Aaliyah rested on the thick branch for a while, enjoyed the smell of nature, the feeling of rain was still in the air for her senses. Her mind traveled to the rainy day yesterday and to the storm that she had heard about on the news. She was aware that it wasn't nature's doing. She knew the nature of earth by now. This was something that someone else had done. She didn't know how and she didn't care. She was just glad that no one got hurt and that it didn't havoc around her living area. It would have been a disaster.
A noise, sounding much like a song, appeared through the trees, danced along the tree trunks and tangled itself up to the leaves on the very top of every tree's crown. It was like a breeze that would brush by everything and everyone and it caught her attention. Her arm started to hurt from the pulsation coming from the tattoo, it had gotten stronger as she song had traveled to her ears. She sat up and let one leg hang off the branch as she looked into the ocean of trees to her left. It was hard to locate the direction the song came from and she wasn't able to do it with her ears. The melody simply started to feel like it was coming from everywhere, maybe even from the trees themselves. But she knew better. And so did her heart.
A strong sense of Eredh was in the air. Her heartbeat quickened, she could feel it inside her chest. What was this song? Before she knew it she had slipped off the branch, fallen a couple of feet deep and landed on hands and feet with no further sound. A human would have had at least a broken ankle if not worse. She stood up and looked into the direction that her Eredh-senses were pointing her to.
"Can you feel this?", she asked seemingly talking to herself, but then her head turned towards the tree indicating that she actually talked to her imprisoned mother. She looked back into the direction the song was coming from. "This is stronger than anything I have ever felt on earth. It's beyond what earth has to offer."
It reminds me of home. What if one of her people had gotten free somehow? What if this was one of her folk?!
As quick as her feet would carry her she started to run. Twenty feet later she decided that at least making an attempt to hide would be smarter and climbed back up into the crowns of the trees, jumping from one to the other as she raced through nature. Her wrist was a constant reminder that she was getting closer and it only excited the woman more. If her soulmate was actually one of her people that had gotten free...
But as she reached the destination, stopped in the crowns and slowly, carefully went closer to the ground by climbing on lower branches, she had to realize that it wasn't one of her people. The sense of Eredh in this person was strong, undeniably, and it only fascinated Aaliyah more.
Who are you? The pain on her wrist was slowly getting unbearable, but she refused to show herself to the person. Of course... if the person knew how to work her Eredh she would feel Aaliyah's presence just as undeniably as she felt hers. And of course... if she looked up Aaliyah would be very much not hidden. She squatted on her feet and hands on a thick enough branch that sat 17 feet above the ground, though not as thick as the one she earlier relaxed on, and looked down onto the creature with pure fascination.
The woman was singing. And her Eredh was flowing through all of nature close by. It was something that Aaliyah had never seen on earth before. Was she from earth or did she come here like Aaliyah had?
Staring down on her, Aaliyah didn't even consider that this could be a potential dangerous situation. She was still the queen and the one who had done this to her people was still out there, fully aware that Aaliyah would run towards a strong sense of Eredh any time. But all this vanished into the back of her head as she listened to the woman sing her melody. All while her wrist felt like it would cut itself open, such strong pain was emitting from it.