Sightless Accord

[Wretched 2075]

 

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          Quiet was the Soothsayer, isolated again within the dim confines of his darkened tent. A peaceful solemnity entrapped him, binding him in place where he sat as shakily he turned his palms to the sky, the matching tattoos of an eye upon each vacantly staring upward. Carefully and deliberately, his polished visor raised to peer in the same direction, quivering lips becoming agape as he allowed an ethereal trance to overcome him.

 

          What little torchlight that glanced across his features wavered as a sourceless wind encircled him, rattling the torn drapes of his abode and slowly causing him to stand. But still, he rose further, his feet lazily dragging upward through the air as he levitated above the ground. The Soothsayer drew in a sharp inhale as a barrage of prismatic colour invaded his sight, followed by a kaleidoscopic vision of unseen, unknowable things.

 

          The Soothsayer was blasted through a tunnel of shifting symbols and blindingly vibrant light, briefly glancing a thousand landscapes of alien worlds in a matter of moments, witnessing the formation of mountains and the flooding of great seas, peering into abstract forces beyond verbal comprehension and becoming totally overwhelmed by them. Blindness seemed to threaten him again as he found his mind muddled by cosmic uncertainty, having now seen what could not be known, what should not be known.

 

          With a prominent clap, the bestowment ceased, and a single flash of the most divinely pure white light violently thrust the Soothsayer back to his body, which slumped down hard onto the floor of his tent as his levitation abruptly subsided. He knelt on his hands and knees, pained gasping escaping his weathered lungs. He dug his wiry digits into the floor, allowing himself time for ringing in his ears to dissipate before slowly, he struggled back to his feet.

 

          Now, knowing what sight really meant, the Soothsayer’s narrow lips curled at their edges into a wicked smile.

[Johann 2498]

Cover your eyes.

 

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A fun narrative that describes Bestowment well! 

 

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[Valannor 6405]

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A very well written piece! 

 

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