Timestamp: Cylus 1, 721
Calendar and Weather Entries
1st: Darkfall (Holiday): Within the first breaks of the season the last light of Zi'da fades beneath the horizon, the city gathers their iyo lanterns to participate in the light walk, a symbolic farewell to the former arc and a greeting of the next.
1st: Within the beginnings of Cylus, many of the iyo begin to form their cocoons, preparing for their transition to bioluminescent butterflies. Children chatter excitedly about the upcoming metamorphosis.
1st: Within the beginnings of Cylus, many of the iyo begin to form their cocoons, preparing for their transition to bioluminescent butterflies. Children chatter excitedly about the upcoming metamorphosis.
She had gathered a few sturdy sticks, deadfall from the life giving trees far overhead. She had strained with her thin arms to break them at some of the thickest points, working to make them roughly equal in length and widths. She did this several times, until she had several pieces. She then gathered this large vellumy leaves she'd found on the forest floor, dried out and withered but still sturdy. She then, using some twine, tied some of the sticks into a single square frame. She did this repeatedly until she had six really crooked and awkwardly angled "squares". She then tied these all together at the corner joints, forming a very crude semblance of a box. Once this was done, she had began applying leaves all around it, using the twin as a method of strapping them down, flat across the gaps in the box, leaving one side open. She had used far too much twine, and it looked as though a child who really didn't wish to make a lantern had made it. But still, Hankley was proud of it. She had gone around her land, gathering up the easily spotted glowing worms, as well as some of the green leaves they were munching on, and deposited them into the lantern until it produced enough of a glow that she could see better. She then strapped down a cover leaf over the top of the poorly made lantern, leaving some small gaps for air.
Hankley broke around a corner, entering one of the more wide open spaces. All around and above her, people were both on the forest floor and in the walkways between homes and buildings, holding lanterns filled with these little bug creatures. The blue glow cast all around the area made it seem as though permanent night would not be falling anytime now. Hankley looked around, finding one of the staircases that led to the upper levels, climbing up, quietly moving past people, until she found a spot she liked, leaning against a balcony overlooking an area where an abundance of Cylus flowers were in bloom, the two temples at her back.
Hankley wasn't sure what would happen next, or when it would happen, but it did make her smile to see so many people all in one place like this, participating in something special to all of them. She had looked around for Rakvald but hadn't spotted the man yet. She hoped she would. He was the only person she knew here, or at least well enough to call a friend. She looked around at several people standing near to her as well, then speaking in a hushed tone, "I am being sorry, but I not knowing about Darkfall. Can one of you being telling me what it is? I would being liking to being knowing and to being doing it right."