faithfulflame | Third Prayer: The Future is Written in Flames [Voice/Action] Forward Dated to June 13th

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Third Prayer: The Future is Written in Flames [Voice/Action] Forward Dated to June 13th

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Good afternoon everyone. For those of you who have not met me, my name is Rei Hino. I would like to extend my warmest greetings to all of the New Feathers. I'm sure that you will find something that you enjoy here, and that you will be able to make many friends. If you need any help, please feel free to contact me at any time.

On to other matters, though. Its taken me some time, but I have managed to prepare and purify a small area on the edge of the forest where I can perform flame readings and other types of fortune telling. I do not have much in the way of a shrine, merely a tent and a small consecrated area with which to work, so I hope that doesn't reflect poorly on the experience. In my world, I am a priestess, and I'm fortunate enough to have a gift when it comes to doing such things. If anyone is interested, I will happily use my blessings to offer a reading of your future. It would be my greatest honor to provide my services.

While I cannot guarantee perfect results thanks to our hosts weakening my powers, I feel that its not out of my reach to offer answers to simple questions that you may have about your near future. All that you need to provide is a question and a single hair for a flame reading, or just your question for other types of fortune telling. I have a set of tarot cards if anyone prefers that, but I'm more confident in my abilities at flame visions.

I hope that you find my fortune telling to be enjoyable!

[An elegantly drawn map pointing to an area on the edge of the forest is included with the broadcast pointing it out]

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[Rei can be found at the site depicted on the map for most of the day. Its simple enough, a tent that she and the other senshi had found in the item shop, erected as a sort of open air shrine with a carefully prepared brazier on the outside. Near the center is a small round table she'd hauled out of her house, and at the entrance is a bucket of purified water meant to cleanse oneself before a reading. A pair of crows, Phobos and Deimos, dart playfully around the area, hopefully adding to the impression of the site.

Rei greets anyone who comes by with a happy smile and a great deal of enjoyment. She loves using her gifts, and if it brings a measure of peace or enjoyment to someone she's more than glad]

(OOC: If you have Rei do a reading, I'll offer up a generic enough fortune, since they tend to be very vague most of the time. However, if you wish for something more specific or want to use the reading to set something up for future plans, foreshadowing, whatever, please speak with me and we can work out some details! Hit me up in a PM and we can work from there.)

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[ It's strangely silly to apologize for something you know nothing about. And yet he does so anyway. Rei might not know the full implications of what that vision was but Helios knows all too well and he knows what's going to happen to him. He'll swallow thickly looking at the floor as he does so. ] Y-Yes of course. B-Brave.

[ He gives her a waning smile which molds itself into a frown. ] I'm sorry that...your visions haven't been pleasant. O-On some level I-I wish they would have been... [ for her sake and for others. He can't imagine what other worse things she's seen today though. ]

[The contact was brief. Palm to palm for less than a moment- and Adele sees.

Blood. Bits of bone, fillets of tendon and carefully almost artfully peeled back skin. It doesn't shake her as bad as it should, not yet. It's terrible. Irreparable damage, even with magic- but. Just a possibility. A blow to her pride. A patient she cannot cure. It's nothing.

Not until it registers that those mangled hands are her own.

Then it is all she can do to keep from screaming. Whatever else Rei saw? She doesn't want to know. Not if that, the man that laughs and her hands are so clear in her mind's eye for a moment.

Adele stumbles backward, hand over her mouth. Whole. Unbroken. For now.]

What- what the hell?!

[Now she sterns up and grabs his icy hand. Her face is one full of determination and a pure, unwavering strength]

Stop. Apologizing. I am used to it. I am not a child. Death, tragedy, demons, angels. That is my life back home. Don't apologize for things that you have no control over.

[She's serious]

I do realize what that means, Helios-san. You may die. And for that I am sorry. But now that you know, you have the chance to change that fate.

It has! A few weeks at least.

[Rei walks down the hill and bows politely, noting the respectful pause and appreciating it. Manners were always nice. She remembered that was the way of the Old Kingdom though. The memories were fading like a dream, but some things remained]

Its a shrine, sort of. I don't have much to work with here. Its funny, the Malnosso shifted me into a Clayr, and in my homeworld, I'm a miko. A...kind of priest. I have visions, much like I did when I was in yours.

Oh... [Blinking in surprise Sabriel dips in a little bow in return, the gesture a little foreign but it felt like the polite thing to do. She did not expect that...honestly she thought if anything the Shift might have aged the young woman up a couple of years, not shifted her home world anchor. So, Rei underwent the same thing she did then. She can't help but feel a little sad, that much more alone in Luceti but she had at least made a new friend.]

It seems that even though we are temporarily from different worlds, our other selves are still...true to who we are.

Do you see why I didn't want to share that with you? Its too horrible for words, Adele-san.

[Rei's still near tears, and she begins to wheeze, coughing and sputtering. She'll be lucky if she doesn't lose her lunch at this rate, thinking of what she'd seen. The senshi had come across a great deal of many dark things in her visions, but usually they were from youma, or the Shittennou, not other people. The only reason she hadn't screamed before is because of Metallia, and the evil she'd felt from the Dark Kingdom.]

Nobody should have to see that...n...nobody...

[Rei chokes back more tears and turns to the older woman.]

Adele...

[Its all she can say]

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[ A wince as she takes his hand again. He might look a bit surprised and anxious at her actions. He didn't mean to treat her like that or come off as being that way. He certainly didn't mean to insult. ] I-I know. I-I didn't mean it like that. [ he's sorry. He really doesn't know what to say though. ] I-I didn't mean to-to insult you in such a way.

