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 Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 3:18 pm
"Who was Dimitri? Or who was the smoldering pile of flesh on the floor?" She clicked her nails together. "Dimitri is nothing but a jealous child. The flesh was his right hand. Recently not as important as he used to be."
They moved deeper and deeper, past even the pens where the deer and goat and such thigs were bred to feed the soulless, or the wolves, or the undead, or whatever it was that Dimitri had decided to play with at the time. Still, no sign of anyone there.
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 3:26 pm
Onyx scratched behind his ear lightly.
"usually your right hand guy is quite important. they know secrets..and often times they run things that you can't or haven't time for. it woudl seem a..larger loss then you make it out to be, right?"
Though a shrug at the jealous child thing.
"Why doesn't his mommy just punish him. take away his power until he learns to be a good child and not use it like..well...this."
"Of course I am. after all, this is a forma l letter to a Queen. have to be eloquent. not to mention it won't incite a panic in someone that might catch a few words here and there as it passes hands. you think it's good or woudl you add something?"
A grin to her.
"And I know you want to..what's keeping you from darting downstairs after that cinnamon cake?"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 3:43 pm
Kieran shifted his arm a bit as he kept stride with the others. "I think I am more worried abotu the fact that his body is still here when all others seem to be gone...that just seems...wrong." Yeah, no other bodies where they knew bodies should be...yet right hand's was there where he had been killed. A look to Onyx. "If I understand correctly, his power isn't granted from his mother...thus she can't take it away."
She chuckled. "Well if you want to be that formal, you forgrot to put 'Lord Malik D'vinn'." Piper shook her head lightly giving a grin back to his own. Really, if he wasn't careful Fianna was going to work him over about the family thing like Kieran had before. Hey, family was important to surface elves. Though she blinked at his question. "I...don't have a craving for it?" Though that was an idiotic lie wasn't it? "I'm just trying to avoid all possible confrontation...and I'm not hungry." But she usually ate anything cinnamon regardless.
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 3:50 pm
"There's nothing to confront, Trust me on that."
Oh yes. Zahara knew now very well when Malik siad leave somethign alone, he damn well ment it.
"And you woudl eat cinnamon even if your stomach was about to explode."
A poke at her belly just for emphasis.
"Adn I know you've been denying your craving as some form of self punishment. So your cravigns are probably even worse than normal. besides, you need to see Zahara anyway. unless you want one of my clerics to handle your neck injuries?"
"If mom didn't grant him power, then who did? and why? and that body is not in a place I woudl think for doing somethign to piper. I mean out in the middle of a hallway isn't really a place to try and hide something, is it. As ofr it being here...maybe it just serves no further use at all?"
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 3:59 pm
"The gods of this plane to not work that way, Onyx. Once power is granted, it is like creating a syphon link that cannot be severed until death. When Dimitri became undead, a lich, he retained the powers of his mother because he had not died, but recieved the gifts of the Sky Father because he was not alive. He can use each without canceling each other out."
Catawa snorted. "Right Hand simply lost what made him important. Dimitri does not honour the deaths of unimportant people."
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 4:02 pm
He got a raised eyebrow at that one...that 'what did you do' look, regardless if he told her or not. Though she playfully slapping his hand away with a light laugh at his poking. "I would not...okay maybe I would. But only because it's good for me and keep me happy when you're not around and what not." Though a little aversion of her eyes a moment from his at his mentioning of that little self punishment form. Guilty as charged. "Well...almost worse than normal...but not horribly so." And of course eyes snapped back to him when he mentioned his own clerics...who she was glad she could get to back off with just a word. "I know I do, I meant avoid her on a less than professional level...hey Zahara hadn't been the friendliest thing lately. Quick distract him. "Don't you start with me, I have more than enough things to fuss at you about if I need to."
"Unforgiving technicalities of the Gods." But a look back to Onyx. "I don't know what he was doing really...Malik came upon them. Though the words attempeted rape are cause enough to rage over it. Those who think they are in control don't tend to try and hide things." Then his triple colored eyes went back to Catawa, a pat at his surcoat to make sure Raziel was still there. "Leaving bodies to rot then and not reanimating them is a form of punishment then?"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 4:08 pm
She lifted an eyebrow. "You can't reamimate a soulless."
