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 Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:53 pm
Malik walked to the stables, and took a look at Terran's mount. she was a fine pegasus. then a walk over to Nightmare, who was at present for one reason or another chasing Serino all over the place, Nieran staying away from them both.
"Ramoth, doer ghil...vel'bol zhah aluin pholor? Ele ph' dos z'haanin p'luin Serino?"
Nightmare came when called, and snorted and stomped her feet, smoke coming from her nostrils and look very angry at something or someone.
"That Pegasus is no threat to you. if fact it's going with Piper's father when he leaves."
Nightmare reared, neighing loudly and stomping her feet and the ground, biting at Malik, who idly smacked her nose.
"Adn what the hell do you mean Serino won't submit. he's given you leadership of the herd. what's the matter with you?"
Nightmare snorted again, turned aroudn and swatted Malik with her tail before chasing after Serino again.
"Crazy horse."
Broog was sitting in the Arena, slaves coming to him to get collar removed, and they were making a pile by him. he didn't look happy, like a child about to cry. he worked hard on those collars, every one of them was special for the person they were given to. But Malik said piper had somethign to make up for it. he was just hoping she'd get here and tell him what it was so he might be happy again. that and he wanted some cookies. he loved cookies.
Onyx shook his head lightly.
"Whatever happened, you need to either embrace it, or let it go. beating yourself up and wasting away is hardly the way to go about it. for teh love of the ancestors look at yourself. your fur is dull, your pants barely fit, you've got no drive to do anything anymore."
Onyx got up.
"You need to get yourself back together. it's important, for your own health and if nothign else so Mom doesn't worry. you know if nothing else she'll send Morelle back soon to watch us for her. and it'll give her an anxiety attack if you still act like this or worse."
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:59 pm
He ran right into her, upsetting them both and almost tumbling them to the ground. Quite raspy himself, he muttered a "come on!" grabbed her wrist and kept running. The souless were scraping at their heels. He was covered in blood, she was covered in ashjes, the souless were streaming out of each and every door around them.
The road ahead was blocked, it looked like a sea of stretchinga rms, all looking to prefform that loving kiss, the one that would steal their souls. Raorke skidded to a halt, long red hair whipping around his face. He pulled Eliot in the opposite direction, bit lo and behold, that way was blocked too.
They were all around, pushing each other in thier haste to try and reach the live souls. Hands pawed at them, pushed them both to the ground. Bodies where everywhere, crushing them, forcing their chins up, trying to lock onto their mouths.
Damn...this was probably going to kill him but...he couldn't see another way out. "s**t. Eliot," he yelled, trying to make sure a body didn't clamp lips with him. "This is going to reall hurt..."
He sheltered her as best as he possibly could, what with the souless tugging at anytihng they could get their hands on. Roarke muttered sometihng inot her ear, and the two slowly disolved into a fine red mist.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:04 pm
Moonstone mutter. He definatly wasn't about to embrace it, or at least that is what he kept telling himself.
"I can try, but I'm NOT going to Lostagrace just to get in a fight, and I'm NOT find some girl who probably has a thousand deseases and low self esteem." He was one to speak of slef esteem, wasn't he?
"I'll do it for Mother then." Why? Because he wouldn't do it for hismelf, that's why.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:08 pm
Eliot thought she was dying, no she was sure she was dying. She felt everythign in her bady, parts she didn't know existed rip apart. She could hear it in her ears, like she was tearing a rag in two. Her heart felt like it had burst, she waited for a shower of blood that never came. She tried to scream but she felt as if her tongue was pulled from her mouth, liek her eyes where beign sucked from there sockets. she thought her body was exploding.
And then suddenly. there was no pain. Only existance. She could not see anything of her body but she found that hands were no longer groping her body, and when she came upon someone, she simply split herself in two and went around them. Understanding flooding over her she realize roarke had made them into...somthing, air perhaps? she couldn't tell.
Slowly her new from made its way through tunnels and and rooms. It took them some time before they came to the door they had entered. It was closed now but feeling Roarke's pressence somewhere around her shew as guided under, around and through any cracks that existed.
