Discovery~A Story
Posted: June 5th, 2012, 11:41:58 pm
This is a story about me in MagiStream: I may continue it and don't be afraid to comment.
Warning, words are everywhere, and there are a lot of them. This is a long post.
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Discovery
There was a slight sound on light feet on stone steps, there almost always was in The Keep. Some creature coming in late from a long day, or an older Magi heading up to their bed after realizing he had gotten too deeply into that scroll he was translating.
However, today, it was not the usual, it was a young Magi, her beautiful dark blue robe fitting her perfectly, a touch of youth still left in her face. Her hair was brown and long reaching halfway down her back and pulled into a Minicorntail and her eyes where a hazel with bright green accents around the iris.
Her name was Caitlyn StarNight and she was one who always tested the limits.
Caitlyn was raised at The Keep by a normal human woman who had gotten lost on her way to her village. Her young child proved a handful and soon it was discovered after a few months that because she had been born here, she possessed great magical powers. The Magi of The Keep had been happy for the mother, and offered to send a tutor to the town where the mother lived once her child got old enough to be taught.
The mother, however, confessed that she did not wish for the child to get into any trouble and that she did not have the experience to handle such a gifted child. So the mother gave the young Caitlyn up to The Keep, leaving her a scroll to be given on how to find her, and why she had left her at The Keep.
Caitlyn grew up under the watchful eye of a few magi who delighted in having a child all their own. When she became old enough, she was put to study under Liav Noris, an older Magi, with good mind for young ones and a great sense of humor. Bothe talents were put to good use with Caitlyn as his student and the two often joked while Liav taught and Caitlyn was petting on his creatures.
But, Liav had been strict about one thing, that she was too young to have a creature of her own. As much as a simple Koi or a Winged Cat might seem easy, they required much patience and attention, which Caitlyn could not spare from her studies at this time.
Tonight, Caitlyn planned to prove him wrong, and Liav had the last two days awake translating a scroll from an unknown language to something she could read and was now asleep in his room, with his loud, snoring Razan Lemur sleeping with him.
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Caitlyn stepped outside into the cool night air, her eyes adjusting to the darkness quickly. She looked around seeing some gryphon flying to The Keep for the night and a few Ariessa standing close to each other. The air wasn't all that cold, but she pulled up her hood anyways and walked down to the sparkling dark water that was the stream.
Even in the middle of the night, there were eggs in The Stream and Caitlyn knelt down to study them, the shells of multiple eggs gleaming in the silver moonlight. She sat there for a while, watching some Koi bring a few out of the current and nestle them among the reeds along the water's edge. She didn't see any which attracted her attention and she turned away to go back when a brightly colored fleck caught her eye.
Caitlyn turned to see a rainbow egg, caught under some grass in the Stream. She leaned down and picked it up, drying it off gently with her robe and smiled as it seem to come alive in her hands. The young magi didn't remember what it was, she could research it in the library tomorrow.
Looking around to make sure no one else except a few grazing Cervinus Deer had seen her, she slipped back inside the Keep and back to her room.
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Caitlyn woke the next morning to a knock on her door. She blinked then looked down at the red sleeping gown she usually wore and yawned.
"Yes?"
"Come one Caitlyn," Liav called through the door, "We are going to study with a few Mermaids down by the lake. They want to teach you some of their spells, and maybe you can show them a few things as well."
"Yes, Liav." Caitlyn answered and she threw off the covers and slipped on a lighter blue robe with hand stitched white patterns on it. She had learned that spell when she was younger from an older woman caretaker, it had been fun.
After getting changed Caitlyn paused and looked at the small dresser in one corner of her room, usually it held books, but the books had unceremonious shoved under her bed and the drawer lined with her older robes to create a nest. She walked over and opened the drawer softly, looking at the brightly colored egg inside before closing the drawer again and exiting the room to go study with her mentor.
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It was late in the day when Caitlyn and Liav returned to The Keep, the Mermaids had been delighted to meet Caitlyn, who had a wonderful sense of humor and also would do the favor of helping braid their hair while they showed her different things with water spells and such. Now Liav had sent her to study in her room, while he attended a lecture about some complex thing which Caitlyn still had yet to understand.
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The young magi quickly entered her room and set down her books she opened them on her bed to the correct page and then walked over to the drawer. She pulled out the egg gently and studied it. She looked at the page in the book and read the name out loud.
