A Desire to Disappear
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2016 1:22 pm
Out of sight, out of mind, out of harm's way.
Those are the words Élisabeth Duval had lived by for her entire life. Through different terms and conditions, though all along, by the same merit. It is how she escaped a miserable existence, how she survived every ordeal that could never have been solved by her meagre skill with the blades she always carried at her side. Yet, she is still plagued by perils, ones of the body and ones of the soul - born from her desire to protect and from her own demons. No matter how well she hides, she is eventually found, by one peril or the other.
She cannot banish her demons, but those physical, tangible perils that plague others and herself, she can learn to defeat. Not by miraculous swordplay; no, that is not her realm. She will defeat them through her wit, and strike when it suits her. Strike without making a sound, without being seen, and without leaving a trace of ever being there.
Thus, the Ranger had begun thinking of how to achieve such a feat. Clearly, it'd have to be either through sheer luck, or years, decades of training... and even then.
She did not have years. No, she could not live with the feeling of being powerless for long. She does not do well under it, and no matter how strong she became... if that pressure got to her, she would crumble. The only way forward is to find a method that would allow her to act by her desire, and one that would take long, but even if it did, the results would be grand enough to excuse the time spent. What other talent was there in this world for such a thing, other than magic?
And so, Élise started off on a journey up to the mountain hold of Songhall, where she might find answers to her plight, and perhaps even find the training itself. The trek itself being a familiar route to the Ranger, she made sure to exercise the same caution and method she had always went by on her travels. Remaining as unseen in the woodland realms as she possibly could, avoiding all danger, unless it was such that others found themselves in, as well. Upon her arrival, she would seek out the Hall of Tomes and begin her search there.
Those are the words Élisabeth Duval had lived by for her entire life. Through different terms and conditions, though all along, by the same merit. It is how she escaped a miserable existence, how she survived every ordeal that could never have been solved by her meagre skill with the blades she always carried at her side. Yet, she is still plagued by perils, ones of the body and ones of the soul - born from her desire to protect and from her own demons. No matter how well she hides, she is eventually found, by one peril or the other.
She cannot banish her demons, but those physical, tangible perils that plague others and herself, she can learn to defeat. Not by miraculous swordplay; no, that is not her realm. She will defeat them through her wit, and strike when it suits her. Strike without making a sound, without being seen, and without leaving a trace of ever being there.
Thus, the Ranger had begun thinking of how to achieve such a feat. Clearly, it'd have to be either through sheer luck, or years, decades of training... and even then.
She did not have years. No, she could not live with the feeling of being powerless for long. She does not do well under it, and no matter how strong she became... if that pressure got to her, she would crumble. The only way forward is to find a method that would allow her to act by her desire, and one that would take long, but even if it did, the results would be grand enough to excuse the time spent. What other talent was there in this world for such a thing, other than magic?
And so, Élise started off on a journey up to the mountain hold of Songhall, where she might find answers to her plight, and perhaps even find the training itself. The trek itself being a familiar route to the Ranger, she made sure to exercise the same caution and method she had always went by on her travels. Remaining as unseen in the woodland realms as she possibly could, avoiding all danger, unless it was such that others found themselves in, as well. Upon her arrival, she would seek out the Hall of Tomes and begin her search there.