Open | Some used your name for glory

[kadia]

WHO: Colin, Kadi, and you.
WHAT: Catch-all/open
WHEN: July and August
WHERE: Various places in Northcliff Pass
NOTES: Starters inside. cw: mentions of a cult and the abuses of it.

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IV

[infinitewatch]

There's someone who can always be counted on for wakefulness in the middle of the night, and that's the night watchman. Lance is midway down the path when he notices the woman, and he quickly picks up his pace, only to stop when he recognizes her as the girl from before.
She wanders up the stairs, and he watches for several moments before pursuing: he doesn't want to frighten her, but if she's sleepwalking, the city wall is hardly a place she should be. He ascends the stairs after her, waiting until she's some feet away before clearing his throat and asking:

"Miss?"

[kadia]

She stands still as glass, unhearing of him. Unfeeling fingers rest against the stone of the wall as the wind whips around her. What she sees and feels is entirely different from what he does.

Green and green, forest reflected in water, a lithe woman with a terrible voice and a demand with no compromise. Kadi opens her mouth to speak, but the forest is finished speaking. The forest saved her. The forest saved Silfa. Now, it gives its conditions.

Kadi wakes, shuddering and gasping.

"What?" She blinks, her eyes feeling oddly dry, and she looks at Lance in bewilderment. Why is she on the wall?

[infinitewatch]

"What?" he echoes, stepping back down a stair, at least glad to see that the woman is awake now. ...probably?

"Are you... all right," comes his careful query, and he glances her up and down.