<div class="floatleft">(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/255/1/b/sketch_xxiii_by_charlie_bowater-d6lzqaz.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Shani Lamit</strong> (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=1078422)</span><br/><strong>AC:</strong>18<br/><strong>HP:</strong>Full<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Normal<br/><hr/><br/>Her brow furrowed at the Lady's beseeching and she turned back to the others, nodding a little before closing her eyes to let her mind return to what images and memories remained from the vision.  As with all dreams, so much faded or became indistinct once she woke, what once might have seemed as vivid, if not more so, as reality, became brittle and sun-parched in the light of day.<strong>"I was in a forest...it was cold and dark, the canopy blocked the sunlight.  There was a...larger tree with crystal leaves...I think...and the crystals formed an image of a group of people.  Five?  No...six.  Their faces are...largely lost to me, but they seemed quite familiar with one another.  Happy, but I think one might have been ill."</strong><br/><br/>She paused and her brow furrowed as her arms curled around herself, fingers gripping her upper arms firmly as she shivered a touch and her voice grew softer.<strong>"There were birds...and I flew with them to the village to find these people.  But they were parting ways...and there were other groups, they were...avatars, representatives of other parties, the way that a pawn can be representative of all pawns.  But..."</strong>Her arms tighten now and she shivers harder, the distress on her face becoming more layered, shifting into true horror and fear.  Her golden eyes pop open with a gasp and she fights back a whimper, murmuring in a small voice.<strong>"A shadow swept from the water to blanket the village...this crushing wave of darkness in every sense of the word.  It was awful, but....there was a girl, the one from the party.  She said...something...like 'Tell'...someone 'I said hello' and that she would see her soon.  I think.  It's all so difficult to recall and I had a hard time holding onto anything in that darkness of the soul."</strong><br/><br/>She moved around them, breathing in deeply as she stood in the light from a window, basking in the sun and gazing out as she allowed the brilliance to burn away some of the shadows that lingered in her thoughts.