<strong>Location:</strong>The borders of Cecylene and the<em>Foremost Gale</em><br/><strong>Tags:</strong>Everyone/Anyone<br/><br/>It's several more minutes while Florivet's vessel is loaded with enough provisions to supply the many with food and drink for six for five days.  With the last barrel set belowdecks, Ruby and Cerulean both pay Chorgath a kiss on the cheek and a last subtle passage behind a convenient screen of cloth curtains and barrels-- one for the road, so to speak-- before they bid him goodbye.  "We'll be waiting for your call, Master," Ruby promises, her cousin nodding silent but resolved assent.<br/><br/>The solemnity of moment passes when Florivet puts a hand on both girls' backsides and not-entirely-gently gives them a push towards the gangplank.  "If you're not passengers, you're cargo," he announces with a cheeky grin, "and if you aren't either, you're off my boat!"<br/><br/>A mildly-offended Cerulean trails after a nervously-giggling Ruby off the ship.<br/><br/>When all is prepared and ready, Florivet makes a big show of producing an hourglass from a hidden compartment and upturns it, setting it into an aft portion of the ship.  "I hope you lot are prepared to make your own entertainment," the demon announces.  "Lord Chorgath and Lady Silk I know have made this trip before, but I'm afraid I'll be occupying much of the latter's time.  We'll outdistance the tomescu's screams before the end of our first day is done, so if you ever grow curious as to how much time we have left..."<br/><br/>He pats the hourglass indicatively as he takes the helm.  The sails begin to billow outwards, and the ship begins slowly gliding through the sands.  "Cast away!" Florivet cries, that wolfish grin on his face again, as he guides the<em>Foremost Gale</em>into the Endless Desert...<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>10 ASCENDING AIR, RY 778</strong><br/>- Notable today is the fact that between rounds with Silk, Florivet started to proposition Sondok to join them in a rousing game of 'chase the gilmyne's tongue'.  He only got as far as the game's name before Sondok's cold stare sent him meandering back to the helm as though that's what he'd intended to do in the first place.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>11 ASCENDING AIR, RY 778</strong><br/>- Notable today is that the Foremost Gale briefly passed through a sandstorm, and a massive pack of crawling, hungry worm-like creatures attempted to board the vessel.  Samaro made a game out of it, steel flying, challenging Sanger to see how many either of them can kill before they drive the pack off.  Sadly, Florivet advises that the worm-monsters are completely inedible and like as not to cause even deeper hungers.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>12 ASCENDING AIR, RY 778</strong><br/>- Notable today is that the sky is completely and starlessly black. Also, Florivet made a pass at Cailana.  Afterward, with Chorgath's aid, Florivet was able to put his arm back in his socket.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>13 ASCENDING AIR, RY 778</strong><br/>- Notable today is that a pair of sharp eyes saw a scarlet windstorm on the horizon.  Florivet immediately called for a complete and total cessation of sound for more than three hours before the storm receded out of sight.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>14 ASCENDING AIR, RY 778</strong><br/>- Notable today is that it is the first full day that Florivet did not seek Silk's 'companionship'.  His attention has become fully centered on the artistry of getting to the place they desire.  In the last few hours of the day, strange, half-familiar colors begin to streak across the sky...<br/><br/>Stars.  That's what they are.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>15 ASCENDING AIR, RY 778</strong></span><br/>And then, suddenly, where moments ago there was nothing but sand as far as the eye could see, there are evening skies, the setting Sun, and the first green, growing things that anybody has seen in two weeks.  "CREATION, HO!" Florivet roars, audible to all on the ship, laughing riotously as the ship tacks its own sails to catch the new winds that are already flocking to them.<br/><br/>Belowdecks, Iori blinks, then straightens.  "We're home," she murmurs, startled, surprised, and relieved.  "We're home..."</span></span></span></span></span>