The white gull soared among the clouds, free unfettered by gravity as it<br/>rides the winds unconcerned by the world below.<br/>a sudden uncertainty within its mind, it sees a huge steel cigar form<br/>emerging from the clouds, a massive interloper in the heavens,<br/>indignant the gull swoops sqawking in defiance at the shining metal titan.<br/><br/>There is a loud bang, the gull ,it's body shattered, plummets limply<br/>towards the ground, it's tiny mind unable to comprehend what happened,<br/>unable to make sense of anything other than pain before the<br/>ground claims it and ushers its mind into oblivion.<br/><br/>On the Steam airship Karen sighs and reloads her pistol, idly watching<br/>her hapless target dwindle to an infinitismal speck and disappear<br/>through the clouds.<br/><br/>And how did i get here, i wanted fame and fortune so i left the kingdom<br/>of Bast to scour the lands of man in search of conflict.<br/><br/>I never thought it'd come to my home.<br/><br/>Ours was a quiet village in a kingdom untouched by war till the snakes<br/>came, when i returned the village was burnt to the ground, but we never<br/>found any of the bodies.<br/><br/>And so here i am off to war on a human airship, maybe i'll get a chance<br/>to return the favour to those who ate my parents, maybe i'll find money<br/>and glory...or maybe a tiny voice whispers, you'll simply die, just another<br/>statistic in this wretched war.<br/><br/>Karen dismisses that thought as she always does still having a teenagers<br/>faith in her own immortality, checking her pistol and sighting along its 14<br/>inch barrel before placing it to join its brother at her belt and clambering<br/>up atop the artillery gun that dominates the ships cannon port she's in,<br/>reclining atop the barrel and watching the sunset.<br/><br/>((Karen: ginger catgirl in midnight blue shortcape, quite well armed.))