The Crumpled Mountain

[ChosenSavith]

The once tall and majestic blue mountain now lay in a crumbled heap at the bottom of a large chasm. The wind that blows through the dark depths of this crevice seem unnatural and eerie. One false step and you may be falling for quite some time before meeting your end.

 

[Huntress Starsong]

Starsong: Starsong tried not to think about too much of what had passed. She was a wolfrider, and would rather live in 'the now". But every now and then a heavy sinking feeling would hit her in the heart and she would have to excuse herself from Savith for a while. It was only after the 4th night she realized what was missing on the horizon that they were walking toward. The mountain. It was a grand glorious mountain, and she could see it from the highest branch of the father tree once upon a time. She had wondered if Savith had noticed this too.

Savith: If the glider took notice, he said nothing, merely trudging on, step after step, with his eyes on the ground ahead of him. What once were bright, glorious locks of auburn spiral curls, now hang limp in matted dreds about his face and in his eyes. The matted hair curtained his expression and hid the ache which step accosted him. During the times they stopped to rest, Savith spoke and sent little, slept deeply, and seemed aloof and detached. He wasn't even locksending anymore. And still the grand and glorious Blue Mountain never drew near. Instead, a fractured pile of crumpled rock, like an ant hill whose base had shaken out from under it. Here, the glider stopped, peered at the otherworldly blue-gray granite, and sighed.

Starsong: She had barely noticed where they were going, but was sure glad Shine sensed it. As they emerged from a tanged web of thorn bushes the chasm was sudden and very deep. On the other side the once glorious, high perched mountain had slipped and fallen into the crevices in a giant rock slide. She could only stare not up, but down to where the mountain, what remained of it, lay. The chasm made an eerie whistling noise as the wind blew through it, she looked to Savith.

Savith: Savith stared at the fallen mountain dully for a few moments. His face was unreadable and unmoving save for the quirking of one eyebrow and the slight tensing of his jaw. **We need to find fresh water,** the Chosen sent finally, thought still a cold unyielding stone, as he turned away from the sight and began walking south.

Starsong: She just watched him go for a moment then back to the mountain. She had never trusted gliders, but she was not the sort of elf that wanted to see them dead. **Should we look for survivors? Have you been able to send? I can't reach anybody... but they may not answer me** She sent as she followed him, she kept her ears perked for the sound of running water.

Savith: **Any survivors would be shaping themselves down and out, or have already flown away,** the Chosen replied with but the faintest touch of an emotional quiver. **In either case, we'll find nothing of value down there.** And there again was that cold, unfeeling taste to his mind. He kept walking, one foot in front of the other, in that same methodical march he used on his way here.

Starsong: She nodded but said nothing for a while. **If we keep heading this way, We should reach the ocean soon, if it is still there...** she sent but she knew that he would know this. After walking for a bit longer she decided to ask **Who is Larias?** she remembered he called out that name during his recovery. She knows its probably none of her business but she didn't feel much like going on at the moment and hoped some conversation might help the time pass.

Savith: **No one you need concern yourself with,** came the snappish reply. Cold, like everything else, but this time, the cold comes from something else. Heart-stopping fear which snaps almost instantly into hate and anger.

Starsong: Starsong rolls her eyes and sighs as she leaps onto Shine's already burdened back and props her head on his. **As you wish** she sends back irritated and looks towards the mountains in the distance, she doesn't recall them being that far before....


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