Fire Dancer is relieved to see the body, relief followed by a crippling guilt.
She has been neglecting her pledge to find the murderer- neglecting it spectacularly, to be frank, though not without reason. Her world has run into a wild bout of action, shifting adventure and new horizons.... the knowledge of a killer has not left her mind, but it has not pressed its way to the forefront, not until recently, with the return of her kin. Death has been distant, murders a foul disease afflicting those she does not know: pictures of atrocities being committed upon a distant shore; important, powerful, but faint in meaning when she is so deeply preoccupied by the overwhelming horror of being made queen.
It is the return of Amaris which makes her afraid. Makes he realize she has seen little of Caneo. Of Hototo. Where are her friends? With a killer on the loose, could she possibly be sure? A sinking fear settles upon her chest- could it be that in her time of distraction, as she lay encased by the overwhelming tide of responsibility which threatened to devour her from crown to toe, her friends have been following a path she set, fighting a battle she swore to undertake, and found themselves prey to a killer in the process?
Sun God, no. Her footsteps hasten.
She finds the body on the slopes of the Island, raised high in the sky- the same place she found the first one, and the memory makes her ill. She is not the first, not the only, though she recognizes none of the unicorn (so many unicorn!) swarm which surrounds the fallen form. From her side her brother darts forward, a shadow between countless legs, moving closer to the obsidian form, to the snakeskin strewn haphazard about her body, to...
Fire.
All at once the body is alight, a pillar of flame, and the magic hits the girl at once. Fenenc and filly turn away suddenly, struck by the relief that the deceased is not theirs, mauled by the sadness which rolls off those assembled in rivulets. It is time to find her friends, to reunite with Caneo and Hototo and discover the progress they have made. It is time to reassure herself that she will not have to use the same firebird power to set someone she loves alight.
[ team teenage awkward turtles. Tavi picked up Mauja's magic ]
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[RE] :: MURDER IN HELOVIA :: Clue VIII
