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Post by Dionisia on Nov 8, 2022 9:20:28 GMT
Dio falls asleep after she had stilled her mind of worries.
There was no need for staying awake she needs sleep to recover as well.
Short after closing her eyes she drifts of to a dream. A familiar space. A bit deeper in a forest near a body of water she sees familiar birds. White and majestic.
Dio stands a while only then daring to look at herself in the reflection of the water.
She sees her familiar self.
In a white flowy dress her white hair loose her eyes both ice blue.
She humms soft. Not to startle the birds. In the craziness of it all she is happy her dreams are calm.
She speaks in a soft whisper.
"Thank you, Pania for showing me."
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Post by Maeve on Nov 8, 2022 10:51:09 GMT
Sleeping in Ambers castle, sliping into dreams, Maeve hears a name she had not heard since her childhood. A name calling her to a place far away.
Amazed Maeve looks at the young woman standing before her, searching for the memory of a dream, dreamed long ago and then whispers one word. "Dio?"
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Post by Dionisia on Nov 8, 2022 10:59:00 GMT
Turning around Dio looks at the woman before her.
Her face then quickly changes in a smile.
"Pania? Oh how you've grown! "
She steps closer and looks partially over her shoulder.
"This has left a mark in my memories and dreams. I needed a place of beauty and tranquility. Thank you again for sharing this with me."
Looking back she nods
"How have you been?"
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Post by Maeve on Nov 8, 2022 16:22:25 GMT
"Pania, I have no been called by that name for a very long time."Maeve smiles at Dio. "Yes Time has passed for me. A lot of time." She continues to take in Dio's presence. "I always wondered if my dream was more then a dream and you beeing someone real. But now I have the means to find you one day. If you want to be found."
"This place, I remember I showed you. I should have come here more often." She looks sad for a moment. "I'm glad that you can enjoy it." "I have grown up, I think I miss the child I have been, but it is hard to be that child inside my family. I hope you have found a way out of the convent, you seemed not to be happy there.""And I have learned something." There it is, the grin of the child Dio remembers. With a pirouette Maeve turns into a white heron. (A big white heron  ) The bird make some further dancing steps and turns back into the young woman.
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Post by Dionisia on Nov 8, 2022 16:50:54 GMT
Dio listens with great interest she nods
"Indeed i am a real person, as real as can be one would say.
And i remember you called me a spirit or something.
That was amusing. "
Seeing Pania turn and shift she claps her hands with enthusiasm.
"That is fantastic! Well done! "
She looks at her own hands remembering they do not look like that in reality now.
The dream.image of Dio does flicker and shimmer for a moment into the monstrosity she had been turned into.
It only lasts a moment.
"This is a beautiful place and i did visit it often in my dreams. Though often i dreamed other's dreams.
And yes i did escape the convent. Under the wrong ideas. And they are ready to hunt me down to get me back."
She smiles at Pania.
"Enjoy every moment which is yours.
Even in this dream i can feel Chaos coming."
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Post by Maeve on Nov 8, 2022 19:28:10 GMT
Seeing shortly the inconvienant form Dio has, Maeve sighs sympathetically.
"Do no think of what is coming even if it is Chaos. Be yourself."
"Sit down." Maeves sits down in a cross legged meditation position and waits until Dio has sit down too.
"My father told me when he trained me to shift form, that mind and body are like two tones forming dual resonance. To tune the shape is to tunes the mind and to tune the mind is to tune the shape."
"Close you eyes, Dio."
With a soft voice Maeve starts a short mediation.
"I am."
"What I was, I am."
"What I am, I am."
"What I will be, I am."
"I am past. I am now. I am future."
"What is lost I am. What is present I am. What is found I am."
"I am evershifting."
"I am everadapting."
"Where there is fire, I am fire. Where there is water, I am water. Where there is air, I am air. Where there is earth I'm earth. Where there is Chaos I am Chaos."
"I am."
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Post by Dionisia on Nov 8, 2022 19:44:03 GMT
Dio follows Maeve's instructions. She sits down crosses her legs and chuckles soft remembering her lessons in shapeshifting.
She repeats Maeve's words soft.
Small chance her physical body will change with this meditation, but she is certai ly right to first get the mind in tune again as well.
Dio visibly relaxes. Her breathing calms.
When the meditation is done she stays silent for a moment longer. Appreciating the sense of calm, serenity and beauty.
When opening her eyes she smiles
"Thank you, sometimes i tend to forget that i need to calm down for myself as well.
My body is currently recovering.
I had fallen into a trap while searching for... someone important. I found parts of him.
But the people there hurt me and changed my body. Pulled it apart.
Currently i am recovering with someone who seems to be of the same lineage as.. the one i was searching for."
She sighs not wanting to just spill all the beans right away
"I know i'm vague, it is a messy situation and it does make me long back to the days in Chaos. Mostly when i was instructed by Lord Suhuy. So i wasn't in the convent."
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Post by Maeve on Nov 8, 2022 20:41:41 GMT
"That sounds bad. Shaodws hold many dangers. And parts of someone sound even worse."
