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A E A I talked to God to no avail
Said, "If you won't save me, please don't waste my time." Dark, winding paths led her deep down into the earth. Shadowfilled corridors where strange lights blinked and disappeared, and hissing creatures dogged her steps. Doors slammed shut behind her and the walls closed in from all sides, and as the air thinned she clawed at her throat, her chest, tore long strips of skin and flesh from the bones in a struggle to breathe... but what came spilling out was not blood but something else, shimmering transparent with a light scent like the earth after a passing rain...
With a gasp Maea jolted upright in the end. Something tore open in her throat and she coughed instinctively, nearly retching on the taste of blood and pus that lingered in her mouth. The infirmary was dark and quiet; any healers present must be sleeping by now, or blushing themselves elsewhere. She wished they had left a lamp burning. The darkness in the room was oppressive, closing in around her like the heavy air down in the bowels of the Spire. The dream still haunted her memory as she stumbled out of bed and reached for the shawl that someone vad placed on a stool. On bare feet, dressed only in her nightgown Maea hurried across the room, out into the temple and off towards the shrine. There would be candles there, light and safety; no monsters would dare come close to a shrine, right? Surely the gods would not allow it, would not permit... anything... to happen under their watching eyes? Pale fingers trembled as she fumbled with the flint and steel, tender and blemished from the toxic burns that had scalded the skin. She didn't even want to know what her face looked like. Her eyes had been bleeding, and her nose too, and though Vai's healing had treated most of the damage there were still scabs, and irritation, and... A spark caught on the tinder. The shadows receded as the tiny flame rose, and she quickly brough a candle wick close, tension easing from her shoulders when it easily caught and the radius of light grew. Another candle was lit, and a third, until the had surrounded herself with a wall of light on every side. A barrier against the dark, to protect her from the things that frightened her. But there was no protecting her from herself. Quiet, unable to offer her usual prayers she sat numbly on the ground, arms wound tight around her knees and the ragged black shawl draped loosely over her shoulders. If the floor was cold she didn't notice. A small blessing. |
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04-05-2019, 11:00 PM
the Voice "There is no need for you to kneel. It must hurt your knees to do so." The enigmatic and yet youthful voice of the Voice said suddenly into the stillness. "I am sorry you were injured within. The guardians are ... well. They did as they were told, I suppose." She said with a soft shrug. Appearing not as she did before, the Voice was now well and truly physical. She appeared as she had before in a softly pulsing blur of blue electric static, only now she was corporeal in a way she'd not been when last Maea had seen her in the atheneum.
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04-05-2019, 11:18 PM
the Voice "No? And yet you did." The Voice replied, strolling around the Temple. It was quite a new experience for her, it had been that long. Spinning on nimble feet at the harsh words, the Voice merely regarded Maea with a long and silent stare that turned sort of sad. "Again, yet you did. All of you, the ones who have grown up knowing what you have, knew what you were doing. Don't pretend otherwise." She replied, her voice youthful, her body willowy and athletic, but her eyes sharp and knowing. "You watched with them as they fought the creature outside of the Spire. You went when they entered." Her shoulders rose and fell, not at all putoff or offended by the implication of what the farm-girl had said.
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04-06-2019, 12:41 AM
the Voice "The freedom you returned." The Voice corrected with a small smile. "And I will do what I did before. I will create, I will make bright those souls that I can." The mention of the Old Gods made her stiffen for a moment, but quickly she laughed as she held out a hand before her. Lightning crackled beneath her fingertips for just a moment, before disappearing with a shrug. "I have spent a long time caged here, Maea. I will not let that happen again. Not to me, nor my children." Her voice was light, but suddenly the air in the room was dynamic as if on the verge of being electrified.
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04-07-2019, 05:09 PM
the Voice The Voice turned her head slightly as if trying to find the words to best demarcate her thoughts. "Did you know the abandoned were not always called so? We were the Acquired once. It is only because of the progress of myself and the Core that you are what you are now. Stronger than you used to be, but abandoned and thus so called." She said sadly. "The magic has left an imprint upon your soul. An imprint that even I cannot scrub out, though I have never actually tried. But I would not risk the small spark that you do have. I do believe it would kill you."
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the Voice The Voice merely shrugged despite the seeming hostility in Maea's voice. "Call it what you like. You are young, an eyelash in the face of time. I don't expect you to understand." She replied in a gentle tone. "Rae does nothing, that is their purpose." The Voice continued. "They watch evolution. The same way that creatures respond to outside stimulus and evolve because of it, so too did we. Rae would not mind what I did. It is natural."
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04-07-2019, 06:13 PM
the Voice "I don't have a problem talking about it. Your judgement is all that is stopping you." the Voice replies with a shrug. However as Maea's attitude changed, the deity spun lightly on her feet to face the pale-haired girl and considered. "It is more than that, yes." With a wave of her hand, a sort of...sterile and white looking room appeared. On it was Maea's body, entirely naked. Blank lilac eyes stared up at the ceiling and the Voice beckoned the real Maea closer. Waving her hand again, layers of skin were suddenly removed with absolute precision. "The things I do first, the obvious things, are easy." With a flick of her wrist, the Maea-corpse's lungs were suddenly replaced with much more efficient ones, her bones made stronger. "But your magic is a part of you. With one whose body is clean, like the accepted, there is nothing to stop the procedure. It can all be changed without any adverse effects to the host. With someone like you though.." As blood was siphoned out of Maea's body and silver liquid replacing it, short bursts of electrical energy began to spark in and out. The weak telekinesis Maea had began to jolt erratically, parts of her body shifting and bones moving where they shouldn't. "Those with healing are much harder to work with, I would think." She concluded with a sigh, watching as Maea's magic fought the changes and eventually her skin began to melt. Waving the simulation away, the Voice sighed. "In order to be made bright, I would have to strip your magic away from you and I am not sure that any could withstand that process. I would not practice that lightly." She replied, arms folding gently around her body. "I have only ever done what you might expect any species to do - to adapt and evolve to survive. The Old Gods create, but they do not sculpt. Not like I do. Rae watches species rise and fall without intervening as is there way. But it need not be the same for me. I can intervene. I can help. It is all I have ever tried to do."
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04-08-2019, 04:05 PM
the Voice The Voice regarded Maea for a moment before shrugging. "I didn't think you would, as I said. You are just one heartbeat in the big scheme of things, I wouldn't worry yourself about it too much. You'll likely never understand." Waltzing around to stand eye-to-eye with the young abandoned, the Voice smiled a sort of melancholy smile. "Remember this moment, if ever you think you do understand things. When you think you have it all figured out, remember this moment and know that you don't." It was meant as gentle advice, but advice could be a warning too. A threat. Gently the Voice shrugged again though. That Maea didn't understand wasn't her problem, not her concern. Mortal minds were so small after all, and as she'd already told Maea, there was nothing she could do to brighten it. And so she vanished. | ||||||
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