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Amethyst	The Wyld is always beautiful, and always terrifying. It started with a trek into a some woods, heading far away from civilization. And it continues off the path, going still deeper, and deeper into the trees of the great eastern forest. The signs are subtle at first, a tree that's leaves are blue, a small bunch of flowers that glow subtly in the undergrowth, maybe a rabbit that has three eyes. It is never a quick journey into the wyld, it is always gradual. And fortunately the four of us need not venture too far into it.
Silk Moon Lotus	With an effort of will, Silk's skin glows briefly like the first rays of the morning. "What flowers are we looking for again?" She brushes her hand against the orange bark of the nearby tree. Then shakes off the greeen liquid that stuck to her hand. "I thought you said we shouldn't stay long or the fey would come looking for whomever entered their domain."
Rishi	Rishi is actually fairly relaxed as you continue the trek into the wyld, humming a jaunty tune in her beautifully musical voice. In fact, she perks up even more when you see the three eyed rabbit. Before any of you can say anything, her tail swishes for a moment as she crouches and then leaps , her wings unfurling as she glides towards the rabbit! the rabbit, clearly unimpressed, opens a fanged mouth nearly bigger than it is and unleashes a roar, which startles Rishi and brings her to a stop, while the rabbit hops off. Rishi looks after it a moment, head cocked to the side, then, spinning around, her long silken hair billowing behind her, she rejoins the group "Pity, multiple eyes is very striking. But I suppose I can already do such things with my mouth."
Hoarfrost	"I must admit this is my first time traveling so far out and into the Wyld." Hoarfrost walks along with the rest of the group. Struggling with her urge to take notes on everything they see along the way. "Are either of you more experianced with the wild lands?
Amethyst	"Oh, we aren't quite in their domain yet." Amethyst says with certainty. She's completely bandaged up, all the way from her hand to her tunic, giving her extra layers of protection after getting stabbed by a lot of thorns. "So long as we stay together we should be fine. And the flowers we're looking for aren't actually the flowers. It's the roots of a pretty blue and green plant with little red dew droplets. And besides, the fae usually can be reasoned with. Just beware their desires are... just as alien as any demon." She directs her attention to Frostie, "...Furthest I've been is the middlemarch that Elderloch is placed inside. Usually I stick to Boardermarches. And I think this plant usually grows around the line between boardermarches and middle marches."
Rishi	Rishi nods as Amethyst explains the Sage Root that we're looking for, then adds "I come from the Dreaming Sea. We have many places that are very Wyld there." She frowns, pouting slightly. "It is a pity that I was hurrying too much to stop into them on my way north. Such lovely mutations I could have eaten." She shakes her head and then gives a lazy grin. "But I did pause long enough to hone my defenses against it." she reaches out, letting her claws glitter in the light. "I put much of the effort and hard work into making my body, I do not want it changed by another's will."
Silk Moon Lotus	"Are the flowers blue and the plant green or the other way around?" Silk starts looking at all of the plants in the area looking for red water spots. She is walking carefully so as to not brush against anything thorny. Silk looks at Rishi "You took those changes on purpose?
Hoarfrost	Wearing her usual clothes in muted tones ang deep green shawl. A few of the Sorrowthorn's barbed thorns still caught in places. She too looks worn on by recent troubles but manages a wide smile as they travel a bit of spring in her step. "Well I'm sure we will find it. The four of us I'm sure we can handle anything." Head tilting at Rishi, "That is what the tattoos are for yes?" wide smile faltering just a little. Turning to Amethyst she raises an eyebrow. "How dangerous is this journey we are going on?
Silk Moon Lotus	Silk stops and and cocks her head ever so slightly as though listening to the wind. "Um, I think something is coming out way. The air has a taste to it like a right before a storm hits. Any luck with the flowers? Whatever it is, it is coming fast." Silk adjusts the straps on her razor claws and wills the blades to extend. Glancing over her shoulder at the others "The fey can bleed, right?"
Rishi	Rishi nods "Yes. I am this way because I wish to look this way." She poses, wings partly open, bending slightly and winking at Silk. "It is a most striking look, yes?" After a moment she gives a brief giggle and resumes walking. "They are all very useful as well. Flying is quite wonderful, I have the surgical tools at the tips of my fingers, and extra hands whenever I should need them. The Great Moon's blessings are most wonderful." Rishi nods again. "Yes the tattoos do protect us from such things, but it is always best to be certain..." Rishi's fur starts standing on end, most notably on her tail, which is now a big floof. "...most strange sensation."
Hoarfrost	Feeling the energy in the air around her she tilts her head up pausing in step. A measured breath as she reads the wind focusing energy through her anima. Eyes shooting open she looks back and forth. "There is something coming Silk. A zone of the wyld is moving directly toward us. Amethyst what does that mean? Is that normal for it to move?" a bit of alarm in her voice as she has no idea what she would even begin casting.
