This quest felt ... easy. The girl - Isopia - couldn't quite place it, but something felt wrong. Something felt ... given, rather than earned. What was it? it was hard to describe, but it was definitely there. Was she being treated differently, because she had asked her Father for this? If so ... was that anything to be guilty about? It wasn't her decision to be born, hadn't been her call to have Hototo die. While it was true she had been specifically praying at her Father's shine (wait - was it even proper to call it prayer when you knew the person you were praying to ? Somehow the mystique was detracted by the intimacy), but was that something she should feel shame over?
These thoughts tumbled and tousled in her mind as she made her way into the deep forest. Crystal from the caves, water from the woods. It was easy, and she understood what was expected of her. Still, she couldn't shake the feeling that she was missing something.
In her raven form, she glided swiftly through the trees. It was far easier to travel this way, than it was to move in her regular form. She was less noisy this way as well - and who would notice a crow flying between the trees? If they looked closely, surely they would see the odd skull-markings on her black face, but very few bothered to actually look at the world around them. They were all merely content to see what they wanted to see. Many would think they saw a raven with a facial marking, but would dismiss it as a trick of the light.
The girl preferred to be thought of as an illusion anyways.
Nearing the pond, the girl transformed. It was one elegant and practiced movement. Her raven wings spread and rapidly grew, becoming mismatched in colour. Her body burst at the seams, shedding black feathers and gaining blood-markings and long legs. Finally, four horns protruded from her head which was now covered in a mass of maroon hair. Only her golden eyes and skull markings remained the same throughout the transformation.
Open!!
Isopia
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
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