Aviaua
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Post by Aviaua on Feb 19, 2016 16:33:09 GMT -5
Aviaua was rummaging through overgrowth and rocks at the river's edge. Three small will-o-wisps were floating around her keeping a watch over the area. Giving up on finding what she was looking for in that section, she sank back into the deeper part of the river. Glancing around Aviaua called out to the wisps " Zmb hrtm lu gilfyov?". The one cyanish one sent back a negative response, as did the darker blue one. The greenish one standing guard over her clothing also sent a negative signal. Sighing in relief, Aviaua dived down to the river bed and started shifting through there. |
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Aviaua
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Post by Aviaua on Feb 19, 2016 17:31:35 GMT -5
Her search of the river bed turned up an old jewelry cache, but not the item she was looking for. Aviaua surfaced to drop off the items she had recovered. It was a minute before she noticed the person standing near her belongings. The wisps weren't acting up so she didn't feel the need to react much. Aviaua tilted her head slightly and pulling her wings up to cover her chest and lower face.
"Sr?"
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Aviaua
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Post by Aviaua on Feb 19, 2016 18:14:57 GMT -5
Aviaua sighed, the language barrier was already causing confusion. She motioned for the cyan and blue wisps to join her. Swimming to rivers edge and hauling herself out, she did her best to remain upright. Aviaua threw the jewelry onto her pile of clothes.
"Dsl ziv blf?" Aviaua was hoping this message was a bit clearer.
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Aviaua
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Post by Aviaua on Feb 19, 2016 19:18:48 GMT -5
Aviaua gave a clear nod of her understanding, looking slightly annoyed. She was beginning to dread the sort of curse of speaking in atbash.
"Aviaua" she was motioning to herself, speaking one of the few words she could in english.
She was somewhat surprised to see one of the higher ranking members of the cult so far out from cult grounds. This place she knew could be reached from the forest near the cult, but still, it would have been quite the walk. Aviaua motioned to the wisps to see if they could find something she could carve her messages into.
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Aviaua
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Post by Aviaua on Feb 19, 2016 20:42:05 GMT -5
Shrugging her shoulders, Aviaua kept a slit eye on the wisps waiting to see if they found anything. The cyan one flickered that it found something that might work. Slithering herself over to the spot, a decent size flat rock that she could carve into. Scratching her response into the stone with a wing spine, she handed it to Jeu.
'They're friends.'
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Aviaua
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Post by Aviaua on Feb 20, 2016 14:43:53 GMT -5
Aviaua took the stone back to carve her answer.
'Collecting old belongings, i know the river.'
Figuring that she had covered what she needed to, Aviaua handed Jeu the tablet. Aviaua felt it odd to call this less explored territory, having lived here for so long in the past.
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Aviaua
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Post by Aviaua on Feb 24, 2016 16:29:42 GMT -5
Aviaua was greatly regretting her forgetting of words when writing. Taking the slab back she quickly carved a 'my' and an arrow to before 'old' in her last message. Aviaua carved her next message with better grammar.
'I left several caches here in the past, old jewelry and my comb.' She wasn't holding out hope that her old makeup was still good.
Aviaua would really hate if someone where to pollute her old home, these were excellent hunting grounds.
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Aviaua
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Post by Aviaua on Feb 26, 2016 18:54:14 GMT -5
Aviaua was doubtful that any items of hers would have mana attached to them after all this time, but she would not dismiss the help. There was at least one cache in the shallows she had yet to recover, though it was probably the one of old makeup. The containers would likely still be good to reuse. Aviaua nodded and carved out a short message on the slab.
'At least one in shallows,rest deep water'
She called the wisps attention, asking them to keep watch.
"Hkivzw lfg zmw pvvk dzgxs. Ru blf hklg gilfyov, uoziv yirtsg."
As the wisps spread out Aviaua slinked back into the river.
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Aviaua
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Post by Aviaua on Mar 6, 2016 0:36:35 GMT -5
Aviaua had dived underwater before she could hear Jeu's reply.
The river wasn't so murky that she couldn't see above but her eyes were firmly glued to the river bottom. Aviaua glided through the water, trying to spot the larger rocks that covered her caches. She spotted what might be one covered in sediment and plant debris. She cleared away the debris with a swift movement from her wings. As she moved the rock she thought for a second that she found some more old jewelry or other odd trinket.
Then the smell hit her.
Aviaua dropped the rock and moved well away from the spot. Leftovers, she forgot she had any stored in the area. She figured now would be a good time to surface for a moment. Aviaua just noticed how little noise Jeu was making moving through the water, and moving in general. Breaking through the surface she made a quick look in the others direction.
