Now then....

Inquirer frowns as she looks down at the still madly sparkling gem that holds whatever consciousness of the person who attempted to capture Para-Astra and Fred 2, then shrugs. She herself might be able to be able to cast the spells needed to establish communications with the entrapped entity, but right at the moment she'd rather wait. Right at the moment, there was some idle chatter and some catching up to do between a certain shefox and a former king of Ethiopia. The female AI/golem had seen that Natthias looks a bit shell shocked by something, but happy. Then Inquirer blinks as she sees just WHY Natthias is acting so.

Apparently, even the dragons hadn't been able to sit on Alicia 2 any longer. The young woman's desire to tag along had been plainly etched into her face as Inquirer had lifted the loaned Atlantian artifacts (two Crystallics) into the air to teleport. Thankfully, the young woman had realized that in THIS type of battle......skilled though she was, she would have been of little to no help. Fred 3 and Astra 3 hadn't been the only ones spent from all that had occurred this day! The teleportations by the ghost of Dr. Vincent had been tiring in the extreme (Creator only knows how the mages had been able to function enough to use the Crystallics as they had......).

"Ah, this must be the....analog of the shefox Alicia.....the one who remained human," Master Rifts says in a vague voice, still not having fully recovered from the information dumped upon him by the adventurers.

"I glad to....." Alicia the shefox begins, looking down at the analog that had never been transformed. "This is.....so strange...."

"So is for myself," Alicia 2 murmurs, looking up into the red furred vixen with the same shade of green eyes she possesses. "I must say.....the fox looks good on you.....Even if by saying that I show a bit of vanity on MY part."

"I....thank you," Alicia the shefox says, smiling at the compliment. "And may I say that....you look well yourself."

"Thanks to Inquirer I'm still amongst the living and not the lapdog of Satan," Alicia 2 sighs, smiling at Inquirer (who quickly turns off her Avatar's response to blush). "I owe her and God for saving me from the vampires......"

"What?" Nattish gasps, looking down at Alicia 2. "What fiend would dare.....!"

"Nat, calm down," Probe says gently, looking down at the stricken man. "Inquirer stumbled across an undead version of Fred and some fang toothed bastard named Varney or Barney something or other in the process of.....feeding on her. The slipgates have been acting up and.......they then ended up in the light of day."

"And now at least they rest in peace," Alicia 2 says solemnly.

The former King of Ethiopia, now Paladin sworn to uphold the cause of justice in the town of Walants, and his daughter.....the shefox, and his newest addition to the family.....go off to the corner. They seem to throw royal decorum to the wind, and Natthias kisses each upon their forehead.

"God, how blessed I am now," he whispers to them. "When the Phage struck Ethiopia, I feared that God had turned away from my people for some sin I had commited....just as I had feared that God was punishing me for overweening pride or some other fault when I lost contact with you......Alicia....."

Inquirer turns away from the conversation, and stops listening in on it. She respects these folks too much to invade on their privacy (that's been done enough as it was.....though she felt it had been needed......)

1. She then overhears Rifts and Tarin-Gazin having a quiet conversation in the corner.....

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