Welcome to Gaia! ::

"It is good to have family." Otaku said. "I am sorry your parents died before they got to see you grow into such a strong warrior."

"Oh no thank you. I'm very full." Otaku said. He pats his full belly & smiles at the samurai. "I thank you for the food & conversation, but I really need to be going." He stands up & walks to the door. Picking up his shoes he looks back at Red. "I will return sometime & we can again talk." He then walks out the door & vanishes into the desert.

Red decides while the village sword smith has taken ill he will go to Ako city & peruse the smithies there. Mounting his horse he takes off for the city.


((ooc post...moving character to the Ako city thread))

Dani stops in her long steady walk through the desert. She stretches her arms above her head, feeling slightly cramped and dry, though the heat and sun do not bother her.

Frowning slightly, Danika ploughs into the sand at her feet, digging for shells, artifacts of a lost civilization, stones... whatever she may find of interest.

A small collection of stones and shells collect beside her, the hole grows deeper and deeper, and the sand at it's bottom becomes dark with moisture. Dani steps out of the hole, her bare feet shying from the water that cools her skin. Now, she stretches out on her belly in front of her small pile and begins to sift through them for anything truly interesting. She brushes the surfaces of fragile fossils, bones, shells and scales delicately, using the ends of her hair as the brush, to keep from scratching or breaking the material.

Satisfied with her results, Dani carefully wraps the small fragments of history in soft, shock-absorbant paper, and places them into a small satchel tied to her back. She stands again and stretches slightly cramped legs. Violet eyes gaze into the distance, judging where best to look for more fossils.
Small white feet sink through hot white sand, blending well with the grains, seeming her to be some sand creature. Her footsteps lead her closer to the Scorpion clan's whereabouts, unknowingly. Some mile away from her last dig site, Danika falls into the hot sand again and begins to dig.
She whistles a merry tune as she works, a popular hymn among the stars in her galaxy. Light seems to twitter and pulse with the eerie music, responding to the strings of magic carried by the melody.

Dani picks up again, disappointed this time with not finding anything worth keeping. She trudges through the sand, the merry tune fades into oblivion.

Beings appear like black dots in the hot haze ahead of her. She smiles and waves, cheerful with the prospect of company.

"Hello there!" She calls, sweet voice like the moan of a whale in this thin, dry air. Her feet pick up, she begins to run toward them. Light bursts from Dani's shoulders like a supernova, and dissolve into wing shapes, brilliantly colored. Her toes barely skim the sand as she flies right up to a being, and she stares curiously at him.
"What being is this? This is a human, is it not?"
She grins and flits around the Samurai, enjoying this new adventure, having never met any beings outside the residents of Ako Village.

The wings seem to smash into a million peices, which fade like little fireflies in the light of the sun. Small white toes touch with the sand, she walks to look at Red in the face, and tilts her head, looking serious again.

"I am a star. The people in my galaxy call me Danika."