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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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 Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:19 pm
"Oh I suppose I could let you have a try." Unstrapping her flute and holding it out for him. "Just don't you know...spit all over it or something." Giving a little giggle with that, not that she really cared or anything, that kind of stuff could be wiped off. "Let's see how good you can do it on your first try without being told things."
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:34 pm
Arthur smiled lightly as Isle handed her flute over to him, he held it in both hands and looked over it carefully, it was a good looking instrument and he was happy to hold onto it right now. "I'll try my best to hold my spit back, but I can’t give you any promises." A light chuckle to that but it quickly died at her next suggestion as he looked at her with a surprised look. "Well alright...if you insist..." So he lifted the flute in the exact position Isle handed it from memory up to his lips, pausing for a moment he tried to recall how Isle played and then took a breath and started, he fist played a few notes, slowly but he only got maybe five before he hit a wrong note. "Well that was to be expected..." He muttered and tried it again, he was able to get passed five notes but after awhile he hit another sour one. Pausing for a moment he lowered the flute to look at it for a second before looking at Isle with a light smile. "Mind giving some of that wisdom that you have in that head of yours?" Arthur never mind asking for help, it was the only way he could learn than trying it out by himself.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:45 pm
She watched him as he took his tries, not giggling at him when he messed up nor anything else. Merely watched him try. And only gave a soft smile when he covertly asked for some help. "But of course." Walking around to his front she placed a hand on his stomach....and pushed so that he would plop back in the sand, plopping down herself. "You have to relax first. Put your shoulders back but don't tense." Placing her hand then on top of one on his. "And splay your hands some more like this. One finger for each hole and that's it. No switchups."
She cleared her throat a moment, still having to deal with her accent and the unusual feeling of talking in common. Though her accent probably sounded stupid, at least to her it did. But that was another issue entirely. "Use your breath gently...doesn't take much to make a pretty sound on an elvish flute."
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:05 pm
"She lives with you, that's why. Now...you three dysfunctional family types are here for counselling. because the worse this gets, the more distracted and disparate Sevilin's job becomes and it puts my house and family in jeopardy. So we're going to have counselling nad confession time. and if I have to drug, or use magic or whatever I have to...this will get worked out."
and looking at the boy.
"So lets start with simple things. Zykariel..I want you to explain to Zahara why you are upset with her. and you can tell her anything else you want, ask any question you want, without any worry about repercussions."
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:10 pm
Arthur lightly smiled back when he saw those lips turn into one as well, he looked really cute when she smiled. But he waited quietly as she walked up to him to place a hand on his stomach, which got a raised eyebrow and before he could ask anything he was pushed lightly so he would fall back into the sand, which Isle soon followed suit as well. So he listened carefully to Isle as she explained to him what he should do and he did, he put his shoulder back but was careful not to tense them out and when she helped him placed his fingers correctly he had a small smile on him but he paid attention.
Though he cocked his head lightly to one side as she had to clear her throat, it seemed that she wasn't use to speaking in common so why not switch it up a little bit? "Well Isle thank you for teaching me that, I hope I'll be able to play some good music for you now." Though of course now that he was speaking in elf his accent was bad, but he laughed a little before he brought the flute back to his lips and started to play; but of course he allowed his breath to come now gentle which was able to stabilize the notes now. But as he played he did screw up from time to time but he kept on playing as good as he could do so, if Isle wanted to stop him she would.
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:12 pm
He tilted his head. "What's disfuntional anyway?" Then a nod. "Oh, well she won't pretty soon."
She blinked and hten looked at the child, eyes narrowed. "What do you mean I won't pretty soon?" An accusing glare at Sevilin. "You're actually going to kick me out? What in the hell did I ever do to you? Besides cook your meals and watch your kid."
"You make him mad. You upset him and you don't need to be around us. I told you before we don't need you, we have each other. It's better if you're not there anyway." Before looking at Malik. "She knows why I'm mad at her."
"You can't just kick me out because you get a whim to. Where the hell am I supposed to go?"
