Stein here asked me to go check in on Anne.
I guess she’s been having a hard time adjusting back to normal life. That’s understandable, given she’s been in a crystal prison in Pandoria for….months, I think? I actually don’t know how much time has passed. Also, she just found out her soul bound horse died and is now some random filly. And then Elizabeth died. It’s a lot to take in.
It seems she found another horse, since she can’t ride Concorde. Her name is Ganymede. She’s not quite as perfect for Anne as Concorde is.
Anne said working with Ganymede is a good distraction from how much she wants to kill Darko for everything he did.
Then she took off and we raced for a while
Eventually we ran into Lisa.
We stopped and Anne yelled at us to leave her alone
Lisa said they’re a sisterhood and they’re not gonna do that. Anne questioned that, but Lisa said they’ll always be a sisterhood.
It sounds like even before the soul riders were attacked and went missing, they were drifting apart. We may have everyone back together again, but they’re still oceans apart.
Destiny brought them together, but it didn’t make them all friends. That’s harder. The first time they started bonding was during the Light Ride.
I asked what the Light Ride was, and they explained it’s a Jorvik tradition to ride out into the woods in Goldenhills Valley during Aideen’s Festival and seek Aideen’s blessings.
Lisa suggested we do the Light Ride again this year. They’ll have a little reunion, but this time I’ll be there too. Anne agreed we need this. I was tasked with inviting Linda and Alex.
First Linda, at her actual house this time instead of the library or Stone Circle.
I left Chance out here with Meteor and Concorde and went inside
Fancy. I love all the purple
I had a little heart to heart with Linda before I got the chance to invite her on a light ride. She told me she doesn’t believe in monsters, and by that she means nobody is truly good or evil. Even Mr Sands, as bad as everything he has done, had his reasons. I love a reformed villain, too, Linda. And anyways, Mr Sands helped us save Justin. He’s not all bad. But we still have to stop people from doing bad things, good intentions or not.
She also let me snoop around her room. I found out her parents are both teachers at Oxford, and she wants to study there someday. She’s Punjabi, her family moved here from Pakistan when she was just a baby and most of her extended family is actually in England. Also she lives with her Auntie and her cat’s name is Misty.
Anyways, I told her we plan to do the Light Ride together and she sounded really excited for it. She told me Alex went to visit James in Fort Pinta so I can probably find her there
Yep, she’s right.
Alex and James thought I might be delivering their pizza when I showed up. That does seem like the kind of random sidequest I get roped into, but no.
Then Alex was worried there was a Soul Rider emergency. Nope, well not really.
Finally they let me get out that I’m just here to invite Alex to the Light Ride. She said of course she’ll meet us there as soon as she can get away from James and Mayor Peanut