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Aurelia Murlow
the Fireheart


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#1
Aurelia
How come silence is so loud in the shadows?
I wanna scream 'til it's on
Of course she's back here, in the Wilds. Drawn to it like a moth to a flame, or... maybe more like an encantado to mysterious waters.

So through the tangles, her feet guide her, deeper and deeper into the mist. It doesn't deter her, though it does prickle against her skin and raise the hairs on her arms. Her pace slows to a more cautious one and her mind wanders distractedly toward far-off things. Otherwise, she forges onward.

The crash of the Leap starts to mute her surroundings as she follows it pointedly. Jungle birdsong and chirping bugs fade into the background, grasses and leaves part into open space.

There's a splash beneath her, and she suddenly finds herself knee-deep in water. She startles, jolting to a halt. Or she tries, anyway.

She fumbles gracelessly into the still water, sending ripples across it's surface - what surface that's visible, at least.

Gods-damn soaked. She's soaked completely through. "Pbbt- ugh," she spits out a wet leaf as she sits up, mumbling, "just my luck." Panic alights her eyes when she realizes her knife is missing from it's sheath. Subtly desperate, she snakes her hands through the water around her. "No- where'd you go?"
Tell my feet they should run
but they don't follow


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A glint. A glimmer, just there - beneath the ripples.

The mists roll and writhe, silent though they are, their motion conjures phantom sounds of beating drums and tree branches lashed about in a strong wind. They toss and tumble like water poured from a pitcher with time slowed down.

But never mind that. Your knife, sweet girl. It's just there in the water.
Aurelia Murlow
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Aurelia
How come silence is so loud in the shadows?
I wanna scream 'til it's on
The aura of her surroundings suddenly shifts. As she turns up her chin in a small pause to look around, her eyes widen a fraction. The trees bend and sway to the pressure of the squalls. She can feel the world stirring around her, as if by some sudden force. There's a cadence to it, but Aurelia mistakes the drumbeats on the wind for an oncoming storm. She thinks that she should hurry up.

Her fingers graze through mud and water with more intention. Green eyes turn back to the surface and, to her relief, find that a glint shines out from beneath. Plunging her hands for it, she huffs out in a small triumph, "Gotcha!"
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Perhaps you shouldn't celebrate so soon, sweet girl.

As Aurelia's hand reaches into the water, there is nothing for her fingers to close on. Worse still, she's propelled by a momentum that doesn't match that with which she reached for the blade; falling forward, Aurelia falls, and falls, and—

—the water breathes her in, swallowing her, digesting her, and spitting her out the other side.

The girl will emerge in the lake, the trees and her surroundings now utterly disfigured by the mists that lay heavily upon them. The water is freezing, hardening around her throat as she treads water that threatens to make her skin go numb in mere minutes.
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Aurelia
How come silence is so loud in the shadows?
I wanna scream 'til it's on
No knife is gotcha'd. In fact, it seems as though she's the one that's been got. Almost as if someone had pushed her in, she falls. It's not a short trip, either, but a rushing plummet. The first things she feels are the cold and the pounding of her blood in her head.

She emerges with a loud splutter, gasping for air, but things don't feel right. They don't look right, either. Panic grips around her throat like the water swirling around it, her limbs thrashing fiercely to fight against this fucked up kind of gravity. She can't take too much time to wonder what the hell is going on.

Get out of the water first, ask questions later. The knife, therefore, has to be abandoned. But the treeline is distorted and she can't tell up from down, lost in the mist. With a reluctant, frustrated snarl, she kicks out for a single direction, hoping that if she goes far enough, she'll reach the shore eventually. Is this a good tactic? She has no fucking idea.
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but they don't follow


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Something brushes against the smuggler's legs. Seaweed? A bit of driftwood? The current, perhaps?

Aurelia...

The voice is sweet, in the way an apple laced with arsenic would still be sweet.

The mist around thickens. It almost looks dense enough that she might reach out and use it to tug herself from the water, but no...it yields easily beneath her fingers; dissipating, but not enough that she might see the world around her any easier.

