ORIGIN - Chasing Tumbleweeds

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The fight against her crushing weight, even though she had let up enough, pleased the Overseer. She was glad that the wolf pup hadn't decided to simply give in or demand she let her free without any repercussions or challenges. She had already learned since awakening that the gembound were not particularly weak. Most of them, anyways. It was good to confirm they were still hatching strong.

She considered the young wolf in front of her. So fiery, independent, a little bit entitled. Things that could be bent or molded. Hm.

"Others might. But you have free will, don't you? Unless you are doing something actively harmful to this nest or getting in the way of something important, you are free to do what you wish. Touching this Spire and getting yourself killed qualifies as neither." She glanced at the crackling blue thing and grinned back down at the canine. "And to be honest, I would like to see what happens. It will certainly be a spectacle."

@Pyrosera

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"Of course I have free will, duh."

Pyrosera huffed. As ferocious she made herself sound, she didn't seem to particularly enjoy being a test rat. Ears flickered behind her. Well one way to find out.

"If you're so curious, go find out. I have somewhere I need to be now."

That was a lie, she didn't want anything to do with the Spire. But to learn more about it? Yes. She must learn more about its great power. A swift flicker of her tail, it made her anxious to approach. Yet she herself was curious about it..

"Speaking"

( @Tectus )

Tectus chuckled again. As if she would dare subject herself to whatever horrors the Spire had in store for her. She was sure it would - the Black Spire had been volitile enough and this one, while not inherently chaotic in nature, was still crackling with enough energy to burn her skin and scales right off her bones. "No. I am not so curious that I would risk myself just to "see what happens". I have not lived a millennia to be killed by a mindless well of Natural Order." No, if Tectus was going to die, it would be in a blaze of glory, her jaws around His enemies, or perhaps felled in battle against a hundred.

Her head tilted ever-so-slightly and her eyes widened a fraction at the young one's proclamation. Sounded like an excuse to her - she'd heard enough of them over the years. "Do you now? And what would that be?"

@Pyrosera

strong language

"Oh, rightttt and you just so happen to know what it does!"

Pyrosera huffed. All the pup knew was not a whole lot. No one told her anything. She just figured it was for show. Something someone put there and claimed it was all great and powerful. But then again, someone that seemed so old should know a lot. Would she reason with that? Probably not.

"Yeah! I'm supposed to be meeting up with someone.”

Yeah that sounded like a good excuse for her to muster up. Surely wasn't the fear talking. Not at all.

"Speaking"

( @Tectus )

The edges of her perpetual grin rose just a bit. Another short chuckle of amusement. "I do - at least, what similar things do. Perhaps this one is different, but I doubt it. But that's not knowledge I will be sharing with a little brat." She rolled a shoulder back and stood up straight from where she had been crouched a bit, now fully towering at her full monstrous size over the wolf pup.

Maybe a demonstration was in order. She glanced down at her foot and made to cleave off a small section of the rock beneath a foot. But, alas, she was not built to be a spellcaster. A short backfire of the spell and part of one of her claws was broken away, instead. She stared, barely flinching at the pain, but then just picked that right up, like it was what she had been intending the entire time.

She showed it to the pup and then tossed it to the Spire. Where it bounced against the turqoise crystal, there was a sudden zzap! as the magic reacted, a small bolt of pure energy branching out to sear into the hard keratin, which crumbled at its touch. A small scattering of ash and chunks of destroyed keratin fell to the ground in its wake.

Tectus shrugged. "As I thought. Anyways, you go have fun with...whoever." She waved a claw - Pyrosera was dismissed.

@Pyrosera

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