Together they walked, the Lady and her two children, her honest son and the lost girl they’d found in the meadows to the north of where they now wandered down into the jutting fist of the Veins. She normally does not invite the mixed blood child with her on their ventures out of the mountains, but today she has a lesson in mind that is very crucial for any child to thrive and do well in this land, the lesson of the Gods and the power that could be gleaned from their embrace.

Her son, joyful at the notion of getting to go on an adventure with his Thistle Sister alongside them both, is in particularly high spirits, having spent the entire walk regaling his pretend sibling on what his mother had told him, occasionally corrected whenever he was wrong. Now, as they slipped into the strange, blue black realm of the shrines, following the path of the glowing stones to where the Lady knew the most sacred location in all of Helovia to stand, the boy is quiet and gazing about him in rapt silence, so intensely enamored by the strangeness of this place that he does not seem to notice the heat as she does.

The sweat lines them both, even if he takes no heed; Illynx herself takes each step with a mental curse to the Sun, an irony in and of itself as she gives a fleeting glance to the gold dipped girl to assure she is keeping up with the unicorn and her true child. She doesn’t know who she is or to whom she belongs, part of what she herself will pray for here today, along with a hope for her son to be strong and successful in his life, but she does know as she looks at her that those wings are soon going to become a problem.

The problem presents her with choices. She could have them removed, or teach the girl to fly through a tutor of their friends the World’s Edge, remembering one pegasus from the meeting in which they’d brought the scorpion and their king himself a winged creature, alluding that many more could help the hybrid learn to utilize her appendages.

They will be unsightly, thinks the Lady on one hoof, while they may also prove useful; a conundrum, to be sure.

Perhaps she will simply wait and see if the Lord Time lashes fate to her adopted daughter, if he will decide for her what is best for this situation.

After a short while the shrines are before them, the Gilded Blade pausing to turn her frame about towards the two children while still holding the statues in view, each one layered in blue flowers that Rikyn shows an obvious desire to touch and examine. She glowers at him and clears her throat to catch their attention, before elaborating. "Inside these stones reside the ears of our Gods, which can hear words spoken and mentally pronounced," she explains, "kneel before whichever one calls to your heart and lend your words to it, and perhaps they may hear you. It is not unheard of for those who seek answers or guidance to receive it here, from the Lords and Lady of the universe themselves." Moving back towards the flower laced stones, she takes a few steps towards the marker for her Lord of Storms, pausing directly before it to turn her eyes back to the foals.

"I’ll explain them each once you have finished your prayers," she smiles as she references the stones, mostly for Rikyn as she feels little adoration or emotion towards the orphan she is feeding aside from pity and disgust, "if, by chance, the Gods reveal themselves, I’d like you to be surprised, truly open to what fate wishes of you." And with that, she lapses into silence, kneeling before the fractured shrine of the Time God.

What she prays for, as her son settles close alongside her, is his own strength, and the strength to protect him within herself and his father.

What he wishes for… is power.

[ Turning in my two VoTG passes, one for Illynx and one for Rikyn. :D

Rikyn wants: Phage | Dark x Time :: Ability to take the appearance of anyone he can recall from memory. (this also completes the rewards given with my magic foal stats item so it can be removed from my records page :3)
Illynx wants: Anything on her wishlist, though she is already questing for the ghost flame magic and has one more step to complete before she can turn that in. :D Surprise meeeee ~ ]

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