@Dagmar hope this is okay <3
She did not count the days she walked.
Eyes of sleepy violet had been jolted into conciousness, flitting like the startled wings of a butterfly back and forth across the horizon; without a man to guard her back, Daivya felt the wind creep icy tendrils up her spine - exposure. Isolation was a curse, and to the lost Meladi, it might be the cause of her downfall. Pangs of ravenous hunger had ripped through her stomach suns before, but she was barely adept at catching prey, relying solely on the scraps of abandoned carcasses along the trail, anything she could scavange.
She was a medic, a herbalist, not a hunter. That was not a woman's purpose.
Fog sat in a hazy cloak over the taiga, and the chocolate sprite could barely tell left from right - she longed again for the safety of the Odolf claim: Lilah's benevolent smile, Dawson's fathomless gaze, Iliksis' dangerous stare, the alluring charm of Grayson's words and the friendships that had bloomed in her delicate hands. It was a prodigious loss, settling like a leaden stone in the traveller's chest. Her throat felt tight, scratchy, and she savoured the rain that would tip from the heavens, soaking her dusty pelt and soothing the burn in her dry muzzle; she had almost forgotten how terrible it was to be alone. She would never forget again.
Ignoring the pain in her snow-tipped ankles, Daivya moved onward. She dared not look back, for with the solitude came a paralysing fear of being observed like a fly under a glass; she must not stop moving, lest she desired to fall prey to nature itself. Her gods could not protect her here - she must simply trust their guidance, continue to withstand the elements and push through the mountainous regions until they cast help in her direction. The herbalist trusted them. It was the only thing she could do.
Until, of course, the sleepless nights of endless struggling brought her crumpling to the ground, eyes drooping and breaths slithering into the frigid air. So tired. If death was to come, would it come now?
She waited.
Eyes of sleepy violet had been jolted into conciousness, flitting like the startled wings of a butterfly back and forth across the horizon; without a man to guard her back, Daivya felt the wind creep icy tendrils up her spine - exposure. Isolation was a curse, and to the lost Meladi, it might be the cause of her downfall. Pangs of ravenous hunger had ripped through her stomach suns before, but she was barely adept at catching prey, relying solely on the scraps of abandoned carcasses along the trail, anything she could scavange.
She was a medic, a herbalist, not a hunter. That was not a woman's purpose.
Fog sat in a hazy cloak over the taiga, and the chocolate sprite could barely tell left from right - she longed again for the safety of the Odolf claim: Lilah's benevolent smile, Dawson's fathomless gaze, Iliksis' dangerous stare, the alluring charm of Grayson's words and the friendships that had bloomed in her delicate hands. It was a prodigious loss, settling like a leaden stone in the traveller's chest. Her throat felt tight, scratchy, and she savoured the rain that would tip from the heavens, soaking her dusty pelt and soothing the burn in her dry muzzle; she had almost forgotten how terrible it was to be alone. She would never forget again.
Ignoring the pain in her snow-tipped ankles, Daivya moved onward. She dared not look back, for with the solitude came a paralysing fear of being observed like a fly under a glass; she must not stop moving, lest she desired to fall prey to nature itself. Her gods could not protect her here - she must simply trust their guidance, continue to withstand the elements and push through the mountainous regions until they cast help in her direction. The herbalist trusted them. It was the only thing she could do.
Until, of course, the sleepless nights of endless struggling brought her crumpling to the ground, eyes drooping and breaths slithering into the frigid air. So tired. If death was to come, would it come now?
She waited.
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☁ έχω χαθεί ☁ - by Daivya - April 07, 2019, 04:00 PM
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