"Puvia. It’s a Puvia egg."
Caitlyn turned it in her hands, admiring its colorful shell, then placing it on the bed beside her she laid down on her stomach and put away to breed book and continued to study the words of the poem the mermaids had given her.
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Caitlyn woke with a start as she heard a noise. She looked around confused, before she realized it was middle of the night. She was still wearing her day robe and the poem scroll was still on her bed, a little crumpled from where she had lain her head on it.
But that was no what had waken her from her slumber, no, a small crack had appeared in the egg and Caitlyn quickly put away the mermaid poem and formed up a nest of blankets around the bright egg while she thanked her almost absentminded store of sunflower seeds she kept in her room to snack on. She started breaking open the seeds before she realized she still had that package of waterberries from the mermaids in her pouch.
After about 10 minutes of cracking seeds and setting up a plate of bright blue waterberries, she waited anxiously as the egg cracked even more. She watched as red beak poked out and finally the egg shell cracked enough for a fuzzy Puvia to be sitting on the bed. It didn't cry because it saw Caitlyn sitting at its eye level, but it opened its beak in a clear indication it was hungry.
Caitlyn smiled and started to feed the berries and seeds to the young bird. It was obvious that keeping the Puvia secret would be hard, especially with Liav around, but she would be able to, and the Puvia was already hopping out of the small nest she had made to look around the room.
"Hello Young one." She said gently and the Puvia looked at her, curiously. It hopped over, its wings spread slightly, already drying off from the inside slime of an egg and tilted its head at her. "I'm going to pick you up, alright?" The bird couldn't speak, but it let Caitlyn pick her up and study him.... no her. "You're a girl, how about I name you Sorra?"
The bird didn't seem to mind the name and hopped back onto the bed to explore where to lie on the blanket for the night.
Caitlyn grinned, knowing full well she was in for a tongue lashing when Liav found out, but she didn't care. Sorra was hers now, and nothing would break them apart. So the young magi blinked suddenly blurry hazel-green eyes and crawled back into bed after cleaning up the eggshell, with a puffball of a Puvia sleeping beside her.
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A semi-loud peeping sound woke Caitlyn and she sat up to find Sorra sitting in her lap wings flapping a little as she asked to be fed. Caitlyn groaned and looked outside, the sun wasn't even up yet, but she got herself into this mess and she was going to raise this Puvia.
She cradled the bird in her arms to quiet it before she changed back to her favorite dark blue robe and picked up the Puvia and headed down to the great hall where breakfast was served.
After creeping back Liav's room and into the dining hall where breakfast was served she placed her new Puvia on the table and got some fresh fruit for herself and her Puvia along with some seeds just for the bird.
She placed the plate in front of Sorra who quickly ate it up in record time, already looking bigger and turned her now bright purple eyes back to Caitlyn. They were already showing the signs of intelligence and Caitlyn nodded and the bird hopped onto her arm and snuggled close as she brought her outside.
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Outside The Keep, Caitlyn could see the sky turning a milky blue and Sorra looking around to study as creatures started to emerge from The Keep.
Sorra made a few peeps before she released a note from her beak that sounded like pure music. She spread her wings and flapped, launching into the air and darting off to play with two young gryphons as they flew through the air.
The young magi smiled and ran a hand over her hair, fixing it with a spell she had learned and binding into a minicorntail and sat down in the shade of a tree to watch her Puvia play as the sun rose.
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Liav wasn't angry with his student.
Caitlyn had the odd habit of disappearing whenever he wished to go somewhere early. The sun had just risen and his Talvar had woken him so that he could wake Caitlyn in time to travel to the Koi Pond to get a new fish for his own collection of them. He had a female Koi who had lost her clutch of eggs to a storm and he wanted to her a new egg to care for until she was ready to breed again.
Bit his student had not been in her room, the hastily shed light blue robe she had wore yesterday had been seen haphazardly across the floor in her room and books from yesterday laying unread in a pile on the dresser. Liav had thought maybe she had been in the library and had gone with his lemur trotting next to the large library to see it quiet and cold. He had searched all over the building, and finally giving up he collected a pouch for carrying the Koi eggs from the Koi Pond and set off outside.
Liav stepped outside to a barely risen sun, with a flock of his own creatures greeting him. He gave each one a small caress, projecting his love for them and starting down the path towards the Pond with a few of his companions following before he heard a familiar laugh.
