Navigation - Hallucination Caves

Pyralis felt odd… she could've sworn she'd taken this turn already but then again maybe she hadn't.  Either way she turned to Skia with a grin on her face as she kneaded the earth.  "Does this grass feel strange to you?  It feels strange to me."  Her little trip 'home' ended up taking one detour after another until she found herself clean on the southwest corner of Auster in some strange cave system with strange grass. Pyralis "Yes Skia, did you need something?  Your voice sounds really low."  She turned to stare intently at her cousin until the voice spoke again and she stared in confusion at the woman's lips.  How was she talking when her mouth wasn't moving. When are you going to stop running away you dam coward?" "Talk" "You" Think

She had followed her cousin, though they got separated in the process and somehow met up here together. She dutifully followed Pyralis though. That was how she ended up lost in a cave system, with her best friend that also happened to be her cousin. She hadn't yet told our about torturing some poor mortal boy with her scent but probably would eventually. One turn after the next everything looked the same except wait a minute. Her eyes settled on Pyr. Her lips were moving but Skia just lowered to the ground, her eyes focused on the other woman's crown. She blinked and stared more. The words pry said were kind of muddled, but Skia found her focus on the thing sitting on Pyr. Completely. Totally. Focused.

She rolled to her side and gave a laugh which turned into a chorus of laughter. This was awesome. Not only was Pyr now a perch for that stupid potoo bird, but she seemed to not even realize it. She'd seen it circling them in the cave moments ago but now Pyr decided it made a perfect hat. Skia reached out to bop her cousin on the nose gently from where she layed on her back before she commented. "You making a fashion statement there cous? Cuz I'm totally digging it." and with that she had calmed down for a second only to burst into laughter again at the sight before her.

Pyralis wrinkled her brow at the voice as she realized, slowly, that it didn't belong to Skia and that it was calling her a coward.  Coward?  She wasn't running from anything!  Who the hell did this voice thing it was?  Pyralis tried to form words but her lips just weren't working.  She watched and giggled in amusement as Skia rolled to her side in the grass and laughed asking her if she was making a fashion statement.  Pyralis didn't have a clue what the other woman was talking about so she struck a pose.  She stood proudly, tail up and chest out with her head thrown back. "I am always a statement!" "A statement of what?  A little goddess in a mortal shell?" "Skia, did you hear that?  I think there's someone else here.  Show yourself!  You're the one who's a coward!"  She was going to maul whatever idiot was making these absurd assessments.  It was then she saw a pair of glowing yellow eyes peering at her from deep in the cave. "Talk" "You" Think

Her eyes blinked slowly, still focussed on the potoo bird atop Pyralis' head. She was so dissed on it that when it cried out in shock at Pyr throwing her head back she bowled over. Her fit of laughter was loud and caused quite the echoes. The face of the bird it was just priceless. Pyr was definitely a fashion statement. She lay on her side in the grass with an eye on her cousin. "only thing I hear is you and your ridiculous pet.... she'd calmed down enough to speak only to start laughing again at the sight before her. "I did....n't...... know....... we....... we....'re kee....ping..... pets......" she did her best to communicate between laughs though it ended up sounding like a broken sentence. She closed her eyes and focused on breathing for a minute. She was intent on calming herself down. She was starting to sound like a hyena with all the laughter. But as she calmed down from her laughter she heard it. Laughter that wasn't her own. Her ears pressed back. She was being mocked.

She gave a growl. "Stop laughing and show yourself so I can make your innards your outards!" she looked about wildly as she looked for the perpetrator. "Awe..... does the wittle goddess think she can do that all alone? I'd bet she needs her daddies help to accomplish anything." she snarled then. Someone was down here with them and she was going to find out who. She jumped up. Whoever this was they were no match for two royally pissed off goddesses. "Oh? So she's a goddess? Looks more like two half mortals to me.... wait that's right your mother's were mortal and your father's frauds..... isn't that right Skia?" she glared into the darkness and snarled. "Shut up! I am a goddess! Pyralis is too! We are no half mortals! Now I command you to show yourself!" she was irked.

Skia was muttering something about pets and Pyralis made a failing effort to stare at the top of her own head, loosing her balance and falling into the grass as she did so. What the bloody heck was going on? She quickly recovered her self and stood transfixed as she gazed at the almond-shaped yellow eyes. Skia growled and threatened the creature and Pyralis joined in. There were going to make this insolent fool pay! "Coward? I am not the coward little wolf. I do not smash the lowly and climb upon their corpses then declare myself taller than I am." "Oh, that is it! Come on Skia, we've an example to make of this wretch!" Pyralis charged forward, the yellow eyes seemed to grow bigger and then just as she leapt forward her jaws closed on empty air and the eyes were gone with only the echoes of laughter humming around the cave walls. "What the hell is this…. dark magic? Skia, I think we've stumbled into the lair of some malevolent spirit." "Talk" "You" Think

ooc: sorry I really want to wrap up my spree threads. If you want to do a new one between Skia and Pyr later we can.

I'd rather be dead than live a lie
BURN THE WHITE FLAG!

Natha listened with amusement to the shouting from inside the cave but she was wary of setting foot inside it herself.  She lingered just in the entrance, peering inside.  She'd heard rumors of strange things happening inside the cave, spirits that would drive souls to madness if any living creature dared to set foot inside.  Clearly she was witnessing, or rather hearing, proof of these rumors.  Natha's eyes narrowed.  No, no, no, it would not do to lose her quarry to madness, not until she had her answers though she didn't care to face down two massive wolves either and so she called into the cave. "Do you intend to spend all your time chasing ghosts in the darkness or will you step into the light?  I've been dancing ahead of you and yet you still fail to catch me."  At the giant's response she turned and slipped away.  What could she say?  This game of cat and mouse was fun even if she knew she'd be caught eventually.

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Pyralis turned her head sharply back the way she came at the sound of another voice.  Unlike the others it was crisp and clear like a bell ringing on a clear winter day.  It was nothing like the hissing muddled voices that pawed at her psyche.  She turned back toward the entrance, ignoring the crass calls that echoed in her own mind and she growled.  "That miserable feline!  Why is she haunting me?  I'll have your hide wretched beast!"  Pyralis raced for the entrance of the cave, sprinting out into sunlight as she sought to catch her quarry. -exit- "Talk" "You" Think