fire and iron and scales

Ludo The chess and checker pieces weave and dance about each other, as if in an imaginary fight. Then one checker piece flings itself off and into the ocean, landing in the water with a plunk. The victor remains - it and the rocks rise up and into the waving rags of the waiting god. Ludo appears as it usually does at the Torchline shrine, wrapped about the statue in an embrace. It regards Melita curiously, mask tilted at the Accepted. "Then speak it, sweetling. For requests will remain just that until their terms are made material." It waved the little chess piece at her, like it was the toy doing the speaking, not the deity.