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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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 Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:15 am
Kaden shook his head, "You know what Kieran? I've felt that way for quite some time now, that it would be better if I was dead...and then when I think about the blood I've spilled, the women I've raped and the lives I've destroyed, I quite agree with you, death is too good for me." Kaden wasn't taunting or jeering now, he was looking tired and worn down. Everything happened far too fast for his liking. He screamed out, "No...you'll kill her if you aren't careful!" Then muttered, "Idiot drow." And in that moment, his life flashed before his eyes. He just didn't care anymore. He'd known all along that it would come to this, that Malik would find some way around his little shield, that his life would end painfully at Malik's hand. Of course knowing the kind of drow Malik was there was probably a lot more pain and torture first. But it didn't faze him. He stood there, using his knife to idly cut his own skin. His blood spilling now that the chain was out of Piper, but Kaden didn't even feel it. "Come drow...do what you may."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:20 am
Oh well that got a reaction out of Piper, quite the loud scream with accompanying sounds of cracking bone and ripping flesh. Not a gentle man was Malik when angered and of course she paid the price for that, her collar bone snapping since it had been the anchor for that little device. Tears came in the wake of a scream as well as sobs...well, at least that meant she was alive, right?
Didn't need to tell Kieran twice. The dagger in his hand was arched up in quick motion, cutting the rope that strung her up on the tree branches, easily catching hold of her as she dropped. Taking a quick moment to cut the rest of the roping that bound her wrists he gathered a trembling, bleeding Piper into his arms. A whistle for Nerian who came right over and he mounted up on the Zephyr, holding tight to his daughter with one arm, the other to Nerian. A sharp look to Malik. "If there's one thing I admire it's the methods of justice of the drow..." No more needed to be said to that as he gave an elvish word to Nerian, the three blinking out in an instant.
Serino stirred in the stables slightly as a breeze shifted around nearby and along with that a noise from Nerian. Though still yet too tired to really move fast enough, Nerian was visiting him before he even got up. Though Serino gave a distressed noise over the fact that Nerian's hide was quite covered in blood.
Despite the nature of the situation, he didn't run with her in hand. He had merely slipped off Nerian and headed to the fortress, kicking open the doors. Jostling her too much could only work against her right now. "You're strong Pip. Don't give up just yet."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:50 am
Malik smirked.
"As you wish, Kaden. after all...always pleased to grant a request like that. Us drow are like that, aren't we."
He grabbed Kaden by the shirt. and not so gently slammed him into the nearest tree, the chain still in his hand..and what the hell, jammed it into his chest, twisting it to hook on ribs, and used it to tie him to the tree, before taking his pants off, and taking out the bag he'd put that twitching hair in before, and pulled it out.
"Do you know what this is? it's a wonderful little parasite. it's going to put you in a world of misery. wether you care about it or not, your body still feels, and it will make me happy."
He dangled it down, and let the worm enter the body through that most sensitive place.
"You might find it a bit disturbing, the eggsac barbs might make it a littel rough when you use the bathroom. I'll let it feast it's way though your body till you start convulsing after it hits your spinal collum while I look for that ring."
And Malik went to do exactly that, searching around for the ring.
Onyx smelled blood...and paniced, heading twoard the smell to find a blood drenched Kieran and Piper the one doing the bleeding. Big eyes and rushing to Kieran without much other thought, the letter at present forgotten.
"What in the world happened to her? where's malik? or Serino? Are they alright? is she still alive?"
Far be it from Onyx to think that Piper had gotten injury without Malik being dead.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:56 am
Kaden choked back a scream of pain as fire coursed through his body. He heard flesh ripping and muscles being torn into and his entire chest was on fire. And then it got worse. He was already twitching to try and get that thing out of him but of course it was burrowing it's way through his body. Tied to a tree, pantsless, a hook in his chest and a parasite crawling through his body. It could be worse and he had a feeling that it was going to. All this for Piper...no that wasnt true. Piper was an excuse, he'd been maiming, killing, and torturing long before. Now all he had to do was wait.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:04 am
Reflexively, Kieran back stepped from Onyx's quick rushing, tightening his hold on Piper. But relaxed once more, adjusting her in his hold before moving to the dining room where he laid her on the table. "Kaden Ravenwing happened to her. And yes, she's still alive..."Trailed off as if he wanted to say 'but barely' though he couldn't bring himself to say it. "Malik is dealing with Ravenwing and Serino we found tied up in his reins, though Nerian said he's back here...he's exhausted thought." All the time in his talking, looking Piper over, assessing things. Kaden had done quite the number on her. "Stay with her." Kieran did know healing some, but he never was that savvy at it and he wasn't a throughly trained healer. But Malik had said he had clerics, and Kieran intended to fetch one, which he went off to do at a jog.
