A Gift, In Thanks

Where the sun never shines. That was where they would find the Screaming Shell. Since Ci took the Broken Wing Crane, Screaming Shells were the best oddities to get for now. And Ulv hoped that her Tattoo would deal with it and make it more. Because if not, then it wouldn’t do much for her Yu-Shan Dantian. It was pretty decent right now, so maybe she’d hit two. But barely scraping through if she did, and be pretty hard up to get to the next one. She needed to find new things, but the world was kind of dry on Yu-Shan stuff these days, after the downfall and the thousand or so years where nobody was alive long enough to hit it. Even Ci Lan Tsu only managed it after extensive work, talent, guts, and Ulv’s help. But, she was getting off track, a bad thing to do when you were under the ocean and could get attacked by a shark at any moment. For this shell, most people plundered caves, and other underground depths that were so far down, that there was never sunlight. But Ulv theorized that down in the deepest depths of the sea, was another place that the sun never touched, and that was what she was up to right now. Plus the swimming was good exercise, getting down into this intensely deep, intensely pressured place, made swimming hard, and forced her body into more activity than usual.

All she could rely on to see was bioluminescent seaweed and her own senses, which eventually did do the do and lead her to the shell. It felt different to all the rest, smoother and more durable than the rest. Grabbing it and swimming back to the surface, Ulv took in a deep breath, and then crawled out of the water to the bank, and pressed the shell to her ear. A horrible shriek filled said ear, and then Ulv launched the shell back into the sea. Jeez, she really needed a better way of doing things than listening to those bastards. Nothing happened right away, the tattoo was a delayed thing.

So, while she was waiting for that to get done, Ulv laid back and entered her Inner World, arriving on the shard that had Ruin. The girl was dressed ornately, with a lovely red dress far more regal and ostentatious than anything Hvit had ever donned. But she made it work, didn’t look overbearing. Looked like it actually fit her.
“Hey” Ulv spoke, walking up to Ruin and standing next to her. After her rescue, she had seemed very abashed, as if she was so ashamed of what had happened. “It’s not your fault you went made when the explosion of the soul happened. Unlike the rest of us, you don’t really belong here, you have a physical vessel that was lost. Getting a little grrrr is totally understandable” Ulv then pulled Ruin into a hug, and suppressed her negativity with a Tulpa Hug.

“I have something for you. It’s not a lot compared to the rest of them, because I didn’t have the same footing. But it can help you anyway. It is part of you, and might help you, with your running trick” Ulv was unsure what that meant until Ruin placed a hand on Ulv’s forehead, and a blast of power entered her body. It seemed they were not speaking metaphorically when they said they had taken Mirja’s power. It was just a great shame that they did not manage to spare her the final catastrophe that robbed her of everything. With this power, her body sparked, her Inner World lit up brightly for a second, and memories flooded in. Memories of the start of The Wind. How Damien had sent her to go deal with Jaeden, who handily slipped past everything Mirja threw at him. It made Ulv remember poor Mirja's mentality.