To the North

Stormfollower · Post by **Stormfollower** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:48 pm

For only the third time in his life Stormfollower was a wolf again. Not a mysty phantom wolf like that he often had the shroud keeper engulf him in. This was once again the true exhaulted wolf form that only Tunares chosen may grant.
Emediately his heart raced and he gasped, the hightened sensations being almost too much for him . The half growl this emited sent shivers down his spine.
Lopping down the beach with great speed his eyes now saw the surf in its infinite fractles breaking on the shore, he could hear the trillions of grains of sand shifting under the backwash, and smell the miriad distinct sents of a world more clearly full of life. His muscles moved with impossible fluidity and ease and he felt each hair along his back as it stood straight up in raw excitement. Snapping at the foaming waves he rushed into the ocean, forgetting the race to taste at the salty sea. He senced time pass infinitesimally as his spirit swelled up to fill his new vast form.
He howled out to Jetamio in tragic triumph. Then sprinted off up the beach to try and catch her.

Stormfollower · Post by **Stormfollower** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:16 pm

Further up the beach and out of the wind Jetamio waited at the gap in the tall cliffs where an obviose roadway led inland again. Across its cobbled surface, in the warm air of the morning an unusual mist crawled out from the gateway and washed around her paws. It was very warm but not uncomfortably so. Like some primordial phantom of romance it writhed its way towards the sea as if driven by its own mind only to be obliterated by the wind as it passed beyond the barrier of thier leeward corner. Ahead in the pass it could be seen spilling out from holes and caves along the base of the high walls and joining the main current in its luxuriant roll outward towards the crashing waves of the wind blown ocean.

Stormfollower · Post by **Stormfollower** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:56 am

Once he reached her Stormfollower bade Jetamio enter the pass. Finding an alcove not too far in he resumed his human form with some reservation. He removed his clothes and dove deep into the hot water pool they had found there. Once he resurfaced he sat back against a rock and enjoyed the deep heat of the healing waters. The high wall echoed his jolly voice "Come on in Nearwife the water is hot..but it hath cooled enough on its long journey out from the depths to be quite soothing once thow hast grown accustomed to it" He extended his arms in the way of beconning to Jetamio.
"Once I wasn`t, then I was, then I wasn`t once more.
Again I am, and so art thow, Come in lets make one more."

Stormfollower · Post by **Stormfollower** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:38 pm

And so it was that Jetamio and Stormfollower set out across that windblown straight and climbed to a great height on the massive sacred mountain. There on a high step they met those who had come as witness. Each then passed thier hands through the binding stone. A ten foot oblong rock of green and red quarts wich at its heart had formed a natural hole. The touching of thier palms to each others signifying an unbreakable bond betweeen them and marrying them in the eyes of Stormfollowers kin and tribespeople.

Jetamio · Post by **Jetamio** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:39 pm

She marvelled at the view, but it was Stormfollwer that held her attention as the ceremony began. She held his eye as they touched palms through the stone and smiled at him with that glint in her eye. She spoke softly, only really loud enough for him to hear. "Make one more what?"

Stormfollower · Post by **Stormfollower** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:10 pm

"One more Wolfhearted one." He smiled back at her and squeezed her hand sofly in his own. The energies of both moved freely between them, through thier hands and through the ancient binding stone. Many warm moment passed. Then something mystical happened which would forever resound through the nothron tribes spoken history as being divinely inspired. The veins of green and red quarts began to shift and ossilate with an internal light. The company of kin and country were awe struck by the spectacle yet Stormfollower seamed not to notice as his gaze drank in only the light he witnessed shining from the soul of his eternal life-mate.

Jetamio · Post by **Jetamio** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:09 pm

She smiled back her consent, she would gladly bear him as many children as he pleased. Her only regret was that she would probably outlive them all. Perhaps there was a way to share her lifeforce with him, to let him live forever with her. But she felt he would rather live out his life and grow old...perhaps she could find a way to give up her eternal youth and grow old with him...if she could do it at all, she'd do it for him.
But her thoughts turned away from this as the stone circle seemed to come alive with light. She kept her eyes on Stormfollower, wondering if this was normal, but by the collective gasp of the crowd she guessed not. She squeezed his hand a little tighter, not really sure what to expect, and completely oblivious to the light radiating from her as she locked eyes with the man she loved.

