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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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 Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:27 pm
A little noise as she was pulled over to him and kissed. If Malik knew anything, he knew how to work her mood just as well as she knew how to work his. Matching moods and tempers often only stoked fires, while constantly present the opposite smothered them. So she simply sighed and leaned up against him, arms encircling his waist. No use in fighting him because he wasn't going to give her fight back. "I guess I should be taking these as compliments..."
Kieran took back his scimitar, hanging it off the cross straps to his armor where it had been before, without much care. He just didn't want to have to constantly hold it at this point. "I think that runs in the family..." A slight chuckle at that as he crossed his arms again with a slight shrug. "Indeed we do if she's showing promise of skill then. And since she's in one piece and you aren't going out of your mind I am assuming she's doing just as good as you say. And speed can be picked up or being a tad slow can be a blessing in the right circumstances."
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:36 pm
Eliot Stilled. Yes, she had though that detah would be better than this cage...but given the choice, she would rather be alive. Had she not comitioned herself to break free?
Yes there was so much in life she had yet to experience. Love, starting her own pack, feeling proud of her pups. No there was to much she wanted to see, and wanted to do. How could she think she had nothign to live for? she had eveyrthing to gain! She wanted to live.
"Life is a spirit with in itslef." She growled to the horrid man before her. "Death may be a release to some, to others, it is just another cage. Life, and death, is what we make of it. I choose a spirited life."
She glared back at him with her grey eyes. she made no move to clean herself up.
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:44 pm
"Oh?" he laughed at her again. "Are you a philosopher now?." He laughed again, hearty and rich.
"Meilikki didn't want to see the truth either," he steepled his bony hands. "oh yes. But I made her see. She has not choice but to see now!" He waggled a finger at the wolf child. "What you think doesn't matter. because you think wrong."
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:44 pm
"Against the Drow, speed counts."
More and more with this fleet not coming he was thinking that the Captian was planning soemthign else. that this idea of the fleet comign was a distraction to a larger game. his hand ran caresingly lover Piper's head.
"Anf yes, you should take them as compliments. Now what say we all enjoy some more to eat, or perhaps Keiran if you'd like we can discuss another topic that plauges your scholarly mind?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:53 pm
Eliot Barked
"Your dilusional! Where you dropped as a baby or heavily beaton?" She yelled.
"Let me out!" She knew that demanding to be let out would get her anywhere, he clearly had the upper hand.
"Let me out now!" She was spitting again.
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:54 pm
"Oh lord...he asked him a question." A little shot at them both before she nuzzled Malik's chest with a sigh. "And I'm not hungry anymore." However she did lean away from him and snatch at the half eaten cinnamon stick she had from earlier. No way she was letting that thing go to waste...never knew when Malik would instill a cinnamon stick ban as well.
"And too much speed will foul your steps." Obvious was the way their fighting styles most likely differed. Though his look went thoughtful. "Though I must say, my thoughts turn from the path of general education and come to rest on that of personal. More pointedly, you two. Last I heard my daughter's words, she was swearing off being close to anyone. Yes, the words of a child, but she's pretty set in her ideas once she gets them in her head. But after all, things change. And the story intrigues me. And personally, I find it fascinating that you Malik stray so far from your dark elven roots...certinally not how I would imagine any drow, even when it does come to matters of the heart." Yes, that was what made Malik more fascinating than the common drow to Kieran Silvercrest. He was obvious in his feelings about Piper and he had yet to see that from a drow.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:00 pm
"Oh how precious," he whispered. "Beaten as a child? I assuredly hope so. But thena gain, I wouldn't know."
The cloaked figure waved a hand at the open door, and a fe minutes later a body stagered in. The flesh was rotting, the jaw slack. It shuffled in on feet that did not seem able to hold it up. A few scarps of clothing still clung to the corpse. It's eyes were glazzed and grey. And it stank. The claoked man then pointed at Eliot.
The corpse slowly turned it;s head, it's odd gaze fell to hers. It fell to it's knees, crawled across the floor, and stuck it's arms through the bars, it's yellow fingernals reaching and graping.
"See? The dead know. He knows you shouldn't be alive." He cackled again.
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:06 pm
Eliot recoiled from the rotting corpes, but she couldn't get far enough away from it. It was till able to scrape at her legs. She gagged at the stench. It was touching her, tearimng at her won flesh through her black pants.
She turned and threw up. It was disgusting. The smell, the feel of it, it all drover her to heave her stomach contents again. No tonly did hse have a corpse to deal with now she would have lie in her own vomit.