[ Another wince. ] I-I know. [ And he will try. Because he doesn't want to die again. He doesn't want to die by shift hunters or anyone else again. But how many times has anyone ever changed their fate completely and utterly? ]

Yes, its true. I am sorry, but I'm not actually a Clayr.

[She can't forget the words they had shared before though, and the moments where Sabriel had felt...not so alone had also been nice. It was like finding yourself confronted with a sad girl who you used to know but had lost contact with. A feeling Rei knew all too well]

Why don't you come and sit. We should talk, Sabriel.

...it happens here.

[The first coherent thought she can manage is that whatever, whenever that is? It. Happens. Here. While the Malnosso might be butchers- might be mad and warped and unpredictable but this. She knows that something like this? Comes from the hands of another person.

They are the only ones that are capable of such gleeful depravity.

For a moment she thinks she might be ill. She knows she will be ill, later. When she's not in this place. Adele rounds up all that she feels, all this bone chilling shock, the gut twisting panic, and locks it away.

Almost all of it.]

I'm sorry.

I should not have- I should not have come.

We're going to have a tough time of it when they come then. Red skies at morning...

[You know how it finishes.

That's how he interprets it anyway.

He shall... pass this on, then.]

That would be lovely Rei, thank you.

[Still paused by the outskirts of the tent Sabriel considers just how to go about going in to sit before taking the simple route of just asking. With a small smile she looks up at the other girl. She wasn't familiar with the rules of a 'shrine', there weren't any in Ancelstierre and the only one she can think of in the Old Kingdom is in the basement of Abhorsen's House.]

Do I need to do anything before I come in?

[She lets him go and goes over to a box on her table, opening it and pulling out a small piece of wood carved with intricate kanji, ornately and lovingly carved into the wood. She presses it into his hand, ignoring the cold]

Take this. It will help. I...didn't mean to sound so cruel, and you didn't insult me. I just...I...oh...I don't even know. I just don't want to see you give up.

Helios-san, you're a good person. I hate seeing bad things about good people, because they always apologize to me. Thats all. Just, be brave. Fight with all your strength. My charm will help you.

...Sailors take warning?

[Rei's not sure he understands though]

Those are pretty literal storms, Law-san. I just want to warn you, they didn't look like metaphors. I can tell you that. The weather is going to get very, very bad.

[And then she stops, thinking, before walking over to a box and pulling out a carved wooden object engraved with kanji. She returns, offering it to the odd man]

Take this. It'll protect you from bad weather.

Yes, I know. I'm afraid we will see more than bad weather though. [He smiles apologetically. The guy can get... very cryptic at times. Sorry Miss Rei.]

Thank you. ... what is it? [He inclines his head and dips into a slight bow of thanks. There's something... of power? around it.

It feels like it will be useful.]

Its a charm from my home country. Miko make them, and they protect you from harm. I hope that it helps, even if it just gives you comfort in dark times.

[She nods, understanding though. She hadn't shared with him the entire vision, of violence and terror. She'd given enough of that out today. No need to make a bad situation worse]

Adele...

[Rei wobbles back to her feet and turns, tears barely contained. This was all very, very shocking. But she still had a duty to perform. What good was she if she couldn't help Adele in her time of need. Even if thinking about it may make Rei sick to her stomach.]

Don't...don't apologize...I can't...no, I won't accept that.

[She blinks back more tears and marches over to a wooden box, pulling out a small charm, a piece of engraved wood. A warding charm against bodily harm. It may do her some good, give her peace of mind.]

You...you need to take this. I can't let you leave without it.

[She rushes over and practically thrusts the charm into the woman's hands, but when she touches them she remembers. Rei turns and retches, now completely incapable of keeping down her breakfast.]

Anything is welcome. Thank you again. [It wouldn't be out of place on him if he uses it as a sword chain charm.]

Stay well in these coming days, alright?

[He gives a faint bow again. Great respect coming from someone like Law. And he rises to leave]

[He takes the literal interpretation.]

I haven't slept in seven years. Even when I did, I never remembered my dreams.

You too, Law-san. I hope our next meeting is more pleasant.

So do I.

[And the pirate takes his leave.]

It...would appear that you are going to win a boxing match with a Gorilla from a video game. I think that is Donkey Kong, Mac-san. I must confess, I've given quite a few strange readings in my time, even here, but this is a new level of weird.

[Rei honestly, truly laughs for the first time today. None of these visions were coming out well, except for...of all things...a short little boxer from America]

Mac-san...does your world have talking animals? Or is it normal for animals to learn boxing?

S...s...SEVEN YEARS?! EHHHHHHHH?!

[OK, you kind of freaked her out. She's on edge from her other readings, but that is just weird]

Unless you are some sort of ghost? No. Though, its considered polite to purify oneself with water.

[She points to the small wooden bucket off to one side]

Wash your hands, left then right, then take a sip, and wash your drinking hand. Thats all.

[ He'll take with a shaky hand looking at it with a frown and then back up at Rei. He'll give her a small smile then. ] O-Of course. I, ah, I-I'll be sure to have it on me at all times as, as things draw closer.

[ As this impending invasion gets nearer and nearer. ] Th-thank you.

Of course, Helios-san. I'm sorry that I couldn't give you more help than that. When the bad things come, don't worry though. My charm will protect you.

[And if she can help it, so will Sailor Mars!]

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Third Prayer: The Future is Written in Flames [Voice/Action] Forward Dated to June 13th

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