Auspicious Breeze
Today's gonna be a good day, Auspicious Breeze thought to herself with a smile as she strapped on her pair of bracers. Lightly colored bronze, decorated with la.. lapis... lapis something. Something blue and pretty that her mistress, the sorcerer-princess Radiant Cataclysm, told her would go really well with her eyes! Well, it'll be good after I ask her what the second word in that is. Lapis something!
She heard the last snap as her bracer went on, and then let go of her arm to run her fingers through her short hair. The former gladiator was really proud of the hair she'd been given. Just long enough to give her mistress something to run her pretty nails through, not long enough for someone to grab and tug at in a fight! She took a look at the mirror on the bureau, tilted her head from side to side, and nodded in satisfaction.
"Alright then! Collar on, bands on, bracers on, hair is done..." she mumbled to herself out loud, taking another moment to admire the tan skin of her face. The only thing marring it now were the tattoos along the sides, but they were pretty light so it wasn't bad. Besides, the tattoos were a symbol of her connection with her mistress' household now. Another thing to be proud of!
Her breezy (heh, breezy) white clothes only really covered what they needed to. It was a sign of her status, now, that the Solar Exalt didn't have to cover her body up and wear a mask anymore. She could show herself off, arms and legs, neck and face, belly and back, like all the sorcerers did. Sure, they were mostly... not nice, but she had to play nice with them because her mistress was nice, and it wouldn't be all that nice of her to make things harder for her yet, right? She hadn't figured out the right people to punch to make things better yet.
Besides, she really liked looking beautiful like they did. Not like before, when she was... Auspicious Breeze shook her head, getting rid of those pictures in stuck in it. Her mistress' magic had made her lovely, made her look as perfect as she felt after being Chosen by the Sun. She hadn't been that scaly thing in over a year now. A year with her mistress, a year keeping her safe, a year punching the sneaky slaves and monkey-demons of Radiant Cataclysm's rivals. Breaking the backs of soul-eating pointy-eared faeries who really shouldn't be as pretty as they were.
The Solar closed her eyes and focused on the power lurking within her waiting to be tapped. It was like feeling her blood as it moved, or something. Not that she bled anymore, but, well she had a point with this comparison and ahaha thinking about it made Breeze smile a little. She felt like she could do anything as she gently tensed her muscles; felt like victory.
She took a deep breath through her nose, smile growing on her face as she reveled in her power, before freezing. Auspicious Breeze took a sniff of the air to check if the stinky smell wasn't just her passing gas (how embarrassing! Good thing mistress isn't here). No, it didn't smell like that... ugh. It was pretty nasty, though. And the sounds, it was a lot louder now! She took a moment to refocus her hearing and smelling so they wouldn't get overwhelmed, a comforting rush of essence helping her 'get' it all.
Then she opened her eyes and found herself staring at a brick wall. "... huh? Wait, this isn't anywhere in my mistress' tower. Where am I?"
She took in the long, dead ended tunnel of brick and concrete she was in. There was a cloudy sky above, cold air all around and sending goosebumps to her skin, when her ears picked up the familiar sounds of a fight! She could wonder about what just happened after, but if someone was fighting she needed to be there to help! Or punch them all. One of those. That might actually count as helping.
Once she took care of that, then she would get back to Radiant and they could figure out what happened together.
She sprinted down the strange alley until she reached its end, and came to a skidding stop that put some strain on her sandals. Auspicious Breeze took in the sight: Three ladies, obviously fighting, and a bunch of pink flower petals everywhere! And they looked so strange! Obviously mutants, but that was nothing weird. The weird thing was how pretty they all were.
Today is a weird day.
"Hey!" she shouted at them after a second of watching, her hands clenched at her side. "I don't know what's going on, but cute girls like you shouldn't be fighting each other like this!"