She cried out in terror, it soudned hald way between a Human scream and a wolfs howl. Tears streamed form her eyes and she kicked her feet. Her bruised throat was throbbing from her now dry heaving.
She couldn't get away.
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:11 pm
"I will say first that your right, typical drow act nthing like me in affairs of the heart. As you said, the spouse is last in loyalties. When we met, I was living on the surface, in a home virtually identical to this one. A lucartive slave trade unhindered by my fellow Tier'dal. I lived alone. after Piper was captured, you coudl say...her lack of fear of course fascinated me. it was several months of testing the waters, my need for control agasint her willfullness..that the first hints of a deeper relationship showed. first what was concern for a valubale slave's safety and thus keeping her intact for high price beack a caring for piper. Over time, that just built until it became an actualy love."
A small smile and hug to Piper.
"Perhaps it was my own kind of self imposed exile from the workings of Tier'al society that allowed it to happen. Or maybe your daughter just was the one being on the planet who could temper my needs without becoming another pet."
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:16 pm
"Oh, don't be frightened of the little fellow! He just wants to give you what he himself has already found!" He laughed at her struggles, shivered at her delicious screams.
"Why are you so scared, dear dear Eliot? This is what everyone becomes in the end! This it what everyone lives for!" He laughed until he had to grab at his sides to keep from falling over.
"isn't it wonderful? Isn't it lovely?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:21 pm
"No!" Eliot whined. "This is just a body! It has no mind! No spirit!"
She cried harder. Her stomach was burning and she coldn't catch her bereath. Caughing she colapsed. Her head it the floor with a sickening smack. Her hair, covered with blood and vomit settle around her sholders, leaving streaks olong her face. She looked up in time to see her wolrd wink out in a viod of blackness.
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:23 pm
Piper only gave a laugh, "I confused him." And sure enough in those early months she had. She remembered him telling her how he just couldn't figure out why he couldn't put her at a collar's command, nor put her under his boot. Secretly she always reveled in that fact. "I also highly frustrated him at times." Oh yes, how many times had he tried to entice her to his bed only to be met with casual resistance and failure, and yet couldn't bring himself to use that control he knew he had on her.
Kieran nodded light, having a small smile to show at the little story telling. A true tale of two who were from completely different worlds. "Two who exile themselves find common ground together on which they stand. You broke off from your own Tier'Dal, Piper broke off from Andal as a whole. You both seemed to have lives that weren't the best and yet upon your paths crossing...things changed." Ah yes the famous phrase of his that his daughter had taken up as well. It certainly worked rather nicely. "Here's another one...how in the name of elvish gods did you talk her down to the Underdark?" Now that was equally fascinating. Piper was rather claustrophobic and wasn't even tolerate of surface caves.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:28 pm
"Oh dear. Did the little dear faint? How quaint. How appropriate."
He bent down, proceeded to direct the dead man out of the room. "Of course it has no spirit. The spirit is fletting, the soul is nothing." he hummed again, seeming happy.
"Everything is running according to plan. Oh yes."
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:47 pm
"Well you better beleive it. and I got Bode to back me up on it, brother."
A bit of a snarl.
"You're not getting out of that so easily with a bit of amneisia because you lost control."
Malik thought about that one for a little bit.
"Well..after a time..she wanted to move again. her wanderlust kicking in. I at first refused to budge on it, and the best she coudl get was for me to take smal trips from my home. some lasting over night. She said there were two places she'd never been. one was the underfoot, or underdark as you call it, and I beleive the ocean. I agreed to go with her to the underfoot, as I of course had knowledge of teh place, and could at least get us safe haven in Neriak or a drow city if we really needed it. So it was either sate her wanderlust alone..or go to the underdark."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:59 pm
"And I was quite attached to him by then really. I figured that if he was willing to go then I would let him pick where the destination would be. A deal of sorts. Though I did drive him crazy that first week or two down here." A chuckle at that...oh the battle that was. He literally most times had to pry her off him in the beginning. But these days she was fairly comfortable with it all. "Still haven't been to the ocean."
"You've been. You just can't remember because you were too young...and your mother kept you rather sheltered as well in her own way. Then again Andal lands are too close across water to really call them oceans between." He shrugged at apparent little trivial fact. But a knowing smile and a nod of his head then. "That wanderlust hits hard, doesn't it? Almost like they can't refuse it's pull either. I remember my own period of it." Ah nostalgia. "Anything bubbling on your own mind Malik?" After all, two different worlds of elf in the room and information exchange among them was usually limited.
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