From being an Abandoned who had rarely left the Hollowed Grounds, to embracing the call of adventure, to dying and being reborn first as an Ascended and then as an Ancient, Maea has gone through quite the amount of changes in her life. One thing remains common, though, in her attempts to find out just where she belongs; she’s always had a craving for knowledge which has brought her to so many places and to meet so many people here in Caido. We can’t wait to see what else is in store for her!
Congratulations, Maea!
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Court of the Fallen was created in October of 2018 by Odd, Honey, and Crooked.
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'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned
These tides were growing to be a total pain in her ass. Paige grits her teeth, tugging on the line of her small sailboat, trying to avoid the rocky outcropping that threatened to ruin her day. She narrowly manages to avoid it, aiming for the sandy shore, and running herself aground as gracefully as she can manage. Paige grumbles, cursing to herself as she grabs up her small picnic basket, deciding she might as well enjoy herself while she waits for the surf to calm a bit more.
Plopping down into the sand with a grunt, the Attuned puts the basket between her legs, opening it with a bit more force than necessary. She grabs her wrapped sandwich out of the basket, tearing a bite out of it much like a feral animal, chewing before washing it down with a swig of something that surely isn't water.
Squinting up into the sunlight, Paige digs her toes into the sand, humming at the damp warmth that spreads over her skin. She always liked it out here. Why exactly didn't she come more often? Paige snorts to herself, a grin curling on her lips, "Because you're building an empire, Berkley. Don't you forget that." Paige says mostly to herself, bringing up one of her joints to her lips and lighting it with a flick of her wrist and the strike of a match.
We made plans to kiss the sun at night Hopeless dreamers, hopeless types
Of all the placed in Stormbreak to buy a gift for someone, Ellyra couldn't really decide. Her wage from the hospital wasn't anything that kept her wrapped in riches, so her options were pretty limited when it came to buying something handmade. So, instead, she ventured down to Torchline. She knew she would need to walk the beaches to find something she could make for Sohalia, or even find something she could use to trade for something already made.
The winds whipped her hair as they did the waves, making it more difficult than Ellyra anticioted, given the season. Stopping, she huffed and pulled her hair back into a wild bun. "Tides are awfully high this season, don't you think?" The lioness called out, bringing her hand up to sheild her eyes from the sun as she looked over at the other woman.
Shedding skin you show your beauty scars Don't forget me or who you are
'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned
The voice cuts through the din of the waves and wind, causing Paige to snap her head around, joint still caught in her lips. Her fingers itch for her knife, unappreciative of the fact she was just snuck up on, but the Attuned draws a deep breath and stream of smoke with it. Letting it go slowly, she schools her face and emotions, keeping that carefully built wall in place. "Yeah... Real high. Thank you, Safrin." The drawl of distaste that covers her words like a drizzle of honey is obvious.
She didn't worry about offending anyone, knowing that her god of choice would find her annoyance over the goddess amusing if nothing else. Leave it to Safrin to disappear and send all of Caido into a tizzy. Way to be the center of attention! Not like you had to try hard anyway. Paige thought to herself, kicking off a bit of ash from her joint as she looked at the roiling waves.
We made plans to kiss the sun at night Hopeless dreamers, hopeless types
”Hey, now.” Ellyra scolded, clearly offended. She stepped a few steps closer to the stranger, feet shifting until she was ankle deep in the sand. She felt the prickle of annoyance flicker across her nape as she crossed her arms around her chest (thankful she wasn’t able to partially shift yet, else her claws might dog holes in her arms). ”Safrin is out protecting Caido, and all you’re doing is sitting on your ass.”
The lioness was ready to defend her goddess— the one who had so generously brought forth the inner secrets of her soul by attuning her. Safrin was not the problem here, and like her shift she was ready to defend what was hers.
Shedding skin you show your beauty scars Don't forget me or who you are
'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned
The Attuned couldn't help the amused smile that curled up on her lips, pressing them together to keep from outright grinning, "Don't get your panties in a twist. I'm doing plenty aside from sitting on my ass, thank you." Paige drawled, bringing the joint back up to her lips and inhaling deeply, blowing out a plume of smoke. "Just don't really see much of her, uh, efforts here. She disappeared and now everything is out of balance. Sounds like a problem to me."
She shrugged her shoulders, glancing back at the woman with an arched brow, "'sides... She's not my goddess." Truth be told, the Attuned didn't have much of an opinion on her aside from the fact that she certainly liked being the center of attention.
We made plans to kiss the sun at night Hopeless dreamers, hopeless types
Somehow, the smile Paige smiled made Ellyra's blood boil. She had never felt an ire come up in her so quick, and as she searched within herself to find the cause she could only find two things: her lioness nature, and her love for Safrin. It made the hair prickle along her neck as it was now exposed to the open hair from having pulled her blonde mane away from it.
"There's none better than her. At least she is doing something." Ellyra nearly growled, her voice lowered so low it was barely a whisper audible over the wind. She stepped closer again, arms crossing across her chest. "Your god, whichever one, is doing just as you are." Read: sitting on their ass.
Shedding skin you show your beauty scars Don't forget me or who you are
'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned
Well, well, well... Someone was easily riled. The onslaught of emotion that hits her along the bond is a bright poker against her subconscious and she almost hisses out loud at the sensation. She winced, almost flinching away from the woman, "Gods, will you please control your side of the bond?" Paige snapped, the ire she was feeling from the other woman making her snap in a way even the mirthroot couldn't counteract.
"There are a lot of gods in the world of Caido, old and new. Safrin, no matter how amazing, isn't the end all be all." Neither was Ludo. They were a part of a bigger picture. That was the long and the short of it. The fact that this particular Attuned thought as such said a lot about her. "Given that Ludo doesn't really have an ass... I doubt it." Though, she was sure that given the chance, Ludo would find a way to give themselves one just so they could make joke about it.
12-07-2023, 05:34 PM (This post was last modified: 03-29-2024, 11:17 PM by Ellyra.)
Ellyra
We made plans to kiss the sun at night Hopeless dreamers, hopeless types
”No.” Ellyra said simply, opening the floodgates so that Paige felt and heard everything within her mind over the bond. The bright red and white bursts of frustration, the green ignition of her soul sparking, the fiery tones of yellow and orange smoothing everything in a thick, dangerous layer of jealous pride.
”Ludo? You can’t be serious.” Ellyra scoffed loudly, letting a laugh drown it down in the wind. Ludo, the trickster herald of death, was supposedly doing more than SAfrin? Ellyra could have laughed herself silly. What a preposterous idea! The lioness felt her skin prickle more, and she couldn’t help the way her legs pulled her suddenly then away from the stranger. "You don't have your head on straight." She said, turning to walk away.
FIN
Shedding skin you show your beauty scars Don't forget me or who you are
