☾ Pythian Desert

@❇︎ Xiaojun *looks at her palms that had scrapes and gashes*
...
*without a word, she jumps to the sinkhole, knowing there's water underneath*

@☾ Winter ¥ /he keeps an eye out on the surroundings, taking mental notes for his journal./
Were you not being careful? Are you okay from the fall? Did you get hurt?
/he studied the sinkhole before kneeling down, placing a hand on the sinkhole and letting his magic disperse to gather information/

@❇︎ Xiaojun I fell.
*still making her way to where she had found the drawings, then stops by the pit that seems to be a sinkhole not just too long ago*
Here.
*points at the huge hole*

@☾ Winter ¥ /he gets dragged, but it's not like it was his first rodeo. At least this time, he actually agreed prior and enjoy the company of Winter/
How did you end up finding the drawing, Wolfie?

@☾ Sora Choi￥✔ /cuddling into the sand, ready to get lulled to sleep by the hot sun when a shadow covers me
/i assume its a cloud and wait but its not moving, and then it starts to talk
/raises a hand to shield from the Sun as I open my eyes, soon lowering it because... you're blocking the Sun/
/stares at you for a few moments, not recognising you immediately on your beetle/
Oh, Sora! /would get up but the sand is comfortable/
I'm taking a nap. Do you want to join?
/my eyes drift to the beetle your on, a hunger flashing in my eyes; I over my lips/

@♆ ♕ Huang Mi Ni /lifts her goggles riding the sand from her face when she spots a familiar demon./
Princess? What are you doing?
/she holds on tightly to the reigns of her Sand Beatle staring down at you./

/shifts in discomfort because sand is getting everywhere, but also starts piling sand into a makeshift pillow
/its nice and warm here, almost reminds me of home but not quite

/camel bones clean lie nearby

/covers myself in sand to take a nap

@☾ Dong Youngbae The sun beats down on her back relentlessly. Lucky for Sora, she was prepared to return to her kingdom. Pythian Desert nearly only had one season of intense summers all year long, with the occasional sub-zero tundra-like night that could quickly freeze any living being to death. She bounces up and down on the back of her desert roller beetle at high speeds. Grains of sand mercilessly pounded at her rider goggles as the crawler lurched forward towards the gate entrances. "Yah, Yah!" Sora halts the bug's movements with a light kick to its side when she spots a familiar shape in the distance.
"What? How the hell-" She fumbles for the correct string of swear words before abandoning her rambling monologue altogether. When the crawler finally catches up to you, Sora tugs back on the antenna, pivoting left, and cutting in front of you. "Hey, what's the matter with you? Are you tired of dying of heat or something? Why are you on foot?"

@☾ Toshiya Resting her back against the wall behind her along with the back of her head she closed her eyes for the moment inhaling and exhaling as she was trying her best to calm down from walking so much. But not the walking was the real problem... She had a deep wound that was troubling her that was making it hard to breath and even hard to sit. Her lower stomach had been injured quite bad after the last fight yet she didn't give up, that's what her parents and elder brother taught her.. to never give up.
Blood was dripping and leaking through her fingers as she was covering the wound even though she managed to wrap it up. She had to find a doctor, otherwise she wouldn't make it by tomorrow.

"Oh god.. what is this horrible pain? Agh.." Knowing very well it would be dangerous to fall asleep and even stay in one place with that open wound she picked herself up .. somehow and found herself walking to nowhere. As she was taking step by step a certain scent hit her, making her whole body shiver ... She did not know if any of her pack was still alive or not but this smell brought her back home, to her real home. Chaerin found herself frowning "What if this is a trap..?" She muttered to herself but the curiosity got her well so she slowly followed the scent cautiously looking behind her, and to her sides not to be caught off guard.
Soon, she spotted a tall, very fit guy that seemed to resemble her brother very very well "It can't be real.. oh my god.. I think I am hallucinating." Her eyes were soon filled with tears as she couldn't help herself but smile and giggle uncontrollably from the excitement built inside her, however the pain did not let her express herself to the best as she soon found herself whimpering.

@☾ Lee Chaerin ¥ From the stress of the engagement and simply just being home sick, Toshiya found himself back on to his home land. Sand depressing beneath his feet with each step he took and the smell of the air that hit his nose. Everything just said “home”. A small breeze pushed past the lone wolf and within that breeze was a certain scent that sparked something within Toshiya. Feet stopped in their tracks just for the wolf to sniff the air. It’s familiar to him. Far too familiar. “No…” Toshiya turned into the opposite direction from his path to follow the scent. “It can’t be... It's not possible. Please be real."

After being exiled from her own pack, Chaerin found herself wandering here and there for a place to settle down and rest but no surrounding seemed to tickle her enough to consider it a proper "home". Eventually, she was extremely exhausted from walking for days and decided to take a rest somewhere far away into the desert. Her nose picked up a couple of scents.. which seemed to be familiar yet not. Not too far away from her there was a cavern in which she decided to rest for a while to gain new strengths, hoping that the place wasn't someone else's house.

The disappearance of the human queen and the recent news of his best buddy pending wedding, the lone wolf had nowhere to go but home. He remained unchained and away from the burden of slavery. A good lady bought his freedom because of a war she had with her lover then. He owed the woman everything and his best bud all the fun memories. However, Taeyang must face his own journey and the consequences of being away from home for a long time. His own clan might have forgotten his iniquities, or maybe not. He always wondered about if that young girl still lives. And so, under the boiling heat of the sun and the unfriendliness of the desert sand, Taeyang carried his satchel and entered the kingdom once more.

“No place like home.”