[RPG] King of Svunnetland, the Fox Spiral

[Eiyrn]

Eiyrn wrote:
> /It was his nexus.  The doorway that would lead him to where his 
> spirit found comfort.  Zonasa, Batesaor, Evora, Ahael, Viseu, and 
> Masahakon.  Strangely Palnasos and Ipsosez would not be open to him... 
> actually not so strange though Einar in his purgatory, actually quite 
> logical and true.  Hoshi had but to try and she would find him, and 
> soar where his spirit soared... she just had to reach out and be 
> true... something she hadn't been to him in a very long time.
>
> In his nexus, a land of mountains and trees, He came up on a gradual 
> leaning against a tree.  Symbol of what was supposed to be a patron, 
> he grabbed the Gradual and broke it easily over his knee and as it 
> broke it wisped into nothingness and disappeared like so much dust.  
> From near the top of the massive tree dropped a staircase, cascading 
> its spirals down the length of the massive tree.  Down the staircase 
> ran a fox, his color changing and shifting as he ran, picking up 
> speed, near flying from the staircase lunging at Einar's chest... 
> passing into him like so much smoke.  Einar was unphased, seeking the 
> symbolism of the moment, when he was startled.
>
> "Hi!" The beaming smiling face of Aspire Eiryn appeared before him...
> / 
/Einar felt something missing.  He mentioned it to Aspire, or at least 
he thought he did... Einar seemed like he was so far away, as if in two 
places at once.

"And what do you think it is?" Aspire asked patiently, so patiently that 
to Einar it seemed like he had asked it a multitude of times.

"Hoshi..." Einar answered with the confidence of a king... but the bluff 
didn't fool Aspire for a moment.

"Hoshi?!?" Aspire laughed heartily at the stab at an answer.  "When is 
the last time you really beheld her heart?  When was the last time she 
was yours?  You know she did show me more understanding and kindness 
than I believe she might have ever shown you... had you but asked for 
her blood..." Aspire trailed off.

Einar wanted to argue, wanted to get indignate, but couldn't bring 
himself to it.  He simply ignored the entire subject. "We are never in 
the same place!" Einar suddenly noticed.  "We seem to be around that 
mountain... that was a tree, while it grows... ?"

"The mountain is not growing we are spiraling down it." Aspire said a 
little sadly.  "Your spirit is not at rest and... your soul is searching 
for..."

Just then the appeared once again at the top of the mountain, and 
started its spiral decent at breakneck speed.  "Ah it has found what it 
was looking for, there is not much time left now, you are coming to the 
end of your journey... do you know what the fox is?  What it 
represents?" Aspire asked urgently.

Einar gave the pat answers, intelligence, cunning, camoflage, guile... 
before Aspire cut him off seeing the Fox spiral nearer and nearer.

"No," he said as gently as he could, "there is more search your..."

The fox hit Einar square in the chest and disipated into him... the 
knowledge of his life, the meaning of what Aspire was asking him, all of 
the places he and those bond to him had ever been, and one place he had 
not ever seen with his own eyes... a darkness flashed over Einar 
briefly, as the dark knowledge flowed into him, and he became one with 
the fox with an equally dark grin.

"Einar" Aspire said quietly, "You still have a choice, to pick your 
heaven and be rid of the spiral, be rid of the mountain..."  But Einar 
did not her him... not because of the volume... there were no real 
voices here anyways... but because he was listening to the fox...

Aspire turned away from Einar and his world and drifted to another.  The 
world of the living and the one person that could still talk to Einar, a 
man that had thrown off his fathers and forsaken his gods.  He whispered 
in the sleeping woman's ear, that was actually just metaphoric as he was 
really in her dream.

"Only you can bring him peace now, only you can make him resist the fox, 
there is still time, but it is short.  Go to him, speak to him, come to 
peace with him..."

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/Hoshi woke in a cold sweet from her dream./
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