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Birds were already chirping outside his home when Rasui awoke. Half buried by what could only be scrolls and books and Vykeli knows what else. Ink laid splattered against the floor and his face as the sunlight blazed down through one of the few holes that acted like windows. How long had he been sleeping? What day was it to begin with? Were there more things that needed doing that he had forgotten about?

Pulling his sorry carcass out from beneath the pile of mess and shaking out his mane. Rasui blearily looked out at the sun to see what time it was, surely he had nothing planned for today. Nothing that important. No reports were needed to be filed, no announcements were to be made. Heck, no notes were needed to be taken as far as he was assured. It was a day he was going to use to relax and just do nothing....

His thoughts were interrupted as he looked at his long list of notes pinned to one of the walls near the opening to his home. Eyes growing wide as he edged closer. What was the one thing not crossed out?

"Oh crap. Oh crap.. Crap crap crap." he turned and started riffling through the piles to find something else. Finding one of his many note pads, he had many laying around. Yep, he was supposed to be there before the sun was here...

"I over slept! Again!" he shouted racing from the hole in the ground and streaking away.

It didn't take Rasui long to find himself at the base of the Grandfather tree. Standing there on shaking legs, ones that felt like vines pulled free from their moorings. Sides heaving as he tried catching his breath, Rasui hadn't run this fast since... He couldn't remember when, the memories were ones he didn't want to remember. The blood still painted his dreams, he didn't know when these things would fade.

"I'm here, I'm here." he said between weezing heaves, if anyone were to look at the bedraggled Noul, they would think he was going to fall over.

Thin from not eating enough, his thoughts more on other things. There was always something that needed doing, even if his hole in the ground, as he called it, was the last thing always on his list to clean... Rasui could only hope that the tree would forgive him for his tardiness and be gentle with his vision quest...

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Was it not bad enough that he had raced from home without thinking of eating anything? His stomach already growled and his limbs didn't feel like they were going to be able to hold him up any longer. As the tree dissolved to nothing leaving him once more in the barrens. The parched landscape that he had just previously been streaking through. Blindly racing towards what he had hoped would be an opportunity to gain more insight into magic. In other words, gain his gift to try and help Vykeli heal.

Glancing around as the winds picked up and blew dry dust into his face. Closing his eyes against it, Rasui sneezed and coughed the grit from his already dry mouth and sinuses. What was he doing here? Pale blue eyes glanced around before that fleeting scrap of green poked at the horizon. Was that home? Or was that something else? Squinting the green didn't seem as lush or as thick as home. No these looked more like the sparse greens of what would be an oasis.

"Better then nothing, I suppose." Rasui muttered as it didn't feel right to just give up and try to head home.

Shaking the grit from his coat as another gust of wind blew more at him. He wasn't too pleased with being in the barrens in the first place. The dryness made his skin itch and he would have to take a long bath when he got home. If anything the next time he would have to remember his cloak to keep the sand and dry wind away. Turning in the direction of the green, Rasui set his pace at somewhat unsteady trot.

He was not sure how long he had been traveling and that green wasn't any closer or further from where he had been ages ago. Stopping he glanced up at the unmoving sun over head. That yellow orb blared heat and light down at his back. Thanking that his coat was light, though sweat still washed off him in waves. Frowning slightly he looked back towards the green, it appeared closer now. That was going on? Leaping backwards as if something had snapped at him, not so nimble hooves failed the landing and he ended up on his face in the sand.

What tricks were the tree playing on him? Was it that funny to play with the mind of someone whom lacked sleep? Spitting out a small stone that had ended up in his mouth, Rasui picked himself up off the ground and looked towards the green that was two hills away from him now. He had it in his mind to just turn around and head home, but he had to know just what it was that he had been chasing. What was it that he had been seeking through the searing heat and blinding light to never reach until now?

Setting off through the now dunes of the Barrens. The sand sifted as he stepped through it, sinking at times up to his knees. Whatever was on the other side was making it hard for him to get at. "Come on, just about there..." He muttered with determination. He was going to make it to the top if it killed him...

Reaching that aspired peek of the dune, Rasui looked down upon more sand as the green had vanished. Where had it gone? Was what he had been chasing nothing but a dream? As real as everything felt... His mind was pulling things together... looking behind him, the lushness of green blanketing the edges of an oasis laid behind him.. Had he gotten himself turned around? With more questions then answers the vision wavered before he was facing the tree once again...

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