<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=8740.msg314850#msg314850">Quote from: TheAlchemist on 13-02-2007, 23:21:44</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Zephyr cringes inwardly at Indira's rebuke. Not a great move, angering her. " I apologize, I must have missed it, intrigued as I was by the Trumps." He glances back at Adnan and the rest. "Will we be leaving in the morning as well? I can be ready within the hour if needed."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Indira's eyes narrow a little.  Her face remains impassive...but she nods after a moment.<br/><br/>"Do be careful, little brother.  A moment's inattention may prove your undoing.  We leave with the others.  Some of what Adnan has to say pertains to you as well.  Go rest."<br/><br/>And then everyone goes their separate ways.  The only interruption to general preparations comes in response to Inanna's curiousity:<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=8740.msg314861#msg314861">Quote from: Rayve13 on 14-02-2007, 00:49:18</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">As they left, taking word to the stables to have her horse ready in the morning, she couldn't resist the temptation to try the magic of the Trumps a little further. She takes out Adnan's Trump once more and focuses on the image of her elder brother, letting her mind envision nothing else as her thought quested for him.<br/><br/>"Brother, is this another step in the tests that began on the Foot today?" she asks into the void.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The Trump grows cold in her hands.  A moment later, she can hear Adnan's laughter in her head.  She can almost see him, gazing down into this very courtyard from a high balcony...down at a tiny figure leading a horse...<br/><br/>"I thought one of you might try them out already!  And yes, it is.  But you'll understand more in the morning."