03-05-2022, 02:59 PM
The hours turned into days.
Then, days became weeks.
In that time, the imprisoned palantír (who was already quite prone to melancholy) grew morose. Resigned to the fact that she was due to live out the rest of her life amongst the din of the walrus clan, she held little hope for any comfort or small happinesses to befall her. Everything here was foreign. The foods were rotten, and lacked the nourishing warmth that her frail body craved. She stared out at nothingness, unmoving save for the chill that wracked her body, and let the woman @Pearl move her about at will. The woman was frigid and quickly grew emaciated; the fire in her dimming and dying, hour by hour, day by miserable day.
In the meantime, she entertained herself with thoughts of @Tiberius.
The waif tried not to think of (what might amount to) her last moments with him; it was a horrid memory, a stain on what could have been a beautiful thing between them. The titan had promised to fight any beast for, but she hadn't sought to earnestly test his promise, and not so soon into the lifecycle of what was a nascent, but still blooming, rose. The shadowed wolf looked the very picture of shock and horror as he lashed and struck out at the king of monsters, and then Olive would think how @Riannon had pitched herself in the black, yawning abyss in order to retrieve her — had any of her would-be-heroes made it out alive? Olive had seen the forms of distant wolves upon the shore once, but she couldn't be sure it was her friends.
and besides, that was a long time ago at this point.
Instead, the Shakti woman let memories dance before her eyes as it they were real as day, and not solely visions. She could imagine the titan's ministrations so clearly that she could almost feel his touch upon her, and the gravel of his drawl in her ear. She also thought of @benry and @Archon and cried for them often, imagining them to be lost, with no one to tether them. She wondered of Riannon, who had given her hearth and home, the tangled threads of whom she was only beginning to unravel. She thought often of that one, electric moment between the two women, with words never needing to be spoken but their touch holding a thousand meanings —
After hours spent in reverie, she always came back to the nullifying realization that this was all in the past. It was over. Therefore, if she didn't spend the time to remember the creatures who meant so much to her, they might stop existing... even if only to her.
She couldn't let herself forget how strongly she loved, and continued to love, those around her; even if she was upon this wasted spit of land for eternity. Let the mighty @Boomba Bes stop her, if he wanted to. The woman lifted her quivering lips to the sky and drew out a broken, mournful howl. Not to call for anyone or communicate a message (for she fully believed no one was listening), but to simply hear herself, and be reminded that she still existed.
Then, days became weeks.
In that time, the imprisoned palantír (who was already quite prone to melancholy) grew morose. Resigned to the fact that she was due to live out the rest of her life amongst the din of the walrus clan, she held little hope for any comfort or small happinesses to befall her. Everything here was foreign. The foods were rotten, and lacked the nourishing warmth that her frail body craved. She stared out at nothingness, unmoving save for the chill that wracked her body, and let the woman @Pearl move her about at will. The woman was frigid and quickly grew emaciated; the fire in her dimming and dying, hour by hour, day by miserable day.
In the meantime, she entertained herself with thoughts of @Tiberius.
The waif tried not to think of (what might amount to) her last moments with him; it was a horrid memory, a stain on what could have been a beautiful thing between them. The titan had promised to fight any beast for, but she hadn't sought to earnestly test his promise, and not so soon into the lifecycle of what was a nascent, but still blooming, rose. The shadowed wolf looked the very picture of shock and horror as he lashed and struck out at the king of monsters, and then Olive would think how @Riannon had pitched herself in the black, yawning abyss in order to retrieve her — had any of her would-be-heroes made it out alive? Olive had seen the forms of distant wolves upon the shore once, but she couldn't be sure it was her friends.
and besides, that was a long time ago at this point.
Instead, the Shakti woman let memories dance before her eyes as it they were real as day, and not solely visions. She could imagine the titan's ministrations so clearly that she could almost feel his touch upon her, and the gravel of his drawl in her ear. She also thought of @benry and @Archon and cried for them often, imagining them to be lost, with no one to tether them. She wondered of Riannon, who had given her hearth and home, the tangled threads of whom she was only beginning to unravel. She thought often of that one, electric moment between the two women, with words never needing to be spoken but their touch holding a thousand meanings —
After hours spent in reverie, she always came back to the nullifying realization that this was all in the past. It was over. Therefore, if she didn't spend the time to remember the creatures who meant so much to her, they might stop existing... even if only to her.
She couldn't let herself forget how strongly she loved, and continued to love, those around her; even if she was upon this wasted spit of land for eternity. Let the mighty @Boomba Bes stop her, if he wanted to. The woman lifted her quivering lips to the sky and drew out a broken, mournful howl. Not to call for anyone or communicate a message (for she fully believed no one was listening), but to simply hear herself, and be reminded that she still existed.
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