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Tandavi The Fire Dancer Posts: 245
World's Edge Nurse atk: 6.5 | def: 9 | dam: 4
Mare :: Equine :: 16.1 :: 5 HP: 65 | Buff: NOVICE
Natraj :: Plain Kitsune :: Fire Charks
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TANDAVI & NATRAJ</style>
we walked a lonely road
beneath the fire of a thousand suns
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She intends to leave the island. She is weary of death. Yet when it comes time for slate hooves to step off the perimeter and fall back to Earth, she finds herself tracing the edge of the world, lingering upon the impossible land, a languid walk belying the heat and passionate frenzy of fervent thoughts. The girl cannot draw her mind away from death, free it from the fear that she has not done enough. Were it her against a killer, would she be a last line of defense? She doubts it- she is weak, narrow, a fire without fuel to sustain it, pretty words from an ugly face. She had sworn to Gaucho she needed no protection, yet who could she possibly take in a fight?

Copper filly kicks a rock, and watches it fall a thousand feet, vanishing into the world below. What would she do if the body belonged to someone she loved?

What would she do if the killer stepped, light-footed and eyes ablaze, into the bowels of her very home?

What use was a knight, without even a sword?

No- no, these thoughts are useless and vain, remnants of a girl who has found herself reborn. Eyes clench against their crashing might, blocking out dismay in favor of strength, fighting against terror and fueling possibility. Perhaps she is weak, small and untested- but that does not mean she need be so forever. There is still time to learn to defend her friends, protect the weak and hold those she loves close. There is still time to harness her body and make it a tool.

Long limbs change their course, purpose replacing the languid lethargy. She has seen others spar on the island- why not offer her body to the cause? She will show Gaucho she does not need defense, will hone her figure against attack, build her way to a paladin, a knight.

Lose enough fights, and one day she is bound to win them all.

It is past midday when she reaches her destination, and the sun hangs low in the Western sky, shrouded lightly by a misting of clouds. Hooves brush up against the sandy basin; she waits at the rim of the central arena, suddenly unsure anyone will come. Her plan seems foolish all at once, a child's willful expectation that the world will bend to her demands, a romantic notion of simple perfection which taunts her, laughing in the gold-slashed face. A birdsong breeze tugs at her mane: How will you get better if none will help you learn? it taunts, and sends her sparks into frenzied spirals, presses her ears back onto her neck.

Fire dancer sets her teeth, prepared to wait until the world falls. She will learn to be a fighter. She will be able to protect her friends.

At her hooves, her brother laughs, utterly amused at the melodrama which rolls of his sister in palpable waves.


[ @[Gaucho]
0/3, birdsong afternoon. Light breeze, mild sun.
Current magic: Gaucho's [able to summon fire creatures when blood is spilled], Amaris' [able to summon two small spirit dragons], Mauja's [able to summon fire birds]
Basically ALL THE FIRE :D ]
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o. pixel pony credit to tamme
o. permission granted to use force and magic on Tavi
o. only tag me in opening posts, please!



Messages In This Thread
untested - by Tandavi - 01-10-2015, 07:05 PM
RE: untested - by Gaucho - 01-13-2015, 01:49 PM
RE: untested - by Tandavi - 01-18-2015, 11:16 PM
RE: untested - by Gaucho - 01-27-2015, 02:09 AM
RE: untested - by Official - 02-21-2015, 04:03 PM

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