Solira: The Ocean: STDs are BOP

Lightning cracked through the sky as rain washed over me. Giddily, I smiled, my mind wandering. Ozymandias, my king, was gone.. and soon a new one was to be picked. But I didn't know or care for the candidates (I didn't much care for anyone in Solira), and had been born to rule.

And while I had chosen to rule only myself .. except in the case of Ozymandias .. this raised a dilemma for me. What would I do, with everything changing? Ah, and then I thought of my beast-girl, lost somewhere in the element, and of Simon who wanted things of me, and Lilium lost now to the pain I had caused her..

And I thought, fondly, of my Anansi. Of his young, brilliantly colored body, of his limp, of the fresh scars now scattered over his lithe frame. Of his wisdom (far beyond his years) and his long spindly spider legs. I wondered where he'd gone too, and if I would follow him.

Or, perhaps, if I found the ocean intriguing enough (as dead as it was) to remain.

Of course, there were people I'd met here, and liked. Like Lithium. What a weird creature, so accepting. And astute. If only he knew..

"So you should locate some and bring them home."

I smiled, not knowing whether he was a warrior who would need to fight for a cute mare, or a spy who could just thief one, or perhaps even (like myself) a scholar who could barter for one.

But I left him this task, and I wandered out into the ocean, its angry tide swallowing me whole as rain poured down in earnest now, thunder and lightning snapping and lashing out violently.