Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:33 pm by Evony
A funny thing happened when Evony finally admitted she was lost, perhaps hours before. She gave up. Sat down, found a mossy patch in the crook opf a tree (ugh), and fell into exausted slumber.
When she woke it was sudden, like something big had just happend and woke her up in the process. She heard voices echoing through the surrounding leaves. The girl-child almost smiled - strangly amused to be going crazy after all these years. But instead she sat and listened to the voices, thinking she may as well sit back and be entertaned while she lost her marbles.
Evony sat herself up slowly, keeping quiet. Odd. There were people near where she had slept. Well kind of people - they were strange to her. Man, woman, wolf and the weirdest horse she'd ever seem. All of the 'animals' talked.
It was a little chaotic at first, but she grasped that there were introductions - that's what woke her up she guessed. Sionayra, she eavesdropped. Never heard of it before. Not that this surprised her, of course. She never had the luck to end up someplace she was familiar with.
This definitely was the strangest episode she'd ever had! These.. These 'people' all seemed to change shape! THe wolf didnt change, nor did the man who was now sitting apart from the others or the horse. She missed a bit of the conversation because she was too busy staring at the figures as they changed. She vaguely registeres the riddles. She would have liked them a lot if she wasn't so distracted by the people. Where did the fairy thing come from? There were five altogether now, until the horse got up for no aparent reason and left.
Now what? Whenever an episode like this happened, she always wanted to avoid all people. It was too difficult to be around people when you didn't use their common mode of communicatrion. But she'd never run into people like these before. Who knew what they were capable of?
How could she approach them if she couldn't even speak to them? She cast about her, looking for something that could help. Hearing the wolf (who was the woman before she changed, she reminded herself in her head) speak a riddle, she mulled it over. The answer was easy enough to guess with some thought.
Ants scuttled past her. A spider wove a web between two small branches nearby. A few small bees tickled the wildflowers and clovers not too far away. She waited til a bee was busy with a flower, then swatted him with her shoe.
Standing up stiffly and brushing off was harder than she expected. She must have slept a long time. She shooshed the bee's limp body onto a leaf and carried him toward the group. Really hoping it wouldn't recover fast and wake up and sting her before she could put him back by the flowers. She needed it to answer the riddle.
The leaf was held before her like an offering as she neared the circle. It trembled as her hand shook and it was hard for her to make sure the bee didn't fall off. SHe got ready to run if they turned on her and watched there every move in silence.
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Evony on Sat Aug 01, 2009 5:58 pm, edited 3 times in total.