Topic: Homecoming.

Runa

Date: 2016-09-19 01:31 EST
It was beneath the light of the full moon that the figure descended from the sky. She fell in slow motion, practically floating down towards the waters of the glen. It was as if she were a sleeping child by the way she nestled into the water sinking in as if it were an extra soft mattress. She didn't stir, even as the seemingly gelatinous surface tickled her cheeks and wet her hair against them. In every sense of the word, she was dead. Her heart didn't beat; she drew no breath and yet didn't sink into the depths of the lake. White cloth bobbed and trembled with the meager current of the lake, stretching and shrinking with every pull and push. Rangy, long limbs bumped against her body at the water's will.

The night was alive with creatures, aquatic and otherwise. Insects sang songs while fireflies seemed to work in tandem with the lights. Fish curiously nipped at her underside, brushing dead fingertips and collecting around the still anomaly. A frog soaked in the dip of her abdomen trying to keep the tune of the insects, possibly lure them in for a quick snack. And there she was playing the boat dancing in the current.

The corpse would float there for hours, well past the moon's nightly allowance, well into the blackest hour.

It was until the sun tickled her pale white flesh that anything really changed. Her soft features became more visible, mysterious eyes tucked behind lid and too long lash. She wore a flowing white dress with bare toes sticking out from beneath the dampened hem. Runa? It was a sharp, lyrical hiss against deaf ears. The cadaver's fingers twitched lightly stirring a meager amount of water. Runa. More stern this time around, causing eyelids to violently twitch. Runa! Wake up!

Jade eyes snapped open.

Runa

Date: 2016-09-28 18:23 EST
Before the rebirth.

The night held a static that was as unfamiliar as it was extraordinary and it provided a constant ring within her ears. A lullaby trailed from her lips to drown it out, her voice itself was soft and beautiful, but the melody rang presented an eerie ambiance.

The Nordic beauty resided in her bedroom which rested at the highest point closest to the night sky. The walls were alive with ropes of a strange, bluish green ivy homing tiny white flowers. The center of the room was home to a circular fountain which ran water that held magical properties. The room itself was nothing phenomenal save for the presence of life that seemed to radiate within the walls. The only off putting thing about the room, was that it was without a door and the windows did not open.

Jade eyes fixated on the surface of her vanity rather than actually look in the mirror. A crude etching on the top of the furniture, "Runa" was graced by the tip of her tracing finger and a smile sliced into her jaw as she continued to sing softly into the dim room as she ran a soft bristled brush through her golden curls.

It was a moment"a long one"before she stood to push the seat in which she'd been sitting toward the window. The melody came to an abrupt halt as she did this and it was on the tips of toes that she stretched her lanky body upwards across the stone, ivy laced wall to stare out at the stars in awe. The blinking night sky was rivaled only by the starry glimmer of her glistening eyes. There was a split second where she caught her reflection within a square of glass from her window, but she tore her gaze away with what seemed to be a wince. She was beautiful"but she'd never know it. How could she" Compared to the stars, she was nothing.