Mountain Peak Role-Play

[Cody_Ironpiper]

"No, I... I don't even know how I got these. But... I don't Think I wanted them..." Grace trailed off, thinking about something.

"Hey, Did you hear that?" Cody asks looking around.

@Emily_Purplebottle. This might be a good time for your character.

[Emily_Purplebottle]

The wind was sharp and cold, blowing through a broken window in one of the Sanctuary walls. It had been a long time since she had been here. The only real home she had had.

She closed her eyes, her face frowning angrily. Why. Why did they leave me?

Opening her eyes, she looked around the abandoned sanctuary. They don't understand how I felt.

Voices drifted on the breeze and she spun around, her white wings flared. A door was cracked open: the medical bay.

Creeping closer, she pulled her wings tight and leaned against the wall outside the door, listening.

"Everyone here at the sanctuary can fly, and, as far as I know, you're looking at everyone." Someone said, a man.

"You're the only ones here?" A girl whimpered.

"Sadly so," The man replied. "The rest of the wynged were forced to retreat." She sneered at the words from her hiding spot.

"There are more of you?" The girl asked.

"There were, at least."

"Where did they go?"

"I'm not sure." The man answered.

Lier.

"Oh." The girl sounded disappointed.

"Don't tell me you've never dreamed of flying." An older female voice said.

Suddenly a dragon appeared around the corner of a hall. And she tried to shoo it away with a wave of her hand. "Moondust no!" She hissed, missing what the girl said next.

"Hey, did you hear that?" The man asked.

She glared sternly at the dragon and it shrank under her gaze. "Let's go." She stalked to the broken window and leaped onto its frame, stretched her wings, and leaped out, her wings catching the wind. Moondust soared past her as she glanced back to see a figure in the window.

"You'll pay." She whispered as she tipped her wings and soared into the shadow of a cliff and disappeared around the edge.

[Eerie_Coppernight]

I pricked up my ears and listened. Even with my enhanced hearing, I only caught unintelligible muttering and thumping. I thought at first it might be somebody, but that was unlikely. It was probably a combination of wind and wild rodents. Racoons did make odd noises from time to time. I turned my mind back to the child.

"Whether you wanted them and how you got them is another matter. Now that you've got them, you need to decide what you're going to do with them."

[Cody_Ironpiper]

"Would I... really have a choice?" Grace asked, "If I can't remove them, what's the point of not learning using them."

Cody was still looking off into the distance. "I'm sorry, but I need to go, that thing I heard, I'm going to check it out."

"Ok... I'll stay here with... Nightflight?. Grace said.

[Eerie_Coppernight]

I sat down on the bed again as the medic went out.

"So, what is your name, young one?"

[Cody_Ironpiper]

"My... my name?" Grace asks. "it's... Grace."

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Cody walked outside the sanctuary into the cold winds of the mountain top and looked around. His eagle-like eyes were searching every hiding place in sight, yet, he couldn't see anything, or anyone, sneaking about.

Satisfied, Cody turned back toward the building.

[Eerie_Coppernight]

"Grace," I thought with an internal chuckle, "How little you understand that name."*

"A lovely name, Grace. Perhaps your flying shall be like it."

[Cody_Ironpiper]

"Um, Thanks?" Grace, then looked back at her wings. "how do these things... my... my wings, Work?"

[Eerie_Coppernight]

I circled around her staring at the wings in question.

"To be frank, I don't know. You might give them a flap and see what happens."

[Cody_Ironpiper]

"A flap?" Grace asked.

She focused on her wings, putting all of her energy into moving them. After a moment, the wings moved slightly.,

"I did something!" Grace said excitedly.

[Eerie_Coppernight]

"Yes, darling," I said with a smile, "You flapped. It's a small step, but a step nonetheless. Your wings will, in all probability, get larger and we can move on to gliding."

[Cody_Ironpiper]

Grace didn't like the ideas at first but... maybe they weren't so bad.

