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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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 Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:02 pm
She kicked at a sickly looking tree and sighed, "so it doesn't matter where I go, I have to get this thing off if I ever hope to really be free?" Yes that did indeed suck. Ebony hands came up and covered an equally colored face and she shook her head then found a nice flat rock and sat down. "I just can't deal with it anymore. Between him and Sevilin, raging instincts and this stupid reverie I'm holding off, I feel like I can't control anything. I get told what I will and will not do and then if I don't do it, I'll either get my collar tightened or yanked by a rune by Sevilin and I can't do it anymore. Malik never asks, he demands, he says things he knows I'll take offense to and then takes great delight in punishing me." Just like him. A shake of her head, "If I have to go back and get this damn thing off then fine, but do you even understand what I mean Piper? I know you get upset when the two of us fight...but really, is it fair to me to have to deal with all of this over and over and over again?"
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:08 pm
"Well that may be. but you do show loyalty when it's needed to members of your house. but, I think we've given the ladies enough time, and I guess one of us needs to go fetch them. since I'm in a lot better shape for it then you are, I'll handle that."
So Malik got up, and went toteh stables, patting Ramoth lightly.
"You know where to go. lets make it quick, shall we?"
So he moutned up, and the left teh stables, only to fade into darkness and reappear near Zahara and Piper both. Nightmare knew of course, becuase she knew where Serino was.
"Piper is right. there's no place you can go I can't use it. however...I may have overstepped my bounds. For that I apologize."
And Mlaik got off Nightmare, and walked over to the two women.
"I'm here of course to take you both home. yes, that means you too Zahara. But I will insist you continue your training with Sevilin. I want you to be a good rune mage, in teh event we need to defend against him. I would but I don't have the time to devote to the study."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:13 pm
"That's just how the collars work." It did hurt. Indeed, stuck between friend and lover, practically being forced to choose. She loved Malik, but honestly she couldn't help but feeling a little isolated from everything. Humans were no good to get too close to, they died so soon, and drow would have nothing to do with her. All she had was Malik. And that was fine in her book, but didn't everyone want more than what they had? Even elves. "No I really do understand where you're coming from. Everyone loves thier freedom after all." She sighed. "I blew up about the way he was treating you, and he said he's back off...but he had said that before too. I thought that if I let you all fight, it would work out of your systems. Boy was I wrong." She really didn't want to see her go, but that wasn't her choise was it? A nod. "I'll get your collar off and then you can be on your way..." But her eyes turned to Malik as he and Ramoth popped up. Oh great, throw a match onto the poweder keg. Though he had apologized.
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:17 pm
Violet eyes watched Malik as he appeared and then moved to Piper. One was telling her she could go and one was telling her she had to stay. Always telling her what she could and could not do. She did watch Malik through narrowed eyes and pursed lips for a long time before she actually spoke and when she did it was barely more than a whisper, more of a dejected tone. "And what of what I want? Does that even matter to you? I accept your apology Malik as you are correct, you overstepped. But the only reason you feel that way is because Piper walked out on you. I will not come back and have this happen again two days later." A shake of her head, "I want my freedom. The ability to choose whether or not I will continue my studies and whether or not my collar remains. I just don't want to be under the fear that every word I say is going to get me strangled where I stand."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:20 pm
"You don't have to worry about that. Putting on that collar put you under my rule..however Piper has stepped in and laid claim. I relented, and as such she is the one that decides wether or not that collar gets yanked."
Though a moment of listening.
"You've got no place to go. Other drow, with the possible exception of Tarathiel, will kill you on sight by now. humans and half elves will either cast you out or kill you on sight because of your heritage. All that I am still asking is to continue your studies in rune magery. nto to mention...if you don't learn, you'll never know how to get the one on your forehead off."
Malik got back up on Ramoth, who pawed the ground lightly.
"Oh and that's right. Nightmare's little ones are rather fond of you and your treats. you wouldn't want to abandon them, would you?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:37 am
Wait a minute, was he actually trying to convince her to come back? Why? He didn't like her and he'd be more than happy if she left, or so she'd thought. It was probably for Piper's sake. Zahara had come to really like the surface elf and she knew without a shadow of a doubt that Piper didnt' want her to leave. Malik had a few very good points thought that Zahara couldnt' deny. She would probably be killed if someone of her race found her or another race as drow weren't considered bosom buddies by any other race. And she did still have that damn rune on her forehead. Finding another rune mage to remove it wouldnt' help either because it was Andallian. But it was the horses that convinced her. SHe loved Nightmare and Serino and the Zephmares and even the newest additions though she hadn't gotten to know them very well yet more than she'd ever loved anything in her life. "Alright, I"ll come back." With Piper in control of her collar, the chances of her getting strangled were far, far less and that's really what Zahara wanted. "But don't go thinking you convinced me Malik, because I was coming back anyway, I just hadn't stated it yet." And it was true, she had to go back to get her stuff and her collar off right?
