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Nyx Queen of Darkness Crew
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 Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 10:13 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 10:25 pm
She could feel the change in her bones. A deep burning like liquid fire in her veins burning everything that was good out. She'd heard about tainted blood before but she'd never thought that it would be her. She had been of the fair folk--the Seelie. Her life had been a series of courtesies and mysteries until that day. Thing had changed then and since then she had become a legend.
Gwathrandir tossed her hair, her eyes blazing in the darkness as the sounds of the carousel faded away. The luring sound was driving her to madness then giddiness. She felt as though she'd been waiting an eternity out here for Ash.
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Nyx Queen of Darkness Crew
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:49 am
The music of the carousel was slowly quieting, it echoed out softly in the bright full moon night. The soft distant sound of the carousel almost made the night seem unreal. Moon shadows danced upon the earth, bringing to mind spirits returning across the veil. Quietly the mare walked along the path, so much had changed in that past Sennight. Ashaniel had been reunited with her brother and discovered her true talent. She no longer had to worry about making imperfect pieces of pottery and causing her parents to be annoyed at her hideous works of so called art. No, now she knew that her Calling was in song, in music. Perhaps it was her voice or perhaps something else, but she knew it in her heart that music was her desire, her way of achieving perfection.
A shadow a head of her moved and the mare paused. The light of the moon showed her familiar wings, then silver green horns, and dark scales. Ashaniel’s heart began to pound, Gwathrandir. Memories flooded her already shocked mind. They had been friends once, and then Gwath had fallen for a Daoine Eile, an Other. The stallion did not share her feelings instead he was smitten with Ashaniel who wanted nothing to do with him, for he was Daoine Eile. But that did not stop Gwath from becoming jealous. Ash had thought that their friendship was stronger than what it was, oh how wrong she had been.
“I see you Gwathrandir.” It was a customary greeting in the Daoine Sidhe, one that let the other know that they have seen them and if they wish to converse they would return the greeting, or the person could ignore the greeting and not “see” the person talking to them. The manners of the Daoine Sidhe were sometimes complex, but it kept them civilized, which Ashaniel loved. The Daoine Eile were uncivilized and rude, always asking questions and believing that they were greater.
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:26 pm
“I see you Ashaniel," Gwathrandir replied automatically. It was a small learned rule of her people. No, her old people. She was Seelie no longer. Tossing her long braid, she smiled at her once friend. Maybe they could be friends again. Seasons changed and tides waned, so why not? It was natural to come again.
The pink of Ashaniel's skin glowed in the light, looked like a soft pale rose just opening in bloom. She hated her for it, for her fair skin and her fair eyes and fair heart. The darkness in her spread, throbbed like a pulse. "I did not think you would come to see me now that I'm tainted."
The past lay between them like a barrier. They were on different sides now. That Daoine Eile had come between them. But he had paid for that and paid well, but there was hope yet for Ashaniel.
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:45 pm
Ashaniel was not sure she had intended to see her old friend, for she was always filled with fear when she came across mention of Gwathrandir. She did not think much more of it, for was the will of the Gods that they meet upon this night. Although she did worry about what the Elders would say if and when they learned that she had been in communications with not one but two of the tainted Unseelie. “We were friends once and there is nothing I would do for those who I call my friend. Although one might inquire why such an invitation was given to meet.” Especially since Gwath blamed Ashaniel for what had happened in the past, it made the pink mare wary of her old friend’s intentions. The Daoine Eile that had destroyed their friendship had paid for his crimes, or so Gwath had told her after she committed the atrocious act. It was in that moment that Ashaniel no longer saw her best friend, but a monster of taint, a creature of the Unseelie. The Seelie mare tried to keep hidden her feelings behind a stoic facial expression. She knew that she was succeeding but she was not sure for how long.
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 11:15 pm
"I know you well Ashaniel," Gwathrandir moved around the little clearing. "You have that look as though you've smelled something disgusting. My reckoning is that it is me." She gave a sneer and tossed her braid. "You see me as less than you, don't you feel the chains of the Seelie chafing you? Does it not rub you raw to follow those antiquated rules?"
She stopped in front of her old friend. "You came though. There is a reason you came. You feel it don't you? You will join me? Cast aside the Seelie and become Unseelie?" Her eyes were frantically searching her old friends place.
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:52 pm
She wanted to escape this place and flee from Gwath, but she knew she could not do that, for it would be a sign of dishonor and she would rather die than dishonor her name. “I do not see you as less than myself, you were once my friend, to see you less than that would dishonor the memories we had together.” Perhaps it was because of the situation, the direct questions asked by the Unseelie did not cause Ashaniel to groan in irritation at the lack of manners instead it caused a shiver of fear to run down her spine. “I do not bear chains of the Seelie, for I am not a slave of my actions, which you should know well, for you were one of us many a moon turn ago. Rules are made to be followed; the Code of the Seelie Court is there to protect us, to conserve our race, and to guide us to a new tomorrow.”
Again Ashaniel did not know why she came or what invitation was given for this ill-conceived meeting, “Light and Star have guided me to this place and it is not to cast aside the Light and welcome the Dark.” She tilted her head to the side as she thought; perhaps they wished for her to turn one of dark back to light.
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