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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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 Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 8:15 pm
She let her leg swing lightly and she had that look of thinking about her that she often got when she was thinking intensely on something. "Well...if it makes you feel any better...you have no idea how guilty I feel about keeping it from you." She really did...though she was still in half shock that he was keeping away from it simply because she asked him to. Oh she knew he could go pick it up any time he wished and there really wasn't a damn thing she could do, other than whine. In one word, Malik felt vulnerable. She sighed lightly, leaning back on her hands and turning her head to look at him, indeed a bit guilty looking. "I don't know if I want to have you trade in your sense of security just to be relaxed. Sometimes I think I just want you away from it because I'm jealous and I want you to know what it feels like to have something so constant just taken away from you like I have." Though the tone she used wasn't accusing to him about what she was saying, more empathetic than anything. And what was her constant? Wanderlust. Being as young as she was, it had quite the hold on her but she had promised to stay put and she didn't intend to break that promise to him. A little smile to him. "Just me being childish again, I'm sure. And my mother won't care either way...she'll be her, we'll be us...I don't doubt a fight or two." Then a slight pause followed by a little shrug. "Only because sometimes it temps me just as much as it does you at times I think..."
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 8:22 pm
She crossed her arms. "Because insults are a perfect way to get what you want. You wouldn't make it past my dragon. There are some things vah just can't do." She tapped her forhead. "I know how it would end."
Warhammer opened his mouth to speak, but Meilikki interupted him. "You fight him now and I'll tell you how your Captain is going to die." Warhammer shut his maw, and shrugged.
"Another time, feline."
Aella locked eyes with Onyx a moment, but blushed and turned her ehad. Meilikki spared her the trouble of any further awkwardsness by asking her to fetch Rydia.
She regarded Simon a moment. "Forgivness comes when it is wanted, sear Simon." She sighed. "Had any of you waited you would have been contacted. Do you honestly think I would allow a child to stay here? A home of pirates?" Well, obviuosly they didn't know here inside out, but she was disipopinted that she was thought of as such a cruel witch.
Rydia came out, Whirlwind in tow, the crying an filthy Bode in her arms."
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 8:40 pm
Onyx huffed lightly.
"You're a slave, same as Whirlwind. a captive, something for him to use as he see's fit. exactly what coudl you do to stop him if he chose to keep her? there are no rockspiders here. thier venom isn't available to you. your dragon? he has his own. yes, rumor about the Captian's dragon and yours getting in a little tussel is rather wide spread. there's nothing you coudl do to stop him, except ask and hope he says yes."
Simon gave a cross look to Onyx.
"I understand, Oracle. But then again I also never would have thought one of her friends would abduct her. I don't know the circumstances about it, so I can't make a precise judgement. things aren't always how they seem, and Onyx does have a point. despite your visions, you don't seem to possess any great power enough to stop this..Captian and his crew if he chose to keep her. However I would think that if nothign else you woudl have sent word. we are not blessed...and cursed..with your visions. we can only act on what we know, or think we know."
A rather pointed look to Onyx on that one, to which he gave a little rude gesture back.
Malik gave a small smile.
"Jealous? there's no need. Malvolence...you know what it can do. it's addictive. My father made it that way so the person left to wield it woudl never give it up. and through it, never give up the quest. I've given the quest up...but it's too late to give up the blade. it's almost as much a part of me as my hand is. and I didn't ask you to give it up. I just wanted this to be home. that if we left, we'd come back here. and once there's a surface here, I'll expect you to go exploring it. I won't keep that from you."
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 8:42 pm
Zahara sat up one the bed she was currently borrowing and lost herself in general musings. There was so much she didn't understand, so much that made no sense to her. She examined the altercation between the Lord of the house and herself earlier and tried to figure out where it had gone so wrong. It had been explained to her and she already had an idea that this fortress was nothing like her home. She fingered the pendant still dangling around her neck and sighed softly. "Drill vel'bol xunus Usstan xun xusst...? Uk kluthak ulu phlith uns'aa fridj p'wal Usstan tlun l' i'dol Usstan tlun. 'zil ka Usstan gumash xxizz ol." She pulled her knees up and rested her chin on them as she thought back to all that had taken place. She'd simply told him to move. He hadn't done it so of course she'd gotten irritated. Wasn't that acceptable? No, apparentely not. But Piper's interaction with him baffled and bemused her all at once. It was obvious that he saw himself as teh one in charge, yet Piper seemed to have her own say all at the same time. She was fairly certain that at one point she had seen him turn and glance at Piper for...what? Approval? That didn't seem to follow with his arrogant and haughty demeanor now did it? And what of Piper allowing him to speak for her? She had a brain, why didn't seh give him the cutting reprimand he deserved? No, nothing in this strange place made very much sense to her and she could see that much of her time would be spent trying to figure out why things happened the way they did. In a totally unprecedented way the challenge excited her. She had longed for something different and here it was at last. Maybe here she would find why she was so different from her kinsmen, and then again maybe not. But either way she'd stay for as long as she felt was needed and then she'd leave. But she would cross that bridge, when she came to it, for now she needed to stay out of his way lest something much the same as before should happen again. Something told her Piper wasn't happy with their first meeting. She'd do well not to invite her displeasure.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 8:52 pm
She sighed and shook her head. "Exploring and wanderlusting are different. If I don't force it away now...then it won't ever give me leave...and I'll end up never coming back here, and then it wouldn't be home any longer now would it?" He knew she was right about it too. "Besides...I like it here...and I don't want that to happen..." Piper looked away from him a moment staring at the far wall for no particular reason for a few moments before triple colored eyes wandered thier way back to steely gray. "There's also another reason I've asked you to give it up for a while too...not just on my selfish behalf. You need to be completely relaxed for a communion to take place."
