WESSEX
out of the night that covers me
It’s as good a day as any for a wander in the Glade. She might have been in Torchline, but they’ve got some nasty, unpredictable storms, and Wessex is over unpredictable environments at the moment. The Glade is never unpredictable. The Glade is beautiful, even in Deepfrost. Though there’s the slight chill of late spring in the night air, she’s dressed as if it were summer, the burns from the lava nearly healed by now. The sweet grass is poking up, bright green and fragrant and it reminds her of a simpler time.
There’s movement in the tree; Wessex freezes, on ‘alert.’ With the supposed Fae killer - but no, it’s just a Hanging snake. Several of them, in fact. They move among the boughs, making their way closer to the ground and the person walking through the area, their tongues flickering in and out curiously. How can they identity a thing which has no known smell? black as the pit from pole to pole i thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul |
Training tomorrow there'll be more of us
for Mabel |
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the Wraith
General of the Hollowed Grounds
Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2 LOKI - Mythical - Dragon (Energy Blast)
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08-19-2020, 06:31 PM
MABEL No need for the parasol as she stretched out into the evening sprawl, indifferent to the cold, to the haze, to the choking measures miring the rest of the world down. Perhaps there was something to be said for either ignorance, inexperience, or skirting around everyone else’s trials and tribulations – a time to adhere to learning curves, before firing away into their own devastations and ruins. And while Mabel didn’t intend to gloriously fuck up like so many of them had here, that didn’t mean it wouldn’t happen eventually.
She wandered into the abyss of the Glade; old habits gesturing and adhering to her movements, lingering down the familiar grasses. Once she’d snagged and snared traps along these reaches, secretive, furtive things, because if their crops didn’t supply food then there’d be starvation – and eventually it came anyway to the little farm, to the smaller children, to the ignorant parents. Her fingers grasped hold hard on her little parasol, taken out with her in case she meandered for too long and morning rose in fringes of dangerous sun. Another seemed to be doing the same, and Mabel froze in familiar fashion, predator or prey, marked in her vicious uncertainty. But as her eyes focused, she realized she knew who it was, and a customary greeting floated from her presence. “Wessex,” and a nod of her head, respectful, even given the last time they’d spoken. I bare my teeth and stretch my claws out the Wraith
General of the Hollowed Grounds
Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2 LOKI - Mythical - Dragon (Energy Blast)
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08-21-2020, 03:05 PM
Age: 23 | Height: 5'7" | Race: Ascended | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: 3 - Strg: 16 - Dext: 16 - Endr: 16 - Luck: 16 - Int:
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08-23-2020, 05:58 PM
MABEL Maybe they were all at odds with the elements, considering Wessex’s movement – and she’d always thought the Wraith to be a part of the darkness itself, fluidly morphing into its structures, and then off on her way. Perhaps it was the circumstances surrounding the world now – Fae attacks, ominous doors, tension filling with the strike of a match.
The inquiry laden before her wasn’t expected though – the girl had rarely interplayed with niceties, with general conversation, too absorbed in thoughts, too aligned to some other subterfuge. But there didn’t seem to be any other game meandering through here, and the inquiry was simple enough. No complexities burdening the horizon, no pressing of some other factors against the midnight oeuvre. “I’m fine.” Truly – wandering in the midst of a path, striving to find a balance, a place to dig her feet in and commit to something for the Voice, for the cause. Her head tilted, parasol balanced across her shoulder, twirled in place there. “What about you?” I bare my teeth and stretch my claws out the Wraith
General of the Hollowed Grounds
Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2 LOKI - Mythical - Dragon (Energy Blast)
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08-24-2020, 09:31 PM
Age: 23 | Height: 5'7" | Race: Ascended | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: 3 - Strg: 16 - Dext: 16 - Endr: 16 - Luck: 16 - Int:
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08-28-2020, 07:53 PM
MABEL Perhaps it was a blessing to not be so readily, heavily, involved with the world at the moment, drifting along on the current, waiting for her chance to pounce upon shining scales. The voids of suffering were paramount conflictions from each region, but she had no way of knowing, of understanding, the reaches and pulls of their forces. Too fresh, too new, too incapable, too ignorant; she understood the scrambling notions clawing at the cobwebs of her mind – just not where to place her feet.
