A Dark and Twisty Trail Bread!wV79//1ryE 2016/07/20 (Wed) 02:55 No. 29297 [Reply] â¼
You rouse yourself, focusing your attention as something approaches. It takes you a few moments, as you stare, to realise just what it was that woke you - a pair of girls, snared by the forest, and led astray.
Led to this place, alone. Something follows them, in the darkness, but as you turn your attention towards it, it fades away, into the darkness of the forest. ...At least some of these newcomers know respect.
It's a simple effort of will to lead the two onward, through the darkness, drawing them to the heart of your power, the start of your domain -- The Trailhead.
It's the least you can do for them. They'll be safe here, for a time.
It's just as your torpor is overtaking you once more, just as your attention drifts, that you can feel the thread of power, granted to you.
You shake yourself awake once more, eyeing them carefully.
"Come on, Renko!" The purple girl tells her companion. "We're lost, and it's only polite." Her companion grumbles something you can't catch -- the doubt around her is too thick.
Despite this, it's both of them who leave crackers at your shrine, before withdrawing to argue about which way to go.
Experimentally, you take one of the crackers, nibbling at it curiously. You're not familiar with these, but they're sweet. Tasty. And you could swear that the purple one was smiling at you, just then. But of course, that's impossible.
There's a thread of power, of faith, that you consume hungrily as well. Yes, these will do. They will do well.
You'll let them walk the Path, yes. And you'll see them safely to the end of it, at that.
It's no effort at all for you to manifest, not anymore, and as you do, you draw forth the Path, allowing them to see where to go from here -- the trail that will take them to their destination, where ever that may be.
And you will walk it with them.
[ ] Guardian.
[ ] Companion.
[ ] Guide.