Re: Hunters Moon - IC
Posted: Sat May 18, 2024 11:11 am
It was still early morning and there was a haze of smoke over the city as people lit fired to feed the masses."
Moon found herself wondering where they got all the wood from?
Despite the interlude and the rather bizarre happenings of yesterday, every step Moon took weighed heavier on her shoulders.
The weight of her failure was burden indeed, and she wondered now how she might ever move on from it?
People at her monastery home and back in the Beast Courts always talked about her as though she was special, she had been given all the best teachings and had received better treatment because of it.
True she was special in that there were so few her kind left in the world, but they spoke about her in terms beyond that. Auspicious was a word she had heard used a few times.
With this special treatment came a lack of something. that being failure.
Not failing to perform during training or getting something wrong at a ceremony, but actually failing at a given task, not achieving the desired outcome.
"Enough!" Moon scolded herself. "Dwelling over the past does no good if one does not use this knowledge to change what they do in the future," she quoted aloud.
A warm wind had picked up, and Moon could smell the woodsmoke mingled with the scents of foods.
Moon found a dirt road and followed it towards the city. Ahead of her a middle aged couple were carrying several bundles between them.
A rickety wagon was approaching, coming from the town. The driver, a grizzled old man with an unfeasibly large and dirty beard growled at the couple as they stepped off the road. "Git out of the goddamned way you stoopid chinese cunts!" the old man growled at them as he approached.
Moon's eyes opened in surprise as a hot, buzzing, tingling sensation shot from her groin to her temples, following the lines of Zhang's markings and her legs buckled.
She fell backwards in shock.
“Stoopid assed chink!" The old man said as he drove the cart passed.
Moon lay there in the dusty ground staring up at the blue sky.
She'd heard the old man and understood every word. She burst out laughing.
Moon found herself wondering where they got all the wood from?
Despite the interlude and the rather bizarre happenings of yesterday, every step Moon took weighed heavier on her shoulders.
The weight of her failure was burden indeed, and she wondered now how she might ever move on from it?
People at her monastery home and back in the Beast Courts always talked about her as though she was special, she had been given all the best teachings and had received better treatment because of it.
True she was special in that there were so few her kind left in the world, but they spoke about her in terms beyond that. Auspicious was a word she had heard used a few times.
With this special treatment came a lack of something. that being failure.
Not failing to perform during training or getting something wrong at a ceremony, but actually failing at a given task, not achieving the desired outcome.
"Enough!" Moon scolded herself. "Dwelling over the past does no good if one does not use this knowledge to change what they do in the future," she quoted aloud.
A warm wind had picked up, and Moon could smell the woodsmoke mingled with the scents of foods.
Moon found a dirt road and followed it towards the city. Ahead of her a middle aged couple were carrying several bundles between them.
A rickety wagon was approaching, coming from the town. The driver, a grizzled old man with an unfeasibly large and dirty beard growled at the couple as they stepped off the road. "Git out of the goddamned way you stoopid chinese cunts!" the old man growled at them as he approached.
Moon's eyes opened in surprise as a hot, buzzing, tingling sensation shot from her groin to her temples, following the lines of Zhang's markings and her legs buckled.
She fell backwards in shock.
“Stoopid assed chink!" The old man said as he drove the cart passed.
Moon lay there in the dusty ground staring up at the blue sky.
She'd heard the old man and understood every word. She burst out laughing.