When they finally reached the cool air outside she felt like her body, was coming back to life by imploding.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:17 pm
The came to themselves on the same outcropping that Alaran had dropped them off on. It felt very much the opposite of being ripped apart, more like they were being rudely stitched and forced together. They klay there, breathing heavily, their bodies aching much to much to move.
Raorke was matted and splattered with blood, drying almost black in his hair, the wound across his eye scabbing slightly. His eye was swollen shut at this point, he was lucky that the eyeball itself had not been touched.
He could still feel the oddly cool hands of the souless across his body. He sat up on shakey arms, pushed hismelf until her leaned against the stoney cliff face. His voice was not much more than a whisper. "Sorry." He cuahged. "Still hate me?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:18 pm
For a long time she merely stood at the entrance way of the arena, watching. It was just Broog...he would never hurt her right? Not all ogres were vicious, elf flesh craving beasts...right? Oh this was hard. Every now and then a look back to her father who was patiently standing her, of course he wouldn't enter before her...it was one of his 'you gotta get over whatever it is you're hung up on' things. Another look to the ogre. Just Broog, harmless to her Broog.
Kieran found it partially amusing really. But he had to admit she had her rights about being upset. But after fifteen minutes of standing there, he knew she wasn't moving. With a sigh he walked up to her, placing hands on her shoulder, nto giving reaction to her flinch and took to gently pushing her, making her walk forward and toward the ogre and his pile of collars. "You're fine, I'm not going to let anything hurt you. You know that."
She swallowed hard as they both came to a stop next to Broog. Oh by elvish Gods, even by Innurok's cauldren as Malik would say. "H-hi Broog." Oh damn her voice cracked. She gave a tug at her collar, fingers gripping tight once more and refusing to let go. Her free hand reached tenatively out and patted him on the head. "Don't look sad. I'm proud of your craftsmanship as ever. In fact I want you to make something special for me. And for doing all this, I'll give you anything you want as a reward for such good work, how does that sound?" At least she paid attention to when Malik interacted with Broog and thus knew how to handle him. Like pleasing a child really.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:28 pm
Eliot laughed as she panted. "Only slightly." she rasped. Seeing that Roarke was hurt, and probabaly to drained to heal himself Eliot tore some of the silks off of her arms.
Looking around quickly she found a healing plant, or as the pups in her pack used to call them "good for ouchie plant" and popped some of the leaves inot her mouth, chewing them without swallowing. She scooted over and tapped Roarke on the feet so that he moved his body for her to reach them easier. Usinf what energy she had she turned a nail into a wolf one and plaucked the shards of glass from his feet. Spitting some salve into the cuts she wrapped is feet with the silk. She did the same for the gash on his head.
"I'm afraid with no tange leaf around I can't do anythign about the swollen eye," She rasped, 'But that should do until youhave the strength to heal yourself, wont get infected this way anyways."
She examined his body for a moment. She was surprised to find him quite fit, she had expected some flab underneath his cloaks.
"Are you a protector?" she asked lightly, "you have the body type for it..." she looked around of rhis clothes but they were ruined. "hope you don't mind walking around naked for a bit."
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:29 pm
Blue had changed his postition from Kieran's shoulder to his head. He lay on the top of it, head resting in his arms as he lay theter, wings spred out so that if you weren't looking close enought, it appeared as if Kieran ahd wings srpouting out of hie head.
He watched everything curiously, and seemed quite interested on everything that was happening.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:34 pm
Raorke gave a weak smile. "Thanks." He really appreicated that. The goop felt cooling, and took away the sting of what hed felt like infected wounds.
He laughed a bit. "Protector? Not in the sense your thinking. I just...have to stay fit, is all." That and a lot of people didnt' realize that workign with amgic took muslce strength to. It was a great work out. Which is why magic was difficult for people like Warren. Yeah, he knew aobut the boy.
"Considering that I'ma live, I think I'll pass on being embarassed. It won't be long before Alaran comes anyway."
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:41 pm
Eliot smiled. She was very sleepy and she could feel her lids drooping.
