Visit to Nede

She blinked suddenly at his question and wondered "A.... Butterfly?" It wasn't that she did not know what they were, but the thought of trying to change her shape into one "I- I'm not sure I can..I can try... but.. I have a feeling it will have the same effect as when I tried to change into a tree..."

She remembered quite clearly the headache she got from it when it didn't work. She shook her head "I don't think its a good idea to try.." She followed quickly as he lead her down the street, her mismatched eyes taking on a curious look when he had turned to walk backwards. She kept herself at about the same distance from him as she questioned "What..No why. Why are you walking backwards like that?" She was more curious about the intense stare that she was given, unknowing what he was thinking of. Unable to tell if it was good or bad her expression took on a mixed look of worry and curiosity.

"What happened when you tried to change into a tree?" Once Noah noticed her look of anxiety and curiousity on him, his eyes would squint. What's she thinking of? He turned, walking side by side with Endellion. Noah can be abit fidgety sometimes, which one would be able to tell, with his constant travels over Aenied. Perhaps walking backwards is a way of manifesting his own impatience and desire to move about. Who knows.

Noah wondered to himself just how being a tree felt like. He wouldn't think that a tree would be able to think much, but there have been stories about talking, magical trees. Perhaps they really do exist. That would be grand, to meet a magical tree. But then, how would it feel like to transform, and take the shape of a pretty much ordinary tree? Noah doubt that it'd be much fun, since the tree can't really move about, save for perhaps the deep roots upon the ground. If Noah had a choice, he'd choose to be a person. That's fine with him, with the freedom it grants.

"Horrid horrid headache! It lasted for days, made me miserable.. I don't know why but I think It would turn out the same, just one of those gut feelings..." She then took on a thought full look, still curious about him and what he was thinking of. He hadn't answered her question but had simply started walking normally, it was a little bit confusing but she soon figured it was nothing to worry about. Twitching the fingers on one hand she wondered if it would take alot of effort to try and change into a fire-breathing creature. She also wondered if she would be able to breath fire.

It was an interesting thought, she realized it would likely be smart not to face Noah in case she was unable to control it. Endellion doubted he would like it much to be set on fire, in fact she was quite certain he would get upset with her. Smiling slightly at these thoughts she wondered just how upset he might get at being accidentally lit on fire, she then shook her head slightly to clear such thoughts, however innocent the reasons would be she decided that she should definitely NOT set him on fire.

Noah tilted his head, discerning apperception fixated upon Endellion. "Well, I can contro--" He was cut short by the ground shaking beneath them. Noah's fist clenched, and the sky above them suddenly grew dark. His vision lifted to the heavens, shocked and curious as of what happened. Lightning cackled across the sky, threatening the very harmonious patch of skies. There were screams as people raced about; some of which possessed the ability to sense the alternation of mana's grand patterns called out that the mana fields are spiking, or something of the sort. Noah couldn't exactly understanding them.

He grasped Endellion by the wrist, and raced onwards down the street, for the edge of town to exit. People leapt out of the way; they would, for Noah possesses quite brawny a build. He knows for sure something is going wrong with the land of Aenied, but he doesn't know what. He would find out though, that much is for sure. "Do you feel it?" Noah felt his fingers twitching rapidly, nervously. The energy in the air that governed the magic use of all people're getting wild; the omen of such is the storm above their heads, raging and darkening above them in the bludgeoned skies.

For the first time, Noah felt fear.

She was happy listening although her curiosity to his words was cut off much like his words by the shuddering ground. She jerked back one step and halted, the ground was becoming dark! Wide, mismatched eyes, turned upwards to the darkened sky, flinching as lightning cracked threw those frightening skys. One might have noticed she was had slightly lowered away from the sky as she looked around at the people who were running, clearly confused over this all.

The confusion she felt did not last long, for she felt Noah's hand take hold of her wrist, she looked down for a moment but it was almost as suddenly as she looked down she was pulled forwards, nearly onto her own face. Her feet soon caught up with her wrist however although her panicking mind was still on the sky and the ground below, something was wrong and she had the urge to change her shape, become a horse and flee until she could do so no longer, but she did not. "Something, I'm not sure what 'it' is.." How could she not? Her ability's caused this sensitivity, much like her ability to smell better and see in the dark, and even to feel rain coming long before it does. But it was a sure thing that she had never felt anything like this before, and so she followed him, swiftly matching his pace a little behind him for he seemed to clear the way well. Now she was wondering if it was a bad decision to come here.

They quickly reached the edge of Nede without much interruptions, and Noah approached the Clearwater lake. The watery depths were churning. Noah remembers that he once thought the ocean so peaceful, that no storm could disrupt its graceful flow. But something apparently did. The lake shook, and Noah could scarcely see the sea creatures below trying to flee in terror. The sky above continued to roar, and a thin streak of lightning shot downwards, striking upon the center of the lake. How peculiar. Lightning that hit bodies of water.

The ocean's course became suddenly fierce, and water flew up from the lightning's assault in a minuscule wave. Noah felt tendrils of his fine hair sticking to his face as the water splashed against him, wetting the entirety of his shirt. He stepped back, a clear drop of liquid gliding smoothly down the bridge of his straight nose, to his strong-jaw, and hitting the ground with a barely audible pop. "There is a disturbance." Noah's voice was quiet, obviously concerned. There was an ominous atmosphere about them, one of which Noah couldn't identify as safe. He turned back towards Endellion after regaining his blank composure, "Lets see how the town is dealing with this." With a nod, Noah stepped ahead and headed back to Nede; his mask dropped, and once more fear sparked in his depthless eyes, then diminished. He must remain steady.

