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<blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 6960373" data-attributes="member: 4936"><p>Saashala lingered for a few minutes beyond the reach of the firelight. It wasn't easy. She'd hoped to get here before sundown, but the directions left for her were very vague on a few crucial landmarks. She still wasn't sure if that had been meant as yet another test, or if it was an indication of subtle dissent among the Judges. It didn't matter now. She would show them all.</p><p></p><p>The chill of the night was heavy on her though, and she felt herself slowing a little. The fire was achingly welcome, with its promise of warmth, but she needed to be careful. She was here alone now, without the more powerful yuan-ti to hold the meat in check. A strong mind could not always prevail if there were enough stronger bodies trying to injure it.</p><p></p><p>Her patience was rewarded when someone else stepped forward first. An orc, of all things. A rare sight on the surface. And what by the scaly gods was it <em>wearing</em>?</p><p></p><p><em>Of course they send their insane and their vagabonds...the ones who can barely fit in. This is the dry clay I am given to work with.</em></p><p></p><p>Saashala steeled herself. She would find a way. The Judges didn't believe it yet, but this was the future of the Empire she was fighting for. The yuan-ti had to adapt to the world as it was, not the world as they wished it to be...or they would forever be an anecdote in the histories of lesser beings.</p><p></p><p>She came forward into the light, a slim and sinuous figure of entirely human shape. Her clothes were normally light, to let cherished sunlight warm her skin...but as the climate turned colder she'd put another layer on, and the result was a confused mishmash with a loose breezy shirt over cloth wrappings and a flowing skirt that rippled around snug trouser legs. Hues of cyan and green and violet. A cloak that was the color of sand on one side, and a deep twilight blue on the other.</p><p></p><p>A spark of vanity compelled her not to speak to this orc, at least as meat might speak to meat. She wanted to distinguish herself from the start.</p><p></p><p>So as her strange yellow eyes bore into the equally strangely dressed orc, she smiled to show the little fangs where human canines would be, and her voice...soft and siblant...snaked into the orc's mind.</p><p></p><p><em>"I greet you. It is good to see the orcs taking this proposal seriously. You may address me as Saashala."</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shayuri, post: 6960373, member: 4936"] Saashala lingered for a few minutes beyond the reach of the firelight. It wasn't easy. She'd hoped to get here before sundown, but the directions left for her were very vague on a few crucial landmarks. She still wasn't sure if that had been meant as yet another test, or if it was an indication of subtle dissent among the Judges. It didn't matter now. She would show them all. The chill of the night was heavy on her though, and she felt herself slowing a little. The fire was achingly welcome, with its promise of warmth, but she needed to be careful. She was here alone now, without the more powerful yuan-ti to hold the meat in check. A strong mind could not always prevail if there were enough stronger bodies trying to injure it. Her patience was rewarded when someone else stepped forward first. An orc, of all things. A rare sight on the surface. And what by the scaly gods was it [i]wearing[/i]? [i]Of course they send their insane and their vagabonds...the ones who can barely fit in. This is the dry clay I am given to work with.[/i] Saashala steeled herself. She would find a way. The Judges didn't believe it yet, but this was the future of the Empire she was fighting for. The yuan-ti had to adapt to the world as it was, not the world as they wished it to be...or they would forever be an anecdote in the histories of lesser beings. She came forward into the light, a slim and sinuous figure of entirely human shape. Her clothes were normally light, to let cherished sunlight warm her skin...but as the climate turned colder she'd put another layer on, and the result was a confused mishmash with a loose breezy shirt over cloth wrappings and a flowing skirt that rippled around snug trouser legs. Hues of cyan and green and violet. A cloak that was the color of sand on one side, and a deep twilight blue on the other. A spark of vanity compelled her not to speak to this orc, at least as meat might speak to meat. She wanted to distinguish herself from the start. So as her strange yellow eyes bore into the equally strangely dressed orc, she smiled to show the little fangs where human canines would be, and her voice...soft and siblant...snaked into the orc's mind. [i]"I greet you. It is good to see the orcs taking this proposal seriously. You may address me as Saashala."[/i] [/QUOTE]
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