonpaths as needed without Leareth along. Is there another way the Star-Eyed can send a representative?"
"I have been considering the matter. If you are willing to travel to the edge of Her territory by the Pelagirs, or to set up a shrine to Her here, then the leshya'e Kal'enedral can manifest physically if you call to Her and ask that one of them be sent."
"They are like a place consecrated to Her, that would give Her enough of a link here to send a leshya'e directly. The materials are simple and flexible, and to consecrate it I would simply need to pray for a few candlemarks."
"They can be built anywhere, if you would prefer a different place. And have a way to get us there."
"This is well outside Her territory, and so She cannot directly affect the material plane except at very great cost, unless She had some kind of small territorial anchor such as a shrine."
"...I am not sure. Possibly if you order Her to consecrate it, by - whatever power it is that you have," the woman seems shaken by it, "that would allow Her access. You can dismantle a shrine by removing some pieces from it."
"Okay. That might work. And I will keep in mind the option of traveling to Her territory or asking for transit to the Moonpaths and that's probably enough options."