DWC August 2024 - Day 3 - Journey / Fatality - Khaeris
Just as the mind wandered, Khaeris loved a good journey. Her own wanderings, the ones in books, or even the ones in tales told around a fire. Imagination and maps both delighted her. Journeys down the street and across continents were both beloved. The elven woman had come home yesterday, sprinkling sand with nearly every step, but less so in Quel’thalas, and hardly a grain by the time she reached her home.
Khaeris loved movement. So her own feet took plenty of walks, strolls, and meanders. Sometimes--most times--she would add a skip to her step or a twirl or two. Sandals or socks, journeys could be as to the beach or shuffled sleepily to her sofa.
The last time she’d taken her vardo on the road had been many years now, but perhaps it was time. Time. She didn’t want to focus on time right now. Her hand walked her fingers over her counter at the market. A pretty note of her fingernail tinkling off the glass perfume bottle and then the soft sound of the pad of her finger over the paper label. She crossed her ankles and leaned on the structure, languid in the late morning warmth of the Bazaar in Silvermoon, feeling her breath sigh up from deep down by her diaphragm and up through her lips.
Packed up, she made her way to the Shielded Mind clinic where things were tense and people bustled themselves about chores and preparations. Khaeris kept a bag ready to go behind her desk. And one at Pollux’s door. And one in the vardo. It was a habit now, to pick up and go when wanted or when the world forced it. She kicked the bag out of her way as she set up for her pharmacy duties.
Roads through her notes helped her experiment. A new sleeping draught to help the dreamers on their paths. Then something for endurance and the soldiers on their marches. A cream to soften the soles of weary feet.
‘I should find my bed,’ her thoughts drifted reluctantly, even as her arms stretched low to brush over her toes in her nightly rituals. For all her love of journeys, she missed them shared.
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