DukkhaWaynhim wrote:Oh Niggle.... Happy Birthday!!!!!!

*looks up from pondering The Road and bows to "The Chorus."

My sincere thanks, O Cryptic Ones.
For once I understood your message immediately.

Hunger

It gnaws.
It consumes.
It...
...manipulates.

Putting herself back into what she thought was a somewhat reasonable semblance of decorum in dress, she made her way out of the glade, to see Derlebn awaiting her return at the side of the road. He cocked an eyebrow towards her, and she took note of her matted hair and slightly disheveled state. He ...

The road twisted on around a bend. The plain diminished; the embankments sprouting bushes and the occasional scrawny tree that offered shade from the blistering light source up above. Niggle eyed a glade off the side of the road and looked at Derlebn. The One showed no sign of discomfort. But Niggl...

The Overfiend in his Notebook wrote:The only one not on scene is Niggle, still recovering from her encounter with the foreign demon. His intrusion has been noticed and his presence now forbidden.

...fudge...

Not what I intended at all...

*looks around*

Now where in Hell (if you'll pardon the expression), am I?

*looking back up at the demon, wondering if his domain contains any with living essences, then glancing back at Alek, undecided* Well, girlfriend, you may not have a choice in either direction unless you ask ... "Alek!! May I tag along for a while? It would be nice to have some company for a ti...

Niggle's wings ruffled slightly at the mention of her kind, but she held her tongue. She had more questions than answers for anyone, and would bide her time.

Standing silently, and observing all the while, Niggle felt the strength of Will from the being above. She hoped Alek's own was enough to counter...

Still pondering lessons learned from the group she had met, and smiling wryly at her own assumptions turned on their head, Niggle strode forth once more. She desperately wanted to be able to talk to someone, to learn about where she was. And even more so, to learn more about what she was. And the ma...

Derlebn's head jerked up at Niggle's muttering. He may be eyeless, but his hearing tended to compensate. And the hide radiated with meaning he understood, even if the empty winged one never would perceive it. Striding over to the two eetoor , he pointed to a tree on the side of the road. Niggle brus...

Niggle sadly watched him go. He appeared to be willing to speak the wisdom she discerned within him when she first saw him. But whether his Truth held true for her, or if it was only an extension of his Will , remained to be seen. Turning her attention back to the square of hide, she mumbled under h...

*eyebrows raising* "I think of those in white as 'The Silent Ones.' They apparently merge to share information, the resultant One taking on the features of both. When I arrived her, this man," nodding towards the man next to her, "still had three with him. The one who has chosen to tr...

Niggle's eyes rose from the incomprehensible markings on the hide to the new stranger addressing them. She sensed wisdom and strength from the man, but a lack of anything to assuage her hunger. Whereas she was still puzzled regarding the other man next to her. She sensed abilities emanating from him...

By his own account, [Nameless] found himself for a time to be a man without noticeable feature. The flesh of his being was loose, though, and his scalp remained patched. He turned inward for deciphering the land. This path was too bright and humming to discern much otherwise. So he set himself to f...

The group showed no sign of hearing her. They showed no sign of even knowing she was there. The strange little man stayed hunched over his square of hide, and the three Silent Ones stood sentinel. Squaring her shoulders, Niggle made to draw closer when she saw Derlebn approach the Three. Curious, sh...

The road continued onward, twisting and turning as the forest slowly receded further into the distance yet never revealing what lay more than a mile or so ahead. The further along its path Niggle walked, the wider the road became, until it was a featureless gray thoroughfare on an even wider gray fe...

Niggle gazed back along the road with sadness. From three to one. I wonder what I did that coerced the other two to leave? she wondered silently to herself. Turning to the One still with her, she bowed slightly. “I am honored by your presence, although I know naught of you. Nor do I know anything of...

The storm of psalms passed, Niggle turned her attention to the road. Behind her lay the forest from whence she just came. Ahead an empty road, but who knew what lay beyond the next bend in its path? A sound behind her made her look back towards the forest again. There, unlooked for and totally unexp...

The Overfiend wrote:

Avatar wrote:Sorry, I'm incorrigible .

--A

Fixed that for you.

Thank you, Overfiend, sir.

The winds rustled and rumbled with words of passions and force. Niggle dove down to the road, to wait out the passing of this storm of psalms. She had no idea what the storm foretold, if anything, yet here and there phrases struck at her with more force than others. " wa-king hunger? " Yes...