Smoke Cat Becomes Shaman ~ by SaralynArati

SaralynArati

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:) Story continues on this doll: httpwww.dolldivine.com/Azaleas-Dolls/SaralynArati-2934762

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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Thank you so, so much, PinkRobin!!! I have a couple of stories in the works for her already, and after that, we'll see... :)

10 years ago

PinkRobin

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Oooh, what a good backstory! I can't wait to see how she progresses >.<

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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This then proceeded to collapse. For a girl raised on the plains, very little is worse than being buried alive. She waited for what seemed like hours for someone to come and help her. And then, face splotchy and muddy from tears then, too, Smoke Cat began to dig herself free, baking the loosened mud into bricks to reinforce her hole. Dig. Shape. Bake. Stack. Hyperventilating and hysterical the whole time. However, if she had survived that, she would find a way now, and Smoke would rise.

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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On her initial attempt, she took shelter from a torrential rain storm that was about to sweep her into the gullies, inside a stone cave. Smoke Cat, however, was even then Watching and did not wake the bear. She was rescued after backing off the ledge, falling several yards into thorn bushes, and acquiring an infected eye, and a broken ulna. But all that healed fine and wasn't so bad, really. It was during the second try when, running from an angry moose, she dove into an old badger den.

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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This trial, especially the dismal first attempt, now comes back to haunt Smoke Cat Watching in the void of the vault. She doesn't bother to produce light, for knowing the exact dimensions of her prison would only depress her further. In any test, there are pitfalls, magical and otherwise, to trip up the inexperienced and unwise. Yet the hopefuls are also monitored in case they get into trouble too deep to extricate themselves from. This is, of course, left up to the judgment of the teacher.

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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Becoming a shaman is more than a series of magical proficiency tests; it is physically, mentally, and emotionally rigorous as well. Smoke Cat took hers when she was barely 15. After failing, she tried again, and succeeded brilliantly, at 16. Most rites of passage among steppe clans involve turning the one coming of age out into the wilderness with very little for several days and nights. To be a shaman, you start with nothing but the sacred totems in your hair and stay gone for seven days.

10 years ago