An in your face metaphor

[Chambers]

This Scene was Rp'd on discord during site down time

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Sacramento city zoo was hardly the place many would expect to find the hierarch but today that is where he was walking alone, slowly between families, tourists nature enthusiasts and the odd apathetic soul without a cause.


Currently he stands at viewing gallery over looking a lake, contemplation wrought over his features

[Skye]

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Summer gone, fall slowly starting to take its place despite the ridiculous lingering heat, a gentle breeze leaving it's solemn caress with a sigh. Summers, damn summers.


Walking through the Zoo with a skateboard at her back, dodging the people around her whilst fidgeting with a necklace, phone coming up every few minutes to answer a message before going back down into her purse again.
No real destination in mind as she looks up from the latest message, blinking once, twice, shaking her head and clenching her eyes now that was a surprise.


Moving up closer to the Hierarch, not trying to be particularly stealthy but falling into the eternal trap of being short around taller people making her a lot easier to miss. Making sure to keep a bit of a distance before speaking up whilst sharing the view.
"Nothing like the water to let our minds wander."
Staring out over the lake, right hand wrapped around her necklace with a deep calm inhale, preparing to leave not wanting to intrude still to not announce herself would just have been ruder.

[Chambers]

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The sound of the boards wheels register but it isn't until he is addressed that he turns to look, recognizing the Shaman. "And Hello to you to." A tone of light jest indicates he is not concerned by the lack of formal greeting merely having a little fun. "Wonder or perhaps expand. Take your pick." Back to the expanse of water. "Does it offer you any particular insight?" Of course engaging the Moros meant things would get a little philosophical.

[Skye]

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Lightly fidgeting with her necklace as a light playful grin dawns upon her for a moment. Eyes stuck on the lake, taking slow steady breaths as the words mull over her.
"A well of reflection, a chance to see what is always there but that we don't always give credence to."
Feeling the buzzing of her phone with 2 rapid messages coming in and closing her eyes, taking the calmness of the lake in without paying any mind to the buzzing of the phone.
"And to you, surely something drew you towards the waters as well? I doubt you are just lost on the way towards the capybara."
Now that would have been a surprising twist though.

[Chambers]

Hands stuffed in the pockets of a fine grey overcoat he listens as the as a breeze with a chill bite ruffles the curls of his hair and the bushes nearby. When the question is bounced back he smiles ruefully. "No I was not,not with any intention anyhow." Removing a hand he gestures off in a direction. "Cage." to another. "Fence." And a third. "Enclosure." Before back to the lake. "The birds that nest here are free of such restraints yet due to various needs unable to entirely separate themselves from the zoo. An invisible cage." Able to go further then any other, to break limits but always tethered. A glance to the Shaman to see if she understands.

[Skye]

Following his motions with her eyes, looking out over the mixed emotions areas as silence flows between them for a moment.


Fidgeting with her necklace and letting it go, to look up at the skies lost in memories of flying birds, of ancient dreams of freedom spun by mankind before looking back at the Hierarch.
"Trapped, chained, locked up, or bound by threads you cannot see. Freedom at least true is rare."


Not certain she was following the path he was laying out, or making a general fool of herself or not.
"So many of us are trapped in some forms of chains or a cage, just cause we cannot see it or seem to be free doesn't mean it's not there in full strength." For good or bad.


Glancing back towards the Hierarch as she once more grabs her necklace again.

[Chambers]

He had of course been making a metaphor to the awakened state aware of the greater freedom beyond fallen reality, able to access it but still tethered to it, still held in some ways by the power of the lie. But this was hardly the place for open conversation. "Don't worry about it I am simply musing." His insights were after all not possessed by all.


"What brings you here today?" Of any mage running into a Shaman at the zoo was perhaps the most expected but still it was only polite to return the question, until he notice the necklace Skye is fidgeting with. "Are you wearing a vial of poison?" He hoped it was just a prop. Real or not, she was drawing attention to the accessory.

[Skye]

Uncertain if she had even remotely touched on even the basics of his words, nor were this a place where they could delve into things to deeply.
"Its sad, yet sometimes it's less sad when you don't see the fullscope." Happy to leave it at that.


"Let's call it a change of pace, it's not ideal but it does give something back." Being surrounded by humans, humans and more humans was not always bad but the calmness of being surrounded by animals was something special. "Some change of grounds and rules would be more to my liking but take what you get."


Looking down to the necklace in her palm with a softer subconscious smile forming upon her for a brief moment.
"Simpli..." Stopping up in her words with a soft laughter. "A poison vial yes, of poison no." Why would she carry actual poison?
"Did summer bring you anything unexpected and good?" They could always use something good in their lives with all else happening around them

[Chambers]

"Ignorance is bliss, or so it is said anyway." Spoken with a sigh. "But only because your ignorant of what you don't know." He would choose to know every time he could. "But we don't always have the choice do we." If they knew what triggered awakenings things would very different.


A gentle laugh follows. "Indeed, I would have expected you to dislike somewhere that caged animals." But goes to show, people are complex. "I have no destination in mind, would you care to choose one?" As they were here.


A nod, follows her explanation, one that filled him with a little comfort. "Unexpected no. Just a frustratingly slow series of events." Speaking of things he could not control. "But things I had hoped to achieve have finally been managed so that has been nice." And onto the next. "Yourself?" Summer had been to his knowledge a slower and quieter period all in all, goodness knows they needed one.

[Skye]

Slowly shaking her head with a light extended exhale.
"No we do not, still we all have two choices when we can no longer be ignorant. Either we step up, or we hide away. And I guess you can also take a sinister path as well if what you realize holds that potential." So many took the wrong choice though, be they Sleeper, awakened and probably for those whom were something else to, not that she had enough knowledge to speak on that matter though.


Raising an eyebrow in surprise as she stares at him.
"You would? Granted i would rather see them free and hunt some of them down myself but some few needs places like these." As long as they were treated right, not ideal but some would certainly not survive the wild. "Letting me choose? Are you certain about that? You do know they have a rather nice climbing area here right?"


"That sounds like a good summer all in all, albeit a tad boring." Not that boring was bad though, in fact it was almost a gift. Fidgeting around with her necklace, fingers dancing over the chains with a soft smile upon her.
"It was an unexpected summer, some usual issues due to my height, some break off my job, and some amazing times." Cruel perhaps.