OCC<br/><br/>I didn’t want to make an IC post until more folks had a chance to post IC. I started to make an OOC post, but both ihinka’s and pdragon’s IC posts were so good, I felt compelled to respond.<br/><br/><hr/>Drip focused on returning to Crossroads, even going so far as to click his hooves together three times and utter the magical phrase ‘There is no place like Crossroads’.  While neither Drip nor any of the party are transported, the act and his memories of previous transports gives Drip a bit of insight into the process. The process is not unlike a marble rolling.  Where you are needed to have higher potential energy than where you wanted to be and more critically, you needed a guide (channel, thread) from point A to point B.  Presumably Prime was lower the potential at Crossroads and provided a channel, which meant they merely needed to raise the potential where they were.  Although they needed to goose it up enough to take Rayena and her family back.<br/><br/>At Drips comments about room in the Master Bed, Rayena smiled and licked her lips, “There is plenty a room in the Master Bed.  I just haven’t found someone who is willing to take share it.”<br/><br/>Rayena responded to Dafina’s question.  “There are others like me.  Some who know what they are from birth, others who find out on their majority and still others who have some tumultuous life event that brings their nature out.  There are rumors of groups and secret societies. It’s is not against the law to be as I am, but it is a stigma.  I would like be shunned by many - consider neither a make and able to hold property, nor female and able to bed.”<br/><br/>At Dafina’s proposal, Rayena called out “I accept.”  She hugged Dafina and kissed her, thrusting her tongue into Dafina’s mouth.  Rayena pulled her head back a bit and looked inquiringly to see what effect this had on Dafina.<br/><br/>She told the group, “Dafina has a capital idea.  One that will put a spike into more than one scheme.” Rayena looked to Dafina, “You don’t need to actually marry me, unless you want to?” She asked speculatively.<br/><br/>Then Rayena continued, “Dafina, Daffy, shall be a distant cousin of Alberts, come to marry me and the other wives.  The celebration tonight shall be our betrothal celebration. With a bit of luck,” Rayena looked at Drip, “and some cunning negotiations, we might even be able to part with the Tavern - at loss.” The Tavernkeeper said with a smile, “Due to Daffy’s desire to get on the road.”<br/>