M E L I T A
The fire sizzled in her eyes, and it was dazzling. She could recall moments of invocation and enchantments scorching the grounds of the Dragon’s Throat, smoldering through the Rift as monster after monster made it itself known, or just the quiet, unsung moments scattered in between, the ease of practice conjured by others. The honeybee girl wasn’t sure why she’d never been blessed – her consecrations were more aligned towards impulsive whims and mercurial, tempestuous decisions, the swift, shifting instances, roaring and growling at treacherous fiends. Perhaps the world had thought all her flaws, all her virtues, had been orchestrated into enough foils and foibles to last a lifetime, or maybe she’d been overlooked, passed by for someone stronger, someone mightier. Melita would ensure they’d regret the latter; because she was ravenous and mercenary, gleaming for the craving of dominion and power, strength and fortitude.
She hesitated – craving to ask how the other youth had managed to get ahold of the divination, but then presumed she’d been granted, gifted, or born with the ability, so she stuffed the inquiry in the back of her mind, saved it for another day, another instant, grinning wildly as more flames rendered gourds to cinders. The innuendo went completely over her head, scarcely registered, more taken in by the embers and coal, by the wake of ash left across marsh and grass. Her gaze settled briefly on the bobcat cub, hardly ashamed that she’d asked for more, shrugging at the hisses.
But then the maiden matched brazen smile for audacious splendor, impish, devil-may-care grin firmly in place during the entire show. “Yes!” She responded in turn; always ready, eager, fervent for the fray, to destroy, to ensure none of her comrades were ever harmed. “Unless there’s something else to do?” Her gilded stare flickered in all directions, glancing this way and that, presuming no other monsters but the ridiculous gourds would be coming – but maybe there were other methods of mischief and mayhem to be encountering.
