10-28-2019, 06:46 PM
[font=trebuchet ms]It was only yesterday that she had taken a step onto fragile ground, yet Rin was already waiting for it to crumble beneath her and send them all plummeting to their deaths. The Pitt raid was soon, but divine retribution had a tendency to come even sooner. The Ferryman hadn't given any sort of promise that Elysium, or even Tena, would be safe if Rin stepped up; his promise had consisted solely of a threat that if she didn't, Tena would die. There was no proverbial carrot here, only a stick. She had to be on her guard.
Her first thought, upon following the source of the commotion to the pull system and seeing the crowd of creatures there, was that she had seen entire clans with fewer members than this. Her second thought was that these were some of the strangest creatures she'd ever seen (the top spot was still taken by a vague recollection of a kitsune with eyes on their tails, followed by... well, she didn't like to think about the second one), to the point where the species of some of them was almost unidentifiable. As she walked over, her eyes flickering between each of the creatures, she could recognize the blue one as an alligator, the red one as some sort of feline (with a beak), the white one as a black mamba (albino, perhaps), the purple one as a bison, the pink one as an owl (with odd wings), and the gray one as a wolf.
The yellow one took the longest to identify, but watching her beak structure closely, Rin could finally discern that it was a falcon, specifically a... closing her eyes, she shook her head. Don't go there. There was no good to be found on that train of thought, no happiness to be found in that place. The yellow one was a falcon, specific species not worth thinking about.
Opening her eyes and looking at the feline in front, Rin cleared her throat. "Interesting bunch you have here," she remarked, twitching her ears. "I'm Warringkingdoms Kepler-Langley, but just call me Rin. What brings you here?" They were probably wanderers, maybe even treasure hunters, if she had to guess from the few snatches of conversation she'd been able to make out- something about there being something of high value at the top of the peak.
Her first thought, upon following the source of the commotion to the pull system and seeing the crowd of creatures there, was that she had seen entire clans with fewer members than this. Her second thought was that these were some of the strangest creatures she'd ever seen (the top spot was still taken by a vague recollection of a kitsune with eyes on their tails, followed by... well, she didn't like to think about the second one), to the point where the species of some of them was almost unidentifiable. As she walked over, her eyes flickering between each of the creatures, she could recognize the blue one as an alligator, the red one as some sort of feline (with a beak), the white one as a black mamba (albino, perhaps), the purple one as a bison, the pink one as an owl (with odd wings), and the gray one as a wolf.
The yellow one took the longest to identify, but watching her beak structure closely, Rin could finally discern that it was a falcon, specifically a... closing her eyes, she shook her head. Don't go there. There was no good to be found on that train of thought, no happiness to be found in that place. The yellow one was a falcon, specific species not worth thinking about.
Opening her eyes and looking at the feline in front, Rin cleared her throat. "Interesting bunch you have here," she remarked, twitching her ears. "I'm Warringkingdoms Kepler-Langley, but just call me Rin. What brings you here?" They were probably wanderers, maybe even treasure hunters, if she had to guess from the few snatches of conversation she'd been able to make out- something about there being something of high value at the top of the peak.
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