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

Re: Egypt

[code_jaeger]

"First I'd heard of it but..." Shinose noted.

Re: Egypt

[petal_storm]

"Female festival coming up and you can people watch a bit? Come back all covered in flowers and cloth?" Dahlia chuckled.

Re: Egypt

[code_jaeger]

"Oooh, if you'd like to go you should." Shinose smiled. "You should take the living petal! I'm sure she could find new flowers for her temple."

Re: Egypt

[petal_storm]

"I like this plan," Dahlia grinned.

"I...need to be home though?" Orchid blinked.

"Yes, we'll stay in Egypt for a few days and show Ana the temples then come back for the festival."

"...I would like to find new silks," Ana admitted. "For you my lord mte and for me..."

Re: Egypt

[code_jaeger]

"If you'd like to go." Jaeger noted. "Could be fun."

Re: Egypt

[petal_storm]

"It...might. And I do not hold another festival of plenty for several weeks..."

"Of plenty?" Ana asked, tilting her head.

"I...feed people?" Orchid blinked.

Re: Egypt

[code_jaeger]

"Ah, I'm sure people like that."

Re: Egypt

[petal_storm]

"...yes. It's...useful." Orchid admitted quietly.

"I'm not at all sure how you don't strip the soil in your temple that way. It's interesting!" Dahlia grinned.

Re: Egypt

[code_jaeger]

"Oh, I hadn't thought of that." Jaeger blinked.

Re: Egypt

[petal_storm]

"I fertilize with offerings, and dead material, and I seem to just...enrich soil near me?" Orchid blinked.

"Ah, true, you're a deity, that leads to some oddity..."

Re: Egypt

[code_jaeger]

"Hmm." He nodded leaning his head on her.

Re: Egypt

[petal_storm]

Orchid chuckled, "you'll ever lose that vine in your hair..."

Re: Egypt

[code_jaeger]

"That's alright." he smiled.

Re: Egypt

[petal_storm]

"Good," she smiled. "I like knowing where you are."

Re: Egypt

[code_jaeger]

"I'll keep it."

Re: Egypt

[petal_storm]

"Good, sunlight each day, at least a little. Water misting."

Re: Egypt

[code_jaeger]

"I will do my best on the sun." He nodded.

Re: Egypt

[petal_storm]

"You can drape your hair out a window?" she mused.

Dahlia was going to quietly crack up yes.

Re: Egypt

[code_jaeger]

"Oh I guess that works." He nodded.

Re: Egypt

[petal_storm]

"Workarounds," she grinned.

"That's the essence of a bond," Dahlia laughed.

Re: Egypt

[code_jaeger]

"Hmm, yes."

Re: Egypt

[petal_storm]

"We'll celebrate a bond once you're settled and comfortable?" Dahlia chuckled.

Re: Egypt

[code_jaeger]

"I... don't think that's best... Elora is.... already... ah..."

Re: Egypt

[petal_storm]

"Once she'd settled too. She's...in pieces but she's been scanning everyone, trying to find a way to balance."

Re: Egypt

[code_jaeger]

"I hope we find him soon..."