Clouds and Currents - VoK & HW 2021 Event Prompts

   Ah... this place again. She was dreaming again, right? She... was dreaming, surely.
   The skull from before, still clutched in her paws, began to fade back into mist, and she frowned. Had it done anything? She couldn't tell. She was working on strategies, coming up with ideas, and yet... No, this was just a dream. Surely it didn't have any actual meaning. She was just coming up with things because she had to. And besides, she was leaning on Bora and Nahia for those ideas, too.
   Well, whatever the case, the mist was fading now, and in its place, the shadows around her (How were there shadows in this void? There was no light to cast them, and yet here they were, somehow even darker than the blackness around her) began to flicker and shift, contorting into another set of shapes. Triangles, one pointing upwards with a horizontal line struck through it, another pointing downwards with a line in the same place, and a third, one with no line through it yet also pointing downwards. They were indecipherable, and yet... She felt as if she understood their meaning. Air, earth, and water. And again, she felt she had to choose.
   Which one, which one? She... didn't want to choose any of them, if she was being honest. The sky and sea were both her homes - How could she possibly choose one over the other? And the land... Ugh, she would never get used to solid land like this. But at the same time, her mentor, and her friend... They weren't from this land, but they were still land dwellers, weren't they? So maybe that option wasn't all bad... But at the same time, the titan they were supposed to face was an earth one, right? So...
   She shook the thoughts from her head. No, this line of thinking was getting her nowhere. She needed to be less literal about this. Right, so... She'd chosen the skull before. The mind. Why had she chosen the mind? She needed to be smart enough to find a way to overcome her enemies, and needed to be clear of head enough to fight past her anxiety and self doubt. And the ones she hadn't picked... The heart. Too emotional, she had enough of that already. Water... was like tears. It was a liquid, like the blood pumped by the actual, physical organ. It flowed and changed into different states, solid, liquid, gas, just as emotions can change on a whim. Then... water was out. And body... the body relies on air to survive, whether gotten from the sky, like an animal with lungs, or from the water, like one with gills. Without air, the body ceases to function - Deprived of it, limbs grow cold and cease to function. And the wing itself is strong, far stronger than it's given credit for. During a storm, once, she saw the sky city's trees branches broken and strewn across the floating islands, and smaller ones uprooted entirely. And trying to fight against that wind is hard, with good reason; air is just about everywhere, so long as that where includes an atmosphere. Then, that just left...
   She reached out to the triangle in the center, the upside down one with the line running through it. Earth. Sturdy and solid like the body, yes, but also stable, reliable, despite her misgivings about just how solid it was after a lifetime of floating islands and ocean currents. Dependable, like she wished her mind to be. The plants grow in soil the same way ideas grow in a mind.
   She didn't know if this was what these dreams, or visions, or whatever they were, intended for her to find. But it was the answer she chose. And so, once again, the other two objects disappeared as she curled up with her chosen element, closed her eyes, and drifted off into a once-more dreamless slumber.