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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 01/16/2015 3:48 PM

For a good minute, Nisha just tried to take this all in and make herself believe it, forgetting all about the pouchers. Harun had to be kidding, right? She had no trouble to believe that he might have lost his memory, but he obviously had to be also pretty crazy, right? Using all her strength, she lifted her head and looked at the lake. It was hard to see anything from her position and in the darkness, but she could see the moon and the stars reflecting on the surface... but not a trace of the aurora. "This is crazy..." she mumbled.

"I know it seems like it." Harun nodded. "As I had no memories to speak of, it was easy for me to accept such things, but I am aware that others would have greater trouble. Let's speak with Raisun later, but I doubt he will know much." Frowning, he pondered what to do. "You must be still very cold... but you also need to eat. Shall I go and hunt something for you? I could also see if I can spot any poachers."



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 01/22/2015 2:44 AM

The thought of food reminded Nisha of how hungry she was, but the idea to lose what little warmth she had right now made her consider. In the end, the fact that she was also embarrassed by basically cuddling up to a male she didn't even know made the decision a bit easier. "I would love some food", she admitted. "I haven't eaten in days. But please be careful!"

"You don't need to worry, I know where to find food and how to hide in the lights. Who knows, maybe I can even find someone to help you." Harun looked thoughtful for a second and then got up, making Nisha shiver immediately. He noticed, even though she tried her best to hide it. "I'll be back in less than an hour", he assured her. "Try to stay as warm as possible, I'll hurry."



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 01/27/2015 12:07 AM

Nisha only nodded, well aware that she wasn't very polite, but she was just so exhausted and now felt the cold crawling back into the few body parts the warmth had claimed back. Harun quickly took off and she could only hope that he indeed would be careful and also find food. Closing her eyes again, Nisha decided she wasn't even caring what he would bring her; she would eat anything at this point.

When waiting for something, an hour could be an endless amount of time, Nisha soon decided. She tried to fight sleep as well as she could, but her body just wanted to rest... A few times, she dozed off and was close to deep sleep, but the wind was at least good for being loud enough to startle her awake again. Trying to focus on the sounds, Nisha decided to just give her eyes the rest they wanted and listened for the sound of wings flapping.



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 01/27/2015 12:16 AM

When she finally heard something, she immediately forced her eyes back open and looked up. For a moment, she saw nothing but the aurora, but then she could make Harun's form out... at least somewhat. Nisha blinked, figuring her tired eyes were playing tricks on her, but Harun was definitely inside of the light which suddenly didn't seem to be high up and unreachable anymore but actually dropping lower and lower as well. Or at least some of it was, for only a few colors seemed to have split off from the shining ribbon of light.

When Harun and the light surrounding him were only a few metres above the ground, the light suddenly changed. Nisha blinked again, now wide awake and trying to comprehend what happened. The colors got more intense, but stopped being so spread out and then suddenly, they took on the form of a Lucain.
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The female Lucain landed together with Harun, who was carrying two small rodents he had caught. "I'm back! And look who I met!" Quickly, Harun placed the dead animals in front of Nisha and then sat down next to her again to warm her. "I'm so happy you're still conscious. This is Araphena, one of the personifications of the aurora and Raisun's granddaughter."



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 01/30/2015 10:10 PM

"I am happy to meet you." Araphena smiled, seemingly not bothered at all that Nisha mainly stared at her. "But please, eat first and then tell me exactly what happened. I'm not sure if I can help, but I will do my best."

"I-- Alright. Thank you so much. It's... it's very nice to meet you, too!" Nisha was still extremely confused and unable to believe that she wasn't dreaming or hallucinating because of her bad condition, but the food in front of her was really what interested her more than anything. Leaning a bit against Harun for more warmth, even though it embarrassed her a bit, she did her best to at least eat somewhat slowly, but after the first bite she noticed how starved she really was.

Araphena sat down as well, seemingly completely at ease and patient. If anything, she, too, looked worried when she noticed Nisha's state.



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 01/30/2015 10:16 PM

Once Nisha had finished her meal, she tried to sit up straight. While she was still not really able to comprehend what Araphena was, despite everything Harun had explained, she was aware that the Lucain was probably the greatest help she could find in this area. Slowly and trying her best to not leave anything out, Nisha retold the events that had ended up with her feathers looking like they did now and then everything that she had tried to revert them to their former state. She tried to only quickly go over her journey to Fe'gan, but Araphena seemed actually very interested in it and so, Nisha ended up talking for a long time.

When she hd finished, Araphena looked rather thoughtful. "This is...quite the tale. It would be so helpful if we would know if the same happened to Harun, but we don't." She frowned. "You can be sure that Dan will send these evil humans away if he meets them, but we cannot be fully sure. There are caves on some of the paths where humans sometimes seek shelter for the night. It's rare for them to come so high up, though. As for what happened to you... I am very certain that the lights you have watched were from Inanna and Esthera, but your feathers look nothing like them. You look more like my mother, to be honest. It's very odd."



