aw but hoping for a Ronan OR Stardust since u expressed interest in her starting thread! first sentence is an offsite link.

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deaf and blind, racharra could only rely on the little senses she could feel, but not fully understand.
the rumbling of an unintelligible voice, the hesitant footsteps of something much taller than herself lumbering towards her. an unfamiliar scent.

but the rushing, howling cries of the river she lay next to remind her that she has not returned to the lake.
she stirs, eyelids heavy as she pries them open. Ra smiles down on her, or sneers. racharra couldn't tell anymore. and a new figure, stares with Him.

..hello. is all she can muster, throat so dry it sticks to itself.

Kirain was about to have her puppies soon, or may have already had them, but Stardust did not intend for her dear friend to go without while Kirain dealt with being a new mother. She would need plenty of food…and not the darn berries she kept saying were okay to eat.

Finding prey was not always easy. The changes in the landscape certainly made it difficult. The woman of night hues moved with great grace through the tall grasses of the sleeping doe’s range. Stardust was finally getting comfortable to a point where she could start being herself a little more. This place…it had changed her so much, though many would argue it was for the better.

As she sniffed the morning air, she realized she got close to the Howling River area. She felt a pang in her heart, remembering the Tiger she met there that almost flung themselves into the acid water that almost burned her own paws. Curious to see if it was still a disaster area, she  moved her dark form closer, eyes peering through the completely dead trees.

It seemed about the same as before. The grass, gone. The trees, barren. She stopped for a moment a sighed. It was just so depressing. It was then she saw something over by the river in a distance. Stardust narrowed her bright cyan eyes to focus in on it…and it appeared to be a wolf. She felt her heart freeze.

Dare she go in? Even though she knew the water was not just acid, but it…it gave her weird feelings last time. She bit her lip and looked around, seeing no one else. What would Kirain do? She would help. ”What the hell,” she says to herself. ”Here we go.”

Stardust then dashes forward towards the stranger on the ground next to the river. She tries not to make eye contact with the river…yes, the river. How ridiculous. Her eyes remained focused on the figure, one that she would normally stop to admire, but this was not the time. The first thing she looked at was that if the wolf was breathing…yes! Stardust sighs with a bit of relief as she comes to stop, feeling the adrenaline and panic within herself. Suddenly the word hello comes to her ears. They are awake!

”My goodness, you are alive! We have to get out of here, NOW!” she said in a pushy manner. Her nose leaning down to nudge the woman’s shoulder. ”Did you just wake up here, or wander in here? This area is DANGEROUS! The water…it is tainted, and see that everything is dead…that will be us if you don’t move now,” she said quickly, breathing in the air if she wanted to or not…feeling that urge towards the water that she really, really did not want to feel.

SKILL: ranger 1/5

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the woman before her is the color of Nwt herself. but unlike the goddess, she is not gentle at all. her nose digs into racharra's side, pushing her. and when hearing returns to her, the weight of racharra's eyes and body gives in to urgency.

the shocked racharra hoists herself with no help beyond stardust's words, and it is as the midnight woman says — the stench of death clogs the air and if racharra were not used to it, she surely would've suffocated from it. bodies of all kinds litter, and the woman wastes little time making sure she is not one of them.

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ig scene transition to away from howling river?

panting, ache returns to the ogre woman, head hung low. the calls of the river still linger, but she could ignore it.

in the time spent escaping it, racharra realizes she'd never even spoken to the woman beyond her stumbled greeting. how rude of her — though she's been a wolf for the past few months, she was still raised a noblewoman for many more. settling again, tired but golden eyes meet the striking icy blues of her rescuer. thank you.. and beyond the dark woman's shoulders lies a whole new world. it is now she realizes that her feet meet soft grass, instead of sand or rocks. i'm sorry for not saying it sooner..! she gave a soft chuckle.

She felt bad that she had to wake the poor woman in such a hasty and rather…unfriendly manner, but Stardust knew the risk of lingering even for a few minutes. Luckily, the stranger did not hesitate to listen to Stardust and get moving. She didn’t even need to get her loud voice out.

Stardust held herself next to the stranger in case she needed to lean against her to get up. She knew not how this woman came to be here, and if she was okay. The stranger was able to get up, and quickly Stardust realized how dangerous it really was out here. Death was everywhere, and yet she felt a stronger and stronger pull towards the water.

