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Hoarfrost The little grove in the heart of the Wintersong hasn't changed much in the last year. The forest never seems to really change much. The chaos and politics of the city not effecting things in the least. The same peaceful quiet as always. Deeper inside the animals that live there peer at anyone walking through. Curious at the rare humanoid permitted within.

Hoarfrost is busy doing her rounds. It has been some time since she has been home herself. A few of the animals need caring for, other need to be welcomed into the space.

Amethyst Getting out of Great Forks and away from the demons and cults and gods and who knows what else the city is famed for, is a relief for the little alchemist. She still remembers the first time she visited this forest. And it's been so long since she'd been here. Perhaps not since she collected the last skins she needed for her alchemy experiments. But today she's made the long trek by foot to its edge, heading to the little structure that Frosty uses as a home and doing something she doesn't usually do in the city.

Soon a wolf with her tattoos is going through to find Frosty, a stupid grin (or as close to that as she can manage) on her wolf face.

Hoarfrost Peaceful, and quiet the space is a sanctuary. Even as the wolf passes through the smaller pray hardly pay it mind. Running along the soft fresh snow crunching beneath Amie's paws. Hoarfrost is in hybrid form. Lower half that of a unicorn and upper half bare human. She sits between a group of deer. Tending to a rather nasty gouge from a preditor strike. Horse ears perking and turning. Hearing the running before she even sees it.
Amethyst Amewolf bursts into the clearing, and slides into Hoarfrost. She nuzzles against her and looks at her with wide-eyed admiration. She barks happily, wagging her tail and sitting in the snow near her. Amewolf hasn't quite figured out how to communicate well while in animal form but maybe one day she'll figure it out.
Hoarfrost The deer scatter unsure what is happening. Pausing only at the forest's edge to look back. Hoarfrost eeps falling over and laughing. Only one person could pounce just so! "Ammie! Its nice to see you." Giggling and scratching her love. "I have not seen a wolf form, how very hansom." Finding a good spot to give scritches.
Amethyst Amewolf makes quite an interesting array of happy sounds as she's scritched, leaning over and against her love. And after some moments enjoying those scritches, she backs up, seems to stretch weirdly, and the wolf skin comes right off as she breaks through the tiny seem in it. "Hey Frosty." She grins. "Do you like my new form? I really gotta find a better way to transform than with stripping naked, maybe if I did something with the magic materials and a bit more alchemy I could make something I could just wear..." She contemplates, and shrugs.

"I came to see my love, and to talk sorcery stuff. It's been so long." She says.

Hoarfrost Hoarfrost glances down at herself for a moment and back up at Amie blushing a little. "I dunno I manage just find without clothing ... its kinda a pain." Digging into her saddle bags she pulls out a blanket and offer it to Amethyst. "Then again It is a little cold here for most though, here." Giving the blanket over and moving a bit closer so she can share her body heat. "Its good to see you its been awhile since we had a moment to ourselves."
Amethyst "Maybe if I was in the water it'd be different, but on land being naked kinda bothers me." Ammie says, shrugging a little and taking the blankets. "Admit it, you just like seeing me naked." Now her own face is a little redder, as she noseboops her love. "'Sides, don't you folks just convinently make your clothing vanish, only for it to reappear when you turn back into humanoid forms? Doesn't work so well if I wanna go in animal form anywhere that people could potentially see me." And sometimes one must remember that the alchemist comes from the city, not from the wilderness.
Hoarfrost "I would be lying if I said I didn't" Hoarfrost bites her lip and blushes back, idly brushing a bit of hair away from her face. "The clothes almost feel like more of a false skin to me than any of the forms I take. Alas the city's strange obsession with them." A sudden thought seems to creep into her head. "Perhaps if we convinced them otherwise we could solve both our problems at once." Clearly joking as she leans in. "Anything new that I have missed of late? News does not reach me well here."
Amethyst "To be fair, especially to the Dragon-Blooded, clothing can be seen as a status symbol and a lack thereof definitely as a sign of the cultures that lie beyond the Realm's grasp. Not that much of that matters in Great Forks but it might be why I feel uncomfortable." Amethyst explains. "As for news? Uh, well, I'm putting together a plan to claim a wyld workshop, and it's gonna be my birthday next month. I'll finally be 20. Oh and there's some demon cultists up to no good in the city too."

"But to think, in another year, I'd be considered an adult in the eyes of the realm." Amethyst considers, giggling to herself. "I wonder what they'd do with a dragon like me if I made myself known on the isle." She considers. "Especially since the Empress is gone."

Hoarfrost Hoarfrost counts in her head for a moment. "It is so hard to track time when you get to a point. I haven't missed a birthday have I?" fretting for a moment "Well in any case I will have to do something special for you in the coming month. A trip maybe? Help with your workshop?" a bit of excitement touching her voice.

"I do not know? They seem both desperate for more dragons, and stiff in their willingness to accept change." Flicking her tail a bit. Worry for her little dragon, changed so by the wyld and by anathema alike. "Do you wish to visit?"

Hoarfrost The witch has a long thoughtful look to her. Considering what Amethyst says. Looking to the animals she surrounds herself with and recalling how lonely she feels in the big cities of the world. Arms wrapping up her little dragon into a big hug. Resting her head softly atop the others as they curl up in the cozy clearing. "It must be hard to be so separated from other dragons. You seemed so comfortable with us It never ... well it didn't' cross my mind." Giving Amie's head a little kiss she smiles. "I have always loved going on long walk abouts. How would you like to go together and see the Blessed isle?"
Amethyst Amethyst hugs, nuzzling into her. "It's a little sad at nights when I look out over the streets wondering about the others like me. And I know for my birthday that I'd like to have some sort of celebration for being an Exalted. But a trip all the way to the blessed isles..." She says wistfully. "It'd be really, really foolish."

