08-31-2021, 07:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-10-2021, 04:27 AM by Aso. Edited 1 time in total.)
for @"Aeri"
Perhaps too true to its nature, the mountains cut along the bottom of a stormy sky, it’s jagged spires like talons pierced through the bottom most layer in silence. But it was not a true silence, for low rumbling peals of thunder echoed across the sky, at times the very percussion of such booming with such force that the very earth seemed to shake at the demands of the heavens above. Lightning itself crawled along the underbelly of the tempest, illuminating the violent twirl of the clouds that churned all too like a skybound maelstrom.
It was a deluge for the world below—stones slick with heavy rain, valleys suddenly inundated with rainwater that made minor streams swell to raging torrents that continued to carve their way across and along lowlands and ancient waterways; there was an energy fierce in the air that sent the nocturnal creatures to safely tuck themselves away within the vale below. The late summer storm was a fierce one, but perhaps not quite the worst that the world had seen over the season. Even with the rain, the air did not cool quickly, and the humidity clung swiftly to all that the rain could not reach.
Higher upon the mountain still, the wind picked up with the height of the storm. Such a gust could be heard like a roar as it moved effortlessly through the forest, plucking leaves and pulling them along to distant places. Distantly over the rain and thunder, the sound of breaking branches came and went—such storms made the trees shed their dead with ease—before all seemed to pass. Like a wave, a natural ebb and flow as a quick arising summer storm lost the heat of the day from the sun, though it continued its thunderous chorus as it moved on past the mountain itself and on towards the open plain to exhaust and depart.
Yet it was on the tail end of this that the light show of the sky began, as even a quieting storm fought to relent. Perhaps an hour had passed, no more than two since its arrival, and now as life returned to its active state the clouds were illuminated from within. Another great peal of thunder, another earthshaking percussion as it rumbled; another flash with an outside arc to light up a sky turning more starry than cloud-covered.
Mother Nature heaved one more great sigh.
And in a great bolt that came down against stone to blacken the earth, he arrived.
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