wake the sleeping ghosts and owls | Glowfic Constellation

It pays to be alert while traveling the Dreaming Sea. As one of the largest intrusions of wyld-stuff into Creation proper, the sea is the primary source of this region's wealth and dangers, delivering valuable resources and malicious fae in equal measure. Storms that build out in the depths can travel for miles inland and leave the terrain twisted into new shapes in their wake. It's never just rain that falls. But still, it's much faster to cross the sea than travel overland around it. And Eridani is Dragonblood, a scion of Prasad, a Prince of the Earth. Exalted. She can deal with any problems that arise on the voyage.

The Empire of Prasad has made quite a tidy living off these sorts of voyages, after all. They've got the most Dragonblooded, they're the closest to perfection. Prasadi trade routes have built their own and other kingdoms around the shores of the Dreaming Sea into powerhouses. As part of those relationships, Prasad takes an interest whenever one of their neighbors is having problems. Which is why Eridani is on a ship at this moment. She's leading a delegation to the Anzati Principalities, a group of city-states on the eastern shore. They've sent word of an invasion by a nearby kingdom, while the bulk of their forces is tied up dealing with incursions from the northern forest tribes. So here she is, to sort truth from fiction, deal with the problem if she can and if not, get some actually useful information about what's going on. The Principalities are a good trading partner by and large, but sometimes their internal disunity makes international relationships... complicated.

The trip has been quiet so far, in these beginning stages. Only to be expected, she's barely left Prasad's boundaries.

Still. She'd feel better if something would actually happen. A fog like this presages... something. Eridani paces back and forth on the deck of the ship, peering over the sides, waiting for the first shoe to drop.

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when-it-all-fucks-up

"I'm more than hands-on type, personally."

feel-the-pulse

"I'm coming around to the advantages of that, lately."

when-it-all-fucks-up

"So I hear. This place's soundproofing is good, but it ain't perfect."

feel-the-pulse

Embarrassed laugh. "I apologize if we disturbed you."

"I might be able to help improve the sound proofing on some key rooms while I'm here..."

when-it-all-fucks-up

"That'd be cool."

feel-the-pulse

"A good way to repay Wyld for her help, hopefully."

when-it-all-fucks-up

"Not sure she'll care. She'd probably say hearing stuff is an invitation to join in."

feel-the-pulse

She laughs. "True enough. Then a gift to myself and my ability to sleep through the night."

when-it-all-fucks-up

"Sounds like a good enough cause to me."

feel-the-pulse

"Worth quite a bit of effort."

when-it-all-fucks-up

Heh.

The bird looks away, and so does Winter.

"Did Wyld tell you why I'm here?"

feel-the-pulse

"She said she was helping you look for your sister, using the sorcerous tools here."

when-it-all-fucks-up

"Yeah. Don't suppose you've seen someone who looks like me before, in your observations?"

feel-the-pulse

"People who've felt like you - but the... Broadest reach, shall we say, of my observations ended a bit over two years ago."

"I might be able to help Wyld narrow down a range of places she could be, though."

when-it-all-fucks-up

"You know about the- fuckin' conduit thing, whatever, that's here, right?"

feel-the-pulse

"Yes; I haven't had enough slack to work with it as constantly as Wyld does, but I've been studying it, and I've helped with a few preliminary steps to access it."

when-it-all-fucks-up

"If my sister's not here, my best guess is that she's at the other end of it."

feel-the-pulse

" - This is part of a... Network, shall we say, but... That does narrow it down to three locations as far as primary connections from here go - and if your sister is the same sort of Exalt as you, I suspect that further narrows it to two regions, with one a... More essential line from here, effectively."

"Evaluating just those won't be immediate - but it'll be faster."

when-it-all-fucks-up

"Thanks."

feel-the-pulse

Nod. "It's no problem - and I could use your help in interpreting much of what I see."

when-it-all-fucks-up

"Ehhh. Big magic lines that people want to take over is about where I tune out."

feel-the-pulse

Grin. "More meant your knowledge of what the ground would look like, if I pointed you at a map - and of what kind of Exalt you are, too, if you're willing to share that."

when-it-all-fucks-up