"Zs"
Aviaua wasn't really expecting that. It did explain how Jeu made so little noise, not having legs did that.
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Aviaua
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Post by Aviaua on Mar 14, 2016 3:03:37 GMT -5
Aviaua figured this was to sore a subject to continue on with. She couldn't understand why not having legs would be counted as disturbing, she never had legs herself. Figuring now would be a bad time to ask about how Jeu lost her legs, Aviaua submerged again. She sank close to the bottom, hoping to spy a hint of an old cache.
She started to wonder, was not having legs really that unnerving to other people? Most humans she meet in the past never seemed to be scared of her not having legs. Though, that may have been from her singing and killing them. Aviaua decided to shrug it off as some odd human thing she never got.
After turning several large rocks with no success she turned over one and got another small stash of jewelry. An elaborate silver and gold necklace plus a thing that was probably a bracelet she wore as tail jewelry once. Still no sign of the comb she made. She looped them both on a wing spine and just hoped that the next cache would have her comb.
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Aviaua
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Post by Aviaua on Mar 25, 2016 0:32:21 GMT -5
Aviaua barely heard Jeu call her through the noise of water passing all around her. She wondered if her mind was tricking her for a second but she noticed that the noise of Jeu splashing around had stopped. Glancing in the others direction she noticed through the refraction that Jeu looked to be holding something wrapped in fabric. It looked kinda like one of her old scarves, maybe it was the one she wrapped her makeup containers in. Slowly she swam back to the shore, ensuring her spoils from earlier wouldn't fall loose.
Aviaua popped above water several feet from shore to get a better look at the bundle Jeu had located. Dull pink mottled with brown and red, yep it was her makeup kit. Hauling herself into the shallows, Aviaua carefully took the cache from Jeu, trying her best to not carve up the others hands. Shifting the fabric open, Aviaua started counting the contents within. Two containers of lipstick, a preferred tooth pick and her comb. She started chirping happily, finally having her comb back.
A small intruding thought made her freeze up and eyes snap fully open. Her far too many and razor sharp teeth were visible just now weren't they? And now her creepy eyes too? If Jeu was knowledgeable with skeletons she would probably also see that her lovely come was made from a chunk of human pelvis. Aviaua was just suddenly dreading that she was going to scare off one of the few people from the cult she had met.
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Aviaua
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thats it i guess
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Post by Aviaua on Mar 31, 2016 0:57:48 GMT -5
Aviaua broke eye contact. She knew if she told the truth Jeu wasn't going to like it and lying wouldn't be any better. She shifted the cache and her wings closer to her chest. It took a minute to find her voice.
"Rg'h- rg'h fn... sfnzm ylmv."
Her voice trailed off as she spoke. Just saying it, even in her altered speech, made her dread the others reaction. She remembered in her living years how badly humans reacted to that knowledge. The chance that she would panic a higher ranking member of the cult was terrifying.
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Aviaua
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thats it i guess
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Post by Aviaua on Apr 7, 2016 22:51:04 GMT -5
Aviaua shook her head, this was the last of the caches she could remember. She figured she would re-wrap the cloth so as not to loose any of the smaller containers. Quickly as she could, she slithered over to where she set her belongings. Her scarf would make a decent enough makeshift bag she figured. She pulled her scarf from where she set it and placed it flat on the ground, Setting the fabric wrapped cache down first. The necklace and bracelet she was carrying on her wing spine went down next.
She called back the wisps with a sharp chirp. The three floated back and told her they had sighted nothing of significance. The wisps ended up settling with floating above her dress while she worked on packing up her treasures and not having them be a tangled mess.
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Aviaua
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thats it i guess
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Post by Aviaua on Apr 15, 2016 16:26:43 GMT -5
Aviaua glanced up from her packing. That slab might just be the death of her. She took the slab, turning it over to find a clean space to write her message. The carving noise sounded so much louder to her now.
'Human bone'
She passed the stone slab back to Jeu before turning back to finish packing her last few treasures.
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Aviaua
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Post by Aviaua on Apr 18, 2016 2:26:05 GMT -5
Aviaua was surprised still for a second. Jeu seemed rather calm for the information, Aviaua guessed this probably wasn't as odd a thing in the cult. The last of her finds had finally been packed, several quick folds and a few knots, her scarf was now a bag. She shrugged at Jeu's question, not having decided if she'd stop off anywhere else before heading back. She took the slab for a moment, scratched out a short message then set to the task of unclasping her dresses sides without tearing the fabric.
'Might head back, might visit the lake'
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