Hollow-hearted, heart-departed -
Yet thou reapest the blooming rose -
When 'tis the weed which is to be swath'd
Lady Syrbi
Sunlight, as always, poured abundant and steady in, through the windows of this Nimbi home. In the Overthere, night was a rare occurrence: reserved for a holiday or two, and needed little elsewhere. In one room in particular, a young Nimbi woman sat, presently readying herself to attend a council meeting: one whose purpose was to learn fro the sages. She had done her hair up with a small top hat, still allowing an abundant amount to flow down her back. Her best dress was one, trimmed in pewter with shoes to match. Her wings were folded in to her back, but adorned with similar pewter ornaments, which were jointed to move with her wings. It weighed them down a bit, but she did not requite them very often. She adjusted her bolero carefully with gloved fingers, before turning to step carefully from her room, deep red eyes calm--util she heard a scream. Just as she got outside to see what this was about, two small Nimbi boys were suddenly at her side, pressing their faces into the folds of her skirt. "Joebi, calm thyself! What hath startled thee so?" The woman asked as she slowly knelt down, gently rubbing their backs a bit to comfort them. "Syrbi! Srybi, he hath huge fangs, and his mouth, gapes as though without bottom!" After this, they both started spouting more distraught words, but it became jumbled, and so she sent them inside, saying she would go see. "Let him not harm thee, Syrbi!"
And so, the beautiful young Nimbi, this Syrbi, made herself late by tending to the needs of her young friends. The disturbance was in quite the opposite direction of the council chambers, but she had sworn. So, as she walked, she kept her crimson eyes peeled for a beastly man with a gaping maw and huge fangs. When she came upon something strange, however, it was not what she had anticipated. "Hark!" She called out towards the young Nimbi man, with a crown and strangely small wings. "Who art thou? I hath ne'er seen thee a'fore now.." She pondered this for a few moments, before looking curious, "Hath ye seen any beastly man, with gaping maw about?"
I do, in the blooming flower, pleasure find!
Innocence is reserved for the meek:
Of naught is my grasp ne'er to be!