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 Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:41 pm
She listend a moment, and the rain had lessened to a drizzle. "No, I haven't been outside. I am rarely outside, unless it's to bathe." She looked at the door. "An never out the front way. I can't manage steps unless I've lived with them for a few years." Being blind and letting soemone guid you was hard enough, but to try and do it yourself was even worse.
"Will you take me out, then?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:51 pm
"Certainly. Now, I have had some experience kidnapping maidens, so allow me to carry you." Without waiting for a response, Tarathiel picked Meilikki up without an ounce of hesitation or even a hint of being encumbered. "Now... Doors don't open themselves... Or do they." he walked towards the door, which opened for him.
"So, this is the front yard. Anti-magical grass and a few other new traps."
"The flowers, where were they again?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:55 pm
She made an odd, high pitched noise at bieng swooped up, and held on rather tightly to tarathiel as he carried her out, Movement outside the Keep was difficult for her, even in one so trusted. It felt like an second she'd be smashed into a wall.
"Are my spiders alright?"
"The flowers? they should be all voer the rocks by now. Comming out of cracks and soil, where ever the lasts seeds were able to find a hild." She sniffed, but couldn't smell any flowers yet because of the lgiht rain.
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:03 pm
"Spiders are fine, in fact, they have new friends too."
"It would be NICE IF A CERTAIN DRUID WOULD REMOVE THE STINKING RAIN." Tarathiel spoke with a rather loud voice, which echoed to the roof of the tower. Within moments, the rain stopped.
"Stoneshaper can do more than simply augment stone."
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:13 pm
"Good, I would hate to see, or not see as it mgiht happen, that they were fairing poorly here. Tanudnra's humming doesn't really attract them this far out of the catacombs."
She chuckled a bit when he yelled, and the rain stopped. It was cool outside, but not cold, and had that distinct earthy stone smell of having just rained, plus another sweet smell that followed the rain, and would only last for 12 to 24 hours, depednign on how much rain there atcaully was.
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:15 pm
"Are you happy? Here with me?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:22 pm
"When you are here, yes. When your not, I just think about how happy I will be when you are here."
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:05 pm
"What would you do if I died fighting the Lich?" Honestly, Tarathiel didn't think he would die, but then again, he did lose his ability to brush off magic like water.
He was actually nervous about fighting the Lich. That was wierd. Why? The lich isn't that tough. He could have destroyed him any time he wanted to since he discovered the layer, couldn't he? No, not so positive now. He had something to lose, or at least, someone had something to lose with him.
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:13 pm
"I would probably loose any hope of living passed thirty. Before that, spend five years deciding if I should mate, have a kid, and pass on the gift or let it die here." She pointed at herself. She could guess what he was thinking, and while she didn't like putting any more uncertainty where it was proably not needed, she spoke the truth.
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:15 pm
"Death is such a certainty in both yours and drow life." Tarathiel added to the conversation. He placed Meilikki's feet on the ground, "Could you wait here for a moment?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:22 pm
"All life ends in death. They are like family." SHe strighted her dress as she stood. "Certainly."
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:26 pm
Tarathiel wondered away for a moment, and then returned and placed a crown of flowers on Meilikki's head. "I spent some time with Dryads." That simple statement made sense to him to explain everything.
"Don't tell anyone, they don't think spining flowers is a very masculine task."
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:31 pm
She reached up and felt at the petals, blushing. "Thank you." She smiled.
"I'll take it to my grave." She could smell them now, the flowers. They were exotic beings to those of the underground. Colour that rarely graced the underdark, vibrant and fresh. She closed her eyes a moment, feeling what she could in the atmosphere around her. "I think its rather sweet."
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:36 pm
"So..." Tarathiel took a step back, at a loss for anything to say. Romance was not his expertise. Never had he felt any need to be near someone, but this Oracle drew him in like a brawl with an unlimited number of minions to smite.
"Do you like stuff?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:42 pm
"I do indeed like stuff." She smiled widly "You amoung them."
She looked out over the flowers with her blind eyes, scanning them but not seeing them. "Do you think I should bring some flowers to my ancestors graves? There wouldn't be any growing up there..." That place where the sunlight came down, where the surface world met the underground. "Or perhaps it would be disrespectful to bring the flower to a place where it will wither so quickly, and turn to dust."
She shrugged, it had been a passing thought. In front of the maze, she tucked her dress over her knees and knelt in the dirt, tentativly reaching out and finding one of the flowers that oow grew there. "If a flower could speak, what would it tell me?"
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