[Thank you Cairn!
Now for my part...]
The fenki slammed her fist in frustration against the table in the kitchen of Kada El's. She couldn't bake anything: She was out of lard. She couldn't cook anything: She had too few ingredients. Sighing, the sigh mixed with an ever so slight growl, she pulled off her gloves, shook them out, and stuffed them in a pouch. Heading out of the kitchen, she went up the stairs of the tavern, onto the roof. Partly to get fresh air, partly to get away from the kitchen.
Shortly before she finished climbing the stairs, she heard someone cry out in pain. Rushing out onto the roof, she saw a nolthrir woman rubbing her head and looking at the floor. Coming slightly nearer, the fenki asked the nolthrir if she was okay.
"What? Oh. Yeah, I'm fine. This crystal just fell from over there." she looks at a very tall, nearby hill. The fenki follows her gaze.
"I see..." turning her gaze briefly to the sapphire, she felt a ghost of a shiver run down her spine. Looking back at the hill, the fenki half-listened to the nolthrir go on and on about the sapphire, how it fell out of the sky, and so on. It wasn't long before a nolthrir man with a strange accent came up, almost completely ignoring the fenki, and started asking the other nolthrir questions. The fenki watched as the woman, whose name she figured out was Lia, placed the sapphire carefully on the wooden table so that the man could examine it.
Growing feelings of uneasiness seeped into the fenki as she stared at the crystal, though if it was that or the... Other thing... That was causing this was unknown to her.
All she knew was that she had to stop it. She had to do something. She had to get away.
An involuntary hiss rose from her throat, and the man turned to her with a surprised and worried expression on his face.
"No, miss! I swear to Xiosia I'm no villain!" upon realizing that the fenki's gaze was fixed on the crystal, he stepped back a little.
"I have a bad feeling about that," her gaze still fixed on the crystal, she flicked her tail uneasily. Although she wasn't quite sure to what she was referring. Edging away from the crystal, she scooted up beside the chairs and small table by the railing. Raising a paw to her head, her eyes narrowing, she stumbled a little, a panic rising, sending shivers down her neck and spine, all the way to the tip of her tail. She knew what would happen next.
Mostly blind to her surroundings, and half deaf to the voices around her, she made out them calling her name, asking her if she could hear them. They told her Evirea was coming. They asked her what was going on. Incapable of moving, as her mind was completely focused on trying to barricade 'the flood gate' in her mind, she stayed where she was, tense and still. She knew she should have left earlier. It was too late now. She either focused on keeping the mental flood gate closed, or she tried to move and risked injuring those around her. She couldn't do that. She had to protect them. So she stayed there.
She only barely heard the nolthrir man when he asked her if this had happened before. It took her a while, but she managed to answer. She said more than the answer, though.
She told them to step away. She didn't want them too close. It was hard to tell, but she thought they heard her. She thought they stepped back.
Having to brace her mental flood gate was draining her strength. She fell down to her knees, digging her claws into the roof, as if it would help her get a firmer hold on the mental flood gate. She couldn't last much longer... She couldn't keep them safe.
Unseen by the others, a single tear fell from her eye; She had failed.
[And now, if he would, a nice little piece by Demagul, going to about untill Evirea comes in. And then, if she would be so kind, Evirea could take over from there...]