Eisenkiesel's awakening was an ungraceful affair, several millennia of dirt, dust, and rock forming a fairly snug prison. The tightness caused the forming Eise to panic, desperately clawing upwards to escape as the shifting dirt moved to fill in any gaps in the soil from her forming. With as much dignity of a near drowned cat Eise's hand shot through the earth, dirt and rocks exploding outwards from the force of the breach. Like a horror from a penny dreadful she crawled out of her hole, fingers digging deep gouges in the earth around her. Free and awake for the first time in thousands of years, Eise spent the next several minutes laying face first on the ground, deep breaths bringing in the smell of age and stone.
With a ragged sigh Eise dragged herself upright, sediment and pebbles raining down from her body as she stood for the first time in ages. With several experimental cracks of her joints Eise began to take stock of her situation. It became obvious very quickly that a
lot of time had passed since the last she was awake, besides for her dramatic awakening the ground around her hadn't been disturbed for millennia and in fact it surprised her that she was only buried as much as she was.
"Ok Eise, get those gears turning and think... what are you going to do?", Eise thought to herself as she began to shake off the mental rust of being out of commision for so long. With no better plan... or any real plan for that matter, Eise began to walk the length of the canyon and try to find anyone, or any
thing, to help her get some answers.
Her small journey lead to several small discoveries, that someone has certainly been busier than she'd realized given many gutted machines and foreign footprints, and of the curious noises coming from the top of the canyon.
"Must be humans.", Eise mused to herself, certain that the meatbags had gotten into all sorts of trouble in the passage of time. Alas, beyond her minor findings, Eise was no closer to finding answers than she was when she started and was beginning to get the sneaking suspicion that she was well and truly abandoned. Not that she minded, to be completely honest, as her last memories of Homeworld were of escapecraft leaving behind many fellow Gems as a wall of light swallowed them whole. She shivered at the thought, packing it away as she continued on her way.
It was pure chance that Eise stopped to look at the wall of openings, bitter memories flooding her thoughts as she remembered this area... she'd seen most of these Gems be born and tossed into the grinder. A scowl twisted itself onto her features as she looked down, kicking a rock and sending it flying far down the canyon side.
"Homeworld... cowards, traitors, and liars... all of them.", Eise thought to herself, the darkest of venom filling the words as she wound up to kick another stone before pausing mid strike. These stones were different but unmistakable, a Newborn has just been formed... somewhere up there.
"Ehem... H-hello? Anybody up there?", Eise called out loud for the first time in ages and it showed. The words tripping over themselves and gravely, by the stars it's been awhile since she heard her own voice. Pushing that thought aside she began to scan the canyon wall, trying to find a form that looked fresher than the others.
Guardian Angel Haruki