Liav's gray eyes turned to see Caitlyn staring up at three fling creatures, one a young Puvia, the other two young gryphons. The three where dive bombing his student in a mock battle, with Caitlyn trying fend them from attacking her with small gusts of winds from a wind spell.
Liav watched, amused, knowing his student loved to play with the young creatures. And he silently started to approach her when the Puvia landed onto Caitlyn's outstretched arms and placed its multi-colored head under Caitlyn's chin and let out a warbled song which stopped Liav dead in his tracks.
Young Puvias did that only to their parents or two their magi companions. It was a symbol of their bond... which meant...
His eyes narrowed and forgetting all about silence, he walked briskly over to his student, his companions fleeing the wrath of their magi before they could feel it head on.
"Caitlyn StarNight!" He called out sharply and his student turned in surprise, the Puvia bird in her arms perking up in surprise. the young gryphon fled quickly as they sensed his anger, but the Puvia bird huddled down in Caitlyn's arms instead of flying away.
Liav proceeded to launch into a long winded rant about how she should have listened to him, and she wasn't ready for the level of responsibility that came with raising a companion to adulthood. After he had finished, he had reduced Caitlyn to a wide-eyes, pleading young girl with an equally sad-faced Puvia in her arms.
"But I want to keep her..." Caitlyn started, but Liav cut her off.
"No, you will release her at once." Liav stated. "You are not ready to take care of her."
"But..." Caitlyn trailed off and looked down at the Puvia who gave a small chirp. "I’ve already named Sorra."
"You..." Liav began before scrubbed his face with both hands. "You named her?"
"Yes." Caitlyn said in a small voice.
"Alright, StarNight." He said severely. "I warned you about doing this, but Sorra is your responsibility. I am never going to help you take care of her, and you will still go on with your regular studies and exams, do you hear me?"
"Yes Master." His student said meekly before standing. "What are we doing today?"
Liav looked down at Caitlyn for a few more seconds before shaking his head. "The Koi Pond to fetch a few eggs for Hera who lost her own clutch."
Caitlyn nodded before having the small Puvia sit on her shoulder. "Yes, Liav, I'm ready."
Liav looked at the pair for a second more than sighed and headed off in the direction of the Koi Pond, with Caitlyn and Sorra following behind.
Warning, words are everywhere, and there are a lot of them. This is a long post.
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Discovery
There was a slight sound on light feet on stone steps, there almost always was in The Keep. Some creature coming in late from a long day, or an older Magi heading up to their bed after realizing he had gotten too deeply into that scroll he was translating.
However, today, it was not the usual, it was a young Magi, her beautiful dark blue robe fitting her perfectly, a touch of youth still left in her face. Her hair was brown and long reaching halfway down her back and pulled into a Minicorntail and her eyes where a hazel with bright green accents around the iris.
Her name was Caitlyn StarNight and she was one who always tested the limits.
Caitlyn was raised at The Keep by a normal human woman who had gotten lost on her way to her village. Her young child proved a handful and soon it was discovered after a few months that because she had been born here, she possessed great magical powers. The Magi of The Keep had been happy for the mother, and offered to send a tutor to the town where the mother lived once her child got old enough to be taught.
The mother, however, confessed that she did not wish for the child to get into any trouble and that she did not have the experience to handle such a gifted child. So the mother gave the young Caitlyn up to The Keep, leaving her a scroll to be given on how to find her, and why she had left her at The Keep.
Caitlyn grew up under the watchful eye of a few magi who delighted in having a child all their own. When she became old enough, she was put to study under Liav Noris, an older Magi, with good mind for young ones and a great sense of humor. Bothe talents were put to good use with Caitlyn as his student and the two often joked while Liav taught and Caitlyn was petting on his creatures.
But, Liav had been strict about one thing, that she was too young to have a creature of her own. As much as a simple Koi or a Winged Cat might seem easy, they required much patience and attention, which Caitlyn could not spare from her studies at this time.
Tonight, Caitlyn planned to prove him wrong, and Liav had the last two days awake translating a scroll from an unknown language to something she could read and was now asleep in his room, with his loud, snoring Razan Lemur sleeping with him.
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Caitlyn stepped outside into the cool night air, her eyes adjusting to the darkness quickly. She looked around seeing some gryphon flying to The Keep for the night and a few Ariessa standing close to each other. The air wasn't all that cold, but she pulled up her hood anyways and walked down to the sparkling dark water that was the stream.
