Last year Rory had labored to raise the perch for the Spark Bird, should she choose to bring her light to the Hollowed Grounds during Long Night. Now the time had come to once again assemble the great bird's traditional roost, and Rory had a partner to help him in his work. Admittedly a still-blighted and often snarling partner... but one who was getting a little better every day. While the leatherworker was working hard to make sure the farmstead was ready for Long Night*, Jigano offered to gather the people and resources needed to pull together the main parts of the perch.
Besides, he had a rather personal stake in it this time around, after what had happened last year.
Whether the Spark Bird would come back now that the barrier was down was another question entirely. Loren's ability to summon a temporary bird only added to the uncertainty; whether its light would prevent the real one from returning a concern they had no answer to. At the very least, Jigano hoped, the perch would be a safe place for the summoned Spark Birds to go where they wouldn't burn any houses down in the heart of the Settlement.
Assuming the summoned Spark Birds' light would have the same qualities as a real one, something they wouldn't be able to test until Long Night was upon them...
But it all started with having a perch, and that was a task for many hands. Jigano posted the information to the Notice Board, and on the appointed day he waited in the center of the Sanctuary, in the open square where the perch had been raised for three hundred years. His shaking hands were tucked into his sleeves, and a white fur cloak was wrapped snugly around his shoulders. Blue eyes still showed unsettling lines of black through the veining, a visible mark of his continuing fight against the blight in his blood, but his mind was once again mostly his own, even if his emotions were still sometimes not.
This is a PQ for building a Spark Bird perch! All are welcome, there is no limit!
1. Deimos
2. Hotaru
3.Loren
4.
etc.
*Rory being narrated with permission from Neo
Besides, he had a rather personal stake in it this time around, after what had happened last year.
Whether the Spark Bird would come back now that the barrier was down was another question entirely. Loren's ability to summon a temporary bird only added to the uncertainty; whether its light would prevent the real one from returning a concern they had no answer to. At the very least, Jigano hoped, the perch would be a safe place for the summoned Spark Birds to go where they wouldn't burn any houses down in the heart of the Settlement.
Assuming the summoned Spark Birds' light would have the same qualities as a real one, something they wouldn't be able to test until Long Night was upon them...
But it all started with having a perch, and that was a task for many hands. Jigano posted the information to the Notice Board, and on the appointed day he waited in the center of the Sanctuary, in the open square where the perch had been raised for three hundred years. His shaking hands were tucked into his sleeves, and a white fur cloak was wrapped snugly around his shoulders. Blue eyes still showed unsettling lines of black through the veining, a visible mark of his continuing fight against the blight in his blood, but his mind was once again mostly his own, even if his emotions were still sometimes not.
This is a PQ for building a Spark Bird perch! All are welcome, there is no limit!
1. Deimos
2. Hotaru
3.
4.
etc.
*Rory being narrated with permission from Neo
