by Merlin's Heir » Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:27 am
Username: Merlin's Heir
Dreamer's Name: Helkamaeth (Elvish for "ice battle") (shortened to "Mae")
Gender: Female
Extra 1 (Story): The red-head fell to the snow-encrusted ground, breathing in the icy air in gasps. After moment of laying face-down on the cold ground, she raised her head, looking back at the metal door behind her. She quickly scrambled away from it and got to her feet. Her gaze snapped to the front of the spacecraft as a loud beeping noise was emitted from the controls room. As fast as she could, the girl ran away from the crashed ship, not stopping until the explosion behind pushed her to the ground. She got up and turned to see the thing - or, rather, what was left of it - in flames. Dusting the snow off of her jacket, she adjusted her backpack and looked at the scenery. The white, blank, snowy scenery. All she could see was white, with just a slight hint of dark blue to differentiate the sky from the ground. She sighed, shrugged, and marched on, determined to find shelter, civilization, or death.
The long trek to who-knew-where began with a sudden slip on an icy slope and ended almost as suddenly when her accidental tumble landed her in an ice cave. It was a rather rough landing and she was getting tired, so she decided to stay there for the night and find a way out in the morning. She got a sleeping bag out of her backpack and snuggled down into it, happy to have a warm bed in this cold place.
For breakfast the next morning, she ate one of the energy bars from the emergency supply she kept in her backpack. Then she proceeded to put away her sleeping bag and look for a way out. She soon found that she couldn't get out the way she came in, but she also discovered a series of tunnels. Realizing that it was the only chance to get out, she decided to follow one of the tunnels. She chose the coldest one, knowing that it would be closest to the surface; she didn't want to go deeper into the earth, she wanted to get out into the open, albeit frigid, air.
As she progressed through the tunnel, she began to notice indents on the walls. Upon closer inspection (meaning running her frozen fingers along the glacial walls), she ascertained that these were not merely indents but carvings of words - very old carvings in a different language. This puzzled the knowledgeable, clever red-head. Her deep blue eyes darted over the surface of the wall, willing the ice to tell her its secrets. Who wrote those ancient letters? How could they still be there? What did they mean? She had to know, but she couldn't abandon her journey just so that she could decipher an old fairy-tale. She got out a pen and notebook and jotted down a paragraph or two of the writing. As she continued wandering down the tunnel, she tried to decode the words. Her father had been a philologist and she had picked up a thing or two from him, but she wasn't used to translating completely unknown and possibly dead languages that didn't use the English alphabet while travelling in a numbingly cold underground ice tunnel, no matter how good she was at other sorts of puzzles. It just wasn't easy.
By the time she noticed a light up ahead, she had figured out what one of the letters was. She ran towards the light, hoping desperately that it would be a way out. But it wasn't. Though it was daylight, the hole was in the "ceiling" of the tunnel. (WIP)
Extra 2 (Art): WIP
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Merlin's Heir on Sat Apr 27, 2013 4:52 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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