Piper seemed content to cry and bleed. Twitch and make a pained sound every now and then. Though she still didn't look like she was all there as she lay on that table, not moving except for faint breathing and the occasional involuntary twitch from pain. Her mind assessing on its own, the problems. Various cuts in her skin, snapped collar bone...that would all heel. Physical things always did. But her mind...it was still with Kaden and his words.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:19 am
Onyx laid his hand on her head, and talked to her gently, while Moonstone was pacing at this point in a bit of a panic.
"You're safe at home, Piper....Malik is going to take care of that person that hurt you, and your father will get you all healed. don't worry, we're all here for you."
The clerics were of coure downstairs some posted by doors that had screaming people in them, of course the first available one saw a blooddrenched Kieran, and came to him immediately. an injured houseguest was not good. and it was the slaves that woudl suffer for it.
"Are you alright...sir?"
They didn't know how to address him, and the cleric kept her eyes downcast of course.
Malik looked around, and finally found the ring, picking it up and putting it in a beltpouch, before casually walking back to Kaden chained to the tree.
"How is it progressing? regretting taking my fiance yet, Kaden?
Malik looked at the ring, and held it like a sacred object walking over and using Kaden's discarded pants to wipe and shine that ring, beofre placing it back in his beltpouch.
"Has it reached through your heart or lungs yet? or maybe already gotten to the spinal collum?"
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:25 am
Kaden refused to answer. He wasn't going to give the drow the satisfaction of seeing him shake either. That jsut wasn't going to happen. Malik could drive that sword through his heart or any part of his body he wanted but instead he had him tied to a tree with no pants. He was a son of a b***h alright. But then in the next few moments he knew the little thing was wriggling around near his back. The strange thing was he could feel it but at the same time he couldn't. It really wasn't explainable. He just knew his time was limited. Damn parasite. Damn drow. Damn halfling elf.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:32 am
Not surprisingly she flinched as Onyx touched her, and that was on her own movement, not some involuntary thing from a jolt of pain or anything. Apparently touching was bad now. But she could hear him, though dull eyes didn't acknowledge him. Take care of Kaden? Why...Kaden was right...and Malik would be angry with her for what she had said before she left, for the position she had put herself in. She'd even gotten her beloved Serino in the mess. Get her healed? For what? What if something like this happened again? And a cleric couldn't heal everything...all there for her? What if she didn't want to be there? Horrible thoughts of a tainted by trauma mind, no doubt.
Snatch. Kieran didn't even say a word, just grabbed him by the front of his shirt and yanked him along behind him and back upstairs where he could be of use, where Piper lay bleeding and Vah keeping watch and pacing. "It's not me you should be concerned with. It's your mistress." Using proper terminology with him only to make him know exactly what was expected of him. Kieran wasn't stupid, he saw how they all acted to the influence and mentioning of Piper and Malik. They would rather chew off their own arms before incurring the wrath of those that lead the house.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:50 am
Of course Malik waited for the convulsions to set in, and the screaming to start. then he unbound the chain from the tree, and tried it right next to Terran's on the saddlehorn, letting Nightmare bite and stomp on him for a few minutes while he did that. then moutning up, and dragging a silent Terran and a screaming Kaden behind him on the way back home.
The cleric visibly paled. dear lord...what had happened to her mistress? what's going on?
"Mistress Piper?! dear lords, what happened to her?"
The cleric wasted no time in gathering from her robes the holy implents and images, setting them aroudn piper and praying for healing, praying for Piper's life..and of course a prayer or to for thier own safety once she was roused or malik got back home.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:02 am
How long had it been since he left Malik? An hour or more at least? Kieran didn't know, he had lost track of time. Now he sit on the edge of the bed in Piper and Malik's' room, his clothes changed and no longer caked in blood, just watching Piper laying bed. The twins had taken to their own alone time as well, doing whatever it was they did. Piper? Her mind had forced her into reverie to preserve itself it seemed, but Kieran found a sort of peace in watching her lie there, healed to an extent, free of blood, looking as if nothing had happened to her. Though he found something else in his study of her...something that Kaden didn't cause. Nerian had mentioned she had 'funny ears' but Kieran chocked that up to him talking about elven ears in general. No, he meant funny for even elven ears it seemed...beccause half of Piper's was missing. It stirred thoughts in him, especially since it was the one that was once before tinged blue. Another sigh from him for what seemed to be the hundredth time that day.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:18 am
Malik reared up with Nightmare..leaving her to the Stables where she moved directly to Serino, checking him over. he was hers, after all, part of her herd and while she knew Malik would take care of Kaden and Terran..she was going to see if her herd was alright.
