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From the ashes a fire shall be woken; Caelestra - Aodhan - 08-14-2019 Aodhán little fire All that is gold does not glitter; not all who wander are lost The young stallion honestly hadn’t known what it was truly like to battle. He’d also tried (way too hard) not to hurt his opponent; but then while he did all that to prevent the fight from actually happening, she just kicked his ass. Oh, and by the way, she gave him the Plague. She only healed it in the latest moment. Now Aodhán was suspicious, and didn’t quite return home - was it still his home at all? - just yet. He managed to drag himself from the Plains to the River, but that was about as far as he would go right then. He would be back soon, and have to talk to the mare who had bestowed a magical sickness in him that had him on the brink of death; far worse than it had been before. And it made his shifting abilities wonky - in short he didn’t dare to come near her, for fear she would release the Plague onto him and then all of Beqanna too, perhaps. For all he knew, he might be contagious right now? Maybe she was the source of the original Plague too? Who had that much power over death? He had no energy or willpower to shift into a fish or serpent or really anything that would take him home from the River to the Pampas quickly. As such, the exhausted young male kept his latest form: that of a white Axolotl. @[Caelestra] sorry for double tags, my sentences were all weird RE: From the ashes a fire shall be woken; Caelestra - Caelestra - 08-16-2019 Caelestra RE: From the ashes a fire shall be woken; Caelestra - Aodhan - 08-17-2019 Aodhán little fire All that is gold does not glitter; not all who wander are lost Aodhán doesn’t think he ever was as smart as he had believed before, and only ever really was as naive as young wants ought to be. Now, he knows he should have quit when he knew her disease manipulation was something he could never match; sickness was to be conquered with healing power or magic, or not at all. That she would use it against him in battle shouldn’t have been a surprise, even if she seemed so sweet and timid - she had a dark side he hadn’t known about before, and he could only hope she had truly let him go after their battle. But what’s done is done and now he just lay there exhausted. It seemed like forever, but in retrospect the hybrid knows it might have been mere minutes. A bear showed up, and one moment, Aodhán feared his amphibian form might be mistaken for a fish. Helpless due to the lack of energy, he is relieved when the she-bear pushes him into the water - and turns out to be a horse with healing powers. More relief - or is it the healing energy - flows through him, and energy finds his brain and tongue. But axolotls don’t talk, so he takes another form - it costs some of his newfound energy, but in the water stands a bear not unlike she was before, though white in coat just like the axolotl has been (not a polar bear, those would have been slightly larger and with more dense fur). A shy grin follows. ”Hi.” @[Caelestra] RE: From the ashes a fire shall be woken; Caelestra - Caelestra - 08-18-2019 Caelestra RE: From the ashes a fire shall be woken; Caelestra - Aodhan - 08-20-2019 Aodhán little fire All that is gold does not glitter; not all who wander are lost A bear isn’t a form Aodhán himself usually takes, but the mare-bear before him had left him little choice in the matter. His shifting still a bit unstable, it had caused him to take her form - but that wasn’t so bad, not at all. Well - it is, he notices when he starts to shuffle his paws underwater, flushed by her easy compliment on his bear-form. Clumsy as one can be when they’re not familiar with what they shift into, he almost stumbles and when he does that, has to stabilize himself on instinct - in the end, he falls on his hind and looks up at her with a dumb grin on his face from a sitting position. ”I’m Aodhán.” he says. ”Neither bear nor axolotl, normally.” He yawns then, grabbing his nose with both front paws and almost tumbling back over once again - this time he’s glad with a larger form, as he rocks back and forth in the water. ”I challenged Noah for the Brilliant Pampas, but she made me really sick. Like the Plague, do you know it? I hope it’s not contagious like last time. I think she also healed it, but I can’t be sure.” Thinking slowly, the white bear cocks his head at the brown one. ”Are you a healer? I could swear I was nowhere near recovery just now.” @[Caelestra] RE: From the ashes a fire shall be woken; Caelestra - Caelestra - 09-05-2019 Caelestra |