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Junelezen 2025 - 19. Desert

"In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.”

- Terry Pratchett

Dian doesn't have a lot of use for religion, or the someone that folks put in the way. He doesn't often find himself going home, either. But some nights, you just have to find your way back, to watch the stars dance their familiar tune, to feel the wind bite with the same teeth. To remember, to ache.

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Junelezen 2025 - 18. Rush

The skills were skills of war. Vorpal Thrust, Fang and Claw. He hones them now in time of peace. And hopes to never need them at all. His hands shake, the blood pounds in his ears His breath all gone in a hopeless rush.

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Junelezen 2025 - 17. Fire

It's not enough, you know. They'll feed you lines, teach you all the pretty platitudes in the books. You'll learn, some day. Being a mage isn't about flash and bang. It's about mastering yourself. About what freezes your core. What makes you burn.

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Junelezen 2025 - 16. Spark

(Didn't get this done before maintenance, so you get an old screen shot. whoops)

Well come and well met, my brave little spark How long you've wandered, burned bright as a star Oh, I have awaited you patiently all this time Past every fate - now sing with me once more, share of your life Far greater than memory, its loss and love words cannot hold Boundless, the tale overflows and carries your light out to sea.

Flow ~ 祖堅正慶 (Masayoshi Soken)

Tell me, my brave little sparks. Was your journey worthwhile?

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Junelezen 2025 - 15. Storm

When I sing, it's a cyclone I'm writing a raging sea Searching for a sign of the times Is it safe to say it's me? Listen to our lives The wind will whisper the way it is I am going to happen What a lovely day it is I wish you lots of laughter 'til the next time you see me Just remember you need me, I'm the storm coming

Storm Coming ~ Gnarls Barkley

Hel doesn't often stand in the rain, but sometimes, the moment just calls for it. And she's often the storm of her siblings.

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Junelezen 2025 - 14. Lightning

The moment struck like lightning. Between who I was and who I became, A flash of inspiration That left the world forever changed.

All of Hel's siblings are fighters. Not that she's not fully capable of defending herself, but she realized at some point that her calling was to heal. And that has made all the difference.

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Junelezen 2025 - 13. Airship

It ain't much, but it's honest work. A brume rat has to eat, while she's dreaming of the stars. One day, she won't just be fixing and fueling these, she'll be a Captain all on her own, and she'll know just what keeps her in the sky. It'll be love.

Zex doesn't dream small. And every night, the scent of grease and the whisper of the wind reminds her tomorrow's another day closer to where she's going. Freedom.

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Junelezen 2025 - 12. Cloud

A moment's inattention gathering ingredients in the Sea of Clouds can prove unwise. Not that Stones or Fig would ever take on a gaelicat. Probably.

Yes, Stix's Chocobo is named Stones.

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Junelezen 2025 - 11. Wind

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel. ~ Charles Dickens

While sleet or rain isn't common for Dian these days, one of his favorite past times is still to learn. To sit and read or better still, do with a teacher or instructor at his side. No better way to spend a day you can't be outside than inside learning a new skill.

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Junelezen 2025 - 10. Boat

Stix isn't an adventurer. Not really. He's hung up his weapons, retired from that life, and generally makes nothing so much as a mean cup of coffee. But when his beaux asked if he wanted to explore the new world on a vacation, well. . . Some things you never really retire from. He's going to have to get a new pair of glasses when he gets home though.

(yes, I do still have the benchmark floating around so I can take fun screenshots)

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Junelezen 2025 - 9. Island

They'll tell you no one is an island. That we're all a part of the greater whole. That the loss of any is the loss of every, and alone is simply no way to be.

Perhaps that's true, that we're all joined That each needs the all, the sum, the sea. Somehow, it doesn't matter, All I need is you, here, with me.

Borrowed Fen's main squeeze for this one. They have a tendency to get a little lost in each other.

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Junelezen 2025 - 8. Water

There's peace and quiet out here under the stars. In a place where all the horizons and liminal spaces meet. Between shore and sky, night and day, tomorrow and now. With the water in her ears and the light behind her eyelids, nothing matters, and everything is simple.

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Junelezen 2025 - 7. Death

What would have changed, that day? If you had not charged forward. If the world had not needed you to save it? Hope has blood on her knuckles again. And grit in her hair. And you... you are still not here with us.

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Junelezen 2025 - 6. Control

Here, in the canopy Where the wind pluck and tugs, Where the elements sing and reach and If you listen, closely, you can hear the song Of the earth, of the trees, of the stars. You realize the illusion of control. And in those moments, you find the space to breathe deeply of the promise of tomorrow.

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Junelezen 2025 - 5. Ice

There is beauty in each snowflake Individual, fractal, shattered, cold And yet they remain shards of ice.

It is only on the scale they are examined that we see them as soft. Perhaps, then, other things need be examined on other scales as well.

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Junelezen 2025 - 4. Order

When there is a place for everything, and everything is in it's place You have order. Simplicity. Security. And those are some of Auberi's favorite words. Which means his siblings often rearrange his desk when he's been a moody older brother, just to remind him that not everything is within his control.

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Junelezen 2025 - 3. Plains

Here upon these hallowed plains, The scorched bones, the broken refrains The heavy weight of what was endured The dawn of victory, the sunset of the known world.

Every so often Fenris takes a journey out to the Carteneau Flats, the remember. To mourn. To never forget.