Yuletide Glow

[Jiyu Simul Stamus]

Music played behind her, fading as she moved further away through the tunnels following the summons of earlier in the festival. Why in the world was she heeding the call of a healer anyway? Their craft was devious, the most dangerous thing in the world was the same thing they used to 'heal' others. Yet, she had to regard the other female convincing herself it was because of the now visible ridges straining against the skin of her spine and the pain they caused. Jiyu would find any reason she could to excuse what she was feeling towards someone else, deny any sort of bond put off it forming and shatter it early on if she could. What was the use of loving them? Those creatures, every one of these animals lived in a different world than her, she was only going to lose them all over again no matter what she did. All those smiles and laughter, when she was part of it everything hurt so much more when she let them do that thing they did with her. Only, what healers did was even more dangerous, they tried to fix things and she was just lucky none of them had ever poked in her mind before.

It was fanastical but she really did despise this meeting place, with the glowing crystals so light and luminescent it was hard to tell where the land ended! More importantly it made it difficult for her to figure out where the water began. Jiyu slipped into the lakes cavern, keeping close to the edge as she used the middle of her tail to carry the wrapped gift having guessed what this was she could never guess why she had gotten something in return for the insane healer. Who would give someone like her a gift?! She purposefully made herself as nonapproachable as possible, but Rosemary never seemed to see it, in fact the healer seemed to see a few things that disturbed Jiyu and made her wonder how the other female could see them. While she had experiance with aura viewing of others? She never used it in the mirror when it had been active years before, she didn't know her's wasn't as dead as the rest of her just drown.

"Sorry I'm late, I had to make sure everyone was drunk on the eggnog first so no one would notice I slipped out." she was the event orginizer afterall, so it made sense not to leave until everyone was too wasted to realize she had done so. Within that cavern? Everyone was safe, tonight. Everyone it turns out, expect for the vizer herself, but of course when had Jiyu ever been safe she was a constant threat to herself and tonight was no different, heart and mind screaming two different things about the cat in front of her.