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 4:17 pm
"Well then I learned something new today didn't I?" Continuing on in the eerie quiet. Keiran's forte was not in necormancy or anything that was akin to it at all. Ah learning experiences.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 4:19 pm
"His brain. that's what he lost. deepfried, thus all his secrets, all his knowledge that made him useful was gone, and thus ne need to worry about it. it's just meat at that point..and no reanimation means no undeath."
Onyx flicked a look at Kieran. then shook his head.
"Though..I know why it happened. but I'm surprised Malik didn't take him alive."
"Yes yes. you have a never ending supply of things to fuss at me over. but you do have some things to do too. you want to see the Oracle, and you want that cake. And, you can take this letter to Serino, since he'll listen to you without a halfhour explaination of hows and whys, to get this delivered."
Handing over the letter to her.
"I woudl send Nightmare..but I'm afriad her showing up in your mother's kingdom might incite a bad reaction. not to mention she doesn't know her way around."
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 4:25 pm
"No, not his brain. The soul."
They came to the door that would lead them into the room where Catwa's and her comrades cages were kept. She paused before them, listening and smelling at the air.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 4:29 pm
"Probably because Piper wouldn't be able to stand having him around." Hey Kaden didn't last too long either, and Malik had only tortured him for the sheer hell of it. "And as you said, he has no secrets to tell Malik...and no soul to read if he is soulless either." A stop as Catawa did, waiting for a sign to proceed.
She took the letter and grabbed her collar up off the bed giving him a look. "You're just trying to get rid of me so you can do things you know I wouldn't allow you to do...like push ups or something to get your strength back up." Hey she knew how he worked after all these years. "But you're right on your points, I can't fault you that. Fine, I'll let you think what you want...but remember A'mael," A tap to her head, "I'll know. Don't make me put you at my mercy again." That said she gave a laugh and slipped out of her room. First stop, Meilikki...knocking lightly on her door of course.
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 4:59 pm
"I don't understand. you said he was a soulless. then how did he lose his soul which was his most important thing?"
But he stopped when Catawa did. his ears pricked forward, his muscles doing that sinewy move that made it look like the flesh under the skin was trying to readust itself. nostril's flared a bit..before sinking claws into the stonework, climbing up and peering over the top of the doorway. the cleanest scents were higher in the air, not as muddled with dirt and passerbys. of course Feline odors, female..and Piper....but Catawa herself was a kind of crossbreed so that was to be expected, adn the scents were old and lingering. again expected if they were held here.
Malik chuckled.
"Yes I know. but get along you, enjoy your cake."
And when she left..as much as the idea of doing pushups or the like to increase his strength and rebuild his body...his eyes turned to Malvolence. he couldn't wield it very well with his offhand, but it woudl be nice to hold it and know what's going on everywhere in his home and the general area around it.
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 5:16 pm
"Because it was the lich's soul he had."
She pushed on the door and let is swing open. And as Catawa half expected, the room was empty. Her comards gone. The only person in the room stood near the center, long black hair reaching her waist, scantily clad, looking ike someone they knew. She was blind in one eye.
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 5:39 pm
Onyx hissed lightly at that image. the Oracle is what he was reminded of. but he landed on the floor, and took to jumping cage door to cage door, being loud and obnoxious. before landing maybe five feet away. eye glittering lightly, a casual lick of the lips like a hungry cat that found a bird out of the nest, claws ready. Last he recalled the oracle herself had no extrodinary power besides her Sight. but lords know what this thing could do.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 5:49 pm
Kieran merely watched...and then sighed as Onyx went and more or less played the frightening cat. Onyx and his pride, a felines bride and determination. His arm moved out of habit to go rest on his shoulder, which brought a cringe. Right, no swordplay with that arm. So he reached back with his other, awkwardly. Where he normally wouldn't draw his sword he did, jsut so as not to hold that positon.
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