trying to find the right switch
kitsune
03-21-2022, 12:05 AM
A delicate girl before her, dainty, lithe. She wasn't unlike Asteria in that way, though she has her youth and her beauty to rest on. Asteria could be the vision of this princess many, many years in the future, though the star-soaked creature has seen adventures wide beyond her years. Is that what she gets for not having a home? She gets adventure. She gets to live every moment, every day to the fullest. She gets to see, she gets to do she gets to thrive. Was Asteria thriving? Despite her nearly-advanced age, she was in decent health. The yearling before her is a strange reflection, though, of the youth that had slipped away in her travels, in her exploration. And in all her travels, she was still treated to new sights. New strangers. New everything. This place, this Ashen Empire (or what she'd seen of it so far) was so... strange. The unsettling trees were something else. Within their shadows, what secrets did they hold? Far behind the princess, where the long-coming dusk had started to cast its shadow, there was a faint purple glow that seemed to paint and color the distance. No, she wouldn't stare or pry, but it was strange. All of it is strange. That's okay, Asteria is strange too. Who's Fiori? the question came. Asteria faltered, but recovered as quickly as she could. Not a member of the Empire, no, what she sought wasn't someone but something. "Fiori is a pack, my mother said that they were in the Mangrove and the Falls to the east but I don't know how far to the north or south," she explained after a moment. A woman her age, speaking of her mother... the information was old. They could have moved, she hadn't considered that. "I wanted to talk to Lionel Adravendi, if he's still..." she trailed off, offering a hopeful albeit uncomfortable smile. Her mother had been quite old the last time Asteria had laid eyes on her, and if Lionel was the same age... well, still, she could hope. |