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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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 Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:34 pm
Painful? He had no idea...and he had no idea of what had gone on before hand. He didn't know how to her someone being able to physically hurt you without even laying a finger on you was far worse than someone blatantly striking you across the face. Meant even her own flee response was at a loss to keeping her safe. If someone could hurt you without touching...what was to stop it from happening anytime at all, right? Broken? Don't let him do it to her...it was already done. And she turned her head away from him so he didn't see that fact in her dulled eyes and so that he couldn't see the few tears that came with the fact. "I'm sorry..." That was all she had to say to that. Before, she couldn't be who Kaden and the others wanted her to be, and now she felt she couldn't be what Malik wanted her to be...Piper was in a gray area of sorts in her thought about herself.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:38 pm
He sighed. "I don't know. I need someone who's really commited to this. Somone who is going to trsu me and do what I ask them to do." He lowered his arms, hung his head. "I have family who are slaves," he did too, but he wasn't going to explain how they were slaves.
"I...I can't help them. I need to help others." He turned again. "But like I said. I need commitment."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:49 pm
"Damn it say somethign more than I'm sorry! You're strong, Piper. fearless and deadly with your bow. You got ambushed, and put through tortures I can't imagine before we got there. Torture enough to make a Koada'dal rn to his death to try and get you free of it. I've been through torture. I've given it out and been subect to it a few times. mostly punishment for dying. but you can't let him take your spirit away. You have to be defiant."
He kept her hand in his, and squeezed it.
"You are Piper Silverfeather..and soon enough, You'll be Piper D'vinn. You've been through hell, and I may never understand the pain you went through, or the thoughts that must come with a being that is able to hurt you without touching you. But your free of it now. no one will do that to you again, ever."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:49 pm
Eliots eyes where flashing. And she was practicly growling.
"I....hate...you..." She ground her teeth, making a grating sound that rang through the air.
"You think i woul dtravel so far just for nothing?" She was clenching her jaw, her fists were coming itno the air in a fighting position, then up to grab her face and down again, she repeated th emotion several times while saying "can't believe...stupid...choke...ga...slaves...just came...gu...erp....eh...mmmmmmmm."
She was not a happy person. She saw her father laughing a weezy wolf laugh from the corner of her eye. She often lost her temper that way.
She tried to take a deep breath. "Just tell me, for the sake of the trees, what it is...(inhale)...we need to do!" She practicly screamed it out.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:56 pm
And suddenly he was right close, arm strung around her shoulder and other hand stretched out to the horizon. He had smile on his face, and he talked in a low voice.
"It's a little to early to act just yet. But whith the coupe over there is lots of tension with the new king. Tension, confusion, lost of pieces to pick up. The blue elf, the Tier'Dal, Malik D'vinn. He's trying to get a foot hold. He's trying to make himself known, a player, an active game piece. But, he's a slaver.." He smiled and whispered. "We need to do a little.." he rolled the word around in his mouth a moment "...sloothing."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:05 pm
"Gosh but that's sad." Jell was attached to the ceiliing with Jaun, watching as the little drama unfolded. "Sucks the fun right out of ya, dosen't it?"
His brothered noded, whiped his nose on the back of his hand. "We had come for a little visit. I guess we came at a really bad time."
"Really bad time."
They watched, and were saddened. "The Piper one, she looks like hs'es in a lot of pain, huh?"
"About as much as I was in that time I ate that hot rivit. I mean, at least I won the bet."
"She dosn't win anything."
Jell sniffled. "I tihnk I'm going to cry Jaun."
"I won't tell anybody, Jell." Jell started crying into his brother's shoulder.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:06 pm
Piper gave a visible cringe at his yelling at her. Even if her heart told her he only did it to get through to her her mind was still warring with her on the issue.There was a Piper Silverfeather, and there would be a Piper D'vinn, but somewhere in between there was a Piper Ravenwing. Barely in existence, but her mind knew it true that there was one there. And then suddenly anger welled up in her. A fire light in her eyes and she turned that look and her current bout of tears on Malik. "You don't know that!" No, he couldn't say, couldn't know that it would never happen again. Of course that declaration coming out a little rough sounding from all the screaming and crying of earlier. She wanted to believe him so badly, wanted to believe that in all his power he had he would never let something like this happen again. But believing right now was hard. With a cringe she made herself sit one, one hand still gripped tightly to her collar, the other just held by Malik. How can he expect her to be defiant? "I pay for my defiance in blood..." Defying her life from Andal, she lost her ear. Defying Malik here, she almost lost her life. It was a twisted logic going on in her head. And that little fire in her died once more as it took to working again.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:13 pm
"I do know that! Your Terran Gale stalker is never goign to set foot outside a breaker room unless it's as an undead necromatic servant, and neither is Kaden. and I see even a hint of a surface elf around here other than your father or your mother they will suffer the same. Nothing like that is going to harm you again within my power to do so. if Kaden's kin lived here they'd be put to death at my hands as well for your safety."
He got up, and moved away, runnign his hadn through his hair.
"If you don't want to be Piper Silverfeather, then you might as well wither away too. if piper silverfeather is dead on the inside, why waste teh time keeping a body alive. I never woudl have though a little chain woudl shatter you so easily."
He had a few tears that came down from his face, and he left the room, heading away, telling Kieran in a murmur to go take care of her. He was going to see Kaden.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:36 pm
It wasn't the chain that had done it to her at all, it was only part of the problem. It started with her attackign Malik with accusations, lead to her getting into a trap she knew was there, Kaden and his words adn his ability to get through her own defenses. His words...they hurt, but in a way she expected him. She had thrown up her defenses and when Malik threw up his they were meant to push away everybody. But her crying was interuppted by a click and then the projection of a starlit night on the ceiling, drawing her attenion to the one who put it there.
