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where the light won't find you

Hotaru the Valkyrie Posts: 295
Outcast atk: 7 | def: 10.5 | dam: 3
Mare :: Unicorn :: 15.3hh :: 6 Years 3 Months HP: 67 | Buff: NOVICE
Alice :: Royal Hellhound :: Acid Brit
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The journey home swept by in a blur of snow and total exhaustion. The rose had wilted, her petals ripped and shredded from the beautiful furl of the internal heart. Her thorns were bloodied and her steps faltered with each mile trekked stubbornly into the north. 

Lena and Alice were a quiet, steady conference to the shrill screaming of her mind. A contrast she found comfort in, dredges of sanity in a world that had been upended again and again. There would be a time for rest, for clutching the dark corners of the fabric of the night, for cocooning herself in the void of her own pitiful existence. Though her wounds were healed, her mind was not. Yet even in the wreckage of her own disgrace, her spirit lay unbroken. 

And so the Queen - Lady of frost and spark, the wild-blooming rose of the North - moved onward. She lifted her fallen crown to her bloodied brow and faced the horizon, and though her fingers trembled she gripped her fallen dagger and vowed upon her defeat that she would not let the war itself be lost. Her people needed her, and failure was not an option. Her predecessors had faced their vile demons and struggled through alive, and she would not be the first name to tarnish the unbreakable spirit of the Basin. 

Like a staggering, beautifully disastrous soldier, she climbed the slopes into the mountains of her home. She advanced through the colorful fabric and evergreen trees, a ghost, a shadow. But the coal in her belly burned fierce and hot, and with but a breath of support from her people, she would find the courage to burn once more. In this valley of cold she would rain hellfire down upon those who wished her people harm. And no loss of battle, no relinquishment of petty trophies would stop her. No blind justice-drunk valiant with a wayward heart and soiled, blackened transcript would cease her reign. 

She was Hotaru. Lady of the Basin. Queen of wolves and the monstrous beasts that roamed the night. She was the delicate flower that entranced and awed, the dagger's edge that cut the string of life and heralded awaiting death. She was young, and she was mortal. 

But she was alive. And she would rise again, a cold-fire phoenix, to burn all those who opposed she and her mighty family. 

With a broken but angrily beating heart she lifted her stained, bloodied face to the sky and let her scream pierce the heavens with her own force of will and life. Alice tilted her black-lipped face to add her piercing, hellish howl to the chorus of triumph. Death had not claimed them, and it would not for many years. 

Their reign was endless.

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As they rise and swell beneath her like bloodied waves, she surveys them stoically from the good right eye left in her use. Her throat is parched but she swallows down the bitterness of her own past week, gazes into their faces and lets the words swell and carry through the throng.

"A new enemy has risen; Tingal, a creature of mixed blood, both tiger and equine. He is dangerous, he is manic. If you cannot contest him, do not cross him. But he has declared a vengeance against I and the Basin, and we will crush him accordingly." She wears her blood like warpaint, proud even in her loss. There is nothing left for her to fear, now. She knows the faces of the demons haunting her steps.

"In light of this, I am consolidating our ranks. I have privately promoted Rexanna to Thief, and you will answer to her as such. Before all of you I ask Ki'irha to come forth and be our General, to lead our soldiers once more." Pale eye scours across the land to find the star-spun mare, recalling the powerful force she and Ki'irha had become when facing down Kalona, and Ashamin's glowing praise of her. Either she succeeded with Hotaru's blessing and the opportunity she presented her, or she failed and was replaced. There was little room for slack, not now.

"Negotiations with the Hidden Falls must be secured. If they do not come to us first, I seek an entourage to accompany me to their lands." Again she waited for any errant voices to supply themselves, for volunteers before she simply demanded they do so. "Deimos -" she turns to find him, eye sharp but softening momentarily as she gazes upon him. "What news do you have?"

Herd meeting! Please let Deimos post first! This is set directly after the thread post-Ampere-challenge, so while Lena healed Hotaru's wounds she's still pretty much covered in blood (just in case you skipped to the bottom to read the good shit and need to know the facts).
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Messages In This Thread
where the light won't find you - by Hotaru - 03-08-2016, 04:25 AM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Deimos - 03-09-2016, 06:46 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Rexanna - 03-10-2016, 12:58 AM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Tangere - 03-10-2016, 03:49 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Albrecht - 03-11-2016, 09:39 AM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Ki'irha - 03-11-2016, 07:49 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Lena - 03-12-2016, 05:40 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Sialia - 03-12-2016, 09:22 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Zandora - 03-13-2016, 01:25 AM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Enna - 03-13-2016, 06:07 AM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Albrecht - 03-13-2016, 07:54 AM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Ki'irha - 03-13-2016, 04:32 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Deimos - 03-13-2016, 05:09 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Erebos - 03-13-2016, 05:49 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Johnny - 03-13-2016, 06:25 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Elspeth - 03-13-2016, 06:58 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Tangere - 03-14-2016, 04:36 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Fiachra - 03-14-2016, 08:20 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Kalona - 03-14-2016, 09:22 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Eldala - 03-16-2016, 12:45 AM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Calder - 03-16-2016, 07:39 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Rein - 03-21-2016, 11:46 PM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Tiamat - 03-28-2016, 03:10 AM
RE: where the light won't find you - by Hotaru - 04-03-2016, 10:14 PM

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