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 01/30/2015 10:23 PM

"Does that change anything?" Nisha wondered. While hearing about all this reassured her in a way since Araphena obviously indeed had at least some clue what had happened, she wasn't sure how this would help her.

"Not...directly." Araphena sighed. "My grandparents and my mother just suddenly... came to be. Lights who suddenly became aware of themselves and took on a form. Not just some magic form, but one actually able to create children, though the process was different for my grandparents than it was for me. You, however, are not like us and neither is Harun, but yet you two are different from each other."

"Because I don't feel the cold." Harun nodded, giving Nisha a concerened glance. "Even if we once both were 'normal' and ended up changing, I am now more like the celestial beings, except that I cannot turn into light or constellations."



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 01/30/2015 10:31 PM

Nisha tried her very best to follow the conversation, but it was difficult for her to understand where the two others were going with it. "What should I do now?" she wondered.

"Hmm." Harun glanced at her. "I have a question: If the poachers were gone, would you like to return to your home?"

Nisha blinked, not really getting why Harun seemed so serious. "Of course. I want to return to my family and friends. I don't like my current feathers since they make me stand out so much, but I suppose if I wouldn't have to fear anyone anymore, I could just learn to live with them if I would have to. I would prefer to get rid of them, though."

"So you really are different from me." Harun sighed and actually looked unhappy. "You see, even though I lost all my memories, I do not feel the urge to ever leave this lonely place and go looking for my roots. Somehow, I feel bound to these mountains, just like the celestial beings do. I am, for all I know, still a normal Soveris, but I seem to be... a part of these mountains. The weather and the climate do not harm me and neither does the snow I walk on freeze me. I have once travelled down the mountains, but I did not enjoy it and returned to this place after a few days. Nothing there hurt me, but somehow... I only feel at ease here."



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 01/30/2015 10:45 PM

"So I really am different, even if we both once were normal Soveris." Nisha looked at Harun and tried to sense if him sitting next to her felt different from what it was when one of her friends did so. Her partly numb body didn't make it easier, but he felt just as real as any other living being. She wondered if she would be able to notice a difference if she would touch Araphena... She was about to actually ask when she finally understood why Harun had asked and looked at her like that. "...You really are lonely here, aren't you?" she asked carefully.

Harun sighed. "Yes. I am not like the celestial beings who travel the sky as light and who seem content with this kind of existence and see their purpose in life in it. But I am restless and lonely and stuck here, in a way. I just...uh..." He looked away.

Questioningly, Nisha tried to meet his gaze again. What had he wanted to say?

"When my mother grew aware of herself, she only felt the wish to meet the aurora close to the horizon - my father, but she didn't know that and only assumed it was light. She was aware that she would die if she would not meet him. In a way, my grandparents are the same; my father almost turned back into the water of the lake when my grandmother rejected him. But my mother... gained her consciousness around the same time my father found his existence more and more empty and devoid of what he wanted for: A family." Araphena's voice was gentle and she was smiling.



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 01/30/2015 10:53 PM

"Huh?" In the end, Nisha blamed her condition that she needed a few endless seconds to understand what Araphena was implying with her little story. The second it hit her, she stared at Harun. "Wait... did... did you think that maybe... I suddenly changed because whatever causes these things to happen around here decided to fulfill your wish for company?!"

Sadly, Harun nodded and finally glanced at her again. "We cannot rule it out, but in the end, you didn't become like me. I cannot deny that when I saw you I had... hopes. Not for a mate, but just for someone to be and feel the same so that I wouldn't be lonely any longer. But when I saw you almost frozen to death, I figured that I was wrong. It's... good, I suppose. I wouldn't want to be the cause of anyone else getting stuck here. The celestial beings all were once inanimate things. Them becoming alive and bound to this place feels different than someone suddenly getting stuck and ripped away from their home. I wondered before if maybe my memory loss happened so that I would not remember what had once been and I would be able to accept my new home more easily this way."

"This is horrible! If there is actually some really powerful mage behind it, this is criminal!" Nisha felt furious at the thought of someone playing matchmaker here and just putting living beings here to see them interact like animals into a cage.



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 01/30/2015 11:01 PM

"No one of us knows what the cause behind all of this is. Just like we don't know if there is a reason why we celestial beings are all Lucain. If only Soveris can be changed from normal living beings to what Harun is now is just as big of a mystery." Araphena looked at Nisha, though she also gave Harun an apologetic glance. "You must choose what you want to do now. If you feel you can leave the mountains, you should do so. Harun can help you to get out of here and hopefully avoid the evil humans during the day and I can help you during the night. And then... I suppose you must just go on living with your new looks. The other choice would be to finish your change and become like Harun - if that is even possible. Making you look at the lights of Inanna and Esthera seems like the first thing to try then. But I admit that I see no reason why you would want to become like this."

