Sol Raveh Test Drive #5 - Life Taught You How to Fly

[solravehmods]

What wakes you first?

Is it the creak-creak-creaaaaak of wood moving against wood, a clearly large mechanism working with slow and laborious turns? Or perhaps it's the scent of the sea, salty and cold against your face with the whistle of the wind barely louder than the crash of distant waves. Closer still, a lapping of even softer liquid contained in a much smaller area. The sun, beating upon your skin? Clouds rolling overhead, choosing without care to block and reveal the light of day at their leisure?

Whatever the case may be, it is very clear upon your conscious mind returning that this is not where you were last. The view from the cliff face over the sea is lovely. The old burdened windmill with it's cloth-covered blades rotating slowly in the wind is a sight to behold. The grass beneath you is soft, lush and lively, white birds flutter about, and a pond of clear nearly still water sits beneath the windmill built firmly in the center of this little outlet set against the massive, looming structure that is very clearly an old castle.

But there's a problem. A door back inside is blocked by a darkness that leaves you ill at ease and frightened to approach. There is the possibility of another way inside, but it sits across a gap between the windmill's "island" and a broken down set of ledges, too far to make a leap all on one's own. Even if you have the courtesy of some sort of power that could make it across without falling to your death, something tells you deep down that it might not be worth trying.

There is always the option of going up, though. Atop the windmill that seems to have no access to it's inner quarters... ?

The choice is yours.

Make it wisely.

(Mod Rin note: I found this beautiful artwork of the windmill area in a random article, but sadly tinyeye was only able to search so far back for the source. Here is the full version on Safebooru if anyone wants to see it!)