☀️ Arselia and Akonia

- If it's true, then this is very alarming news. Unfortunately, my knowledge in this area is significantly less than Naria's, so it would be wise to wait for her return before making any decisions, but she's been delayed, so it's best not to hesitate. Let's do this: let someone from your group go to the Dragon King as my envoy and tell him what you just told me. I think that he, of all people, should know more about his brethren.

- That sounds like a good idea...
Beata and Gion look at Erefir. As the leader, she should speak. But they are interested in who will go, how long the journey will take, when they should leave, and what to do about training and the beauty contest.

-- Indeed, it is a great pity that urgent matters prevented our suzerain from witnessing the situation. It is true that Her Highness Naria's special talents and unparalleled insight would be very useful right now. I hope she is well and not overexerting herself at the moment.

-- Your order, My Lady, is very wise and will be carried out. But before that, allow me to ask a few clarifying questions, Your Highness, especially relevant for a foreigner like me. Am I correct in understanding that the Dragon King is not a candidate for our potential enemy? Do you have any thoughts on who might have been the Lunarian that my comrades saw? The information received is roughly equally similar to a warning from a friend and an attempt to mislead the people of Margel either into panic or into incorrect actions that would lead us to ruin. An important role in determining this is also played by the strange place for the warning: it was not the imperial house that received the information, nor Carneol with its grand task, but a portside tavern, and there is no guarantee that the ears of Gion and Beata were intended to hear all this, and not the ears of the bartender, who likes to share rumors with customers...

-- Someone from the group... Dragons highly respect strength, will there even be anyone in Carneol whom the king of the most powerful creatures in Anush will not look down on as a worm, being on his territory and free to do pretty much anything? We have a mutual defense agreement, but he may not want to answer our questions, especially with some subtext about accusing his subordinate of treason. In general, most likely, everything will lead to the fact that I will have to take this on myself, or even send several people, if this is not perceived by our allies as an insult.

-- But... The complication is essentially trivial and not worth mentioning in other circumstances, but my intuition tells me that the current metal path training we are undergoing may turn out to be extremely important in the upcoming conflict, the timing of which we don't even know and which may happen at any moment. I think I will need to ask you for a favor to allow us to photograph part of the necessary archival material, so that we can continue to study it without interruption for a single day, -- a bow.

-- In general, assuming the inevitability of a confrontation with the "Apostle of Despair," it may already be possible to discuss what strategies we have or may have against him. We have identified certain areas of work for ourselves, but, of course, it is very difficult to put forward specifics here... Except that it is obvious that we all need to grow spiritually, otherwise everything else will be meaningless.