Grimacing at her bodies condition Ebony climbed hesitantly to her callous covered feet and carefully exited her cave rucksack in hand. The first rays of the sun fell upon her causing an involuntary tremble to surface across her dust covered body. Her leg had scabbed over across the night but it had cramped in the process, Ebony let out a hiss as the scab shattered with her stiff, crabwalk like steps while she slid and fell, through the mud decorating the mountain steps. A few hours passed in this way as she crept silently, like a feline on the hunt towards the forest adorning the mountain’s foothills she was seemingly alone throughout the forest, the huntsman gone in some other way to find her no doubt. Her goal this time was to find firewood and kindling in order to start her progress to ascension and in order to not let her bloody body get sick from the frigid air permeating the mountain at all times. The wood was easy to find and acquire thanks to the violent storm the previous night but this led her to another problem, all the wood was waterlogged and saturated requiring at least a few days to dry out before even having a hope of catching a wick of flame.
Ebony having accomplished her chore, to some degree collapsed onto the lush grass booming with life after the previous weather and just gazed upon the sky looking at the red hue stretching across the skyline as the sun descended into its slumber and its counterpart the moon rose silently towards its eventually apex. “I bet he’s dead now, even for him ten thousand years is the limit.” Murmured Ebony to herself as she lay, inviting a partner to spend the night together. While knowing that, that wistful feel was but a dream that lingered ever present until she was seized once again enclosed in his bodies embrace. With the longing spreading throughout her body she clenched her eyes and let the darkness take her.
She awoke to a raging thirst screaming around her throat to this she rose quickly to her feet clutching her still damp firewood in her grasp and set off towards the faint gurgling of water that would inevitably lead to some form of waterfall. The sound of gurgling soon swept through the air and a gully reflected in her eyes. With a dash of renewed vigour she ran straight into the gully, carelessly dropping her rucksack and firewood of to the side and dove rejoicing in the cool liquid streaming down her parched throat, “Let’s not go through that again, I can’t believe I forgot that I needed water.” Reprimanding herself, Ebony now shivering thanks to her soaking garb heaved herself out of the tributary and grabbing her luggage hastened upstream to, the waterfall releasing dense spray towards the sky. A rainbow decorated the misty surroundings as Ebony gazed upon her home for the next while, a waterfall, a crystal clear pond and a small cave off to the side.
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Ebony placed her assorted things inside the cave and grabbing a strip of jerky munched upon the hard, salty texture of the meat. She ate like this for half an hour until the sun reached its apex and carefully took off her clothes and neatly lined them against the rocks and dove in. Swimming carefully towards the rocks directly under the waterfall she clambered taking the full brunt of the waterfall onto her malnourished muscles, stretching them to breaking point before being swept off the rocks into the pond by the spray and the fatigue etching itself into her bones. This was repeated all afternoon, the force directly toning her muscles into a more desirable and efficient shape. Gasping she lay there clothes still unadorned and cheese down her gullet with a soft sigh she climbed to her feet and set up her fire with a long five foot stick in the centre and without the slightest bit of hesitation wrapped her body around it and let the fire burn her skin black. A scream resonated through the air as the fire cleansed her skin of their impurities and like this her night past in mind splitting agony.
The rising sun woke Ebony from her coma like rest and her blackened skin was testament to her painful endeavour from the previous evening. A quick meal of cheese and beef jerky later and she rose wincingly to her feet and carefully washed away the blackened skin off her body and gazed upon the pinkish brown skin that was remained. “This body must be affecting me, there is no way that I would scream from something as painless as burning.” Ebony remarked. The days bled into weeks and soon she had spent nearly a month in her body and by this time Ebony’s skin was pink and white and her face was as gorgeous as a ten year old could be, pale white skin with a slight hue of red inside her iris and like this she approached the limit of the first part of ascension, The Outer Body Cleansing. She was now able to softly feel the power of Aura descending upon her and uplifting her muscles until they reached a degree of strength most would find inconceivable in a ten year old and a girl at that.