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They stand at the fringe of the woods, looking down into the valley below. She leans upon her staff, and wipes stray strands of hair away from her face with a gloved hand. Smiling down at her wolves, she goes down on one knee, and beckons them to her, running her hands over their soft warm fur.
StarShine whines, and keeps looking back into the woods, her green eyes glowing with worry and sadness. Kaylisa, looking back, narrows her eyes and slams her fist into the ground as she realizes what has happened. Whispering softly into the wind, “Just another reason for me to kill you….”, her heart is too wounded to dwell on the pup’s death too long.
Fifty paces in front of her, another oak grove stands, running beneath it one of the ley lines, one of the few uncorrupted by shadow. This one verra ancient, and the branches reach into the sky over 100 feet above the ground. She stands, dusting off her cloak, and motions the wolves to run ahead of her, to the safety that this grove will offer them.
She follows behind them, slower, but catches up in time. The wolves head for the center of the ring, and she stops at one of the sacred stones, whispering a prayer to her gods for the safekeeping of her wolves within this circle.
She feels a small flash in the back of her mind, and stares intently to the west. Something is affecting the ley-lines in that direction. She also feels the presence of some of the group. It feels like a hundred lifetimes ago since she left on a mission that now seems vague and wonders what has transpired to the others. Looking down, she spies a small lavender plant, and gently plucks two flowers from it and puts them in her mouth.
She walks over to a huge oak centered between two of the stones, and reaches into a pocket of her cloak pulling out a small rune, worn with age and places it on the bark as she whispers two words. The bark shimmers in the daylight, and as it becomes still, you can see another valley, filled with swampland through the opening.
She glances back once at her wolves and smiles sadly. ”I will be back for you. And I will visit upon the ones responsible for all our sorrows a pain that is tenfold for every hurt you have had to endure because of this…. I swear this to you…”
Making sure she has everything she needs, she raises one hand, and pulls off the glove with her teeth, then tucks it into the belt at her waist. Lightning flickers with a blue glow around her fingers as she narrows her eyes. The final rune in place, her power has grown. Placing the hand on the ShadowSword, she steps through the portal,her eyes flashing with silver speckled with taint of shadow and is gone…..
[ 11-21-2005, 10:51 AM: Message edited by: TAOWolf ]
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