[ For the first time in her life, Annaliese understands what it feels like to fly.
Her feet remain as firmly fixed to the ground as any mortals but in spirit, she's become as free as a bird. The foreign shore the Omen had deposited her on was strange and new to her, hot and humid in all the ways Astrild had been cold and dry. Though rain had poured and wind had battered her, she hadn't gotten sick and though her stamina didn't stretch as far as she suspected it should for a woman her age, she nevertheless felt stronger than she ever had before.
So this was what it felt like to have the devil's own luck.
They've travelled and seen so many new things, she and this companion of hers. She had expected this to be a solitary journey but she's finding that having someone to share all her new discoveries with has been an unexpected and wonderful delight. One of those discoveries is the town they've stumbled into – Annaliese doesn't know its name, if it has one, only that it's a charming little settlement on the main road and that as the sun had begun to sink, the buildings had lit up with torches and magic and music and festivities had filled the streets. She doesn't know if this is a nightly occurrence or if they've stumbled across some sort of celebration but either way, she's delighted. ]
Shall we stay until the morning? [ She says it with a gleam in her eye that makes it clear she already knows what the answer might be. ] Who knows when we next might come across such a lively gathering on our travels.
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Her feet remain as firmly fixed to the ground as any mortals but in spirit, she's become as free as a bird. The foreign shore the Omen had deposited her on was strange and new to her, hot and humid in all the ways Astrild had been cold and dry. Though rain had poured and wind had battered her, she hadn't gotten sick and though her stamina didn't stretch as far as she suspected it should for a woman her age, she nevertheless felt stronger than she ever had before.
So this was what it felt like to have the devil's own luck.
They've travelled and seen so many new things, she and this companion of hers. She had expected this to be a solitary journey but she's finding that having someone to share all her new discoveries with has been an unexpected and wonderful delight. One of those discoveries is the town they've stumbled into – Annaliese doesn't know its name, if it has one, only that it's a charming little settlement on the main road and that as the sun had begun to sink, the buildings had lit up with torches and magic and music and festivities had filled the streets. She doesn't know if this is a nightly occurrence or if they've stumbled across some sort of celebration but either way, she's delighted. ]
Shall we stay until the morning? [ She says it with a gleam in her eye that makes it clear she already knows what the answer might be. ] Who knows when we next might come across such a lively gathering on our travels.