[color=gray][quote=Morrian]"If the stone doesn't work here with the Chroniker, does that mean we can retrieve it?" Morrian looks around at the other capable souls. Then he decides. "Yeah. I'm staying here. I'd help you out but this weather is killing me."[/quote]
[quote=Celadon]“As I’ve said before I’m Celadon.” He began as nobody else seemed all too enthusiastic just at the moment. “I’m an Ethereal Tiger Fox from Keingry where I’m a guardian and child minder when the parents are busy with the harvest.”[/quote]
[quote=Ellis]"Excuse me, miss," Ellis said, addressing the Elurra. "Could you give me an idea of what else there is around here besides that white slush on the ground?"[/quote][/color]

Elurra nodded to Morrian with a dip of her head. [color=lightgreen]"You are correct. The stone outside may be touched, handled and kept, and it will have no effect on you at all, if only on its own."[/color]

Her eyes turned to Celadon, and she smiled warmly. [color=lightgreen]"This child shall be safe in your care, I am sure,"[/color] she said, referring to Mayonaka. [color=lightgreen]"And, perhaps, the children you have not yet met."[/color]

Ellis' question drew the horned woman's attention, and she watched him curiously for a moment before she replied, [color=lightgreen]"There is only snow, ice and rock outside that door, as far as I am aware. I have not left this room in centuries, and I have had no visitors before you. I promised Rook I would look after the stone, and await the travelers' arrival. That is you."[/color]