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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
2008-07-26 01:25 pm UTC (link)

“Ah. Okay.” Yvaine responded, acknowledging the other woman’s words.

A small smile passed over her lips as Ayla explained that people were not only from different times, but from different places as well. The star had never known any worlds other than the sky and Faerie on Earth; however, it made sense to a degree. Most on Earth had never fathomed that the stars might be living creatures, though the ones that did know were quite dangerous.

“Even so, you deserve the thanks.” Yvaine insisted, despite the cavewoman’s declaration that gratitude wasn’t necessary. Then again, it was just what the woman did. Thanking this woman for helping her leg would have been like someone thanking her for shining. She was a star, and it was simply her way. She supposed if her shining helped another person, though, it wouldn’t be so bad to hear they were grateful for it. From the proud smile on the other woman’s face, the star woman figured Ayla didn’t mind praise so much, either, despite what she might say.

“This is to be my room then?” Yvaine asked once they’d entered the building and stood just outside the door. Her key was still with Ayla, so she waited for the woman to unlock and open the door. Almost immediately her room resembled the night sky, only from far away as her sisters looked from a long way off. It made sense, actually. If her sisters weren’t really here in this place, then they couldn’t show up in her room. It made her feel quite lonely and sad, though her room remained as it was.

“Of course you can come inside.” The star woman announced. She took the crutch from Ayla, not quite sure what to do with it. “How do I use it?”

The golem entered the room and laid her down upon a cozy spot in the night sky. The stars glimmered the way her sisters did, but there was something slightly off about it, as if she could see through the lie, and she knew they weren’t her siblings.

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_ayla_
2008-07-27 01:14 pm UTC (link)

Once the door was opened and she had been given permission to enter, Ayla followed the golem in to the place where he set the star woman down. Gazing up and around, Ayla felt like she had been launched into the night sky. It was glorious and for a moment, Ayla envied the young woman's room. But she would not be able to live in the sky as Yvaine did. Ayla needed substance.

She held the crutch up and then demonstrated how it should be used by tucking it under one arm and walking a short distance, showing how very little weight could be put on the offended leg. "You see?" She handed it back and smiled. She also pressed the room key into her palm.

"I will come back tomorrow morning with your tea." She smiled as she backed toward the door. "The golems will be at your beck and call should you be in want of anything." She watched her for a moment from the doorway of the room, the golem having passed through before her and had long since gone. "It was nice to meet you, Yvaine." She smiled again and then shut the door behind her as she headed out to return to her own room.

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