the Rift


[OPEN] Border of the Hollow

Knox Posts: 262
Outcast atk: 4 | def: 7.5 | dam: 6.5
Stallion :: Equine :: 17hh :: 7 Years [Tallsun] HP: 67.5 | Buff: NOVICE
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#1



Knox has resigned himself to residing in the form of another. It is Cem that he chooses, if it isn't Cem himself who makes the decision. Knox walks on his ancestor's slender, muscled legs from the Thistle Meadow to the Dragon's Throat, seeking knowledge and hoping that for once, he will find no one he knows. Let his Goddess be kind to him now, as he walks under a darkening sky and her low hanging moon, and let him be free from the emotional strain of seeing how everyone has changed.

Manhattan walks beside the white commander's form, watching it glow in the light from the heavens, even as it is broken by the thinning canopy above. The protective cloak of Knox's magic has been cast aside for the undisturbed glow of his Godddess' light. The few trees about the meadow, the few trees trailing from the south edge of the Deep Forest, are familiar to Knox. He takes comfort in them, and balks when they begin to fade to desert.

Ah yes, the Dragon's Throat. It is not a place he has ever spent much time, nor is it a place he has had much of a desire to see. But now, that same curiousity that has urged him through the rest of Helovia drove him forth. He had seen the land bridge as a colt, and now he was older and wiser when he would cross it.

Except he wouldn't.

The Commander snorts and Knox pulls the thick white neck on his shoulders back. His forelegs lift into a low rear, as if the ocean has sprung up before them without warning. But hasn't it, in some ways? He turns to Manhattan, as if she will have an answer for him, but she only blinks slowly and yawns, longing for a sleep that Knox will not yet grant her. Not out of cruelty, no, but respect: it is Manhattan who makes the decision to stay awake. As long as her master stands, so shall see.

But she sees the surprise in his eyes, and the downturn of his lips beneath his ancestor's tight, tan bridle. He is disappointed, she can feel it. The Commander, the First, scolds Knox for caring.

This was never your home, the white mind thinks coldly.
And yet, it was someone's.
Do not grow soft. You suffer from sympathy.
And you, from apathy, old ancestor.

Cem says nothing in response. He is hungry, but abides by Knox's foolish pact of fasting for his Goddess. Still, the thought of food stir's Manhattan, and at the rumbling in her gut she turns and trails off on her own, back into the wood in search of food.

Alone, at the edge of an ocean cliff, Knox feels his heart ache. Not just for Manhattan's departure, bu the departure, from all or his life, of so many others. Where is Aylin to enjoy this moon?

Know wonders if he will ever know for only a brief moment before the Commander clashes his teeth. He has no time for such foolish emotion. He is hollow, standing at the edge of ruins of a herdland, and thinking only on the crashing of the waves in the night.

Keep on suffering, you foolish child. I'll be here, undying, at this border of the hollow.


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[[Tagged: Sikeax, @[Bucephalus]. Knox is on the mainland and not trespassing xD. More info about Cem, Knox's current form, can be found on Knox's profile. If you join, please let me know what permissions I have to use Knox's and Manhattan's magics on your character--chances are he won't but I like to have my bases covered in case Knox or an ancestor decides to be unpredictable.]]

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Ampere The Mother of Companions Posts: 719
Dragon's Throat Sultana atk: 9 | def: 11 | dam: 4.5
Mare :: Pegasus :: 14 hh :: 6 years HP: 73 | Buff: DANCE
Kygo :: Green Cheek Conure :: None Blu
#2


Stationed to patrol the pillars for the next shadow lengths, Ampere had trained her gaze upon the horizon that laid beyond their herd, beyond the ocean's teeth. She spent the time practicing various aeriel maneuvers, keeping herself fit while she whittled away the hours, not to mentioned she needed some sort of break here and there to maintain focus and just general eyesight. New soldiers had a tendency to over-watch (if they weren't lazy), and bored their eyes over the ocean until they couldn't see anything for a while.

