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 Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:34 pm
"Best advice I can give at the moemnt." A weak smile.
"I understand many a deep and profound thing, Onyx. One of those understandings is that an appology can mend many things." She patted then hand that was already in hers. "You shouldn't stress so much."
Aella blink as Cedric was pretty much just dragged off. An Aella didn't want to think about why. So she turned to look at Elric. "Well good for her, I suppose." She smiled though. "I'm not relaly tired enough yet to get some rest. No one minds if I stay out on deck, right?"
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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:53 pm
"Can't help it. something I get from my mother."
A slight grin.
"You know, I bet you get sick and tired of people asking you questions all the time. how about if you have any, you ask me a few. I may not know all the answers, but I'll give it my best shot."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 5:50 am
"And I suppose that's supposed to keep from asking about it anymore as well, hmm?" Zahara was, for lack of a better word, shocked. How could you just not like horses? Especially the zephmares. Look how sweet and cute they were! Animals had always been Zahara's soft spot. Even when she was still deeply embedded in Llothian society. She'd had a pet spider at one point. Hadn't even gotten to name the little guy before he'd been...well it was better not to think exactly what had happened to him. She was forever befriending animals and her sister took great joy in torturing them, usually right in front of her eyes. "b***h..." Zahara muttered, wiping at her eyes again. She fed Ramoth a bit more sugar and then turned her attention to the Tempest who'd come over nudging at her. Undisputed leader was indeed correct. Taking after her mother in every sense it seemed.
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 9:27 am
She shrugged a bit. "Sometimes, I suppose." She wasn't much in the mood for asking questions, but she would talk anyway, if nothing more than to stifle the silence for a little while longer.
There was not much she needed ro wanted to know, not many answers that Onyx could give mer, For conversation then. "If you lost your eyes, what would you do?"
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 9:47 am
A slight smirk.
"I'd use my nose, and my ears to know the world around me. Though I have a advantage in that area over humans. one of the spirits taught us about blind fighting..how to hunt when you can't see, how to know the world aroudn you. Though Moonstone..he didn't really get into learning all the ways of hunting like I did."
A slight purring sound.
"And you have Tanundra to be your eyes. It was foolish for Tarathiel to seperate you two."
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 9:52 am
"I'm sure it will be a mix of old and mortification, to which I will hear no end over and then will no doubt think of something witty to come back with. They'll stare at me a few moments, and then walk away shaking thier heads." Yeah that sounded about right. Seemed once you started nearing those eight hundreds and up, you didn't really care to deal with proclaimed foolishness.
"The idea of a dual blooded elf was enough for them, triple I'm sure will throw them for a loop. Espcially Swiftfeathers." A little smile and a look to Malik in that little loving way. "Though, if I'm apparently so grand from my dual blood, I'm sure a child of ours will be more so. Surface and Underdark both to call thier own." Piper shook her head lightly, attention barely being paid to the noise of Vah. Which had her slightly upset. After all, Meilikki was up there and she was supposed to be resting. Even Piper had stayed away for that explicit reason, to let the poor woman rest. After all, Piper knew a thing or two about being taken against your will and tortured a bit now didn't she? But back to the boys...and an observation. "The two most important men in my life, and both have temporarily lame sword arms. I don't know whether or not to be amused or feel cursed..." Said of course with a joking tone to it.
Sevilin shrugged. "Maybe." Nope, didn't like horses. Or spiders...but spiders were more understandable. He watched the annoying four legged things a moment. Looking suspiciously to the nightmare as well, he could feel Nym practically wrapped around his neck, the ferret's fore paws on one shoulder, his back on the other, against his neck and under his hair in semi hiding. A reach back and a pat to him. "I won't let her eat you."
A look to Zahara. "Is a damn horse shoe really that important to her?" He shook his head, rubbing at his eyes some again, pain being replaced by an itchy/ticklish sensation that was just a bit irritating.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 9:57 am
"So, you would hunt?"
She decided not to comment on Taratheil. She didn't feel like getting involved with that. but she srhugged. "I don't really need eyes."