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 8:53 pm
A cold look to Onyx. "As you wish. I feel no need to prove myself to you."
"Lavi did little to one such as Tanundra. You can't kill stone." He would say yes. That she knew. But she also knew that she would not have to ask. She rubbed her temples with a finger. "How many times must I say this? The dead have no future. they have been removed form the time stream that I am allowed to see. I cannot see what is directly related to the Lich. I did not know she was where she was until she was practically on my doorstep.
"Simon, we are not here to discuss my powers in such things. The child is safe, take her and go home."
Rydia held the girl a little unwilling to let her go. Warren was dead...had died for her...This winged cat was spaking of him as if he were the enemy.
((edit))
Tanundra flapped his wings lazily, making as smooth a ride ride as possible for his passengers. Soon, he could see the keep. But what was this? He had expected to be back before everybody showed up. But Meilikki looked to have it under control, as she had promissed. A shrug onf his shoudler jostled Eliot awake, and she was promted to take hold of warren as he settled on the ground.
He landed to the left of the keep, making the ground shake a bit. Did you miss me, Mistress?
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:10 pm
Eliot held gently onto Warren, who seemed to be no worse for the ride home. She stared wide eyed around the group of people. She could smell the tension in the air. She bent, and shook Warren's shoulder lightly. She had the feelign that the people here would want to know what had happned, and she only knew half of the story.
She made eye contact with the wicth, and immediatly she knew that the witch had a concetion for the skinny wizzard. He eyes brimmed with tears, and she nodded the woman over.
She could barely get the words out of her mouth, she was still crying. "its okay, he's alive." She hugged him to her chest as she said so, unwilling to let go.
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:16 pm
Onyx's eyes moved to Whirldwind, he coudln't help it. then to Bode. and fur rose on his neck.
"what in the hell did he do to her? she's covered in that sludge and she's a mess? and where is he, I'll wring his scrawny little neck."
Oh and look. there was Warren, on dragonback. he looked..well..like he'd gotten the snot beat out of him, but Onyx wasn't carign about that, and he first thought was drag him off that lizard and beat him some more, which was exactly what he was heading to do.
Simon walked over to Rydia, smiling lightly, and very gently took Bode from her, humming softly under his breath, somethgin to soothe her, and nodded to Rydia.
"You hav my thanks, and gratitude for saving my daughter from whatever had her. I do apologize we meet under these particular circumstances, though. is there somethign I can do for you to repay this debt?"
A glance at moonstone, jerking his head toward his twin in a 'get him' motion.
Malik got a thoughtful look, tilting his head lightly at her.
"Then I will be. I won't miss out on that just to hold a blade in my hand. nothing is worth costing us that."
He got up and took her hands lightly, kissing them both and giving her a hug.
"So. want something to eat? We can have some cinnamon things made for you. those cinnamon rolls are quite tastey actually. OR is there somethign else you might like to do?"
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:30 pm
Rydia shook here head. "You can do nothing for me. I didn't save her." She nodded her head to the dragon, where Eliot had taken Warren down. "He did." She let Bode go to her father, and wondered if the child owuld be safe, then headed to Eliot. "Alive? How! He...he died!" She was right there...
Moonstone slumped his shoulders, took two steps to catch up with he brother,a dn hooked his good arm under Onyx's. "Come on Onyx the guys not even concious. Leave him alone."
Indeed Warren wasn't moving besies breather. And no amount of nudging or shaking was going to wake him. He was too long without sleep and food. His body, weak already as it was, and still wounded from his flight, would take a long, long time to heal.
Aella didn't know what to do to help in this situation, she was not really aquanted with this two story delema type thing....she cast her eyes to the ground and decided tow ait it out.
Bode heard her father's voice, smelled him. SHe gribbed at his clothing tightly, and cried all the ahrder. Another on had left her, and she fully understood why....did she deserve to keep on living, now that two lives had been sacrificed to save her own?
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:32 pm
She smiled at him, nuzzling against him when he hugged her. He really was accmodating to her, wasn't he? Of course she was the only one he would do things for, hell to everyone else...she knew that and it made her giggle. "The first few days are always the roughest. My wanderlust won't tug so hard and your blade's abscence will be less noticed." Or at least she hoped for the both of them. But thens he shook her head. "No...I'm just don't seem to have an appetite today." Which really wasn't unusual for her and often enough she got up in the middle of the night to snack on something or other. "In that something else to do category, does that include me pacing and fretting over my mother being here?"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:40 pm
Eliot stopped her shaking, it would do no good for Warren's health.
