All Hail Celeste!

[Kender Bard]

Several priests located Celeste, checking the Wrathful wing first. Naturally it was a pathmate that went inside while a few more timid priests lingered outside in the hall.

The wrathful man had a set of robes slung over his shoulder. "Celeste!" he bellowed. "C'mere!"

[hisdivineshadow]

Celeste had just emerged from her room, hands wrapped in fresh gauze and hair still wet from bathing. "What is it?" she demanded in a belligerent tone, the same used for casual conversation by many of their path.

[Kender Bard]

Rapidly, the hallway outside the Wrathful wing was being filled with priests coming to watch. Only those who felt confident in their fighting ability ventured in to scuffle for a place amongst the Wrathful to watch.

The pathmate held out the robes with one hand. "You are now the High Priestess of Flux. Soahc's blessing curse on you."

[hisdivineshadow]

She stared for a moment, dully, then scowled and crossed her arms, refusing to take the robe. "The hell kind of joke is this?"

[Kender Bard]

"It's not a joke," the other Wrathful scowled back. "Put on the damn robes, wench, and lead us!"

Behind him, there were a mixture of cheers, boos, but mostly heckling and teasing.

[hisdivineshadow]

"**** you," Celeste replied evenly. Offering the man a one-fingered salute, she touched fingertip to forehead and gave him a powerful telekinetic shove backwards.

[Kender Bard]

The man stumbled backwards, threw the robes down and snarled. "Fine, be that way, you fucking coward!" With a roar, he lunged at her.

That was pretty much an open invitation for all the Wrathful in the room to begin fighting, which they did with relish. Someone sharp enough near the entrance of the room scooped up the ceremonial robes to save them and pushed and shoved his way to the back of the crowd. "Re-draw!" he announced, and all the senior priests not currently fighting followed him into another room.

[hisdivineshadow]

"Hey! Get back here with that!" Celeste slipped free from the arms of a pathmate, twisting his arm in the process, then teleported outside the hall, casting about for the robe's bearer with a low growl.

[Kender Bard]

The priest with the robe gave a slight squeak and turned to go the other way, but the priests in front of him laughed and pushed him towards the enraged Wrathful.

"Here!" he squeaked, and threw them at her.

[hisdivineshadow]

She caught the robes and held them up for a better look. They were dark velvet on the outside, smoothest black silk on the inside, and the thread was all cloth of gold, making patterns of Soahc's sign all over the robes themselves.

"Hmm. Not bad." She nodded her approval and proceeded to slip them on over her regular robes.

As she looked around at the other priests, a slow smile appeared on her face. This could be interesting.

[Kender Bard]

The other priests cheered or booed alternately, though nearly all gave a bow in some shape or form. After all, she was the high priestess for the year.