AURELIA
and my hands aren't clean
maybe they never will be
maybe they never will be
Aurelia's gaze follows the excited dignity of Melita's flower-dance. Her own chest heaves with fuller breaths, smelling and even tasting the floral wilds around them as they give in to the call of the wind. She laughs as Melita falls into place beside her with a gasp.
A contagious grin indeed, Aurelia finds herself mirroring it as she relaxes, leaning back on the palms of her hands as they dig into the roots around her. "Yep!" She nods once in smug confirmation at Melita's surprise, and is fully expecting a demand of tell me more.
Her gaze drifts over the tops of roses and primroses, each of them an astoundingly unique shade from the last. This is a land that's truly been blessed, either by the gods or by mother nature herself. As the two settle in, Aurelia is able to take notice of the various dragonflies or bees that hover overhead. Suppose they are curious to see what all the ruckus is about.
Perhaps inspired by her memories of Mildew's connection to the world around her, Aurelia extends out a gentle hand towards an actual honeybee that lands nearby. She lets it fumble onto her finger before she lifts it up to her eye-level. Smiling, she tilts her head at it as it seems to rest there.
"Well, for starters, her name is Mildew," she begins, "and all the bugs and small critters around her seemed to be drawn to her. Like.. by some invisible force. As if she was connected to them," she glances back over at Melita, spying the busied motions of skilled fingers and vaguely wondering what she's doing. "Anyway, she.. took me back to her house. Well, it was more like a hut, but it was a pretty nice hut if you ask me," Aurelia shrugs a little at that, "and then she told me my fortune."
"She said that I would face unimaginable horrors!" She says the words with such emphasis that she can almost taste each syllable, lifting her head as she does and putting on a hardened frown for emphasis. "And I'd have to put my mind to being stronger in order to come out of it. Pretty cryptic, huh? I don't know... I don't really see anything like that right now, although.. there was the starwhale after that. That was pretty horrible," her voice and expression soften then, as she looks down towards what Melita is making. If anything, since the telling of her fortune, she's experienced far more great, amazing things than.. terrible horrors. "Anyway, she um.. she said I could be a hero, maybe. Not really sure what that means but, hey, 's gotta be good, right?" She winks at Melita and grins again.
After a poignant pause, she adds on a final note, "She also told me I should do Safrin's work. The card I pulled, I guess it was hers." She arches her brows towards Melita then, wondering what her friend, a follower of Ludo, might think of that.
A contagious grin indeed, Aurelia finds herself mirroring it as she relaxes, leaning back on the palms of her hands as they dig into the roots around her. "Yep!" She nods once in smug confirmation at Melita's surprise, and is fully expecting a demand of tell me more.
Her gaze drifts over the tops of roses and primroses, each of them an astoundingly unique shade from the last. This is a land that's truly been blessed, either by the gods or by mother nature herself. As the two settle in, Aurelia is able to take notice of the various dragonflies or bees that hover overhead. Suppose they are curious to see what all the ruckus is about.
Perhaps inspired by her memories of Mildew's connection to the world around her, Aurelia extends out a gentle hand towards an actual honeybee that lands nearby. She lets it fumble onto her finger before she lifts it up to her eye-level. Smiling, she tilts her head at it as it seems to rest there.
"Well, for starters, her name is Mildew," she begins, "and all the bugs and small critters around her seemed to be drawn to her. Like.. by some invisible force. As if she was connected to them," she glances back over at Melita, spying the busied motions of skilled fingers and vaguely wondering what she's doing. "Anyway, she.. took me back to her house. Well, it was more like a hut, but it was a pretty nice hut if you ask me," Aurelia shrugs a little at that, "and then she told me my fortune."
"She said that I would face unimaginable horrors!" She says the words with such emphasis that she can almost taste each syllable, lifting her head as she does and putting on a hardened frown for emphasis. "And I'd have to put my mind to being stronger in order to come out of it. Pretty cryptic, huh? I don't know... I don't really see anything like that right now, although.. there was the starwhale after that. That was pretty horrible," her voice and expression soften then, as she looks down towards what Melita is making. If anything, since the telling of her fortune, she's experienced far more great, amazing things than.. terrible horrors. "Anyway, she um.. she said I could be a hero, maybe. Not really sure what that means but, hey, 's gotta be good, right?" She winks at Melita and grins again.
After a poignant pause, she adds on a final note, "She also told me I should do Safrin's work. The card I pulled, I guess it was hers." She arches her brows towards Melita then, wondering what her friend, a follower of Ludo, might think of that.
but they can still carry you home
when you're ready to sleep
when you're ready to sleep
