Lani lightly walked into the quadrangle, lights shining off stones and things that made you wonder all seemed to start and end here. This was the center of something, she just didnt know what. Unconsiously she shivered and ran a hand across her neck, as though it could go through her to her back where there lay scar upon scar. It wasnt that she was a bad shifter, she just didnt know what she was doing. Luckily she'd managed to find a tattoo design that covered it up but the reminder was still there.
She'd heard stories about things that had happened in this very quadrangle. People striking it rich, getting struck down, and she wondered if the rumors about an arsonist trying to burn the place down was true. She shivered again. She wouldnt get paid a million xanthos to do something so stupid and disrespectful. A sudden gust of wind blew through the statues and she approached the area she'd been blocked off from until she was old enough. It was kind of exciting, she'd been waiting for so long to be able to show her godess that she appreciated all that she did.
She sat down on the steps in front of one of the offering dishes, covered in so many jewels and bit her lip. Her offering was nothing compared to these treasures, but she hoped she would like it all the same. Crossing her legs, she removed a chain from around her neck. It was a rosary, only insted of a cross that the humans used, it was a small figure of a woman in loose clothes, her purple hair flowing, arms reached towards the outside reaches of the universe. She gently set it on the bowl, feeling as though she'd left a securit blanket, but knowing it was in safe hands.
"Xanth, I want to thank you. You gave me something to believe in. And believe me, when your in a healers room, with your back torn up from a shifting accident, while your lying there, screaming from the pain and fear inside but not able to scream externally, its difficult to find hope. I passed out but when I woke up the rosary was arround my neck. I dont know if a healer left it or my father or you, but it reminded me that someones out there watching me. " She spoke this in Russin, head bowed, then laughed a little. "Forgive me for my ramblings, it tends to happen more often then I'd like."
(ooc: soz for the long posts )