Title: The Wizards of Ceres, chapter 9 - Battlefield Ceres
Pairing: Kurogane/Fai
Rating: R in later chapters. This chapter, PG-13.
Summary: In which Kurogane and Fai encounter some unusual children, and attempt to escape through the mountains.
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( They had both seen the columns of oily back smoke stretching heavenwards, and now they saw the scenes of devastation unfold before them. )
~ to be continued...
Author's Notes:
Windhome is a variation on 'Windam,' of course, the third Magical Knight to companion Rayearth and Seresu.
I am well aware of the fact that glaciers do not actually work like the one Fai described; a real glacier would take thousands of years, not hundreds, to cross so large of a distance. In addition, heavy blizzards with a large amount of snowfall could never occur in such close proximity to a real glacier. I originally wrote this shift of weather patterns as being the real reason for the famine in Ceres -- the glacier swallows up all the rain and moisture in the region, making them unable to grow crops -- but then realized I'd contradicted myself in the next chapter and took that section out.
You could propose that there's an in-story reason for the glacier to behave like it does; perhaps the huge concentration of magical and spiritual energy that Fei Wong Reed is amassing in the south is drawing heat out of the northern regions, resulting in the unnatural proliferation and growth of the glacier. Or we could simply say "a wizard did it" and leave it at that.
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Pairing: Kurogane/Fai
Rating: R in later chapters. This chapter, PG-13.
Summary: In which Kurogane and Fai encounter some unusual children, and attempt to escape through the mountains.
<- Previous
( They had both seen the columns of oily back smoke stretching heavenwards, and now they saw the scenes of devastation unfold before them. )
~ to be continued...
Author's Notes:
Windhome is a variation on 'Windam,' of course, the third Magical Knight to companion Rayearth and Seresu.
I am well aware of the fact that glaciers do not actually work like the one Fai described; a real glacier would take thousands of years, not hundreds, to cross so large of a distance. In addition, heavy blizzards with a large amount of snowfall could never occur in such close proximity to a real glacier. I originally wrote this shift of weather patterns as being the real reason for the famine in Ceres -- the glacier swallows up all the rain and moisture in the region, making them unable to grow crops -- but then realized I'd contradicted myself in the next chapter and took that section out.
You could propose that there's an in-story reason for the glacier to behave like it does; perhaps the huge concentration of magical and spiritual energy that Fei Wong Reed is amassing in the south is drawing heat out of the northern regions, resulting in the unnatural proliferation and growth of the glacier. Or we could simply say "a wizard did it" and leave it at that.
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