OST: https://youtu.be/LodLMm2vuHg?si=zBwgYmNC5KhQ-LgR
With the sun setting in the background, you make your way through Luthier to the base of the great tree, or rather the remains of one. The trunk nearly thrums with an odd energy, as though the crystals within are vibrating.
This is hardly the focus, though. You’re here to meet the sage; the closest thing the island has to a ruler.
Which is why it must be odd when you reach a hole at the base of the tree, and find a girl sitting on a gnarled throne, flanked by musicians who play lightly as sunlight leaves the sprawling skies. Her clothes are the most aged you’ve seen so far, and a strange mark sits on her forehead, but her presence commands respect nonetheless.
Ludo drops to a knee before her, the back of his hand against his forehead. “Great sage. We seek thy guidance.”
Noel gets the cue and kneels right after Ludo, though his gesture is mixed in with a bow. “It is an honour-”
“You may stand. And please, speak thy names.” A small quirk of the corner of her mouth, pleased that Noel fell in line so easily.
he does not get the cue to kneel. he also straight up does not know what exactly they’re doing here. “…lazare.”
he doesn’t kneel either. whoops. neither does he introduce himself.
She kneels… She was expecting the sage to be really old but instead… a princess?
And so Noel stands back up. “Noel… Once known as Noel Navarro, 420th in line to the throne of Tua Toria…” A land she probably doesn’t know as it seems.