Amethyst	"Green flower, blue stem." Amethyst starts. "And as far as danger? It could be as easy as a walk in a very strange park or it... could..... be......" She stops, her ears go and the tattoos on her body /vibrate/. She gulps, and turns to face something in the distance. "Oh Mela help us." She says quietly to herself. And then she talks at double speed. "So, the-wyld-isn't-static it ebbs-and-flows-around-creation's-borders. And sometimes-it-moves-very-quickly. And-it's-heading straight. for. us." She rubs her ears, along her gills and checks herself over, knowing that there's a good chance she's about to be mutated. "Everyone brace yourselves. Or run, if anyone of you could outspeed a storm. And yes the fae can bleed."
Hoarfrost	"Okie everyone group up please! I will give us some cover. Don't panic you can breath this." Closing her eyes she focuses her essence and imposes her will onto the world. Holding her hands out palms out water pours from her palms. The water swirls around the group forming a circle about them and slowly filling up the area around her.
Silk Moon Lotus	"At least you aren't going to try and put me to sleep this time." Silk sheaths the blades on the claws and steps as close as she dares to Frosty. "Amethyst, stand behind me and press into me. I may be able to block some of the effects from the wave for you."
Rishi	Rishi starts, looking very serious and unaffected for once as her literally catlike reflexes enable her to leap for Amethyst and Silk, yanking them back towards Frost if necessary, but otherwise she hugs them both close to her body, enfolding them with her wings, her tattoos suddenly springing into sharp silver light as they crawl across her body, leaving her covered in whorals and spiral patterns, her wings becoming filagreed in silver moonlight!
Amethyst	Amethyst nods and clutches herself as multiple people try to help her. She channels her own essence, preparing for whatever's about to crash into them all. For her part too, she's clearly speaking in high realm, not even caring if someone here might understand her tongue. But she hopes not. And oh boy can all of you hear it now. A cacophony of breaking and changing trees, limbs, animals caught in the wave, even a scream from another human somewhere in the distance. And then there's the laughter. Not from any one person or fae, as though it comes from the wyld itself as it flows and ebbs.
Hoarfrost	"No promises that wont be on the docket this evening Silk." Voice hurried as she weaves the spell into the world the waters forming a perfect orb of very very cold water. Not sure if the waters she summons will be any protection but doing the best she can. Her long white hair floating about her in every direction as she half floats just above the ground.
Amethyst	Hoarfrost's spell completes just in time, as this venerable prismatic wave of energy crashes into it, bringing all manners of debris. Plants, birds, rocks, things, sand, and a bit of rain. An entire set of trees falls over, crashing against the top of the barrier as the combined strength of all of the exalted hold the line against the tides of chaos washing over them. And each of the Exalted are unaffected by the wrath of this wyld storm. Except for the gently meditating Amethyst who makes quite the noise as her body subtly shifts, fear gripping her. She can't shape it, either, she just doesn't have the focus to do so, and she clings tight to Silk and to the wings while the storm outside still rages. "I, I can't."
Rishi	When Rishi hears Amethyst start to lose it, she quickly slices her index finger open with one of the claws on her other hand and pops it into Amethyst's mouth. "Drink deep and let this blessing of my essence help you." Amethyst can feel her body becoming energized and even more mutable... but it's too much, too quickly! the surprise and shock only leave her more frazzled!
Hoarfrost	Hoarfrost keeps very close attention to her spell as a torrent of madness strikes it. The surface rippling at each impact. The falling tree slowly sinking into the water but being turned to the side as it does so. "We can move forward if we need to just make sure tp keep pace with me. Amethyst do we..." she pause hearing her friend in pain and trapped between holding up the spell and helping. Leaving it to Rishi she does her best to keep the group safe. "Amethyst hold in there you can do it!"
Silk Moon Lotus	Silk turns as best she can inside the wing shelter to face away from the front of the storm. She begins to speak in High Realm to Amethyst in a low and soothing tone. She holds her as one would a frightened child.
Amethyst	Amethyst tries to drink from the finger, but she's entirely too distracted to truly do so. And she just makes a whining noise as the wyld does as it wishes with her body, leaving little reddish - orange scales on various points of her body. She looks to Silk, like a friend, like someone she could've known once upon a time, had her life worked at just a bit different. Even as she changes, her heritage from the blessed isle still shows in her face and her eyes... until the wyld rips it away and makes her face more like a mask, even her ears shrinking and folding back, their expressive quality lost. But the words given to her back Silk keeps her strong. But finally, she can't hold back those tears. Her mother is far awy and unreachable. She's been struggling ever since she made it to Decadence. She doesn't know anyone and her closest friend is now a god damned Anathema. She's lost her father. She knows in her heart of hearts there's really good odds his soul has already been added to whatever it is the Order is doing to their victims, taken by someone worthy of the phrase 'Anathema'. But these folks here, who surround her, who try to protect her, they are not the Anathema spoken in her holy texts, and she can feel it. They've all done their best to defend her especially, as she is sure the rest of them could have taken it. She's sure all of them could have withstood this tempest alone .But it was for her. These are no heartless monsters, one of them even has whispered the virtues of the dragons to her! They might even share a similar faith. Tears pool and collect, streaming, but not down. They're held up, drifting away into the barrier. And everyone can feel something growing in the tiny fae-blood, as she considers the wyld now, and how it is mutating her, how it's even taken her birthright that is her ears. And she considers what she is doing, and why she is here, and what it is that she stands for. She is the fluid grace of a dragon, of the water flowing and standing determined to see all her plans through. And all at once, there is a venerable explosion of essence and anima, sending a shockwave back from her as she cries out against the wyld and what it is has done to its child. And all at once her mutations melt away under the flux of her anima, with a dark blue sea lion yelling with her as she flares totemic, a new Dragon born. And the storm ends, leaving them in a clearing exactly the size of that sphere.
