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[K148.16] sometime beyond the Veil
Feb. 3rd, 2009 10:48 pmI woke up to find stuff falling on me as Thymelixsen tried to cover us in the sand. Then the band of wolf-like things crested the dune. Three were in front of the other two. Eck-Clack used use cross-bow-like thing on one of them, and it fell, smoking. The other two went for May, passing others of us in their path. It seemed like they were bones with fur, having forearms above their claws, in ways that made me think they were constructed things. Constructed by whom and for what purpose, I have no idea.
Eck-Clack hit another one, but it wasn't hurt enough to die. Thymelixsen shot off some stars, and more of them attacked May. I saw that when May bled, there were silvery things spiraling out of her with the blood, curling out into the air, looking like the things on the bone. I could tell she wasn't doing well, with so many of the wolf-things attacking her so savagely, and decided that Touch of Purity was what was needed, as fast as possible, not His Holiness Revealed, which may or may not have any effect on the wolves. I was lucky enough to be able to cast the blessing faster than usual, and put one application on Jack, who was also being attacked by the wolves who weren't on May. I held the other three applications, hoping the others would get the wolves off in time.
Jack tried putting some of the life goo on the wolves, but it made no difference during the battle. Cor stopped the two that were on May, and hacked pieces off; they were solid inside, somehow. Eck-Clack hit one of the ones on Jack, then Cor got the last one on May. The two that Jack had sprayed started burning, but no quickly. The other two that weren't burned looked pretty much the same as when they were alive (if they were properly alive at all); Cor took the time to hack them up.
Thymelixsen tried to recapture the silvery spirals to put back into May, which was tricky, because they would float away far too easily. While he worked on that, I put the Touch of Purity on May, which restored her body, but she was still not within. Jack helped Thymelixsen herd the threads, about 12 in all, that had escaped May's body. Some were too high for either of them to reach, and Eck-Clack managed to snag those on the bone. The ones that Jack and Thymelixsen got were herded back into May's body, but Eck-Clack indicated that only those of us who were alive should use the threads on the bone, to Jack's frustration.
I checked May, and it was as if she'd been dead a few days already, and was going away exponentially fast. I had to do something if there was to be any chance of her not dying here, her life's work undone. I thought about what I was able to do, and realized it was possible this would be like bringing someone back who was long dead. I told the others I'd likely be useless for 1–6 weeks (as if there were any way of marking time here), would have to be carried around and such, then fell into Purity Within, hurtling fast.
I arrive where May was, talking with a long silvery gray Kafke with a long tail. He offered to bring us beyond to the one, to fix how things should be, which is perfection complete and restored. He said that once we were washed of time, this would all make sense.
I could still feel the connections back to the bone plane where the rest of the party was, and just barely being held by the Father, as if by the tip of my tail. I grabbed May's hand and tried to go back (wondering why I had spent any time at all talking when time was of the essence). We fell back, and it felt as if we fell through a net, into blackness, then through a cloud, and then we realized we were looking up, at which point we immediately covered our faces.
The others told me that they heard more of my voice than usual in the blessing, which I hadn't realized. It's a sadness, being this far from the Father.
I woke May, and she kept her face and particularly eyes covered as she told us about what had happened. She was talking with a silvery gray Ovahon, and it asked her for information it wanted before she went on. She asked whether it was about where we were now, or before, and it said both, that once it assimiliated her knowledge, it could fix the erros in both parts of creation, if she became part of the one. There would be no before and after, just understanding of all. He spoke to her in similar tones as to me, very calm, very reasonable. But we were both fairly sure that it was a rainbow, or perhaps, since it spoke of the one, the one rainbow (but then, how did the battle go on on the featureless plains if there is just one rainbow?).
May said that it said it wanted to get rid of imperfection. He said that May knew, or would know, but apparently not yet. When I showed up, he said that I shouldn't be there, but he would take me too, beyond in a direction that was a different direction than something I could point to, which made me ill to think about later. Except, as it turns out, not.
Eck-Clack and Tek Tek Turka were confused by May's return. Tek Tek Turka used the box to show me that May and I are much more rainbow infested than before, and May's structure is much more frayed than before. Eck-Clack gestured with the bone, and May recognized two of the threads as hers, though they looked the same as the others. She got close, and those two went in. May was less frayed after that.
Cor noticed that the bones of the wolf-things were riding on top of the sand, as if they were stationary, and he built a shelter using them as a base.
