#earthrunes

Emma sips her punch. Oswald Maul seems more assertive , but still protective. He's like a big old oak with a light sabre, one she can hide behind even in this glitzy outfit

Emma is rather timid - having a troll to hide behind helps!

Zara and Earl dance in the garden, where the music reaches but does not over whelm. There maybe better dancers, but few know their partner as well. She is lifted and swirled into the air, sylph like

Zara likes dancing - the veil of the evening rests lightly on her, she has been unseelie for weeks.

Indeed! And Earl has actually put insome clever things in his outfit. Chimerical moths.. puffs of dust collected from her own library (Rather than swept away)

And yet she might feel a working going on nearby, this is hardly unusual, its Samhain

Head-tilt.

A tug on Earl's hand - she's off to see!

He grunts, but follows with amusement

In the ballroom, meanwhile, Zara's thirteen ladies are showing off - decorating all corners with glittering webs.

"Lovely, ladies " Ivanka the maid, dressed as a 1920s flapper with a knife in her back, observes. She is surprised to be welcome here and yet here she is.

Nova, who is particularly fond of the kinain, drops down on a silken strand to alight on her head.

Perhaps not all would take a spider-drop as a compliment...

She does "If I lay down dead later, perhaps you can scurry out of my ear for ambiance? AH, but you are busy making art."

fond.

A happy tippy-tap - Nova will happily oblige. For theatrics!

Clearly Nova shares the kinian's love of the theatrical //Meanwhile, Zara finds a working of three! The Seer has dressed himself in the robes of a celtic druid, with marks of ancient design in woad upon his face and arms. Minerva assists, in her Galdalf outfit! And then there is a sluagh dressed as a Slavic Shaman...Demona!

They have surrounded a large make shift pool. Blood mixes into the water, blood giving in small drops

Zara hunkers down to ken and watch, curious.

And they see images glimpses of the possible time lines..not THE future, but futures that might be....

Oo!

Image of a satyress gone dauntain, driven to hate all things fae... ..yet there is a rooster call.. and it shifts... the future now instead of a her serving an unseelie master eagerly, wantonly, but happily.. his agent. A shift again... and her happily with a troll of her own loyal, devoted, then she slips away at his permission, changing form to take her pleasure, before returning...

"threat of a dauntain..." The Seer says "But on the fade..."

Demona whispers "Of course, you directed it towards threats.. so naturally it arose. Let us now see what joy might come..."

"I was hoping to see my own future," Minerva admits "A clue..."

"too self serving," Demona warns "Look towards the futures, and hope you are in it"

Minerva sighs "but i want to know.. fine.. fine..something of the land and we narrow in?"

And futures to be show again....

The river... Zara's river, comes into the images

Eyebrows shoot up and she leans forward.

Two campers , mortals, leave litter and refuse... the man and woman care naught for the river's health.. only for their own enjoyment of the moemnt. Then they hear a voice call... "Hey, someone's cellphone is in the water.. neat" A child's voice. The two fuss and head towards the river "My phone"...

the kids wait till the mortals lean over... then push!

the Childling Ruslaka swarm and enchant.... "People make a mess!"

Zara places a hand against her abdomen, watching.

the woman screams as she is grabbed by her hair and mashed into the water, held down, then allowed up

"Oompa loompa , Doopity daw, you will respect Nature's unwriten laws... " the singing is lovely

"oompa loompa doompity fie, dirty the river and by the river you die!"

But the people do not die, they are pinned then let go, they are scratched by stick, cut by river stone...

Zara smiles.

And the people go scrambling... the enchantment would wear off but the lesson...

well, time would tell

"Okay" A voice says from the woods, a tall figure, yet still young "We have to clean this up."

"yes" A voice whispers

"Ugh.." the rusalka childlings says "isn't that boggan work?"

One of childlings sinks in the water trying to avoid chores

"I will fish you out" the tall figure warns.. and the childlilngs sigh. Education is so much more fun than clean up...

And Demona gasps "this is.. not possible. The Rusalka are gone. Long time gone"

Earl puts a hand on Zara's back, light

She holds up three fingers at Earl. Eyebrows lift.

"I may faint" Herman Munster says