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Skill: Seer (1/5)
Set during Solvi's visit to Elysium in late Nov./early Dec.
Sreda
Set during Solvi's visit to Elysium in late Nov./early Dec.
Sreda
The gentle drift of snow had stopped, at least for the moment, as night yawned above the Respite. Evidence of the day's flurries were glued to the ground, but winter clearly had not yet taken full hold.
Solvi suspected that, in mere weeks, Vivarium would be a veritable winter wonderland. For now, it was the in-between of autumn and winter - not yet frozen but far from thawed. The grass crunched beneath her small paws, creating an audible trail of her movements for anyone within the general vicinity.
She tried to sleep without much success. When she tired of wrestling with her body's own refusal to slumber, she slipped away to observe the sky.
A part of her hoped to see the Vintersol, but she would have to keep hoping - the night held only pinpoints of distant light and a curved crescent of moonlight. The reality of it carried a touch of disappointment, but she found some beauty in it all the same.
Her eyes seared into its star-studded blanket, begging, daring The Mother to give her answers to questions she couldn't formulate. They were more feeling than words, felt more than spoken.
The sky - the world - was quiet.
The honeybee perched at the lake's edge for several moments, drinking in the starscape, but the stirring in her soul did not ease. It fed restlessness to her paws, her skin crawling with pent-up energy.
She pushed to her feet, the buzzing only quieting when her limbs began to move. With the gathering darkness to dim her, she followed the lake's edge in silence until she noticed something up ahead - a waterfall. Its crashing waves were the first sign of its presence, but through squinted eyes, she caught moonlight glinting off its edges.
Drawing closer, she realized there was a cave.
She came to a pause, warring with her next course of action. On one paw, she had grown a budding distaste for caves... but this one was behind a waterfall. That automatically made it cooler than other caves and it was still within Elysium. So maybe it was also safer?
The water made it difficult for her to pick up the scent of the cave's owner and she pressed ahead, carefully choosing her path to its mouth.
Solvi suspected that, in mere weeks, Vivarium would be a veritable winter wonderland. For now, it was the in-between of autumn and winter - not yet frozen but far from thawed. The grass crunched beneath her small paws, creating an audible trail of her movements for anyone within the general vicinity.
She tried to sleep without much success. When she tired of wrestling with her body's own refusal to slumber, she slipped away to observe the sky.
A part of her hoped to see the Vintersol, but she would have to keep hoping - the night held only pinpoints of distant light and a curved crescent of moonlight. The reality of it carried a touch of disappointment, but she found some beauty in it all the same.
Her eyes seared into its star-studded blanket, begging, daring The Mother to give her answers to questions she couldn't formulate. They were more feeling than words, felt more than spoken.
The sky - the world - was quiet.
The honeybee perched at the lake's edge for several moments, drinking in the starscape, but the stirring in her soul did not ease. It fed restlessness to her paws, her skin crawling with pent-up energy.
She pushed to her feet, the buzzing only quieting when her limbs began to move. With the gathering darkness to dim her, she followed the lake's edge in silence until she noticed something up ahead - a waterfall. Its crashing waves were the first sign of its presence, but through squinted eyes, she caught moonlight glinting off its edges.
Drawing closer, she realized there was a cave.
She came to a pause, warring with her next course of action. On one paw, she had grown a budding distaste for caves... but this one was behind a waterfall. That automatically made it cooler than other caves and it was still within Elysium. So maybe it was also safer?
The water made it difficult for her to pick up the scent of the cave's owner and she pressed ahead, carefully choosing her path to its mouth.
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Solvi's braids are not as tidy as displayed in her art
