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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
2008-07-23 02:15 pm UTC (link)

“Oh. I didn’t notice. Is that what those creatures are called then- golems?” Yvaine responded, wondering why she had been expected. It was a surprise to her that she wound up in this place, though whoever ran it knew she was arriving. That thought was unnerving.

As she listened to Ayla speak, it suddenly dawned on the star that this woman wasn’t just dressing like this and living like this out of personal desire. It’s what she’d always known, and change is hard. The woman wasn’t from the same time as Yvaine, but she was from the past. “Are all the people here from different times? I’ve watched the goings-on of Earth from the sky for millions of years, and I watched the people progress from living in caves to building homes for themselves out of trees and clay.”

After the pain from the twisting, Yvaine was all right, and she watched curiously as Ayla smeared something over her leg and wrapped it. Her leg actually felt better with the strange salve on it and the straps, though it continued to beat a dull ache through her limb.

“I can’t thank you enough. You’ve been truly kind to me.” Yvaine said. Not all humans were bad, she realized, and perhaps she wouldn’t be so quick to mistrust people, or perhaps she wouldn’t trust them right away, but she would keep an open mind. Just because she suspected humans were the reason her sister disappeared four hundred years earlier, didn’t mean every human creature had been in on it.

When the door was opened, the golem entered and lifted the star woman to carry her away to her new residence.

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_ayla_
2008-07-25 11:36 am UTC (link)

Ayla nodded. "Yes, golems." She wasn't sure exactly where she had heard the word, but she had since associated it with the men made of earth elements. She found the key and placed it in Yvaine's palm as the golem lifted her.

She walked next to the golem where Yvaine could see her and nodded. "Some are from different times, some are from different worlds. Some are not human, but they look human. Like you. A star who looks human." Ayla had gathered that her time had been long before many of the other people here, alien or not. But Yvaine had seen her time. Suddenly, she didn't feel quite so alone. Someone else knew of the world she came from, even if only from observation.

"No thanks are necessary, I am medicine woman." She smiled proudly, glad that her skills were not going to be wasted in this place. They arrived in front of Yvaine's room shortly. Ayla waited while the door was opened. "I am not allowed to enter your room without your permission. But I would like to see you settled." Another golem walked down the hall, carrying a crutch. Ayla took it from him and he turned to go.

She held it out for Yvaine to see. "When you are feeling well enough to try walking, you should use this. It will keep the weight off your leg and keep it from breaking again."

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