Topic: The Garden of Burning Suns

Bashara

Date: 2010-05-05 17:31 EST
Enigma

Spring ever had become a season of temptation and life, a moment to remind that perhaps it was worth opening her eyes again to the sun, to the sky.

To open her spirit to the heat and the sensations long since denied. So long has she remained the Enigma, keeping near every emotion locked away save for the moments when she would give a part of herself out in gentle offering.

Beltane had nearly broken her. For a moment she felt as if her very soul had shattered and scattered into a million pieces. Those pieces spreading so vast out in every direction to touch upon the presence of those that she had known so well and had come to care for.

Finding the Rain Dancer again had left the nature of her spirit to overflow until for once in such a very long time the Egyptian broke down and allowed for a weakness, for the pain to be seen however briefly. It had been so long since their last moments together and the gunslinger?s return had meant everything to her. Everything she needed to start that path in healing once more.

Dreamcatcher

The Rain Dancer had claimed her as the dreamcatcher, to take away the shadows and bring back the light? to chase away the nightmares and the demons. Truth was on her tongue that for the Egyptian, the Rain Dancer had always been the same for her.

New moments, new choices, new directions had been taken. A Hunter would bind himself in unbreakable bonds that left the Egyptian to remember everything and every day, looking upon life once more in a new dawning light.

The touch of the fetish trinket in her hair of the Raven feather bound and corded with black silk, a bit of golden cat eye glistening against the fiery amber burn of the flawless gem joining in that grouped possession. All so significant were those trinkets in the fetish charm worn, as significant to her as the mask of Bast she would wear.

Sphinx

Her body lifted from its knelt worship in the desert dirt of Ghost Town, feeling again the sun glisten across her flesh and invoking the desert heat that was always hers to claim. Molten golds would close as images flashed behind her lids of the Guardian, the Nameless, the Hypnotist?

The Desert Born Kindred, the Northern Born, and of the Gunslinger.

When she opened her eyes again she found the autumn leaf that she had taken with her from the duel. A secret of a smile upon her lips as she remembered the beauty of a garden meant to be savage, meant to be wild. The garden had awakened something within her spirit, had called out to her power that was not just the black dark of the Egyptian lioness? that panther of her soul, and was not just of the Egyptian?s desert heat? it called to everything that was a part of Ba?shara herself. The garden had reminded her again of the unity within that duality. The garden had reminded her that there were others that shared in the breath of life that was the elements within them.

To speak to the one that had brought the garden in bloom had been her nature, her whim even as in the art of the dueling dance their eyes had met in a way of awareness. Surely he had tasted and sensed the heat of the desert sun awakening its warmth in the life giving ways.

Bashara

Date: 2010-05-05 17:31 EST
The life giving ways of a womb, the life giving ways of a spirit? the life giving ways of her all were born in that desert heat. In those moments Ba?shara was beginning to understand in her reflection all that the Hypnotist perhaps was trying to make her see.

Goldmine

She rose effortlessly, leaving the autumn leaf to dance from her fingers as her body began the sensual, invoking dance that it had known so many years before. A circle drawn as her toes claimed a line in the sand and dirt of Ghost Town around her.

Bringing forth the mirages of those ever she would love, those found again, and those that would matter more then ever in the sunrise of her awakening.


Guardian. Raven. Hunter

Rain Dancer and Gunslinger

Rex and Wolf

Ember Princess and Sun Prince

Hypnotist and Nameless

Northern Born and Desert Born Kindred

The Roman and the Savage Lord


As the sun rose again to live again in the sky the Egyptian would dance, invoking that heat and energy of her very spirit to paint the path in desert mirages and a caress of warmth that would stir the very soul, to touch those known to her and those who had been found again and found now.

In the soul, in the heart, in the mind and body? so deep within? they all would feel that heat stirring its intimate, claiming spill of life and power. The energy of the life giving ways of an Egyptian as she was awakened again? and free in a Garden of her own making would touch upon them all.

A Garden of Desert Heat and Mirages, a burning caress of warmth that was becoming nothing more then a canvas of her own desert paint.

In that moment she would give again of herself to them all, spirit offered openly in a freedom of one that knew nothing more then love. No matter the Price.

The Egyptian was in that moment was everything she was named as? born of the spirit of those blessed and sacred in a Garden of Burning Suns.

Bashara

Date: 2010-05-15 09:15 EST
Desert mirages burned before her eyes, hazy in the heat line of the stroked power.

Ba'shara stirred in it, following the rise of the sun in the ways that were constant to her.

A sleepless night that would not torment or leave the Egyptian in despair. In the midst of Ghost Town she would find her place in the dirt and dust as the walls of a broken business became a wall of stories.

The collar sat in her lap, glistening black onyx with the gleam of ancient markings. Molten gold against darkness.

There were many things she had been, from queens to harem harlots the will and way were always near to being one and the same. Both gave of their body and blood in order to server and survive.

Her mind would always be filled with the reminders. How loving men that people worshiped as gods could lead one to damnation. How the heart could be filled with love and longing till it all was near unbearable.

The pain no longer would remain as she rose in her sun warmed elegance away from the dirt and turned to greet the dawn.

Time again would change her as the decisions were made.

Never to be weighed against a feather, her spirit was strong.

Bashara

Date: 2010-06-29 17:53 EST
The long dirt road, the path to Ghost Town.

She watched and knew the concern that dwelled in the eyes of those she considered as friends.

Still the Egyptian remained lost in the moments of nostalgia with all that had been and all that would be.

In the shadows she knelt, fingers brushing into the dirt of the road and wishing for the feel of the desert sand.

She missed her home. She missed the desert sun and the heat of mirages and her Guardian.

There was no looking back when it came to that option.

The Rex had gone astray.

Gunslingers and Suit born Reds were but illusions in her mind...had those sweet moments been real?

She rose wearily back to her feet, smoothing the dust and grime from the silk as she headed back to the old abandoned broke down hotel she called her home.

So many rooms and yet only one was filled. Hers.

Sometimes Madison would visit, If Tavarius knew she was still about then he likely would visit too... but Cal and the Rex...no more. The horizon had taken them.

The Raven. The Hunter.

Disillusioned threads and cords that had bound but the cords could wither and fray, never truly there to stay true and bind.

Things changed, Life Changed, People changed.

The Egyptian entered her room familiar with the soothing solace that lingered and haunted the four walls.

Sometimes she swore the ghosts of the past whispered their laments, telling the story of their lives in the hotel she now occupied.

A gaze of molten gold lingered upon the mirror there, the vanity with the three scarabs and the handful of beads that Karras had gifted to her.

Dream scarabs. Her fingers caressed each in turn before she shuddered and shook her head. Now was not the time.

The duality of her spirit was there in her eyes, the dark lioness of the desert so born of black she oft had been mistaken for a panther in her other form.

A soft growl breathed out as she turned away as the flawless surface of the mirror became a dream glass.

Showing the vision of an Enigma of a man she had barely begun to understand and yet...

His presence soothed her, made her forget for a time the pain and the loss that ever seemed to linger and remain.

Her duality no longer seemed to be just for cats and harlot queens.