Her eyes went to the snake, an arch to her brow that disappeared when Wessex directed attention back at her. She stood a little taller, a little straighter, wondering how to become that unyielding force, thoughts circumventing back to the meetings held, to the decisions made, to the way it had scratched and beckoned at their enamel during LongNight. “Could you teach me how to fight?” Not a timid voice, but the beginning of a roar, something echoing and pervading while her heart hammered. She didn’t want to be a casualty of an upcoming war, one blip across a list of scrawled out names; she didn’t want to be like the rest of her family, save for Evelyn, perished, tarnished, and erased. I bare my teeth and stretch my claws out the Wraith
General of the Hollowed Grounds
Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2 LOKI - Mythical - Dragon (Energy Blast)
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08-31-2020, 03:53 PM
Age: 23 | Height: 5'7" | Race: Ascended | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: 3 - Strg: 16 - Dext: 16 - Endr: 16 - Luck: 16 - Int:
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08-31-2020, 10:00 PM
MABEL The notion of refusal, of the Wraith simply saying no, hadn’t really entered the girl’s mind until a moment later, when brambles and nettles caught her outright. How ridiculous it would feel, to stand there, before a powerful being, and be told she couldn’t, wouldn’t, train her. And the broken webs shook in her skull – until the feral smile appeared, and suddenly she had nothing to worry about at all.
Not the trial of the upcoming feats. Not the void beckoning to them, over and over and over. Not the world churning, begging for them to be vanquished beneath thumbs and old, primordial aches. “Okay,” an acceptance of the inevitable, but Mabel cannot make any promises on how she moves. She was a farm girl, born and raised for hard, enduring labor, and the only quick action might have been trying to recover loose animals. "Thank you." Because she was grateful. But she didn’t shy at it. Gravitated toward the challenge, to the volley of glow stones suddenly extended, thrown, tossed her way – a hand extended to catch one, leaping over another as it moved to pummel her feet. It was all instinctual, all honed from inherency, rusty, tried and true only from exposure to silly games before life took a different path. One landed squarely on her shoulder when she wasn’t looking, but with no pain, she continued striving, trying, catching several others and bounding away from most. I bare my teeth and stretch my claws out the Wraith
General of the Hollowed Grounds
Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2 LOKI - Mythical - Dragon (Energy Blast)
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09-02-2020, 12:05 AM
Age: 23 | Height: 5'7" | Race: Ascended | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: 3 - Strg: 16 - Dext: 16 - Endr: 16 - Luck: 16 - Int:
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09-02-2020, 03:57 PM
MABEL With the first component completed, the girl extended a soft sigh; uncertain if there was going to be a weight of disapproval, if there were limitations bound to her already, and the Wraith would be done with her immediately.
Instead, she was handed a knife. Knives were familiar. No farm child was worth anything if they didn’t know how to handle a simple jackknife, serrated edges necessary for a variety of means and measures across the land. But she’d rarely used it to stab. To inflict pain. To maul or mutilate. She wasn’t certain if she found the notion fulfilling, rewarding, or daunting. Some of the latter, most of the former. Another breath, and she tucked the offered weapon into her grasp, staring down at the hilt, before lunging. Entirely inexperienced in this mode, but impulsive and unpredictable, intending to lance for somewhere near Wessex’s upper arm. And expecting some full repercussions in return. I bare my teeth and stretch my claws out the Wraith
General of the Hollowed Grounds
Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2 LOKI - Mythical - Dragon (Energy Blast)
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09-06-2020, 02:33 PM
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09-06-2020, 06:03 PM
MABEL Mabel expected the Wraith to dodge; lifetimes of experience against her measly, immature one had obviously taught her well. But there were no consequences to go along with it, no burst of frenetic energy, no punishment doled out and shoving her into the ground. Instead, she was permitted to hone in rituals, rites, and bombardments – and finally the youth relaxed into the formation.
She nodded at the insinuations and instructions, fingers tightening over the hilt, loosening her form, and her eyes narrowing to glance, to look, for openings. But what did those look like? How would she know? Was it a guess, an estimate, a prediction, or something noted and noticed over time? The teenager moved forward again, a simple walk, before bolting to the right, attempting to slash at Wessex’s hip or side. I bare my teeth and stretch my claws out the Wraith
General of the Hollowed Grounds
Age: 47 | Height: 5'8'' | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Hollowed Grounds Level: 12 - Strg: 61 - Dext: 60 - Endr: 61 - Luck: 58 - Int: 2 LOKI - Mythical - Dragon (Energy Blast)
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09-10-2020, 12:53 AM
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