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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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 Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:42 pm
Piper gave a rather unamused stare to Onyx...who lucky for them or rather unluckily had decided it was time to prowl the property. But hey this was getting bad now. His tail wouldn't let go and that made Moon nervous, and it was making Piper freak out...her hands were bound by something in another incident and it wasn't fun to rmemeber. "Oh hush your mouth Onyx. And Malik isn't allowed to kill things and put them on his walls and floors, I don't let him. Anybody got a blade?" Hey the tail had a mind of it's own...usually it could be scared off.
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:02 pm
The tail slid off of Piper's hands and curled around Moon's own ankle. Frightened? Hell yes. He took a step back from Piper, folded one wing to hide his ever red face. He cleared his throat. "S-sorry, Piper. I-I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable..." Gees, he had to say this in front of his brother too. How embarrassing.
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:17 pm
Onyx was still chuckling, and shook his head lightly.
"Still...of...all the people...to get flirty with...he picks you.."
He sat down at the bottom of the stairs, still chuckling. and shook his head again, to kind of sober himself up.
"I mean, at least I picked a single girl. Or was piper just playing good samaritan and letting you flirt with her for practice?"
That brought another wave of chuckling.
"Whom is this dead relative that you think the Lich might be. thier history, thier methods of doing things, what makes you think that this is the correct person, Roarke?"
Though without piper, his hand began to drum on Malvolence again. Malik almsot couldn't help but touch it, the addictive nature of the blade after holding nad wielding it so long having that effect.
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:19 pm
She rubbed at her wrists and rubbed her hands together, not from pain but just as if trying to erase the feeling,even brush it off, that something was holding tight to her. Piper shook her head lightly. "Don't apologize Moon, it's a Vah thing." And she shoot a look to Onyx. "I'm sure your brother knows all about his and let's his freely indulge what it may choose." Then a gentle look to Moon, half smiling. "And you seem far more put off than me." A hand reached out to reach up and pet between his ears. But it was brief, seeing as he didn't seem to comfortable with the whole petting thing. Pity...she was always lavish with her petting. Then another look to Onyx. "I was smoothing down his fur and feathers...I used to be able to do it to your father...had I know he wasn't goot with touching or he didn't have a bit of sway of his tail, I would of kept my hands to myself."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:37 pm
Moonstones fists were shaking. Not from anger, but from continual emarrasment. "I wasn't flirting, Onyx. At least I don't let my tail travel freely as it might, as you so enjoy indulging yours."
He peeked at Piper through his feathers. The petting on the head wasn't so bad...that kind of thing was breif. It was the patting, and petting, and smoothing....and the fact that she had to get so close to do it. "I-I'm just not so used to..p-people being c-close to me."
"There are a few things. I became suspicious after the hooded man said something to me. Something about fianlly having one of my kind. He siad it in such a way that reminded me of an old, old journal here in the library." He pulled out the journal from his cloak. It was small, the binding falling apart. There seemed to be little holding it together. "This was soemthing that was never meant to reach the library. Somehow, it did." He handed it to Malik.
"Did you know the First Mage, my great-some grandparent, had a twin brother?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:44 pm
"Let me guess then..she hit a hotspot, didn't she Moon?"
Another grin.
"Not all vah have the same...places. I bet you touched one which is what got that tail aroudn your wrists."
Okay so Onyx coudl be civil about it, though he stil had a grin on his face.
"But, if your looking to pet and groom someone, if Moonstone doesn't want ti I certianly would. never turn down a woman's hands in my fur. feel sooo good. I used to love it when mom woudl do it. it was wonderful."
Malik took the journal, and started flipping through it.
"Let me guess, your great Ton...like Onyx nad Moonstone, was the 'lighter' side. and this twin, the darker one. Ton, from what I've gathered, used is powers in service to people. and our Lich friend uses his to dominate."
Motioning to Kieran, and setting the journal flat on teh table for him to inspect as well for anything he might glean that Malik might overlook.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:56 pm
Aw, he was being so cute really...quite adorable indeed. Of course to an elf it was also a little weird...seeing as they were usually touchy feeling hands on people. Even she had been more so in the last decade. What was lost in childhood was gained in adulthood. "Well Moon, best come out of the shell of yours. Women love anything soft that's petable." another pet between his ears, poor then. And then a slight chuckle, walking over to Onyx and scratching at his ears. "Aw, does the Onyx want some petting too?" Yes a bit patronizing but all in good fun before she stood between them, looking between the two for a moment, giving a laugh. "You two are quite the pair."
Kieran snapped his own journal shut, taking at look at the rather old one on the table as Malik motioned him over. Old was the right word for it, maybe even ancient. "So...some long dead family relative who doesn't have the brightest idea when going about things." He flipped a few pages, just looking at writing style and such, makign casual mental notes.
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:11 pm
Onyx purred and nuzzled her hand, his purr was deep, like his father's and reverberated from him, shifting closer, his tial swayign a bit but not making and grabs yet, so she coudl get more with her hand. Hell, the petting nad scratching was worth the minor patronizing.
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:14 pm
He glared at his brother. What? He wasn't about to say anything to the fact that yes, Piper had hit a "hotspot."
