DEIMOS
He didn’t frequently stand at altars like so many of them, incapable of uttering anything resembling prayer; they were oaths, assurances, begging, pleading things instead. The beast watched the rest of the world come and go, roses fleeting, roses broken, particles and patterns of blighted madness stretching along their seams. A layer of fatigue pressed against his shoulders, but he didn’t hold them down, didn’t fall apart, didn’t reel into the realm as a broken, despondent piece (though he wanted to; the exhaustion curling and coiling, but there was too much to be done so ever consider drifting into melancholy’s grasp). Somewhere nearby, Amalia sang, Remi’s magic intertwined, and cardinal-red beckoned, Arduinna’s sacrifice in flames and then wood, twisting and turning into petrified mass until he couldn’t fathom or prolong his wait any longer; Deimos kneeled, breath heavy, naught to offer but his presence and the work completed. A pressing, compelling notion spiraled through his head, his veins, his skin, perhaps work of the Attuned, far more in touch with the earth, with the gods, with any sensation of piety than his Abandoned side, his eyes closed and his head murky, mired, rooted. It is done was all he managed to conjure, sending it into the soil with his bare hands touching earth and snow and scraping into the void; Zuriel slipping beside him, bending her knees, tipping her horn to the grace of the shrine.--
Post in {SWE} Deliverance and collect three of Vi's Roses (do not pluck them, you must have roots and all!)
- Done
Complete three threads planting the roses: one must be at Mathair, one must be at the Spire and one may be in a place of your choice!
- {PQ} hope as fragile as a rose Planting at the Spire
- {SE} heaven and back Planting at Mathair
- menace of the years Planting at Whispershore
Try to convince a blighted individual to prick their finger on one of Vi's Roses - you don't have to be successful.
- stretched-thin shadows
Once all of the above is complete return to the Deliverance thread (yes, post a second time) and pray to Rae.
- Done
He was something solid
to lean against
violent and fierce and unmoving
