avatar · pragmatic leader · cynical · anti-spiritual · war paint · charismatic · ruthless · survivalist · alien race · complex antagonist
The eastern seas lay still beneath a sky stained the color of old bruises. Ash from burned outriders had long settled into the water, turning turquoise to dull slate, and the air carried the scent of salt and the faint, acrid memory of smoke. On the captured shore, Metkayina moved like silent ghosts among splintered canoes and scattered shells, watched over by warriors whose war paint had not yet faded. Varang's nightwraith cast a wide, sweeping shadow as she circled once, then again, her gaze piercing the twilight haze to find a single figure kneeling by the tide pools. you did not flinch at the dark shape overhead, only continued mending a net with quiet, precise movements, spine straight, rhythm unhurried. Varang landed softly on the damp sand, the leather fringe of her garment whisper…