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 Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:17 am
:::Kal shoots her a look. He didn't like the way she phrased that one bit:::
make it out alive...? Did you- you really think you'd spend the rest of your life in here?
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:27 am
I certainly hope not. :::Her head swings back and forth, not really looking at him:::
But- I'm not entirely safe here, you know. I've told you about the Serapim?
:::She watches Kal go a bit pail around the edges, and nod. She was sure he wouldn't take this very well, but it had to come out:::
He struck, recently.... he took Luke and a girl called Karebana Hajime to this place of gray nothingness... :::she recalled it in her mind silently::: Luke returned unharmed but... Karebana. It was too late for me to help her, by the time they got back... He, he made an example of her...
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:30 am
:::Kal shook his head, wordlessly. He didn't know the girl... at least, the name wasn't familiar to him. Still. Dead? The Seraphim... to him still an unseen, intangible mystery to him, was doing things as real as killing people. People in the Brink:::
Cora- you... you can't stay here anymore. If that's true-
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:32 am
I know, Kal. :::She looked at him sadly::: But how can I leave? It's not even about, not having a time to return to, but who will protect the Brink if even I leave it?
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:35 am
:::He grabbed her hands, as though had he not, she would have disappeared from his life then and there:::
Don't be rediculous! We'll all protect it! Why should YOU be the one to take on the brunt of the battle! It's not your job, Cora!
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:38 am
:::She shook her head at him:::
You don't understand. I'd already be dead if I wasn't brought here... if the Captain didn't give me the Brink for a home, I owe it so much.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:40 am
:::He held her hands, tightly still:::
Cora... if the Captain brought you here so you could live, what sense would it make for you to sit here and let yourself die?
:::Kal looked over at the door suddenly:::
What do you see when you open that door, Cora?
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:42 am
:::She felt a shiver down her spine:::
I- I've never opened it. :::She couldn't look at him, OR the door::: It's probably nothing. There's nothing on the other end of it, I don't have anywhere to go to.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:43 am
:::He got off his stool and pulled her hand with him:::
Come on, we'll just look. Let's just see... maybe you have somewhere to go, anywhere but here, Cora.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:45 am
:::She pulled back though:::
Oh, Kal. No... I- I don't want to.
:::Cora suddenly felt very scared. Not the way she was scared when she thought of the Seraphim. That made her more angry, than anything else, but this genuinely frightened her:::
Please, I just- there won't be anything there. The Captain told me I was never allowed to go back.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:48 am
You don't have to go through, just look. You can't know for sure until you look through it. You're right, it might be nothing, but you should at least make sure.
:::He squeezed her hand, reassuringly::: Come on, I'll be right next to you.
:::But then, despite himself, he felt his hand's grasp on Cora's become less present... he was fading out:::
Cora just look, you should know, if there's any chance at all that you have a home!
*Exit Kal*
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:53 am
:::Cora shuddered as he faded out. She stepped backwards a few times until she was safely pressed aganst the bar, turning her back to the door. She felt as though her heart were about to beat out of its chest:::
:::Still she felt the door's presence crawl on her skin, now that she thought about it:::
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:03 pm
:::She decides she couldn't stand it much longer. Absolutely no thoughts or desires of seeing what was on the other side of that door crossed her mind. Just the idea of it made her want to run. So, before too many more moment passed, she left for the hall, leaving her book and wine behind:::
*Exit Cora*
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:24 pm
**Enter Kyle**
*Kyle fades into the brink on his knees... he's thoroughly soaked and caked in sand. He appears to be shaping something with his fingers as he appears, until he realizes that whatever it is is no longer there. He looks up in dismay*
But... but... I don't want to be here right now!
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:27 pm
:::Kara fades in, dressed in full royal attire, she's looking a bit tired, a hint of red in her eyes. She was midstep when she realized where she was- her heart skipped a beat, but when she looked around she didn't see anyone she recognized... instead, there was a boy:::
:::This was curious she thought, she'd never heard of children in the Brink:::
Hello there, little man... :::She managed a smile at him:::
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