Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 7:14:24 PM)
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Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 7:18:39 PM)
-It was hotter than the devils backyard in that leather tent, but it kept the sun off of her and the bigs away for the most part, so while she was in the tent, she stripped down to get cooler and slept alot better. rolling over onto her back her form barely covered by the Red, Black and Green fabric she used for a cover-
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 7:22:47 PM)
The night had grown late, the small fire nothing but embers. Tejah had finally turned in for the night amongst the piles of knit blankets that had been set aside for her. The sound of Basil's guitar echoing quietly beneath the moonlight had led her off to sleep, and the darkness of slumber had settled over her mind, allowing her subconscious mind to wander. From the umbral plane where he stood, he could see the blinding pinprick of light rent above her by her dreaming mind. Her own personal pathway to the great dream where he shaman's soul could wander. It brought a small smile to the young dreamspeaker as he wondered if his father had stood over him in such a way as a child. Crow had never talked another Shaman's dreams before, he had never had such an honor, but Black Eyes was as insistant as his dreams. It was no coincidence she had come. And so he stepped forward, whispering forbidden words, passed by from shaman to shaman since the Tradition of the Speakers began. Through those words his body physically
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 7:22:59 PM)
crossed, was drawn in, vanishing into the point of light that would lead to her dreams. [cont.]
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 7:26:26 PM)
When her eyes opened, Tejah stared out over a great valley. The sun had just risen over the horizon and it cast a golden curtain over the trees and flower covered fields that straddled the river below. The river itself was a raw, violent expression of nature, cutting it's way down from the distant mountains to strike like a blade through the heart of meadow and forest alike. She lay only a few feet a way from the edge of a high plateu on the same blanket she had fallen asleep upon. She would be clothed however she expected herself to be, look how she might expect herself to look, yet no matter how it was it would seem quite natural. Such was the method to the madness of dreams.
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 7:36:14 PM)
- Tejah's form was clad in a cropped tank and a long skirt slung low on her hips , her long dreds up in a high poly tair with the front in three cornrows leading in. She took hin a deep breath as she slowly moved towards the edge fo the plateau, taking in the surroundings and scenery. She smiled, turning her face up to the sky her arms stretched out and she thanked the spirts for suhch a visual gift and simply reveled in it, after allit was her dream and it was visually stunning to behold-
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 7:41:14 PM)
And in the way that dreams do, she would suddenly come to notice a man seated near by. He was an older man, and wisened by his age. His dark hawk like eyes were small but piercing, as if jealously hiding some unfathomable wisdom. A great bonet of feathers and bones was braided in thick raven black hair. The feathers, crimson as blood and so blue they stole the breath from the sky, contrasted darkly within that silken nest. His leathered skin was covered in stripes of black and white paint, angry lines across his face, giving him a rather intimidating presence, and yet pictographs of famillies, children, and animals at play stretched across his back and sides. Beyond this he wore only a leather cloth over his loins, and fringed chaps over his legs. He spoke not, yet she heard his voice, quiet, as if it afraid secrets might escape if it grew too loud. "This was once something great."
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 7:46:13 PM)
- She turned to face the man slowly, her bare feet carrying her over to stand before him listening intently. Once she arrived, she knelt down to sit back on her her legs, watching him. she was not afraid of the man, she had been well used to things just appearing in her line of vision she spoke in iwapoher voice as soft as his, not in the patois, but the musical lilt could still be heard in her voice- What happened to where it cannot be again ?
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 7:53:41 PM)
Crow was then knelt down beside her, one of his large hands resting comfortably on one of her shoulders. His darkly tanned form was covered in boots, tight jeans, and a flannel shirt...buttoned with it's sleaves rolled up his forearms. Yet from the corner of her eye she would see him as something different, as if some other being was superimposed over him...an older man, draped in the shaman's garb. Both of them wore sad expressions as they looked out over the valley. "Watch...", the three whispered to her in unison. The horizon exploded then. The pure golden light of the sun became red and scalding, the rainbow color of flowers across the meadows growing brown, the emerald grass fading to a pale and lifeless yellow. The earth itself buckled and great towers of steel ripped up from the ground, causing ageless trees to fall over and be swept aside. The towers belched blackened fumes from a thousand mouths that soon blanketed the sky and Tejah could hear the screams of thousands, if not millions, of spirits...c
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 7:53:48 PM)
crying out in terror as they are destroyed.