So she saw him, there across the sea, looking for something that no longer was. She did not go at first, but cut across the sky and watched, wondering at his purpose as she let it unfold. He could be so many things though, that it wasn't worthwhile to try and guess them all; although he didn't look threatening now, could he be? Always Ampere thought with the bitter paranoia all warriors hold dear.
As his frame lingered on the shore, hers did not. Dark wings carrier her like a gull across the strip of water and salt, circling above on the other side, once, twice, before banking down to land in the sand near him.

"Hail stranger," she called out casually, not so on edge with sea set between them and the herd. "The Dragon's Throat meets you- what needs have you of it?" She tilted her head, eying the strange, thing armor that he wore on his head. It didn't seem very protective to her, but maybe it was magic, like her little shield.
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Sikeax the Sea Soul Posts: 355
Outcast atk: 4 | def: 9 | dam: 6
Mare :: Hybrid :: 16 hh :: 5 years HP: 64.5 | Buff: NOVICE
Hobgoblin :: Common Rougarou :: Water & Seoul :: Plain White Dragon :: Toxic Breath Zuno
#3
It's comforting to know that she is away from everything else, alone with no one else but her brother. He keeps her company in a cold, distant sort of way, parting from her side at various times to find things she has no interest to.
When he flies away, she dives. The ocean is an endless world without limits. Each time she went down, there was something new to discover, eagerly flooding Hobgoblin's mind with images that his absence leaves him unable to experience. Nothing spills from him. She has nothing to grasp when he cuts her off, possibly out of anger that she even dare send him things such as that.
If he wanted to go down there with her, then he would of already. He choose not to drown, to crown himself the emperor of their two-man empire, stating that he is the smarter one when he is the youngest of the two, running the risk that he is naive to the world.
Sikeax's emotions are so heavy and brutal, so passionate and untameable, that it's aged him to a man when he is just a boy. He loathes in the pool of her depression, force-feeds her his rage, snarls at her selfish acts as if he is the Devil and she is God, waging eternal war against one another.
They're not made for each other, sentenced to life in co-existance like criminals who've done the worst of crimes to one another.
Right now, she's so far away that he feels that she is no longer part of the world, buried deep into her own special spot where even he can't pull her out. The ocean is too deep, and in the time that she is away from him, the beaches are at least worth following.
For the duration of his flight, there is nothing but sea and sand, the occasional rise that he follows, once a swarm of gulls. For all the time that passes, he's wasted it all.
She breaks. Hooves push themselves onto sand with a groan, shivering as the cold air finally hits her like a brickwall. Water streams until it drips, falling into the ground below and soaking it. The low flapping of wings brings her back into reality as she shakes, leading into a quick sweep of the skies for whatever might be up there.
A shadow soars by, once, twi- Hobgoblin breaks her focus as his talons clench into her hide, clinging to her body for a short amount of time before that feeling kisses her wet body.
Paws slap the sand beside her. By this point, she should be used to his changes, the choices he makes without even a second thought directed in her direction, all of those things, but for a foreign reason, every time he makes himself something new, she has to stand and admire. The admiring leaves her to be abandoned, watching as his fresh form walks away to whatever has attracted him.
He drags her into her personal hell, soon enough surrounded by a stranger and Ampere. Not to believe that there was an issue with Ampere, but the fact that strangers had deployed themselves at the border was bad enough. She squints through the light of her horn only for a moment to try and focus on the body of the pale stranger, tilting her head at the sight o
f the object wrapped about his head.
What purpose did the ornament even hold? Was he trying to make himself a unicorn when he clearly wasn't?
"What is that?" As the question bursts from her lips, the reminder that saying something as such could pass off as rude dared to tap her on the shoulder and whisper into her mind to watch her words. "Is that your horn?"
Well, it was at least worth asking about it.

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Hobgoblin's current form is a white wolf, brown antlers, pupilless green eyes

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