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[pyraxis]

The raba Ua'lin and her beloved crystal.


Daria and Song have a wicked prank war going in Teiranen. He loves to sneak up on her while she's standing near the cave wall, so she jumps back and goes toren at the same time, and falls spiralling into the rock. No sense of gravity in toren form, no light in solid stone, no way of guessing which way back to open space....


And to placate those two, I give you a couple others.

The raba Vic. He's not really a raba - actually he ran away to avoid this precise fate. On Ua, tradition demands the rulers must always be female. He was not exactly thrilled at the prospect of changing his body.


Grehti Cailtoh-rsakk. A nethik-tail perking out of his ass is about equivalent to Rush Limbaugh with cornrows. :P

Comments

[jimnightmare.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. That- that's really cool that you can do that. I mean, that's awful, the whole thing about speritu, but if you can bring them back...

I keep saying your planet is messed up because of arranged marriage, things like that, but you guys have some really amazing stuff going on. I remember back when I first met you, I was thinking you weren't gonna like me so much once you found out I'm a machine, or at least I'd get stared at a lot. But now I've met all these people here, and when new people show up in yumeza I've even stopped bracing myself for the bad reactions, because I feel so much like I'm not out of place. I don't think most people can see stuff like this. I really don't think most people would stop to think that scary ghosts might be people, too. It's like you guys can see clear.

And I'm really glad to hear that you can bring the speritu back somehow. I... kinda... know a little of what it feels like to be dead. I've been dead lots of times, actually. It's complicated. But you're right, when you know what it's like to be alive, you want it more than anything.