24 December 2021, 02:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 24 December 2021, 04:13 PM by Luka Stryder. Edited 1 time in total.)
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OOC: Set same day as this thread
The depths of darkness before her were unlike anything she'd seen before. Even the night sky was lit with the silver moon and twinkly stars. This was all-consuming. It ate any light that ventured near and refused to let it go. Luka's ice blue eyes twinkled with the possibilities of it all. Her father's warnings faded behind her like the sounds of the winter forest. He was a fool to keep her from this.
Giggling with anticipation, she ran alongside the ravine, sending the rocks and snow on the edge cascading into the oblivion. She'd heard tales of what she would find here, but so far they had fallen so short of the reality before her.
The thick, dead foliage faded before her and she skittered to a stop to avoid falling into the widened cliff face before her. Her feet slipped in the snow and her rump fell onto the ice hard ground with a crack. "Ouch..." For her first winter, Luka had been shocked by the changes in the world. Once soft soil became rock hard in the cold. Greenery died with the promise of returning in the spring. She had been too young to remember the winter she'd been born in.
Luka rolled over on to her hands and knees, crawling to the cliff edge to peer over. Scanning the rock face, her injury was forgotten in the realization that she would definitely be able to scramble her way down to the pool below. It was just a matter of getting there.
OOC: Set same day as this thread
The depths of darkness before her were unlike anything she'd seen before. Even the night sky was lit with the silver moon and twinkly stars. This was all-consuming. It ate any light that ventured near and refused to let it go. Luka's ice blue eyes twinkled with the possibilities of it all. Her father's warnings faded behind her like the sounds of the winter forest. He was a fool to keep her from this.
Giggling with anticipation, she ran alongside the ravine, sending the rocks and snow on the edge cascading into the oblivion. She'd heard tales of what she would find here, but so far they had fallen so short of the reality before her.
The thick, dead foliage faded before her and she skittered to a stop to avoid falling into the widened cliff face before her. Her feet slipped in the snow and her rump fell onto the ice hard ground with a crack. "Ouch..." For her first winter, Luka had been shocked by the changes in the world. Once soft soil became rock hard in the cold. Greenery died with the promise of returning in the spring. She had been too young to remember the winter she'd been born in.
Luka rolled over on to her hands and knees, crawling to the cliff edge to peer over. Scanning the rock face, her injury was forgotten in the realization that she would definitely be able to scramble her way down to the pool below. It was just a matter of getting there.
