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Neyasi returns to Kalea to say one last farewell.

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The vast mountain range of Kalea is home of secret valleys, dead-end canyons, and passes that lead to places long forgotten or yet to be discovered.

The Burial

Postby Neyasi Tillandsia on January 20th, 2014, 2:16 am

3 of the Day, Autumn of 508 A.V.

The sky was clear, the air crisp and cool. It would not be long before chill winds began to sweep and whistle throughout the barren landscape of Kalea. A lone, feminine figure, clad in black, traversed an airy path winding down the side of a particularly jagged mountain, silken black cloak raised to cover her mouth and nose against the fierce winds, as Neyasi made her way down the mountain.

In her hands, she carried a small glass container, filled with pale, pale, dull white ashes, clutched in her clawed hands as if it were something precious- And it was. The young Symenestra female carried with her the precious ashes of Vordinan, the one truly kind person she had met since beginning the search for her father. He had gotten her out of more than one sticky situation, and taught her all he could to survive in the world. The last thing she could do for him was put his remains to rest in the one place he'd ever called home.

As she reached the bottom of the rocky passage, where the rock turned to rocky soil, Neyasi turned, and knelt by the foot of the mountain, before a large, glittering white stone. Neyasi held the jar to her, staring at the stone. She didn't want to do anything. She wanted to sit there, and hold the ashes to her. They were the closest she had left to Vordinan himself. After a few moments, she reluctantly set the jar down, and bent low over the rocky sol at the foot of the stone, beginning to dig with her bare claws.

After a few moments, Neyasi sat back, staring at the hole.
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The Burial

Postby Neyasi Tillandsia on January 20th, 2014, 7:20 pm

She slowly opened the jar, and reached down, tilting it so that some of the ashes would trickle into the hole. Neyasi watched them gathering at the bottom, and, for a brief moment, wondered what she was doing. As the jar reached its halfway point of emptiness, Neyasi sat back on her heel, capping the jar once more, before gently pushing the piled dirt into the hole with one hand.

Neyasi, in truth, wasn't sure what she was doing, or why. Her original intention had been to give Vordinan a proper goodbye, even if it was pointless to bury half of his ashes in a hole. Still, the surface people did it, very often. So Neyasi was inclined to do it too. Once she was done here, she would leave Kalea again, and start for Ravok once more, as was Vordinan's original intention.

Neyasi did not want to leave his ashes here. She wanted to kneel here. She wanted the world to slip away into the shadowy abyss of her subconscious, until there was only her memories left. Memories. Happy memories. Even a few not-so-happy memories. Suddenly, Neyasi felt overwhelmed. And how funny it seemed to her, that now the grief should truly set in, whereas before, her only thoughts had been to get here. To get here, and then what?

To say goodbye.

But Neyasi wasn't ready to say goodbye. She hadn't been ready when he died, she hadn't been ready on the journey here, and she wasn't ready now. Not yet. There was still one thing she had left to do, one thing she still needed to do. Somehow, Neyasi knew that if she didn't do it, she would never be ready to let go, and say goodbye. But wasn't that what she was doing now? Saying goodbye? "It's not goodbye until you leave, Neyasi. Remember that." A fleeting ghost of Vordinan's voice rang in her ears, nothing more than a memory. But still there.
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