The Temple of Artemis(Pre-Event/Intro Thread)

[Amaterasu]

Amaterasu bowed her head at the spirit. "Forgive my intrusive words, Hero Teucer. I was merely assuring myself that your intentions are honest. I promise you that I shall do what lies within my power to retrieve these items you seek, or help another of the people here to it." She bowed deeply, then eyed the statue for a moment. She was about to ask what land the spirit hailed from when she noticed that he was gone again, and sighed. He must have been stuck here for a lengthy period of time, having lost his hope like this... he must be very sad. She wished that she could summon items here, a bowl with offerings or an essence to soothe his ancient conscience, if only for a time. For now, all she could do was to bow her head before the statue, close her eyes, place her hands together and mutter a short prayer, then stand there without moving for a minute or so. She prayed mostly for the tormented spirit, but also for the many soldiers that had found their deaths in this place if she understood right what the spirit told her.

Note:From here on most Primes will just see Amaterasu gazing into the lake with her eyes reflecting complete blackness, stuck in a trance and not reacting to approaches. It takes some five minutes for her to exit that trance. The Spirit and Primes with the ability to see invisible spirits and such may see what Amaterasu sees though. It's pure fluff in any case, nothing to do with the actual Graveyard event!

When she opened her eyes, her gaze fell onto the lake surface, and she noticed that there was an opening in the ceiling of the temple that she hadn't noticed. Or had it really been there? She could see the night sky through it, and... Another celestial formation? Wait, is this... Yes, it was. Kazegami, the kami of the Celestial Brush technique Galestorm. She could doubtlessly recognize him by the formation of the stars. She reached out and took a hold of her hair brush, then raised it to the sky and drew the lines, just like she had done in Coruscant. How long had that been ago, twenty, thirty minutes at most? It felt like it had been longer...

As the drawing was completed it sprung to life, and just like before the world turned white. Amaterasu laughed as Kazegami, the mighty white horse, erupted from the stars and galloped through the world like the wind, with her running behind him effortlessly. Where they ran, it did not matter, Kazegami enjoyed the freedom to move his legs once more and Amaterasu allowed his joy to overtake her too.
"Mother Amaterasu, it is good to see you once more. I was sealed in the firmament of this strange place with no clue to when I would get to move my feet again!" Kazegami spoke with joy as they ran without showing any sign of tiring.
"Kaze, you know as well as I that I would not forsake you. I have already freed Tachi, he told me about you and the others... it appears that upon my arrival in this place, the Omniverse, you were all torn from me and scattered across the world once more, just like in Nippon."
"I see... how curious indeed. But I am now reunited with you." He slowed his step a bit and lowered his head. "I also bear ill news however... my powers are weak here. I can accompaign you, but I cannot aid you as I could in Nippon. There is a powerful dark aura lingering over this world, and it holds me back."
"The spirit inhabiting this world has mentioned an evil man, Warlock was his name, who has cursed him and likely cursed these lands as well. It must be his power that is keeping you back. I do not even have my black ink with me, and I cannot summon more."
"It might indeed be so, Mother Amaterasu. I certainly hope that I do not become a useless burden for you to carry."
Amaterasu stopped short, but then laughed when she noticed how Kazegami was grinning at her. "You don't joke about such things, Kaze! You know exactly that I would never consider you or your siblings to be burdens. Besides, there are other places beyond this one, where Warlock's magic is not reaching. You will be of great help to me there."
"I shall do my best, Mother Amaterasu. For now, I shall travel with you." And like Tachigami, Kazegami turned into a number of orbs with kanji symbols on them which flew into Amaterasu's body, following which the world became black, then returned to reality.

Amaterasu's trance ends here.

The Sun Goddess abruptly snapped out of her trance and stumbled back several steps, away from the pool of water which now showed no celestial reflection anymore. However the initial stumbling caused her to trip over one of the ornate inscriptions on the marble ground and nearly lose her balance, stumbling even further until she bumped into Somerled, which luckily stopped her. Once she had recovered she turned around and faced the stranger, bowing to him. "Pardon that, I lost my balance... thanks for stopping me, I hope I didn't cause any trouble?" Due to the man's lengthy hair, his position not facing her and his modern-day clothing she didn't notice his asian looks at first glance, though she might if he turned to face her.