Delphi had been hatched and raised in the darkened forests that no 'domestic' fae would ever dare to tread. With many of the plants poisonous if not sentient and the trees with their twisted sharp branches and exposed roots which often one would swear moved when no one was looking across the jagged and dangerous rocky slopes that provided caves for many kinds of fomori and other predators alike. Where the dark waters ran fast with dangerous cross currents that would suck the unwary in and drag them under until all that was left was a tattered corpse fed upon by the local aquatic fauna. There were stretches of mire that looked perfectly safe but once you fell in you never got out and if you survived all this there were still things from the air and the treetops a person needed to watch for and the night was so deep and black that it felt as if it were a living being that hunted for the unwary fomori and lead them to their demise. A living nightmare to most creatures which only ever was visited in stories and nightmares of small fae and humans alike. 

To the young Fomori though what she lay her gaze upon now was more a nightmare than her forest home, great metal spires and stone pillars punctured the land from a gaping, festering wound which spewed black smog clouding the air and blocking out the sun. There were small fires in small cages that dotted either side of a dirt encrusted bridge that people, both fae and human seemed to cross without really bothering to look up. There was a sense of utter despair unlike any she had felt in her life time and it seemed to gnaw at everyone regardless of species. The brood queen had told tales about these places, to invoke fear into her clutch, the stench of rot and meat, the noises like bones striking metal, the over whelming darkness in the hearts of the people who would use any means to claw their way from the dank depths of their own forced misery. It had always amused Behlia, their queen, how the other kind, the fair and beautiful, considered [i]them[/i] the monsters. 

Delphi swallowed hard, readjusting the satchel beneath the pale grey cloak she had been given by a kindly stranger -who quickly forget ever having seen her- before she'd made her way towards the city. Pulling the large hood further forward to make sure her snakes were well concealed she glanced from the dirt road on which she still stood to the strange 'tamed' stone that marked the pavement she had to step upon to join the flow of traffic. She was scared, she had always had the brood to keep her safe and hidden, the worst that she'd had to worry about there were other fomori who, for the most part in that area, were slower if not more dimwitted than the Gorgon's leaving them, mostly, at the top of the food chain. 

Here though there was so much to be scared of, their caged fire and their metals, their strange tamed stone which rolled flat and their jutting stone carvings, the people on the street and those she couldn't see and most of all the people who had taken her sister. Those metal clad monsters who'd used sticks and tools to destroy one of her sisters and drag the other away to Gaia knew where, here she hoped. She had followed the carts trail after she had grabbed a few supplies, she was no expert tracker but a cart that heavy had left obvious marks in the soft mud all the way here to this stone where the mud marked a path but quickly disappeared. 

Clutching her bag in one hand and her hood lightly in the other she took a deep steadying breath and screwing her eyes shut carefully put a toe to the tamed stone, the brood queen said new things were not to be trusted, especially by her since she was so much more...delicate, than her other children. The stone was cold but it seemed to be stable and carefully putting the rest of her foot down it seemed capable of holding her weight. Slowly and carefully she began to make her way into the town, mimicking those around her by keeping her head down and her hood firmly pulled down close to her eyes. She wasn't even sure where she ought to begin looking so she resolved that she needed to find someone, someone who could tell her things about this strange and dangerous place, though full of deceitful murderous fae and barbaric animalistic humans she wasn't sure just [i]where[/i] she would find someone she could consider trustworthy.