Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-26444332-20170125023531/@comment-26444332-20170126065315

'Of course. The Queen and the Princess were planning to visit the Cathedral of Mists later, but I believe they are still within the Garden Palace. I shall lead you there.'

After taking them through the seemingly-deserted city, the ambassadors find themselves in front of a large building cut into the rock, as if a pale white Erebor had sprung from the pages of Terran fairy-tale into life before them.

Upon entry, however, they behold a different spectacle, one entirely unexpected. The majority of the Palace's main halls appear to be a massive natural cavern, supported by slender pillars carved into the shape of tree-trunks.

'It is not named the Garden Palace for nothing,' Erizawa says, spreading her hands wide in a gesture of grand announcement. 'See for yourself.'

And see they can. Everywhere throughout the cavern, there are plants. Trees, flowers, grass, from a dozen different worlds and more. Natural light appears to be coming from shafts cut in the rock, high above the outside fog. The cavern's unknown heights are shrouded in the ever-present mist, but the cave itself is clear, allowing them their first unobstructed sight on the planet.

The throne is set in the middle of the gardens, they see, as Erizawa leads them to it. The chair itself is wooden, carved from a living tree-trunk. However, no Azusa Saromi sits in it. Eriwara turns to an Aetanii gently gardening off to one side, her dark hair and white wide-brimmed hat obscuring her face.

'Kōtaigō, you have guests. The Alliance delegation has arrived.'

And with that, the gardening Aetanii looks up, heterochromic blue-and-purple eyes and phenomenal features telling Claz that this is the Queen he met before.

'Welcome to Aetan.' she says, smiling warmly.