She sighed as they reached the lake and was able to stop "Whats going on here?" She asked a question she knew he wasn't able to answer and she realized this. She stared at the waters of the lake, it seemed so rough compared to what she thought a lake of its size would look like. She soon understood it as lightning struck it, a very unnatural seeming thing she thought, looking to Noah with a worried expression she could see he was looking to the lake. Looking back she realized water was coming up and with the lightest of yelps she turned and leaped, her form changing before she hit the ground.

Agile cloven hooves hit the ground only to leap again to avoid being splashed by the water, although fine droplets caught her form it was not like she had been splashed like him. Turning to him she looked at him, an odd sight she must be, a black doe. Large ears lifted towards him and she moved back next to him, still her eyelashes were white on one side. Stopping at his side she looked at him, he had only stepped back but he was clearly wet. She snorted lightly as he spoke and she looked back at the water, it was all very wrong. But Noah was going to go back to the town? The place the ground shook so badly? She stood there and stared at him then sprung after him. Changing back she looked to his face and saw something so unlike this person, this new friend. Fear.

Noah broke into a powerful run, long legs carrying him into the town of Nede. People ran about screaming, pointing at various objects. Someone pointed at a tree, of which turned to an unnatural purple hue. Noah stepped towards the tree, placing his fingertip daintily against the front of it. Sparks flew as soon as his finger pressed against the smooth texture of the tree, and Noah recognized the energy that shot into his body. He felt an intense jolt, and stepped back some.

"Something is the matter with the energy in the area." Whether this event is occuring only in Nede, or throughout the whole of Aenied, Noah does not know. He glanced over his broad-shoulder, to the doe nearby. It recognized it as Endellion, and gave a curt nod. "We must check the whole of this land. Perhaps this is only happening in Nede." Noah glanced up to the heavens above, and the storm raged on. Keen eyes moved to the others that stood nearby, and he saw a man he remembers possesses no extroadinary abilities. Sparks flew from the man's fingertips, causing soil to fly up from his untamed manipulation. Something is wrong here.

She watched threw uncertain eyes as he touched a purple tree that people were pointing at, she wanted to tell him it was not a good idea but she was certain he would not have listened. Simply staring with a confused look for a few moments, she flinched slightly with each roar of thunder that she knew was so wrong.

As she heard him she nodded and had by that moment returned to her human form for communication reasons "Well.. Get on, I'm faster than you! Just tell me where you want to go, or pat my neck.." Her shape changed, back to that equine form she had first been in when she had come across him. Ears flicking back as she lowered herself to her front knees almost a little too quickly so that he could sit astride her back, although now instead of flinching with the thunder and flashes of lightning her ears twitched.

It didn't take her long after she saw the soil flying up to wonder if this would affect all magic. Magic was in her blood, it was racial from what she knew, and if it was magic affected she wondered what this would do to her. It was soon a frightening thought that this could easily cause her death, it was as though all things magic were haywire and she wondered if it failed if it would hurt her, change her back, or just keep her from changing back. A frightening thought indeed and she knew it showed, she was afraid and did not know how he expected to do anything if it was just Nede.

People about were running about in terror, and a glance tipped off of Noah's shoulder, lingering upon Endellion. He could almost feel her own apprehension. As far as Noah knows, a calamity like this has never happened in Aenied before. The soil beneath their feet is still young, for this land was first created a few years ago. In retrospection, Noah introspected. Reminiscences rushed through his head, of the days when he assisted Aenied's revolution, to create this realm. With these thoughts in mind, Noah found the strength to continue intrepidly.

He gave a nod, and as soon as the transformed anatomy of Endellion's lowered to allow him to come astride her, he leapt. His fingers curled against her flesh, and he pulled himself onto Endellion's back. He leaned forward in preparations for rapid transportation, and whispered against her twitching ears, "Bring us out of Nede. Go north and to the east."

Noah intends to go to the north Meeting House of the Council of Aenied. Perhaps someone there would meet him to provide him efficient information. If not, it would at least provide him a clue of just how far this storm is reaching. He twisted his torso slightly, glancing over his shoulder to Nede as they sped away. "I will be back." He mouthed this, and placed his perspirating palms upon Endellion's back. It's time to continue on.

The corners of her mouth wrinkled slightly as she tilted her head watching him, it took little to know he was there for she felt the weight and gave him a moment to settle himself then she rose, shifting her weight off her cannon bones so that she could get the strong hooves back under her. After she had risen she felt him leaning forwards, if she had told him that she could feel each shift in his weight he may have thought her to be bluffing but she could, her ears tilting back to him before she turned. Endellion was Hoping he was a good rider she started with a few steps at a walk, getting her directions correct as she turned before she moved to a floaty trot, soon followed by another increase in speed.

Endellion was glad that the sounds of her hooves upon the ground were enough to draw attention that people moved out of her way, of course most would move out of the way if such a large creature was running threw the center of the street. They were soon leaving Nede, and she couldn't help but be glad for it. She felt him moving as he was looking back and then her ears pricked forwards feeling his hands upon her back and hearing thunder once more her ears swiveled to press back, laying amongst the unruly mane that fluttered with her hoof falls.

[Exit to Meeting House]

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