Rishi	As Rishi gets thrown back, bony scales form across her wings and skin for a moment, shielding her against the explosive torrent of water. She looks on, surprised... then joyful. Once the torrent of essencce subsides, she comes over to Amethyst again and gives her a hug and kisses both cheeks. "You are most wonderful and amazing! The Dragons chose well this day!" Then she gets another hug, and a bit of tears. "...I'm sorry I could not help you. If you are ever uncomfortable in your body, come to me and I will make you who you are inside, yes?"
Silk Moon Lotus	Silk staggers back from the suddeness of the explosion, her silken armor absorbing the force from the blast. She stares in awe at the sight of Amethyst in all of her exalted majesty and starts to cry. She smiles as the tears roll down her cheeks. "I should have guessed you would be one of Daan'd's children. You are one of us, but different, you may walk in the light of the sun and not hide who and what you are." She wipes the tears from her face. "We still need to find those flowers, right?"
Hoarfrost	Not expecting something from within the spell collapses, the contents there of scattered from the epicenter. Hoarfrost and nearly a thousand gallons of water are tossed across the clearing. Striking hard against the ground. Drenched the witch tries to stagger to her feet. "What ... what happened?" trying to part her soaked curtain of hair in front of her face. Eyes spotting the tell tale anima coming from her friend. "You did it! You exalted!" she laughs aloud trying to go in for a hug. Noticing the changes only a moment later. "Your ears ..." she says softly with regret in her voice.
Amethyst	Amethyst is changing, one can see as her flux erodes what the wyld just did to her. Her ears returning to their former size and shape and expressiveness as the mask on her face just breaks. And the scales easily flake off as tho they were just scattered on her. But it also continues to change her. a green-blue streak through her hair. Skin that takes on a subtle purple to it. Her eyes that shined like amethysts now more shine like a violet sunset reflected off the sea. But most strikingly are her tattoos and her blood, both now shining with a violet-blue light just as brilliant as her anima, and seeming more like water and even smelling more of the sea than of blood. And she wields this power, shaping it, and then unleashes it and topples a few trees, just out of curiosity. "I am a child of Danaa'd now." It takes her a moment to realize it, and then she bursts into laughter, smiling wider than she has in a long time and twirling as she giggles. "I, I really am a Dragon now." The sheer delight in her is unmatched by anything, her tears now those of joy. And unfortunately for Rishi (and Frost if she's standing near her), Amethyst is quite painful to be next to right now, her anima flux in full effect.
Silk Moon Lotus	Silk looks at her friends reveling in Amethyst's exaltation. There is a pained look on her face as she looks down at the ground covered in sage root "I think I found the flowers you were talking about. They are literal all over this area. We should get as much as we can safely carry and get out of here." Silk pulls out a bag and starts pulling out whole plants from the soaked ground while trying to keep a safe distance from Amethyst's aura.
Hoarfrost	It is tearing up the young witch, but she is insistent about giving her friend the biggest hug she can in true Lunar stubbornness. After enough hug is offered, she rips herself away from her friend long enough to meet eyes and give her a big smile. "We are so proud of you." Before heading over to pick a bunch of the root into her leather satchel bag.
Rishi	Rishi backs off and lets Frost hug Amethyst, making a mental note to offer healing to anyone that needs it later. And, at Silk's prompting, she looks around "Oh!" Her gase darts between the receeding storm and Amethyst, and she slowly grins. "Such plants grow where the Wyld intersects with large amounts of Terrestrial Essence. Thank you dear Amethyst for your help in finding these!" And then she starts gathering the plants, stopping for a moment to eat one, her jaw unhinging so she can eat the entire thing at once. If anyone gives her an odd look, she tilts her head again and says "I DID say I could do that earlier, did I not?"
Amethyst	Amethyst is just starstruck, not quite able to focus on the task at hand even as her anima finally starts to recede and she gets to collecting berries. A child of Danaa'd, her anima prismatic at its edges as her fae-blood is not forgotten. A new future awaits her now, one not defined by the whims of others, not even her parents, as much as herself now. How long she's held back those tears, and perhaps too how long she's held back her own essence to keep control. But here she lost it, and that's alright. The Sable Dragon will bring her wrath down upon those who have done such wrong to her and her father, and she will find a way to establish herself back in Great Forks. And ultimately a way to reconcile her own relationship with her fate and these Lunars and Solars. There's a lot to work to do, but of course, the mighty dragon will see to it all.