09-27-2013, 01:28 PM
Ioana, their Cardinal and Lady of the Mountain, may have had her own answer for William's anger-slurred question. Instead she seems pleased enough with the one that comes from Vee. Before her own had even begun budding on her swarthy yet still pallid lips she hears the Tzimisce sire's illustration of the crucible ahead and instead it blossoms into a smile.
William awaits the horror as his fury will soon overcome. He manages, for only a moment more, to hold himself in place. Shows the extent of his will as he sacrifices the last of it to do well and fight the frenzy.
One facet of the Beast's face.
And it finally comes from all around him.
And from within.
The fire that had been in the alcove only a moment before returns and the other face of the Beast within suddenly bucking on the edge. Terror rising and perhaps already thrown within the burning pit of the Red Fear, Rotschreck threatening to consume him, clawing to get out. The Tzimisce, soon to be True Sabbat, is suddenly within the reignited furnace that had lit that half of the church from outside its stained glass and stone walls. His only escape from the flames is through this wall of recreated once-loved or once-hated ones.
To rip them apart and free himself.
A newborn dragon's trial by fire.
William awaits the horror as his fury will soon overcome. He manages, for only a moment more, to hold himself in place. Shows the extent of his will as he sacrifices the last of it to do well and fight the frenzy.
One facet of the Beast's face.
And it finally comes from all around him.
And from within.
The fire that had been in the alcove only a moment before returns and the other face of the Beast within suddenly bucking on the edge. Terror rising and perhaps already thrown within the burning pit of the Red Fear, Rotschreck threatening to consume him, clawing to get out. The Tzimisce, soon to be True Sabbat, is suddenly within the reignited furnace that had lit that half of the church from outside its stained glass and stone walls. His only escape from the flames is through this wall of recreated once-loved or once-hated ones.
To rip them apart and free himself.
A newborn dragon's trial by fire.