>>5222470>>5222544>>5222300>>5222253>>5222026>>5222011With Irinnile’s consciousness expanded, and your own occult expertise likewise increased, you decide to trust the succubus to manage your material body while you take a little jaunt into the city on your own. You’re cognizant of how far the city is, and of dawn’s approach, but , well…
It’s EDWIN.
You miss Edwin, and a part of you maybe even misses Hawksong. The forward base of your people—a place where you grew up, essentially—has been good to you at some times, cruel to you at others, but it is undeniably a BORING affair when you’re not working. It is mission-focused by design. There is a chapel, and the faded and eroded ruins of great architectural works, but you KNOW all those works—have run your hands across the stone visages and spiraling, madness-inducing patterns since you were a hatchling. There is no breeding pit (as Irinnile oft lamented), but also no refined Reptilian charcuterie, no wondrous works of darkest magic as you might find deeper down—the TRUE glories of your people. It is a staging-ground for attacks on the much more interesting World Above, staffed with a skeleton-crew of agent provocateurs, off-duty from provocateur-ing. The farm, while more intriguing erotically, is still a far cry from the always-illuminated lantern light, the sights, soudns, smells, the fashion and fun, to be found in Hawksong!
And so you brave the obscuring haze and alien pressures of the dark spaces between consciousness-centres, traveling the dreamscape for the first time without your demonic guide. Irinnile had been worried for you, but your were adamant that you could do this alone… And so far, you have to say, you think you were right. Following the road into Hawksong, you hope for one sleeping caravan-vagrant to another, and follow the familiar trail of inns and small settlements which you have seen in waking and dreaming, by day and night. You exhilarate in the freedom of moving unseen, leaping from one spot of light and vibrancy to another in this world of shades and shadows.
