Round 6 // Raindance - Locked+OTA

[lightning_raiden]

Locked to Kaylin and Fujin
With the work for the day completed, it was time to relieve the parched ground and refill the water basins at the colony. Thankfully, the Enterprise had a pair of rain gods to help fill the need and Raiden was rather willing on this occasion to oblige the local request for rain. That, and he was looking forward to another opportunity to spend some time with Fujin.

Incidentally, Kaylin had also come to his attention as a potentially helpful component of the storm, but he also saw it as an opportunity to indulge her apparent love of flight. Hopefully she wouldn't mind the soaking that would come along with the later half of this jaunt.

All the components were assembled, all that was needed now was to find their water source. Raiden gathered Kaylin and Fujin and, turning to his brother, he nodded.

"What direction will the winds best carry the storm today?" They might as well work with the natural direction of the planet's winds. It might go a little further to helping reboot the rain cycle locally.



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The rain had rolled in rather quickly, with lightning flashing throughout the thunderhead, but somehow never daring to strike the ground. With the risk of fire too great after such a long dry spell, the electricity was kept within the clouds even as Raiden stayed out in the storm.

The dark clouds were bringing dusk faster, but he didn't mind as he looked up at the sky, an unmasked expression of pleasure upon his face. He didn't quite stand in the water, instead, his toes hovering a few inches above the muddy ground below him, rain running off his impeccably white sandals.

The last betrayal of the thunder god's hand in the storm is the electricity that traces between the slats of his hat with as much frequency as the storm. In fact, it might be strangely synced with the flashes of light within the storm itself.

Anyone who approaches him won't have to worry about being shocked or struck by lightning. He's just reveling in his element, but not at risk to those around him. Feel free to interrupt his moment, he's in quite a good mood right now. Storms do that.

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[god_of_wind]

When Raiden was close enough - the winds rose to surround them once more to their previously controlled fury, to allow the gods some privacy. They were tightly controlled enough that there was no damage to the environment around them. The wind god also made sure not to be close to where people were located.

He was too reluctant to look over at his brother, though his presence proved to be a comfort. It was also a little embarrassing to be seen this way. So emotionally vulnerable. He knew how much Raiden bore on his shoulders, and hated to add to that burden.

"It wasn't you." He said finally in a roughened whisper, heard easily despite the winds. "I would have found out eventually." He closed his eyes with the shaky huff of a sound. Wistful. That wry sad smile on his lips like when Water had held his face in her hands. "I know it wasn't Suijin..." He paused, voice caught...it had been a while since he had physically said the other god's name on his lips. "But seeing another elemental alive and well...it caught me off guard." Now it was his turn to almost shamefully lower his head. It hadn't been like him to allow his heart to come before a god's duty like that.

Now that Water wasn't present - it simply reminded Fujin of that loneliness and aching void of him and his brother being the last of their kind. Now in this place - they had the added burden of being separated from the very life force of their home.

"Such joy...." Fujin whispered, still with that small bitter sweet smile. The expression a tremulous thing. "And such sorrow..."

[lightning_raiden]

In Raiden's eyes, his brother's grief never added to the weight on his shoulders, rather is helped share the burden. It reminded him that even as Protector of Earthrealm, his brother was there to help. Seeing him weep for their lost kin, he knew he was not alone. He still worried for Fujin, not used to seeing so much emotion from the Wind god. But to hear him say it wasn't Raiden's fault, to be somewhat absolved of that guilt, helped too.

Yes, Fujin would have found out eventually. He was wise, and incredibly insightful, even for a Realm god. Raiden hid many things from him, but Fujin still had a way of finding the answers he sought when he wanted to.

"I only first saw her when I went to ask Kaylin to join us here." He tries to explain why Fujin hadn't been told earlier, especially about something like this. "I wasn't quite sure what to think when it happened. For a moment - " For a very brief moment he had been in shock not unlike Fujin's. "I had hope..."

Hope that somehow the Earthrealm spirit of the Water god had survived, transported to this place instead of destroyed. He sighs, pulling his crossed arms a little closer to him as if he were cold. It was more a manifestation of emotional protection, something to hold him steady.