Melita
they should have checked the ashes
of the women they burned alive
of the women they burned alive
They made their return from the Climb in decent fashion – only lightly smelling of fire and brimstone. With embers in her heart and flames in her soul, she angled along the outcropping of rocks, Fangorn under one arm, and the satchel carrying everything else she needed in the other. She’d placed the nest purposefully along precarious reaches, ensuring nothing and no one would be reaching the collected filaments of ash, soot, and rock, and was content to find, other than a few wind-strewn pieces, it remained the same as she’d left it.
Settling upon her knees in front of the area, the flurry of excitement unfurled through her fingers as she went over the loam again, smoothing out the surface, breathing in little flickers of exuberance and wonder. “This could be it,” she murmured to her faithful gourd, who rumbled some of his own contentment and acclaim, vines shaking upward, before he helped in leveling out the next too.
Thereafter, the honeybee tugged open her satchel, revealing the final proportions. “Sorry, none of this is for you,” when she saw the alighted gaze of the pumpkin. “Later though, I promise.” He’d been an excellent help, and wasn’t to be outdone or left behind. Then she put out the cooked ramphire meat from the Lava Pits, and all the thoughts floating along that particular conversation.
And waited.
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Turning in Melita’s companion quest for a dragon from sleep in the fire
Ash Collecting: {se} accordion string heart
Volcanic Rock Collecting: {se} give and take
Nest Building: (open) I know you're shining on
Ramphire Hunting: won't stop running wild
Cooking Ramphire Meat: playing with a stick of dynamite
Start a thread with cooked meat in nest and notify admin in admin chat: Done ;D
Settling upon her knees in front of the area, the flurry of excitement unfurled through her fingers as she went over the loam again, smoothing out the surface, breathing in little flickers of exuberance and wonder. “This could be it,” she murmured to her faithful gourd, who rumbled some of his own contentment and acclaim, vines shaking upward, before he helped in leveling out the next too.
Thereafter, the honeybee tugged open her satchel, revealing the final proportions. “Sorry, none of this is for you,” when she saw the alighted gaze of the pumpkin. “Later though, I promise.” He’d been an excellent help, and wasn’t to be outdone or left behind. Then she put out the cooked ramphire meat from the Lava Pits, and all the thoughts floating along that particular conversation.
And waited.
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Turning in Melita’s companion quest for a dragon from sleep in the fire
Ash Collecting: {se} accordion string heart
Volcanic Rock Collecting: {se} give and take
Nest Building: (open) I know you're shining on
Ramphire Hunting: won't stop running wild
Cooking Ramphire Meat: playing with a stick of dynamite
Start a thread with cooked meat in nest and notify admin in admin chat: Done ;D
because it takes a single wild ember
to bring a whole wildfire to life
to bring a whole wildfire to life
