The pointy-eared woman sat quietly with her arms wrapped around her knees on the rock looking out over the scene down below. It was a bright and sunny day with the birds chirping high up in the trees, but to her it was if an aura of ghost-grey was surrounding her, a mist that just didn't seem to rise.
In spite of the wildlife all about her, she felt lifeless and motherless. It was a state of depression that she couldn't see herself through unless she left this small valley. Even then she knew nothing would ever be the same, and she would always be aware of that giant hole in her heart. Her fine and beautiful facial elven features would be for always defined by the emotional and physical terror she had experienced now almost a century ago.
The wind on the plateau gently ruffled her fine silky hair and down below the breeze stirred the trees budded with leaf and blosom. The crystal clear surface of the lake reflected the thin streamy clouds of a creamy beige in an azure sky flawlessly, and it was lined by seemingly neverending blossom trees. But the elf was blind to it all.
She was gazing at natural corridors that once thronged with life, open spots where once children played amongst the adults with their own invented games and laughter. Thick wooden beams, blackened and charred, poked out like skeletons from under the vegetation. A great part of what had been her world was now lying ruined at her feet, a world that has stood for more than just a few centuries. She would never ever go down there again let alone touch those trees or the water, or even breath the local air as if it was some deathly vapour.
Gracefully the quiet elf who had lived in the forest for all her life got up. She wiped light brown wisps of hair criss-crossing her face aside and turned away from the scene, her backpack slung over her shoulder, an exquisite elven longbow in her right hand.
Elvedui's Forced Migration
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*elvedui
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Age : 205 (from elf p.o.v. between 150 and 300, from a human like in her really early twenties)
Race : elf (mix)
Hair : silky, a soft brown like the shell of a chestnut and hanging a bit as listless as her face can be at times
Eyes : the color of clay kissed by rain
Skin : lightly tanned
More on her appearance : willowy yet rather petite. Kinda out of the ordinary when she walks and something radiating from within that renders her irresistible to probably both genders. That is if she would choose for such a display as Elvedui is usually dressed unobtrusively and comes across as shy. She doesn't seem to make contact that easily herself, although she's not introvert as she gradually seems to adapt to her new surroundings.
Elvedui's picture : http://i66.tinypic.com/13zbwc4.jpg
Race : elf (mix)
Hair : silky, a soft brown like the shell of a chestnut and hanging a bit as listless as her face can be at times
Eyes : the color of clay kissed by rain
Skin : lightly tanned
More on her appearance : willowy yet rather petite. Kinda out of the ordinary when she walks and something radiating from within that renders her irresistible to probably both genders. That is if she would choose for such a display as Elvedui is usually dressed unobtrusively and comes across as shy. She doesn't seem to make contact that easily herself, although she's not introvert as she gradually seems to adapt to her new surroundings.
Elvedui's picture : http://i66.tinypic.com/13zbwc4.jpg
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*elvedui
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"Zzo... Thiz vill tzake me tzo ze completely divverent plaze?" The elf asked as she looked at the hovering portal dubiously. "And ze can vurzt go exzplore it bevore ze make up my mind."
The bald man standing in front of her ran his gloved hand over his shiny skull briefly and nodded. "For the amount of gold you are paying I'm willing to stick around for a bit until you decide. Not too long though as I have things in my lab that require my attention. But may I ask again... Are you sure about all this? I mean I know what you all told me, but I'm sure there has to be other ways to deal with your... pain."
The elf's eyes grew dark as she turned to look at him. "Ze can veel ze energy... Zee vlazhez ov thzingz in my mind... And my dreamz...ze are..." The female elf shook her head.
The sorcerer winced slightly. "Elvedui... It would seem you are sensitive to spirits and other entities who may try to make contact with you. And with the physical world perhaps." The sorcerer glanced a moment about the surrounding forest at the foot of the hill they were standing on. "I don't know very much about it but the fact they also come into your dreams may indicate they are looking for ways to get past the barriers you unaware or aware have created. Wouldn't it be better if you talked to a spirit shaman? Perhaps I can help find you one... Especially with what you are paying me."
Elvedui put her hands over her pointed ears, her eyes turning liquid. "Ze cannot hear thzem anymore... It iz tzo much vor me tzo handle... Pleaze... Tzake me avay vrom thiz vorld."
"Alright then, Elvedui... But you better prepare for the sudden emptiness you may be about to experience. Compare it with sudden and complete loss of hearing. Only deeper." He sighed, murmuring under his breath as he raised his arms in the direction of the portal "Or maybe not, maybe I'm just guessing here..."
Then he turned and nodded once to her. "The portal to Sigil is open now. After you."
The bald man standing in front of her ran his gloved hand over his shiny skull briefly and nodded. "For the amount of gold you are paying I'm willing to stick around for a bit until you decide. Not too long though as I have things in my lab that require my attention. But may I ask again... Are you sure about all this? I mean I know what you all told me, but I'm sure there has to be other ways to deal with your... pain."
The elf's eyes grew dark as she turned to look at him. "Ze can veel ze energy... Zee vlazhez ov thzingz in my mind... And my dreamz...ze are..." The female elf shook her head.
