Journey To The East

[Lirimana]

*when she wasn't piloting, Lirimana flitted from person to person trying to entertain the others and make sure they were comfortable. She sometimes skirted Saia, trying not to stare at her or any of the others. Lirimana had started to get used to the beautiful children of the light's faces but with Saia she started the whole thing over again and the Twilight found herself blushing at everyone again. After staring at Saia while she was going through her exercises and being found out she retreated to her pilot's seat and focused her attentions on that for the rest of the trip*

[Saia]

*Saia chatted with the others as they came to her, otherwise she meditated and went through her drills, one of which she ended to find the adorable Twilight gawking at her. She'd laughed and offered to spar with her, but Lirimana had taken off and isolated herself so she'd just shrugged and gone on with her conditioning in all of her styles. Sometimes she wondered what the empire would be like, and she had fond memories from her past self so she was finding grand expectations of the place the nearer they got to landing. When they came within sight of the empire she came up to the front to watch the landing, intrigued to see if it fulfilled her vision of it*

[Dal'Lumen]

*It was an hour or so after their departure that Dal'Lumen set to wiping away the gore, earth, and crystal shards plastered to him. A coating that was an unpleasant result of cutting down an army with overlarge axes. He did his best to justify the mark's of battle, and the quashing of life by weighing it against the life he had saved from an evil fate at grubby green hands. He heaped his grizzly clothing in the sink in the sleeping quarters, and dawned an identical pair of pants made of slightly ornate fine Red Silk. Three times he wrapped a gold sash around his hips and tied it off with a pointed snap, like a soldier vesting his uniform. He had also brought out one of his spare white silk armor shirts, thrown it on, and walked out to join the others again.*

"That's more like it!" *He said with a confident grin. He seemed to have suddenly caught himself not doing something, and approached Tari, wagging his finger at her whimsically.*

"That was good timing, clearly the Dragons were saving you for a moment of true greatness... You know what this means right?" *He paused while one eyebrow dramatically crept up his forehead, the smoky gray eye below it piercing like that of a scolding priest at a religious school.*

"TEN TIMES the difficulty and repetitions of all exercises and training!! HA HA!" *He slashed the air his extended index finger, a big grin flashing over his face again.*

[Ress]

* Tari laughed at Dal's comment, her skin still glowing an undulating blue from her exaltation, but no longer displaying a dangerous flux anima*

" and now that I am a chosen of Danna'd, I can do all that and more! I now understand why I am a late dragon... so I can do good in Imperveress, rather than be a scion in The Realm.

With any luck and a lot of training, I can show Roaring wave that I am the better martial artist!"

* She put her fists on her hips, standing tall, despite her being so small.*

* Wave, who was standing next to Tari, punched her in her shoulder, just like she always did to him. She rocked slightly from the impact, then looked up at him, smirking as she snickered*

" Wave.... you hit like a rice farmer's daughter! Maybe if you worked a harder game than you spoke, you could be the new Paragon of Danna'd!"

* Wave crossed his arms across his chest and huffed, looking down at Tari*
" Then I am just going to have to stop holding back then... now that we are both Exalts..."

* He smiled, relaxing his posture as he allowed his mind to wander a moment*

" on a related note... I cant wait to see your new looks, Tari. In the next few days, your essence is going to suffuse through your body and leave 'Dragon marks'.

As you know, both of my parents were mortal, so only now am I showing any more marks than just my blue hair.."

* Wave held his arms out, showing that his skin was gaining a bluish tint over time*

" But Tari here is bron from two Dragon-Blooded... so there is no telling how different she will become"