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There had been a lull of activity in the Iridae's home and she was grateful for it. Of course, when there was a lull, activity generally picked up tenfold once it ended and that always annoyed her.

Medium was a pessimist in that right - she could never just take a lull at face value and was pacing back and forth in her hall way when her crystal proved her right yet again, singing the song it did when an Iridae had fallen.

The Iridae turned her head to look at the crystal, stroking a finger over its surface lightly to shut it up and stop the bright light it emitted. Bright light hurt her eyes.

"Ah. This should be interesting."

She waited.

Riven was out and about today, deep in thought over what Dr. Mephisto had told him, the crystal warm in his hand. surely she was wrong. There's no way that the simple necklace he'd found could be that important or magical, or someone should have come looking for it... right? Not just abandoned it.

He turned the corner towards the small house without even thinking about it, unconcious of the odd pull he felt until he was close - then looked up, surprised to find himself somewhere he'd never been before, and even more surprised by who else was there, just down the walkway at the door of a shabby shack.

"Sei?" he said, unbelieving, as he came up behind the younger Fa'e. "What are you doing here?"

"I, um... I was just out for a walk. Or a float, as it may be," Riven said wryly, flicking his tail lightly at Sei. "How are you?"

He looked at the shack again, his eyes narrowing as he slowly became aware - now that the other Fa'e mentioned a pull, he realized there wasn't just randomness behind his choice of corners to turn and streets to drift down. "Perhaps... the same... it may have something to do with this." He opened one hand to reveal the blue crystal, which seemed almost to be pulsing against his hand. But that was crazy... wasn't it?

Riven blinked at the necklace Sei had. It looked - well, nothing like his, really, but it felt similar, somehow. "Someone who knows magic said that this crystal held a wounded power, crying out," he said, quietly. "I'm not sure what she meant."

He paused at Sei's question about his mother. "... Shina. I'm sorry, but I haven't seen her or Hoshi for a long time." He hadn't thought about them, with everything else that had been going on, but now that he considered it that lack of contact hurt. How he could have used Shina's calming touch and gentle understanding in the past few months! "I was hoping you knew, actually..."

"I'm sorry," Riven said again, unsure of what else to do, but worried - where could she be? "Sometimes Fa'e just have to... go," he added, feeling stupid. "Like Ghlyssa, she's... um... in her own realm now, for the past few months." Few months? More like half a year by this time! "I'm sure she'll come back, though... eventually..."

Floundering in awkwardness, Riven tried to turn the conversation to something a bit easier to handle. "Where did you find your necklace? Mine was simply lying in the snow... Biome, my Fandangle, found it and said it was waiting for me."

It seemed like an eternity before Medium got tired of hearing the two babble at each other and finally opened the door. The tall, dark skinned woman with hollow void-like eyes and gray hair stood in the door way, wings spanned out and looking as though they were broken.

In a voice as hollow as her eyes, she spoke, "Is there a reason you both are standing on my doorstep speaking about whatever you two are speaking of? It is polite enough to knock, is it not?"

She shook her head and took a step back, "I have been expecting you both, though not necessarily together. Come in."

Without waiting for either Fa'e to respond, Medium turned her back toward them and started for the room with her crystal. The curtain of colorful beads making not a sound, nor moving, as she passed through to her chair.

Sei was about to answer that he had, in fact, knocked some time ago, but the tone that the woman used silenced the boy rather quickly. Didn't seem like it was a good idea to argue.

He sent Riven a uncertain glance when their eyes met, but followed anyway, not really wanted to be the only one left outside.

Okay, now this was rubbing Riven the wrong way. "Ma'am, I don't know who you are or what's going on here, and I'm not sure my time isn't being wasted." The words were spoken evenly, calmly, although Riven wasn't feeling very calm. True, he could phase out through the walls if this ended up being a bad mistake - but what about Sei...

"Nevertheless, my name is Riven, of Fa'e," he added, at least giving the odd woman some of what she wanted as he stepped through the beads. "Who are you?" He shifted subtly so that he was shielding Sei a bit.