The sorcerer winced slightly. "Elvedui... It would seem you are sensitive to spirits and other entities who may try to make contact with you. And with the physical world perhaps." The sorcerer glanced a moment about the surrounding forest at the foot of the hill they were standing on. "I don't know very much about it but the fact they also come into your dreams may indicate they are looking for ways to get past the barriers you unaware or aware have created. Wouldn't it be better if you talked to a spirit shaman? Perhaps I can help find you one... Especially with what you are paying me."
Elvedui put her hands over her pointed ears, her eyes turning liquid. "Ze cannot hear thzem anymore... It iz tzo much vor me tzo handle... Pleaze... Tzake me avay vrom thiz vorld."
"Alright then, Elvedui... But you better prepare for the sudden emptiness you may be about to experience. Compare it with sudden and complete loss of hearing. Only deeper." He sighed, murmuring under his breath as he raised his arms in the direction of the portal "Or maybe not, maybe I'm just guessing here..."
Then he turned and nodded once to her. "The portal to Sigil is open now. After you."
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*elvedui
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For a moment Elvedui thought she had been tricked by the sorcerer and was going to die. Cold winds buffeted around her body and flashes of light and other indescribable forms of energy struck her in the face. It was as if she just had been launched by a catapult towards hell when she stepped into that portal gate, and right now was being pulled by another force, a force comparable to but stranger than gravity. Heavy winds ripped at her clothes as she was drawn into a seemingly freezing blackness and she imagined shards of ice soaring past her bare skin. At the summit of all these strange and seemingly oxygen-deprived experiences there was suddenly a gleam in the darkness, a luminous vertical bar of light that gradually grew larger and reached out for her from that impenetrable blackness above to the cheerless depths below.
The next moment she drew in a deep imaginary breath when she instinctively plunged into the light like as if it were a pool of water. Two heartbeats later and due an overwhelming urge to gasp for air, a burning sensation rippled through her chest as a high concentration of oxygen filled her lungs, causing her eyes to tear up. Coughing heavily and sensing a hand patting her back, the elf realised she was on hands and knees.
“Do not inhale too deep yet,” she overheard the sorcerer say. “It will be alright…”
Elvedui opened her eyes and as she slowly got up to her feet she saw they were once again in a forest. Only here the trees were straight and amazingly tall. They were like pillars beneath a strangely orange colored sky, their bark reminding her of a pale catacomb. Golden and amber leaves carpetting the forest floor slowly crumbled before her eyes, only to disappear into the ash of ages. The physical evidence of other worlds, here in the shape of an alien-like forest was almost too overwhelming.
But what was overwhelming all the more was the sudden inner silence, a feeling that hit her like sickness. Only it did not struck her just physically, but also mentally, emotionally and spiritually. She wanted to cry out to the gods she had worshipped before, begging them to listen to her inner screams of emotional starvation, asking them to comfort her and return the ground below her feet and restore her orientation. She might just as well have jumped into an abyss as everything all around her appeared deaf and silent as a tomb, and she couldnÂ’t imagine a darker time in her life than thisÂ… even worse than the massacration she had witnessed so long ago.
She was really 'elvedui' nowÂ…
The sorcerer stood not far from her, tugging his beard and his eyes slightly concerned on the elf. “It’s not far anymore, I miscalculated or the void tricked me a bit, but either way, there’s a small portal nearby from where we will end up in the City of Doors.”
The elf held up her hand without facing the man. “Ze need a moment…”
He nodded. “Understandable.”
But whether he really could was yet to be seen.
The next moment she drew in a deep imaginary breath when she instinctively plunged into the light like as if it were a pool of water. Two heartbeats later and due an overwhelming urge to gasp for air, a burning sensation rippled through her chest as a high concentration of oxygen filled her lungs, causing her eyes to tear up. Coughing heavily and sensing a hand patting her back, the elf realised she was on hands and knees.
“Do not inhale too deep yet,” she overheard the sorcerer say. “It will be alright…”
Elvedui opened her eyes and as she slowly got up to her feet she saw they were once again in a forest. Only here the trees were straight and amazingly tall. They were like pillars beneath a strangely orange colored sky, their bark reminding her of a pale catacomb. Golden and amber leaves carpetting the forest floor slowly crumbled before her eyes, only to disappear into the ash of ages. The physical evidence of other worlds, here in the shape of an alien-like forest was almost too overwhelming.
But what was overwhelming all the more was the sudden inner silence, a feeling that hit her like sickness. Only it did not struck her just physically, but also mentally, emotionally and spiritually. She wanted to cry out to the gods she had worshipped before, begging them to listen to her inner screams of emotional starvation, asking them to comfort her and return the ground below her feet and restore her orientation. She might just as well have jumped into an abyss as everything all around her appeared deaf and silent as a tomb, and she couldnÂ’t imagine a darker time in her life than thisÂ… even worse than the massacration she had witnessed so long ago.
She was really 'elvedui' nowÂ…
The sorcerer stood not far from her, tugging his beard and his eyes slightly concerned on the elf. “It’s not far anymore, I miscalculated or the void tricked me a bit, but either way, there’s a small portal nearby from where we will end up in the City of Doors.”
The elf held up her hand without facing the man. “Ze need a moment…”
He nodded. “Understandable.”
But whether he really could was yet to be seen.