"Indeed." Harun still seemed a bit upset and actually looked guilty. "While being in this place feels...right, it's probably really horrible compared to the life you once had. If you have any chance to return to that life and be safe, you should take it."



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 01/30/2015 11:27 PM

"It unfortunately is." It almost hurt Nisha to tell Harun that; she felt incredibly sorry for him and wished she could help him, but she was the one in this little group who had the least knowledge about this place. And there was no way she was forever staying in this cold wasteland. The lights, the snow and the sky seemingly being so close were all of great beauty, but that didn't change the fact that the Fe'gan Mountains were a largely uninhabited and dead world. "I am not sure how to escape the poachers... but maybe I can find a way to dye the feathers so that I can stay close to my family. I will just have to try different things." She tried to appear optimistic, but the truth was that she was horribly scared to run into these men again.

"The first thing I recommend for now is getting you to Dan's Inn." Araphena smiled encouragingly. "I vouch for him, you can completely trust him. Without him and his family, I wouldn't have been able to become a mother or be with my mate. He did a lot for me, including teaching me all about the life of the ground-dwellers. I am sure that you can rest there and heal up a bit. Your body is not made for the cold, so reaching the Inn should come before any other plans."



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 01/31/2015 3:17 AM

"That sounds like a very reasonable idea." Harun nodded and then got up. Nisha missed the warmth immediately, but Harun merely walked around her to sit down at her other side, though he made sure to inspect her wing this time. "There is no way you can fly, correct?"

"I am afraid so. I didn't even have it checked out by a doctor, so who knows if everything is even healing correctly..." Nisha tried to not dwell too much on the thought of never being able to fly again. At least the cold numbed the pain rather well - the only small advantage it had.

"In this case, we should go more slowly", Araphena suggested. "You two travel during the day towards the Inn. With Nisha injured, it's better to be careful. My family and me can watch at night to see if any evil ground-dwellers approach so that you two can rest."



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 02/01/2015 3:25 AM

"Yes... I agree. The poachers are probably more likely to travel during the day as well, but it's important that Nisha can see perfectly where she is going, giving her condition. Some of the snow can cover slippery ice and for someone who isn't used to spot it, it's probably impossible to see during the night." Harun looked up at the sky. Without Araphena's light, the aurora had changed colors a bit, but it was still clearly visible against the dark sky. "It's still a bit until dawn." He looked at Nisha. "I normally sleep during the day and am awake at night to talk to the celestial beings more, as almost all of them sleep during the day as well. But if I try to catch some sleep now as well, we can start the way back once the sun has fully risen."

"I can travel much faster in the air than you will be able to on the ground. As soon as grandfather returns, I will talk to him and then find you tomorrow night and tell you what he said, though I doubt he will be able to help more", Araphena offered.

"That sounds like a wonderful plan!" Nisha wanted nothing more than to get back to the warm Inn, especially now that she knew that the humans there were trustworthy. The idea of walking all the way back was horrible, but with Harun helping her and the path back not being uphill anymore, she hoped she would manage... somehow.



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Re: * SR: Harun x Nisha [Self]

Postby Shieba » 02/01/2015 3:34 AM

"Then it's decided." Araphena got up and sat down at Nisha's other side. "I will stay with you until the sun rises to provide you more warmth, but then I need to return to my mate and children. You can be assured that the rest of my family would warn us if someone approaches us. Even without them knowing what's going on, we tend to avoid being seen by ground-dwellers just travelling through the area, so my parents would tell me if someone is in the area."

"Thank you so much. I hope it's not too much of a bother; I understand that just sitting around here for so long must be very boring." Araphena indeed seemed just as warm and normal as every other Lucain and Nisha was very glad for the warmth.

"I do prefer to be in the air, but it is hardly a problem. Do try to rest; Harun and I will make sure you're fine." Araphena smiled.

"Alright." Nisha rested her head on her leg as comfortably as possibe. It was strange to sleep with who were basically two strangers flanking her, but she was so tired that she didn't even care. Besides that, both Harun and Araphena seemed really trustworthy and were willing to help her so much. "Good night. Thanks, Harun and Araphena."

"Sleep well." Harun also closed his eyes, wanting to get as much sleep as he could. "I will hunt for food once the sun rises and it will be at least a bit warmer."

"Mmh." Nisha wanted to answer something, but in the end, she was just too exhausted and with finally warmth surrounding her from both sides, she was very quickly fast asleep.



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