He sniffed, some of the red finally leaveing his furry face, though not completely. "When your mother does it, it's different." Yeah, it felt good. It felt too good. And Moonstone didn't like that. Not because he was ashamed, more because the underneath the hightened blood pressure, the slight panting, and the instinct0like thoughs...there was nothing. He was frightened because he didn't feel anything underneath those primal desires.
"You can take it all then." he crossed his arms, looked the other way.
"Quite like the Vah, indeed. Do you know the name of this brother? He is not in many of the hisrtory books. Indeed, time seems to have forgotten this man. Why?" He took the journal back, flipped thorugh the pages, looking for something. "This isn't as simple as some brainless idiot gone mad. This man was a genious in his insanity. If that is, he was crazy before he was killed." He flipped one more page, "Ah, here it is."
He gave the page back to Kieran. "Read that middle paragraph there. It will alos tell you who wrote the journal." The paragraph read:
I have found myself in the presence of yet another relative that I did not know I had. He leers at me, and retains information about my past that gives him the higher hand. We found him last night, during our engagement celebrations. Indeed, he looks like me, which frightens and fascinates me at the same time. I do not believe this man is privileged with the gift of a sound mind, at least not as my master and I see it. Perhaps it was the way he suggested he would be seeing my fiance later, much sooner than she would think. I fear for her safty now. I will keep my eye on this...brother of mine, this Dimitri Kosnietskov.
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:32 pm
Eliot stared and Malik, she did not apriciate the tone.
"A slave to one's self is different that a salve to others. you are of one mind now, but if you where to achieve a state of complete ignorance, where you did not know if you would be a slave or not, I think you wuold think differently. In order to ensure your best interests are at heart I think you would want to have a free world. You would not want to be enslaved."
She did not care to listen to any other judgements against her character and how she saw the world. She turned her head, and listen to what Roarke had to say.
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:04 pm
A chuckle at the shapeshifter.
"To ensure my interests, I woudl prefer the world enslaved to me, actually. then my interests are well assured, aren't they, if all teh world and everything in it is mine?"
But back to the paragraph.
"Dimitri. why is it that name is always attached to a lunatic. this lich, if it's him, and the ruler of deepwater. But I don't see a reason yet to lich himself. if he was after the first of the Oracle's line, then why become a lich and obviously outlive her and her decendants. what gain was there in it."
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:14 pm
She was scratching at Onyx again. Why? Because it made her feel better, that was why. But a little concerned maybe hurt look to the white Vah. "Oh don't be upset now. I'm sorry, if you don't want me to pet you then I'll keep my hands off of you." Really she hadn't meant to overstep her bounds with him, but apparently all she managed to do was fluster him. Then a look to Onyx who was enjoying this all. Another look to Moon. "You sure you don't want any of this ear scratching over here Moon?" She had her point, the world was a touchy place.
"Dimitri. Wasn't that the name of the king at Deep Water?" A little out of the loop, yes but Piper had filled him in quite a bit on recent things since her last letter. "Hm, from the way it's written and the proclaimed words, you can easily see how someone would worry about him. And it's not all that common that relatives just pop up." A pause at the irony of that maybe. "Or rather to say, your own relatives that you yourself don't even know about. More so suspicious that it's during engagement celebrations."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:20 pm
He ignored the bickering for now. "Eliot ddear, Malik, we are not here to argue."
"At one point, the journal indicates that Dimitri knew about Ton his entire life, although Ton did not know him. He had been setting up an elaborate plan for years, keeoing tab on his twin, watching for the right opportunity to step in."
"Dimitri." He sighed. "The man was unstable, as far as I can conclude. Ton, at a very young age, was handed to a scolar of the magical arts, to be tutored and trained to become a great mage. His mother, a goddess, favored him. Blessed hims with good looks, good fortune. He found love, he found followers and wealth and this Academy. He had unimaginable power. Hid mother, doting on him, even offered him and his wife immortality."
"Think now, how the twin must have felt. Passed to an abusive family. Ignored most his life, goined the army. He discovers the joy of killing, the satisfaction that comes from destroying his agressors. He desperatly wanted, believed he needed everything his brother had. This meant the girl, the acedemy, the immortality. He succeded in getting the first two, for a time, but his mother the goddess would not grant Dimitri ever lasting life. He went to seek it in other places."
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:26 pm
"That," Eliot said under her breath "Is not absolute ingnorance, read up on Rawl."
She looked at Roarke and smiled, she was being nice she swore.
Eliot listened with rapt attention, this all seemed vagly familar, as if she had read it from a book. Not from a journal, but if it were written from a bystander, someone who had whitnessed the whole thing.
She wrinkled her brow, where had she heard this story before?
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:32 pm
"Excuse me. he got the first two? he took Ton's bride and the academy, and no one thought that he might try for the third gift through necromancy? if he'd been a Tier'dal adn even accomplished the first of those, they'd be barring him form any necromantic studies and the house he was after would be fortified more than some countries are."
He shook his head.
"You humans. you never see the obvious until the deeds are done and the repercussions bite you in the a**, I swear."
Onyx was enjoying the hell out of himself, and was worming more of himself under ther scratching hand, purring like a big housecat.
"He's afraid. afraid that the lustful impulses are going to get the better of his oh so noble heart. It's what happens when you repress all your emotions all teh time, Moonstone."
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