07-13-2014, 01:19 PM
Sora sighed watching the human retreat, the red and black hood of Lithos descending to hover above her head. “Your gather hass quite a turn of sspeed for a human, eh Ssora?”
His deep chuckle rumbled like rocks. Sora stared stonily down the hall listening, hands on slim hips. “Would you be sso kind ass to ssound the alarm, Masster Gatherer? I would not have him esscape to causse injury before he goess through the door.”
Still chuckling, Lithos slithered to a gong near his post. Sora tasted the air, testily. It was bad enough to be one of the smallest Gatherers in Komukai, but to have a Gather go this badly--!
The gong tolled, its brassy tones rolling along the halls and into the city. Sora began to run. Every Gatherer in Komukai would be headed for the temple. Every exit would have a Naga or four preventing anyone from entering or exiting. Sora turned a corner, hissing. She would have to answer to the Nagaseer for the alarm. In her thirty-eight years she had seen the Nagaseer exactly three times; once when she was selected as a Gatherer candidate, once when she was confirmed as a Gatherer and, once in the halls of the temple by happenstance. No one had ever sounded the alarm within her lifetime that she could remember. The person that gave the order would have to stand surety before the Nagaseer, the Master Gatherers, the entire city council and every Gatherer in the city to explain her actions. She fantasized about squeezing that human until his eyes popped.
Sora listened for which direction that bumbling, ill-begotten human was headed, forming possible contingencies. He seemed to be staying in the maze of halls which were designed to confuse those who were unfamiliar with their warrens. She could only guess that the Ancients knew how one of their own might react, but when she caught up to that human--!
Edited by Sora Ryuu, Jul 13 2014, 02:51 PM.
His deep chuckle rumbled like rocks. Sora stared stonily down the hall listening, hands on slim hips. “Would you be sso kind ass to ssound the alarm, Masster Gatherer? I would not have him esscape to causse injury before he goess through the door.”
Still chuckling, Lithos slithered to a gong near his post. Sora tasted the air, testily. It was bad enough to be one of the smallest Gatherers in Komukai, but to have a Gather go this badly--!
The gong tolled, its brassy tones rolling along the halls and into the city. Sora began to run. Every Gatherer in Komukai would be headed for the temple. Every exit would have a Naga or four preventing anyone from entering or exiting. Sora turned a corner, hissing. She would have to answer to the Nagaseer for the alarm. In her thirty-eight years she had seen the Nagaseer exactly three times; once when she was selected as a Gatherer candidate, once when she was confirmed as a Gatherer and, once in the halls of the temple by happenstance. No one had ever sounded the alarm within her lifetime that she could remember. The person that gave the order would have to stand surety before the Nagaseer, the Master Gatherers, the entire city council and every Gatherer in the city to explain her actions. She fantasized about squeezing that human until his eyes popped.
Sora listened for which direction that bumbling, ill-begotten human was headed, forming possible contingencies. He seemed to be staying in the maze of halls which were designed to confuse those who were unfamiliar with their warrens. She could only guess that the Ancients knew how one of their own might react, but when she caught up to that human--!
Edited by Sora Ryuu, Jul 13 2014, 02:51 PM.