The woman of midnight hues is glad that the stranger moved quickly then, and Stardust was able to pull herself out of the area and back towards the range. The moved in silence - the importance of getting out of the death and destruction more important than pleasantries.

As they get to the safer area, Stardust’s pace slows and she lets out a big sigh. She stops her tall dark form and looks back, still feeling this…this PULL. She gulps then, snapping out of it once the woman spoke. Stardust shakes her head and blinks, almost like she is startled.

”Oh…I am just glad you woke up and moved so quickly. That water….” she says with her voice trailing off, her cyan eyes staring back, feeling the desire to go back, like the water is calling to her. She turns slowly. ”It…it is almost like it is calling to me,” she says hesitantly, shaking her head aggressively again. ”NO! No….it is poison,” she said to herself, looking back now at the rather large woman. Striking she is, now that she is not laying in peril. Stardust is a rather tall woman herself, and well built, but this lady before her? Stunning.

”I assume you just got here? Not many wander into those parts on purpose anymore,” she asked curiously, looking over the woman to make sure there was no injuries to worry about.

fiesty, this one. there was something familiar about her attitude, but time has long since passed for her to recall just who it was the woman reminded her of. she just couldn't help but smile, just slightly. there is a pull to the river — she gulps her saliva — but should she move from here the slender woman would not be able to yank the ogress back to safety. she could most certainly anchor the midnight woman should she be tempted, however. a slight twinge of jealousy strums through racharra at the woman's slender, beautiful features. to be as beautiful, would be nice. for now she just had to make the most of what she had as an ogre.

they would have to find a different pool to drink from, and from the looks of it there was plenty of room to find it. dry tongue reaches, and recognizes none of the scents it caught. she let stardust prattle, auburn ear giving her its undivided attention while racharra observed this new world she'd been thrust into. and already, it was a treacherous one.

i did.. i was someplace else when i last slept. finally the dark ogress returns to her savior. where are we? would you happen to know? she asks both the woman, and Ra. she knows He would never answer, though.

The larger woman was a thing to contend with, and Stardust was glad she was friendly so far. It appears the woman takes care of herself, however laying in the death of the river area did her no favors. Stardust looked her over and wrinkled her nose, and looked down at her own paws and did the same. Unacceptable. They had to get all this dirt off themselves ASAP.

Stardust flung her eyes back up to the woman, hearing the conformation that she indeed came here from her sleep. Stardust sighed heavily. ”Oh dear, same thing happened to me, but instead of waking up next to a river of death, I woke up FALLING FROM THE SKY,” she ended in a bit of a yell, looking up at the sky once more as if she had an ongoing intense rivalry with it. Stardust sat on her haunches afterwards, a tired look on her face. Her heart was saddened that another fell into the clutches of whatever the hell the place is.

”I only know that this place is called Mythris. I have only been here a few full moons myself. No one I have encountered knows why we get transported here…I have tried to figure out how to leave, but alas…” she shakes her star-touched head. ”You must be parched, and we absolutely must get whatever dirt from that poisoned place off of us. Come, let us go find water that will not burn your flesh off,” she said with a slight frown, her mind going back to Lestan and the horrors of the acid water. Stardust then lifts herself and starts moving towards a known source of water, looking back to see if the stranger was to follow.

SKILL: ranger (2/5)

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the dark woman's voice echoed across the highlands. racharra joined her in their judgement of the sky. her energy infectious, the young woman chuckled. this land is very quick to test all who enter, hm? well, i for one am glad that the sky has brought you here. even if it wasn't the best way to drop off a lady.

mythris — those who enter do not know why and there is no easy way to leave. racharra hums, already having a few predictions as to why that may be. it would not surprise her if she had died in her sleep, the lands she traveled were not the kindest to her. mythris may be even more treacherous than the wilds she was born in, but the hearts of its people seem strong and full, if stardust is any proof of that.

the midnight woman is eager to move, accurate in racharra's thirst. the woman smacks her lips, swallowing whatever saliva she had left to slake. ah, forgive me miss. my name is racharra of the redsands. she doesn't encumber her new friend with titles or nobility. in this new land her titles as nebushepset nor even nebet racharra held no meaning. her nobility, divinity, died with her today when she arrived.