Even in the middle of the night, there were eggs in The Stream and Caitlyn knelt down to study them, the shells of multiple eggs gleaming in the silver moonlight. She sat there for a while, watching some Koi bring a few out of the current and nestle them among the reeds along the water's edge. She didn't see any which attracted her attention and she turned away to go back when a brightly colored fleck caught her eye.
Caitlyn turned to see a rainbow egg, caught under some grass in the Stream. She leaned down and picked it up, drying it off gently with her robe and smiled as it seem to come alive in her hands. The young magi didn't remember what it was, she could research it in the library tomorrow.
Looking around to make sure no one else except a few grazing Cervinus Deer had seen her, she slipped back inside the Keep and back to her room.
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Caitlyn woke the next morning to a knock on her door. She blinked then looked down at the red sleeping gown she usually wore and yawned.
"Yes?"
"Come one Caitlyn," Liav called through the door, "We are going to study with a few Mermaids down by the lake. They want to teach you some of their spells, and maybe you can show them a few things as well."
"Yes, Liav." Caitlyn answered and she threw off the covers and slipped on a lighter blue robe with hand stitched white patterns on it. She had learned that spell when she was younger from an older woman caretaker, it had been fun.
After getting changed Caitlyn paused and looked at the small dresser in one corner of her room, usually it held books, but the books had unceremonious shoved under her bed and the drawer lined with her older robes to create a nest. She walked over and opened the drawer softly, looking at the brightly colored egg inside before closing the drawer again and exiting the room to go study with her mentor.
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It was late in the day when Caitlyn and Liav returned to The Keep, the Mermaids had been delighted to meet Caitlyn, who had a wonderful sense of humor and also would do the favor of helping braid their hair while they showed her different things with water spells and such. Now Liav had sent her to study in her room, while he attended a lecture about some complex thing which Caitlyn still had yet to understand.
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The young magi quickly entered her room and set down her books she opened them on her bed to the correct page and then walked over to the drawer. She pulled out the egg gently and studied it. She looked at the page in the book and read the name out loud.
"Puvia. It’s a Puvia egg."
Caitlyn turned it in her hands, admiring its colorful shell, then placing it on the bed beside her she laid down on her stomach and put away to breed book and continued to study the words of the poem the mermaids had given her.
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Caitlyn woke with a start as she heard a noise. She looked around confused, before she realized it was middle of the night. She was still wearing her day robe and the poem scroll was still on her bed, a little crumpled from where she had lain her head on it.
But that was no what had waken her from her slumber, no, a small crack had appeared in the egg and Caitlyn quickly put away the mermaid poem and formed up a nest of blankets around the bright egg while she thanked her almost absentminded store of sunflower seeds she kept in her room to snack on. She started breaking open the seeds before she realized she still had that package of waterberries from the mermaids in her pouch.
After about 10 minutes of cracking seeds and setting up a plate of bright blue waterberries, she waited anxiously as the egg cracked even more. She watched as red beak poked out and finally the egg shell cracked enough for a fuzzy Puvia to be sitting on the bed. It didn't cry because it saw Caitlyn sitting at its eye level, but it opened its beak in a clear indication it was hungry.
Caitlyn smiled and started to feed the berries and seeds to the young bird. It was obvious that keeping the Puvia secret would be hard, especially with Liav around, but she would be able to, and the Puvia was already hopping out of the small nest she had made to look around the room.
"Hello Young one." She said gently and the Puvia looked at her, curiously. It hopped over, its wings spread slightly, already drying off from the inside slime of an egg and tilted its head at her. "I'm going to pick you up, alright?" The bird couldn't speak, but it let Caitlyn pick her up and study him.... no her. "You're a girl, how about I name you Sorra?"
The bird didn't seem to mind the name and hopped back onto the bed to explore where to lie on the blanket for the night.
Caitlyn grinned, knowing full well she was in for a tongue lashing when Liav found out, but she didn't care. Sorra was hers now, and nothing would break them apart. So the young magi blinked suddenly blurry hazel-green eyes and crawled back into bed after cleaning up the eggshell, with a puffball of a Puvia sleeping beside her.
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A semi-loud peeping sound woke Caitlyn and she sat up to find Sorra sitting in her lap wings flapping a little as she asked to be fed. Caitlyn groaned and looked outside, the sun wasn't even up yet, but she got herself into this mess and she was going to raise this Puvia.
