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And I transform, Chrysallis reborn - Carnifex - 2/2/2025
The lion sleeps...
He'd had a weird dream, of being lifted up, cradled, staring into a blank human face....at least, he thought it was human. An old memory, perhaps, from when he was a cub, from when he was still cute and safe enough for his old masters to treat him like a pet. But as all things do, he had grown, he had become too dangerous to be had in the palace walls. From pet, to executioner, in the blink of an eye.
But he was small, in the dream, being brushed....molded. Soothed and coddled like all those years ago....
and the tiger wakes
He was slow to rise, bit by bit returning to the waking world.
Overnight, he had been covered in snow apparently, but it was warm even so, comfortable even with the way it bounced his body heat back at him. But he had a job to do, getting Raisa to Northfall and the tourney safely, so the sentinel stretched out and aimed to break the snow cover.
....
That was...a lot more snow than he had expected. Carnifex opened his eyes and looked around his little snow den, his paws pressing deeper into the wall that shouldn't be this thick. Pulling his paws back and moving to stand, he found his head hitting the roof.
Letting out a huff of frustration, he started digging....and digging.
Until finally, he was out, after digging for 8 feet.
The lion tiger pulled himself out of his tunnel, looking around wildly at his surroundings, the poor man was high up on the mountain and far from where he had fallen asleep the night prior. Unaware, that it's been days since then.
Unaware, that he was in a new body.
Sovereign?He called, spinning in place as he looked for anyone, spotting a few wolves dotted along further down the mountain.
Raisa?he called out, his deep voice sounding louder than he had intended as he started his treck downward towards the activity. How the hell had he gotten all the way up here?
RE: And I transform, Chrysallis reborn - Raisa - 2/25/2025
Raisa mourned.
She cried, she buried him, and Raisa found she couldn't easily leave him. She barely knew him, nor he, her, but he'd frozen to death out here escorting her to wherever she needed to go. He'd never been anything but dutiful and now he lay beneath the snow, cold, gone. Was it her? If it was, she was sure it was a curse, and not blind loyalty -- she'd never done anything to warrant treatment like that, nor would she call Blackfoot, Rajani, or Akuji's deaths her fault.
Still, it was hard to reason with an irrational thought sharpened by grief.
And still, she knew she had to leave. Arvid and Northfall were waiting for her, and she had to make sure she turned up for his fathers celebration of life - they both knew the pain of losing their loved ones. It was personally important, and important to the budding alliance. So she'd gone, and she found she'd been having a good enough time, but she couldn't shake her grief.
The very delicious berries she'd been introduced to were good for that, though. She was neck-deep in festivities and enjoying the stupor with.... fuck, she didn't know. Some others.
And she heard her name.
What the fuck was happening? Did lions hibernate?! Had she accidentally buried him and in doing so nearly killed him?! Was she THAT drunk? She spun about and took off running, and there was a tiger coming towards her.
She called back out to him, sure it was his voice, but...
Fuck, the tiger was the same creamy color he had been, and sure, she noticed that his stripes were the same color as his large hair had been... but....
What. The Fuck.
She cried, she buried him, and Raisa found she couldn't easily leave him. She barely knew him, nor he, her, but he'd frozen to death out here escorting her to wherever she needed to go. He'd never been anything but dutiful and now he lay beneath the snow, cold, gone. Was it her? If it was, she was sure it was a curse, and not blind loyalty -- she'd never done anything to warrant treatment like that, nor would she call Blackfoot, Rajani, or Akuji's deaths her fault.
Still, it was hard to reason with an irrational thought sharpened by grief.
And still, she knew she had to leave. Arvid and Northfall were waiting for her, and she had to make sure she turned up for his fathers celebration of life - they both knew the pain of losing their loved ones. It was personally important, and important to the budding alliance. So she'd gone, and she found she'd been having a good enough time, but she couldn't shake her grief.
The very delicious berries she'd been introduced to were good for that, though. She was neck-deep in festivities and enjoying the stupor with.... fuck, she didn't know. Some others.
And she heard her name.
What the fuck was happening? Did lions hibernate?! Had she accidentally buried him and in doing so nearly killed him?! Was she THAT drunk? She spun about and took off running, and there was a tiger coming towards her.
Carnifex?!
She called back out to him, sure it was his voice, but...
Fuck, the tiger was the same creamy color he had been, and sure, she noticed that his stripes were the same color as his large hair had been... but....
What. The Fuck.
