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ʟᴀɴ ᴡᴀɴɢᴊɪ | 蓝忘机 ([personal profile] downswing) wrote in [community profile] westwhere 2022-04-21 10:32 pm (UTC)

[ A... raccoon. No, perhaps a legion. There is a contingent of exotic, strange and bemusing creatures that men can trust to encounter on the road, a subset of carefully crafted and curated oddities.

And then there is this exchange and its twists and turns, steeper and more convoluted than the pains of the winding path beneath their feet, and he does not blink or stare or sigh or give territory to any of the ample hallmarks of his long suffering.

Only turns them, gentle in the steering, cutting their path so they need not cross the tallest portions of grass or garden, and decimate any insects or innocent creatures that lurk within. There is a deceitful, silent lushness of weeds and greenery that speaks of calm, and not the cracks that wrinkle the ground beneath, the start of dark waters. ]


We greet Ke-Waihu. Its people... have known suffering. Droughts. Curses. Eruption. [ Behind them, the looming heft of the Ke-Sanwon volcano breathes out hard warmth. ] Lend them care.

[ Not ridicule, not raccoons. ]

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