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[seker_pride]

Still your mind, his Discipline told him. Still your mind and the magic will come forth in answer to your call.

He sat in the corner of his room where the replica of Asar-Suti's gate sat, eyes closed while his mind replayed the events that had transpired a few days priorAnd to calm himself and remind himself that Discipline was all he needed to

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[asar_suti]

Asar-Suti had felt the magic from several corridors away where he was reading up abot wild pigs from Sardinia, in the library; and his connection to his last remaining follower told him at once that something was wrong with Strahan.

He wasn't trying to shift all by himself, was he?

He put his book down, still feeling that sense of alarm, and wandered down the corridor to Strahan's room.

And knocked, energetically. If he was answered by a mere roar, then he would go in at once...

[seker_pride]

Shifting without a guiding hand was precisely what Strahan was trying to do. His tendency to want to do things his own way had once again gotten the better of him, and he was left doing everything he could to keep his mind under control; to keep Instinct from taking over.

Again he commanded his body to face the fire burning within the pit; again it chose to refuse and dash away from what it percieved as a danger - to get as far away as the parameters of Strahan's room would permit.

And sadly, there was only so far he could run within such a confined space. If Strahan's room had more space the Gate would be life-sized.

...pounding at the door...

AfraidAfraidAfraid.., Instinct cried as Strahan's body raced towards a table where several small objects sat, and the sound of several objects falling and shattering would tell anyone nearby he'd collided with it.

PainPainPain...

[asar_suti]

Asar-Suti heard the crashes, he felt the creature panicc in there, and he simply magicked the door unlocked with the merest squiggle, and adaptation of 'alohomora' from Gil's world, and slipped inside.

Purple fire greeted him, a small, paltry emulation of his Gate back home that, in this case, held godfire but no god, a bit like an electrical fireplace wih light and sound effects instead of a real burning log of wood.

Very odd of Strahan. Had he seen his god as a kind of fireplace, and missed that? Not the entity that lived within it?

In a corner, there cowered a cheetah, in mortal panic of the flames.

Strahan - come here! Asar-Suti commanded him.

[seker_pride]

No, he would have told the Seker. It was not his god he missed so much as his home. His real home: Valgaard. But it was no more; it had been destroyed leaving the Seker no place left to go but here.

But when the god stepped into the room a new fear entered the cat's mind.

DANGER!MAN!DANGER! it cried out in alarm. The cat's eyes saw the man-shape and began to panic.

-he rushed forth before he could stop himself, slapped paws against floor with a hiss, then darted back-

ManManMan.., his mind - or his voice said; no longer could he tell the two apart - EnemyEnemyENEMY!