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:23 pm
Well after that little confirmation, it didn't take too long to get a basic pen framing up and then the fencing of it then. Though the three didn't do most of the hard work, children after all and Piper had to watch them. "Okay so why that's being finished we need to get things for bedding as well as food stuffs." Again looking to Lharika for that, the girl more or less the project leader as Piper had hold of Malikhai's hand as he wanted to get in the way of workings.
And Sevilin rolled his eyes. You could say he found it almost amusing that Malik wanted to take on this little issue and the like. Sevilin wasn't too keen on it however. Crossing his arms he gave almost a warning glare to Malik...he didn't need to make the situation worse, he was dealing with it just fine. This was just something that couldn't be fixed in an hour. He had to get Zahara moved out and find himself a new babysitter for other times too. "I can work just fine."
And then one of those sighs as the two started into it, and he gently covered his son's ears with his hands, setting his eyes on Zahara. "I did not get a whim to kick you out, I explained this too you as you were yelling at me across the dining table at home and calling me a bad parent when I was telling you to stop acting like one and confusing the child because you didn't want to be one anyway and you should be happy that things were happening as they were." Boy, felt good to get that off his chest.
Oh but he wasn't done. "You can move back here...or find your own place. It isn't that hard you know. And I never asked you to stay as long as you have, I never asked you to cook, and I never asked you to watch him all the time. You're the one who cooks because you can, watches him when it's convientiant for you, and you were the one who wouldn't leave after he was a year old."
She merely rested an elbow on her knee and propped her head on the back of her hand as she listened to him, ears twitching lightly at the sounds he was making. "Keep your fingering slow...don't try to go to fast. See it's not so hard as you think it is." Closing her eyes a moment and listening. "Close your eyes and stop listening, don't concentrate on your fingering. Picture something in your head and play a theme to it...like what you think the surface sounds like."
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:39 pm
Arthur was merely trying to play the best way he could ever do with Isle's flute, after all this was his first time playing it so there would be bound to be some screw ups of course. But as he played he listened to the elf' words, in surface elf of course, she might as well try and take a break from speaking common once in awhile. So with her knowledge now in his head Arthur did what he was told, he slowed down his fingers and then closed his eyes as he blocked out everything around him and what he was doing and tried to put a picture in his head, it took him a bit but he got it going and soon enough his fingers started to 'play' the images of a land that was so close and yet far away; a place where he could be with his own kind for once, to be happy and not worry about something that might attack him if he walked outside, a place of good times and good people and the land and sky were beautiful as well. These images were woven into the music that slowly came from Isle's flute, granted it wasn't perfect but Arthur did his best until he came to the end of the piece; so when he finished he pulled away the flute and lightly smiled before looking at Isle. "Granted it wasn't something like yours...but it was okay I guess..." His smile grew a little wider as he stared down at the flute, it was a beautiful instrument.
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:43 pm
"Malik stood himself up and put Malvolence in it's sheath, before a few mumbled words and his voice echoed rather nastily.
"Will you BOTH stop you bickering!"
A glare at both of them.
"things need to be admitted, and by Innoruuk, they damned well will be. Even if I have to rip your immortal souls form thier bodies and force it out of you through necromancy."
A glare turned on Zahara.
"You love Sevilin Inthra. that's why you want to live with him, take care of his meals, and take great pain to know his locations. and wether you'll admit it or not, you WANT to be Zykariel's mother, you want to be there for his needs, and you want his affection the same way that Malikhai treats Piper."
then his glare moved to Sevilin.
"And you want her around. you enjoy her company, you love her in your own way and want your son to know a life where a woman isn't a means of pain and suffering, but nurturing and caring. you want the life Malikhai can have for your son, and he wants it to and you damned well know it."
Then it moved to the boy too.
"And you want Zahara's attention in the way that Piper gives you when you needed it and how she takes care of Malikhai when he needs it."
" You all three want to be a damned family, but pride and fear get in your way. Not that I don't appreciate the fear and hate, as it feeds into the power of my god and thus increases certain aspects of my own personal power, but gods damned I want my House, and all those it it, to be a working team, one that can rely on eachother in all situations and needs. your infighting and bickering and refusal to talk to eachother and work the things out that need to be and make the efforts to admit the things you all know are true just weakens this house and will eventually spread like a human damned cancer and I REFUSE to allow your SELFISH impulses and old fears to do that to my House!"
