06-05-2015, 03:34 PM
and when I breathed, my breath was lightning
She had found Lagertha first, not because one was more important than the other, but because she needed to see for herself that Lagertha was okay. Scorch had not been in space, had not traveled to the end of the world, and most importantly, had not disappeared in the mouths of the langoliers. So Rhy found Lagertha first. Well no, that’s not entirely accurate. Rhy found Kratos first. She went to the Tundra, before anywhere else. For the first time in her life, the Jungle did not come first.
Finally, after she’s assured herself that Lagertha is alive and as well as could be expected after she was eaten at the end of the world, Rhy goes to find Scorch. They had never finished their last conversation. Rhy had been torn away by the call of their Dark God, but she wanted to find her Queen now. Wanted to tell her the words that had been on the tip of her lips as Scorch admitted forgetting, as she had started to cover the world in darkness.
Also, she had a few new tricks to show her Khalessi.
Eventually, she finds the fiery mare (truthfully, it is not that hard, Scorch is noticeable). She doesn’t even know where to begin. There is so much to say. So much that has changed, and happened.
So she simply dives in.
“I had forgotten what my mother looked like,” she says, so very aware of the past tense in this sentence. Only weeks ago it would have been I have forgotten what my mother looks like. But not anymore. “I saw the realm of the dead, and my parents were there.” She had told Kratos, but it hadn’t felt entirely real then. It feels far more real now. “She looked like the sun. I don’t know how I forgot that.”
“I can go back there, too.” She’s not entirely sure how she knows this, but she does. She shifts, not to a lion, but to a very transparent form of herself, her coat dotted with gray in this form. Remnants of her near death in the afterlife. But now, she was both dead and alive. “I think maybe I could find her. The gimp.” And she chuckles, recalling that conversation and that story, letting Scorch know that she had heard every word.
There’s more, of course. There’s the end of the world and her understanding of her relationship with Kora and Kratos and who the hell she is now. But these aren’t the things she says, because how do you even find those words? Instead, she sticks to this. Rayelle is gone. But Rhy can get to them, Rayelle and Kagerou both.
Finally, after she’s assured herself that Lagertha is alive and as well as could be expected after she was eaten at the end of the world, Rhy goes to find Scorch. They had never finished their last conversation. Rhy had been torn away by the call of their Dark God, but she wanted to find her Queen now. Wanted to tell her the words that had been on the tip of her lips as Scorch admitted forgetting, as she had started to cover the world in darkness.
Also, she had a few new tricks to show her Khalessi.
Eventually, she finds the fiery mare (truthfully, it is not that hard, Scorch is noticeable). She doesn’t even know where to begin. There is so much to say. So much that has changed, and happened.
So she simply dives in.
“I had forgotten what my mother looked like,” she says, so very aware of the past tense in this sentence. Only weeks ago it would have been I have forgotten what my mother looks like. But not anymore. “I saw the realm of the dead, and my parents were there.” She had told Kratos, but it hadn’t felt entirely real then. It feels far more real now. “She looked like the sun. I don’t know how I forgot that.”
“I can go back there, too.” She’s not entirely sure how she knows this, but she does. She shifts, not to a lion, but to a very transparent form of herself, her coat dotted with gray in this form. Remnants of her near death in the afterlife. But now, she was both dead and alive. “I think maybe I could find her. The gimp.” And she chuckles, recalling that conversation and that story, letting Scorch know that she had heard every word.
There’s more, of course. There’s the end of the world and her understanding of her relationship with Kora and Kratos and who the hell she is now. But these aren’t the things she says, because how do you even find those words? Instead, she sticks to this. Rayelle is gone. But Rhy can get to them, Rayelle and Kagerou both.
rhy
the electric lioness of riagan and rayelle
