Writers Academy (Previously Demonia)

[Xeim]

Okay. Here's the character you'll be using:

Name: Anaranë Oronar
Race: Elf
Gender: Female
Class: Gaea Templar (geomancer)
Age: 23, Human Years

I'm going to make the situation rather vague to allow you creative freedom.

It's been years. You've been searching and searching, without knowing the comforts of a bed or a meal cooked by someone you love. All you truely know is the fierceness of battle and the frustration of never getting any closer to your goal- day after day.

But finally, finally! Finally, you have found it. And you will soon return home, a hero.

Your job is to give us a setting, a bit of background on the character, what she is searching for, why it's important etc. You have one post. The post can be as long or as short as you choose it to be.

Good luck! If you need any guidance or feel I've been a little TOO vague, don't be afraid to say so.

[Ghost]

Name: Anaranë Oronar
Race: Elf
Gender: Female
Class: Gaea Templar (geomancer)
Age: 23, Human Years

I'm going to make the situation rather vague to allow you creative freedom.

It's been years. You've been searching and searching, without knowing the comforts of a bed or a meal cooked by someone you love. All you truely know is the fierceness of battle and the frustration of never getting any closer to your goal- day after day.

But finally, finally! Finally, you have found it. And you will soon return home, a hero.

Screaming infants and their weeping mothers haunt me. Reaching for me with their clammy palms they beg me to return and save them from their torment, but I cannot. Not just yet. With every passing day I feel more and more responsible for all of the dying children. I must remember that without it I can do nothing for them. Without it, we are doomed to extinction...

With a slight jerk I wake up panting, beads of sweat finding their way down my face. I sit up and calm myself, beginning to slowly slide out of my resting place.
As my feet hit the ground for what felt like the millionth time, the vine hammock I had created to cradle me in my sleep retreated back into the ground and disappeared, leaving only small pockmarks in the dry soil as proof of it's brief existence.
On cue, the sun began it's slow rise over the mountain range, the brilliant orange glow creeping up from the shadows and illuminating the entire valley.
I reach into my satchel and pull out a flask full of water. I am sure to refill the flask every evening with the contents of one of the cacti native to the area. Taking a swig I wipe my lips with my battered sleeve and proceed to observe the sunrise.
The sun was now almost three quarters over the horizon, in just a few moments I would know if my task had been completed.
In just a few more moments...
At last the sun hovered effortlessly in the morning sky, but another ball of red light began to rise just beneath it.
Was it true? Was it really there, or was it simply a mirage?
I kept my composure for a few more moments to ensure that I was truly witnessing what I thought I was.
It WAS true! The red sun had indeed risen! This event only happened once every hundred years!
The desert sang out in a beautiful chorus as all the creatures celebrated this beautiful event.
Quickly, I ran to the nearest cactus and gasped at the incredible botanical discovery I had just witnessed.
The Duneflower had bloomed!
This flower had the medicinal capabilities to cure any illness!
I hurriedly began plucking each and every flower from the heads of the surrounding cacti.
Finally, with a full satchel of this miracle flower I began my journey home.
My people would be saved.
Whatever horrible disease it was that was killing all of our babies no longer mattered. It was simply a sad chapter to be lost in the recesses of the future's history.
I feel a slight kick in my stomach and I smile, rubbing the inflated belly that hung out from beneath my shirt.
I take another drink from my flask.
"All is well, my sweet, all is well."