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Immolation
Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:00Sleep isn’t coming easy. Seems like my body is dreading the dreams, and is fighting against getting rest. I might start performing rites to take charge of my dreams, so I can recover a bit. I’ve been feeling… flagged. The others know, I think.
I spent the day doing chores, checking traps - the last while had got me an abundant bounty. Three beavers, four squirrels, two marten, a coyote, and one last otter. With spring around the corner, I pulled my traps for this winter. I didn’t do bad for only a month. I think I could have done better if I had more time to prepare. As it is, I think this is a nice harvest for what little time I had. I skinned them all out and began drying them, and that took me most of the day.
( Slug seems to know something's up )
I wanted to collect my thoughts, so I went to go make a fire and stare at it. It wasn’t big enough and my eyes kept wandering, so I went sideways, and made a big one there. I was hoping to attract some more enigmatic spirits, so I might work through my thoughts better. Instead, the fire was large enough that a small elemental came and payed attention to it, but it was ignoring me. All the same, I had a hard time organizing my thoughts.
Unfinished Business came, wondered why I was making such a big fire. I told her big fire for a big problems, but when she kept asking, I shut up. Instead, I talked to her about the totems for our pack. I ‘picked her brain’ for a bit, figuring out whether she could be a good fit for Uktena. She has some… wendigo thoughts, but seems like she could be a good fit. Of course, words alone are nothing; I need to see how she behaves. Still, I have good hopes for her as a packmate.
( Samantha learns I wasn't always a woman, and pokes and prods )
( When the hell did self-immolation become reasonable?! )
Unfinished-Business thought I was insane. Maybe I am. This… is going to take a small while to heal.
To think I’ve been so paranoid about my fur catching fire for the last 8 years. After that? Hah. Fire is nothing.
I wonder if I can get the other elementals to teach me their signs, too? I could master all four, and call for them at will…
After I heal, anyhow.
I spent the day doing chores, checking traps - the last while had got me an abundant bounty. Three beavers, four squirrels, two marten, a coyote, and one last otter. With spring around the corner, I pulled my traps for this winter. I didn’t do bad for only a month. I think I could have done better if I had more time to prepare. As it is, I think this is a nice harvest for what little time I had. I skinned them all out and began drying them, and that took me most of the day.
( Slug seems to know something's up )
I wanted to collect my thoughts, so I went to go make a fire and stare at it. It wasn’t big enough and my eyes kept wandering, so I went sideways, and made a big one there. I was hoping to attract some more enigmatic spirits, so I might work through my thoughts better. Instead, the fire was large enough that a small elemental came and payed attention to it, but it was ignoring me. All the same, I had a hard time organizing my thoughts.
Unfinished Business came, wondered why I was making such a big fire. I told her big fire for a big problems, but when she kept asking, I shut up. Instead, I talked to her about the totems for our pack. I ‘picked her brain’ for a bit, figuring out whether she could be a good fit for Uktena. She has some… wendigo thoughts, but seems like she could be a good fit. Of course, words alone are nothing; I need to see how she behaves. Still, I have good hopes for her as a packmate.
( Samantha learns I wasn't always a woman, and pokes and prods )
( When the hell did self-immolation become reasonable?! )
Unfinished-Business thought I was insane. Maybe I am. This… is going to take a small while to heal.
To think I’ve been so paranoid about my fur catching fire for the last 8 years. After that? Hah. Fire is nothing.
I wonder if I can get the other elementals to teach me their signs, too? I could master all four, and call for them at will…
After I heal, anyhow.
