by lex » Sun Jul 24, 2016 3:01 pm
he stood in the rain, lamenting the past, as one does.
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❝ the sea is in his fur,
but the wind is in his being ❞
☁ ☁ ☁ ☁ ☁ ☁
➸ name the windrider
➸ true name dezel sparrow
➸ gender male
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❝ i don't need my
eyes to
SEE.
the
W I N D does that for
me.
❞━━━ ☁ ☁ ☁ ☁ ☁ ☁ ━━━➸ blind
➸ has the ability to change the direction of the wind around him
➸ senses his surroundings using the movement of wind
➸ has an affinity for animals, especially birds & dogs
➸ tends to be rather quiet; barely speaks at all
➸ suffers from depression, but tries not to let it impede on his day-to-day life
➸ cannot swim well
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the wind was never quiet. for there to be wind, there must be air, and air is always moving; therefore wind was always present. it was with wind that he saw, and not with his white eyes, glossed over with an invisible blindfold.
there was a time when those eyes were a vibrant, distinct green, brighter than even the color of his fur. he could even see well, and he was a merchant--well, he traveled with merchants, at least. humans, a small group of them, as they continuously went in a circuit from city to city. he had a close companion; a man he had grown up with. the man was the one who named the windrider, dezel. they had always been together, and they thought they always would.
in the recent times, a war had broken out between two sides; the easterners and the westerners. dezel's guild, the sparrows, were westerners, but as they were a merchant guild, they had a pass to travel safely wherever their business took them in the country.and so they did; one could not stop just because of the war, after all. they still needed money to live. however, not everyone took the merchant pass seriously.
these group of easterners surely didn't.
it was sudden, swift -- an ambush. the horses drawing the wagons backed up, crying out in fright, and taken by surprise, the merchants could do little in the first few seconds. seconds enough for many of their number to be fallen. and then they fought back. they fought ferociously...but it was to no avail. dezel fought, horror in his heart as he saw others die -- and then he saw his companion fall, and horror turned to rage. he became reckless in this rage, trying his best to hurt -- to kill the one who did this to his companion. he didn't even see the blade that came to his eyes, and he saw no longer after it. a howling pain took over his eyes, and then he felt something hard slam against his head.
he felt himself fall. the world was already black, after all.
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it did not take him long to discover that he could not live on his own. he had been forced to flee the war, escape while he could like a feeble viscling searching for its mother; his blindness was a source of weakness now, something that made him vulnerable and exposed to whatever wanted to prey upon him and let him die within days in such a state.
but he refused to.
he began to rely on the wind that swept through his fur, allowed it to guide him and show him what he could not see--to become his eyes, to allow him to hunt and find food and proper shelter. he adapted.
however, that did not make him invincible.
he nearly drowned himself late in autumn when the winds were particularly low, leaving him sightless once again and aimless in his endeavors--and thus, he had been submerged in the depths of a river nearby. he fought long and hard, scrambled to get free, but it was in vain--until he was pulled from the water by a younger viscet, a male, one who was confused as to why he was in the water in the first place if he was blind.
dezel demanded he be taught to swim, and the viscet - mikleo - agreed. in return, however, the mystified swimmer required to be taught dezel's ability to read the wind. it was a fair enough trade.
long after mentorship had passed and it reached the time for them to part ways again, however, they stayed companions. why they remained together was not spoken of much; it was inferred between the two of them why and how they stayed alongside one another, either one far too used to the presence of the other to simply up and leave.
dezel didn't believe he was replacing his old companion. no, this was something else.
perhaps not what he had before, but something new and unknown was forming.
and dezel? dezel....well, he was okay with that.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

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lex on Fri Aug 05, 2016 11:42 pm, edited 25 times in total.
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