"What if you were trying to explain sight to someone who had never before seen anything?"
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 9:59 am
"Yeah right." Giving up just wasn't her style, her cup of tea or her MO. She glanced at Sevilin, realizing that she'd gotten lost in her own memories for a moment and she stroked the Tempest's mane lightly then her eyes went over to the moody Nightmare. "Ramoth doesn't like her things touched. Especially her horseshoes so yes, it is that important to her. Women like their belongings left alone." It was said with a slight edge to her voice but she went back to giving attention to the horses. At least her vision was clearing. Her eyes trailed over the other drow for a moment as a hot sense of awareness came in even though all she could see was his fuzzy profile. His stroking and comforting of the little ferret brought back memories that would be much better left alone and she shook her head. Damned instincts. If she touched him, he'd break her. Why didnt' that knowledge concern her?
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:05 am
"That is harder. and yes I would still hunt. it is part of what, and who I am. a Hunter. Moonstone is more the shaman, more the healer. I am not. but how to describe sight to someone that never had it. I would not use color. but I woudl use feelings and textures. the world can be in black and white, but still remain wonderful. the feelings of heat and cold. the textures that make things hard and soft, smooth or rough. the sound of water..from teh mightiest waterfalls that sound like thunder, the teh trickling brooks that make the smoothest stones. you describe it through the senses they have."
A tilt of his head.
"Sight is only one way to know the world. and sometimes,those without sight, can know the world better than those that do."
Malik only chuckled lightly.
"I think the second the phrase 'dark elf' is muttered, thier going to give you hell about how you let your daughter stay in the underfoot. or dare get involved with one, and that you should brign her home and get her back in her good senses."
Though a pet to Piper.
"At least your father has a sword arm left. and I have my magic and some martial skill that doesn't require a sword. Though I don't claim to be an expert or exceptionally good at it."
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:17 am
A roll of his eyes and a sneer. "Some excuse." He hated that excuse...it was so stupid and pointless...not to mention when you were considered a 'thing' and they could care less about you, it made them look like hypocrites. Not that they weren't those anyway.
"Then I'll get her damn horse shoe back..." What was that Sevilin? Oh but he wasn't doing it for the horse or for Zahara, but for Nym. He still had the damn thing back home and it was just sitting there. He didn't care for mithril for much more than is chainmail.
They were by this time rough housing, knocking each other into stall boardings and also knocking the color out of each other. Hey it was fun and they were establishing pecking order. Except for the Tempest, she was too buys being loved on. Hey she knew she was leader in thier own ranks. Just like mom. Of course though the other three were gentle with the fawn. No need to hurt her.
"I'm sure a lot of things would be said. But being they way they are they would want to take the army approach." A chuckle. "And that belongs to me now." And his own parents weren't the usurping kind...not to mention they already thought Piper partially out of her mind from mixed blood since she was...well she didn't act much like a proper little elf. Kieran only found it endearing though. Then a look at his arm. "But I prefer my right...get a little sloppy with the left after a time."
She crossed her arms, that possessive and in charge look coming about her a moment. Which was probably nice to see after all her little motions of submissiveness. "Doesn't matter what you can do, because you won't be doing anything that will involve using any of those skills." Malik never seemed to learn that when he was overly hurt, and wanted to heal the old fashioned way, he had to deal with her hovery 'mercy'. Though that moment was fleeting and her posture tensed again, head dropping some and shoulders rising...before she caught herself and tried to relax some.
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:19 am
"Someone blind from birth would not know what black and white are. However good your description of a texture or a sound might be, the blind one still will not know what sight is. If sight is feeling and hearing, then there would be no need for sight at all. It is like trying to explain taste to someone who cannot taste."
She sighed. She had wished for her sight back for a very long time, when her wish was granted...she understood now why such a sense had been given up by her ancestors long ago.
"Do we know the world any better than one who can see? No, I don't think so. Merely take a different perspective."
