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11-20-2012, 01:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-22-2012, 04:39 PM by Yseulte.)
Her journey began before dawn.
The air tasted cold and crisp, like sharp metal laid across her warm tongue. The world was silent at this hour, and that was why it was Yseulte's cherished time of the day. A heavy breath of morning air caressed her face with cool fingertips that trailed lazily across her soft skin, leaving her tail splaying gently around her hocks and blonde strands swaying over ocean eyes.
The last stars still littered the horizon line, cold and distant and lonely. The Never star still burned brightly overhead, and her heart ached at the sight of it. She passed over the crossing into the Veins of the Gods quietly, more aware of the hollow silence that settled over the empty land than ever before.
The lava tasted acidic and smoldered in her throat, causing her eyes to sting and smart. She remembered the story Zjarri once told her of her famous grandmother, the Fire Lord's favored amazonian queen. The Fire Lord sent the queen up the belching volcano called Mt. Zjarri (for which her father was named after) and in to its belly in order to retrieve a small black stone that gave her wondrous and magnificent power. But, as always, magic came with a price. Aislia was scarred and burned beyond recognition by the magma, but the Fire Lord took pity on his Firebird, and healed her.
It was a grand story, to be sure, but there was always a thick tone of bitterness in his voice. She later learned that Zjarri's twin sister inherited the stone from his mother, and not he.
And so it was only natural, that Yseulte venture before the gods this day, following in her grandmother's footsteps. But unlike her father and grandmother, she did not seek power. She sought companionship. Yseulte stopped in front of the shrines while solitude and the early hush of dawn settled around her soft figure in a close embrace of emptiness.
She waited.
[ Yseulte is questing for a snow leopard companion. c: ]
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It was curious that one would wait in silence rather than call upon him or his sister. Rather than wait to see if his sister would answer the Earth God descended from the heavens and approached the unicorn mare. His steps shook the ground as he moved toward her, a kind smile that reached his eyes and seemed to brighten him so he seemed less imposing than his size made him.
"Hello, Ysuelte." His booming voice reverberated off of the rocks that surrounded them and echoed. He chuckled once the echo stopped and smiled once more. "You've come here for a reason, what might it be?"
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11-20-2012, 02:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-22-2012, 04:40 PM by Yseulte.)
He was beautiful, of course.
All of the gods were—or so she had been told. But to see a god in all his shining glory in person, well that was very different. She liked the way he smiled. It was warm as the steady glow of the sun, and as breathtaking as a flower in bloom.
He was summer. Rays of sunshine and white fire seemed to curl across his face, and Yseulte imagined that she could see bright sun-flames licking across his smooth skin. When the cool morning breeze ruffled the loose strands of his hair, she saw instead vast, rippling wheat fields lost in the glare of sunlight, and shimmering waves of heat trembling on a blue horizon.
And those eyes. They were green, like summer.
Every little glance she stole, she saw the wild, blooming gardens of wind-blown roses, scattered trees dappled with ripe August fruit, and lost, forgotten glades swept in emerald-green moss and silence. His light illuminated the wreathed and dewy orchard trees and shone down the quiet walks under them. His soft lips were the dark just before the dawn of this pale, misted morning, and that generous smile was like the sweet gray rainstorms that brought flowers to full bloom.
It was then, with an inwardly sheepish smile, that she understood how her grandmother had been captivated by the wild Fire Lord of Liridon.
"Father Earth," she murmured softly, casting her eyes away from his glowing figure, in a gesture of respect (and although she would never admit it to herself—fear).
She imagined her grandmother's bravery, her father's confidence.
Her father.
Yseulte's heart twisted in on itself, like the molten lava that hissed and spat once the particles of the air greeted it, and she wondered if he could see the darkness lingering in her heart and the bloodied stains on her hands. The secret bubbled within her, oozing guilt and other terrible things. For a fleeting moment, she considered repenting. Begging to be forgiven. But instead, she drew the secret deeper into herself, into the cobwebbed corners of her mind and into the vault of her heart.
"I do not wish to be alone anymore," she said at last, daring another glance at the massive Earth God and this time holding his gaze steadily.
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The Earth God smiled warmly at the oddly colored mare when she spoke his name. "You do not have to look away." He said in his gravelly voice. "You do not offend me by looking at me." His voice was soothingly calm and encouraging as he spoke to the mare.
His eyes twinkled cheerily as she spoke her request, or what he assumed would be her request. "You wish for a companion to share your company with?" He asked. "What type of companion do you wish for, child?" His head dipped and his weight shifted as he looked upon her. "Have you been alone long?"
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"I do," she said firmly, as if to make up for the hesitance fluttering around inside her belly. "A snow leopard, perhaps."
Zjarri had always been partial to dangerously beautiful and exotic things. Yes, a companion to fill the aching abyss left behind after her father's...unfortunate death. She was foolish to think something could replace him, but then again, Yseulte had always been childishly foolish.
She thought greedily of the power she could ask for instead, the same powers that her father wielded. Terrible powers, but they had made him great and indestructible. Until Yseulte—his only vulnerability. But magic had ultimately been his end, as well. A cancerous toxin that spread through his body like the wildfires he commanded, devouring his soul, bit by bit. A hefty price Yseulte wasn't willing to pay, but the enticement of dangerous risk remained. One taste of power, of magic, and Yseulte feared she would become the one thing she feared, despised, and loved more than any other.
Her father.
The god continued to beam down on her, the twinkles of his green eyes and the cheer in his rough voice making her feel trapped in a deep, sluggish haze of pleasantness. He was gentle and patient with her flawed mortal self, but she could see he was capable of great and terrible destruction if crossed wrongly.
"Long enough," she replied carefully.
She did not mention she was to blame for her loneliness.
For her father's destruction.
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The mare did not need to tell the Earth God that she was the cause of her loneliness. While her answer of 'long enough' was not exactly satisfactory he would not push the already uncomfortable mare to spill her whole life story to him. Instead his face took on a thoughtful look as he gazed down at her. "You seek a snow leopard, yes?" He questioned, but nodded his head in response to his own question. Of course he knew what she wanted. He was a God.
"You must travel to the Frostbreath Steppe." He instructed the mare. "There is a group of these leopards that live together. Speak with them, tell them that I sent you to aid them in their search for a missing cub. Once you find the cub it will become your bonded companion." He could tell the mare that the trip and the search would be dangerous, but she was smart and he trusted that she would know.
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He knew.
There was no question about it. He knew what she had done, what stains and shadows lingered on her soul, and yet he was giving her a chance. Perhaps a chance where she would fall of a glacier or freeze to death on Frostbreath Steppe, no doubt, but a chance nonetheless.
"Thank you, Father," she said at last, hardly daring to believe her good fortune. She did not wish to linger and give the patient god a chance to change in his mind and smite her with a lightning bolt, or drop a boulder on her face.
She dipped her head, her eyes finally freed from his bright, all-knowing gaze.
She was free.
Silent and swift as a breath of wind, Yseulte withdrew from the holy place, to rejoin the world she belonged to.
The world of sin and sinners.
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