Time: 1st of Winter 511 AV - Early Afternoon Where: The Temple of Time Tagged: Open Astreia had never before seen such a place as the Temple of Time. It had been a long, difficult journey to find the beautiful building, asking a large number of people who did not like to stop to talk to the petite Inarta, especially since she was asking for quite difficult directions. Although she had found somebody to look after Raelli, she did also object to leaving him for the day so the Temple could not have been found soon enough. Everything in Lhavit was different to Wind Reach, quite to Astreia's delight - it was more exciting, more beautiful and more varied in terms of people, and in such a place, it would be difficult to say which of the many buildings was the most breathtaking, but Astreia was sure that this Temple had to come close. The hourglass shape was quite unlike anything she had ever seen before and she found herself thinking that she should perhaps write a poem it... well, there did not seem to be much of a theatre here for her career as an actress so she really did have to find a career elsewhere, though she had not enough talent. Oh goodness, she thought, what am I going to do? Astreia walked past the huge statue of the goddess and emerged into the temple, which had very few people in it and was a huge surprise after seeing the outside of the building. She supposed that it could only make complete sense, bearing in mind that it was a shrine to the goddess of time. The inside had aged while the outside had not, which was clever. In fact, she thought that she preferred the inside. There was something very romantic about the ruined aspect of it with the orb in the centre. Slowly, her eyes not looking away from the orb for a second, she glided towards it, her hands fallen by her side, dressed in an emerald green Bryda with high waist, red and blue glass beads around waistband and gold sequins around the left leg, a dark yellow Vinati with red embroidery, and one puffed gauzy sleeve and, on top in order to prevent her from getting cold, a simple goat-skin Katinu of a dark brown colour with knee-high leather boots of the same colour. For some reason, although it was a temple to Tanroa (one of the gods she was devoted to along with Nikali, Cheva, Kelwyn and Qalaya) she could almost feel her gnosis mark from Qalaya burning on her left ankle. She kneeled down near the centre of the temple, by the crystal orb and, simply looking at it. For a moment, she was almost tempted to prostrate herself before it, but instead she simply crossed her arms across her chest and bent her head down. "Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough." she murmured as a reminder. Something she had read in a book at some point. |