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 7:56:22 PM)
- Tejah winced , bringing her hands to cover her ears, her eyes locked onto the scene, wanting desparately to look away but was unable to do so. Slowly she dropped her hands as to not offend, her chin lifting tears welling in her eyes only to slip down her cheeks-
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 8:00:02 PM)
As time passed before her eyes the blackened skies vomited forth scalding rain that scorched the earth below. The great towers crumbled to the ground until all that was left was a great valley of ash. They were then standing in this valley. Soot stained her feet and the hem of her skirt. Crow still stood beside her, one arm around her waist as if he meant to offer her a shoulder to cry upon. "This damage has been done", he said softly, his meloncholy thick in his tone, "We can not undo what has already come. What has been lost is lost......"
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 8:04:43 PM)
- Tejah buried he rface in crow's shoulder and wept, she considered her self an enviormentalist, but seeing the damage done over hundreds of years all at once was simply more than she could bear. - It can be reversed, the earth has a way of righting itself.. I have always believed that.. while spirtis lost cannot be brought back, new one could be born from the ashes .. - she murmured into Crow's shoulder before she liftedher face her cheest wet with ears as she looked to the men-
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 8:11:24 PM)
[ cheeks]
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 8:15:26 PM)
The older shaman was gone now, she stood with Crow alone...all but for the strange figure superimposed over his body. Even though Crow gazed down into her eyes, this other Crow, for it was surely him even though their faces bore only familial resemblance, gazed out over to torn landscape with tears in his eyes. "The damage cuts to deep. We can not reverse the wheel any more than we could sing the Spirit Song backwards." He smiled sadly, her own sorrow warming his heart, giving him hope, and urging him that this was indeed Right. "But you are right in one thing. Hope isn't lost...." He drew back from her, but even as he did, his hand lifted. One of his fingers curled, tenderly brushing across her cheeks to capture one of her tears. It crystalized then, sparkling as a single ray of light broke through the ash dark sky to shine upon it. He knelt down, his fingers digging trenches through the blackened earth. It stained his flesh like fresh blood and crimson liquid began to rise up in the small hole like ground w
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 8:15:45 PM)
water. He allowed the crystalized tear to fall into the hole like a seed and he swept the soil back over it. He stood once more and returned to her side, looking back to the spot as a small golden vine valiantly broke through to the surface. The small sappling grew before her eyes as time in the dream became an undeterminable thing. Great limbs sprouted from an ever thickening trunk, each out sprouting off a thosuand times more as sparkling emerald leaves blossomed at their tips. The ray of light from the heavens grew as the tree grew, bathing it in a great column of golden light. Soon thick, lucious fruits grew heavy on the branches, dragging them lower and lower until they were soon within arm's reach. "We remember what we had before.....we remember why it can never be the same again. But we Speak the words, we remind the material world of what once was, and because of that...they too remember. In their dreams, in their memories, what once was becomes a reality today. It is new, the words spoken are fresh,
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 8:16:06 PM)
but there is still something to be cultivated from the ash that is good."
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 8:16:11 PM)
( >.< )
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 8:23:35 PM)
- Tejah nodded, when a forest is burned the trees come back stronger ebcause the ashes fertilize, - she said softly as she stepped over to run a hand up the tree's trunk then reaching up to gently caress the fruit. She did not pluck it from the tree, she simply touched it a soft smile curling her lips as she glanced over her shouler at Crow- You se? even in destruction new life can be born.. Better than ever.. - She turned to face him her head tilting slightly- We simply need to remidn the material world what is possible.. Give 'em hope which will feed the dream.. I may not be awakened.. but I know that as sure as I know my own name
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 8:28:40 PM)
Crow followed her, stepping up behind her so that he might reach up with her and grasp the fruit she had touched. He spoke softly from over her shoulder, his dark brown eyes seeking out her own. "I'm afraid it's not so simple. The fevered mind of mankind can no longer be trusted.... Many spirits have been driven mad by the destruction wrought on their world by man...and in turn...so has much of mankind. If we are to serve the True words of the dream, we must protect them from themselves...spirit and mortal....that is not often an easy task." His grip firmed around the fruit above them and he plucked it from the tree, slowly bringing it down before her plush full lips. "Eat."
