☀️ Arselia and Akonia

“Thank you, Miss Ayko and Mr. Raphael. I’ll take a look around and choose a room. I’ll be ready on time.” Vortex moves into the third room in the Carnelian wing and goes inside. Too many lies for one day… Vortex didn’t like to lie, kill, or maim. She much preferred to help and show mercy. However, when it came to the cult’s plans, the first three things were done without hesitation. Vortex wished good for the whole world… but she wanted to bring this good in a very radical way. There would be no problems in the world if Rynze took over! There would be no will, and therefore no desires of sentient beings that usually cause wars, moral decay, and similar phenomena. The True Empress is healing, not plague. This logic made Vortex an exemplary, unpredictable cultist, because behind purely humanitarian ideas and goodwill lay typical fanaticism, veiled in love. Love for the goddess, love for Rynze. The heavens would sooner fall to earth than Vortex would even suggest that Rynze’s methods were in any way bad. Kindness, whose core is loyalty to an all-powerful deity, is a very dangerous force. Vortex didn’t say many truthful things today. Of course, Keliandra wasn’t her relative. The cult was investigating who this dark Lunarian was and found out only one specific fact, but the most important one: no one was behind Keliandra, and no one knew her origins. The whole story about her being a relative was based on the impossibility for Carnelia and Naria to find any refutation. What isn’t, doesn’t exist. And yet, Keliandra turned out to be something special, because for the first time in her memory, Vortex encountered a case where the will of Rynze was invoked simply by the call of an inexperienced person. On this occasion, several ideas of dubious effectiveness even appeared. What if they organized a festival and, as part of the celebration, suggested that the crowd shout the name of Rynze? Wouldn’t they all start hearing the whisper afterward? How interesting… So, Naria has just given something to our new friends. It’s worth keeping a close eye on the progress of this mission… It is unlikely that anyone in this world will pose a greater threat to the plans of the True Empress than Princess Naria. If you think about it, she herself remotely resembles Rynze… Maybe she also wants to become a goddess? It seems to be fashionable now. Vortex pulls a small portrait, the size of a thin book, from somewhere under her dress. “Oh, my Empress, I will do everything in my power…” Vortex kisses the portrait, her face contorting in greedy admiration. After a couple of moments, the Lunarian comes to her senses, hides her treasure in her cloak, and decides to take a short break