The Blood Hound
- Intent: A plot piece for
Alwine Daye
and the Lupine related stories she is and will be in. - Image Source: First frame from this gif.
- Canon Link: n/a
- Permissions: n/a
- Primary Source:
- Manufacturer:
Scherezade deWinter
- Affiliation:
- Individual Character:
Alwine Daye
- Individual Character:
- Model: n/a
- Modularity: The casing of the stone can be changed, but the stone itself is not modular in any way.
- Production: Unique
- Material:
- Ruby
- Blood Magic
- The Lupine Blood Stone begins to glow whenever a Lupine it does not know is within a few dozen kilometers' radius.
- In order to have the stone cease its glowing for a specific Lupine, the Lupine must give a drop of blood to the stone.
- The Lupine Blood Stone may be used in any piece of jewelry as per its wearer's choice, whether it is a necklace, a bracelet, a ring, or anything else.
- The Lupine Blood Stone can not only break, but it has already broken in Of Wolves and Blood. The remaining half of the stone remains functional, as was the powder that was the broken parts of it.
- The Lupine Blood Stone does not work when it's in the vicinity of Ysalamir, Void Stones, or any other Force-negating artifacts.
The Lupine Blood Stone is the brainchild of
Scherezade deWinter
, who came up with the idea for it a long time ago. As her friendly relationship with
Alwine Daye
began to grow, the Sithling, who was also a Blood Hound and had been involved in too many plotlines of the Lupine species, knew of the hardships of finding other Lupines, as well as many of the information that could be learned from their genetics due to her own research into it nearly two years prior.One morning she offered
Alwine Daye
to put her knowledge to use in a combination of science and her abilities as a Blood Hound to create something that would help her find more of them. Alwine, having always found it of utmost importance to find more of their kind, agreed, and donated her own blood to help Scherezade create the stone, though in her heart she did not believe that this would truly be possible. As time passed, she came to see the lack of success from her friend as proof of her belief, and forgot almost entirely about it.But one day, Scherezade handed Alwine a box. Alwine could not open it at first, knowing exactly what was inside. Scherezade had managed to make the small stone do exactly what it was supposed to, and had it attached to a thin silver necklace that Alwine could wear. Alwine, in a moment of panic, hid the box that contained it, and again forgot it even existed.
Until the time came for her to leave the Confederacy. As she packed her single bag, she remembered the little box. Wordlessly, she took it, and duped it into her suitcase. It couldn't stay behind.
While Alwine was happy at the Scintilla and with the Agents of Chaos, she could not deny that there was a strong feeling of loneliness there, of being so far away from the few of her kind that she knew to exist. Most of the time, she stomped that feeling down and ignored it, yet after the Agents of Chaos' defeaton Zonju V, something inside of her tugged and nudged, until she took the little box out of its newer, grander closet, and opened it.
It was a small stone, the size of a beach shell. And as she had correctly guessed, it was red. But more than anything, it was glowing, the light coming and dimming, in a slow and lazy rhythm. Her eyes narrowing, it was as though Alwine's body knew what to do even if her mind was running blanks. Biting her finger, the young woman drew a single drop of blood, and smeared it against the stone.
The jewel absorbed the blood, leaving no stain behind, and ceased to glow.
Alwine smiled. For n=1, it had worked as intended. She knew there had once upon a time been another Lupine with the Agents (
Larentia
), one that she had seen at the Confederacy as well, but she was not around now, Alwine had not seen her in months. Which meant… Which meant that unless she journeyed back to the Southern Systems, she had no way of knowing whether or not this would work. And what if there were more ways to work it? Ways that had been… Unintended?When Alwine had begun her training with the Force, one of the first things she had done and mastered, against the expectation or imagination of all but
Maple Harte
, was to control the growth of flowers, trees, and plants. Maybe now she could do something else?"Show me," the Lupine said as he rolled out a printed copy of the galaxy map. It was not the same one that was used in the holos; this one had less information on it, but its coordinates, as far as she was aware, were scaled perfectly. She let the stone drop on the map, and it fell right smack on Coruscant.
Alwine shook her head. Even if that was where more Lupines were, she would never be able to find anything there. That was one terrifying planet. Raising the stone again, brown eyes narrowed as the Acolyte concentrated. Much like she had with the movements of the plants that Maple had instructed with her there, so did she meditate now to reach deep into the stone.
And for a moment, she was actually inside of it.
The blood of a Lupine reaches deep and far, words whispered into her mind, Wherever a Lupine may walk, there will forever be invisible threads linking it to the other Lupines in the past and in the present. A Lupine is weaker without the pack, but it is never truly alone.
Alwine opened her eyes and stared at her hand. The stone was still there, but now it was both part of her, and so far away. Her fingers snapped on their own, and the stone began to shake badly, a crack appearing over it.
"No!" Alwine screamed, rare seen terror on her features, "No!" She did not want it to break. She could not have it break, not before truly using it, not before-
It broke.
The stone shattered, one part falling like a weight on the table, the other parts spreading on her printed map. For a single heartbeat, nothing happened, and then the smaller parts turned to dust, moving around and about on the map, coming together on a single spot before being absorbed by the paper, leaving behind a stain that looked like blood. The stain was in the Wild Space Territories.
