First Entrance Post: From the world of Thra...

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

A small, gnarled being enters Milliways. She is short, squat and dressed in a stained, wine-colored tunic. Curved, ram-like horns sweep out from the tangled grey hair hanging lankly from her head. One eye darts here an there. The other is gone. Only a burned out socket on that side of her head. She stops, puzzled. This is not where she is supposed to be. She had been about to enter her ruined home to see what she could salvage.

"What is this?" she asks in a gravely voice. "Where is this? This is not my home! Where has Aughra gotten to?"

Strange beings are scattered through the giant room. Not Gelfling. Not Podling. Not even Ur-Skek. She scowls as her eye looks over everything and is about to go back through the Door when...

...she catches sight of the viewing window.

"Dark moon of Thra!" she breathes as she gazes on the dying universe, more brilliant than a thousand Great Conjunctions. Almost in a trance, she walks to the window.

"This is something worth seeing!" Aughra says. "The End! The End of All!"

She chuckles. "Or the Beginning."

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[give-us-candy.livejournal.com]

"No, you were right the first time. It's the end." Three creatures in Halloween masks and costumes are close behind Aughra. One witch, one skeleton and one devil.

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

Aughra turns around and scowls. She leans forward a bit and sniffs the three creatures. Small as Podlings but too thin.

Causally, Aughra pops her eye out of its socket to take a better look.

[give-us-candy.livejournal.com]

"GIMME!" Lock holds out his hand for the eye.

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

Aughra jerks her hand out of range. "Think you I'd sacrifice my last eye for that?" she sneers. She pops the eye back into her head with a sound like smacking lips.

"What are you? Not Gelfling. Not Podling." She smirks. "Certainly not Skeksis, Ur-ru or Ur-skek. What are you then? Hmmm?"

[give-us-candy.livejournal.com]

"I'm Lock. A demon." He crosses his arms in front of him and smiles smugly.

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

"Demon?" she sniffs. "Demons ruled the hearts of Skeksis. You don't look evil enough to rule a Skeksis." She snickers. "Rule a fezzgig, maybe."

[give-us-candy.livejournal.com]

"I don't rule yet. Jack rules HalloweenTown. I don't really want to rule HalloweenTown. I just want the candy." Lock's a little liar is what he is. He's terrified of Jack, you see.

Quiet chants of "LIAR!" echo from behind Lock. So do snickers.

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

Aughra chuckles indulgently. "Candy? What is candy? Whatever it is, Aughra doesn't have any."

She leans over the little demon. "Careful about ruling. Skeksis ruled, then fell. Those who rule live under an Eye that never blinks. Never rests. And will one day consume them."

[give-us-candy.livejournal.com]

"You're really weird." This, coming from three little costumed tyrants.

Will wonders never cease.

[iamnotstorm.livejournal.com]

( after squealing fangirlishly reading quietly, Sarah's Mun posts* )

Sarah, as usual, was perched near the observation window, just watching the end of the universe. She had a plate of brownies, half eaten, and a cherry-cream milkshake, also half finished, at hand, her fingers were marking her place in her book so she could watch.

At the weathered old woman's exclamation, she smiled, nodding, "It is. End of the universe anyway." A slight smile as she extended a hand, "I'm Sarah Rainmaker, you must be new."

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

Aughra frowns. "Hmmph. Is that it? Hello and you want to dreamfast already?"

She peers up at Sarah. "Are you are ready for that? Aughra has not dreamfasted in many Trine...many times many."

[iamnotstorm.livejournal.com]

Sarah blinked twice, then twice again, arching a brow and retracting her hand, "Er..." A head tilt then, "What's dreamfasting? Anything like a vision quest?"

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

"Vision, yes," Aughra says. "Quest...well depends on who's doing it. Young to young, easy. Old to old, simple." Her eye seemed to look past Sarah into the long, long past. "Old to young...that be difficult. Too much, too fast...pfffft! Young mind dead. Or worse, broken. Young mind can only take so much old memory."

[iamnotstorm.livejournal.com]

Sarah just nodded slowly, mulling that over, "I see." Oddly enough, she wasn't thrown off at all by the woman's roundabout way of speaking, honestly Aughra reminded her of her great grandmother, who she'd only known for a short time when she was very young, "Well then." A slight smile, "Welcome to Milliways, the bar at the end of the universe, don't worry if you miss it, it'll start over again soon."

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

Her eye blinks in suprise. "Start over?! How can the End start over?! End can be come Beginning and Beginning End, but start over?"

[iamnotstorm.livejournal.com]

Sarah smiled, "Well, it isn't the same end, so, perhaps a better phrase would have been 'it'll start again soon' instead of 'start over'"

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

"Not the same End? Then where are all these End's coming from, eh? There's only one Universe..." Her voice trails off. "The Ur-skeks said that the Crystal existed in every world. But one thing can't be in two places at once. Maybe Aughra misunderstood..." She snorts. "Shouldn't be suprised. Twisted, curving thoughts they had."

[stilljustandrew]

*Andrew has caught sight of Aughra.*

*And is trying very very hard not to stare in glee.*

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

Trust a creature with a removable eye to be able to feel eyes on her. She spins around to face him.

"What?! What do you want?"

[stilljustandrew]

*He starts back -- but isn't really that surprised.*

You're ... are you Aughra? The seer?

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

Her eye narrows at him and she places her hands on her hips.

"Hmph! How did you know of me?"

[stilljustandrew]

"I've heard tales of you, in my land." He makes an awkward half-bow. "It's an honor to meet you."

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

Aughra is abusurdly flattered.

"And how did tales of Aughra come to your land? No tales of human have come to Aughra."

She leans forward. "What say these tales?"

[stilljustandrew]

"...uh, that you lived on a mountaintop in a great dome with an orrery of the heavens? And that you made the prophecy of the Gelfling and the shattered Crystal. When single shines the triple sun?"

He's not sure when she's here from, and doesn't want to accidentally tell her anything about her future she shouldn't know.

...Though with a seer, that's probably less of an issue than it might be.

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

Aughra scowls.

"Aughra did not make prophecy. Gelfling did. When Skeksis showed their true faces, Gelfling dreamed the Wall of Destiny. On it was written Prophesy."

She looks up with him sharply. "Be careful of Prophecy, human. Gelfling read their own doom in that Wall along with Skeksis. But Aughra knew Prophecy. Kept knowledge of Prophecy as close as my eye. Kept shards for time when the Prophecy was to come to pass."