<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/LxdM1cE.jpg?2)</div><strong>The Reaper</strong>(She/They)<br/><strong>Time:</strong><em>Year 1, Time of Open Paths</em><br/><strong>Tags:</strong><em>Aqua, Rime</em><br/><strong>Actions:</strong><em>Sharing</em><br/><br/><hr/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=337457.msg16050302#msg16050302">Quote from: Flower on 06-12-2021, 20:15:55</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"How do Happy Spirits know when it's time to open another door?" <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong>"The doors between worlds are usually shut very tight." </strong>The Reaper explains slowly.<strong>"But on certain times the doors open by themselves, just a little. On the cycle when the night is shortest, the doors open this way, and those who can see the path may walk between your world and the worlds beyond."</strong>She looks at Bubbles carefully.<strong>"But on the cycle when the night is longest, the paths shift in strange ways, and sometimes those that should not cross are able to." </strong><br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=337457.msg16049641#msg16049641">Quote from: Envious on 05-12-2021, 23:42:53</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>"I am something different!"</strong> she exclaimed proudly in response. <strong>"I am becoming something more!"</strong> Her recollection of the Wise Old Elephants words were an indication that the little spirit was more than an air-head, but she did not yet have the experience to understand what the Reaper was implying. She could see the agitation on the faces of her fellow spirits, but Wish was done being anything less than happy. She spun in a speedy circle, <em>wssssssshhhhhh</em>ing as she did so.<br/><br/><strong>"I will explore!"</strong> she said in her whirl-wind state. It was creating a feather-light breeze to those in proximity to her. With a <em>wheeeeee!</em> she began to gust towards the happy elephant spirits. She wanted to meet new friends! <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=337457.msg16050546#msg16050546">Quote from: c0i9z on 07-12-2021, 01:20:34</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Wish! Don't go too far!", Aqua called out, laughing as she hurried after her friend. "She already told you, we can't get so far away that we can't hear her!" She turned back, now flying without looking to call back. "Hey! Hey! Mrs? Can you still hear us?"<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong>"I can hear you."</strong>The Reaper's words come.<br/><br/>Wish zooms about through the tall towering trees of the otherworldly jungle. There are bright flowers that will remind her of the Colorful Grove, there are tall waterfalls and babbling brooks as well. There are all manner of jungle creatures, friendly things, happy to talk to little spirits who have come to visit.<br/><br/>It seems that there is a place where the jungle stops. It is very sudden, not like the slow transition between trees and plants that Wish has seen even on the little island. Where the jungle stops, the land is suddenly flat, and gray, and featureless.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=337457.msg16052300#msg16052300">Quote from: Kadigan on 09-12-2021, 01:47:00</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Floating about a little she poked and peeked and generally explored a bit, but then she remembered something. She'd been so intrigued by New Friend she'd momentarily forgotten old friend. New Friend said they were leaving soon. Hovering over to the Wise Old Elephant, she remembered to turn her heat down and nuzzled up against the side of one massive ear "Will miss Friend..." <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The elephant, who did not look so old, and did not have her distinctive paint any more, turned to look at the nuzzling little spirit. Her eyes are the same, just younger. Oddly, this is the most vivacious that Rin has ever seen her.<br/><br/><strong>"Thank you."</strong>The elephant says, lowering her head to let it nuzzle against the little fiery one,<strong>"I hope it was enough. For you, and for my children, and their children."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"Look after from them time to time....if you don't mind."</strong>Another nuzzle. And then the elephant is being called again by old friends she hasn't seen in years and years.<strong>"I will miss you too."</strong><br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=337457.msg16049593#msg16049593">Quote from: Crensler on 05-12-2021, 22:34:56</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"New friend say not all endings bring beginnings, but Rime sees it all the time," she murmured, hovering in place as she worked it through.  "Rime doesn't understand!"  She flailed a bit, a very small, localized flurry generating around her as she wobbled about as she struggled to grasp these new concepts.  "And now new friend say she not happy!  That makes Rime feel bad!"  She didn't fully understand why that was, but she did know that her new friend being not happy was bad.  "Why?  Is new friend lonely?  Sick?"  She learned about sick not too long ago when one of the young elephants ate something and got all funny in their tummy because of it.  "Rime wants be helping, but new friend needs help Rime understand!"  She then remembered her manners.  "Please!"<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=337457.msg16049833#msg16049833">Quote from: TheHangedMan on 06-12-2021, 03:21:42</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Why not happy?" He starts to emit warmth; this is both physical warmth, which is simple for a fire spirit, but there's also a sort of spiritual warmth that he gives off--that's a bit more advanced. In practice, he's almost like a hearth spirit; and what is a hearth, if not a source of comfort? He keeps a close gauge on how much warmth he's throwing off; cautious, not wanting to suddenly start a wildfire.  <br/><br/>And if the Reaper can sense intentions, then she can perhaps find solace in the fact that Agi's motives are as simple as his understanding of the cosmos; he just wants to make things better. That's all. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong>"I am sorry, I did not mean to distress you."</strong>The Reaper replies. You can sense a hesitance to discuss this, but it seems too much has already been said.<br/><br/><strong>"I am unhappy because I worry. Once, every soul I brought to my lands found peace here. The animals still do."</strong>The reaper gazes upon the elephant herd, where Rin nuzzles against the Wise One, and you can imagine that if she had a face it would be smiling.<br/><br/><strong>"But the animals have simple wants, and it is easy for the Land of the Dead to provide them. There are other creatures, creatures that are more complicated. It is very hard to make them happy. They are called mortals. Perhaps you have seen them? Most walk on two legs, they are always thinking, building, trying to change the world."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"They come here expecting a paradise already built for them, and I cannot do that. Once there were beings that could, but they have abandoned that role, leaving those who would depend on them without final rest."</strong>The Reaper hangs her head.<strong>"Some of the mortals are wise enough to be like the animals, but most that I bring have become lost and a lost soul is ...."</strong><br/><br/>Her empty eyes trail over you all.<strong>"Well, it is the opposite of a happy spirit."</strong>She explains.