azrael
What did he believe? There were so many answers to that question, and so many layers. He believed as all the shed-stars did, in the powers of the stars. The People say that Caligo was once the night sky, and that the stars were birthed from her. We believe that the stars can see our future and our past and they hold our very fates in their light.
The shed-stars were an extreme sort of tribe, worshiping the sky with a fervor unmatched by many in Novus. It was much more likely that in her journeys through Denocte, Boudika would find many less pious and even unreligious among their ranks. The beauty of such a place was in their freedom to choose, and to tolerate and coexist with one another.
Of course, she probably wasn’t asking about his religion. Instead, he is certain she speaks of the eclipse itself. Without taking his eyes from the now almost fully-red moon, he continues. I cannot know what the fates have in store for us now. For the balance has shifted. War will come, and with it, destruction and suffering. His voice is quiet and pensive, helpless to stop what has already been proclaimed.
They will ask us to fight, he looks toward her at last, turquoise eyes roaming unabashedly over her frame, as if to size her up. The center cannot hold for long without our queen… and all of us will be called upon for some role in the fight ahead. Though he could not know where he could add value, Azrael knew that inevitably he would be included in this call to arms. As a priest and a magician, he had little to give to such a cause… but he would stand beside the People – bleed with them, and mourn with them.
What do you believe? He turned the question back to the leonine mare, all attention focused on her as he waits beneath the darkening sky. Only his turquoise glow seems to pierce the shadows which covered the moon, creating an eerie sense of otherworldly pallor to the scene. The wind begins to pick up, driving a chill to the air, and spurring a flurry of snow to fall upon them. Shifting it from his shoulders, he waits for her response, while the world around them turns more to winter by the minute.
@Boudika
