INTERLUDES by THE 25th CENTURY RAPTORESS
City of Flame Call of the Crystal
The sky slowly took on a tint of lighter blue again as Atakra stared on into the opaqueness of the sky, broken only by the needle that made the stars. He sighed. Everything seemed to hurt. Not physically. It was all in his mind, and he knew it. He leapt down the other side of the wall he was perched on and onto the sand. There was a strangely warped sound as the oneway barrier closed. "Sinithij." the word escaped his lips. That name'd been floating around in his mind for a while now. By now he was sure it was not a lost Flambian word. It was a name. And it meant power... or at least, it's syntax did. He trudged on for a while, knowing he would bump into no one. He took his time. The far horizon was a band of dark crimson by the time he reached the stoney part of the desert. He stopped. "Sinithij." he repeated, as if to confirm to himself that it wa not his imagination. Then again, this world was surreally cruel enough to be a dream. 'Nightmare.' he corrected in thoughts. Then he settled down, wrapping his tail around himself, and waited. * ToQ'd stopped fuming and calmly was walking away from the settlement. She'd had enough. She didn't want to be a blue anymore. Not a red either, of course... but maybe a myst. She knew that was impossible, yet yearned. For what? She picked the next best thing. Death. A quick one, though, that was for sure. Anything longer than a second would seriously not be worth the journey. She sighed. Sand was annoying. She flicked her wings open to the breeze of the night, icy. She ignored the temperature and launched herself into a glide over cold air, harder than at day, where warm air rose. She snorted and struggled not to crash, but finally got the right angle. After a few eons of gliding, she grinded to a halt - out of instincts, or so she felt - on the more stable surface of the rock desert that was the Myst's graveyard. She looked about. "Okay, so it does exist?" she blinked. "Cool." she smirked. A silhouette moved, small but visible against pale rock formations. She stared, narrowing her eyes a bit. "Hello?" she asked. The shape snapped it's snout up. KrA stared back at ToQ. Slowly they both noticed they were not the same color. They noticed, but somehow didn't care. KrA padded over to ToQ. "Sinithij?" he asked, blinking. For a moment, Toqena was baffled... it ... did remind her of something. Something vague. Something indefined. Something ... past. "Ye... yes, I think so." she blinked. Somehow the fact it sounded familiar equalled to a yes to his question. Whatever that was. For a short moment, a memory flashed up in her mind. "Oh gods..." she blinked. "You... those other three red and... Thashy, Takna and ... the Akere ... I remember you. And Dracenia..." KrA nodded, slowly, in awe aswell. He remember to. "That means something, doesn't it? Is that why we are here? Do we have to wait for the others? Aara? Annyera?" "I don't know. I... Takna vanished. Thashy did aswell. Maybe they ... met one another and realized they have something more in command than living as blue. Maybe they ... are somewhere else?" Toqena blinked at her own words. Why was she saying all these silly things? They made no sense... but somehow they did. KrA was circling her shape, blinking. "I don't know. I really don't. I just know that if you are Sinithij, my search ends here." Toqena reached out a paw. She didn't know why, but this person was strange... maybe it wasn't a red. Better to check. That thought didn't make sense, either, but she placed her paw onto his shape anyway... She didn't draw back as it resulted in a glow. The glow was warm, and it wrapped up around her slowly, as around him, much warmed than the freezing cold desert air, the stinging night. Then even the night began to be consumed, giving way to a perfect white shining, bright ivory, as if someone took a good eraser and began to remove the pencil landscape from bottom to the top. She let go... The glow continued to close in around them. Finally, the night was gone. As a myst on guard awoke from his nap due to the brightness, he could just see the amazing nova blink out. And both dragons were gone.