Morjiana. The girl mouthed the name silently, examining both it and the woman it belonged to. A brief image of a tavern came to mind and the familiarity of the woman’s face solidified. She was certain she knew her, but how well she could not guess. There was a sense of newness about the memory.
Nikola. That was the name the woman gave to her as her own. She tasted it in her mind, turning it over to examine it from every angle. It felt…right, although she could not have said why.
She studied the woman for a moment and knew there was no lie in her. How she knew she could not have said, but knew it was so. Morjiana asked her what was the last thing she remembered. She pondered this for a time, reaching into her memory for an answer and withdrew with nothing.
“I remember waking up there,” she nodded to the crater of earth where she had lain and around which was scattered the armor that she had shed shortly after. “Before that,” she paused, frowning in concentration before lifting her shoulders slightly in a shrug. “Before that, nothing.”
She looked across the field as a few of the creatures she had taken for dead began to stir. Perhaps she, too, had died? “What happened here, Morjiana? Why are so many hurt? Did they fight each other? Or where is their enemy?”
She wanted to ask more, but the woman seemed bewildered and overwhelmed herself. Yet she knew who she was, and she knew who Nikola was. Nikola. That was her name. She would hold fast to that. She remembered a little of Morjiana, so it was reasonable to think that more memories would surface.
Time to Go Hunting
Re: Time to Go Hunting
"The enemy is- fled," Morjiana said with the slightest hesitation. Explaining the disappearance of the xanthareels seemed a bit much just now, with the girl unsure of who she even was. Explaining xanthareels at all seemed a bit much, regardless of their disappearance. Morjiana couldn't very well welcome the girl to an unfamiliar world, then introduce her to monsters in the next breath. "You helped to rout them," she went on with more assurance once she was more easily able to speak a simple truth. She hesitated again, running quickly out of simple truths, and reflexively scanned the girl's aura though she already knew it would reveal nothing new. Steady and golden, the aura was soothing even if it was not informative. Morjiana closed her eyes and felt the blank, warm presence of the girl a few feet away from her still. It was as clear as if her eyes were open. Something in Nikola's aura drew Morjiana toward her. Without thinking and without opening her eyes, she reached out as if to cup the younger woman's cheek, and then she was sinking again with only light all around her and no way to find the surface. If she could have seen it, Morjiana would have seen the golden light she'd seen before from Nikola spread from her finger tips and eyes till it immersed her completely, and then with a small pop and a gentle breeze, she was abruptly gone.
~ Morjiana Sanchari of Chere ~ Seer, Busybody, Matriarch ~
Re: Time to Go Hunting
Nikola nodded at hearing that the enemy had fled. That made sense, although it must have been a mighty enemy to have had no dead or wounded. Or perhaps they were a worthy foe and had chosen not to leave behind any of their fallen. She could not remember the battle, let alone having helped to rout them, but she found she trusted this human creature. Nikola frowned slightly at the thought. Why did she think of this Morjiana in terms of “human creature”? From what she could see of herself and of the woman, they seemed to be of the same species. Perhaps she was missing something. She mentally shrugged, thinking that she was missing a lot of somethings.
She felt the woman’s eyes on her again and she brought her focus back to her just as Morjiana closed her eyes. Nikola could sense the light still flowing freely inside of the woman. That light she knew had come from inside of her, even if she did not know how she knew. She was aware of the woman reaching out to her and did not move away, sending her mind into the woman at the same instance Morjiana’s hand reached her cheek.
A touch and the world shifted. In the space where the two women had been was just an empty patch of grass. The only evidence that either had been there was the slight crater in the earth and pieces of golden armor scattered about.
She felt the woman’s eyes on her again and she brought her focus back to her just as Morjiana closed her eyes. Nikola could sense the light still flowing freely inside of the woman. That light she knew had come from inside of her, even if she did not know how she knew. She was aware of the woman reaching out to her and did not move away, sending her mind into the woman at the same instance Morjiana’s hand reached her cheek.
A touch and the world shifted. In the space where the two women had been was just an empty patch of grass. The only evidence that either had been there was the slight crater in the earth and pieces of golden armor scattered about.
