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Not found on any map, Endrykas is a large migrating tent city wherein the horseclans of Cyphrus gather to trade and exchange information. [Lore]

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Bone Bracelets and The God Lhex

Postby Taylani on November 1st, 2013, 2:21 pm

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Then evening air was chilled tonight, not cold but definitely it was missing the warmth of summer. Already the camp was finishing up its nightly revelry, there was no more singing and the fires were put out, however the bright light of the moon shone over the encampment, giving dancer that sits in the grasses next to the Windchaser pavilion ample light to see by. Taylani curls her legs to sit easily on the ground, her jewelers kit laying open in front of her. Her mind was dizzy from planning, worrying, and being fearful so she had taken the time to try and calm her racing thoughts with making that bracelet she had started some weeks earlier.

Picking up the partially filed bone, she examines it carefully to see had been going with the piece. It was a large bone, perhaps cut from the femur of a large animal, or even larger still it might have started out as a vertebrae of a very large animal. She had already started filing the inside, but it still was not wide enough to slip over a hand so she picks up the file once more.

She secures the bone with one hand, her fingers pinching the outside with her fingers and the other she uses the file to rub the inside with even steady pressure. The work was laborious and several times she had to pause to shake the numbness from her hand, however it was not something that for the moment took up much of her mental energies. So instead she turns her thoughts to the gods that Drykas seemed to worship, or at least acknowledge.

In Syliras she had never had the opportunity to really learn much about the various gods, out here it seemed the people were much closer to them. One in particular raised her ire, Lhex the god of fate. Even as her hands worked the bone, the file scraping and sending fine dust of white to sprinkle her hands and her skirts, she grins a hard grin, stretching her lips across her teeth ruthlessly.

She mentally thinks toward the god in question. You think you can just play with people's fates. You think you can just push them where you want them to go, how you want them to go, and when you want to them go despite their own goals? Just toying with their fate. Already she had to stop herself, as she saw she was starting to wear one side of the bracelet down too far. She did not want the same thing that had happened to the bone ring she had attempted to happen here so she calms herself a little, and lightens the stress on the file.
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Bone Bracelets and The God Lhex

Postby Taylani on November 1st, 2013, 3:34 pm

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Was my life all that horrible that you had to step in and change it? Is Fallan right? That you and others conspired to bring me here? To torment and destroy all that is me? Even as she worked the file around the inside of the bone, widening the opening quickly with the force of her motions, she poured her bitterness into her thoughts that were directed toward the god of the fates. She is not entirely sure that he was listening, or even was the source of her anger. However it gave her an outlet to scream at, at least mentally.

Once the opening was wide enough to slip her hand through, and the bone dangled on her wrist in a decent circle if not slightly ovalish, Taylani threw the file back into her jewelry craft kit. Pulling the bone from her wrist again, she picks up the pebbled paper, and held it rough side down. With hard motions she begins to polish the bone, over and over she uses circular motions to rub away the minute imperfections that caused it to be gritty, rough to the touch.

I didn't need you in Syliras, and I didn't need you meddling in my life here. I don't need you meddling in this child's life. Stop playing with our fate and move on to someone who actually wants your intrusions. Again she didn't even really believe that there was any way that Lhex was bothering to listen to her rant. But it was freeing, even as she felt the tears course from her eyes. Out here with no one to see, she can release the toxic venom and bitter bile that builds up in her system.

She was planning to run, she was squirreling away dried food stuff. She was also preparing herself to die for she did not think that it would be very likely that she was successful. However before she did she wanted to finish this bracelet, for she intended on leaving her jewel kit behind. If she lived, and her child lived with her, she planned on giving this trinket to them, to remind them both of her time as Fallan's captive. Of course that would mean that she needed to get it worked on, because she was not going to bring this kit. It wasn't too heavy but she did not want anything unnecessary to slow her down.

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Bone Bracelets and The God Lhex

Postby Taylani on November 1st, 2013, 4:39 pm

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Taylani put the pebbled paper down, and ran her fingers around the circular bone bracelet. She was satisfied with the smoothness, now it felt almost pearly rather then rough and gritty like before. With the scriber in hand, she shifted as her back began to ache, sitting hunched over the bone like she was. Taylani straightened for a moment, trying to stretch her back to relieve the pressure built but she quickly resumes her position with a scowl on her face. The scriber was pressed into the bone, letting the tip sink deep, her pink tongue poked out of her lips as she concentrated. First she wanted to express the anger and rage of her time here. So she etched slashes, all slanting from top right to bottom left, lining the bracelet about a half inch apart.

All the way around the smooth bone she etches these slashes, twenty slashes in total. Then she went to every other slash, and made an aborted horizontal etch giving the etching a tribal feel. She blows on the bone bracelet to rid the jewelry of bone fragments that gathered in the crevices left behind by her scriber.

Next she wanted to portray the sorry mingled with even the hope that she had felt when she realized that she carried Fallan's child within her womb. Her fingers were sore, there was a new callous on her middle finger where first the file, then the scriber laid and was pressed. Her knuckles were slightly swollen and she finally understood why her mother complained occasionally about pain in her hands.

But she intended on finishing this piece before she left, so she kept on going. To help portray her sorry and joy she pressed the scriber into the bone in three different spots. Instead of etching lines though, she rotated the bone. This resulted in three gouged holes in the bracelet. Perhaps if she survived this, she would buy paint and really finish it. But for now, it is done. She didn't think this child would understand the violent tribal markings, but she knew. Throwing the bracelet into her pack, not her kit, she closes both, gathering them and headed into the pavilion, with not another thought to Lhex.

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Bone Bracelets and The God Lhex

Postby Magpie on December 9th, 2013, 11:58 pm

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Lores:
Beware Filing Too Far
Angry Prayers are Releasing
Expressing Emotion Through Minimalistic Decoration


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This was so sad to read after the big makeup thread... But a lovely little piece of emotion. Good job :)


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