Suneli, I would like to wait one more day before I reply again. I want Lord O to have a chance to catch up. Monica White, still needs to find the man that came to her in the hospital.
Ideally, I will be able to reply to both of you in one post tomorrow. I would split it into two parts. You're both very close earning your first magic spells and magic items.
I have all day off work tomorrow (Wednsday). So in any case, I'll be making a post by the end of the day. I just hope that I can do a two birds one stone post.
Aries chuckled while staring pointedly at the other child, she had to say that was a pretty good comeback. The girl looked around 5 years younger than her, but that didn't mean they couldn't be friends. At least she wouldn't have to be friends with the doll-looking girl who just flashed everyone. She didn't leave much time for her to talk herself down and immediately walked over to the little girl with horns and a tail.
"Little girl? Are you okay? Do you need a tissue?" She reached over into where her bag almost always sat, only to find it missing. At the moment, she didn't find this very surprising. She had goat legs for fucks sake, a missing bag was the least of her worries. "I think I'll have to take back that tissue offer." An awkward smile had made its way onto her face as she spoke.
She would admit, maybe she should have checked what was on her before making any offerings to other people. You couldn't blame her either, she always had the damned bag with her, she never would have thought it disappeared. Aries knew she wouldn't get it back anytime soon, at least not until she figured out what in the world was going on with her legs.
She reached up to scratch her head, only to hit her hand against something hard. "Son of a..!" She muttered a curse as she shook her hand. The whole scene looked rather peculiar coming from a body that looked no older than 10. After the pain dulled she reached up again, feeling around the horn she had hit her hand on. She tried to pull it off, only to be met with a jolt of pain. "Does anyone have a mirror?"
Aries quickly forgot about her previous problem when she heard Ravy speak again, a suddenly realization hit her that nobody would know her old name here. She could become an entirely different person, not like anybody would be able to call her out on it. After a moment, she said the first name that came to mind.
"Aries, my name is Aries. Nice to meet you, Ravy."
If the shrine were larger and not made of wood, Eden surely would have heard an echo. As it was however, she was greeted by nothing more than silence. And so, after an appropriate moment of silence, she continued her way into the shrine to get her things settled.
It was a dull and lonely first night, as Eden had nothing else to do than wipe dust off old furniture and sweep up. She was getting ready for bed when the distant sound of thunder began to rumble the small shack. Would the shrine hold up if it rained hard? She had to wonder.
But strangely enough, the rain never came. Even as the sound of thunder and flashes of lightning become more frequent and intense, not a single drop fell from the sky. Then, with one final crash and blinding flash, it all stopped. Naturally, Eden went out to the front door of the shrine to look, to make sure everything outside was okay. Luckily, all seemed well. Besides a few small tree limbs that had fallen in the wind, there wasn't much damage to be seen, not in the dark of night at least. Most importantly, there were no wildfires due to lightning strikes and no rain.
As Eden walked back into the shrine, a soft glow caught her eye, a glow that wasn't there before she stepped outside. It was her grandmother. She stood in the corner of the main sitting area. A pale-gold light emanated from her body, as she wore the same robes that Eden had last remembered her in. She wasn't see through like some sort of ghost; she was solid, unmistakably there.
"Welcome back, little one." 'Little one', that was something Eden hadn't heard in a while. It was what her grandmother had always called her, even after she'd outgrown the small woman.
Eden Tal
As Eden looked around outside she looked a bit confused, she had rarely ever seen thunder without storms here and it would most always end in something nearby burning. She didn't put much thought into it though, it was best not to question gods gifts. She looked up at the sky for a few moments more, seeing nothing out of the ordinary she turned and hurried back inside.
She was about to return to cleaning up the shrine, when she noticed the strange glow out of the corner of her eyes. She was never one to be scared of unnatural things, she was a shrine maiden for christ sake. Her lack of fear for the supernatural and the calmness in her that could never seem to be disturbed brought her towards the light, hoping to figure out what was going on.
The figure became clear as soon as those words exited her mouth, the towel she had been holding fell to the floor as she stared in disbelief at the woman she recognized to be her grandmother. Trembling fingers reached towards the old woman, Eden couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"Ma? Is... Is that you?" Her breath hitched in her throat as she began speaking, then, the first tear rolled down her cheek, all the others came flooding out like a tsunami. She knew she didn't look pretty right now, but she couldn't care for her appearance in such a moment. She rubbed her nose with her sleeve to try to stop the snot that was beginning to leak and forced herself to smile at her, this might be the last chance to see her, and Eden most certainly didn't want to leave her the image of a sniveling mess with snot running down her face.
The child who was screaming bloody murder suddenly felt herself lift up into the air and paused for a moment, staring up at the dragon who had picked her up from out of the air. Her body instinctually stiffened seeing the dragon, but she relaxed a bit once she realized that she would die sooner without him grabbing her.
