There is nothing to herald her arrival. No clatter of footsteps, no rustle of clothes—No steps at all, upon the pristine stairs leading to the god's altar. The faintest hint of bells, for those who knew to listen for them, are all that precede the press of bare toes upon stone as a figure wreathed in shimmering whites and silvers is quite suddenly standing within the whispering god's temple. (1/2)
Fingers feather across cool stone with interest, though steps make no sound as she circles the altar, hair spilling over her shoulder as the figure leaned in, eyes bright and curious upon a relic left for him. A peculiar relic, a... curiosity. The goddess of mysteries poked and prodded, leaving a trail of snow-white feathers upon the ground in her wake—Increasingly reckless in the face of the other god's inevitable notice. (2/2)
The god’s notice came swiftly and silently, a ripple of icy wind that only lightly stirred the downy feathers she left behind. This visitor, she observed no rules. She left no offering. She made no bargain. She was divine; divine and unafraid. But how then could she simultaneously be so childish? Glittering eyes, wide with fascination, noticed little else but the trinkets left behind by some pilgrim; blissfully unaware of the shadow that loomed closer, bit by bit swallowing up the shrine.
Her hands were soft, harmless, but unwelcome nonetheless. A serpent greeted her outstretched hand when it ventured forward again, golden teeth flashing a needle-sharp warning as it coiled defensively about the relic. This god did not approve of touching what was his. And then, there she stood, a pearl surrounded by a web of black silk, wreathed by a nest of vipers that had seemed to materialize from the cracks between the stone, falling to earth like decaying vines.
“You are bold.” The voice came quietly from somewhere behind the goddess. Or maybe it came from the gilded mouths of the snakes, what for the way it echoed, sounding like several voices all at once, and all of them horribly familiar.
“Or perhaps simply reckless... to enter the domain of another. Tell me... what business does a god of wonder have in a place of despair?”
If my Muse was a Deity, what Offerings Would you Leave at Their Shrine?[CLOSED]