Malik's hand rested on his weapon, and gripped the hilt as if he was fully prepared to use it.
"And if I have to lock all three of you in this room until the hells freeze over and your son is old enough to get married himself I damned well will to get you to start acting like the people you want to be but are afriad to be! For Innoruuk's sake ARTHUR is progressing from human worm to elf in his mentality faster than this!"
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:01 pm
She happily supplied any help she could including information. "They eat just about anything, not highly picky at all, except they don't really like old dead things. Their food needs to be somewhat fresh. Bugs, nuts, various nonpoisonous moss and stuff. And they love rocks. They like to hide under them and around them and soak up sun on them in Andal."
"Daddy!" He protested and then jerked away from the hands trying to keep him from hearing things. Zykariel turned and blinked at Malik. Why was he so angry about this anyway? He had Miss Piper and Khai and his pirate ship. But he glanced between the adults for some sort of sign of what to do next.
Zahara had been about to snap back at Sevilin a rather wittily sarcastic comment when Malik exploded and she turned to look at him before taking a seat and leaning back in her chair. "So, you think now that Zykariel is alive you can get us to believe that same thing you attempted to prove before he came about? Nice Malik, but it still has no effect. I don't love Sevilin and he certainly doesn't love me. As for Zykariel," Her face hardened into an unreadable mask. "I have my resons."
He just shook his head. "She already knows that Mr. Malik. Repeating doesn't get anywhere. Daddy says she's got rocks in her head."
"So now you're talking about me to your son. Of course you are, that's probably how this whole move out thing started. You ganged up on me with him. Real nice Sevilin. Let's teach Zykariel the real drow way of doing things. Backstabbing and secret plots."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:13 pm
"It was wonderful...quite well for a beginner. You see...music isn't truely something learned or taught...just the mechanics are. The sounds and the passion come from inside...comes from how you feel. An expression of emotions and such you could say. It's important to just pick up an instrument and just play what you feel over what you know. You'll find out some amazing things."
"Sounds easy enough to me. So we can get them something to sleep in and food and what not all easily enough and we'll find a way to keep them warm as well." Hm, that was going to be the difficult part indeed seeing as there was no sun down here and fire wasn't the best way to go. "Okay you two, be careful of those working and lets set up a little nest area."
Sevilin merely blinked a moment. Wow...that was interesting now wasn't it? Not that Sevilin would say that Malik was wrong about what he said about him too much, though he could find argueable points. Though he thought he would almost snicker at the the 'not that I dont' appreciate your negative feelings' part. Contradictions were fun weren't they? But that wasn't the point right now. But then all the attention went back to Zahara. "I did no such thing...and you do have rocks in your head. We sleep in the same bad more often than not, I hear them roll around when you do." Yes he was just being mean on that point.
"And I was the one who told you to get out in the first place if you're so unhappy. Sounds like a good plan to me. If anyone knows about backstabbing well you're the number one authority on that." A look to Malik. "You're really shaking a fruitless tree here Malik, I've been through this a dozen times with her."
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:52 pm
"Okay, fine, I have to play this like this, then I will. Zahara, I know for a fact, that you reverie about your times with Sevilin. and when you do, you make noises, quite content and pleasurable ones. I know you fantasize about Sevilin when your with arthur, and I know all your hidden thoughts and desires concerning Zykariel. I know about your reveries of that time in the hallway with Sevilin, I know your hidden thoughts and secrets wants."
Walking over to her, and taking off her amber belly button ring.
"amber is so hard to find, don't you think, in an entirely subterranean realm? That marketplace you visit must have some kind of supplier to it. of course...I had to make sure you got something, didn't I."
A slight smirk tossing it over to sevilin.
"I'm sure you'll notice the etching and what it does."
his eyes back on Zahara.
"I know your hidden wants and desires, Zahara. you can't lie to me about them, and you couldn't lie to them about me before either. I'm well aquainted with a drow woman's body language, how to read it, and how to know when she lies even when her face doesn't betray a thing."
