lone-star dreaming

Colt

Love's just one of them words
That gets thrown around
So I ain't gonna say it, no I ain't gonna lie
If you were my last breath, I'd just wanna hold ya

Crouching before a familiar shrine, Colt greets the conclusion of Longnight with the first ribbons of muted gold clipping over the horizon. Ringed fingers tap out a pattern of thought against the mug she huddles herself around, the rising steam from the coffee warming her face and the residual heat sinking into her hands with relief. Not taking her gaze off the world's reawakening, she tips the caffeine back for a sip, breaking the last moment of calm she expects to have for some time. It had been a wonderful time whittling away dark hours with bright friends and a place still near to her heart, but this isn't her home any more, and the one that is requires more work yet.

At the shrine, another pair of mug of coffee sits beneath a curl of steam. Two almond cookies are balanced on it's rim, freshly baked—Colt already ate hers. "Rae," she calls out softly, never having reached out to this deity until now. She's spent time gathering what she needs though to make her prayers land, the need too great for Frey's talents. "I required your assistance in preparing Suvahasi for the town I want to establish there. We don't need all of the jungle, but enough of a place where we could settle and have the resources to survive, without the constant risk of toxic pollen and the extreme heat. Please."

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Colt is using her COTY big god chat to summon Rae for a Hak Etme RQ. This is to make Suvahasi a more suitable living place by reducing the extreme heat and toxicity.

If you were my last shot of whiskey
I'd press you to my lips, take a little sip
Swirl you around and around and around
Then I'd shoot ya down

dance beneath the stars as you drink in the night
let the thunder overtake you as lightning fills the sky.

Rae appears beside the shrine without fanfare: two alike figures in simple earth-toned clothes, their expressions composed and unreadable. Blue eyes settle on the new Marshal with the same neutral appraisal, neither warm nor unkind. "Places with such high levels of toxicity and danger are that way to keep outsiders from settling in them," one says. "You seek a shortcut," says the other, "when you should be learning to evolve to your surroundings."

For a moment, the twins turn their faces toward one another. Their breathing remains in rhythm.

"Though perhaps," they say together, "that is merely what you are doing by calling us."

They consider Colt again before holding out their hands in the same moment. A number of small seeds appear in their palms—plain and dark, no larger than grains of rice—and Rae releases them forward to scatter across the earth between the shrine and the offered coffee. "Take these seeds," the twins say in unison. "Plant them where you would live, and let nature do the rest."

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Hak Etme has been given a quest!

Tasks. There is no time limit. There are currently 5 active Hakians. This means 3 unique characters have to participate. Characters can participate more than once. Colt must participate in at least 2 threads.

1. A thread of at least 2 Hakians surveying the Suvahasi to find out where the addition of a new species will have the least impact
2. A PQ collecting quartz in Hak Etme to be used to purify water with
3. A PQ collecting fertile soil from the Suvahasi
4. A thread collecting water from Frey's Breath
5. A thread of at least 2 Hakians and one member of the Green Circle planting Rae's seeds around the area chosen in #1, using the soil from #3, crushed-up quartz from #2, and the water from #4.

feel the force of nature penetrate your skin,
spin with the world as the magic sinks in.