"Oh Akara don't worry about saying things you feel inappropriate to me, it often feels every second sentence I say is like that, second guessing how you interpret them consumes me more than paying attention to whats happening now. In many ways it is what is happening now to me I guess"<br/><br/>Angela took the liberty to lie down, resting her head on Akara's lap. Forward ? Maybe but Angela seemed too emotionally fatigued and physically exhausted from the training session to second guess her instincts.<br/><br/>Staring directly up at the sky Angela sighed<br/><br/>(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs8/i/2005/314/9/d/Dragon__s_Head_Nebula_by_casperium.jpg)<br/><br/>"Here we are in a land that has islands the float in the air as if its water. Arguing with dragons, Arguing with them ! Debating the cause of history that feels like a coin spinning, the fate of so many souls. Obstacles everywhere, but hope is within each other, we have been through so much we are so different from each other. Yet how amazing. How many people would have said they would give a lifetime to see any one of the things we have already seen. While we are all together we have each other and look what that has done in the past, its not that much different, in many ways better we found the king ! He is alive ! "<br/><br/><strong>*** Meanwhile a minute stroll away ... <br/></strong><br/><br/>"Forgive my temper my king, and thank-you. Pressing you for details is not what I had in mind, what your managing and prepared to do now I should be more empathic towards. Why we seem to be battling such forces astounds me, yet things are what they are. If there is anything we can do, or I can do just ask" Aryia curtsied, it was genuine.<br/><br/>Roseanna was beside the king her face contorted with an array of emotions. "You dont have to fight him you know, we don't need them we can manage these lands on our own, plan away from those wanting to impose conditions ... "<br/><br/>As she continued Aryia walked in a brisk step to Akara and Angela, the latter seemed to be pointing out stars in the brillant cloudless sky. It did indeed seem the stars were different in this strange land. More vivid.<br/><br/>"I am so sorry to interrupt both of you but our king has it in his head that fighting the eldest dragon the world has known will somehow resolve matters."<br/><br/>She simply laid down a arm length away and stared at the sky with them while talking ... and took the liberty of grabbing one bottle the servants had given the other two before she did so. After taking a very unladylike like swig to her lips and a cough from the unexpected fumes the strong spirits gave off Aryia continued.<br/><br/>"If he wins, and its unlikely for his mind is still fragmented and he is facing the most ancient knowledgeable dragon known, who has seen every fighting trick many times before ... he may be king of this land, not that means much for the lands we are trying to save but it can be if we can convince the other elders to see the sense in following us... big if"<br/><br/>Another swig<br/><br/>"The magical treasure that Sherra had stolen was liberated from her person and placed in the castle where we have laid our possessions. The king mentioned that if he is to perish in this fight he feels is necessary tomorrow, you Akara are his selected replacement and Queen of Albion by his linage and titles. Why he didn't honor with saying so himself ? I think you know, the idea of fighting such a powerful dragon must be heavy on his mind. To him he has hours to live and may be centering matters. He is stronger than we thought. That prospect would be daunting. Worthy of ballads in its own right"<br/><br/>Another swig.<br/><br/>"The Boolvadeer set Akara is yours if you want it, in the palace just waiting for someone to take it, we may need it with what is to come, especially if he looses the battle, actually ... "<br/><br/>Another swig and a cough<br/><br/>"I think we need someone with it and the other hero's with whatever can make them more than what they already are if he does win, which means ... "<br/><br/>Aryia then stood and returned the bottle back to where she found it, to which the servents quickly hurried away ...<br/><br/>"I need to do some impressive silver speech to elders I don't know, who have values I can only guess at to support a cause thats well ... just us for the moment for issues that are so removed from their life it may as well not effect them in the slightest ... " She then winked " ... where is the catch right ? ... " Aryia laughed.<br/><br/>She then gathered her breath, straighten her dress, and marched straight back into the palace ...  Before entering its massive doors Aryia turned back to the other two<br/><br/>"If you see Ravus or Tarot please do pass on what I have told you both ... "<br/><br/>... then disappeared in the palace to express her views to all other elders that cared to listen. When she did she found all were already in heated conversation with each other but Aryia was used to court politics, elders or not, passion of the fire-full blood always had an ear ...<br/>