05-06-2016, 02:45 AM
The smothering taste of already acrid air was a sudden perceptible haze that clouded her eyesight, then the light of the Oververse had gone, and she was left in sand. She could’ve kicked it, but her mind was still thrilling from the adventure. Almost immediately, she pulled out her books, and the unfinished diary of a man she had once known, and began to write in it on the steps where she had been delivered. Not far off, was Karn, the little lizard was sitting there, and had lizards faces had much room for mobility, his jaw would have been brushing against the ground.
Caira waved but said nothing, her brow lay heavy on her face, with a visible fret. She was forgetting something, it nagged at the back of her mind, but only for a moment, and then she was her usual self, well, one could say “usual” in these circumstances, however, Omni had delivered the greatest truth to her, she had a hard time wrapping her mind around who she was supposed to be. Clutter accumulated along with tides of worry and doubt. The girl snagged her hoverboard and seemed ready to be off from this place, she tossed her chin over her shoulder, and with her movement, a tuft of hair blew with the sandy breeze.
Above her, high in the sky were the steps she had ascended and taken to Omni. Now, she was at the bottom, but the steps did not seem so high. Karn wiggled his tail, and when he felt as though Caira would accept the greeting, he muttered, “H-hello.”
It didn’t take the freshly emboldened wizard to read how he was feeling, she spoke in a quirky and playful manner, apart from the serious one, which she seemingly had detached from in some respects, “Surprised to see me, are you?”
...
On her journey back with the lizard in hand, well, in tow behind her on the hover board, Caira groaned at the heat. “Isn’t there any way to do this a little faster?”
The lizard, surprisingly, offered some helpful advice. “Yes, indeed there is. If you’re willing to summon a mount, we could get there much quicker. Where I’m from,” the crystal tied around it’s head glowed blue as he spoke, “We had trains. It made travel in places like this much easier. Deserts are terrible places. Almost fitting I ended up trapped in one for years.”
Caira nodded absentmindedly and thought about the lizard’s fear of the great and powerful Omni, it had prevented him from wanting to come with her to the void. But Caira had suspected something different, something she could not place. Perhaps because the creature was mortal, and had heard stories of the void, and those people who not only did not return, but did not remain sane. She wondered what the lizard had to lose, considering his current position out here on the edge, but the thing was, he had survived this long which gave Caira the keen notion that he had a reason to live for. Caira considered this in her own limited way, but thought being turned into a lizard for years and years was a pretty bad fate, but apparently to the lizard, there were worse things.
Omni could have transformed the lizard back to normal, as he had restored her memories, but Caira had it fixed in her mind that her solutions were her own. And well, when she had asked the lizard about it, he seemed hesitant that the almighty-being even notice the lizard’s existence. Caira was forced to take the lizard’s word for it, and she was held to her promise to take him to Dalaran. It was her destination anyway, so it wasn’t necessarily out of her way. Her return seemed faster than when she had traveled all this way with Merik, well, until Merik had backstabbed and cursed her to rot in a casket. That kind of thing didn’t sit well with the still-noble prime. Still, Caira supposed it took less time, because time was harder to keep track of, with all these thoughts whirling around in her head.
Omni. She had met him. He was a fine chap, had a playful spirit that gave her the impression he had the mind of a child and the heart of, well... Perhaps it was that contradiction that made him so very undefinable. Not that that was a bad thing, not in the slightest, but she had learned things that were meant to be the answers, of the questions she had asked herself all of her life. Who were her parents, why was she here? Silly, ponderous thoughts now, which seemed so small on the new scale of things.
The conclusion drawn from her own mind was almost overwhelming, because the next question that perhaps even Omni couldn’t answer, and it was perhaps the most important of them all.
Where would she go from there?
Caira waved but said nothing, her brow lay heavy on her face, with a visible fret. She was forgetting something, it nagged at the back of her mind, but only for a moment, and then she was her usual self, well, one could say “usual” in these circumstances, however, Omni had delivered the greatest truth to her, she had a hard time wrapping her mind around who she was supposed to be. Clutter accumulated along with tides of worry and doubt. The girl snagged her hoverboard and seemed ready to be off from this place, she tossed her chin over her shoulder, and with her movement, a tuft of hair blew with the sandy breeze.
Above her, high in the sky were the steps she had ascended and taken to Omni. Now, she was at the bottom, but the steps did not seem so high. Karn wiggled his tail, and when he felt as though Caira would accept the greeting, he muttered, “H-hello.”
It didn’t take the freshly emboldened wizard to read how he was feeling, she spoke in a quirky and playful manner, apart from the serious one, which she seemingly had detached from in some respects, “Surprised to see me, are you?”
...
On her journey back with the lizard in hand, well, in tow behind her on the hover board, Caira groaned at the heat. “Isn’t there any way to do this a little faster?”
The lizard, surprisingly, offered some helpful advice. “Yes, indeed there is. If you’re willing to summon a mount, we could get there much quicker. Where I’m from,” the crystal tied around it’s head glowed blue as he spoke, “We had trains. It made travel in places like this much easier. Deserts are terrible places. Almost fitting I ended up trapped in one for years.”
Caira nodded absentmindedly and thought about the lizard’s fear of the great and powerful Omni, it had prevented him from wanting to come with her to the void. But Caira had suspected something different, something she could not place. Perhaps because the creature was mortal, and had heard stories of the void, and those people who not only did not return, but did not remain sane. She wondered what the lizard had to lose, considering his current position out here on the edge, but the thing was, he had survived this long which gave Caira the keen notion that he had a reason to live for. Caira considered this in her own limited way, but thought being turned into a lizard for years and years was a pretty bad fate, but apparently to the lizard, there were worse things.
Omni could have transformed the lizard back to normal, as he had restored her memories, but Caira had it fixed in her mind that her solutions were her own. And well, when she had asked the lizard about it, he seemed hesitant that the almighty-being even notice the lizard’s existence. Caira was forced to take the lizard’s word for it, and she was held to her promise to take him to Dalaran. It was her destination anyway, so it wasn’t necessarily out of her way. Her return seemed faster than when she had traveled all this way with Merik, well, until Merik had backstabbed and cursed her to rot in a casket. That kind of thing didn’t sit well with the still-noble prime. Still, Caira supposed it took less time, because time was harder to keep track of, with all these thoughts whirling around in her head.
Omni. She had met him. He was a fine chap, had a playful spirit that gave her the impression he had the mind of a child and the heart of, well... Perhaps it was that contradiction that made him so very undefinable. Not that that was a bad thing, not in the slightest, but she had learned things that were meant to be the answers, of the questions she had asked herself all of her life. Who were her parents, why was she here? Silly, ponderous thoughts now, which seemed so small on the new scale of things.
The conclusion drawn from her own mind was almost overwhelming, because the next question that perhaps even Omni couldn’t answer, and it was perhaps the most important of them all.
Where would she go from there?
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