<strong>Location:</strong>Living Quarters<br/><strong>Tags:</strong>Sanger, Elias<br/><br/>"Ah.  Fate."  Iori nods matter-of-factly as Sanger finishes the retelling, as if the word was sufficient to explain everything that had gone wrong.  She is slower to answer Elias's question, expression twisting as she takes a bit to pin things down-- she's not speaking off the cuff to a merely curious third party anymore.  "There's a lot of reasons to stay," she finally says, re-crossing her legs.  "Depends on who you ask.  Some of us can't go.  Some of us refuse to leave without the ones that can't.  But most of the Court-- especially the ifriti and the garda-- most of them would say that it's our responsibility to fight back, to make our voices heard by Heaven.  The fact that we haven't succeeded yet just means that we have to keep trying, because if we don't at least try, we're guaranteed that nothing happens, right?"<br/><br/><br/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Feast Hall<br/><strong>Tags:</strong>Vali<br/><br/>"No, Lawgiver," Ruby answers brightly, "nothing is wrong.  We have everythiOW."<br/><br/>Her train of thought is completely disrupted by the dead-arm punch that Ruli has delivered to her arm.  Ruby gives the other girl a dirty look, rubbing the sore spot; Ruli is unimpressed by the dirty look and swallows the locust she's been chewing on.  "Lady Anjushri trusts them," Ruli says flatly.  "Tell her."<br/><br/>"But--"<br/><br/>"Tell her.  Everyone knows the Exalted can smell lies."  It's not a suggestion anymore.<br/><br/>Ruby winces and bows her head.  "Please forgive me, Lawgiver," she says apologetically, lowering her voice to just be heard by Vali.  "I am... we are... well, we're having a bit of a security problem.  The eleven of you who went up there, plus Lord Skyward, were not the only ones to take up Lady Anjushri's offer... there were two others that we know are here: Ferril Shines-In-Shadows, Night Caste, Lawgiver, and Elmala the Adamant Cobra, Changing Moon Witch.  But we don't know where they are..."