Post by Helia Hawke on Apr 18, 2005 8:31:33 GMT -5
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A young woman with strawberry blonde hair and a wolf puppy, stepped through the shimmering blue oval of the moongate. At first it seemed as if the woman were talking to herself. Either that or some unseen entity by her side…then the object of her attention, an older woman with white hair, followed closely behind her…and promptly tripped over the wolf puppy that had stopped abruptly and laid down two paces the other side of the moongate.
The older woman picked herself up off the ground and gave the wolf puppy a perturbed look. “STOP THAT!” she yelled.
“Stop WHAT?” asked the younger woman.
“Not you Helia…”
“Tomoe?” asked Helia, looking around at the older woman behind her.
“Not YOU,” Tomoe replied.
“…who?”
“HER!” yelled the older woman pointing at the wolf pup.
“Her? Patti? The puppy? Stop what?” said Helia with a puzzled look.
“THAT!” Tomoe yelled pointing at Patti the puppy…who was now smiling sweetly, if indeed a wolf puppy can be said to smile sweetly, with her most innocent ‘who me?’ look on her sly little face.
“THAT! She always does that! She stops dead in her tracks right in front of me!”
“She doesn’t do it on purpose, replied Helia angrily, she was tired. She’s just a puppy…ok an older puppy…but a puppy none the less.”
“SHE DOES IT ON PURPOSE!”
“She does not. Besides…WHAT is your PROBLEM? Why are you so angry?” Helia shot back.
Tomoe sighed. “I didn’t like it then and I don’t like it now!” replied the older woman, beginning to explain the object of her displaced anger.
The “older woman” was Tomoe Gozen. Long time traveling companion of Tatsumi, who had become known as the “Lady of the Snows”…now…many years having passed, Tomoe’s hair was as white as the snow that Tatsumi’s name referred to. Some say that Tomoe’s hair turned white, not from age, which never seemed to affect her for some reason, but rather from all of the shocks that Tatsumi (God rest her soul) put her through….dragons, demons, hordes of screaming spiders…and that was just for starters.
Tomoe was the lucky one however. She had always survived Tatsumi’s escapades…the horses they kept where not so lucky. It used to be that Tomoe, being the animal lover that she is, would keep track of all of the horses that Tatsumi lost in battle. She loved them all dearly, and knew them all by name. She used to keep a little bronze 2 inch by 3 inch plaque on the wall with each dearly cherished horses name…until the day came that the wall collapsed from the weight of all the bronze. It had gotten to the point that none of the local stables would sell them horses.
Tomoe gave a distracted sigh, lost for a moment in her own thoughts… “well, she said out loud, lets hope it’s not a case of ‘like mother like daughter’…
“and just what is THAT supposed to mean” Helia shot back at Tomoe.
Tomoe’s attention was snapped back to Helia by the reaction to her comment; a passing though that Tomoe hadn’t realize she said out loud…
“What THAT means is that I didn’t like traveling by moongate then, and I don’t like it now. Your mother understood that. She NEVER made me travel by moongate. You where too young to remember, but there was a REASON, it took me two weeks longer than everyone else to reach that frozen tundra she made me live in…your mother let me travel by boat.”
“MADE you live it? I seem to recall, replied Helia, that when you found out the stone keep backed on to a mountain, and that you could mine without ever leaving your workshop you suddenly just LOVED the place. That’s what mom told me.”
“That’s besides the point…this is a heck of a way to travel…zapping your body across the cosmos…who knows WHAT got left behind, left out, or put in backwards. We could have traveled by horse you know.”
Helia rolled her eyes.
“Traveled by horse? To an alternate dimension? To a parallel universe? Do a different shard? How?”
“Never you mind, grumped Tomoe, we just could have, that’s all I am saying. I didn’t even want to come with in the first place.”
“Didn’t want…Helia interrupted herself. She looked up at the sky and appealed to some unseen entity…She said she was bored to tears. She said she was tired of hammering away the hours all day long. She BEGGED me to come with…and now she says she didn’t want to leave.”
Helia turned back to Tomoe. She paused for a moment and gathered herself together. Forcing a smile, she said as sweetly as possible, “Tomoe dear, may I please see the map that man sold us?”
Just as sweetly, and sarcastically, Tomoe handed over the map with a smile, “Why yes Helia my friend. The ‘map of the stars’ that we bought?”
“That’s the one.”
Opening the large map Helia looked up at the night sky…there was the big dipper…there was the little dipper…and there the north star. She turned back to Tomoe.
“This is the wrong moongate.”
“WHAT!” Screamed Tomoe.
“I said…it’s the wrong moongate. We are supposed to be in a place called the Tokuno Islands. Zento City to be specific.’
“How do you know?” said Tomoe, worried.
“It’s right here on the map…find your home by the stars. We are supposed to be in someplace called Zento City. It’s supposed to be beautiful. I want to live there.”
“How come Tatsumi never told me about it?”
“It wasn’t discovered yet when mom was still alive. We’ve got to go back through the moongate again.”
“I’m not going anywhere, Tomoe replied firmly, I like it here.”
“Here? You like it HERE? We’re in Umbra City. I recognize it from all the misshapen trees. This is the most dismal place in all the multiverse.”
“I could learn to like it. It grows on you.”
“Yah, like foot fungus…lets go back,” said Helia pointing toward the moongate. She took a threatening step toward Tomoe.
