Eo wrote:
[[Wait a minute... I already got Huzukah/Earth, Jurekazi. Unless the order you say them in makes a difference. Er, does it? Could the GM please clear this up for us?]]
[No, the order doesn't make a difference. I'm afraid Jurekazi will have to change to something else, unless you are willing to do so, Eo
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Caress heard the soft flapping sound of wings. It sounded like ... big wings.
Big wings? Her heard's thudding accelerated a little. Surely not a Ukatii? No, it couldn't be ... could it? She had never seen one in a forest before. Of course, she knew that that wouldn't tell her whether Ukatiis did wander in forests, but still ... the shock of it, just when she was about to relax. Holding her breath, she looked up at the creature standing in front of her. She stared for a few seconds, her eyes widening with amazement.
Then she closed her eyes, leaning her head back a little.
I'm dreaming.
Taking a few deep breaths, Caress let her eyelids slide back up. She - the creature - was still standing there. A Ukatii, of course. But not fully a Ukatii.
Half a Ukatii. The other half was perhaps a human, or demi-goddes. But it didn't matter. She was a hybrid. A hybrid, like Caress was.
Caress kept on staring, not able to believe her eyes. She had seen so much, searched so hard, but there had never been another like her. Another hybrid. And yet, this one had just come flying down from the tree and floated down in front of her.
Caress wasn't sure how she felt. There was joy and relief, out of finding that she wasn't alone of her kind in Ahnta. There was fear, for she didn't know whether this was simply an illusion or her hallucination. And there was something else - excitement, maybe. Eagerness. Something had sprung up inside her, like she had been waiting for this moment for a long time, to complete a task she had to do. But what this task was, she had no idea. But she felt confident, and ready. But ready for
what?
All this sudden blooming feeling in her heart, this new ready-to-fire spirit jumping in her veins, made her think of destiny. How did one feel, when one had, after years of lurking in front the great gates of what they were destined to do, and then finally, something had caused these gates to creak upon, just opening up and letting in the tiniest crack of life?
Kunith? she asked, in her mind. Was the God of Destiny planning something? Or had this destiny always been there, before the stars were born (just as this Dark Age of Ahnta they were in the middle of right now had been set as the future long before the world was even created, as Kunith had said.)
Caress realized her thoughts were going rather wild. She was surprised and pleased to see this other hybrid, that was all.
Nothing big and mysterious, she thought,
trying to calm herself, it's not destiny or anything. Now inhale, exhale ... inhale, exhale ...