Solstice Maze's Story

The Gray Witch was awakened by an unfamiliar breeze and a sense of danger to which she snapped her eyes open to observe her surroundings. Solstice quickly sat up and frantically turned this way and that, desperately searching for her dear cat, Pepper.

"Pepper! Oh gods, Pepper!" She screamed desperately, tears blurring her vision.

She dropped her face into her hands and sobbed. The last she remembered before waking was a feeling of exhaustion, and what she assumed was her losing consciousness during her ritual. She must not have been asleep for long, she realized, because the scent of the herbs she used in the ritual (mint, lavender, and lily of the valley) were still fresh in her nose.

Solstice gathered herself, wiped her hands on her ruffled shin length skirt, and stood quickly. She forced herself to refashion her low bun, hold her head up high, and begin walking towards the destination that stood out the most. The stone that seemed to touch the sky.

The Leopard froze in his tracks at the sound of a human voice. He great head whip around, he starred back the way he had come, ears raised high and eyes wide. Had his enemies come to this strange place as well?!

Not taking any chances, he quickly turned south and begin to circle back around what ever had cried out. As he did, the things sent was carried to him on the on the wind. Human, but not one he recognised. Using all the stealth a hunter of his experience possessed, the great cat eventually positioned himself behind the stranger.

His ears told him that they where going in the same direction he had originally taken. Careful he raised his head a fraction higher and fully spied the human. Thankfully it was not his enemy, but a female, dressed in cloths he had never seen before. Her movements suggested that she was not searching for him, or even aware of the Man-Eater.

Seeing she was no threat, the Leopard decided to follow the newcomer. He was not hungry at present, having fed no long before the hunters had come for him, and he was tired, but he was curious. He would also need food and water eventually, perhaps she could lead him to them.

Lowering his head into the grass once again, the Spotted Devil, now as close to invisible as nature could achieve, began to follow.

Hm? What the hell?

Definitely not where I wanted to be. Wonder how my comrades are doing.

A soft wind blew through the vast of Genesis.

There were hundreds, if not thousands of newcomers. Yet so few were anywhere near one another. They were all, however, equidistant from Eminence. Isn't it funny how space and time are all a matter of perception?

Where were Daniel Cooker's comrades?

What did The Gray Witch expect to find in Eminence?

Did The Leopard truly escape death?

Who's Nena Yhen?

Aewisp swirled down on the wind to Colombo.

"Sembra che tu ti sia perso: Los Angeles è lontana da qui..."

La donna fatta di vento andò alla deriva verso l'eminenza.

1. I got here from walking from some weird place, and 2. I came from some other weird place.