Stepping back, Tomoe replied firmly, “I am NOT going anywhere…” and promptly tripped over a grinning wolf pup, and through the moongate…
A young woman with strawberry blonde hair and a wolf puppy, stepped through the shimmering blue oval of the moongate. At first it seemed as if the woman were talking to herself. Either that or some unseen entity by her side…then the object of her attention, an older woman with white hair, followed closely behind her…and promptly tripped over the wolf puppy that had stopped abruptly and laid down two paces the other side of the moongate.
The older woman picked herself up off the ground and gave the wolf puppy a perturbed look. “STOP THAT!” she yelled.
“Stop WHAT?” asked the younger woman.
“Not you Helia…”
“Tomoe?” asked Helia, looking around at the older woman behind her.
“Not YOU,” Tomoe replied.
“…who?”
“HER!” yelled the older woman pointing at the wolf pup.
“Her? Patti? The puppy? Stop what?” said Helia with a puzzled look.
“THAT!” Tomoe yelled pointing at Patti the puppy…who was now smiling sweetly, if indeed a wolf puppy can be said to smile sweetly, with her most innocent ‘who me?’ look on her sly little face.
“THAT! She always does that! She stops dead in her tracks right in front of me!”
“She doesn’t do it on purpose, replied Helia angrily, she was tired. She’s just a puppy…ok an older puppy…but a puppy none the less.”
“SHE DOES IT ON PURPOSE!”
“She does not. Besides…WHAT is your PROBLEM? Why are you so angry?” Helia shot back.
Tomoe sighed. “I didn’t like it then and I don’t like it now!” replied the older woman, beginning to explain the object of her displaced anger.
The “older woman” was Tomoe Gozen. Long time traveling companion of Tatsumi, who had become known as the “Lady of the Snows”…now…many years having passed, Tomoe’s hair was as white as the snow that Tatsumi’s name referred to. Some say that Tomoe’s hair turned white, not from age, which never seemed to affect her for some reason, but rather from all of the shocks that Tatsumi (God rest her soul) put her through….dragons, demons, hordes of screaming spiders…and that was just for starters.
Tomoe was the lucky one however. She had always survived Tatsumi’s escapades…the horses they kept where not so lucky. It used to be that Tomoe, being the animal lover that she is, would keep track of all of the horses that Tatsumi lost in battle. She loved them all dearly, and knew them all by name. She used to keep a little bronze 2 inch by 3 inch plaque on the wall with each dearly cherished horses name…until the day came that the wall collapsed from the weight of all the bronze. It had gotten to the point that none of the local stables would sell them horses.
Tomoe gave a distracted sigh, lost for a moment in her own thoughts… “well, she said out loud, lets hope it’s not a case of ‘like mother like daughter’…
“and just what is THAT supposed to mean” Helia shot back at Tomoe.
Tomoe’s attention was snapped back to Helia by the reaction to her comment; a passing though that Tomoe hadn’t realize she said out loud…
“What THAT means is that I didn’t like traveling by moongate then, and I don’t like it now. Your mother understood that. She NEVER made me travel by moongate. You where too young to remember, but there was a REASON, it took me two weeks longer than everyone else to reach that frozen tundra she made me live in…your mother let me travel by boat.”
“MADE you live it? I seem to recall, replied Helia, that when you found out the stone keep backed on to a mountain, and that you could mine without ever leaving your workshop you suddenly just LOVED the place. That’s what mom told me.”
“That’s besides the point…this is a heck of a way to travel…zapping your body across the cosmos…who knows WHAT got left behind, left out, or put in backwards. We could have traveled by horse you know.”
Helia rolled her eyes.
“Traveled by horse? To an alternate dimension? To a parallel universe? Do a different shard? How?”
“Never you mind, grumped Tomoe, we just could have, that’s all I am saying. I didn’t even want to come with in the first place.”
“Didn’t want…Helia interrupted herself. She looked up at the sky and appealed to some unseen entity…She said she was bored to tears. She said she was tired of hammering away the hours all day long. She BEGGED me to come with…and now she says she didn’t want to leave.”
Helia turned back to Tomoe. She paused for a moment and gathered herself together. Forcing a smile, she said as sweetly as possible, “Tomoe dear, may I please see the map that man sold us?”
Just as sweetly, and sarcastically, Tomoe handed over the map with a smile, “Why yes Helia my friend. The ‘map of the stars’ that we bought?”
“That’s the one.”
Opening the large map Helia looked up at the night sky…there was the big dipper…there was the little dipper…and there the north star. She turned back to Tomoe.
“This is the wrong moongate.”
“WHAT!” Screamed Tomoe.
“I said…it’s the wrong moongate. We are supposed to be in a place called the Tokuno Islands. Zento City to be specific.’
“How do you know?” said Tomoe, worried.
“It’s right here on the map…find your home by the stars. We are supposed to be in someplace called Zento City. It’s supposed to be beautiful. I want to live there.”
“How come Tatsumi never told me about it?”
“It wasn’t discovered yet when mom was still alive. We’ve got to go back through the moongate again.”
“I’m not going anywhere, Tomoe replied firmly, I like it here.”
“Here? You like it HERE? We’re in Umbra City. I recognize it from all the misshapen trees. This is the most dismal place in all the multiverse.”
“I could learn to like it. It grows on you.”
“Yah, like foot fungus…lets go back,” said Helia pointing toward the moongate. She took a threatening step toward Tomoe.
Stepping back, Tomoe replied firmly, “I am NOT going anywhere…” and promptly tripped over a grinning wolf pup, and through the moongate…