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this brilliant light is brighter than we've known; djinni - luster - 11-08-2018 — Luster — so we let our shadows fall away like dust ; @[Djinni] RE: this brilliant light is brighter than we've known; djinni - Djinni - 11-09-2018 She had wished once, lazily and with only half-intent, to know more. Decades later, a thousand attempts at something else have gone awry, and the genie has chosen less arcane methods to control what she has done. For the most part she ignores them, the little bits of awareness that arrive, unfiltered and drifting on the breeze. Djinni is mostly indifferent to the needs of others - and always has been, considering this a blessing - but there are some for whom she makes an exception. The boy growing inside her is one, his father and sister two others. The remaining list is only a few names long, a handful of faces that she considers minutely more valuable than any others in the sea of Beqanna. Luster, shouting for her missing boy, is one of them, and Djinni appears ahead of her in the woods in a shimmer of golden light. Dawn is barely touching the tallest redwood in the forest, yet the roan mare moves with frantic wakefulness. The genie blinks the sleepiness from her brown eyes, and when she opens them they are green again, focused on the girl who searches for her brother. "Why are you still here?" Djinni asks. So many have fled the plague to shelter in the safelands; why do they remain in the Taiga? She doesn't mean to be unhelpful; her priorities are simply different. Her curiosity is more piqued than her empathy in this moment. @[Luster] <3 |