"At the least I'd need to find a way to hide my tattoos and maybe see about you and Rishi getting the forms of some Dragons." She grins, "And I'd love to go see the Voice-of-Tides, where I was taken when I was too small to remember, and where my..." She pauses, as though to compose herself, "My entire household was murdered. As of the moment, with my father gone, I am the only one left."

She hehs and chuckles, "Maybe I can somehow convince someone to take me in. That'd be funny, but I'd probably be stuck on that damned isle then." But despite her joyful grin, her ears are down and she's obviously a bit depressed recalling all the things she doesn't have.

Hoarfrost "I wish sometimes I could be more mercurial in social station as I am with my animal forms. I know other Lunars who jump from place to place with ease. At home on the Isle as they are in the jungle. I lack the deceitfulness." With a heavy sigh she gives Amethyst another hug. Supporting her as she recalls the tragedy of her house.

"It might be easier simply to travel through. Be some place that wont be able to easily question your station in your house? Dragon houses are very complicated are they not? I could pose as handmaid, consort, or perhaps magical assistant? I don't think I could pull off the tell tail anima of a Dragon."

Amethyst "I'm a walking wyld mutant, and I'm young enough that folks might question me. You'd need to sculpt away /all/ of my wyld features." Amethyst grabs at her ears, "And I'd have better success as posing as a patrician than a scion. I'm also not great at deception... And when I inevitably do encounter a..." She just sighs. "I don't think I could pull of such a deception." She rubs the back of her head.

"Though, you do already have one Dragon's shape." She says, crossing her arms and looking at Frosty. "You sure we can't work on getting your anima to match?"

Hoarfrost A shimmer of silver and a compression of shape and Horsefrost is replaced by a copy of Amethyst herself. Still naked as Hoarfrost can't conjure clothing from no-where but wiggles into the blanks to be cozy. "I'm not sure your doppelganger will work any better if you worry about yourself." Grinning a bit. "I assumed we could weave an illusion to trick those from noticing?"

The more they talk about it though the more impossible it sounds. "I'm starting to take this as a challenge. I never really thought of any place as off limits before and as we call the Isle dangerous its making me want to go even more."

Amethyst "I mean maybe you're my twin." Amethyst suggests, snuggling with herself(???) "...Though twins both exalting would be pretty rare. So maybe not..."

"Oh boy, now we gotta go there though, don't we?" Amethyst asks her love. "Maybe try to find someone in Peleps who might just be sympathetic to me, someone who knew my father and what happened to my family. I gotta talk with Black Pearl, see if I can find out some info. It excites me just a little, the prospect of actually getting to meet my cousins."

Hoarfrost "Would you be comfortable with me taking another dragon's form ... in the usual manner?" Hoarfrost leaves the implication of having to kill said dragon hanging in the air for a moment. Unsure what the other would think.

"I think we do. I have contacts with the Pact someone could forge us travel documents I'm sure." The cogs of ideas starting to move in her head. "Would ... would you be comfortable if ... I mean even in another form if we introduced ourselves as a couple to your cousins."

Amethyst Amethyst considers and rubs her head, "Can't you just take their shape like you took me? How /did/ you get my shape, anyway?" She considers. "As far as calling ourselves a couple, that's a question to ask Rishi moreso than myself." She boops her love's nose.
Hoarfrost Hoarfrost blushes a bit "It ah ... requires a level of intimacy to preform." Form shifting again this time to her human form. Somehow this makes the discussion less awkward. "Somehow a hunt seemed simpler ... and less ... complicated?" saying it out loud makes it not sound as easy as it felt in her head. Unsure for a moment she shrugs. "As to you, I did not know I could do it at the time having not been ... so close to someone before."

To the booping she smiles and chuckles. "I assumed she might come with us? You could introduce her as well?" this is the obvious solution to one not at all versed in the ways of Realm courtship.

Amethyst "Intimacy? But we didn't uh... Did we do something I don't remember?" Amethyst considers, trying to consider what drugs she might've taken that night. But Frosty's comment breaks her trance., and the wanna-be scion looks horrified. She starts to try to say something, but can't get it out, "Bu-, Fro-, It-, I-, Uh. Frosty no." And then Ammie rolls her eyes, "Actually, claiming I already have lovers would be bad for me. Marriage is a really complicated thing in the Realm and not to be taken lightly. It won't look good if I were already, ya know." Yes that's the problem with what Frosty said, or at least it stops her from explaining that their three way relationship is weird by realm stnadards.
Hoarfrost Hoarfrost shakes her head. "No not like...." Blushing a little more a hand covering her mouth. Feeling the embarrassment "Even something simple like holding hands is an act of intimacy if shared between hearts that feel for one another." Taking her hands and if permitted entwining her fingers with Amethysts. "While we have not said our relationship was so closed I would not feel comfortable opening myself in that way to someone other than you and Rishi. Even if it was for such a deception to simply get a new form ... I'm simply not so deceitful."

"A-ah I see ..." a bit of disappointment entering her eyes. "I admit I heard the courtship of the Realm was complicated, I had no idea it was such a dire event to find love before one was permitted?" not really understanding pre-say but trusting in the knowledge of the Dragon. "We will have to keep our love a secret then I suppose? A secret trist keeping to the shadows? I think I have read a few books like this ..."

Amethyst "Marriage is not for love, it's largely for political alliance and reasons. Although other relationships are... maybe not permitted but uh, well the big problem is if you have a baby to someone other than the mated pair. That's the real problem. Just as my dad." She rubs her head. "Anyway, we should head back to the cabin, it's cold out here."