"I don't know!" I got to his side, your scent was stale, you had been gone for hours. I cried, and.... and then..." Eliot really couldn't explain it, she didn't know what had happned. She knew it was not her mother, she did not have that kind of power. "Then he started breathing again!" She cluchted him a moment. And then laid him down. She got up on shaky legs, a quick word that Warren needed food in his belly as soon as possible, And walked to the crying child. Letting the witch have what time she needed with Warren.
"Little Pup" She wispered when she got to the child, who was clutching her father's chest. She didn't know what to tell the child, but she wanted to make her feel better. "I can't tell you what happened. But after Warren saved your life, his went away for a time, but found its way back to his body." She tilted the girls chin, still covered in sludge, "He's alive Little Pup. I don't know how, but he is alive."
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:16 am
Onyx growled at his twin.
"Let me go. it's his fault, all his fault. if he hadn't taken her she wouldn't have been in this situation..."
However, bloodloss was taking a toll, and really didn't have the strength left to fight his twin, and in fact, now that he stopped a moment, slumpped over on the ground suffering bloodloss and fatigue.
Simon let her cry, until the other young woman came over, and he gave a small smile at her phrase of calling Bode 'little pup'. he then handed Bode over to Eliot, patting her back lightly.
"See, Bode, he's alright. go on and see him, and you can thank him for his help and make sure for yourself he's alright. no one else is leaving you."
Before he walked over to Warhammer. and looked him up and down.
"It's been a long time, old bull. the last time I saw you I was a little boy, only learning to wield the gifts of the Earth Mother. what happened to you that you are serving in a pirate crew?"
Malik chuckled lightly, and shook his head.
"Sure, it can include that. but how about that jewelry for your dress you wanted broog to make? I'm sure he's done by now, you can go try the pieces on, see how you like them, and have adjustments made. Or perhaps set up an archery range in the trainign arena and improve your skill, or keep at practicing with a sword, as your father suggested before I might add."
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 8:01 am
Rydia bent to look over the near ded wizard. His breathing was shalow, and his was still bleeding form his wounds. it didn't amke any sense, she watched him die...
Moonstone's own strength wasn't so great. His body was already exhausted, and now it had been pummled and torn. Wings and ears drooped as his brother went down, and he barley remained standing. "Obviously, Warren is almost dead. Would't you rather go efter him when he can tell it's you?" Sick reason, but then again, it might give Onyx time to think about this.
Bode sniffled, shook her head, and clung to her father as she was passed to the woman she didn't know. But, she clung to Eliot just the same, hurt and confused and crying. "NO! Daddy said no one comes back!" She whimpered. "That's not Mr. Warren!" She looked at her Gaurdian, bloody and slumping, was he going to leave her to? Why did everyone she become freinds with elave her?
The minotaur smiled a bit at simon. No, he didn't remeber him, perhaps later he would try to dig up some memories. "Simple. My services stop the slaughter of my people. A willing slave to the Captain." Well now, this was become all friendly wasn't it? Warhammer lifted an eyebrow. Tension was still thick in the air, this little reprieve would not last long.
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 10:28 am
Oh look, that little lie was coming back to get her wasn't it? She should of figured...what with elves relavtively never being able to forget anything...well she needed to pick and choose things more carefully. "Aw, I'd rather leave him be at the moment. I'm sure him and tremor are having a good old time together, no reason to break it up. No matter how much he likes to please me with whatever creation pops into his head." Hey, that was a good one. A hand raised, Piper tracign one finger under his chin before flicking his nose. "You just want to have things to take off of me later. And you will...but later." Or maybe lack there of, who knew. Then a little thoughtful look. "Improve my skill...and here I was thinking I was top notch already, you've been letting me think that? Tsk tsk, Mr. D'vinn." Followed by a laugh and then a little sigh as she idly played with the collar of his shirt. "Though...you could help be get back into the habit of sharp object holding." An inspection of the nails on one of her hands...still rather dull and only at her fingertips. "But what father speaks of isn't really...learned sword play. I guess you can call it...connected and granted."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 2:34 pm
Onyx grumbled something of assent, before getting himself up in a sitting position, and looking over at Bode. his eyes narrowed at teh person carrying her. he still wasn't trusting. but at least he was keeping his aggression and tongue in check. his tail flicked back and forth.
"We both need some attention, Moon. that kobold was a fiesty little thing."
Simon nodded lightly.
"A noble cause, though a dark duty. I don't evny you that choice, old bull. but your people are still alive, and you as well. at least the Captain kept his word."
Then a look at Aella.
"And you must be Whirlwind, the one that Onyx is infactuated with. at least he has some good taste."
A small chuckle. though that sombered quickly.
"But I know the silks, and where they come from. He tried for my wife once. he learned better. Though I don't recall any others having escaped before. Did you get away before, or after, his fall?"
Malik enjoyed her touching and caressing, and grinned lightly.
"I can help you there, of course. I know you don't like shapr thing except under..special circumstances."
He purposefully took her and and kissed it lightly.
"And I like seeing you in fine things. you should be in them, you are most certainly worthy of gifts to make a human queen envious."
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