I so needed rest; the wolf attack had come just as I'd fallen asleep before. I was exhausted, and knew that I was missing bits of myself, as if grit had blown through and taken things. The others kept talking, but I needed to sleep, desperately.
Eck-Clack hit another one, but it wasn't hurt enough to die. Thymelixsen shot off some stars, and more of them attacked May. I saw that when May bled, there were silvery things spiraling out of her with the blood, curling out into the air, looking like the things on the bone. I could tell she wasn't doing well, with so many of the wolf-things attacking her so savagely, and decided that Touch of Purity was what was needed, as fast as possible, not His Holiness Revealed, which may or may not have any effect on the wolves. I was lucky enough to be able to cast the blessing faster than usual, and put one application on Jack, who was also being attacked by the wolves who weren't on May. I held the other three applications, hoping the others would get the wolves off in time.
Jack tried putting some of the life goo on the wolves, but it made no difference during the battle. Cor stopped the two that were on May, and hacked pieces off; they were solid inside, somehow. Eck-Clack hit one of the ones on Jack, then Cor got the last one on May. The two that Jack had sprayed started burning, but no quickly. The other two that weren't burned looked pretty much the same as when they were alive (if they were properly alive at all); Cor took the time to hack them up.
Thymelixsen tried to recapture the silvery spirals to put back into May, which was tricky, because they would float away far too easily. While he worked on that, I put the Touch of Purity on May, which restored her body, but she was still not within. Jack helped Thymelixsen herd the threads, about 12 in all, that had escaped May's body. Some were too high for either of them to reach, and Eck-Clack managed to snag those on the bone. The ones that Jack and Thymelixsen got were herded back into May's body, but Eck-Clack indicated that only those of us who were alive should use the threads on the bone, to Jack's frustration.
I checked May, and it was as if she'd been dead a few days already, and was going away exponentially fast. I had to do something if there was to be any chance of her not dying here, her life's work undone. I thought about what I was able to do, and realized it was possible this would be like bringing someone back who was long dead. I told the others I'd likely be useless for 1–6 weeks (as if there were any way of marking time here), would have to be carried around and such, then fell into Purity Within, hurtling fast.
I arrive where May was, talking with a long silvery gray Kafke with a long tail. He offered to bring us beyond to the one, to fix how things should be, which is perfection complete and restored. He said that once we were washed of time, this would all make sense.
I could still feel the connections back to the bone plane where the rest of the party was, and just barely being held by the Father, as if by the tip of my tail. I grabbed May's hand and tried to go back (wondering why I had spent any time at all talking when time was of the essence). We fell back, and it felt as if we fell through a net, into blackness, then through a cloud, and then we realized we were looking up, at which point we immediately covered our faces.
The others told me that they heard more of my voice than usual in the blessing, which I hadn't realized. It's a sadness, being this far from the Father.
I woke May, and she kept her face and particularly eyes covered as she told us about what had happened. She was talking with a silvery gray Ovahon, and it asked her for information it wanted before she went on. She asked whether it was about where we were now, or before, and it said both, that once it assimiliated her knowledge, it could fix the erros in both parts of creation, if she became part of the one. There would be no before and after, just understanding of all. He spoke to her in similar tones as to me, very calm, very reasonable. But we were both fairly sure that it was a rainbow, or perhaps, since it spoke of the one, the one rainbow (but then, how did the battle go on on the featureless plains if there is just one rainbow?).
May said that it said it wanted to get rid of imperfection. He said that May knew, or would know, but apparently not yet. When I showed up, he said that I shouldn't be there, but he would take me too, beyond in a direction that was a different direction than something I could point to, which made me ill to think about later. Except, as it turns out, not.
Eck-Clack and Tek Tek Turka were confused by May's return. Tek Tek Turka used the box to show me that May and I are much more rainbow infested than before, and May's structure is much more frayed than before. Eck-Clack gestured with the bone, and May recognized two of the threads as hers, though they looked the same as the others. She got close, and those two went in. May was less frayed after that.
Cor noticed that the bones of the wolf-things were riding on top of the sand, as if they were stationary, and he built a shelter using them as a base.
I so needed rest; the wolf attack had come just as I'd fallen asleep before. I was exhausted, and knew that I was missing bits of myself, as if grit had blown through and taken things. The others kept talking, but I needed to sleep, desperately.
