Another pic of Asher and Caudler, this time by Gryph000

I do quite love this one. You’re going to be seeing a lot of Asher in the coming days. For those of you who might be wondering, Respira is Spanish for breathe. Asher is an Aztec spirit, so as the most recent centuries have come around he mostly speaks with a deep Spanish rumble.

Respira

Imagine, you’re in the jungle…it’s night…You hear a growl and out of the corner of your eye you see something huge. It looks like the inky silhouette of a tiger but it’s far too big to be anything natural…And it’s getting closer…

You run, your breath heaving in your chest, lungs burning as you try to will yourself forwards through the underbrush.You continue to hear that rumbling sound almost like a growl and a chuckle mixed together into one taunting, predatory noise…

That’s your whole night. running blindly through the trees, that rumble chasing you, leading you in circles until it’s almost dawn and you collapse onto your knees in the twilight.
You don’t hear the sound anymore. You give a tired laugh of triumph, you made it…maybe the sun scared it away.

Then your nostrils flare…You smell something sweet, a deep smokey musk of a scent creeping its way across your awareness. You’d look down and find coils of smoke slithering their way across your body, but before you can cry out a heavy paw the size of a kitchen sink curls itself over your shoulder, and you feel the rumbling warm chest of the beast at your back.

You want to cry out but as you inhale your urge to do so dwindles…it would be so nice…so nice to just stay here in the jungle…forever…to serve…to become one with the master of all things in this realm…all you’d have to do is keep breathing…keep breathing…

Your body would shudder as massive, warm lips brush against your ear, a head the size of a TV tray inches above your shoulder.

Respira…. It would purr…the sound running through you as though you were nothing more than a reed in a musical instrument.

And you would obey.