"What where we just now? And why did it hurt so much? i didn't like that to much. And the slaves! They kissed me! and i thought my lungs where being pulled inside out. did you find anything out frombeign close up? It didn't seem that you where there to lon gbu tdid you hear anythign important?"
Suddenyl she was wide awake, she knew she had bee ramblin gbut something sparked her memory.
"I told you you he knew we were there! You should have listened to me!" She was angry, "I trusted you when you brought me here you should have trusted me! I know that creep! I've been caprtured by him before!" She didn't liek to think about it, but she didn't mention that she knew her way around the domed room.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:44 pm
Onyx smirked.
"You really think I woudl let my twin sleep with anything less than the best, cleanest women? come on, I'm not that bad to you. and good, you do it for mom then. the last thing I thin kyou want is dad coming here in a panic becuase of that."
Gesturing the him in general.
"He'd pull you home nad put you through such a training program you'd die overworking and you know it."
Broog looked up and gave a toothy grin.
"Yous wants sumthin extrah speshial from broog? Dats nicey of da mistress."
Then a look at the collars, adn a slight mood swing.
"Ifs yoiu likes dem, whys you wanting broog to takes them off? dey not purty nuff? broog can makes dem better."
Then back to happy again.
"Anyting we wants? anytings at all?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:46 pm
Roarke didn't look all that happy with himself at the moment. "I smelled a few things, and the hooded man has given me a few suspicions that may be cruital to any furth developments."
He looked her in the eye. "You're right. I sohuld have listened to you. I didn't think that he had been able to get this much information from my cousin. We got some very valuable information today." He frowned and furrowed his brow. "capture you? How did you survive? Why are you not one of the souless," he looked at her as if he was not so certain that she wasn't.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:49 pm
"Uh...." Moonstone was a little speachless after that one. Shouldn;t he be saying to Onyx? Well, change a few things, maybe say that he's make sure Onyx only slept with a clean woman....."How about I love her first, then we'll think about the rest, okay?" He heaved a sigh. "Father would run me to death if he saw me like this. Probably make me go hunting with him too." A little shiver hear. Moonstone, while he liked raw meat like his brother and father, didn't relaly enjoy the killing part.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:53 pm
Eliot thought for a moment. Morelle had found her, caged and bloody... but there was something else, another time she had been captured... is that why she hated cages so much?
She raised her brow at Roarke "Hey that really hurt back there, trust me I have my soul....I had thought Morelle saved me. He found warren who brok eme out of my cage, an dcarrie dme to his room. I think now that this hooded man... i think he may have let me go. I seems very powerful, i do no tbelive anymore that I escaped."
She had a thoughtful look on her face. "and your cousin? Who is she? I thin kI have heard him speak that name before."
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:56 pm
She shook her head. "No no no. I do like your collars...it's just..." Excuse, lie, something, ah there was an idea, "I just like them so much that I don't want anyone else to wear one besides me." A tug at her own collar. In this world it could of been a collar, could of been an actual necklace. Point was it still looked like a collar. And besides...when they first came here Broog mentioned that it was a collar without a leash. Probably some type of self emblem or who knew what. "But me and Malik are having a tiff about it, and we're dealing with each other." Another pat to his head...she was good at this when she applied herself. "And yes, you can have anything you want...within reason." Best to add that part...or who knew what she would get herself in trouble for. "Alright here's what I want you to make for me. I need you to make a ring for Malik...wedding band style, in silver with black diamonds, and pick some of his style scroll work for it as well. On the inside of it, I need you to etch these symbols." And a piece of paper was produced from her pocket and handed over. Sure, he didn't know what it said but that didn't matter. " But you can't tell Malik, and he can't know about it, okay? Can you do that for me Broog?"
He was proud of her to say the least. Dealing with a creature she feared, showing a bit of courage and all. Not to mention how she explained things away and her little project for Broog was quite endearing. A slight look up as if he could see Blue on his head, but of course he barely could. You know he was starting to enjoy being the creature perch. A look over at a few uncollared slaves who were rubbing at their necks and seemed to be marveling over the fact that they're collars were off. Interesting.
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