Personal Matters

The day was growing late and Crystal was growing impatient. She looks at an ornate pocketwatch and glances down from her scrying orb as she sees the dark cloaked figure approach her tower as planned. wasting no time she thinks a command and the cloaked figure is "escorted" by her two less than reliable servants that both speak in excited tones as the tall figure slowly makes her way up to Crystal's lab, completely avoiding the teleporter that brings one up directly. Hiding a smirk as the two babbling morons wander off on some meaningless task she turns her attention to her guest.

"I do hope you are ready.." The figure merely nods, not speaking to her but simply follows Crystal to another section that even her familiar seems to avoid. As she leads on she speaks of the steps to be done in almost a cheerful manner finally they arrive at the room that leads to her own most personal quarters. Waving a hand at the door it opens and she gestures to her guest to enter first, the door slamming loudly behind them as they enter her true laboratory. The both sit down at a large table where food is laid out enough to feed a squad of knights but has placings for only two people.

They discuss many things while dining and the hours grow long, however neither one seems to be in a hurry to proceed. Finally it is Crystal after eating her fair share of the meal who stands up and with a look of resolution upon her face motions for her guest to follow. A loud sigh is heard followed by quiet cussing. The figure stops in front of a large capsule with arms crossed and says "no". Smiling Crystal looks to her close friend and says "I figured it would come to this however the food you ate was prepared to make even a dragon sleep for an eternity".

Blinking the tall woman gives one final look of anger at crystal as she falls forward into unconsciousness, the mage with an unnatural strength. Laying her new subject down she prepares for one of her more questionalbe experiments to date...

Knocked out form the drugged food she lays there. . . .Her heart races as thoughts and nightmares running through her head as she recalls it all. . . .the pain the tests. . .the experiments. but this was nothing new to her yet it still shoock her to her very core. "Why me. ." She thought " Why did they have to pick me. ." She cannot open her eyes for she cannot wake just yet she is not premited to but she knows Crystal is near by working on her changing thier arangments last minute putting her in a capsule while she works to finish what the past started. She hears the childish voices of the two servents followed by Crystal yelling at them and sending them out. "I wonder if I'll wake this time. . . .or will I die." one last question enters her mind as she drifts back into another mental deep sleep. "Why me. . . . ."

The black robe looks down at her newest subject and allows a small frown to appear on her face. This is a good friend, an ally even if she no longer rules the ones of shadow and death for a price. However work is work and this is long overdue. With unnatural strength she picks up Sylvonas and carries her off to where the final work would begin. She ponders over the origins of this woman and how her and a few others make their way to her own home. The Doctor, various other demonic beings, her long forgotten mentor or her youth was also not from Krynn. Not to mention those ridiculous greenskins. However all of them had been born as they were, Sylvonas was made. And by her most current research she should be dead. With this last though she places Sylvonas in the capsule she knows the woman has dreaded.

Their long ago conversations come back to her, the experiments, the pain, the loss. It strikes a rare compassionate side of Crystal to hear this however she has done much worse to others in her own career. At least she ended her subjects pain if it was unsuccessful. Regardless if Sylvonas was allowed to continue as she was it would mean trouble for her home. The runes on her arm were of strong magic but they had only acted as a binding spell. Sylvonas was incomplete and would be finished in her transformation one way or another.

SHe sees movement from the capsule and strolls over to her subject. "You must forgive me for this part, dear" She chants and forms her strongest bindings upon the woman keeping her awake yet immobile. "If I am to begin the first process -successfully- sadly for you you must remain alert. Now....starting with your arm tell me how it is feeling, the infusion is beginning, ignore the obvious pain of it and tell me of the other feelings it is bringing."

Slowly the immobile woman looks over with her eyes and sees tubes are now extending from her body and indeed something is being pumped into her body. With no emotion displayed Crystal awaits the response of Sylvonas.

Syl scowls a bit as she attempts to move but to no anvil. "I don't feel anything right now.. . .What do you expect. . . LetsssSss jusssSsst get thisssSss over with. . . .And I know there isssSs no point in telling you to not enjoy thisssSsss. . . .Ssssssince i know you will. I jusssSssst have one regreat. . . . and thatsssSss not having killed them when i had the chance back then. .. . ." Syl looks up towards the ceiling focusing on a point trying her best to not think about the things to come and the pain that would make her wish she was dead. . . But she dealt with it before. . . .She will deal with it again. one last time. . . . she hopes as she waits for Crystal to finaly begin.

"Come now. I am a Black robe, not a charity worker Sylvonas." She speaks as she adjusts a few gauges and seems to be looking over some scrolls and a few thick notebooks that reside on a nearby table. The chest they had once been in is also on the table as well in plain sight of her subject.

"When I am done you will be complete, as was intended. You will be stronger and do not begin to tell me this is -not- what you most desire." She walks back and forth while aware that Sylvonas is watching her move. "And I will gain from this knowledge of another world...the one you did come from. And try not to die...I really do not wish to call upon the services of my cleric I keep around. Shes rather insane..." With this statement she spins another gauge and releases the rest of the catalyst and painkillers into her victim. She watches the reaction of Sylvonas for a few moments as she struggles and then finally seems to slump into a coma.

Crystal leaves the room with the notes and chest in her arms as she mutters a few arcane words to seal the door behind her. Sylvonas may or may not have been aware she was taken into a very secluded room, one that not even her students or closest family could ever see. She enters her study locking the door as she goes. the first stage will only be a few hours however she intended to take this time to read the notes before she began the next phase of her work.

Sylvonas's heart races as she lays there in her coma her thoughts racing through her mind wishing to get away knowing everything that is about to come about her. more blood the pain inflicting tests but her body doesn't react to her mind she swears she can hear things but she doesn't know if it's Crystal or just her mind playing tricks on her as she lays there un able to move even an inch she forces down the thought of being vunerable before it can riase any higher al she can do now is wait. . . .wait for Crystal to finish what they started.

A pixie flutters into Crystal's inner chambers. She looks up irritably to see her servant once again chattering about all that is occurring. Hearing the pixie speak of some rift in the conformity of the conclave only makes her roll her eyes. Bu after the latest reports she goes for a small sphere, one that allows her to scry previous events and the most current ones. She watches for several hours at the events shown to her. Muttering about fools with spellbooks she writes a letter and gives it to the pixie. Proudly the pixie flutters off on another "important" task.

It seems she will need to pause in her work and make an appearance. And once she has made an assessment of the outside world then she will know best on what to do. BUt for now it is back to working on Sylvonas...