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 Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 5:36 pm
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Quote: Predatory Puddles (6) : Summer rains aren’t uncommon, so finding puddles dotting your path isn’t in itself particularly surprising or abnormal. However, as you walk past them, you feel the sensation of being watched, like eyes are on you. If you look into the puddles, you don’t see your reflection--nor the reflection of anything familiar to you. Instead, you see strange, decayed buildings, and odd, rotting plants. Something is watching you through the puddles, but before you can investigate, between one blink and the next, it’s all gone. When you look back, the puddles are oddly non-reflective, and then in the next blink, they’re all gone. The feeling of being watched doesn’t fade, though.
Caer Sidi's first thought, when she felt eyes on her that didn't seem to be coming from anywhere, was that she wanted to call Hyperborea. Just in case it was a real threat, she might as well have a whole Knight with her to keep her safer.
But no, that was stupid. There was no one around, she'd checked, just the puddles left by the latest round of summer rains, and so she was probably just anxious because she could feel a Chaos aura prickling at her senses.
Still, the feeling wouldn't go away, and so she glanced down at the puddle by her feet, just to confirm that she was being ridiculous--and she froze.
There was something in the water. A strange reflection of a decaying landscape, and there was definitely something. watching. her.
She yelped, and stumbled back, splashing into another puddle, and when she looked back down, the vision was gone.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 8:14 pm
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The puddles were... different, she thought. Leif wasn't exactly a stranger to things - the weird dark coloration to her throat and jaw were testamont to that. But puddles that stalked you? That was different. So of course Leif had to get up close in personal to one of them and stare at it.
Death, decay, a wasteland. Didn't really seem like Destiny City though? Not that she could really tell, and when she went to compare and look back, the damn thing was gone. Leifite crossed her arms, face sinking into her scarf.
Well that wasn't exactly helpful for research.
"Well that's incredibly unhelpful..." she muttered, walking away from the sudden lack of puddles. How was she going to get information for Metallia now?
Leifite turned down another alley and was confronted by one scared little cosmos page. Oh, well wasn't this a neat little gift. Perhaps not all was lost then!
The Lt. cracked her knuckles and grinned at the page - though only her eyes were visible over the scarf - and struck a pose. Gotta be intimidating, gotta make a presence. There's gotta be some damn flare otherwise, what's the point?
"Ah, the day graces me with a gift! A precious little cosmos page to rough up!"
And with that, she launched herself forward.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 10:00 pm
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Caer Sidi growled in frustration. At least she'd gotten a hit in, in all her useless flailing--but this was exactly what she'd hoped to be better than. No, she wasn't Hyperborea, tall and capable and powerful, but she could at least be better than this miserable desperation.
At least the other woman wasn't going for her starseed. That was a blessing she wanted to keep happening. First though, she aimed to stomp on the Lieutenant's foot with the heel of her boot, and hopefully get her to back off that way.
"Just because there's a war on doesn't mean you have to be such an--an utter barbarian about things!" She huffed, exactly like the well-bred little princess she was in her civilian life, and in all her hissing and puffing, she didn't really get a chance to dodge--and so Leifite's fist hit her directly in the jaw. She reached a hand up to cradle it, and yelped. "Ow!"
Fine, fine. She didn't have magic yet, but she had something else that might deter this rough and tumble Lieutenant--she brushed her thumb over her signet ring and activated her Aspect, limning herself in starlight, and then swung the fist of the hand that wasn't cradling her jaw to hit the Lieutenant in the face. See how she liked starlight burns! That, surely, would teach her to think before she dove in and attacked random people on the street just for being Order!
Aspect of the Cosmos The silvery sheen of starlight covers the Knights of the Cosmos, and their touch is just as heavenly. It's warm and pleasant to most, but acidic and painful to corrupted beings. For the followers of Chaos, physical contact with one of these Knights feels like a mild chemical burn: although it does nothing in the way of actual damage, it's hard to tolerate it and the effects can last for a few seconds after contact.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 10:16 pm
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"What do you think a war is you twit!?" she exclaimed in reply, utterly confused by the apparent stupidity of this page. Like how did Cosmos even decided this one was worthy? It was almost like this one was a damn entitled little princess in her normal life - if those of Order had normal lives, of course, which the jury was still out on that - and hadn't had to fight for anything in her life. A heel jabbed into her foot and Leifite howled in pain, eyes hard and now very full of anger.
Leifite really hated those types.
She made to smack a fist back into the page's face only to be rebounded with acid?! Leifite hissed in pain, holding her fist to her chest. There wasn't any damage but hells if it didn't hurt like a b***h. In fact. Anywhere she was in contact with the page was starting to burn like hell.
"You little bi---" Caer's fist collided with her face mid sentence, and this time Leifite did get shoved back from the page. She stumbled back, hissing in pain and baring her teeth. "I am going to rip out your starseed for that, you little prissy b***h." She would show her, she would show her just how much she had to learn.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 10:26 pm
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"I know what a war is, but it could be conducted with a little dignity!" Caer snapped, but she took the respite granted by her foot and her aspect and her punch to back off and put some distance between them.
"No, you aren't," she said, and she straigtened her back, and kept her Aspect wrapped around her. "You can't even touch me. What do you think will happen if you stick your hand in my chest when I'm like this, huh? Because I bet it'll hurt. So why don't we just go our separate ways, and we won't have to find out what happens if I grab onto you and hold, and how long it takes for this to really start burning."
She wanted to sound more confident than she was. God, she wished Hype was her.e having a full Transcendent Knight at her back would make this trivial--in fact, she'd bet that Leifite wouldn't have bothered to attack her at all if she wasn't alone.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 10:39 pm
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"I will gladly let all the skin fall from my hand if it means there's one less member of order around. Bluff all you want, little Cosmos, but I will not rest until you're dead," replied Leifite, vitriol and hatred dripping from her words. Leifite stalked towards her slowly, wishing she had some sort of sharp weapon or a something to threaten her with, but that's just how things were right now. This would have to do.
If the cosmos page didn't run, oh Leifite would take whatever pain it took to rip that soul from existence. If she did run, maybe not now, maybe not tomorrow, but someday. Someday Leifite would give her just what she needed.
"You'd better start running, little Cosmos. You don't want to see how far I'll go to rip your soul out." Just because Leif would destroy her entire hand to end this one, didn't mean she wanted to. Hopefully the page had the sense to run.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 10:44 pm
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Caer snorted, bitterly. "Oh, please, don't be dramatic," she said, but she was already walking backwards. It wasn't exactly dignified, and it wasn't really noble, or anything she wanted to be, but sometimes discrestion was the better part of keeping your soul in your chest.
Because as much as she mocked, Caer absolutely believed that the Lieutenant meant it, about wanting to rip her starseed out.
"Another time, Lieutenant," she said, and she gave a little cocky wave, but she did in fact turn and run, holding onto her Aspect for as long as she could while she put more distance between her and Lief.
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