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fallen_star (fallen_star) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-07-19 19:08:00

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arrival, ayla, complete, day 8, yvaine

Day Eight - Yvaine's Arrival
Who: Yvaine & Ayla
Where: The Meadow
When: Day 8; Evening, just after the sun has set
What: Yvaine’s Arrival
Rating: PG
Status: Complete

High in the sky, the Evening Star glittered and shined brightly as she watched the humans and the beasts. The creatures below interacted as they had a tendency to do. Yvaine sighed as she watched a traveler begin his journey through Faerie. Oh what it would be like to go on adventures of her own. She loved her sister Stars and her mother Moon very much, and life was never unbearable for her, but she wanted to experience life down below her sometimes. If there were a way back up home, she thought she wouldn’t mind heading down there for once.

With another sigh, Yvaine lifted herself to a standing position and moved a little to head toward some of her sisters. As she moved, a glint of silver caught her attention, and she turned to look. Out of nowhere a huge silver chain with a large, yellow gemstone flew at her, catching her in the gut. The blow caused the young star woman to stumble backward with an pained sound in her throat, and she promptly began a long descent toward the earth.

Fire sounded in her ears as its colours of purples, blues, reds, and yellows obscured her vision. Her heart beat rapidly, fearfully in her chest as she fell farther and farther, coming closer and closer to the ground. If there were something she could do about this, it would have been done. As it was, she could only wait anxiously for her body to hit the dirt.

A gasp left her lips as she finally hit the ground. Yvaine whimpered as a sickening crack sounded in her ears- almost drowned out by the boom as vast amounts dirt flew into the air- and pain shot like electricity through her leg, up her body.

She lay on her back for a moment, unmoving as she gazed up at the night sky. It was beautiful from down here, but she couldn’t see her sisters’ smiling faces. Sadness mixed with touches of anger began to creep up through her belly. Yvaine hadn’t really wished to be down here, among the humans and other creatures; it had only been a distant thought. Tears welled in her eyes, overflowing and streaking over her temples. How would she get home?

Yvaine recalled the necklace that had knocked her from the sky, so she turned her head one way then the other before she spotted it. “Stupid bloody thing.” She grumbled, moving ever so slightly as she reached out to grasp it as she clenched her jaw against the pain.

Suddenly her world changed around her, and she had the unpleasant sensation of spinning. Suddenly she lay, not in the crater her impact had caused, but in the grass in at the edge of a meadow. The scents around her had changed as well. Yvaine now detected the scent of sea salt on the air, though she couldn’t truly say it was that as she’d never before smelled such a scent. Red rimmed eyes flickered around new environment. The necklace was gone. They moved to the sky where stars glittered and the moons shone. These stars didn’t glitter the same way her sisters had, and her mother had never had a companion. This was a different sky than her homeland. Now she was truly lost.

Yvaine threw a blue silked arm over her face and sobbed into the fabric.

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fallen_star
2008-07-20 12:55 am UTC (link)

Yvaine gave the woman a strange look. Did she not know a star when she saw one? “I fell from the sky.” She said, still looking curiously at the woman. “Well, not this sky, but the sky I lived in before I was knocked out of it by a bloody necklace.” Her words echoed the bitterness she felt.

When the woman requested a peak at her leg, Yvaine was about to protest when the woman lifted her dress anyway. The air felt strange against her wounded leg, and she couldn’t decide whether it pleasant or unpleasant. “I know it’s broken.” She said, though her voice wasn’t irritated sounding. Her leg hurt too much, and this woman was too kind as she showed by her smile. How could the star deny help from such a person? Someone like this wouldn’t want to harm her, or she would have already in her mind.

A medicine woman? She could actually heal the leg? “My sisters called me Yvaine, for I was an Evening Star.” She said quietly. Was… She was still technically a star, she simply wasn’t shining in the sky the way she should any more. It still had a sickening finality to it. This was her life now. She could never return home because there simply wasn’t a way to get back into the sky. Even if she could return to the sky it wouldn’t be her sky, but the strange one with the strange stars and strange moons above their heads.

Yvaine noticed Ayla looking around, but for what? Suspicions began to form in her mind, especially when she saw the stone man approach. She had seen a lot of strange things in her time of gazing down to Faerie, but she knew people didn’t walk with such purpose when they stumbled upon something or someone by chance. That golem knew she was here, and the only other person who knew about her was this “medicine woman”. Had the star been lied to by this woman? Nothing betrayed the woman’s conniving, so part of her thought maybe it really was just chance. There were many forms of magick after all, most powerful were time and fate.

“He won’t crush me?” Yvaine asked uncertainly as she eyed the rock creature who looked very much like a man. She began to feel quite nervous as the creature crouched down quite smoothly for a stone creature.

“I think I’m okay by myself. You can leave me alone. I’ll be fine.” For one so nervous, her words were calm. However, the words were unheeded as the golem scooped the star into its arms quickly, but very gently. “What do you think you’re doing? I said I was fine, numbskull!” She said angrily before she realized how right on her rude comment had been. Yvaine didn’t suppose a rock person would feel pain, or really have much by way of brains in its head. Then again, it must have some semblance of knowledge, unless of course it was purely guided by magick. The glittering woman decided it must be magick, for she was completely ignored as if she’d never spoken at all.

“If it hurts me, I’ll blame you.” Yvaine said, matter-of-factly.

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_ayla_
2008-07-20 03:48 pm UTC (link)

Ayla was slightly confused by the statement that she'd fallen from the sky, knocked out of it by a bloody necklace. She supposed that upon arrival here someone could fall from the sky, but she didn't know what a bloody necklace had to do with it. She didn't know that bloody was a slang word for something undesireable. So, rather distracted by the state of her leg, Ayla didn't question her further. "Oh."

Ayla took things literally because she didn't know any better. Humor and sarcasm were lost on her, so when Yvaine said she was an Evening Star, Ayla looked at her strangely. "I like your name, Yvaine." She really shouldn't have been all that surprised. John said he could sail among the stars, so who was she to say that Yvaine herself couldn't be one. She had been taught that the stars were the hearth fires of those who had passed on. But maybe where Yvaine came from, they were girls like her.

Ayla stepped forward, placing another reassuring hand to Yvain's arm. "He will not hurt you. He can't." She smiled and walked beside the golem as he carried Yvaine back toward the main building and the living complexes that flanked it. She followed them down the hall to her room, and opened the door. The inside resembled the cave she had lived in back in the valley before she was brought to the resort.

She ran to the back of the cave where she kept many of her things. She had some extra furs and straw. She made a bed out of it and then directed the golem to lay Yvaine down on it. When she was finished setting the leg, she would have to have the golem come back and take Yvaine to her own room. She was sure the young woman wouldn't want to stay in her cave. She had seen a few rooms in passing, and none of them looked like caves. She was sure Yvain's wouldn't look like a cave, either.

Before the golem left, he held Yvaine's room key out to her. He closed the door behind him and Ayla built her fire back up. Then, she turned to Yvaine and gave her a small smile. "I just need to gather a few things." She stood and walked to the natural shelves in the side of the cave and found some willow bark and snakeroot. She also found some strips of leather she would boil.

Taking all her supplies to the fire, she crouched and began to take cooking stones from her fire and put them in a cooking basket she had filled with water. She tossed pieces of the willow bark into the basket and let it steep for a few minutes before she poured some into a wooden cup. She brought it over to Yvaine and held it out. "This tea will ease your pain."

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