A Light Amongst the Ashes

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The sight took the Fawn Druid by surprise, seeing the smothering ashes of the once known building that had housed the Faith of the Priesthood. The shrine she herself created for the Sage Way, the Sanguine Creed markings of her mentor’s faith, even the newly formed of the Mother’s Path now was reduced to nothing. A crater where it once stood and even more so, how it occurred struck her heart deeply. Words and reason the cause. A logic of so few and deciding upon such a destructive path to make something better. Anger and pain spoken from the High Priestess that stood next to her, followed by a fellow Brother of her kin. The books were thankfully saved by the efforts of the Volcano Druid, yet many of the sacred trees and other flora along with the sites nestled in that building’s depths were now gone…

 

This own feeling of betrayal perhaps. Anger? Hatred? Shocking and just not understanding. Even more so the lake nearby purposefully drained with its contents washing away many voices of nature that had embedded itself in its ecosystem for a long time. Indeed it was lost upon the Druidess’s mind of why it was done in such a horrific way, yet there and now would she step forth. 

 

The rain clouds within the night sky came crashing down in a gentle downpour as an ancient stave was placed beside the Fawn Druid. Its twisted length stretched upwards that then opened to a wooden carved sparrow with its wings taking flight. The Sparrow Druid…An original Priestess of the Naelurir…a beloved Druidess long forgotten and her staves passed on through the Green Priesthood, now within the Fawn’s hands. The Priestess of Amaethon would imbue her own energies within its being, bringing forth to life the awakened song of yore that sung off a beautiful melody that erupted across the area. Joined in hand would the Priestess’s own presence now arise, filling the air with her soothing, serene like song that now swelled upon the energies that started to erupt within. A flash of ivory hue engulfed those golden irises, seeing now of the Fawn starting to conjure a manifestation of pure majesty. 

 

A luonto appeared like pure starlight, revealing itself in a hazy form that started to condense further into a silhouette of a large antlered deer that moved to step gently pass the Druids nearby until it stood side by side with its owner. 

 

“Go ahead, Rue...” 

 

As the night grew darker from the storm that struck above, the Vale of the Nevaehlen’s square would now illuminate with such radiance of pure white light. Mists now flowed down from the Fawn’s hands akin to a waterfall that collided against the ground below. Its fog-like sustain encircled around the Lounto's feet before it then started to walk forward. Each step it took, the smothering ashes would then be cleansed away. The burnt debris was getting washed over by the wave of ivory particles that followed each step of the deer of radiant starlight. Its pace would quicken some as it neared the end, engulfing the are in a shimmering display before the mists vanish from sight. The effort was at max of what the Fawn could do, reaching most of the crater’s radius. In its wake would the once barren area now fill with life, the ash and soot now becoming nutrients for the soil wherein various seeds that once were destroyed now started to sprout.  

 

The deed was done, yet a heavy toll fell upon the Druidess as her lounto now returned to her. It’s radiant form then disperses as its snout pressed against her forehead, causing it to vanish from sight. In its absence as she was still connected would her antler crown now shimmer an ivory hue. Specks of white light littering her face in turn as well, as she then departed towards the front gate.