[P] Get Me Out of Here

Eris Eternity · 05-31-2011, 04:01 PM

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the world shudders as the worm gets its wings

There was no fear in the sable woman for the mountains, the lakes, the plains, or any other landform. Fear was something Eris was generally unaccustomed to; she was usually quite even-tempered, free of general anxiety and specific fears. His own glances toward the mountains went mostly unnoticed; as he spoke, however, the hybrid's yellow-green eyes flicked to the sky, studying it a moment before she looked back to his mismatched gaze, half-frowning. The sky seemed alive with gray and black, dark clouds rolling in from the west. She saw no lightning and heard no thunder, but the unspoken threat was there all the same.

“It seems we're bound to hit bad weather. Might I suggest a destination? To the south, there are a few shacks. They're only half-standing and they won't do for keeping us completely dry, but it's somewhere to go, and you could stay there over-night, if the weather gets really bad,” she said, thinking of the half-buildings that were practically collapsing in on themselves in the Dampwoods. It wasn't quite a village, just a few hunter's cabins leftover from the time of people. Soon there would be nothing left but a few rotting planks and a lacuna in the trees. In time, even that would be gone, fading away as new trees grew to replace what man had cut down.

Eris might have invited him to Anathema, but the hybrid had no idea how her pallid leader regarded visitors and outsiders, and she was not so keen on attracting unwanted attention to herself at such a precarious time. It would not do to act out of the ordinary; she would carry on as she had for these past months, acting exactly as she had upon first joining the pale woman's ranks. Things would continue as they had, and she would steal away in the night, unnannounced and unanticipated.

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