A warm and humid day had dawned and Amekaze had attended to duty first then slipped past their borders at an easy trot across the flat-lands. Her goal was unclear, for the time, but she had confidence she would find something. If nothing else caught her focus she would head to the rivers for some fishing. Their caches, namely the ones she would frequent, could benefit from some big, meaty fish.
But before she could see the river's shoreline, she noticed the peculiar darkening. One look around brought her focus skyward, towards the sun being overtaken by darkness. Amekaze slowed, unsure, suddenly, of what this meant.
She did not look long, but saw the dark disc steadily covering more and more of the sun. Consequentially, the day darkened around her and nature seemed... silent. This was what made her most uncomfortable by how unnatural it all appeared to her, a mere beast that had never seen nor felt this before. Where days were ruled by light for the whole of her existence, this was a mighty contrast, and surely one brought on by some cause..? Everything in nature did, or so she believed.
She reached the river's area but kept looking over her shoulder back towards the Sunspire's peak, knowing that Ferdie, Jace and the others were likely wondering the same. Now and then, she glanced skyward as well. It only grew darker and her unease was growing alarmingly fast as the questions came rushing. Amekaze did remember myths that spoke of this, oddly enough. But they had always been just that. Myths, tales of old that held no real concrete truth, and even if they had once been reality, it was not in a world such a this one.
A great divine dragon swallowing the sun, one that required great measures to chase away and then there was Amaterasu-ōmikami's retreat into her cave thanks to her brother's mischief -- an act that plunged all of the heavens and the world into darkness until luck and strategy combined brought the sun kami out again. Amekaze growled lowly, for how was she supposed to know what this meant? Or if the sun would ever return as it did in the stories? She hoped, or otherwise without the sun's light and life, these ecosystems were bound to crumble...
She tried to listen. Nature gave no clues. Either that, or she was not seeing them, which was very plausible. So she paced the river's edge, contemplating retreating to the Sunspire already, especially if she could not muster the focus to fish with the day turning to night all around her. But to waste this trip here seemed unwise, especially with the uncertain feeling in her bones. Ame still attempted to focus..
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i want to bleed in the 「r a i n」