[PQ - in progress] shadows and smoke

[Livinia]

l i v i n i a. The trip up the mountain was familiar.  Like before, the fatigue does not pull at her bones. The trip is not taxing.  It simply is.  Only this time there is no reservation in her steps.  The first time she had come here, she had not known what to expect.  But now? Now she returns with far more knowledge than before, and that fuels her to climb even more quickly.  She thinks she understands now why the Fairy had given her this task.  It had taken her this long – but she finally understands.  Perhaps she was too young to understand at first. She was too wrapped up in the enjoyment of it all that it took her awhile to fall into the struggle.  But she had struggled.  And she had conquered. So now, she climbed. Climbed until she reached the place where she had first encountered the Fairy. And unlike the first time, she didn’t wait for the Fairy to arrive before speaking.   “I’ve learned so much.  This body it tricked me into feeling like I was alive. It was so, so easy to be consumed by the bloodlust.”  She drops her crimson gaze to the earth,  for she still feels some shame in not anticipating this – for not controlling it better. ”But I learned. I learned how to control it – with help.”  She has Beyza and Jamie to thank for that.   ”It is still something I want, but I understand the cost. I understand that why I may not live– life is still precious to others.” She finishes.    And then she waits. such is life, such is death.

 


Man remember that time i started a quest and then took a major hiatus because of COVID and Surgery and it took me 900 years to complete it? 
Me too. Meeeeeeee toooooo. 

Threads: 
https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=27460
https://beqanna.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=26339

@[Wysteria Fairy]