Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-25828117-20191014000602/@comment-5583506-20191017160430

Kashya paid little heed to the damning stares of the populace. She had suffered them quite enough during her upgrowth to realize that scorn for her was the norm. Bad blood, as her father had called it. As much as she didn't want to give the dreaded bastard any credibility, perhaps there was some truth to his statement.

The only people who had ever showed some concern for her had been Baijan, and of course Kiro. They were both gone from her life now. Baijan was at peace, and Kiro was married and had cubs of his own. There was no happy ending waiting for her. The bad blood seemed to be a fact. Some people, she reckoned, would have just been better off if they had never been born. Spare them a life of torment.

And maybe that was the case with her. She was cursed, and foul. A stillborn child born from a corpse. The threads of fate had been severed then and there. Maybe she was supposed to have died there? Maybe she was never meant to come back alive, and yet that healer had changed all that and brought her back to life. With all threads of fate cut, there was now no greater plan for her. And yet here she was.

Dreaded, feared, hated, without as much as a single motivation or purpose. She just drifted like a feather on an open ocean, following wherever the waves of the storm decided to take her. She welcomed death at any given time, but to give in to the temptation of ending it herself, she concluded would be an uncertain way to go.

Unforeseen events had brought her back from the dead, and thus she concluded that unforeseen events would take her life away again. It could not be by her own hand.

She reached the center of the bazaar where she took a stance. She breathed deeply, ignoring the crowds and their idle chatter, and then she began to move. She performed fluid motions with her arms, hips, and legs, almost mimicking the movements of an anthropomorphized stream.

This was her training for Zis Kurah. This was the dance of the Whispering Claw.