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 Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 4:44 pm
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Beira hadn’t really spoken about what he’d received from the merchant until they were a good distance away from the strange barrier. He just wanted to be careful about it; there was just something odd about everything. Rainier had stayed with him until they reached the picnic table near a line of trees, and as soon as he was near the flat surface, he pulled the map out of the box. He carefully laid it out, using the weight of the box and the lid to rest on either side and hold it flat while he looked at it.
For a moment, he was silent.
He felt the same recognition now as he did before, and the faded emblem on the box was almost identical to the shape of his brooch.
As he ran his hand over the smooth surface of the map, he felt cold, biting winds.
Beira’s winds.
The hill on the map caught his eye, that was the only part of it that he recognized, but just beyond that there was an entrance marked–a cave. And, within that, twisting paths. There were notes–warnings?–written into it, but he couldn’t decipher them. “I’d bet anything that this is my world. Beira,” he explained uncertainly. “I recognize some of it. But I don’t understand how he had this. Or why.”
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 8:45 pm
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Rainier had better manners than to shoulder him aside for a better view and was content to peer over at it from an angle. More than just a map, it seemed to be a precious artifact. A record carefully kept in a tightly sealed box that stood the test of time until it found its home again in the hands of the Senshi it belonged to.
A hand-drawn masterpiece of the world that was his, carefully laid lines in the darkest of black inks that showed no signs of fading. The edges, clean-cut with details, reminded her of Tolkien maps she had seen on the insides of Lord of the Ring books when she was a kid. “I have no idea either. You, or someone else in your past life, could have given it to him for safekeeping. Or-” She looked up at him, her expression almost perplexed.
“Or he could have gone there after it was no longer inhabited and taken it. For everything on the table, anyone could have traded for it but I suspect that certain items resonate with specific people otherwise the rest of the things there seemed uninteresting.” It at least felt like a sound reason since there was nothing that called to her, no trinket pulled her attention or drew her to it. There were fancy things present, yes. But nothing that felt like it was, or should be, hers.
Similarly, Beira did not seem interested in anything else. His attention had been so fixated on the box that it seemed as if nothing else besides it existed.
“I wonder if this is a map of your whole world or just a part of it.” If only a piece, perhaps there might be others for him to find and this was just the first piece of something larger. “I feel for what we see here… I do not envy you as a senshi.” She smirked, weight shifting to one leg Rainer crossed her arms. “You can have a world, I’ll be happy with my small wonder,” Granted a mountain is anything but small but compared to this it was at least manageable.
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 12:18 pm
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“Maybe,” Beira answered, but it seemed almost absentminded, like he couldn’t imagine a situation where this could have fallen into the hands of someone else. “I don’t think it’s my whole world,” he admitted, and pointed to the hill that he recognized. “There’s more down here. I haven’t explored it, but. It is a bit intimidating,” he admitted.
He was careful not to touch it any more than absolutely necessary, but his brows furrowed as he examined it.
“There’s a lot of attention on this cave. I don’t even think I saw an entrance to it the last time I was there. The map might be out of date.”
Might have been, but he knew it was Beira, without a doubt in his heart.
To be fair, he’d been distracted the last time he was there.
There were symbols specific in the cave, unnecessarily so. There was something written about it, but he just couldn’t read it.
“...Interesting that someone would make a map of this. And then take such good care of it. It seems important. Someone spent a lot of time making this.”
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