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Post by Katerina on Oct 12, 2022 19:03:11 GMT
Kat notices that the demon in the form of the girl has forgotten about the disappearing catepillar and has gone back to staring at the pool. The black cat makes a funny noise in her throat and goes to look at what she's looking at in the pool, careful not to get too close to the edge. After all water was dangerous.
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 12, 2022 19:06:45 GMT
Dio smiles at Kat and washes her hands in the waters. The ripples intensifying.
She then points to an image starting to appear. Kat can see it herself as well. A young white haired girl. very much the girl that is kneeling at the edge of the water next to Kat. Working her hands bloody on scrubbing floors and walls with some kind of strange ichor.
Dio points to herself. "that is my waking world"
As she says that she hears a bell tolling several times. It is loud and piercing. Dio covers her ears and huddles up as s mall as she can. The girl in the watery image looks scared up and starts to scrub faster.
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Post by Katerina on Oct 12, 2022 19:15:03 GMT
So she has a hard life. Does the demon want me to feel sympathy for her?
Kat jabs a paw at the water and the image of Dio fades and is replaced by an image of Kat making a mirror for a hard taskmaster, that has a reflection of Kat looking in the water looking at the Kat making a mirror ad infinitum.
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 12, 2022 19:22:49 GMT
Relieved the tolling bells are fading as well she looks up and crouches down near the water looking down on the image. she nods to Kat. Seeing young Kat making her mirror. she smiles.
"So you are a shifter after all. Working hard. " she looks at Kat-cat
"You are a pretty young woman."
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Post by Katerina on Oct 12, 2022 21:22:54 GMT
Kat doesn't get told that she is pretty very often, if at all. She's always been the odd one out at Court in Eshanta and there are those who are pleased to use her skin colour against her. Cuckoo, mogrel and nomad were all names they used to taunt her about the fact that she wasn't really from there.
"Pfssst." She replies, blowing off the compliment.
The waters blurr and starts to swirl. Kat immediately jumps back from it as it starts to move. The vision slowly settles and shows a set of footsteps going through a sandy scrubland, though nothing appears to be making the footsteps.
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 13, 2022 8:06:33 GMT
Dio chuckles soft hearing Kat her sound she makes.
"Noone can truly judge the beauty in a person as they cannot see what lives inside. Beauty lives in and out and the greatest beauty is being who you are meant to be in peace and serenity."
She speaks soft but keeps her eyes on the image in the water.
"Curious. Very curious. Do you know what this means?"
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Post by Katerina on Oct 13, 2022 8:37:53 GMT
"Mrrrow, meow, mew, meow, meow, mroow." The little black Kat shrugs her shoulders. The footsteps continue for a while and then stop at a white dome shaped dwelling with a cloth flap over the doorway.
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 13, 2022 18:38:27 GMT
Dio curiously looks on wondering what they'll see next.
She leans a bit forward to watch closer to the image as if then she can see what is inside the tent.
Waiting for the person opening the tent steps inside.
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Post by Katerina on Oct 13, 2022 19:45:18 GMT
The little Black cat keeps her distance
The flap opens up almost all by itself and the a wind blows out from the dwelling, making the grasses bow backwards. They hear a manarchical laugh from within and then all of a sudden the dwelling bursts open, sending splinters all over the place and the dust obscuring what was behind there for a while.
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 13, 2022 19:56:41 GMT
Dio stares intensely into the water. When the laughter happens and the sudden explosion of splinters Dio loses her hold on the edge of the water and tumbles in.
Making bigger ripples and waves in the water. The image disturbed.
She stays away for what might seem a long time.
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Post by Katerina on Oct 13, 2022 21:11:25 GMT
The black cat looks panicked as the young Demon girl falls in. She seems like she wants to help, but she is afraid of the water and a little way back from the edge yowls to try and locate the girl within the murky depths of the pool.
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 14, 2022 9:24:45 GMT
Hearing a yowl somewhere Dio tries to swim her way up. But she is being held down.
Struggling kicking and pulling with her limbs she tries to fight free.
Kat could see now and then a hand partial face or feet break the surface before being pulled under again by black smokey though solid tendrils.
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Post by Katerina on Oct 14, 2022 14:09:09 GMT
Kat is concerned for the young demon's safety, but she's also petrified of the water. She's always been told to stay back from the dangerous water in Eshanta and it scares her more than anything. But she can't just let someone else die to its horrors. She is pulled in two directions and she is frozen with indecision.
We must rescue our friend! One part of her says.
She's a demon. She's not our friend and she deserves to drown. The other more ruthless side of her replies.
No one deserves to drown. Its horrible. She answers in her mind.
It's just another way to get rid of your enemies. Her ruthless side replies.
She's not shown she's an enemy. Her moral side determines and she shifts in a blink of an eye into a larger black panther and leaps it the water to rescue the young girl.
The problem is she can't swim and she flails helplessly at the water as she starts to head down.
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Post by Dionisia on Oct 14, 2022 19:06:51 GMT
Dio is struggling to keep her head up though it seems she is starting to grow gills. The dark malicious looking tendrils are still grabbing her pulling down.
Seeing Kat jump in as a big black panther Dio looks shocked clearly Kat is struggling herself.
When Kat keeps paddling her paws in the water Dio sees the tendrils trying to latvh onto Kat.
Good chance Kat sees this as well
She is not fast enough and Kat is starting to get pulled down.
With a furious movement Dio fights herself free. Grabs the tendrils around Kat's big paws her hands seem to shift, boil, change. She looks at Kat.
Pushes her mouth on her big snoot and breathes some air. She then utters the strange underwater sounding words.
"Wake up! Wake up now." With that Dio stops fighting the tendrils.
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Post by Katerina on Oct 14, 2022 20:39:19 GMT
Kat is indeed struggling and getting drawn down into the water. She was right to fear it and she gets caught by the tendrils.
A Chaos trick no doubt, her inner voice says to herself. However she is further surprised by the demon posing as a little girl tries to give her some of her breath. Whatever the girl says is lost in a stream of bubbles and Kat hears the words "Wake up! Wake up now!" as she is buffeted in the water.
The buffetting gets more and more intense and Kat finally opens her eyes to see Mistress Mirrormancer Janessa shaking her awake.
"You are sleeping when you should be working. I will see that the Queen hears about your lack of dedication to the arts!" Janessa tells her. Kat knows that she will be in trouble, but she is more than relieved that she hasn't really drowned after all. It was just a rather strange and bizzare dream.
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