However, right as she relaxed they began falling from the sky once again. She nearly started shrieking again but instead held on for dear life, if the dragon was a human she would have drawn blood.
As they hit the ground she heard a loud thump, she didnt feel much so assumed the dragon had taken most of the hit. She didnt let go immediately, not trusting her senses even after the dragon let go of her. Though, after she looked around a bit more and made sure they were on solid ground she released her trembling grip.
"Th-Thank you... dragon?" She spoke with uncertainty, dragons shouldnt exist, right? However after she looked at the other two children and seeing that one had horns and a tail while the other looked like a doll she began getting more and more confused. Her eyes drifted back down to her hooved legs, staring at them with wide eyes. "What...?"
An ear piercing screech ripped through the atmosphere, she had just been hit by a car? Wasn’t she? Where was she know? Why was she falling? A billion questions echoed in her mind as she looked at the grassy land that was getting closer and closer by the second, wait, how was she gonna land here without dying? She had just died once, she didn’t want to die again!
As she tried to angle herself to land on something that would hurt less she looked down at her legs, which only sent another shriek tearing through the air . Legs? These don’t look like legs? These look like goat legs? Am I a goat now? While she was distracted by her legs she didn’t notice the fact that she was getting closer and closer to the ground and by the time she looked back she was so close to the ground she thought it was over.
Luckily, a cradle looking thing was formed from plants right bellow her. It stretched closer and closer to the ground and just as she was sure it was gonna break, the cradle rebounded and sent her flying back up... Thats when she noticed the other people falling as well, she ignorantly thought they would be able to help her, not even thinking about the fact that they probably need to focus on their own landing strategies and that her voice is probably drowned out. “HELP MEEE!!”
Eden stood in the courtyard of her small little shrine. She had just arrived back today and felt like a fish back in water; sure, studying physics was fun and all but this was where she really belonged. In the place she grew up in, accompanied only by herself and her gods. A smile graced her face, lighting up her features as she spotted the old well she had thrown so many coins into.
Though they were already short on cash her grandmother never complained, unlike her parents who dug into her for everything she did. Luckily, they wouldn’t be able to reach her here. They only had to hire someone to put a couple thousand in her account a week and could forget all about her. If she was being honest, Eden thought the amount was insanely high, but it would make her parents poorer and help her renovate the Shrine so it felt like a win-win for her.
She took in the familiar view as the nostalgia hit her, the little red shrine was the exact same as it always had been. Well, more or less. It was a lot dirtier and parts of it looked like they were about to fall down.... Well, she can fix it later. Eden stubbornly ignored the damage, not wanting to face the reality that this place was not the same as it always had been. She made a mental note to spend the first payment on fixing it up and getting WiFi installed as began walking, her suitcase crunching over fallen leaves behind her. She opened the door with a nostalgic smile, speaking quietly as she took in the familiar sight, “I’m back, grandma.”
Full Name: Eden Tal Nickname: Edne, E Age: 22 Occupation: Shrine Maiden
Appearance: She has slightly sharper ears than average, her eyes are a striking blue and she looks a bit Russian. Her hair is a platinum blonde that looks almost white. She seems supernaturally beautiful, to a scary extent. She looks a bit unapproachable and high above the rest.
Personality: She has full faith in her god, even though she has never experienced proof of their existence. She's a bit withdrawn and is always calm, nothing seems to disturb her. However when she starts panicking; you know you're screwed.
Biography: Eden grew up with only her grandmother in a shrine that was a bit far from the city. While they did grow up poor, they were happy. As her grandmother had many duties, she would walk alone for almost an hour to get to the school. She was a beautiful girl from a young age, however because of her unique point of view and withdrawn personality, she would quickly scare off anyone that wanted to be her friend.
When her grandmother died after she turned 12, she only grew more withdrawn as she took over the ceremonies and care for the shrine. Her grades were beginning to fall when her mother came to pick her up, she had never believed in the gods. Against her wishes Eden was torn away from her home and thrown into the city. She was only taken back for publicity, her mother and father owned a buisness and needed a stand in child for some reason she could never understand. After alot of fighting they made a deal, she would stand in until she was out of college, after college they would pay for the rest of her life so she could return to the shrine without needing to work and extra job to pay for expenses.
So, she followed the life her mother planned out for her. She went to a private school and was the top of her class, she opened up much more in this time aswell. She had many more friends and her beauty really began to shine. She went to college with a major in Physics aswell as a minor in Music, not that any of that helps her anymore as she returned to her old shrine right when she graduated. She just returned recently and nothing really feels as though its changed.
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She has slightly sharper ears than average, her eyes are a striking blue and she looks a bit Russian. Her hair is a platinum blonde that looks almost white. She seems supernaturally beautiful, to a scary extent. She looks a bit unapproachable and high above the rest.