[SWP] ACT VI: if you can dream

[Anandi]

Three long days, and three longer nights, and Anandi did not eat for any of it. There was not even a single stupid bird left on the island, just sand and shrubs and stillness. And that damnable sun. She would be happy to never see that arrogant bastard ever again.

But there must be some meaning to all of this, some purpose to being here. There must be such a thing as fate that threw Anandi into this long suffering. There must be a reward. So she keeps going, although the sun wrings the water from her and the hunger clenches in her belly and she sees things that aren’t there (shifting sand and moving hoofprints) and feels things that are not possible (a tug, from the heart of the island to her navel, a certainty)

When she sees @Apolonia she thinks it might be a hunger-vision. She blinks and sees the rest of the horses gathered, and she tells herself that surely such a banquet must be another mechanism of her starved-mad mind. She blinks again and at the heart of the twisty-turvy oasis of flesh, she sees it. The relic. She has no idea what the relic looks like but she knows that’s it in the middle of the sandy clearing, playing the light like a harp. The animal in her grows very still and very tense. All the horses flash into focus suddenly, like a dream, and that horrible stillness, and the heat and the light and the sweat, dripping down, and the hunger tearing her apart, tearing her apart like she should be tearing something else apart... It all coalesces into a meaning, a certainty. This is where I am meant to be.


She blinks and Anouk is there, pressed to her temple, cool and certain.

“Anandi,” it says lovingly, “Anandi, get the relic. Do it for me, Anandi. Please?” And just like a knot that tightens and tightens and– suddenly– swallows itself– Just like that the hunger is gone, or at least momentarily forgotten, and Anandi scrambles forward, into the fray, because she would do almost anything for Anouk, and even more for herself.

a dream strayed into moonlight

art

Anandi is staying (:

STAFF EDIT***
@anadi has rolled a 4! She has been awarded +250 signos.