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 Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:22 pm
Allora nodded slowly, but she couldn't help the look of concern that crossed her features. "Yes, of course, but... is there something amatter?" she asked worriedly. It was only natural for her to worry over one who could potentially be Alti's - well, maybe it would happen... or maybe it wouldn't. Personally, she was hoping for the former (even if the pair of them had tried to decieve her).
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:49 pm
Haar gave the young woman a weak smile, brushing dark hair out of his eyes. "I'm...fine," he reassured her, his grin fading as he stood up, careful not to waver as he did so. Exiting the smaller dining room with a soft sigh, Haar leaned against the adjacent wall upon leaving the room, degloved hands pressed against the cool plaster of the walls for a moment before the young man straightened up and left hall, heading back towards the wing where he'd found Alti's room earlier.
He wasn't exactly fine, but Allora didn't need to know that. He wasn't sure if there had been something in the room that...caused him to feel so uneasy, but that was how he felt right then. Whether it was the whole situation, the utter oddness of Allora's confession, or possibly the...notion of his magic going out of control- nonethless, whatever had caused it, he felt...sick because of it.
Gazing at his hands, Haar frowned as he willed a tongue of fire between them, staring hard at it before letting it vanish in a wisp of smoke. What was wrong with him?
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:55 pm
Alti watched Haar leave, for some reason feeling... irked that Haar had left him alone with his mother - or at least more annoyed than he usually would have been. He stood up abruptly and murmured, "I... need to use the restroom... and... I suppose I'll... check on him." He spoke quickly, eyes glued down towards the table. Allora nodded, a small, knowing smile flitting onto her lips. "Alright. I suppose... with everything that had happened, dinner is pretty much over."
Alti gave her a quite rare smile and departed from the room, breathing in a deep sigh as he left the heavily perfumed air of the small dining room. He paused for a moment to stretch and then continued along to his room.
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:09 pm
Leaning against the framing surrounding Alti's bedroom door, Haar, once more, conjured up a bright flicker of flame between his hands. He couldn't exactly will large flames incase something went out of control again, but...even so he could still feel the flames dying, even if they were already very small and easily put out nonetheless.
He supposed he was just...tired. His magic had always been one of his strong points, even if he tended not to use it often...and now it just seemed weak. Holding the small flame, urging it to grow, Haar frowned as it vanished in a puff of smoke, leaving a rather concerned fire native alone.
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:14 pm
Alti reached his room and turned the doorknob silently out of habbit before walking in and shutting the door equally silently. With the quiet of his footsteps, one might have though he were sneaking up on... something... or someone.
"Mum... says dinner is finished. I mean, you could probably get something from the kitchens if you're still hungry, but... the official dinner is over because no one really seems... hungry...." he mumbled slowly, feeling rather like he were babbling, which was something he didn't feel often.
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:26 pm
Haar turned his head in the general direction of Alti, brushing his hands off before pocketing both. "Mmm," he murmured, not really saying anything but acknowledging he'd heard the teen. Still not facing the boy, Haar continued, "Did she send you after me?" He asked, clenching his hands lightly, not out of anger...more out of concern for his own condition.
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:33 pm
Alti shook his head slowly, his bright gaze remaining fixed on his own feet as he leaned back against the door. "Nnn-nnn. I just... couldn't stand being in that room any more. The flowers, you know...." he murmured. He paused for a moment, biting his lips slightly, before looking over at Haar. He wasn't used to be concerned about people. THat was his mother's job... not his. "So... uhmm... are you... alright?" he asked slowly, almost in spite of himself.
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:41 pm
Haar turned to face the boy with a weak smile. "I should probably be asking the same of you," he murmured, examining one of his hands a moment before resting red eyes on Alti.
"I just don't want to light up a bad fire accidently," he explained with an ancious sigh before continuing, "But like I said, I should've asked you first. Are you...okay? I mean, about your...mom an' all that?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:47 pm
Alti shrugged, his orange eyes maintaning eye contact with Haar's darker ones before sweeping across the floor to rest a point somewhere in front of his own feet. "I... part of me... still can't really... believe it. I mean... I'm... an orphan... I suppose..... But nothing's really changed.... She... she's still my mother," he murmured, refurring to Allora. "Or at least... she doesn't act like an aunt...."
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:15 pm
Haar nodded, easing himself down into a sitting position on the floor, leaning his head against the wall. "I can't even imagine...what you're thinking right now. I suppose it hasn't really sunk in completely. My parents have been dead for almost ten years and it still...doesn't seem real sometimes," he murmured, fingers clenching in his lap. That was the perfect way to describe how he felt about his parents...none of it seemed real at all.
[[Sorry, I was eating dinner. nwn;;]]
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:29 pm
"I'm... sorry to hear that," Alti murmured slowly, his words quite genuine to what he did feel (which was rare). "About your parents being dead, I mean.... I guess... I was always kinda used to... not having a dad since he died before I was born... but I... can't imagine not having a mother - well, I mean..." He paused for a moment, forwning softly. "I mean... now I know that... that she died, too... but I still have mum...."
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:53 pm
He was shaking. Why- Why was he letting himself get so worked up over this? It...had been ten years for god's sake... he should've been able to deal with it by now.
"Mom!"
Everywhere he looked...everywhere he looked it was fire. Uncontrollable fire. Stretching out a small hand, the boy pleaded with the tongues. Begged for them to calm, to stop. Please stop. It only seemed to make things worse, urge the flames higher...consuming more.
Shay felt something...something blunt hit the back of his head. "M-Mom...I didn't-"
Clutching at his head, the young man nodded slowly, grinding his teeth before answering, "It's hard...it's been hard. I think more on me than my sister because she was so young when it happened..."
"I didn't...mean to."
[/edit] Eeeep, my parents are makin' me go to bed. -runs off-
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:21 pm
Alti nodded slowly, glancing over at Haar and this time his gaze remained there. Haar looked... shaken. Alti bit his lip softly and then murmured, "Maybe we should... talk about something... else...." Changing the subject might not be the same thing... but... but Haar looked so... hurt. And that made Alti... it made him, he suddenly realised, unhappy. Which unnerved the teen greatly.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:11 pm
Haar shifted his weight slightly, leaning the back of his head against the wall, arms resting atop his knees as he heaved a heavy sigh. Eyes half-lidded, the young man didn't respond for the longest time until he finally reached over towards his left, plucking his sword from its pose against the wall. Laying it flat against his abdomen, the fire native nodded gently as he kept his eyes half open. He didn't want to waste the effort trying anymore. He just wanted... to go home. He, after all, didn't want to upset a very emotional prince... Not that he really cared for the fire prince's feelings, it was more for job security than anything else.
On he other hand, once the boy became king... maybe it would be a good time to step down. To start the life he'd always admired from a very far distance. He didn't know that life, but he had definitlely pined for it more than once over the past few years. Something more simple than this. Something where he wouldn't have to worry all the time. A life where...he could put himself first more than just the 'every so often.'
"Hnn. When does that festival start again? It usually marks the third day of a holiday, of sorts, in my nation...but it's late this year..." He murmured, running a knuckle against the open blade of his sword.
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:02 am
Alti looked up, glad for the change in subject - for a distraction, any distraction. "I... think it starts on Saturday. So two days from now.... But it lasts for three weeks, this year.... The Light people always seem best at lengthening any sort of celebration..." he murmured thoughtfully, although it wasn't something that was really of interest to him.
"I'll be... playing in it, remember? So I'll be there... probably most of the time, if not all...." he added after several moments of silence.((Alti is being uninsperational. D:
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