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Out of the cauldron and into the fire?
Mature/Trigger Warning Rainforest Cliffs 
Valkyrie the Hopebringer
Currently championing: Caevoc
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After her blind, and in hindsight moronic, spontaneous jaunt out to sea, Valkyrie had made a rather sensible commitment to herself, to think before acting out on such whims. Any number of meaningless deaths could have befallen her beneath the murky blue, southernmost horizon; and all that she had conquered thus far would have been for nothing…
 
She was glad to be back on the beach, to drink in one lungful and then another of the muggy, briny air wafting along its length. For a long while she simply stood, basking in the bountiful, burning heat of the sun (for the ocean floor was a horribly unusual, bone-chillingly cold place), trying to rid some of the remaining water from her soggy, irritated skin. As the cleansed, creamy fibres began to warm, patches of crystallised salt began to form beneath, around each follicle, creating incessant itchiness that she moved to attack impatiently, with flashing, raking teeth.
 
No sooner did one frustration in the Rift ease, than another came to light.
 
Passing a final, sweeping scan out beyond the lazy shoreline, the Daughter of the Shield moved off towards the base of the cliff. She fossicked eagerly among the puny crags and dim, dark crevices there, hunting for the spear and the orb she had so carelessly left behind. By some stroke of luck, she stumbled across them further west than she recalled, but the only scent upon their cool surfaces was that of her own; Valkyrie felt satisfied that they were yet untouched by strangers. Spilling a soft sigh down against her possessions, she retrieved first the orb (discovered by the portal), and then her beloved spear – at some point she would need to secure a better mode of transporting them.
 
The climb up the rickety cliff path was a lot harder than the previous descent. The sun this time was resting low to the west and its unforgiving glow smothered the old, weather-beaten rock in full; already dry, the rays only heated her to a new level of discomfort and it was not long at all before a fresh sheen of sweat glinted and gleamed as she moved. Arriving at the top, the pale horse bid a swift retreat into the humid stillness of the rainforest.
 
This time, Valkyrie walked between the old wood and dense shrubbery with wariness and care. She made sure to side step around any surface that seemed coated by moss and skirted generously, the tentacled-plants, which had inflicted burns upon both of her legs on the left. She was learning. This was progress. Not too far along the way, she found the same tree which had served as a safe post to rest against and pressed a second time against it, closing her blood-stained eyes gradually before succumbing to the pull of sleep. The items she carried fell from her slackened jaw.


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Out of the cauldron and into the fire? - by Valkyrie - 02-26-2018, 03:19 AM