Obadiah stares for a few moments at the swan's transformation into a woman, and visibly has to shake himself in order to talk to her. "Beggin' yer pardon, ma'am, but yer friends sure as sh-, er, shootin ain't hurt. The Bitty don't keep no prisoners that I ever heard, and she's a sweet girl so...
"Naw, just the dollyphant skin and the two weirdo kids ridin' the wave a while back... Waitaminute, were those yer pals? Then you ain't here to get yer strings tightened?" His open, friendly face shuts in suspicion, and he begins to back away.
"Jeremiah, stay down there!" An audible gulp comes...
The old man guffaws, clambering out of the hole with a whistle at the blooming ravine walls. "Sure done herself right this time, whoo-ee! And sure you're right, young lady, I don't 'spect you'll hear a name like it in this part, unless it's mine, that is. Obadiah Bearskaldi, pleased to meet...
As Worthy sprays the surrounding area with droplets, the wizened head of an old man pops up from the hole just in time to get a mouth full of fowl water.
"Pfah!" he spits, sweeping back his scraggly, muddy hair and blinking in the bright sunlight. Unlike most ordinary mortals, he doesn't seem...
The rain turns to a drizzle as the Exalts travel toward the valley, and as the ravine walls dry out, the clean-scoured clay sides begin to sprout with green life. While there are a few shoots of the ever-predominant bamboo pushing their way up like arrows from bows, the canyon walls are covered...
While the rain pouring down makes tracking difficult, Worthy's aerial view shows that the wave clearly scoured the ravine clean for a long way into the forest, following the same path that the white fawn took. The bamboo on either side is flattened back and broken, and as the forest climbs into...
Ledaal Coreen
"I don't know anything about real outside-type stuff, but um, there were all these books, like The Mystery of Snowskull Mountain with Tepet Red Deer and the were-tiger that was just the old governor really, that were in Grandmother's library, and anyway in the books, you're...
Ledaal Coreen
Coreen opened her eyes half-expecting to see the monster standing over her, but the snow-covered forest canopy was the only thing that met her eyes at first. "Ohh," she groaned as she hauled herself out of the low bush she'd been blasted into, hoping absently that the Heptagram...
Ledaal Coreen
Coreen panted, her heart beating near out of her chest; her friend Negevin said time was supposed to slow down when you were scared but everything was going fast, so fast, and the essence shot down her arm like a lightning bolt, gathering the winds that followed her into a...
Ledaal Coreen
Coreen shrieked like a tin whistle as the bone-blades sliced over Hai Feng's head, her vivid imagination instantly supplying an image of what would've happened had those blades struck home. A wave of fear swept over her, turning her stomach into a churning mess - this wasn't like...
The flood rushes down the canyon with frightening speed, boulders churning in its wake. As the little group of Exalts scatters, most make it out of the ditch safely, except two: Lin-Rei and Dis must both suffer under an inauspicious star, and their reactions are not quick enough. The huge wall...
Okay, almost everyone has caught up. :) Hopefully WhiteKnight and TKMobile will post soon; otherwise, they might end up going on a little side adventure. Team Walkabout will be moving forward on Tuesday, so all aboard that's coming aboard!
Not that I've forgotten Team Manifest Destiny; I've...
The footsteps ahead of Marius slow slightly as his own steps quiet, and the tangle of vines finally stills and goes limp. It looks to be a normal clump of vegetation- jasmine vines, in fact - but, of course, no plants could grow in this sunless tunnel. The squashed flower buds send up a faint...