st_rikingblueeyes: (Prayer)
st_rikingblueeyes ([personal profile] st_rikingblueeyes) wrote in [community profile] strangetrip 2018-06-21 04:25 pm (UTC)

Vax & Corbie

Corbie by now recognized the Raven Queen from conversations she and Vax had had about their respective faiths, but it was not that lady who drew Corbie's attention.

Her Lady, quite possibly the same goddess as the White-Eyed Lady of Kekropian cults, had aspects of a death deity herself, though one didn't make images of her directly. She was also a goddess of the sea, governing the waves and winds and tides that gave and took away from a sea-faring people. The Lady was bleached and still, never a warm presence, though always a calm one, for better or for worse.

She who dwelled beneath the waves. She who waited behind all things.

Corbie had not been involved in the temple's construction, knowing nothing and less about how to help. So finding the Lady's pale alcove with its labyrinthine and marine imagery surprised her so much that her mouth fell open. "Oh..."

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