The time will come...

[petal_storm]

Who: Any
When: The height of Egyptian civilization.
What: Saving Elora's life.

Elora stretched her wings to the sky and yawned, staring
upward; it was such a brilliantly blue sky...clean and empty of anything she was used to. This was the first day she'd managed to be on her feet; time travel was hard on a body, especially as far back as they'd gone. She was honestly shocked her mother had managed to be up and BUILD A TEMPLE prior...

...granted it was Dahlia. The woman managed miracles on short notice. It would be intimidating if it wasn't so useful honestly.

Egypt.

Land of sands and...green lush plant life. They had arrived before the death cult had poisoned the Nile Valley; all the better honestly. She wouldn't do well in a dead land. Not after her mate had attacked her no...

The scars were a silvery river down her left side. Monstrous, painful...gods it had hurt. She idly traced fingers down the scars and watched people mill beyond the walls. He was here; somewhere. Her mate. Mother had promised and it made her...breathe again. She'd been dying they said, hence the extreme measures. Sh just say it as...and extension. A brief, clean moment between nightmares. She'd had a lot of those recently. Ever since being bitten her mind was...full of darker things.

But the light didn't hurt.

Gods the sun didn't hurt and she took that as a good sign.

"We taught you the language while you slept," Markux noted softly behind her. "We all learned. Here we can...find a better way."

"...thank you father," she breathed, still staring up at the sun. "If I fail..."

"You won't child. We won't lose you."

She...really wished they'd face facts. That they'd focus on her twin yet...here they were. "I'll try. Jaeger's going to hate it..."

"So he's told us," Markux agreed quietly.

"...does he hate me?"

"Never dear."

She wasn't certain she believed him honestly but she let it go for now as she aired her wings. "People will be confused."

"Let them be," Markux chuckled softly. "We're good at making people listen anyway."

"I'm sorry to have scared you."

"Never dear, just keep breathing," he smiled, touching her hair. "And be with Corvus when we say hello to to the people?"

...ah. "Of course." How not? This was Egypt after all, animal mixes...were a good thing.

Comments

[code_jaeger]

Jaeger did hate the lack of technology... it was a huge part of who he was and here... well here he couldn't make any. He could make it if he had parts but... he didn't know how t make the wires and the presses and the machinery it would take to make them... He just... had to hope this wasn't permanent... at least for him. He loved his sister, he did, but he didn't have much of a purpose here. It was a bit of a nightmare to wake up and realize... there wasn't anything he was good at here. Agriculture... medicine... fighting... he... wasn't good at any of that. He understood it had been necessary else.... the future would change and he wouldn't exist. He understood that. He just... what was he supposed to do here?

He tried not to mope around, he could only imagine what Elora would think if she saw him like this. He... busied himself cleaning and setting things up for the others just to stave off absolute boredom. But then there were temple servants that did that and well... what now?

[petal_storm]

It took a bit of looking around before Dahlia tracked down where he'd went yes. He had a tendency not to be where she expected these days, "...Jaeger dear, what are you up to down here in the water room?" she blinked, small handled bag in his hand.

[code_jaeger]

He shrugged. "Trying to find something I can do..."

[petal_storm]

"Ah, thought as much. Would you believe me if I said I might have an answer for that?"

[code_jaeger]

He looked up at her. "Yeah?"

[petal_storm]

"Mmmhmmm. What's the biggest issue you've run into in developing tech beyond what we brought?"

[code_jaeger]

"I haven't developed anything since we came. There's really no point."

[petal_storm]

"Sure there is. Your peace of mind, convenience and care here, magic, etc," she chuckled. "Here." She was handing him a...dull grey brick yes.

[code_jaeger]

"Uhm…." he raised an eyebrow. "What is this?"

[petal_storm]

"That is the culmination of a lab I sank before we left," she grinned. "You have three bricks of directive nanites. If you can activate and control them they can self replicate and develop as directed from raw materials so..."

[code_jaeger]

"I see... I will.. try to do that then." Because he'd managed to make the water room worse...

[petal_storm]

"You my boy are skilled in manners most are not. I'd rather you played to your strengths because no one else can," she chuckled. "And frankly I think I'd get angry at them if I tried and then we'd have a nanite revolt or something."

[code_jaeger]

"I'm... pretty useless doing all this..."

[petal_storm]

"Didn't bring you to be a civil engineer," she chuckled softly. "You're our true miracle worker. I'm sorry i was distracted enough during setup that you felt that way."

[code_jaeger]

"Well... I don't know where to find things or how to deal with the power situation so... not sure there was anything I could have done..."

[petal_storm]

"That's why you have these. They can work sand, with ore, etc, and you've options for power if you can convert so..."

[code_jaeger]

"Going to try..."

[petal_storm]

"I know you my boy, you'll manage. You're the only one I know who could," she chuckled softly.

[code_jaeger]

"I just hope so… else... I'm not sure what I can do here..."

[petal_storm]

"I take comfort in the persisting theories that there must have been aliens in this time period," she chuckled.

[code_jaeger]

"Uhhh…"

[petal_storm]

"Dear our tech is terrifying in any era, in this one? It's magic or alien," she laughed.

[code_jaeger]

"Well yes." He nodded.

[petal_storm]

"Cheer up my boy, you are going to terrify them all."

[code_jaeger]

Jaeger sighed. "I just... yeah. Hard to cope with my life being over and having to start completely over."