09-01-2020, 09:43 PM
Too bad Aiden and Sage were alive. It meant Jaxen now had to figure out how to shove three people out of snake land rather than just himself. If shit went much farther south, every man for himself was going to be the order for the day.
His gaze followed Aiden’s upward to find a distinctly different ceiling than he recalled previously. The sky churned pearlescent white-gray in a way that stood the hair on his arms. Naturally, Aiden had questions, and just as typical, Sage was useless with answers. Guess Snakeland didn’t have wifi yet.
Sora explained that the reason she plucked Jaxen from the realm of sanity and dropped him into the fierce bizarre was to rescue him. What motivation drove Ethelinda to the same cause? Jaxen and Aiden were both Ancient Ones, but while Aiden was a damsel, none of them were in distress. Did some danger lurk beneath the Hill? A trap they walked into? They met Ethelinda at the Giant’s Causeway, there was no way she could have known they’d wander into potential danger?
Jaxen turned in a circle, not liking the height of the tower walls. No stairs led toward skyward freedom. Suddenly, through a door that opened on its own, slithered the sultry Ethelinda. She looked completely unchanged from before, but Jaxen saw through eyes that colored the world for what he knew it to be. He swallowed, imagining her skin swirling into scales and the globes of her eyes splitting to black slits, hoods spanning shadows that nearly reached his feet.
He hadn’t realized he was backing up until bumping into the stone of the tower wall. There, he wrapped his arms about himself and spat out demands with a quivering voice. “Why bring me here again?! I did what Sora said. I did it!” Heart pounding, eyes flared wide, Jaxen snatched at the Ancient Power, and with a roar of anger and fear, flung an orb of fire in her direction. Then, while the others ducked or were incinerated – he didn’t care – he ran through one of the doors, seeking frantic escape.
His gaze followed Aiden’s upward to find a distinctly different ceiling than he recalled previously. The sky churned pearlescent white-gray in a way that stood the hair on his arms. Naturally, Aiden had questions, and just as typical, Sage was useless with answers. Guess Snakeland didn’t have wifi yet.
Sora explained that the reason she plucked Jaxen from the realm of sanity and dropped him into the fierce bizarre was to rescue him. What motivation drove Ethelinda to the same cause? Jaxen and Aiden were both Ancient Ones, but while Aiden was a damsel, none of them were in distress. Did some danger lurk beneath the Hill? A trap they walked into? They met Ethelinda at the Giant’s Causeway, there was no way she could have known they’d wander into potential danger?
Jaxen turned in a circle, not liking the height of the tower walls. No stairs led toward skyward freedom. Suddenly, through a door that opened on its own, slithered the sultry Ethelinda. She looked completely unchanged from before, but Jaxen saw through eyes that colored the world for what he knew it to be. He swallowed, imagining her skin swirling into scales and the globes of her eyes splitting to black slits, hoods spanning shadows that nearly reached his feet.
He hadn’t realized he was backing up until bumping into the stone of the tower wall. There, he wrapped his arms about himself and spat out demands with a quivering voice. “Why bring me here again?! I did what Sora said. I did it!” Heart pounding, eyes flared wide, Jaxen snatched at the Ancient Power, and with a roar of anger and fear, flung an orb of fire in her direction. Then, while the others ducked or were incinerated – he didn’t care – he ran through one of the doors, seeking frantic escape.