by Cyrano » Tue Oct 09, 2018 7:08 am
name: - Ringo --- gender: - female --- spirit animal: - king cobra
story --- (why? this spirit animal): "I hate it," she says one day, looking at her perfectly manicured nails with spots of broken gems used as decoration. She clicks her tongue and then looks at her other hand. They're so identical and immaculate that it's hard to tell the difference. "I hate it."
Ringo doesn't wait. She takes her umbrella from the corner and spreads it open inside, in front of the foreign clan's emissary. They gawk at her, spluttering, disbelieving, how dare she, but she fits the umbrella's handle over her shoulder and walks out.
Clan politics are more suited to their matriarch, with her friendly eyes with those hidden edges behind them like they've seen a thousand lives, a thousand fires all snuffed out. "It's disgusting," she says once more.
But her feet stop halfway across the clan clearing away from the guest house and her pupils slide to the side of her face like she's trying to look back. The foreign emissary barely steps out in a fit of barely controlled rage and Ringo smiles.
"This clan!" they cry, and Ringo grins. "This clan is f—!"
She turns her head and gives them a smile, her eyes all sparkling like jewels and red, red rubies. She pushes one edge of her perfect manicure into her bottom lip, feigning innocence.
"Emissary," she says, all sweet saccharine like honey that drips from her lips. "Emissary, it is disrespectful. I will have to tell your clan about your cursing on our sacred ground."
"Disrespectful—"
I hate it, she says. It's disgusting, she says. But how can she—how can she say it, her eyes like a predator and her finger curled in her hair—how can she truly say she hates clan politics, when she revels in the hunt so much like a cobra ready to strike...
extra---: There are two statues standing guard at the mouth of the valley that Ringo resides. The first is a crumbling stone unicorn, layered in wreathes of daisies. The other is a large glass cobra, called Arin in glittering gold armour, his neck caught between two saplings. He shines in the sun, throwing rainbow reflections across the path. Even with the unicorn's delicate looking state and the shine of the guardians scales, Ringo stays silent in respect while passing the beautiful cobra, and one day something, no someone was slinking through the shadows.
There are whispers that neither statue started out as such, but that they were both living beasts, once, the guardians of the water palace. It is said that the Cobra statue was once a knight, that it was his job to stand and keep watch over the gates, but as he grew older his body aged to the point where he was no longer able to keep his watch duties. He sought the help of mages, and they built him a glass body that would never age. His spirit was placed inside, and now he can stand at the gates with the stone unicorn, ever watchful of those who enter. But his spirit yearned for Ringo and called for her, All at once Arin was once again alive and had a guide and her name was Ringo.
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Cyrano on Fri Nov 09, 2018 2:34 pm, edited 6 times in total.