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 8:31:01 PM)
-She didn't fully subscribe to that tenet afte rall she was considered part of that number as she was not awakened, but perhaps they would find a happy medium along the way. she lifted her eyes to his as her white teeth sank into the fruit's flesh , its juices slowly running from a corner of her mouth as her eyes closed to the flavor that burst on her tounge-
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 8:36:10 PM)
- She opened her eyes slowly, still trained on his as she tore the mouthfull gently from it and her hands coming up to direct the other side towards his lips a she chewed slowly, her face a scant 6 inches from his-
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 8:36:13 PM)
Crow vanished as the first sweet nectar of the fruit poured forth against her lips. It was more than simple flavor that assaulted her, however. For the acceptant of the Fruit of the Earth was symbolic. The anscestor spirit that had risen from the blood of the earth in which it had been entombed flowed into her. Her mind was suddenly consumed with a flury of images, each one accompanied by a whispered word. The words struck her ears like profanity, and yet each one filled her with unending bliss. For each of these words was a word of Truth. Words entrusted to the Dreamspeakers in ancient pacts since the earliest days of man. Words that when spoken by one with a strong enough will, could hold the power of creation itself. When she awoke those words would still be tumbling off her lips, even though it would take time to associate them with the visions enough to understand what they mean. Her body would be drenched in sweat and the small leather tent even seemed cool compared to the heat trapped within her skin.
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 8:36:27 PM)
[DLP THEN]
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 8:36:48 PM)
She would find herself alone in the tent. Even the weakest of spirits would have long since drawn away, leaving the mortal to her feverish dreams and whatever peace she might find on awakening.
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 8:44:04 PM)
- She sat up abruptly still murmuring the then unknown words the fabric clinging to her form, she wrapped it around her elf as she scambled out of the tent, her eyes a bit dazed , her chest heaving as she looked around. Clutching the fabric around her body, she moved towards the stream, letting the fabric drop as she waded directly into the water and submerged herself. She was so hot that she thought she would spontaneously combust. she surfaced and sat in the water her mind working to recall the dream to try and commit eveyr second to memory-
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 8:46:50 PM)
As she came back up from the water and gave her mind a few moments to settle, she would become aware of his presence. The only pool near by along the creek large enough to submerge onself in was fed by a small tumbling waterfall that danced down over several large creek stones. Crow sat on top of them, his gaze turned upwards the large gibbous moon overhead.
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 8:48:04 PM)
He looked just as he had in her dream, wearing the same boots, jeans and flanel shirt. The only real difference was the absense of the strange superimposed reflection of himself. If she looked close, blood and dirt still stained his fingertips from where he burried the seed of her tears.
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 8:49:53 PM)
- She gasped and sank down in the water a bit loweras she wiped the water from her eyes- Apologies.. I was not aware that you were sitting there Mon. - she said softly as she peered at him, noting his hands and moving closer, her body still concelaed by the water to some extent- So you were in my dream then ...
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 8:51:56 PM)
He kept his eyes on the moon and it became obvious he did so to preserve her modesty. A small smile touched his lips in response to her question and he nodded feintly. "I was." It was a simple answer, to what might seem to him, a relatively simple question. "I had to be sure."
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 8:55:28 PM)
- She smiled and moved to the bank to retrieve her sarong, deftly wrapping it about her body like a dress knotting it at her neck before she waded back into the water, moving to stand before him. She gently took his hands and began to cup water onto them, cleaning them with her own hands in soft gentle strokes- You can look now mon.. The body is nothing to be ashamed of.- She chuckled softly- Forgive me if I offended you - She cupped more water onto his hands intent on cleaning them for him- What did you need to be sure of ?
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 8:58:06 PM)
When she had dressed his gaze did sweep over to her, momentarily admiring her in the moonlight. She was a stunning figure to behold....she would be truly radiant when she realized her true potential. A warm smile played on his lips and sparkled in his deep brown eyes as she began to wash his hands. His left bore a deep scar across the palm, as if a blade had bit down to the bone, and the other bore light scars from a fire from fingertip to elbow. "I needed to be sure that you could trust me. That you could trust the wisdom of my mentor. And that your heart was where it needed to be", he confided softly as he let her work, yet watched her eyes.