"How's it going over here?" Cody asked as he flew in.

[Eerie_Coppernight]

"She'll be fledged in due time. I think she'll make a wonderful flyer once she gets the hang of it."

The girl didn't seem so sure of my words, but I put a wing around her.

"You'll be fine. You won't fall too often."

[Cody_Ironpiper]

"Um, thanks?" Grace said, "I hope I don't fall, but these wings... My wings, they're so hard to move, How would I fly?"

[Eerie_Coppernight]

I stared at the wings again. They were Fog-powered, of course, and the lack of Fog had made them rather more cumbersome. As I continued to examine them, a smile spread across my face. Oh, if the Empire knew what they had built, their fog-hardened hearts would break.

"I believe I might be able to help you there."

I stepped back, still holding the drooping metal tips in my hands.

"Hold your breath. Make a wish. Count to three."

Come with me
And you'll be
In a world of pure imagination
Take a look
And we'll see
Into your imagination

As Aether drove out the Fog in her body, Grace's breath came short and nervous. I continued to hold her wings as they began to droop a little less.

We'll begin
With a spin
Travelling on wings of my creation
What we'll do
Will defy
Explanation

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to roam the sky
There's nothing to it

The wings were growing again, apparently Aether was stimulating development. My smile broadened. If this meant what I thought it meant, we may have more of a hope against the abominations than I first thought.

There is no
Life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly wish to be

The last of the Fog was truly gone, and the girl was shaking in every limb. I should probably explain Aether after I'm done, but I'm not done yet.

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to roam the sky
There's nothing to it

There is no
Life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly wish to be

[Cody_Ironpiper]

As the woman sung, a purple substance appeared to be flowing into Grace's wings, and she began worried.

What's she doing? Grace thought.

The pain in her back increased slightly, and grace looked toward her wings, they were growing, right before her eyes. A pain shot through Grace's wrist, and she brought it up to her eyes. some kind of implant had grown. It looked like a meter, of some kind. What did it measure though?

After the woman had finished her songs. the green fog that had been surrounding Grace since she had awoken was gone. But, her wings looked the same.

As if by second nature, Grace flapped her wings, and lifted off from the ground.

"What's happening?" Grace thought out loud as she began decending.

As she touched down, Grace again looked at her wrist. The meter had gone down slightly, but it was still high enough.

"I think... the green fog stuff is powering my wings somehow."

Grace had also stopped producing fog, as that was only occurring to speed up the growth process.

[Eerie_Coppernight]

I took Grace's wrist and examined it.

"How very interesting. Mine is in my chest so you can't see it, but this placement might prove more useful."

I moved around to her back again to look at her fully grown wings.

"You are right, the green fog stuff is powering your wings, though I'm not sure I can say willingly. My Aether, it seems, has overpowered your fog and forced it to fully fledge you. The meter," I took her wrist once more, "is to monitor fog levels. If it ever gets to nothing, you might lose flight entirely. I think, though I'm not sure, that you will probably use fuel a lot more quickly than I do."

[Cody_Ironpiper]

Grace looked down at her wrist.

"So, I need to make sure this doesn't reach zero?"

The woman nodded.

Cody broke into this conversation. "But, How did she fly, she has had no training."

[Eerie_Coppernight]

I turned, rather startled, to the young medic. I had not noticed him during my examination of the girl and her wings.

"She hasn't flown, not in the technical sense anyway. A short burst off the ground, yes, but no real soaring or swooping. That will come with practice. Besides," here I smiled at the astonished lad, "I never had any training."

[Cody_Ironpiper]

"She hasn't flown, not in the technical sense anyway. A short burst off the ground, yes, but no real soaring or swooping..." That's what the woman said.

Grace looked down. Oh, I guess I didn't fly then. she thought sadly.

"But, It felt effortless, like, I wasn't even trying to fly, I just thought about flying, and it happened." She said.