A spicy meal

A soft breeze ruffles the flowers in the field around Elyss as she sits cross-legged in silence. She’s outside of Rukongai away from the Tavern and Ulv. Well, she no longer has reason to be at the Tavern besides visiting. Before coming out here, she had stopped there to inform the lovely couple that she will no longer be able to work for them and that she’s found another place to stay. It was hard to explain her situation to them, but with the excuse that she’s found a person who wished to have her as a bodyguard with higher pay and such, they understood. Still, Elyss promised she’d visit plenty and make sure no one is starting anything with the Tavern or them. There’s no way she would have mentioned what she did and who had picked her up and taken her home like a child finding a toy at a store; especially with how that person made her feel not too long ago. Oh, she can feel her face heating up just from thinking too much about those lips brushing against hers and those muscular arms wrapped around her so firmly. “...”

‘Stop it!’ She berates her mind harshly snapping out of her dazed fixation with Ulv. Damn that brute doing as she pleased flustering her so intensely to the point that she passed out. Of course, considering the heat and every other factor, it wouldn’t have taken much to push her over that line into unconsciousness. And, there was no way Elyss was leaving with that stupid maid outfit on, and with some digging around, she found herself a moderate pink kimono to escape for a while with.

Not wanting to be around Ulv for a bit, she had to sneak away while the other redhead was busy elsewhere, and now, she finds herself here relaxing. Normally, she’d be punching something or exerting herself physically to find solace from her mental issues, but with her sore body, moving around such pains her too much to do. Meditating isn’t bad though. She feels she’s done stuff like this before even if she can’t recall when. There’s a familiarity here, and besides, she feels like she needs to dissolve into herself for a bit.

She wished this meditation session didn’t involve Ulv, but it does. Thinking about that woman still causes her some anxiety. Though, she just pushes that aside as she closes her eyes and takes a deep breath placing her hands on her protruding knees. ‘Let’s begin. First, why?’ She focuses on the fact that she feels a connection between Ulv and her; something more than one’s skin heating up because of another’s touch. There is something deep inside her that draws her to Ulv.

That is when she notices a soft burning within her. Well, it’s more like a muffled fire with something keeping it contained in one area. She can sort of feel those flames pushing against the barrier keeping it still. It felt strange when Ulv was around however. It was as if that barrier had weakened allowing those flames to spread and empower her. Though, Elyss did not know this had happened since her memory of that incident is lost. There is a faint recollection of this feeling from when those men had angered her by threatening her current livelihood; almost like she had forcibly broken the barrier with her will alone causing the flames to spread momentarily through her and outwards.

‘Focus on that whatever.’ She mentally notes focusing a bit harder. It seems the more she focused on this presence, the more prominent in not only her mind but body it becomes. The barrier around it starts to fall away, and she can feel the flame spreading out like before, but this time, she doesn’t lose control over herself. This is probably due to last time being fueled by her anger. She doesn’t know what this is spreading inside her though. She’ll have to ask Ulv. She ought to know more about this.

Accidentally, Elyss is unknowingly flexing her spiritual energy allowing it to spread through her whole body and exude from her. She’s far too weak to make an impact around her, but anything with a strong ability to sense energy will sniff her out; a lonely Plus out in the wild acting like a beacon for anyone or anything to find.