"All he wants you to do it try. He's right...you're stronger than this Pip. Don't you listen to what I tell you. If you loose yourself your courage soon will follow. Bad things happen all the time Piper. And no, you both can't expect to fend off everything that happens...but if you shut him out you're going to have no way of even defending yourself. What do you want Piper? Do you want to sit here and him him watch you become nothing more than a shell? You want him to turn you into a slave? Or do you want me to take you back home Piper? If I have to I will drag you back to Andal by your ears. You can't survive like this!"
Apparently, father was on Malik's side. "...I don't want to get his hope up..."
"It's already up Piper. He knows it's going to take time, could take years, but he's willing to stand by you. Can't you feel it in your bond Piper? You're an elf, you're young and you'll heal. And this will all be a distant memory that hopefully your revieries will spare you of." he paused a moment. "I know you're scared...but you ahve to face that fear Piper. Wounded people are dangerous, they know they can survive and I know that you know that. In the darkest hour, the soul is given strength to continue and endure. Think about that." And he too left her to wade in those thougths he had given her.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:44 pm
SO everyone had left, and Jell was whiping the last of the tears from under his eyes. Jaun let go from his perch, turned over in the air like a cat, and landed on all fours, making a soft thumping noise. He didn't even think Piper heard him. She was far away, wasn't she? Jell followed.
Though the two looked as if they may be eighteen, their small size made them look like tall ten year olds. The hieght of the bed was about at their stomachs, making for easy eye contact when talking to somone who was lying on said bed. Jell refrained, with difficulty, from going after the woman's boots.
Jaun approached somehwat cautiously. For hell raisers they were certainly being quiet, oddly respectful. He looked down at Piper....she didn't look very good.
"Does it hurt?"
"We don't know pain."
"But we'd still like to know."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:51 pm
A little jump as she looked up from the bed sheets to see the two who had managed thier way back in the place, probably looking for more fun. But the two who she first knew as idiodic and noise boxes were quiet now, looking curious yet not going after ansewrs in abandoned. No, they poliety asked. Now dull eyes turned to the two imps. "Be glad you don't...because it hurts very much." She meant all of it too, physical, mental, emotional, just all of it. "Sometimes...it's better to not feel anything..."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:58 pm
Jell gave Jaun a sad look a moment, before turning back and loking at Piper.
"But we don't feel anythign. We don't know pain because we don't know love."
Jell nodded, "Yeah, yeah! That's why we have fun. It's all we know." But right now they weren't having fun. If anything, they were sad. which was odd, becaue they don't usually feel sad. In fact, usually, they would be extremely interested in this, thinking it was a great thing.
"Why does it hurt so much?"
"Your broken parts are all healed."
"The crazy angry man saved you!"
"We watched him. It was pretty good fun."
"Pretty good, but not great."
"We don't care for blood so much."
"Shoes don't bleed, after all."
"Jell, can love bleed?"
"What do you mean, brother Jaun?"
"People love with thir hearts. So if your heart is broken, your love is bleeding."
"Genious, Jaun!"
"I think crazy angry man is bleeding too." Jell nodded emphaticly.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:06 pm
"Then what is it you feel for your brother?" It seemed...easy to talk to these two. Perhaps because they were so child-like, or because they didn't have the capability to comprehend completely what she was saying. But like any child, they made their points in words they didn't even know rang true. Kieran was hard to be around right now because he was siding with Malik, Malik couldn't be around her because she wasn't herself and didn't feel the current drive to be so. "Broken parts can still hurt after they're healed...and your mind can hurt...and your feelings can hurt..." Her eyes told the story of her own mind and emotions, dull as she felt numb inside. A look to them both. What an eloquent way to state is. Malik was bleeding too because his heart was being broken by her. "I hurt him...because I'm scared...that's why he's bleeding." Keep it simple in their terms.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:15 pm
Jaun and Jell smiled. "My brother is my buddy." They said. Love didn't have much to do with it. They liked the same things, thus they stuck together. Nope, love wasn't aprt of it.
Their smiles wilted. "It can still hurt?"
"I'm not sure I like that. Sometihng healed should be ready to have fun!"
"But why let your feelings be hurt?"
"Yeah, no one can touch those!"
"They are your own."
"Wow Jaun! I didm't know you were a philosopher!"
"I read a book once." He didn't say what book though.
"Wow!"
"Why are you scared?"
"You're home now!"
"Yeah, yeah! If your scared, then for sure it will happen again!"
"Of course it will. Cause your expecting it to."
"And then when it does, you'll say..."
"See! I was right to be scared, because look it happened agian!"
"Ant then you'll be scared forever."
"But if you had gotten over it..."
"Like that time I ate a shoe nail! It made me scared to eat shoes for the longest time!"
"Weren't happy, were you Jell?"
"Nope! Now I take the chance, cause shoe nails happen a lot less often than good tasting shoes!"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:21 pm
Just like children that was for sure. Their logic was so simple yet profound at the same time, wasn't it. But weren't they also right? She was scared that it would happen again, told Malik that, believed that no matter how much Malik told her that he would never let anything hurt her like this again. Suddenly she wished she was unconscious again and out of the prying eyes and minds of these two. They made her feel like she was being utterly stupid about this all...but she couldn't help it. A look at them. "What do you two do when you're angry with each other...adn you think you can't make it better?"
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