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.
"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."
Nod. "Do you want me to assemble and consecrate a shrine now, and then you can dismantle it? I think it would be easier for Her to remake it if there had at one point been one here."
"I would like to be more confident that I understand all the possible side effects first, and it's an hour's flight back to ask Leareth about it."
"Ah. Well, do you wish that I stay here and wait for you to decide, or that I give you the direction for how to build a shrine later in hopes that ordering Her would work?" She dips her chin, briefly. "It would be more likely to work if you were south of the mountains and thus closer to Her Pelagirs territory."
The Healing-Adept can give her instructions on how to build a shrine to the Star-Eyed out of branches and rocks, raw materials one could find in any forest.
Promise listens carefully - she hasn't had a chance to take notes in fifty years, she's all right at memorization now. "Is there anything else I should know?"
The woman blinks at her. "...'Anything' is very broad. I - cannot think of more things right now." Mostly this is because she's very nervous and feeling put on the spot.
"Okay. Uh, thank you. You can see yourselves home."
And she flies back to the staircase and goes down.
Leareth is in the dining hall talking to some of his people, and turns when he sees her. "So?"
"I have been taught how to make a shrine and it might work to command her to consecrate it. I didn't authorize constructing one prophylactically since it seems you might not like that."
"I see. Thank you. I - would not have been upset with you, if you had, it seems important that you can speak with Her - I assume that is why a shrine is helpful? And it would not give Her much local power. Nonetheless, I would be quite uneasy about a shrine existing anywhere near me."
"I will scry the site in a few minutes and check. Thank you." Leareth smiles, tight and brief. "If that is all, I should let you go on having your break and not doing things."