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]

"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."

[petal_storm]

"It's not over dear, i'm sorry it feels that way, ideally I want to establish stable pads between times..." she sighed.

[code_jaeger]

"You even said that the future would change dramatically if we were to go back to it. So yeah, my life there is over."

[petal_storm]

"Yes, drastically, but not unsurvivably so," she sighed. "But we shall see what comes yes?"

[code_jaeger]

"I guess so."

[petal_storm]

"And getting out to see a cleaner environment could be nice too," she chuckled.

[code_jaeger]

"Yeah but I don't do well with people."

[petal_storm]

"But they are a population base and just looking can be nice too. Observe how things work and how they could be better? Take the nanites shopping..."

[code_jaeger]

"No... I've seen the way they interact with Ixi… I don't want fifteen people following me around worshiping me… or handing me their twelve year old daughters..."

[petal_storm]

"Ixi encourages that, you do not you just say no and demand space dear," she pointed out. "There's other temples near ere, some I can't read. They may have tech."

[code_jaeger]

"...how?"

[petal_storm]

"I don't know. That or honest to gods magic or aliens so..."

[code_jaeger]

"Well... alright.…"