another mind, another soul, another body to grow old. it's not complicated.
It would almost have been better, if not completely hostile, had Aurelia said her last thought out loud. After all, someone needed to tell Otem that, if she had ever mattered back in Helovia, she certainly didn't here. How many proclaimed that they were the distant offspring of gods, or princes or queens? And did it ever matter? Of course not.
Sooner or later she would find that out, although apparently today was not that day, as Aurelia had decided to hold her tongue.
In fact Otem had noticed the feather tied into Aurelia's mane. It was one of the reasons (one of the more humble reasons, anyways) that she had mentioned her lineage at all. A spark of bright hope bloomed inside the girl at the hope that perhaps someone else here knew of her mother, but it was quickly snuffed out. "Oh.. no. Hototo was slain by the Moon Goddess a long time ago. Isopia was my mother, the second child of the earth god." Pausing, Otem sniffed distastefully. "The Sun God had a second child as well.." Her voice trailed off as her narrow shoulders rose and fell gently back towards her sides. Although Otem had ram horns just like Hototo had, he had been gone for so long .. how had Aurelia not known that? Where had she been all this time?
Not wanting to get too lost in history, Otem allowed her bi-coloured eyes to dart around for a moment, as if she could force the thing into appearing simply by being here. "Maybe if we leave the thing won't come for you.." Otem's eyes glanced back to Aurelia, looking for a companion or two. She knew her Father had lost one of his prized dragons, and was likely out looking for it now. But if Aurelia had one, that would be alright. The tree had healed whatever infection had caused the disturbance between companions and their bondeds anyways.
"What's your name? You're obviously from Helovia, or at least you were, weren't you?"
The Portal
