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<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Parisienne" rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <style type="text/css"> .dynast_cont { position: relative; z-index: 1; background-color: #0b0e00; width: 400px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px 8px #000; } .dynast_cont p { margin: 0; } .dynast_image { position: relative; z-index: 4; width: 400px; border-top: none; } .dynast_text { position: relative; z-index: 6; width: 400px; } .dynast_msg { position: relative; font: 18px 'Times', serif; text-align: center; color: #b01115; padding: 30px 30px 30px; } .dynast_name { position: absolute; z-index: 9; text-align: left; font: 45px 'Parisienne', cursive; color: #7c0406; letter-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 14px; } .dynast_quote { position: absolute; z-index: 6; text-align: left; color: #e10600; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 12px; } </style> <center> <div class="dynast_cont"> <div class="dynast_text"> <p class="dynast_msg">There faces are branded into my mind. My memories. Each vile act upon my mother. The horror in my brothers ice blue eyes.
Then the falling.
The running.
Their demise.
Everything inside me wishes I could have helped them. Alas I accept I can't and as I stand on the edge of two very different worlds I don't look back.
He comes to me - almost mirage like - offering an option. To enter a paradise created just for me or leave. Return to Beqanna. Return to...nothing. She had no family anymore. They were dead, I accepted that. I could not change the past but perhaps I could alter my future.
I step forward. The answer on the tip if my tongue. He wants something though. A sacrifice. I mull the thought in my mind of what I would give for a better future... My lineage.
"Take my fertility. If that's the horror my children have to endure, then take them from me," I nod my crown in the direction of the bloated corpses of my family. Let it end here.
My ivory legs motion forwards to step from the grey sands of the wasteland and onto the fertile soil of the Oasis. My oasis. There is a mountain in the center with a curtain of falling water into the crystalline lake. Trees of all shapes and sizes line the borders, leaving open meadow stretching across the rest of the landscape.
There is no death, no anger.
I reach the lake and to my pleasure I dip my hoof in. It is warm and not of regular waters you'd find inland. It is saltwater. I smile as I step in deeper, now to my knees. The tentacles in my tail dance happily on the surface. I feel more descending onto my nape. A slight stinging on my flesh. It feels like a massage to me. My scarlett eyes shutter to take in the moment of pleasure. I smile as I lower myself into the tranquil waters. Ears swivel to capture sounds of sea birds screeching in the distance. It was paradise as he promised and it was all mine.
Wading in the shallows I decide to find out how deep the lake really is. Quietly I submerge myself as my legs pull me in further. My body is weightless so I float rather easily. My eyes scanning the depths. It looks as any sea would. Corals formed a reef where multiple schools of marine life gathered. I watch them curiously. Some are feeding, some napping. I look to my left as a shadow catches my eye. Above me a dolphin passes quickly, circling around as it sees me. It observes me up close. Beady black eyes upon me. It flicks it's nose emitting a series of chirps. My memories surface of my birth. The day my mother ran into the waves and transformed into a blue-grey animal. I examine it closer... Could this be my mother?
The question hangs heavy on my mind when suddenly it speaks, "Dynast... Not everything is what it seems." I am confused and my brow furrows. What did that mean? Almost immediately the waters come alive. Bubbles boil from the bottom as the still waters become turbulent. I frantically look around. Not again, I think. Without notice a vortex forms, pulling all the creatures into it. I swim away, or try. The pull is to great on my light frame. It's rips me into it's wake as it sends me spiraling down into the depths. I am helpless as I continued to fight against it. The waters are emptying from my lake and I can only guess I am headed that direction. The pressure is building and I can feel my head aching. My vision blurrs before blackness consumes me...
I don't know how long it's been but when I come to my scarlett eyes lazily open. Surrounding me is muddy sandstone rocks. It looks familiar. All to eerily familiar. With whatever strength I can find I lift my head. I am back... Or had I never really left?</p></div> <div class="dynast_name">Dynast</div> <div class="dynast_quote">Friends with the Monsters</div> <img class="dynast_image" src="http://footage.framepool.com/shotimg/qf/960006557-bioluminescence-tentacle-animal-jellyfish-transparent.jpg"> </div> </center>
Defect: She gives Carnage her fertility. Highly sterile except when bred with Carnage.
Then the falling.
The running.
Their demise.
Everything inside me wishes I could have helped them. Alas I accept I can't and as I stand on the edge of two very different worlds I don't look back.
He comes to me - almost mirage like - offering an option. To enter a paradise created just for me or leave. Return to Beqanna. Return to...nothing. She had no family anymore. They were dead, I accepted that. I could not change the past but perhaps I could alter my future.
I step forward. The answer on the tip if my tongue. He wants something though. A sacrifice. I mull the thought in my mind of what I would give for a better future... My lineage.
"Take my fertility. If that's the horror my children have to endure, then take them from me," I nod my crown in the direction of the bloated corpses of my family. Let it end here.
My ivory legs motion forwards to step from the grey sands of the wasteland and onto the fertile soil of the Oasis. My oasis. There is a mountain in the center with a curtain of falling water into the crystalline lake. Trees of all shapes and sizes line the borders, leaving open meadow stretching across the rest of the landscape.
There is no death, no anger.
I reach the lake and to my pleasure I dip my hoof in. It is warm and not of regular waters you'd find inland. It is saltwater. I smile as I step in deeper, now to my knees. The tentacles in my tail dance happily on the surface. I feel more descending onto my nape. A slight stinging on my flesh. It feels like a massage to me. My scarlett eyes shutter to take in the moment of pleasure. I smile as I lower myself into the tranquil waters. Ears swivel to capture sounds of sea birds screeching in the distance. It was paradise as he promised and it was all mine.
Wading in the shallows I decide to find out how deep the lake really is. Quietly I submerge myself as my legs pull me in further. My body is weightless so I float rather easily. My eyes scanning the depths. It looks as any sea would. Corals formed a reef where multiple schools of marine life gathered. I watch them curiously. Some are feeding, some napping. I look to my left as a shadow catches my eye. Above me a dolphin passes quickly, circling around as it sees me. It observes me up close. Beady black eyes upon me. It flicks it's nose emitting a series of chirps. My memories surface of my birth. The day my mother ran into the waves and transformed into a blue-grey animal. I examine it closer... Could this be my mother?
The question hangs heavy on my mind when suddenly it speaks, "Dynast... Not everything is what it seems." I am confused and my brow furrows. What did that mean? Almost immediately the waters come alive. Bubbles boil from the bottom as the still waters become turbulent. I frantically look around. Not again, I think. Without notice a vortex forms, pulling all the creatures into it. I swim away, or try. The pull is to great on my light frame. It's rips me into it's wake as it sends me spiraling down into the depths. I am helpless as I continued to fight against it. The waters are emptying from my lake and I can only guess I am headed that direction. The pressure is building and I can feel my head aching. My vision blurrs before blackness consumes me...
I don't know how long it's been but when I come to my scarlett eyes lazily open. Surrounding me is muddy sandstone rocks. It looks familiar. All to eerily familiar. With whatever strength I can find I lift my head. I am back... Or had I never really left?</p></div> <div class="dynast_name">Dynast</div> <div class="dynast_quote">Friends with the Monsters</div> <img class="dynast_image" src="http://footage.framepool.com/shotimg/qf/960006557-bioluminescence-tentacle-animal-jellyfish-transparent.jpg"> </div> </center>
Defect: She gives Carnage her fertility. Highly sterile except when bred with Carnage.