InsaneJournal

Who: Kibeth and Illyana
When: Day 27, early evening
What: Arrival
Rating: PG-13, just in case
Status: Complete



Death was hardly a realm with which Kibeth was unfamiliar, but it wasn't one she particularly enjoyed. The current of the river tugged at her legs, but she ignored it in favor of walking along the boundary between Life and Death. Not that there was much to even indicate she'd traveled in the featureless gray that was the area before the first gate. So, to amuse herself Kibeth tried on different shapes. The rules of form were looser here in Death than they had been and she was free to play around with the forms of other animals than the mutt-ish dog she had been.

The fish had been nearly disastrous, as the current caught her up and pulled her nearly over the first gate before she was able to regain control of her own motion. Any of the hooved mammals were chancy too. It was too easy to slip. On a whim, she tried on human shape. Liriel had seemed to like it, and humans were such interesting creatures. It took several tries to get everything right, and she had quite a bit of trouble walking at first. Still, it was kind of fun, and soon she was skipping through the calf-high waters.

Then her foot came down wrong and she slipped. She braced herself for impact with the cold water, already moving to push herself back up before the current could grab hold. But the impact never came. Between one blink and the next she was no longer in the cold, featureless land of Death, but somewhere equally cold, but much, much more interesting. Kibeth stood up and looked around. There was a large building right nearby, and some more buildings a little further off. And none of it looked like any part of the Old Kingdom she was familiar with.