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 Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 4:43 pm
Mair HATED that her people called her for trivial things in this stupid planet. Settling a dispute over the the appeal of some jewelry goods made her absolute insane. Why would she care about whose stone was shinier and well placed? Why was that even a debate to begin with? Her people were so used to peace and love that it made her sick.
She had seen the goings of other worlds. She had seen that the surrounding fought off the dreaded chaos from entering their system every day. She had heard of knights and senshi that DIED on their planets.
They had no army, nothing to protect themselves from threats and instead of listening to her pleas, the council of elders reminded her over and over that she was only a mere child in their world and that peace was only the way of living. If those who came to her planet in need, they would be welcomed. Ill intentions or not.
"Better to die to knowledge rather then ignorance." She grumbled as she pulled one of the many books she borrowed from the surroundings wonders. Books were such a wonder to her because they contained so much in them.
Tactics, War offenses and defenses. Cultures of other worlds. Lore and history. None of which her own planet offered.
She flipped through a page from the safety of the room of welcoming (the spot where all those that teleported to and from her planet) and became completely absorbed in her book, her attention clearly diverted from the activity on her planet.
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:16 pm
The veil pierced, the silence of a transient lifelessness broke.
Velvet remembered the sum total of his years spent in the Pond. He remembered all the oaths and all the visions, all the prophesies singing their luminous golds to the ends of his fingers. He held fate in his hands. He spoke the future in tongues undecided. But all those years wasted into a dream the moment he chose to stir, the moment he knew he could not remain a vessel for a future damned to burning. And when he rose, when he remembered his arms and his legs and his name and his sex and his robes, the trance shattered. He knew he could no longer see.
But Velvet saw all he could take. The Wonder lurched through the stars on a timeless journey, on spanned in the breath of a few short seconds. He knew, staring out from the glass dome of his enclosure, that he would not abide another minute in that pool. The wonder halted imperceptibly.
Then, in a fit of wild magic, he vanished.
He vanished, and apparated instantaneously on a land foreign and vibrant. And of all the sights he could've seen — the massive trees, the crackling fires burning docile in hearths, the circles of dancing peoples — he saw a single person. A girl, seated in a nondescript circular room with a book in hand. He did not know her, could not know her, and yet a burning need set his chest alight for a single moment to speak to her. To reach out and touch her arm. To look at her eyes — the first eyes he'd ever seen beyond a reflection or a dream. His heart stuttered as he managed a couple steps. Dreaded hair dragged the ground. He opened his mouth, yet no words came.
He only sighed. Another draw of air, and he tried again. "H… Hi," he managed as his first words in years. They tasted foreign, unpracticed, drab. "Um…" His hands fled to his temples for the burgeoning headache of searching for words. Dark eyes reached the floor quizzically, studious. "Where is this?" Again he looked to her with naked curiosity.
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 5:05 pm
Mair was not usually one to be taken by surprise. As the senshi of the planet, she had a deep connection with the stupid rock about who came and went and all that pierced into it's magical bubble of ignorance and joy.
So when the person appeared right in the welcoming room of her planet, she wasn't all that surprised by the sudden pop of energy and flicker of a threat.
Since the character didn't seem to have the dark feeling of chaos (she only assumed he didn't) and looked fairly lost, she wondered what sort of creature would come to her world.
He came a couple of steps and she rose from her spot, robes of silver and blue sweeping at her feet and held the book out to stop him. He seemed to struggle with words and she watched him with a careful gaze. "Hello." Her own long braided white hair dragged on the floor, as she circled him with the book still held out like a shield. "This is Interamnia, the planet of stardust." She waited, "I am Interamnia, the senshi of this planet and its protector. Please clearly define your state of visitation and name."
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 6:01 am
Interamnia. Have I heard that name before?
His gaze searched the floor unseeingly. It climbed the lengths of chairs, reached across tables, touched the walls. He schooled his explosion of unruly thought — of every impulse to touch and taste and see and search all corners of sentient consciousness here. Was it rude to press his fingers into this senshi's hands, to search for the pulse beneath her skin? Was it shameful to ask her to tell him all about herself in every detail she could recall? He thought as much, but the impulse burned to searing points at the ends of his hands. Simply standing still felt like unjust torture.
But she made her boundary clear, and Velvet halted as if forced. He tried to bring a smile to his face, but his muscles barely remembered their proper placement. The asteroid's namesake circled him, then broached him with protocol.
He didn't know what to say.
State of visitation? "My name is Kholat Syakhl." The words felt old and imprinted — not wholly his. He pointed to the ceiling where his wonder hovered far overhead, glittering with all its crystallized memories. "And my state of visitation…"
The Cosmos knight heaved a sigh. "I don't know. I just woke up. I haven't seen anyone in…" He sucked in a breath, counted the years against the quiver of his throat. "Seventeen years? I'm an oracle, it's my duty to watch. But I saw something terrible — I needed to find someone. This was the nearest place." Fingers steepled together, and he stepped backward from her with head bowed and a rakish dread cut a line across his face. "I'm sorry. I can leave."
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:12 am
"Kholat Syakhl huh?" Mair wrinkled her nose, "Don't you have something a little easier to say? Thats a mouthful." Not that she was really in a position to demand a nickname for the visitor. She wanted to get his clear intentions before one of her stupid people came up and welcomed him (god forbid) with no fear of consequences.
Though the way he carried himself, It looked like he was learning and opening his eyes to moons and asteroids for the first time. She had heard of knights and other senshi's that never left their wonders. She was not one of those.
"Oh s**t." Mair's eyes widened and then the book fell to her side, as she ventured closer. "I've heard OF oracles, just never seen one in person. Usually depending on the planets customs, you guys are like gods or like....tucked away." And since he said that he hadn't seen people in 17 years, she was guessing he was the tucked away Oracles.
"No, you can stay! Here, the custom of our people is to be welcoming. If you mean no harm, then you can come with me." Mair had so many questions. What bad thing had he seen? What kind of oracle was he? What kind of wonder did he have? Why hadn't he seen people? Was he lonely?
She mulled over them before choosing one. "Would you like some food? I don't know about travelling around space, but if you're hungry, I have some good food!" She turned though beckoning him closer, "But if I feed you, I have some questions I want to ask!"
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