<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/CsFWLJb.jpg)</div><strong>The Camp</strong>(It/Its) (art by Howard Kolsin (https://fineartamerica.com/featured/snow-tents-howard-kolsin.html))<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Year 1, The Time of Long Sunsets<br/><strong>Tags:</strong><em>Rime, Aqua, Any spirit who Reveals Themselves and Assume a Mortal-Like Form</em><br/><strong>Actions:</strong>Sensing the Village<br/><hr/><br/><br/>As Aqua and Rime observe the happenings they are able to sense more of the mortals around them.<br/><br/>To other spirits, these mortals all look the same, two legs, two arms, one head. Different sizes, different colors, but hard to remember which is which. Why does Alexandra stand out so much? Who can say, but to most spirits, she is the only one that does. To Aqua and Rime, however, the mortals are becoming more unique, easier to tell from each other. And what is more, they are starting to sense that these mortals are, as they have been warned, always thinking. And those thoughts begin to be heard by Aqua and Rime as they stand among those whose form they have shaped themselves like.<br/><br/>They hear thoughts of fear, hunger, cold. But two more mortals in particular have very striking thoughts.<br/><br class="clear_left"/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/vMmYXfs.png)</div>There is a woman named Eliza. She is very beautiful and slender, poised and graceful even in this awful time. She seems fearful. Her thoughts whisper.<em>This is wrong, the Old Gods still watch, and they will not like that we turn to new things. This is wrong, wrong.</em>She seems very worried by the situation the mortals find themselves in, but also scared of something bigger, something older. Did the Repear tell happy spirits something about old gods?<br/><br/>She watches Rime and Aqua with distrust, Agi too although he cannot see it. Some mortals glance to her, watching for a sign of what to do. She is clearly one whose words have some power here. Her hands fidget, she seems to wish to make symbols of power and invocation of older things, wanting to cast away happy spirits entirely!<br/><br class="clear_left"/><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/ChUwP3w.jpg)</div>And there is a woman named Marcelle. She is filled with a warmth and energy that makes her natural beauty all the moreso. She is overjoyed when the spirits show themselves.<em>I told you!</em>She eagerly thinks, although she keeps her peace while Alexandra and the spirits converse.<em>I told you I had seen them in the storm!</em>Is it true? Did she see happy spirits before she revealed themselves? Or is she simply possessed of imagination and optimism?<br/><br/>She smiles at Aqua and Rime with joy on her face, Agi too although he cannot see it. Some of the other mortals are glancing at her, seeing her as if it a new light, wondering if maybe she was correct. Her hands squeeze together happily, and she seems ready to break into dance anew.<br/><br/>