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 Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 6:58 pm
It…didn’t really feel like standing in front of a fan, and Mary had closed her eyes when she had pressed the button, just in case, but suddenly, the breeze felt different, it was cooler and the wind was…more than it had been back in the city. Sucking in a breath, Mary looked around and realized that…they really had gone somewhere. The two of them had ended up in a meadow of some sort, or at least that’s what she thought it was…the grasses made a pleasant sound as the breeze moved through them, but when she looked up.
“Oh! Oh Soleiyu!” Her eyes were wide as they took in the large expanse of stars. It was the most beautiful sight she had ever seen in her entire life. Obviously, there was no light pollution here, and it was that which made her think that…maybe they were really missing out back on earth…the sky never looked this beautiful there.
“Is this it? Is this my homeworld? I mean…it’s dark, but…the sky is lovely! What…what do I do here, how should I go about…doing the ritual or…whatever I need to do? Do you have any advice?”
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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2022 3:19 pm
Soleiyu hadn’t bothered to close his eyes when she brought them to her world; he’d done this often enough that he wasn’t worried. He stayed tucked safely in her arms, and as soon as things stopped moving he was immediately looking around and trying to take in everything all at once.
“This is,” he confirmed, “And it is beautiful. It’s lovely. Oh, I missed the stars. You just don’t see this in Destiny City.”
He rested against her and, in his contentment, even began to purr.
“Does your heart tell you to go anywhere? If you close your eyes and focus, can you think of a place? Sometimes your homeworld will give you clues, it’ll try to lead you towards where you need to be, or show you past life memories to help guide you.”
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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2022 5:45 pm
Soleiyu’s purring was honestly the most adorable thing that Mary had heard in a long while, and she gave a little, happy laugh, leaning back and flopping down into the soft grasses, her eyes taking in the stars. “My heart? It’s not telling me much of anything right now, but it likes this, I think. It likes being here, it definitely likes having a cat laying on me and purring.”
Even if her heart was trying to tell her something…truthfully, she didn’t want to hear it right now. Right now she simply wanted to lay here and look at the sky and keep talking to Soleiyu.
“...I’ll listen to my heart next time I come, provided I can see. I don’t want to just start exploring with only the light from the stars to guide me, I don’t have the best night vision, Soleiyu…but.”
For a moment, Mary closed her eyes, simply breathing along with the Mauvian.
…There was a faint kind of a tug, but…she wasn’t sure what to do about it. “...I think next time I’ll bring a flashlight…and I will listen a bit more carefully…does that sound okay to you?”
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2022 4:05 pm
Soleiyu laughed briefly and adjusted himself to be more comfortable. “I suppose I can’t disagree. You are rather comfortable. No, it’s not a bad idea to wait until you’re more prepared. I think it’s really very mature of you, actually. Sometimes things like these can be…”
He didn’t want to say dangerous, that wasn't entirely true.
“...Worth the effort to make sure they’re done right. If you need company, you should call me. I’ll come up with you again and make sure you get back safely. But, it’s no pressure. I feel like I’d like to see this place in the daylight. Other worlds don’t always work like Earth, though. There's no telling how long, or short, a day or night might be here. So when you come back, bring all the supplies you might need. And snacks, too. Just in case. If you don’t bring me with you, I hope you’ll tell me what you find. Since we’re friends now, and I’ll worry about you otherwise.”
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 9:59 am
“I’ll bring you with me! I’d love to be friends, seriously. And I’d love to explore this place in the daylight too but…Oof, that’s crazy to think that it could just be night forever? That doesn’t seem very cool.”
Or, would it be cool, if there was no sun, it wouldn't get very warm, now would it…but…
“No, there has to be daytime here, or else how would this grass grow? Clearly one day I have to tell my mom I’m spending the night with a friend and you and I can come camp up here for a while, how does that sound? That way we can spend a good long while exploring…oh! I’ll buy us a tent! That way we won’t get too cold or wet if it decides to rain…because it must rain here too…there has to be like…normal conditions…I…”
Courtney had never been really interested in science but…this…
This was something completely different and entirely new…and she wanted to know.
“For now though, I hope you’ll be up to just staring at the stars with me for a little while longer?”
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 9:16 pm
“I would love nothing more than that, Mary.”
Soleiyu had been working hard, hadn’t he? It would have been so easy to just keep working–work until he burned himself out. He wouldn't be much good to anyone if he were too exhausted to think, to work.
A little break here, on this peaceful world, seemed perfectly acceptable.
“The stars are beautiful.”
And, they had such a good view. That, combined with her questions just made him feel a little excited, and he settled himself up next to her so he could get cozy.
They could probably spend a good few hours hypothesizing what made her world the way it was.
He was looking forward to all of it.
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