Post by Virgo on May 28, 2007 14:50:30 GMT
[OOC: Timestamp: 1:20pm, 19th May 423
Normal formatting will return in the next post.
Lyrics are from Sunrise by Bennie K.
Just for a little background information, I’m going to say that this is set after the girls have managed to get the hang of their elemental powers (to some extent) and that they have figured out their individual powers, but still can’t control them properly.]
Ichido fumihazunutsa
Mienai kaidan ga atte
Kowaku natte
Ookiku kanjite itan da
Oh... kirai ni natte
Oh... nagedanutsa tte
Jibun kara wa nigerannai kara
Normal formatting will return in the next post.
Lyrics are from Sunrise by Bennie K.
Just for a little background information, I’m going to say that this is set after the girls have managed to get the hang of their elemental powers (to some extent) and that they have figured out their individual powers, but still can’t control them properly.]
Ichido fumihazunutsa
Mienai kaidan ga atte
Kowaku natte
Ookiku kanjite itan da
Oh... kirai ni natte
Oh... nagedanutsa tte
Jibun kara wa nigerannai kara
This was, to put it mildly, completely and utterly insane. The basic survival instinct that exists in all creatures with a mortal lifespan was screaming in her head, telling her that she should not be where she was because it was unknown territory, and who knew where it would lead? Yet the spiral staircase that wound downwards was an invitation to adventure and knowledge, and who was Virgo to resist such an easy target? Curiosity had always killed the cat, but Virgo had managed to escape unscathed in the past. Although, in the past, there had been no suspicious priests that one had to hide unusual powers from, and in the past, there was no danger and uneasy alliances between teenage girls in the fact that they had still not yet come to proper terms with one another. Virgo had herself to partly blame for that. She had spent the few months cooped up inside her room or inside the library, reading as many books as she could get her hands on to try and figure out what exactly was going on, or what had happened to the original Goddesses. Sapphire was still refusing to talk.
As she gingerly lowered herself to the next step, for they were like giant slabs made for something larger than she was, Virgo realised that it was mostly Sapphire’s fault that she was here. He had, yet again in an attempt to avoid answering her question, ran off with a strip of cloth that she’d been using as a sort of makeshift blindfold at night. Leaving something over her eyes had a tendency to block her premonitions or make them weaker than they were supposed to be, for Virgo had become irritated with waking up screaming at the feeling of being dragged down into a pool of shadow and getting no answers at all from her familiar. Often she would spend the rest of the night curled up in her bed, unable to sleep due to the terrifying scenes she would experience once she slipped into the realm of the subconscious.
In Virgo’s attempt to follow Sapphire and get the strip of cloth back (and maybe an answer – she always felt that if she could catch him he would actually answer her questions, but he was too quick for her and would have disappeared by the time she’d managed to catch up to where he’d been), she’d found the staircase. It was unusual, because the girls didn’t think there was much to the dome except for their rooms and the corridors that seemingly lead to a dead end. Somehow, Virgo had managed to find a doorway at the end of one, and had found the staircase on the other side of the door.
So, somewhat foolishly, she had stepped onto the small landing that connected the staircase spiralling downwards to the one spiralling upwards, which was the second sign (the first being ‘but there should be the outside world beyond this door if we’re going by the positions of the bedrooms and balconies in relation to it’, which was quickly disproved) that something was wrong. The dome was the highest point of the Temple and if the staircase spiralled in an upward direction as well as the downward way in which she was going, it indicated that the staircase was not in their dimension, but in one of its own.
This worried Virgo. Sadly, it also interested her.
She continued down the huge slabs with care, keeping an eye on the door that she had come through that was still in view. The steps were reminiscent of dry ice, although Virgo was not to know this, but they reminded her of great glass cuboids with clouded insides. However, the surface of them was not as smooth as glass was, but instead slightly rougher, with texture to provide friction. For a change, Virgo had chosen to wear her sandals rather than walk around barefoot, due to the fact that she was planning to head off into the temple grounds for a change. She was glad that she made the plans, for where she had put her hands on the steps, she had found that they were uncomfortable to touch. She had also found that trying to connect telepathy with anybody was almost impossible here, which she decided was a result of being in another dimension, if that was indeed where she was.
Virgo continued down the steps, stopping suddenly at one point and looking back towards the door, of which she could only see the top of now. Had she just heard somebody come through the door, or was it a trick of the mind?
As she gingerly lowered herself to the next step, for they were like giant slabs made for something larger than she was, Virgo realised that it was mostly Sapphire’s fault that she was here. He had, yet again in an attempt to avoid answering her question, ran off with a strip of cloth that she’d been using as a sort of makeshift blindfold at night. Leaving something over her eyes had a tendency to block her premonitions or make them weaker than they were supposed to be, for Virgo had become irritated with waking up screaming at the feeling of being dragged down into a pool of shadow and getting no answers at all from her familiar. Often she would spend the rest of the night curled up in her bed, unable to sleep due to the terrifying scenes she would experience once she slipped into the realm of the subconscious.
In Virgo’s attempt to follow Sapphire and get the strip of cloth back (and maybe an answer – she always felt that if she could catch him he would actually answer her questions, but he was too quick for her and would have disappeared by the time she’d managed to catch up to where he’d been), she’d found the staircase. It was unusual, because the girls didn’t think there was much to the dome except for their rooms and the corridors that seemingly lead to a dead end. Somehow, Virgo had managed to find a doorway at the end of one, and had found the staircase on the other side of the door.
So, somewhat foolishly, she had stepped onto the small landing that connected the staircase spiralling downwards to the one spiralling upwards, which was the second sign (the first being ‘but there should be the outside world beyond this door if we’re going by the positions of the bedrooms and balconies in relation to it’, which was quickly disproved) that something was wrong. The dome was the highest point of the Temple and if the staircase spiralled in an upward direction as well as the downward way in which she was going, it indicated that the staircase was not in their dimension, but in one of its own.
This worried Virgo. Sadly, it also interested her.
She continued down the huge slabs with care, keeping an eye on the door that she had come through that was still in view. The steps were reminiscent of dry ice, although Virgo was not to know this, but they reminded her of great glass cuboids with clouded insides. However, the surface of them was not as smooth as glass was, but instead slightly rougher, with texture to provide friction. For a change, Virgo had chosen to wear her sandals rather than walk around barefoot, due to the fact that she was planning to head off into the temple grounds for a change. She was glad that she made the plans, for where she had put her hands on the steps, she had found that they were uncomfortable to touch. She had also found that trying to connect telepathy with anybody was almost impossible here, which she decided was a result of being in another dimension, if that was indeed where she was.
Virgo continued down the steps, stopping suddenly at one point and looking back towards the door, of which she could only see the top of now. Had she just heard somebody come through the door, or was it a trick of the mind?
There’s an invisible staircase
That I strayed from at some point
And it started
To really scare me
Oh… I gave up
Oh… because I hated it
But you can’t run away from yourself
That I strayed from at some point
And it started
To really scare me
Oh… I gave up
Oh… because I hated it
But you can’t run away from yourself
