Magic is Harder Than It Looks
Aug 27, 2014 23:23:31 GMT
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Post by Lone Bateleur on Aug 27, 2014 23:23:31 GMT
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Lone stood at the edge of the Borderland Forest. If she were to turn around, she would be able to see the many clusters of buildings that made up Lodan, low lying clouds blurring their shadowy figures. However, she was turned to the trees and the shadows the canopy made on the dusty ground.
She stared at the dirt below her. She wanted to learn how to use magic. She knew she could somehow... She saw the winged people, the people like her, use it sometimes. But only sometimes. This is why she was here.
Granted, she hadn't been to the forest before very often at all. She had been too afraid. But now that she was here, she had relaxed a little. It was calm, and she could hear the soft chirping of crickets in the brush. There were also no people here. People are much scarier than anything that could be out here... All of them, she had decided, were more monstrous than any creature.
She pushed that thought out of her mind, and tentatively put out her hand, holding her palm out to the ground. Her small fingers shivered. She stared with her large, pale yellow eyes at the dirt below, hoping with all her soul that something would move. She had done it once before by accident. The day before, actually.
She had been scavenging through the alleyways in the peasants hovel, looking for little treasures such as bottle caps or buttons, when something broke out one street over, and the noise had startled her. She trust out her hand in a sort of protective motion, and a little bit of dirt flew into the air.
So here she was, staring at the ground in the forest that refused to move. It stood still, no matter how hard she concentrated, and she started to think that maybe she wasn't able to do it after all. She placed her hand back underneath her long hair and blushed, embarrassed that she ever thought she could do such a thing. She turned around, deciding to head back, but part of her wanted to stay, and she slowly turned her head, looking behind her with that same blank expression of hers....
Lone stood at the edge of the Borderland Forest. If she were to turn around, she would be able to see the many clusters of buildings that made up Lodan, low lying clouds blurring their shadowy figures. However, she was turned to the trees and the shadows the canopy made on the dusty ground.
She stared at the dirt below her. She wanted to learn how to use magic. She knew she could somehow... She saw the winged people, the people like her, use it sometimes. But only sometimes. This is why she was here.
Granted, she hadn't been to the forest before very often at all. She had been too afraid. But now that she was here, she had relaxed a little. It was calm, and she could hear the soft chirping of crickets in the brush. There were also no people here. People are much scarier than anything that could be out here... All of them, she had decided, were more monstrous than any creature.
She pushed that thought out of her mind, and tentatively put out her hand, holding her palm out to the ground. Her small fingers shivered. She stared with her large, pale yellow eyes at the dirt below, hoping with all her soul that something would move. She had done it once before by accident. The day before, actually.
She had been scavenging through the alleyways in the peasants hovel, looking for little treasures such as bottle caps or buttons, when something broke out one street over, and the noise had startled her. She trust out her hand in a sort of protective motion, and a little bit of dirt flew into the air.
So here she was, staring at the ground in the forest that refused to move. It stood still, no matter how hard she concentrated, and she started to think that maybe she wasn't able to do it after all. She placed her hand back underneath her long hair and blushed, embarrassed that she ever thought she could do such a thing. She turned around, deciding to head back, but part of her wanted to stay, and she slowly turned her head, looking behind her with that same blank expression of hers....