Veteran’s Plateau Altar

*Incubus*

After a long, thoughtful, walk through the plateau Incubus was back at an alter. This one was different then the one in the Soulless Forest. The stone Wolf towered over them all, almost reminding each and everyone of them of their own pitiful mortality. Pink and blue eyes looked up at the Stone statue and took in that glistening crimson. Incubus wondered if the statues were just how the familiar's higher power connected to the mortal realm. With this thought a small twitch of his lips could be seen, a little shock. Before the unusual autumn Incubus had never even considered a higher power.

A Knight's helm was held in the male's mouth as he moved closer to the statue. His offering was something he found while walking through the Plateau thinking of his life and the circle of life as a whole. The walk meant more to him then anyone will know. Inc had a quick but impactful emotional moment when he had found the helmet. After having dug it up from its resting spot the male reflected on the creature who may have worn such a thing, it was definitely not a Wolf. He thought of where their kind was now and where Wolves would be generations on. This led him to thoughts of his family and how fleeting time was. A pang of sorrow filled him again as his mother flashed through his mind. With that moment of sorrow Incubus placed the helmet down on the stone slab. The metal was loud against it but he paid no mind. Inc straightened it up and stared at it for a long moment before turning around. Would the familiars know the depth of the meaning behind his offering? Or had they paid no mind to his walk. Inc let the worry wash away as he slipped to the back of the gathering to watch others make their offering in solemn silence.

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There is a slight clang as the helmet is placed upon the altar, it echoes eerily over the plateau, and then it doesn’t stop, it echoes long after it should have faded, in fact, it sounds like it’s coming back towards you.

But it’s the clarion of a bell, you find yourself in the dark, the bell’s rhythmic sound all around you and then you see figures starting to materialize around you, it’s hard to make out the details but slowly, ever so slowly, you start to put names to faces, names you’ve never heard for faces you’ve never seen. It is aunts and uncles and grandparents you’ve never met before. They are silent, they are still, they all look at you, but you do not feel it is threatening, instead, all you can feel is their pride, their joy, and as more and more figures fill up the space you can’t help but marvel at the fullness of the lineage before you.

Then there is a face you’ve seen before. Closer to you than the others but still unmoving, you’re not even sure if the figures are really there or simply a vision of some sort but before you is your father. You feel worry clutch at your heart and you glance around, searching, searching, searching… Your mother eludes you, but you do not feel she is missing, you feel she is not here yet… As you slowly turn your gaze back towards where your father stands you feel there is a space reserved there for your mother but it remains empty, she never materializes.

Something else does, behind the rows of lupine figures are figures even harder to see, they stand taller than the wolves, still and silent just as the family around you, they each have a pair of glowing red eyes fixed on you, set high in those strange round heads that seem to remind you of the helmet you’d offered only moments before-

You snap back to reality, the names and faces you could never have a reason to know flee your mind and will not be summoned back no matter how you try, but the feeling of realizing your mother was not there yet… That stays. The tabby steps forward, but its eyes are not on you, but rather it is looking at the helmet you’ve offered. “Time always moves forward, empires always eventually fall. You’ll not be judged if you cannot stop time, and you cannot.” It glances at you for a moment then gives you a nod and you realize you’ve been wearing a cord with a pouch around your neck this whole time, you swallow hard and take one step, two steps, three steps… Back out into a world that still makes no sense.

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A Boosted companion pass

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