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 9:00:41 PM)
- She contined tog gaze at him as her hands continued to gently clean his hands, her finger lightly traced the bone deep scar- And Mon ? - she smiled softly - What is the verdict
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 9:03:09 PM)
His hands closed around her own, stilling their movement, squeezing them gently. "I....", while still on the other side of the gauntlet, she would see the massive crow spirit land upon the umbral reflection of his shoulder. "We...", he corrected, "Would like it if you would let me help you. You have yet to touch the surface of your potential and the Dream needs such beautiful voices to sing it's song."
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 9:08:40 PM)
- She watched him for a moment searching his eyes- So you are offering to mentor me - It wasnt really a question more of a statement, She had deduced that she was led her for just such a purpose since Mama Ozella told her that she did not finish her work here before she passed. She opened that hand once more and pressed the palm to her cheek, an intimate a gesture as she ever given as she nodded- I would be honored Mon..
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 9:11:27 PM)
His smile broadened across his lips, but no where near as much as it brightened in his eyes. He nodded happily and even the large Crow seemed to give a satisfactory nod before flying off once again. "The honor will be mine", he said in all honesty. He reached up, resting his hand over her own at his cheek for a momenf before he slowly stood up out of arm's reach. "For now though, you should go get some sleep. I've disturbed your rest enough tonight, I think. Don't let me keep you longer. You're gonna need it, after all....", he gave her a small wink to punctuate his teasing tone.
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 9:16:02 PM)
I am from the island Mon, I can take anything you throw at me - she grinned turning to untie her sarong, tossing it to the bank submerging herself once again up to her neck- besides I am not sleepy now.. but you go get your rest old mon .. - She glanced over her shoulder, her back facing her with a playful smirk-
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 9:19:33 PM)
This time he didn't look away as she turned, disrobed, and moved back into the water. A small apreciative smile would be lingering on his lips when she glanced back at him, a fact he seemed to know no shame for. He could only chuckle in response to her jibe, though, shaking his head. "I'm not that old...and I rarely sleep these days. I only do so to commune with the most abstract realms of the dreaming. As for you. You may not be sleepy now, but you will be tomorow morning when I wake you up to chop wood and you've only had a few hours sleep. Now, go on."
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 9:25:30 PM)
- Tejah chuckled- One day I will tell you of my life..Chopping wood was the least of my worries..- She did turn and waded from the stream moving over to her sarong tying it around her body once more in full view, while she had no shame about her nude form, it was very innocent and not intended to entice at all, she simply preffered little to no clothing when she was out in nature- Do not get comfortable Mon, my place will be ready tomorrow - she smirked over at him as she adjusted the fabric, heading towards campsite, gathering her dreds ove rher shoulder to squeeze out the water as she went-
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 9:28:04 PM)
He laughed quietly to himself as he watched her go. He was no stranger to nudity. All things considered, he was rather jaded most of the time. But she was striking and his gaze could not help the occasional glance that lingered just a few moments longer than they should have. "Good night, Tejah", he called out after her, still standing atop the large creek stones. "Sweet dreams."
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 9:32:17 PM)
You would know Mon - she threw ove rher shoulder just before she moved into the campsite, before she reachedher tent, she removed the sarong and drapped it over the tent to dry before crawling into the tent . Once there, she laid there inside the tent until she rooted through her bag taking out a small battery powered light and a book, turning onto her stomach to read. After a while she dropped off to sleep-
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 9:32:47 PM)
( Thanks for the RP. ^_^ )
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 9:33:01 PM)
[ thank you!]
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 9:33:23 PM)
( Hope it wasn't too bad. Been a while since I did a big scene like that. ^_^ )
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 9:34:03 PM)
[ not at all it was fun! didnt want it to end LOL]
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 9:35:03 PM)
( hehe, thanks. ^_^ )
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 9:35:53 PM)
( I'm gonna step away for a few, get some food and such. You can assume the next morning Crow let you know that other magi frequent LaLaurie's and the RnR in case you get an offer to RP before we get IC again. ^_^ )
Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 9:36:08 PM)
[ okay]
Ashishishe Heyoka (Jul 20, 2011 9:36:14 PM)
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Tejah D'Aquin (Jul 20, 2011 9:36:18 PM)
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