It was both strange and familiar to feel like an outsider again. On the one hand, it certainly wasn't the first time that Alys had felt like the odd woman out; on the other, it had been some time since she'd felt that way. Since she'd moved to Halo, in fact. So to experience it now was an unpleasant annoyance, and she did her best to ignore the feeling as they traipsed through the desert.
They had no more begun their journey than the sky overhead clouded, and then it began to rain. Alys looked up in surprise, holding a hand out to catch a few droplets on her palm. It must surely be a sign, for such an odd occurrence to bless them. Even Deimos seemed to agree: a good omen, he called it, and Alys had to agree, returning his grin with a quick smile of her own.
They found themselves eventually at a burial ground of sorts - though Alys wasn't sure what one would call it when the bones weren't properly underground. In any case, she looked around with interest, morbidly curious about the many piles that surrounded them. She wandered closer to a pile, peering at it, wondering what it had been in life, and contemplating how it could be useful in death.
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Alys chooses the very dead landsharks (although she doesn't know what they are, oops).
They had no more begun their journey than the sky overhead clouded, and then it began to rain. Alys looked up in surprise, holding a hand out to catch a few droplets on her palm. It must surely be a sign, for such an odd occurrence to bless them. Even Deimos seemed to agree: a good omen, he called it, and Alys had to agree, returning his grin with a quick smile of her own.
They found themselves eventually at a burial ground of sorts - though Alys wasn't sure what one would call it when the bones weren't properly underground. In any case, she looked around with interest, morbidly curious about the many piles that surrounded them. She wandered closer to a pile, peering at it, wondering what it had been in life, and contemplating how it could be useful in death.
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Alys chooses the very dead landsharks (although she doesn't know what they are, oops).
alys glasse
waiting for the right mind to drive insane
