Setting
Mira settlements are often of crude design given their semi-nomadic nature. Rather than settling into one location a tribe of Mira will cycle between multiple villages as is needed in the event of an attack, or to maintain healthy hunting grounds. Structures aren't built to last but rather are built to be easily repaired or reconstructed.
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The Shamana gestured for them to come into the cluttered hut. "In some ways, memories are like dreams. They are part of your subconscious, only brought to the conscious mind when you access them. I have worked with dreams before, so there's a chance I can relate that to memory."
She entered the hut with a frown and her arms folded. "What if that's what they've become?" she told Ryth. "When I was asleep... earlier. After being pricked by the thorn. I had visions..."
She glanced around the room and smiled hopefully hoping that Ryth might be able to do something, though she knew he was still training. Though the links to dreaming was starting to sound promising.
He placed his paws upon her head, and closed his eyes. He sought within her mind for the memories, severed threads, cut off from the rest of her thoughts. There was nothing he could do to directly cure her amnesia, but he could try and mimic what the poison had done - bringing down the barriers in her mind, the walls that had blocked out her memory. If the memories were there, they would be able to flood back through, much as though she were having a dream or vision again.
The visions came in fever dreams. They flashed one after the other, but they were strangely vivid. The first, tilted sideways. Laying down. She was laying down. Looking into dark purple eyes covered by a mess of blonde hair. The very striking face of a man graced her with a kind smile. He reached for her hand, holding it tightly in his own.
The scene quickly vanished, propping Jurai on her feet. The room was dark. It swallowed them. Raucous laughter filled the air, bounced and echoed as though they were in a hollow space. Things whipped out of the corner of their eyes- Ryth would likely be seeing out of the same ones, after all.
They would be swept into several more wonderful and terrifying scenes from Jurai's past. Most of which included the beautiful blonde man, painted in such a vivid and romantic life-
And that dark room. Filled with that laughter. Those shadows. Once it tossed them into a hallway and those shadows chased them. That laughter... it was familiar. Jurai knew it so well. But from where? Who was that?
The last scene landed them in front of a throne, where the golden man sat. His eyes, as before, weren't painted with love. They were wide, strained, with terror. He shook, hands clenching his throat, where there was a knife pressed against him.
One final time, there was that laughter, and the knife was pulled through his throat.
Jurai screamed. Not in the visions, but out loud, where Kar'lah and Ryth could really hear her. "Stop it!" she cried out. "No! Stop!"
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