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[Rae]

my soul is in the sky

She was not meant to keep her feet on the ground. Technically she tried, but she’s not sure she could call that trying really. Leliana has invited her and Rae has followed, willing to follow the mare more than she was actually looking for a piece of land to fall in love with. Companionship and camaraderie where the things that drew her to the earth, but not the land itself. Never the land itself.

The appeal of a place only made sense to her if that place was the sky. With Leliana no longer on the throne, Rae finds herself wandering again, skybound even on a nasty day like today. The weather tests her powers. Weather manipulation is one of her weaker skills, a thing she can do but it requires concentration. It is not like calling the wind, which comes without thought, as easily as breathing. Mostly she stays above the storm clouds, heating the air around her but otherwise relatively out of harm's way. Occasionally though she drops beneath the clouds just to orient herself, to make sure she doesn’t travel so far she leaves Beqanna all together. Not that she hasn’t done it before, but she’s not in the mood to leave now either.

It is during one of her quick drops beneath the clouds that she thinks she spots a horse on the ground. In this weather and inside the forest, she finds that concerning. Maybe she was wrong. After all, it was hard to see at all today and harder still to see through the trees. There are few birds around in the winter, but a couple are hunkered inside rotted out trees, waiting for the storm to pass. She calls them, asking if there’s a horse there. They send images back, a stallion braced against the storm under an outcropping of rock.

Well then. Rae lands, a tricky thing in this weather in the middle of a forest. She can only do it through the use of her power, manipulating the wind currents around her. Her wings are tucked to her side to feet through the trees, and controlling such a strong wind is near impossible. She grazes more than one branch, cursing the damn dirt below, as she scratches and bruises her skin.

Finally she lands near the rock. The air around her is relatively still - not perfectly so, but she can keep the worst of the wind and rain and ice at bay. It is exhausting, but she finds it impossible to leave the other equine to his fate. She can’t quite fit into the alcove with him, but she comes as close as she can, extending the protection her power can offer to him as well.

Around them, everything is slightly quiet, despite the storm that rages. “Nice day for a stroll,” she says, a little grin on her face, unable to help herself. “Are you okay out here?”

rae

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@[Aldric] sorry, that took me entirely too long