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[K158.26] somewhen beyond the Veil
May. 12th, 2009 10:02 pmJack and May headed out to talk to the blessed of the Hidden Lord outside.
The rest of us were inside the crashed ship, trying to excavate Eck Clack and Tek Tek Turka. Once we got the first one partly upright, he started to come to himself, and it was Eck Clack. He helped up getting Tek Tek Turka out. Tek Tek Turka had his box, but wasn't standing or moving normally.
Eck Clack asked if I could help, and though I knew that they are not flesh as we are, I tried using Purity Within anyway, hoping against hope that I would be able to do something helpful. Mostly, there was nowhere to go in, but there was one place that was receptive to energy going. Oddly, there was a Father presence coming back towards me, gently pushing me back, giving me the impression that it was dangerous. The Father felt different, too, as if this presence were Father to their race.
I told Eck Clack that I had tried, but wasn't able to do anything. He said that there had been another in their party who was "like me," a healer or fixer, and that he was one of the ones taken away.
Eck Clack then started digging around to find his weapon.
May and Jack came back, and May said that we needed to go right now: one of the blessed outside will kill us if he sees us again. The other one won't because we saved the bionlear, which he does not want undone. May also said something about how the bionlear is here, and that the seeds come from here. And that the blessed aren't priests, but claws, which have a different role, though I'm not sure exactly what.
Cor found where Eck Clack's weapon was, and Jack tried to wiggle down to where it was. There was a large jarring noise, and more lightning noises outside.
Then there was a huge electrical hit, brilliant blue lightning jolting us all (including Eck Clack and Tek Tek Turka), sizzling our hair. Tek Tek Turka was rather hurt, and Thymelixsen was unconscious. May bandaged him, and I used Purity Within on all of us except Cor, who withstood the attack much better than the rest of us.
Cor retrieved Eck Clack's weapon, and there was noise farther down the ship. I don't remember who told Eck Clack and Tek Tek Turka to leave, but someone did, and then Jack took the rest of us into shadow.
Immediately, a large feathery sort brightness pushed us away before we settled into the grays of the shadow realm. It's a very strange sort of place, not at all like the All-Wood, though I'd thought it might be similar. I kept feeling I could fall away, and everything in the real world was there, seen as its shadows, rather than the thing itself. Very disconcerting. And there were shadow entities that seemed to live there, not the shadows of particular things in the real world at all.
While we were in shadow, all touching Jack, May told us more of what she'd learned from the blessed. We are close to the edge of the trap.
We went to see what they were doing, going to the other side of the ship. It looked like they were fighting, with one of them throwing lots of energy bolts at the ship whenever he could. The other was trying to prevent him; neither was attacking the other.
We decided to go out of the shadows on the other side of the ship (the shadow realms don't work properly in most of this place, but in the ship and its shadows, it was like home (I wonder if that was comforting to Jack)), and run. We ate some setman tubers to be able to keep going so quickly.
And May told us more of what she'd learned. When she and the blessed first touched, she felt like they'd switched bodies but kept their own minds, and were its destroyed world. She was carrying his book, which she gave to him wearing her body, then they were in Ovahon lands, in their correct bodies. He is a claw blessed, a blessed that kills. Their priestesses would usually say to kill. He said that our world lives, and our roots are strong. We could break the rainbow things. It looked for a reason not to kill us, though it didn't want us to go over to the rainbows, which letting us live left as an option. May mentioned saving the orem in the Featureless Plains, and somehow in that, or in her mind, I'm not sure which, he saw the bionlear being freed. That, he wanted kept as we had done, which gave him a reason not to kill us (though apparently, that was not compelling to the other claw...).
The claw said that the lights the bionlear carried close to its chest are the roots. At the edge, there are thousands of seeds that the bionlear gets ready to grow and strengthen the roots (was the bionlear not being free what let our world get more vulnerable, without as many seeds it otherwise would have had?).
This place has no roots. The silvery threads are the roots, our connection to where we're from (how can consuming others' threads, as Eck Clack and Tek Tek Turka did, change them, I wonder?). Also, there are edgewalkers in the forest by the edge, and if they fall, it is worse than if they choose the rainbows. Also, there are ghosts. Which I don't know what that means, here, since when something dies, its life dissipates so quickly.
Beyond the desert and the trap are the forest and then the cities. Which is strange to imagine here, in any way I understand.
The edgewalkers are everwhere, not just in the forest. In other words, there is no actual edge at all, this whole place is the edge, and we just need to figure out what to do to reject the rainbow taint. Just. I wish I had any more sense of how to do that now than when we arrived.
We got to the edge of the trap, where the trees were moving intermittently, and were mostly empty of bodies. Ahead there was what looked like a forest, though before that there were big chunks of rock sitting at intervals, huge chunks of rock that looked like there was light on them high above; we were getting closer to the dawn. We saw a few markings that looked knuckle-like on the sides of the rocks. As we passed by, one stone turned towards us, then opened its huge hands, which had flexible fingers. It made us all cautious, but it never reached for us. It was floating just above the ground, and pivoted as we passed, as if it were watching us. Inside, I saw four blue lights floating. My guess is that this was the edge of the trap, a way of catching the kathel to put them in the trees; I wonder what those blue lights were, to entice them so.
We got to the forest, and while it was more like a forest than anything else we'd seen here, it was still strange. The grass was blue, and the wood greenish with black diamond-shaped crystal leaves, many of which had fallen. I touched one of the trees, wondering if it were part of the All-Wood, and was extremely surprised to find that it felt like flesh, though growing in what apparently is actual soil.