RE: And I transform, Chrysallis reborn - Cobalt - 2/25/2025
Hey. Guess who's here now.
A bunch of wolves are here, and he hasn't been asked to leave, not exactly. He doesn't know the departed, but he could say a few nice words about them, maybe? Instead, he's got half a line of music stuck in his head, buzzing inappropriately, and he's trying not to sing about shawty's apple bottom jeans. He sees a bunch of upset people, and his brain always goes to weird places when other people are sad.
A shame he lost his brain cells in the space wars.
How he's climbed the mountain, he doesn't know. Dovah hunting? He's not sure. But then a tiger breaks out of the earth, and he stares for a few moments.
His brainwaves take a few steps to start before he remembers: follow tigers. They know things. Luna and Rajani did. And so, with Carnifex heading down towards Raisa, Cobalt follows on his heels. "Oh you're loud enough, she can probably hear you." He would have done the screaming for them both had he needed to.
A bunch of wolves are here, and he hasn't been asked to leave, not exactly. He doesn't know the departed, but he could say a few nice words about them, maybe? Instead, he's got half a line of music stuck in his head, buzzing inappropriately, and he's trying not to sing about shawty's apple bottom jeans. He sees a bunch of upset people, and his brain always goes to weird places when other people are sad.
A shame he lost his brain cells in the space wars.
How he's climbed the mountain, he doesn't know. Dovah hunting? He's not sure. But then a tiger breaks out of the earth, and he stares for a few moments.
His brainwaves take a few steps to start before he remembers: follow tigers. They know things. Luna and Rajani did. And so, with Carnifex heading down towards Raisa, Cobalt follows on his heels. "Oh you're loud enough, she can probably hear you." He would have done the screaming for them both had he needed to.
RE: And I transform, Chrysallis reborn - Carnifex - 4/14/2025
The tiger noted the little wolf following behind him, though he had more important matters at hand, his ear flicking in acknowledgement at Cobalt's words. Relief was clear in his features, however foreign they were, as he heard Raisa's voice and made a beeline for her, trotting faster.
Sovereign, I'm...not sure how I got up here. Are you alright?Had he just abandoned her on their trek north? Had he eaten something weird and wandered off in a daze??
I'm sorry I leftBecause even if he didn't remember doing so, the guilt was weighing on him.
...was she smaller? Surely not, but he found himself looking further down than he had before...odd.
RE: And I transform, Chrysallis reborn - Raisa - 5/15/2025
A scrawny, monochrome little shit was at his side, and Raisa is pretty sure she knew him, too. He dredged up memories of the past, of members she could barely remember, and she was all too willing to bury those again as they rise in her drunken stupor. One Bad Thing at a time, yeah? Perhaps he would recognize her, perhaps not -- she'd only been a kid, then, barely old enough to wander beyond the mouth of the den.
It was Carnifex she focused on (as well as she could), who had the audacity to seem worried about her even though he had DIED!
Right?
RIGHT!?
She was whisper-yelling, she realized, and her ears fell back. She continued on her way to meet him and pressed into his chest for a hug as soon as she was close enough.
She didn't think rising from the dead to continue your job could be rewarded with any less than elite warrior, right? Not that she thought he could be so lucky, or blessed, again, but she was still dumbfounded.
It was Carnifex she focused on (as well as she could), who had the audacity to seem worried about her even though he had DIED!
Am I alright,she echoed dumbly, numbly,
I buried you, Carnifex, what the fuck. You were dead!
Right?
RIGHT!?
She was whisper-yelling, she realized, and her ears fell back. She continued on her way to meet him and pressed into his chest for a hug as soon as she was close enough.
I've never had a friend as loyal as you,she gushed through happy tears, deciding that whether she'd had a mental breakdown on the way here or some magic offered her bodyguard back to her, she didn't care,
You're promoted to Champion.
She didn't think rising from the dead to continue your job could be rewarded with any less than elite warrior, right? Not that she thought he could be so lucky, or blessed, again, but she was still dumbfounded.
RE: And I transform, Chrysallis reborn - Cobalt - 5/16/2025
Champion? Oh, that's very important! Cobalt perks up, smiling between the two of them, and then back to Raisa.
"I know your face." He has to focus very hard, because it's blurred through the static. "Rajani... You were with him." His ears swoop back, his eyes going unfocused for a moment. "I don't remember."
"I know your face." He has to focus very hard, because it's blurred through the static. "Rajani... You were with him." His ears swoop back, his eyes going unfocused for a moment. "I don't remember."