She swims and swims, though no shoreline presents itself. Has she gone the wrong way, or is there simply no shoreline to reach? Already the smuggler's limbs are growing stiff from the cold, and the surface of the water begins to solidify. She can break apart the thin crest of ice forming easily enough, but for now long?
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Aurelia
How come silence is so loud in the shadows?
I wanna scream 'til it's on
Hearing her name in a sickeningly-sweet voice, feeling something glide against her legs, only drives her to continue pedaling through the water. It alights some sort of carnal fear within her, feeling like she's being chased.

But she's been swimming too far for any of this to make sense. She should've reached the shore by now. The ice forming around her, enclosing her, is a subtle warning that time is tick, tick, ticking away - and she's made no real strides. For a moment she stops in the water, mentally flicking through her very limited options.

Going off of a hunch that might be completely wrong, she resolves. "Have it your way, then," she murmurs before sucking in a deep breath to hold firmly in her lungs. Once more, the water takes her under the surface and into its depths. At least this time, it's by her own choice. She keeps her eyes open and searches for... well, she doesn't know that anymore, but she searches anyway.
Tell my feet they should run
but they don't follow


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Trick or not, you still need to breathe little duck. Or maybe you don't? You'll get your answer one way or another.

The ice hardens overhead. It's as thick as a piece of paper—no, now a bit of cardboard. Beneath the water it appears that the lake is endlessly deep. Though the light that bleeds down is diffused quite quickly, all fades to a deep green at the bottom.

Seconds tick by. Are your lungs scream yet? Does it feel like the sort of trick you can will-power your way through?

'Aurelia...'
Aurelia Murlow
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Aurelia
How come silence is so loud in the shadows?
I wanna scream 'til it's on
Well, this doesn't appear to be working the way she expected either. Her first, logical answer didn't work and now the illogical solution doesn't either. Frustration and confused fear work a hard line between her brows as she stops diving and looks toward the ice and light, a few bubbles streaming up from her nose.

Just as she's thinking she doesn't want to risk it, she hears her name again - as if spoken aloud. She turns swiftly, as swiftly as one can in the not-upside down, and her gaze scans the dark green depths.

She wants to speak, to demand to know who's there, but she can't - not when she's underwater. So she kicks out her feet but not to panic back to the surface. Instead, she searches deeper, feeling a sense of urgency prickle at her edges.
Tell my feet they should run
but they don't follow


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Aurelia's lungs will begin to scream with her need to breathe and though she will try and fight the panic, some instincts are simply too strong.

Breathe

but at the same time

"..Aurelia..."

BREATHE "..Aurelia..."

Soft and sweet the voice continues to call out, the syllables of her name humming in the dark waters that threaten to choke the life from her lungs.
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Aurelia
How come silence is so loud in the shadows?
I wanna scream 'til it's on
There's nothing more she finds here than that voice, calling out her name again and again. But she can't hold her breath for much longer. The urgency reaches through to her core, strangling her lungs, and she gives in to the instincts of self-preservation after all - as she always has. There's no time for anything else now.

With a choked expression, she makes back for the ice with swift kicks that unleash a stir of rippling bubbles in her wake. Her hands reach up, bracing her elbows to try and break the through the ice that she knows is overhead, if only to be able to breathe.
Tell my feet they should run
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The ice has formed a mirror-hard surface over head. As Aurelia's hands and elbows and forearms bang against it, she'll find that her reflection wables and waivers.

goodbye aurelia...

Her reflection spiderwebs and cracks, and she continues to fight for her right to breathe, pieces of her soul shift and change. The eyes gazing down at her from her frightened reflection snarl and sway, and when finally the girl is able to push her way through, the eyes that Aurelia sees the world with shall be very different.

A single sheet of ice floats around the smuggler; the fog has lifted and the bank is easily within sight. All that remains of the strange experience is the rapidly melting chill around her, and..

..wait, no. Something is different. Breathing in, Aurelia will find that...it feels different than it did before. Blinking feels slightly different, her hands feel slightly different...and yet the world remains entirely as it had been before.

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