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*you find yourself at the entrance to a strange maze under an open sky, the walls eight feet high and perfectly transparent, curved and winding rather than angled. if you tilt your head and squint, it looks like an enormous tangle of snakes, or perhaps one very large and complicated snake. here and there you can see flashes of colour, little panels of coral pink and sterling silver and emerald green and every other Aather colour there is, winking like eyes . . .

you'd think it'd be easy to see the solution to a glass maze, but it's not; it's set on an island of white light that wheels and coils and stutters and dips, never the same shape twice. it plays around your boots in an almost-friendly way, and doesn't hurt you to stare at, but it confuses your sight with strange reflections before you can work out where to go from outside.

Firebird is here, claws curled into the strange light, feathers glittering. she's on the same level as you for once.*

Mikage, my knight.

Edited 2012-10-06 18:01 (UTC)

My patron~

*fond . . .*

It is time, or almost time.

[barely glancing at the maze, all attention on Firebirdddd]

Feels like the month went by quickly!

Time speeds when the days are full, no? I do wish . . .

Hm?

It is a strange wish to have, but . . . being bound together a little longer would not have been so bad.

That doesn't sound strange at all to me~ But y'know, I'll still be your friend even when I'm not your knight!

Yes. I would like that. Friends...

*reaches out to squeeze his hands*

[squeezes back]

Right!

Time to see where you'll end up . . .?

Time to run and run and run~!

*she chuckles, and the gate into the maze swings open...

*Firebird has disappeared.

four copper objects hang in the air just inside the maze, turning slowly: a net, a feather, a staff, a shield. if you check in the net it also holds a bunch of random spare parts, enough to assemble whatever weapon you could imagine within reasonable size.

CHOOSE is engraved on the glass wall.*

I like this one!

[FEATHER]

*the feather comes loose. a bright sheen runs over its edges, revealing them to be razor-sharp; careful not to cut yourself!

to your left and slightly up ahead, a new corridor fades into view . . . you see glass stairs inside it, leading upwards, though through some strange trick they don't seem to rise above the rest of the maze at all.*

Oh~ sharp!

[and heading for the stair corridor, because new option is best option]

*a shadow not yours moves in the glass next to you, keeping pace.

the stairwell winds up and up to a split . . . you can hear slithery noises coming from the left, and strange mewing peeps from the right.*

[veering towards the peeping sounds, but slowing to eye that shadow]

Uh?

*it's fairly indistinct right now, but it seems to be the silhouette of someone burly in a cloak. kind of a familiar shape . . .?*

['-'a.... calls up a ball of zaiphon for a light, shoo shadow shoo]

*nope.jpg it gets sharper under the light, though it's still a silhouette.*

Creepy!

[t-turns off the light, continuing along the path]

*cheep cheep cheep cheep --

there's a clearing here with a bottle-green glass tree sprouting right up from the floor of the maze! there's a nest of glass twigs high up in the branches. you can hear the mew mew cheep cheep from up there, and there's a bright glow . . .

one of the chicks has fallen out! it turns out not to be a bird exactly, but more like a rather ugly griffinish thing, furless and featherless and gasping weakly on the ground.*

[BABY]

[PICK UP BABY]

*BABY STRUGGLES FEEBLY 8(*

Hey, hey, shhhh, you're okay. You're okay.

[PURRS AT BABY]

*peep peep peep peep 8(?!*

[prrr prrrr prrr chrrrrt prrrr]

Did you fall out? I did that when I was little, too.

*it wiggles and presses in close, clearly starved for heat.*

[tucks it more securely into the crook of his arm, generating some zaiphon for warmth from his free hand]

[and circling around the tree to see if it's possible to climb]

*it's slippery and more tricky if you're carrying the baby, but possible!

[going to climb! being very, very careful]

Up we go, baby~ be easier if we could fly, huh? But neither of us are old enough for that.

*it's settled for chewing on your sleeve.*

[maybe i could just kidnap the baby and keep it forever.......]

[checking out nest once he gets up in the tree; is it accessable?]

*you have to crawl out along the branch! there are two more peeping babies in it. they appear to be completely on fire?*

Lookit you guys, all toasty warm~

[THEN CRAWL I WILL '^' time to put baby back]

*the baby also sets on fire as you put it in the nest! it makes a high whistly noise.

something thumps on the branch behind you :B*

[....... looks behind him .......]

*that's a big flaming griffin perched there staring at you . . .*

.... good evening ...

*it makes a creeeee noise.

there's an unmistakeable air of 'wtf u doin here' about it*

Just returning one of your babies to the nest, little fella' fell right out. Nnnnnow if you'll excsuse me, I'll be on my way...

*it shrugs its wings a bit and leans forward . . . you might see something glinting in its beak. do you reach for it or no?*

[............ reaches for it]

Got something?

*...it noses your hand and drops a copper-wire key in it :X

there's a whirr of gears somewhere, though you can't pinpoint where it comes from*

Oh, hey! Thanks!

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