Stormfollower · Post by **Stormfollower** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:00 pm

The light was only very faint and Stormfollower though at first it was only a product of his feelings for Jetamio but as it grew he began to realize that it was indeed real. Now Stormfollower had learned through his formative years the art of Aura reading and was trying to remember if he had ever heard of a golden aura. He had certainly never seen one until now but this assumption too became obviously false as the light brightened around her to a point that illuminated the binding stone as well. The shimmering green and red pulsed more frequently and with brighter lights too as if to match the light that shone forth from his wife. The gathering gasped and one by one fell to their knees. Stormfollower held tight to Jetamio`s hand and squinted now into her eyes as the lights grew brighter and brighter. Then a grating of stone against stone could be herd and the binding stone began to lift up out of the ground Stormfollower and Jetamio stood on a small platform around it apparently of the same stone pillar that now grew slowly out of the ground. The Shamans heart raced. He was now unable to look directly at her and had to close his eyes against the awesome golden glow of Jetamio. He still held firmly to her hand though now with both of his. He knew now they were being visited by the divine and that Jetamio was Her vessel.

At a height of fifty feet above the group the grating stopped and the pillar concluded its growth, bright lights of green and red streamed up and down it and flares of some strange green plasma flickered off its siddes like branches of some great unearthly tree. At its top Stormfollower and Jetamio were now indistinguishable from the bright glowing orb of gold light that encompassed it. All onlookers cast their eyes up for brief glimpses of what might be happening but the light was too great for more than brief glimpses. Silence reigned for a moment and all grew still. Slowly the orb opened like a flower. Then Jetamio spoke.

Her gentle elven voice was as clear to all as if she whispered directly into their ears but though clear and confident it came to each like an unearthly wind that was faint from traversing the gulfs between the worlds and had flown over ultimate horizons of ice bound deserts.. And she spoke in a tongue that none had heard but all had always known. And upon hearing her far, indesecrate voice all beheld visions of vast white horizons on continents that were as wide as the world and surrounded by seas too great for the enterprise of human keels.

This is what she said…

Jetamio · Post by **Jetamio** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:37 pm

"I love you."

The simple phrase, spoken so often by people wether they meant it or not, resonated through the crowd, touching each person differently.

"Let love bind us for eternity, let our last breaths be taken together, our last heartbeat beat as one." She spoke to Stormfollower, but it was felt by all, and in a sense was meant for them too.

She clasped her other hand around his two holding hers and looked him right in the eye. "We are one, forever." In the display of power around them, she had thought of a way out of her predicament, perhaps a message from the Mother Herself, Her blessing on their union. The orb around them had hidden her subtle spell, tying her immense Lifeforce to his. When he died, she would die with him, but he could choose the time. He could age as he was, and she eventually would too, or he could be Immortal with her. She had given him the gift, it was up to him how he used it.
She smiled at him, not sure if he knew what she had done, but reassuring him that he would not have to choose now. He could slow it or speed it up, even halt it as he pleased, but he could never turn it back.
She glanced down at the crowd kneeling before them down below. She was never really comfortable with reverance. She grinned at Storm again, and decided to give them a show. Very seldom did she add all the twirls and graces to magic that many seemed to. Her magic was subtle but to the point. Today she'd break her little custom.
She raised her hand, Stormfollowers still in hers and raised their joined hands above their heads. Tendrils of energy start to form around them.

"May Light prevail!"

With those words spoken she releases the gathered energy in a blast of golden light, streaks of green and gold shooting out like shooting stars from their conjoined hands. No one is hurt, it merely being a display of light the lit up the evening sky for miles around, a stunning display that she was sure even the mage would be impressed by.