celestial aftermath back up

    It is another place, not Mededaria, while the climate seems the same the sea here is at the eastern coast not the north and could not be saled across in a small boat in a day; there is no desert within riding distance of a week's trip to there and back. The entire Sain Kingdom could fit within the forests surround this stone castle, save for the presence of course of a few tiny villages and the bustling city with flying iron ships coming and going from it. There is in fact no curve to this world no matter how high one flies for this is a flat disc shaped world whose lands and seas are held within a seeminginly indestructible ring of stone that cups underneath the world; the eastern sea in truth leads to this very no man's land of an edge where nothing grows and gravity is distorted; can it be any wander flying ships exist here. Although to go in any other direction one will find this world as big as any other; even if trade between the ending coasts is a tad bit trickier than upon a spherical globe. Not that such things matter in this moment.

   Within the castle the woman who had been in the guise of "Tempestia", Rhulan, is standing in a lavish bedroom with the queen of this land, Holly Lia (Hollia), her tiara floats from her head and transforms into a small white celestial dragon that nuzzles her cheek a moment before flying off to sleep in its little pet bed on the floor.

  "Something the matter?" asks Hollia as Rhulan summons a brown sigil into her hand with an hour glass symbol in it.

  "Its over," says Rhulan, "the spell I cast an impossible to determine ages ago has at last finished. The manipulations of time, and of my self, Mirai was the final one of you I set out to rescue. Her memories are coming back now. To be honest it feels as though I didn't need to do all this. All of you would have regained your power and memory eventually, siring an unknown number of children with Amana souls was never my concern nor my place to prevent; heh, given all the children I had while doing this; I'd be a hypocrit now to say otherwise. I am curious about that whole empire they are forming in the ascended planes of one universe; but I digress."

   Hollia hugs Rhulan, "I can tell something is upsetting you besides that."

   "Mirai," says Rhulan, "no doubt she will want our help, but, I feel as though I hounded her across life times; I was the monster in her shadow; as much as I may say the nature of her power only ever really drew odd aspects of myself, Akiko drew an even darker force and if not for the atrocities of the Dimension Police would have ascended much sooner. Mirai, when she was Emily had already gained enough power she could not reincarnate. As the Architect of Hell I granted her the life she wanted to live; but that world my sisters and I reformatted it, she didn't need to be born again; she wanted to. She didn't want to ascend yet, she wanted a life as a summoner; and still...I hibernated when I didn't need to, who else was I going to be drawn to? I told myself, and you, I was doing it to see to the remnants of Midgardia but...I was just trying to fool myself. Even though I can say it was the spell that manipulated my own actions to doing so despite knowing I didn't need to; that spell was still my own doing and I should have been aware enough to ignore it. Do you know how tempted I was the moment my awareness began to come back to reverse that timeline so she ended up summoning Vicky or some random elemental faerie instead of me?"  *sigh*,

   Hollia hugs her tigher, Rhulan wraps one arm around the shorter woman and kisses the top of her head, "I cannot imagine," says Rhulan, "what you have all experienced in mortal bodies. The closest I came was as a witch and growing up on Oden, which now feels so long ago now; just seeing Jessica and Rhoan now as summoned demon spirits feels so surreal to connect the memories with them as mercenaries in space. Yet I never had a mother, I mistook myself for my own distant cosmic mother, I never had tootaches, stomach cramps, I only feel pain when in limited forms but always knowing I can just shift into a stronger one. Perhaps I should at least once project myself as the soul, the subconcious sleeping mind, into a new born human and experience at least one of what all of you have experienced so many times."

  Hollia looks up at her with a concerned expression.

  Rhulan smiles, "but not anytime soon, for now; I am done with these hibernations, fragmentations, and avatars."

  Rhulan takes a step back and looks around and lets out a slight laught, "Ya'know, for all the time and effort this took; some part of me half expected something big to happen."

  The brown sigil sizzles away and blips out of existence.

 "Nothing," says Rhulan, "I'm not transforming into my cosmic self, peeling away the dark armor so my true glory shines in the sea of chaos while all of you fly around recreating the Eternal World...I mean do you want to?"

   Hollia *shrugs*, "Well, I remember it but, I have my home here; and didn't you and your sisters already replace it with a better, less alive, version anyways. the Inferverse."

   "Indeed," says Rhulan, "the Tempest sea, the land of Tempestia, the worlds around it, it has grown, flooded, become its own world; not to mention the black netherworld, and these lands flying far above that. Recreating that world may well cause devistation to these; it is indeed pointless. You arn't alone in that assessment either. Everyone has claimed their own worlds, been through so much since then, changed, while I was locked into my own spell. How much of my adventures was completly my own doing and how much was the spell moving me into position. Honestly I do know, and....its not as much as you'd think; the hibernations were the key to replacing what was supposed to incarnations. Any who."

   Rhulan spins, "Its over! Everyone is themselves again, mostly, doing their own things; and I have...."

   She looks down at Hollia, "our own lives to live now, do whatever we want."

  Hollia smiles, "I'm not needed in court and Mirai has the means to contact us. How about we go on a new adventure; just the two of us?"

  Lin Lin (the small dragon) *chirps*

  "And you too of course Lin Lin," laughs Hollia.

  Rhulan looks at her bed and back at Hollia, "I'd like that."

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