A CROWN OF GEMS AND GOLD // joining

[delphinium]

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☼ - This land was familiar in a way that made her heart ache. It was not the heavy humidity of a swamp but air that burned her lungs as she inhaled it, the crispness of northern snows lingering in the air as late summer slowly shifted to early autumn. This was the sort of environment the kitsune was raised in, a chill she associated with home, no matter how twisted or evil that "home" had been. It had given Delphinium her sisters, it had given her Iota, but it had taken all of them away from her as well. But this quaint group in the mountains did not have sinister intentions. She could sense it, in the lands and the souls of those that inhabited it. It was so... different from Tanglewood. While Beck was in charge, it was a dog-eat-dog atmosphere - the only thing that kept the girl in the warbound group was Iota. But without Iota, with the ability to pack seedlings, with nothing chaining her to Tanglewood but the residue of loyalty she held not for the group but her closest friend, it was finally time for Delphinium to depart from Tanglewood. She had left silently - she doubted her absence would be noticed, she had no one to say goodbye to. In her own way Delphinium would miss the musty swamps, what she had come to know as familiar.

The heavy satchel thumping at her side was a sharp reminder that she shouldn't wallow in the past any longer. She had let it consume enough of her life enough, and while the better part of her knew it would always be chewing at her mind as she gazed ahead at the tundra with mountains looming in the distance a buzz of nervousness and excitement ignited her veins. She could sense lifeforces near her. Delphinium knew she wasn't alone, at least for much longer. "Hello?" The mythic called out, eight tails swirling behind her nervously as Delphi slowly lowered herself into a sit. She did not have to go through this process in Tanglewood. Rather, she had brought directly in by Iota. The fear of messing up her chance at staying in Snowbound was nearly suffocating. Pulling her clipped wings in close to her body, olive green eyes grazed across the unfamiliar lands slowly. "I'm - I'm, ah, looking to join Snowbound?"