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 Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:38 pm
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High above the desert in hawk form, Ayira had begun her search for an answer to the big problem currently plaguing the Firekin. A day had passed since her meeting with the council and after consulting both of her children on the matter, she was ready to make her move. Adanna was a powerful seer but too smart to give straight answers or put much faith in her visions, Adeyemi was much more laid back about his abilities and trusted his gut more than thoughtful analysis.. between the two of them, she knew that there was an answer to the problem out here in the desert, she just had to find it.
She had no hope of stopping the storm herself, this was far beyond her abilities. What she would need was another god that was closer to this: sand, the desert, storms, wind, something useful! There was hope in the fact that the Haven was closed off and so the gods were homeless and being stuck in the mortal world could make some of them restless. She just needed a god drawn to this to be one of use.
After a long journey around the desert, Ayira finally found what she was looking for. There was a break in the storm. She didn't know if sandstorms behaved like rainstorms but she figured looking for a would-be eye of the storm was as good a starting point as any. Any anomaly in this mass of swirling sand was worth investigating and after hours of staring into a blur, she was almost excited to find something. So she descended into the storm, taking on her true form as she hit the ground. |
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:22 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:10 am
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:25 am
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This was going to be exactly as difficult as she imagined. His gaze, his tone, his threat, it all spoke to exactly what he thought about her. She did not regret her encouragement except that now she was specifically seeking the opposite. She could genuinely want both things! But.. there was no point getting preemptively anxious or upset.
"Actually, I was hoping to find a way to stop it," Ayira said, careful to keep her voice calm but knowing there was no point being coy or dishonest, "This storm is already upon unsuspecting mortals. Under normal circumstances I wouldn't intervene but this isn't just unnatural, it's supernatural. Even I know that's unfair."
Would he let her get away with just that? He still sounded inclined to leave mortals alone, if she were literally anybody else then this might have been enough. If she had known, if her children had been able to warn her, she might have brought one of them here instead.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 3:24 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:29 pm
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Ayira was too proud to realize that Kamiseen was calmly asking reasonable questions and not actually grilling her over the obvious contradiction she had found herself in at that moment. Every reasonable question was an attack, a thread against the goal she had coming out here, and it took a great deal of effort not to get defensive.
But gods had all the time in the world, really, so she gave herself a moment.
"I've grown attached to the mortals I told you about before, the ones living in this desert," she said, still choosing to be honest but feeling oddly vulnerable about admitting that she dared to care about a bunch of short-lived nobodies, "But that's not why I'm intervening now, not entirely. Haven't you noticed that something is wrong?"
Standing in the eye of an endless sandstorm with the God of Sandstorms, who said he wasn't responsible for it, it was a ridiculous question to ask.
"Whatever has locked us out of the Haven is hurting the natural order of this world," she said, frowning, "Death in a world of runaway magic doesn't do any good."
Ayira had certainly changed since she had come to the Firekin but the truth of the matter was more complicated than that. She was not as cold and distant as she often seemed, though embodying the life-or-death competition for survival made it hard to see. This wouldn't be the only hard conversation she had about her motivations. She would have to face the Hongshan next, and that would be harder than converting even the most stubborn Firekin.
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 3:12 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 1:11 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 6:45 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 6:59 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 7:01 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 7:10 pm
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