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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goddess FallenAngel" data-source="post: 1795869" data-attributes="member: 11434">I cannot breathe water, and I doubt I am a strong enough swimmer to fight the elemental’s current, but.... Shalah smiles, Mayhap I can charm the circlet from it. The Dance of Waves, perhaps, and the Ballad of the Oasis-Maiden, although I do hope it can understand me.*Shalah raises her hands to the elemental.*“Hear me and see me, mighty guardian, and grant my request,” she says, voice low and filled with sincerity. “I wish to claim the circlet that you so aptly guard. With it, I will be able to claim the throne that is rightfully mine. I spent much of my life at my beloved oasis, and I understand how you feel to guard your home. With the circlet, I hope to protect the oases that remain in this arid land, to prevent any more from being lost to the desert sands.”*She continues to gracefully raise her arms to meet, twined together above her head. She pauses for but a breath then moves one arm down and forward in the opening moves of the dance. As she flows through the movements of the dance like the water from whence her name is derived, her voice soars out onto the air. She sings an old ballad, one about a maiden who lived at a solitary oasis, and who was taken from the oasis one day by a caravan who discovered it. Shalah’s voice whispered in sorrow as she sang of the girl’s tears upon leaving her home, and her journey of years through endless trials to return. Her voice rang like the newly-risen sun as the girl returned to her home, as she restored the oasis to the pristine shape it had been before the caravans came…. But many years had passed, and the girl was in truth a girl no longer. Wearied from life, and bowed by the weight of years, she finished and lay beside the oasis, destined to never again open her eyes. But the spirits blessed her, and transformed her into a water elemental, so she could guard her precious oasis from those that would despoil it forevermore.**Shalah’s voice fades, leaving the last throbbing notes drifting on the morning air, and bowed fluidly in the final movements of the dance. She watches the elemental from behind lowered lashes, awaiting any reaction from it.*</blockquote>

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