The rest of us were inside the crashed ship, trying to excavate Eck Clack and Tek Tek Turka. Once we got the first one partly upright, he started to come to himself, and it was Eck Clack. He helped up getting Tek Tek Turka out. Tek Tek Turka had his box, but wasn't standing or moving normally.
Eck Clack asked if I could help, and though I knew that they are not flesh as we are, I tried using Purity Within anyway, hoping against hope that I would be able to do something helpful. Mostly, there was nowhere to go in, but there was one place that was receptive to energy going. Oddly, there was a Father presence coming back towards me, gently pushing me back, giving me the impression that it was dangerous. The Father felt different, too, as if this presence were Father to their race.
I told Eck Clack that I had tried, but wasn't able to do anything. He said that there had been another in their party who was "like me," a healer or fixer, and that he was one of the ones taken away.
Eck Clack then started digging around to find his weapon.
May and Jack came back, and May said that we needed to go right now: one of the blessed outside will kill us if he sees us again. The other one won't because we saved the bionlear, which he does not want undone. May also said something about how the bionlear is here, and that the seeds come from here. And that the blessed aren't priests, but claws, which have a different role, though I'm not sure exactly what.
Cor found where Eck Clack's weapon was, and Jack tried to wiggle down to where it was. There was a large jarring noise, and more lightning noises outside.
Then there was a huge electrical hit, brilliant blue lightning jolting us all (including Eck Clack and Tek Tek Turka), sizzling our hair. Tek Tek Turka was rather hurt, and Thymelixsen was unconscious. May bandaged him, and I used Purity Within on all of us except Cor, who withstood the attack much better than the rest of us.
Cor retrieved Eck Clack's weapon, and there was noise farther down the ship. I don't remember who told Eck Clack and Tek Tek Turka to leave, but someone did, and then Jack took the rest of us into shadow.
Immediately, a large feathery sort brightness pushed us away before we settled into the grays of the shadow realm. It's a very strange sort of place, not at all like the All-Wood, though I'd thought it might be similar. I kept feeling I could fall away, and everything in the real world was there, seen as its shadows, rather than the thing itself. Very disconcerting. And there were shadow entities that seemed to live there, not the shadows of particular things in the real world at all.
While we were in shadow, all touching Jack, May told us more of what she'd learned from the blessed. We are close to the edge of the trap.
We went to see what they were doing, going to the other side of the ship. It looked like they were fighting, with one of them throwing lots of energy bolts at the ship whenever he could. The other was trying to prevent him; neither was attacking the other.
We decided to go out of the shadows on the other side of the ship (the shadow realms don't work properly in most of this place, but in the ship and its shadows, it was like home (I wonder if that was comforting to Jack)), and run. We ate some setman tubers to be able to keep going so quickly.
And May told us more of what she'd learned. When she and the blessed first touched, she felt like they'd switched bodies but kept their own minds, and were its destroyed world. She was carrying his book, which she gave to him wearing her body, then they were in Ovahon lands, in their correct bodies. He is a claw blessed, a blessed that kills. Their priestesses would usually say to kill. He said that our world lives, and our roots are strong. We could break the rainbow things. It looked for a reason not to kill us, though it didn't want us to go over to the rainbows, which letting us live left as an option. May mentioned saving the orem in the Featureless Plains, and somehow in that, or in her mind, I'm not sure which, he saw the bionlear being freed. That, he wanted kept as we had done, which gave him a reason not to kill us (though apparently, that was not compelling to the other claw...).
The claw said that the lights the bionlear carried close to its chest are the roots. At the edge, there are thousands of seeds that the bionlear gets ready to grow and strengthen the roots (was the bionlear not being free what let our world get more vulnerable, without as many seeds it otherwise would have had?).
This place has no roots. The silvery threads are the roots, our connection to where we're from (how can consuming others' threads, as Eck Clack and Tek Tek Turka did, change them, I wonder?). Also, there are edgewalkers in the forest by the edge, and if they fall, it is worse than if they choose the rainbows. Also, there are ghosts. Which I don't know what that means, here, since when something dies, its life dissipates so quickly.
Beyond the desert and the trap are the forest and then the cities. Which is strange to imagine here, in any way I understand.
The edgewalkers are everwhere, not just in the forest. In other words, there is no actual edge at all, this whole place is the edge, and we just need to figure out what to do to reject the rainbow taint. Just. I wish I had any more sense of how to do that now than when we arrived.
We got to the edge of the trap, where the trees were moving intermittently, and were mostly empty of bodies. Ahead there was what looked like a forest, though before that there were big chunks of rock sitting at intervals, huge chunks of rock that looked like there was light on them high above; we were getting closer to the dawn. We saw a few markings that looked knuckle-like on the sides of the rocks. As we passed by, one stone turned towards us, then opened its huge hands, which had flexible fingers. It made us all cautious, but it never reached for us. It was floating just above the ground, and pivoted as we passed, as if it were watching us. Inside, I saw four blue lights floating. My guess is that this was the edge of the trap, a way of catching the kathel to put them in the trees; I wonder what those blue lights were, to entice them so.
We got to the forest, and while it was more like a forest than anything else we'd seen here, it was still strange. The grass was blue, and the wood greenish with black diamond-shaped crystal leaves, many of which had fallen. I touched one of the trees, wondering if it were part of the All-Wood, and was extremely surprised to find that it felt like flesh, though growing in what apparently is actual soil.
