Something I wrote that's Saisen/Talliska-centric. I NEVER do that. But we're playing them now in my 2nd attempt at Soul Collectors (this time on RPoL.)

Talliska follows along quietly. She does remain close, though not too close to the Magister. Rather she seems very intent on staying within reach of him. With that intense expression on her face, it's hard to tell whether it's for any desire of closeness, a morbid curiosity or a thinly veiled intent to kill him should he show any sign of dangerous behavior.

She spares a glance at Gale and Penelope as she goes by. Her memories of her Solar mate are something she still treasures deeply. Dawn, the morning light gleaming on his armor, dark hair flowing beneath a helm of spiraling horns. The challenge that started it all. Claws against steel, dark eyes against gold. Proud huntress, tamed by the knight. And he set free by her.

Teehee. RPing relationships between characters with my husband is like falling in love all over again. I swear, it ought to be a technique for gamer couples to keep the romance alive. ^^; (And I apologize for how utterly dorky that sounds.)

My characterization of Iyadali, I think, borrows a bit from the witches of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea, and a bit from Wheel of Time as well (though Iya and her culture are definitely not as irritating as the Sea Folk can be.)

I also have to admit to taking a tiny bit of a cue from Nynaeve and Lan -- sort of. :O

Baaah, I have this stupid headache again. It's the stabby kind I mentioned on IRC... a week ago? Couple weeks? Now the pain's extended from above my left eye in this arc around my ear to the base of my neck. Man, is it painful -- and distracting. x.x

So I'm going to be resting the next couple days I think, in case I'm getting eyestrain along with my usual stress levels. Probably won't pop up online much till Thurs, though I'm still coming by periodically to check some websites / email. Post something here or email me and I'll get it.

But I'm still gonna go out to get Eni's card! Woo! We'll send it quick so it gets there in time, since it's not going to be a package.

Oh and I just finished an Iyadali post, mwahah. She and Horus got safely into the island village, and now she's totally seducing him, woo! :D Geez, I guess I just can't really resist, assuming both my and Jon's charas are single. (But I suspect the ST kinda set us up the bomb. Always suspect the ST!)

Well, I've mostly been relaxing this week, and I guess that's a good thing because I'm coming out of a really stressful high. I feel a little bad because I'm being pretty insular lately, hard to reach except in DR... but I really just need some time to myself.

I have an appointment to make my new bank account this Monday (good thing I'm not running ED that week), and I want to start my college application process in earnest by next month. I hope that I'll run Emberdays all right, too, because messing that up could affect my mood and confidence when it comes to accomplishing other more important things.

For now it's just been a lot of Dragonrealms, as I said. I'm either doing interviews for the White Rose, or training Talliska's survivals (at my last count, I need 10 scouting, 7 foraging, 6 climbing, 6 swimming, 6 evasion to catch up to the new Ranger requirements. Sounds like a lot but it was WAY worse before!)