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:48 am
She wasn't so convinced, he's overstepped himself before, he had done it again. What was to say that he wouldn't overstep again and crunch her toes? All she had to go on was her faith in him that he wouldn't. And he'd proved himself on that aspect before. With a sigh and grabbing to Serino's neck to help pull herself off the ground she stood. Spending a moment to pet at him before she mounted back up on the Zephyr. "You left those foals and Sevilin alone at home?" Neither of which was an appealing idea to her, but she only shook her head. "Alright then...let's go back."
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:53 am
"Of course. I wouldn't think that some male conviced you of anything."
A slight smirk then a look to Piper.
"your girl is with the foals. and Sevilin..barely has the engery to hold conversation, much less do anything stupid. he's in no condition to do things that would cause me to break his precious hands, seeing as how he couldn't stop me."
though a bit of a trot.
"He's still quite convinced that you are either a pawn in some grand scheme of mine, or that you are the one playing games with me. Llothian society, don't you just love how they ingrain things?"
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:56 am
She rolled her eyes, "There's a reason we are the way we are you know D'Vinn." She mounted up behind Piper and ran her fingers once more through her hair thinking about Sevilin for a moment. He looked like hell, there was no other way to describe it and it was fairly obvious to her that he needed his hands moreso than any other part of his body. Broken fingers couldnt' rune especially if the healed incorrectly. A shake of her head, "Shall we be off then?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:04 am
As per usual Serino didn't need to be told to follow along next to Ramoth, it was commonplace action by now. Thus he was off after the mare the moment that Zahara had mounted up. Well at least he left someone dependable with those foal who needed constant supervision. And was Sevilin really that bad off? Sure he looked like hell but he was drow...usually they pushed through those kinds of things. "So he's a block head and a jackass. Lovely combination."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:16 am
"I would not judge to quckly, Piper. that item Kaden used on you...that was a drow toy. One I'm sure Sevilin felt, many, many times. oh and lets not forget the subjecation, and the near constant rape situations Llothian males live with. Llothian males are about as high in teh order of things as a pet dog is above a wild dog."
A small smirk.
"Or how about I give you another example. the lowest priestess, a child barely able to heal the smallest of injuries, still holds absolute and total command over a male wizard that through years of dedication, can bend the natural world to his needs at a whim. that's the difference in the value of men and women in Llothian views. and if you think differently, it's quite literally beaten and tortured out of you. and lets not forget the very violent rape, that can come at anytime from anyone. from closest sister to the common whore on teh street. A drow males leads a highly paranoid and brutal life, and the only way out is to die. either at the hands of other drow, or at the swords of thier enemies."
A glance over.
"As I recall, it took you quite some time to get over your fear of other elves, from your traumatic experience. Now take that trauma, and lengthen it by about two thirds of his life everyday and you can see why it's difficult for him to grasp certain concepts about you and me. or Zahara."
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:56 am
Well the mention of Kaden had shut her up and hand a hand subcnciously gripping at her collar out of comfort to herself. He had to bring it up didn't he? Kaden and his little toy he'd gotten off of a drow. Wait...what if Sevilin had such a thing in his arsenal? Her paranoid points against him just tripled. But she only looked over to him as he talked with so much casualness to the subject...and had to poke at her yet again on it all. Did he have to talk abotu things that Zahara didn't know. "Maybe I could empathize with him if he wasn't such and a** to me." Thanks Malik, had the mind working in a less than favorable direction.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:10 am
Zahara wasn't focusing on the part about Kaden though, she was far more in tune to the 'rape' and such that came from femles to males. Her spine had stiffened as she sat there behind Piper and she chose not to say anything for fear that she might blow up and cause more problems that didn't need to be caused. Malik thought he knew so much about it, did he? Well he didn't really have a clue of what went on in Llothian society, he just thought he knew. Things weren't always what they seemed and it was so with this. Yes, males went through quite a bit and yes females were above them but that's the way life was there. You were born into it and you lived in it until eventually you died in it. That was just life. She didn't much like hearing it again though...especially the part about rape. "Not all are that way..."
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:39 am
"this is true, not all. but tell me, Zahara. you said it yourself that the Spider Queen adores cruelty and viciousness above all else. you idolize the spider. what does a female spider do to teh male once the act is done? she eats him. How many times did you yourself use that delightful little whip, or seen it and worse used, on a male that was ten seconds late in getting something? or grabbed a unpolished mirror to let his sister look at herself? Now...lets say some woman, or women, wanted sevilin for sexual needs and he refused, or resisted. what do you think might have been done to him."
He glanced over at her, and then to Piper.
"And no, he doesn't have that. he'd more than likely be forbidden from touching it. and I have no idea how he got one. Though I will say he is rather blunt and assinine about things. but I recall you saying similart about me and my, how do you put it? PR skills. maybe it's just a male thing."
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