She cradled the bird in her arms to quiet it before she changed back to her favorite dark blue robe and picked up the Puvia and headed down to the great hall where breakfast was served.
After creeping back Liav's room and into the dining hall where breakfast was served she placed her new Puvia on the table and got some fresh fruit for herself and her Puvia along with some seeds just for the bird.
She placed the plate in front of Sorra who quickly ate it up in record time, already looking bigger and turned her now bright purple eyes back to Caitlyn. They were already showing the signs of intelligence and Caitlyn nodded and the bird hopped onto her arm and snuggled close as she brought her outside.
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Outside The Keep, Caitlyn could see the sky turning a milky blue and Sorra looking around to study as creatures started to emerge from The Keep.
Sorra made a few peeps before she released a note from her beak that sounded like pure music. She spread her wings and flapped, launching into the air and darting off to play with two young gryphons as they flew through the air.
The young magi smiled and ran a hand over her hair, fixing it with a spell she had learned and binding into a minicorntail and sat down in the shade of a tree to watch her Puvia play as the sun rose.
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Liav wasn't angry with his student.
Caitlyn had the odd habit of disappearing whenever he wished to go somewhere early. The sun had just risen and his Talvar had woken him so that he could wake Caitlyn in time to travel to the Koi Pond to get a new fish for his own collection of them. He had a female Koi who had lost her clutch of eggs to a storm and he wanted to her a new egg to care for until she was ready to breed again.
Bit his student had not been in her room, the hastily shed light blue robe she had wore yesterday had been seen haphazardly across the floor in her room and books from yesterday laying unread in a pile on the dresser. Liav had thought maybe she had been in the library and had gone with his lemur trotting next to the large library to see it quiet and cold. He had searched all over the building, and finally giving up he collected a pouch for carrying the Koi eggs from the Koi Pond and set off outside.
Liav stepped outside to a barely risen sun, with a flock of his own creatures greeting him. He gave each one a small caress, projecting his love for them and starting down the path towards the Pond with a few of his companions following before he heard a familiar laugh.
Liav's gray eyes turned to see Caitlyn staring up at three fling creatures, one a young Puvia, the other two young gryphons. The three where dive bombing his student in a mock battle, with Caitlyn trying fend them from attacking her with small gusts of winds from a wind spell.
Liav watched, amused, knowing his student loved to play with the young creatures. And he silently started to approach her when the Puvia landed onto Caitlyn's outstretched arms and placed its multi-colored head under Caitlyn's chin and let out a warbled song which stopped Liav dead in his tracks.
Young Puvias did that only to their parents or two their magi companions. It was a symbol of their bond... which meant...
His eyes narrowed and forgetting all about silence, he walked briskly over to his student, his companions fleeing the wrath of their magi before they could feel it head on.
"Caitlyn StarNight!" He called out sharply and his student turned in surprise, the Puvia bird in her arms perking up in surprise. the young gryphon fled quickly as they sensed his anger, but the Puvia bird huddled down in Caitlyn's arms instead of flying away.
Liav proceeded to launch into a long winded rant about how she should have listened to him, and she wasn't ready for the level of responsibility that came with raising a companion to adulthood. After he had finished, he had reduced Caitlyn to a wide-eyes, pleading young girl with an equally sad-faced Puvia in her arms.
"But I want to keep her..." Caitlyn started, but Liav cut her off.
"No, you will release her at once." Liav stated. "You are not ready to take care of her."
"But..." Caitlyn trailed off and looked down at the Puvia who gave a small chirp. "I’ve already named Sorra."
"You..." Liav began before scrubbed his face with both hands. "You named her?"
"Yes." Caitlyn said in a small voice.
"Alright, StarNight." He said severely. "I warned you about doing this, but Sorra is your responsibility. I am never going to help you take care of her, and you will still go on with your regular studies and exams, do you hear me?"
"Yes Master." His student said meekly before standing. "What are we doing today?"
Liav looked down at Caitlyn for a few more seconds before shaking his head. "The Koi Pond to fetch a few eggs for Hera who lost her own clutch."
Caitlyn nodded before having the small Puvia sit on her shoulder. "Yes, Liav, I'm ready."
Liav looked at the pair for a second more than sighed and headed off in the direction of the Koi Pond, with Caitlyn and Sorra following behind.