[Quest] Ascension - Printable Version

The Prism of light refracted a rainbow directly into the dark ring. It vibrated, humming and resonating powerfully with the impressive cast of magic!-... Yet something wasn't right. Likewise the humming melody seemed to resonate, and yet... it was wrong, somehow; a key that didn't fit.

A moment later the seals rejected both spells.

The melody--mercifully, a weak cast--crashed out in a brief, discordant echo, roaring past their ears, in a way that would deafen all nearby Gembound for a few moments--temporarily.

But the prism: that flashed back, a bright and blinding reflection straight into Qisziux's eyes!

Qisziux will be blinded for two days before the powerful, backfired spell's effects wear off.

And oh, she quickly wasn't alone.

Others came, large others, and she burrowed, or tried to, into her rose. But it remained small and closed, leaving her to hunch down, feeling painfully exposed against a grey-red bud.

But then, oh, she was shoved off her flower with a gasped yell, "Oh!" by a shove of magic, scurrying off and trying to find something to hide on, something, anything, and then she was deaf, too, clambering up onto something feathery in a panic, unaware or, perhaps, unknowing, that it was a gembound, so much larger that it was.

Wilder, at first, quietly considered the images she was seeing but then she stumbled back with alarm as pain bolted through her head. She let out a loud yelp as she stumbled back, the magic doing funny things to her head. For a second, she felt a dip in her consciousness but she regained control only a moment later, standing up with her fur puffed out. "Ow," she hissed, shaking out her head.

A familiar voice suddenly touched her ears and she froze. Oh no. Not right now. She looked up just a little and saw Aure there, looking away from her and she felt a crack ripple across her heart. She couldn't do this right now, she was about as ready as Aure to have this conversation. And, besides, there was something else right now to worry about - the rings. And probably the fact that there were a lot others around. They couldn't just start talking about matters like that in front of everyone.

And it didn't seem like Aure was ready for that conversation either.

She glanced at the cat that had stepped up to her, a little surprised by their sudden appearance, breaking through her dark thoughts and she nodded. "Y-yeah! We're both cats!" It was a bit of a lame excuse for her usual peppiness but it was the best she could do right now.

She stepped forward to touch the wall again, trying to activate her magic to reveal what was going to be happening in the future, but the magic lashed back at her, ripping through her head and, instead of seeing the possible futures, she watched her worst fears become reality.

Aure, standing over her, crying. "You betrayed us," he whispered. "I can't stand to be near you. I can't stand to even look at you. All you do is hurt me and my family." She pleaded and begged back, saying that she could fix this, that she could do better, that all she wanted was to have a place in the Bonebound and to help them. She promised that she'd get to know everyone better and contribute to them, to really be a part of his family but he shook his head. "Go away, Wilder. We don't want you. All you do is bring misery."

She was frozen in front of the door, eyes wide and glimmering with tears as she came out of her own vision, not realizing that any time had passed at all.

Seshat moved the crystal around, trying to get a good view of the creatures off to the side, trying to see what they were doing, when there was a tiny voice nearby. She blinked, looking around for it, to see where it was coming from, but she couldn't see anything. She could feel something, crawling slowly up her face and she assumed it was just an itch - she got a lot of those and was learning to just deal with it.

Until, of course, a bug just appeared in front of her eyes and hung down in front of her face.

Seshat screamed, the crystal dropping to the ground as magic lashed out to try and get the thing off of her face, to fling it away, but she was too busy being shocked to focus enough for it to actually work. So she was forced to just stare at it and pray that it didn't try to do anything funny. Absolutely trembling out of control scared because she was so helpless and there was a bug on her.

When she realized that it was the once talking, and it occurred to her that it might have some intelligence, she didn't really feel any better, not until it dropped off of her could she breath easily again, trying to follow it with her eyes but to no luck as it quickly scuttled out of her line of sight.

Poco pranced in place excitedly, purring loudly, "I've never met another cat before!" but then the other cat was stepping forward, and she could only watch, tilting her head, wondering what she was doing, what all was happening, startling when the cat froze, scent going sour and eyes widening and glimmering, and Poco wasn't good with emotion so she trotted up and butted her head against her shoulder, wound against Wilder and began to purr, hoping it would help, not sure what to say.

The feeling of pride at his success only lasted a moment.

The beam of light he'd cast so easily and perfectly went flying right back at him, right into his eyes. This combined with the deafening echo that rushed past completely disoriented him. He stumbled back, blinking rapidly, trying to clear his vision.

His eyesight wouldn't clear, no matter how hard he blinked. Of course this happened. He thought bitterly, Even when I succeed at a spell, it backfires.

He was reminded he wasn't alone when someone spoke to him, "I'm.. Fine." He replied, very poorly masking the fact he was not, in fact, fine. "I uh, Have to go.." He said hastily, before quickly walking away. Despite his newfound blindness, he managed to not run into anything.

"Spoken Words."
Thoughts

tags: ---
notes: Leaving Unless Stopped