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:35 am
Zahara just shrugged. "You do that then. Doesn't mean she wont' try to eat him but it will probably go a long way toward keeping him in one piece. Maybe she'll just trample him instead." Largely uncaring voice, with an evil giggle to punctuate it, though if she ever caught Nightmare trampling Nym, she didn't know what she'd do. Damn animals, a weakness...yup she knew it too. Thus the unaffected voice about Nym and Nightmare. But she watched the foals frolic and mess with each other, barely resisting the wish to touch feathers that moved inches from her, still loving on the Tempest. Such a sweet girl. "Here, have some more sugar." Thusly sugar was slipped to the foal.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:39 am
"But you do. your ears can hear sounds that those with sight can't. you know the imtimacies or taste, you know the faintest scents. you may not see whirlwind, but you know where she is around you, even if she's behind you, or upstairs or downstairs."
A slight grin.
"For example..if I was stalking Whirlwind, I coudl be right above her, and she'd never know. why? bcause she relys on her sight. you wouldl know where I was, becuase you would hear teh slight breeze through my fur or feathers, or hear even the shallowest breath."
He tilted his head lightly.
"and those without sight are not exposed to the horrors of those with sight. you may feel blood, but you are spared the wounds or the sight of a mangled body. you retain an innocence to certain things that makes others cold and detached from thier world."
Another thought.
"and you don't have all the torment of sight to fuel imagination. If I hunted and killed a human, all you hear is the scream of ther death. but you are not spared the sight of a body, or the images of your mind as it tries to replay how they died from teh remains. Because I have seen you, and seen Whirlwind, I can picture things in my mind being done to you that are frighteningly realistic. I know your body's build, how it moves and how exposed it is. and my imagination places those limitations on what my imagination will use to try and free you from horrors it creates."
"Yes, yes. no playing with the other children until I'm all better. I know. I'm grounded until I'm all better and your satisifed I'm all better."
A grin over at Kieran.
"I take it she takes after her mother in that respect?"
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:49 am
"Well I'm glad you know that this time." Recalling of course the other times she had to fight with him on it. But he was a quick learner and she was much more pleasant when he was compliant when it came to his own personal health and what not. Sort of like if he was going to force her to eat meal portions to his standards, he was going to have to rest up to her standards.
Kieran gave a nod. "Much so. Fianna can be positively..." What was the anaoogy he was was looking for? "Well she can be quite the jailer. I tell you now, we could be the plane apart, and if she got wind of me being hurt, she'd be in Farhian in a moment's time, and giving me a hard time about it...though you know in that loving 'I fuss because I care' manner."
"If it gets her off mine and his case, then it works. What works should just be used and not deviated from." He sniffed in that 'that's the end of that' way. And a shake of his head as he watched her feed and lavish attention on animals. Though out of focus and still slightly white washed. Well...he did have to give it to Kieran. No wonder the b*****d got away all the time and anyone after him came back rubbing thier eyes. Damn Andalian devices.
Sugar! A little nicker, flicking her ears happily as she snarrfed it right down with a lick at Zahara's hand to get any other traces and a nuzzle to her palm as well. Someone was being spoiled. Of course a knock in the flank from someone's head got her attention adn she turned to see three other's staring at her with that playful challenging way...she reared up slightly, making more noise than was needed and went after all three. How cute of them all.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 12:05 pm
A giggle escaped before she covered it with a cough and watched the Tempest go after her siblings. Those four, best of friends and enemies all at the same time. Ah childhood...or rather foalhood? She crossed her legs on the hay bale and rubbed her palms along the bare skin then shook her head, "If you never deviate you can never hope to find another way that works as well. Sometimes other ways are easier and less painful. Of course you have to take a risk but that's not your thing is it Sevilin?" She smirked, "No risks, no pain. Not a very drow way but hey who says that way's the best anyway hmm?" Needling him a little excessively Zahara? No, but then maybe if she pissed him off he'd grab her and she'd at least have the satisfaction of him touching her....she'd really become desperate hadn't she? Resorting to scheming ways to force him to touch her. That was so very sad.
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