auroraexpress | The Thirtieth Trial

Who: Trial players
When: Day 63, morning
Where: Trial zone

[The trial zone doesn't exactly appear to be inthe best shape. It's the ruins of an old building, something once grand, perhaps a castle, with a strange statue of sorts with six spheres leading to a large seventh on a pedestal. It's possible t see a forest beyond the walls, though find a way out to that seems impossible, and plants have overgrown almost everything.]

[On the statue's pedestal is an inscription:
Three tribes that brought a storm,
Winter brought them to task.
Eventually things would become warm,
What in return did springtime ask?]

[Not so far beyond it appears to be stairs leading down into the earth. And to the side of that is a throne.]

[And on the throne is....someone new in Senna colors? Though perhaps the hair is enough of a give away. Though those with a keen eye may yet notice she's still wearing her geode still, with the distinctive cutie mark still on it.]

[She's lounged across the throne, legs kicked over one side, elbow resting on the other, head in hand.]

I'm bored. [And she offers a grin that has a dangerous glint to it.]

How about we play a game?

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[going a little unfocused. fury is invigorating, but with that fading it's harder to keep up and conscious.

dips her fingers into her own blood and starts drawing a circle around herself]

What was your hypothesis?

I already know your thoughts and they're self contradictory.

[And she finally glanced at Eliza, and lifts a hands.]

[The stone work under Eliza suddenly cracks and crumbles into loose stone and Solar pulls it out from under her, along with the bits of the circle, tossing it away.]

The trial is over. Any injuries you receive after this point won't be healed.

[she shrieks in alarm and scrambles backwards away from the cracking stone ad quickly as she can dragging her leg]

I was drawing a beginner’s ward!

I don't believe you.

Or care, really. [She shrugs and then rakes her claws over the inscription.]

I-If I was going to do something, I'd be a wolf. I'd have my dragons. They want to tear you apart.

[still pushing herself away, arms shaking]

I don't know you, you're not Solar Flare. You're as bad as that snake.

You'd have to rebuild them if they tried.

Of course I'm Solar Flare. I'm surprised you're struggling to accept that. You were the one who accused me of harming entire communities when I wanted to help and utterly damning the person.

If I'm so harmful on accident, it should be a relief that I'm just straight forward about it now. [Shrugging her shoulders and clawing the inscription again.] Now it happens because I want something, not because I think someone needs help. Far easier to predict and get out of the way.

Whatever our disagreements were, Solar Flare had good intentions.

You are a sociopath.

Good intentions mean very little when the outcome is the same.

Really, all it means is it hurts when things fail.

I far prefer not having to deal with that. If I disappoint myself then I can make it up to myself fairly easily. [Turning to the doors, with the inscription ruined now.] Empathy is overrated anyway.

[flips the demon off and keeps pushing herself along, Eliza has checked out of this conversation]

Edited 2020-04-20 20:37 (UTC)

[IT'S HONESTLY FAIR, demon Solar is The Worst.]

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