Level: 3 (8/30)
Word Count: 443
Location: Edge of The Blue - Creature Beach
EXP: +1
Sephiroth brushed the sand from her garments, and a few of her wounds, as she shakily rose to her feet. Lips smacking, she tried to search for something to drink that wasn't seawater, to little success. What sources she did find were either too dirty or too salty, and even if they hadn't been, there was something deep inside that told her they wouldn't be enough to quench her thirst anyway. Growing more agitated as time went on, the former SOLDIER began to pace back and forth along the beach. Although in all honesty her gait was more like a drunken hobble thanks to the piece of rigging that had been torn off the night before. Well that and her thirst, which had intensified somehow. Whereas before she felt extremely parched, now she felt as though someone were shoving a sandpaper covered cylinder down her throat. Desperate to find some means of alleviating her thirst, she suddenly remembered the items she'd retrieved the night before. One of which just so happened to be a vial of blood.
Pulling it free from the pocket in which it had been sequestered, Sephiroth held it up to the sun, watching as the light set the crimson ichor aglow. Then, operating under what she could only describe as a feeling of pure impulse, she wrenched the cork free and began to drink until the container was empty. A wave of refreshment and energy surged through her body, the loopy daze she had been in only seconds ago fleeing like ice before a flame. Invigorated, she decided to hold on to the empty vial for now and even went so far as to pick up the cork in order to seal it again. Her reasoning for this being that, eventually, she would run across something it could hold. Thirst taken care of, Sephiroth proceeded to turn her attention towards her surroundings. Taking note of the fact she was on some kind of beach, she decided to head to higher ground, keen on figuring out what landmarks were around so she didn't end up getting lost down the road. As she went however, Sephiroth couldn't help but wonder why she'd been afflicted with such a thirst, nor why blood had seemed to cure it though her mind was already working on possible solutions. The most convincing of these was that it had something to do with her encounter on the estate, as she could still recall the sickly warmth that flooded through her after the courtesan pierced her chest.
In the end, however, she still had no idea what those creatures had done.
Nor what she herself had become.