morning after the mass dream
skill: soothsayer
The sunlight peaks over the horizons of the Highshear Cliffs, casting its golden rays over the Druid's Rise. Long shadows stand still and tall, the monument of large stones unwavering, but holding down only darkness that the sun does not reach. The search had run the Moon and Sun ragged. Aelia, no matter how many puddles of rainwater she slurped, still felt weak and dehydrated. The water didn't cure the slight burns that crept up Aelia's tufted ankles, nor fatten her starting on her emaciated form. Not many prey animals stuck around after the river turned to poisonous ooze; they were having to resort to desperate measures for food. Insects, plant matter, whatever they could pick at. All in all, it was looking bad for the Highlands. Who knew how much time longer they had left before the plague spread to the furthest reaches?
It had been a stark awakening; the dream that overtook her sleep was a restless one. She'd tossed and turned, but never woke, the past being played out before her very eyes — trying to tell her something. This time, the dream was not sent as a warning, but as a helpful notion in their hunt for runes.
'Search the broken edge.' — 'It is the hunger.'
Her lunar eyes flash awake, the voices still echoing in her head. 'The broken edge?' Her thoughts immediately flash back to the memory of meeting Thaddeus on the edges of Behemoth's Brim and then the wicked territory that lay further past it — Leviathian's Sepulcher. She remembered stories about that place as a kid — where the wolf dragons lived. She wondered if they were still out there, haunting the jutting landmark. 'Could that be it?'
She can't sleep with it on her mind, so she left the outcropping of rocks (separate from the monument farther off) and walked herself towards the fresh water source that she'd stumbled across. A small part of a lake that led into the Great Woodlands, a place she'd never been, but truthfully, was seeming like a better option than the Highlands... Could she get her mothers to move just for a little while? Maybe this dream... It would encourage them. It was a sign, the tides were turning, secrets were being revealed, and in time, this curse would lift. It had to. The Five wouldn't let them drown in the ooze.
it is assumed Amaris is somewhere nearby since they are currently traveling together!