"You are from Chaos, Dio? I should have guessed so, many shapeshifter are. I met Lord Suhuy the keeper of the Logrus." Maeve says.
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Post by Dionisia on Nov 8, 2022 20:46:04 GMT
Dio nods
"Hmm yes it was his liver. But still alive. Though i do not know if he still is.
When i got rescued from that place i was not able to interact with anyone or anything. "
She smiles
"Ah yes i am. At leasr the convent i grew up in, is in Chaos.
But i dare to assume i from Chaos as well."
She looks curiously to Maeve.
"So you know of Chaos, of lord Suhuy... do you also know what is on the other side of the scale?"
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Post by Maeve on Nov 9, 2022 6:13:04 GMT
Maeve thinks fo a moment.
"The people that raised my called me Pania. The name my mother gave me is Maeve. And that is how I am known at both sides of reality. Lady Maeve of House Helgram of the Courts of Chaos and Lady Maeve of the Royal House of Amber and of the Royal House of Rebma."
" I know Amber."
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Post by Dionisia on Nov 9, 2022 6:24:58 GMT
Dio looks surprised. Then understanding, a smile forms on her face and she politely inclines her head.
"A pleasure to meet you Lady Maeve.
I have recently visited Rebma with Lady Lorelei. She was so kind to me. I lost the things she gave me though."
Dio looks down to think for a moment.
"Ah i am with someone now of the Amber side of the family, or so i suspect.
There were earlier three men here. One I know as Brian. And they called the lady who reassembled me Aunt Sand. So i guess she is family of you as well.
Seems i am running into a lot of the Amber side of things. And finding parts of them"
The last she says in a bit of a sad tone
Dio then waves her hand dismissive.
"Anyway how are you doing? How has life been to you?"
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Post by Maeve on Nov 9, 2022 7:11:30 GMT
"Please just Maeve or Pania."
"You met my cousin Lorelei. One of her mirrors." Maeve mentions.
"Princess Sand, The lost one. I never met her, my elders seldom speak of her at all. Brian is an interesting person."
"Indeed you run into a lot of my relatives, but then they are a restless bunch moving through shadow."
"Lost part of one of my relatives, do you know of whom?"
"For myself, I was doing what many of my generation of the Blood of Amber are doing, wandering through sahdow and for my part admiring and learning. I'm definitly one of the more restless of my family and I like to learn new things. My lif is both complicated and simple. Complicate by beeing someone wiht power over shadow and a lot of relatives and simple when I can do what I what to do."
"Tell me more about you Dio, the convent you was inand the how live was and is for you?"
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Post by Dionisia on Nov 9, 2022 7:28:11 GMT
Dio nods.
"Then Maeve it is. Though Pania is a lovely name as well.
Hm i did not know Princess Sand was lost. The three men among who Brian recently left.
Sand had put me quite literally back together. "
She looks a moment to Maeve studying her she then nods
"I'll answer as best as i can.
Well as you know i am Dio which is short for Dionisia.
I have been broight up in a convent by the sisters there. I had worked my way through the days and often nights. I was kept busy.
I spend a while under the tutelage of Lord Suhuy, Shapeshifting preparing me to assay the Logrus.
I had hoped after that my parents would come and get me. But that was not the case been brought back to the convent.
I started to feel the story that one day my parents would come collect me was a ruse.
I was worked even harder, less sleep, less food. I understand why. They had to keep me weak enough not to escape or even consider it.
The convent was in veneration of cruel Prince Julian.
So when i was out and alone i felt an urge to go find him. I had heard many elders were lost or gone.
It took some working, alot of power and alot of pain enduring but i found him.. i thought. It was his liver though still alive.
Then i got captured myself. Pulled apart changed by the same who had Prince Julian.
It is Dalt who savrd me and brought me to the doorsteps of Princess Sand."
She thinks then smiles
"And that is where we are now."
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Post by Maeve on Nov 9, 2022 14:03:52 GMT
"That is a lot. And some of it is strange. To say that the Church of the Serpent discourages the veneration of other cults is a hugh understatement."
"To find out what the truth is and what a lie, there is no other way then to return to the Courts. What also means getting near the convent again." Maeve ponders.
"Do you remeber in which shadow were captured and found Julian's liver?"
"Well your live was definitly quite exciting recently."
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Post by Dionisia on Nov 9, 2022 16:40:24 GMT
Dio nods,
"Ah yes, well about the politics and the religions within the courts of Chaos i am not as schooled. I lived as you might have guessed really secluded and in a very controlled situation."
She smiles
"Hm i have been concidering it, to return to the Courts. Lady Lorelei even suggested contacting others within the courts, perhaps King Merlin. Though what that effect would have no clue. "
"As for the shadow where i had found the part of Julian and the ones who had pulled him apart, yes, i might be able to even find it again. THough i probably don't have to worry to much if i want to return they are preparing forces to get me back. Something i sensed when i was only a conciousness. "
Dio laughs "Oh yes it has been very very eventful. And i am not sad about it. well somewhere i do regret things, but on the other hand i am very happy that i've met so many new people and experienced things. Especially if one of the forces hunting for me will get their hands on me."
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) The bird make some further dancing steps and turns back into the young woman.