Riptide Isles
07-30-2017, 01:26 AM
Ilunga struggled against the wild torrents , just barely safe from the hungry pull of the maelstrom, and as she watched the struggle of the baleano tears streamed unashamedly down her cheeks. Though she clutched the white spear against her chest in fear and awe of the mighty beast, in that moment she forgot all about being a proud warrior, forgot all that she had become and earned and given up in order to hold the izala. Again she was a mere filly, helpless in the face of the awesome powers of nature, a child powerless to do anything as the greatest enemy of her kind was torn to pieces before her eyes, shredded into naught but meat by the raging waters.
She felt the lament of the rocks, more than she heard them, and as if to respond her own body ached and pulsated with the grief, the senseless futility of the deaths around her. Ilunga did nothing to stifle or conceal her tears, for to do anything but weep would have been an insult to the might of the beings that had died so needlessly, and her kin had always striven to be as one with the sea and its creatures - for indeed, they were its children and everything that floated, swam or drifted through the blue expanse were kin, and siblings, and of the same origins. Though they warred with the great sharks and fed upon small fish and prawn and clams as much as upon seaweeds and kelp, they never took more than they needed, and never shed blood if it could be avoided.
Ilunga cried even as the ocean roared, but when it suddenly stilled the hippocamp gasped and watched in amazement as light began to pour down upon the remnants of the Riptide Isles, a light so bright and clear and pure that she had to look away, blinking and half blinded.
Again she felt it, the call, the summons... and warily the daughter of wind and sea responded, scales glittering in hues of gold and lavender as she swam closer to the light. Suspicion was live within her, all senses alert and ready to bring her away in a flurry if anything untoward were to occur. Was it a trap? It would not be the first time, the Rift was a dangerous place after all.
@Rift Presence
