"Ta, darling."

Liya ended the contact.

“Alright, we’re all set.” She follows Bastion towards the black road and Morrigan.

"Bring the horses over, Liya."

"This will be an interesting experience, shutter the horses eyes though, please." When she is done he holds out his hand to her.

She takes his hand and smiles. “This is going to be fun. Ready when you are Bastion.”

He takes her hand and there is a rushing feeling and it is like they are flying through the air over the Black Road at high speed. That sound she gets when she uses a Hydra trump is all around them. Like a kind of crazy water slide without water they move towards then up and over the mountains and rush down the other side to be deposited safely somehow with their horses on the other side of those barrier mountains. A beautiful valley (breathtaking really) could be seen before all the motion stops.

After a few moments of Bastion calming the horses down. Liya starts to see some armored and armed troops.

Liya can’t help but laugh when they are safely on the other side. “I was right. That was actually kind of fun.”

She looks around their surroundings and see the troops. “Oh look, the welcoming committee is coming.”

"A specialized kind of teleport, I don't get to use often."

He looks around at the mention of welcoming committee.
"Those look like the realms soldiers, wow they were fast."

Liya breathes deeply letting it out slowly. “Let’s go say hello then. Do t want to be rude, do we?” She smiled.

The troops weapons raised approach the two and their horses.

"Who are you mage ?, and why do you come to these lands ?" says one of them.

Bastion gets a look of not this but then recovers.

"Hello gentlemen and ladies, I am King Bastion one of Heads of the Hydra Empire, this is Liya Protege of Queen Violet of the same Empire. We are here because of the alliance we have with your kingdom. We saw the Black Road cutting through many worlds and tracked it and found it came here. We wish to see that Queen Morrigan is safe."

Another says, "You think we can't defend our queen !" almost combative.

He gets silenced by the other soldiers.

"Please wait here, your Majesty." The other soldier who first spoke says.
Several birds could be seen flying off.

Bastion looks to Liya, "You seem cheerful, you must have really liked that way to travel."

He looks to the soldiers almost ready to answer the one who spoke of them protecting their queen but chooses to bite his tongue. He just looks to Liya before nodding to the one who told them to wait.

"They are definitely on high alert. They arrived fast." he whispers to Liya.

Liya stays quiet and lets Bastion do the talking. She raises an eyebrow at the soldiers outburst and stifles a laugh. She watches the birds for a moment then waits patiently.

She turns to Bastion, “Are you kidding? That was a total rush. I can’t wait to do it again.” She smiled

After a time a woman who looks a lot like a more stern short haired version of Tanique road up on a horse whose hooves crackled with little lightning flashes as they touched down from a flight here.



"King Bastion, you come at an interesting time. Please explain to me personally why you are here. I heard word on the wing and wind but it is always better to hear from the person themselves."

The soldiers here seem to defer to her the way Julian's rangers defer to him. Their stance is now much less combative then before.


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Liya and Buck you are in Violet's kingdom in the Empire here.

After he is washed up and has his new clothes on he looks at himself.

"Look funny."

Liya smiles approvingly at Buck. “No, you look different. Different isn’t bad though, I think you look good. Let’s go see Queen Violet.”

The two are eventually shown into a study where Violet is at a desk

"Come in, please have a seat."

Liya nodded, smiled at Buck and sat down. “Thank you your Majesty.”

Buck looked around and realized he was being asked to sit too by Violet motioning to him.

He sits in one of the comfy looking chairs.

Violet looks at the two, "So how did you meet, and when did you learn you could see trump contacts without being part of them?"

Buck didn't look like he realized she was talking to him.

Liya patted his hand and nodded to Violet. “She’s talking to you Buck,” she said smiling softly at the big guy.

He looks over, "Hi Pretty woman."

Violet glances to Liya briefly, "This a joke? Buck, the cards she shows him one. What do you know of these?"

He looks at it, "Window." He then looks at Liya for reassurance.
"Window closed."

Violet nods, "Yes, no one is using it right now."

Violet looks to Liya, "What garden implement would you say" she just glances to Buck then back to Liya.

Liya half smiles at Violet. “We met in a world that Lady Tanique and I went to. He wasn’t with a good group of people, so we took him with us to go shopping and dancing. Tanique was in a contact with her father, and that’s when it came to my attention he could see both sides of the conversation.”  She gave Buck a warm reassuring smile.

Buck nods, "Angry man."

Liya chuckled, “ Yes, Lord Julian was very angry.”