Rainforest Cliffs
07-28-2017, 05:06 AM
A tumult of impressions, thoughts and feelings bombarded Ilunga as ze received an answer from the being, and it was nearly too much to take in. Questions blossomed and died and budded anew upon the tongue like the ever stirring anemone of the coral reefs, but though there was so much the hybrid wished to ask, though there was so much to see and learn and understand - too much for a mere soldier, ill suited for intellectual pursuits - and though the sea-borne creature would have liked nothing more than to linger and chastise the helovians for being so loud... there was no time left.
"I hear and obey" Ilunga replied to the Deity, even as hir mind was dragged back towards the body, the astral form unraveling faster with each moment that passed. Like a door slamming shut behind the back, so did darkness replace the shimmering lights of the spirit world for an instant as Ilunga was brought back into the shell of flesh and blood; for a long while the warrior lay still in the water, fins flowing languidly in the slow torrents. There was much to absorb, too much to truly comprehend right away, but Ilunga knew two things to be true.
The first; A God had returned to the Rift, and in doing so brought a kindling of hope back to this dying world, the likes of which ze had not felt since the sundering began.
And the second; Ilunga would have faith and obey, as hir people had always done in the past. May it be that this was not Vjanta and may it be that the volcanic isles of hir home might never return, for as long as Ilunga drew breath ze would uphold the customs of old and ensure that they were not lost or forgotten.
As for the strangers... well. Obeying the God and ensuring that the aliens were kept in place might not be entirely incompatible. The word was mighty, but knowledge was also power, as well hir people knew.
Opening hir eyes, Ilunga rolled gracefully over on hir back and regarded the ceiling of the cave absently, even as ze made hir way back into open waters with a slow, exultant smile playing upon the lips. Finally things had taken a turn for the interesting.
