Ampere looks towards Sunjata as he approaches, a broad grinning spreading across her lips as he proffers his flattery, his voice as alluring as ever. Minding her role in this meeting however Ampere doesn't honor him with a returned statement, though her gaze does linger longer than necessary before it flicks over to Volterra and quietly settles into business as he begins to speak about Sabia. She's oblivious to the Sultan's thoughts on her relationship with Sunjata, which is probably just as well. She'd already fallen for a Sultan once, she didn't need to get tangled up with another, not especially now that she had a taste for liquor.
With Ilios nowhere in sight, they focused their details on the sneak that was present. As Volterra explained, Ampere finished with a warning,
"be careful." Ampere held Sunjata in her gaze, her worry earnest, if not slightly magnified due to her particular liking of him.
"She's been gone so long I do fear something terrible, especially given our times. Your rank is one that often works alone, much as I hate the thought." He wouldn't have to be completely alone if Ilios would help him, but she knew theirs was very independent and secretive work, and if Sabia had gone to another herd, that would definitely require delicacy to learn such.
"Please make it your priority, whatever answer we eventually find, the boy at the very least has the right to know it." Ampere frowned, still unhappy with the situation, until a thought dawned upon her. She reached with her magic for one of the metal blades tucked away on her back, one of the few that never found someone worth being given to.
A gleaming dagger drifted forth and was laid at Sunjata's feet.
"Take this blade, Issck. It will help defend you, and guide you." She smiled, but gestured towards the blade in the sand as she murmured,
"speak the phrase 'the whatching shift goes ever on' and see." At the secret command (not so secret now that the WHATCH was no more, so she'd no worry with Volterra overhearing), the blade's surface shimmered and shifted, no longer reflecting the desert sky above them, but the burning of Helovia's heart.
"It will show you nearby lands. Though the window is small and not always clear to see through, it's sibling blades have helped me a time or two." Ampere smirked, displaying Tuor, her own, matching blade that she would keep.
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