"you're scared to death that you'd get close and turn out like your mother or sisters. terrified that you'd become what you ran away from. You still have bad, horrid reveries about it. You try to rationalize reasons not to get close, to try and bury the fact that you desperately want to."
Walking around her lightly.
"and he wants you to. he's waiting there, arms reaching out for his Zara, his mother to come to him how he needs her to be there for him. All you have to do is reach out for it. and your scared. frozen with fear. the same for Sevilin. I think your more scared that Sevilin won't accept you if you tried. You can't, won't, command him. and your afraid that he'll shatter you if he were to leave you. either by choice, or by death."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 12:15 am
She wasn't happy about the personal space invasion and even less happy when Malik began to reveal things in ways that she couldn't possibly cover up or explain away. He was wrong on one point, no make that two. She didn't make noise unless it was a bad reverie and she didn't reverie about the time in the hallway. More often than not it was the day she let her whims escape her and indulge. Pregnancy had its perks after all and that one day she had given into the fledgling feelings burgeoning and experienced it to its fullest. That was the one that popped up most often. The one where they had acted like a real couple, one who was celebrating the life inside and looking forward to the future and the fulfillment of hopes. "Quite...sneakily underhandedly though undoubtedly perceptive, aren't you Malik..." She couldn't help the resentment at his knowing her private, innermost feelings and then revealing them to all. She felt sick, her stomach all tied up in knots and oddly enough she felt like she was about to cry.
Zykariel watched as Malik took his mother's navel ring, which he had never seen her without and said a lot of stuff. He could tell this was about to get very bad and he glanced between his parents and then at Malik. How did he know all that stuff? Her jewelry told him that? Maybe he'd have to steal something of hers to know things too. She wore clips all the time. Would those work?
But questions were beginning to bloom in his mind and he tilted his head at her. If Mr. Malik had gotten information from the ring and it was teh truth then that meant that she was ready. "Daddy could help you. Maybe?" Glancing back at his father. Daddy could do everything else, why not help her be ready. "Or you could learn from Miss Piper. She knows lots about it." Yup, the renewal of hope was there. Then he tilted his head and blinked. "What's there to be scared of? Even though I don't like to say it, I'm really too little to do anything."
Her eyes closed for a moment and when she spoke her voice wasn't entirely steady. "I can't do this..." Then she stood up and walked over, snatching her property from Sevilin. "I just can't."
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 12:29 am
Well this was very...enlightening and informative for Sevilin wasn't it? After all these were things he didn't know and if he did know them he had blocked them out. Eyebrow slowly raising with facts that weren't denied. The little Arthur tidbit was especially surprising. Honestly he didn't know if he wanted to be afraid of what he was hearing or not...after all, so many negative things could come from all of that.
Though catching the piece of jewelry and looking it over. "Reader runes." Master level things. "How many nosebleeds did you get doing this?" Oh look his little half rhetorical/joke question. Though it was duely snatched from him. And he merely frowned as his son exhibited that little blip of hope that things could in fact be different. Much as Malik and Zykariel pushed, Sevilin didn't share the thought.
And he shook her head, another look to Malik. "That's her favorite word, can't." Yes he was a little abrasive, but he always was when his son was concerned in the matter. Again he crossed his arms, turning a hard look on Malik...he was going to have to deal with this when he got home. "As I said, until you 'can' then you need to find someplace else to stay. I'm not going to have you treat him the way you do."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:42 pm
Malik leaned back on the wall, watching Zahara with unfeeling, emotionless eyes.
"You can. your just afriad. You're afriad of doing something wrong. of creating from Zykariel a child your mother would approve of. I know those feelings. I had the same ones. I worried I would turn Malikhai into my father's son."
But a shrug.
"Zykariel is ready. Sevilin is perfectly fine with allowing you to be a mother. You want to sever all bonds to your previous life, it requires more than just a change of clothes and dieties. Here's your doorway. here's a way to become something new, a drow mother that is not bound by the cruelty and pain of Lloth, to teach a child the ways that your old home would never dream of."
"fear of the unknown, of the uncertain, is just like lugging around a bag of crude iron...all you have to do, is set it down. You'll find you can do so much more then what your fears wouldn't let you even attempt."
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