As for Malik, he was dragging the still screaming Kaden, who wa also at this point convulsing, and Terran, to a breaker room. the slaves of coirse cleaned the blood up from behind, and he flung Terran in.
"I want him to beg for the collar. and by beg, I mean begging like an infant for breastmilk"
That door closed and the sounds of more screams and breaking bone and flesh came as well. then to another, dragging Kaden by the chain still hooked in his ribs. except there was no breakers in this one. only a single necromancer. he dragged Kaden in, hooked the chain to one of the ceiling hooks, and drew Malvolence, and slammed it through Kadne's chest, where his heart woudl be on the other side. pinning him to the wall, and standing on his feet. then he made large gashes on those feet as well with the curved dagger.
"I want you to do whatever you wish. make him suffer...and don't let Malvolence eat him. I'll reclaim the blade in a few hours. and it he urinates, keep those gashes on his feet open, I don't want the new worms without a host."
The necromancer nodded, and began to work Kaden, fillign his body with poisons, diseases, and using an undead pet, to siphon it's life sustaing energies nad feed them to Kaden to keep him alive, while samples of bone, flesh, skin, hair were taken from Kaden for study later.
Then Malik went upstairs, and to the room he shared with Piper, having been informed that she'd been taken there after a healing. he saw Kieran on the bed, and looked at Piper, walking over and picking up her hand and slipping the ring back on it.
"How is she faring?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:33 am
Serino was again lying where he had been before, a now clean Nerian standing off a ways from him, keeping an eye on his fellow Zephyr. But he didn't put up protest when Nightmare wanted to paw at him and nudge at him, wanting to make sure he was alright. Still worn and a bit upset but otherwise okay.
Kieran looked up at Malik as he came in the room, moving straight to Piper and placing her ring back on her hand. He stood from the bed, thus offering up his space for Malik to be close to her. Another sigh from him as he stood there and crossed his arms lightly. "She's weak, and she'll be sore. But she'll live." But Kieran shook his head. "She was still distant though...before her mind let her rest as she does now. Beyond that it's hard to tell how she'll be when she wakes again." He gave a pause before he just had to ask the brewing questions. "Do you know what happened to her ear, Malik?"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:41 am
She watched the minotar leave, wondering what he was summoned for. Always be special, eh? It was difficult to believe. But then again, in a harem of one hundred slave girls, she had also been special. When he could, Dimitri chose her over his other girls. Why her? She wasn't that appealing. Perhaps he had liked how time after time, she tried to refuse. He had been power hungry.
And then she killed him.
She sighed, ran a hand through her loose hair. Her hand found that little tiara Tarathiel had given her, she had forgotten to take it out. She looked at it's glittering, silvery surface a moment, tilting it this way and that to catch the light of the fire. She gently set it on the nightstand, along with the necklace that she clipped off of her neck. From the soft folds of her silks, she pulled out the two stone acrons, rolled them in her fist a moment....she knew their power. Knew what they could do. Her plan had been to use it on Dimitri...but she had lost her composer for it. Her resolve had dissolved. The acorns were usless now too.
On to the bed side table they went, and she propped her staff up against the wall. Disrespectful to hve it laying on the ground. She kicked up her feet and swung ehrself lengthwaide onto the bed. But she did not sleep. Sleep would be a long time comming for her.
For a moment, she thought she was lost. The swirling darkness was so new to her, it was never seen before. The quiet, the peace, was frightening. For a sickening moment, she thought she was dead. Her eyes snapped open as he body gave a violent jolt.
She shouldn't have done that. Oh how her body hurt. And her eyes...opening them had felt like scraping sandpaper across her eyeballs. Slowly she closed them again, which hurt just as much as opening them.
And the visions were back as well. Ah well, she was used to them. And yet now she feared it as well too. She had made another mistake, which almost lead to her distruction.
She couldn't move, didn't want to move. Everything hurt to much. Her throat was scrathcy, but not as dust filled as it used to be. Strange...she seemed healed. Her limbs seemed to be able to work, her lungs rose and fell smoothly, did not hurt to expand or contract. It was motly her eyes that hurt...the rest of her was...remembered pain.
She let out a little sigh, and tried to go back to sleep.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:17 am
Tarathiel stood in the cabin beside his slaves and servents, and sighed autobly.
"Sir, your thought of something but did not act on it?"
"Chaos comes in many forms... Malik could have been wonderful."
"What are you talking about?"
"Never mind you that."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:38 am
Alaran graciously let him off a few hundred feet away. It wouldn't do to scare the little thing, now would it? oh dear no. He straightened his plain clothing, tucked his long hair behind an ear. it did well to look presentabl as well.
He walked the rest of the way to that little den, the one he had watched the little wolf and her father disappear into. How odd that Malik's servants hadn't amde him leave, so he was ablt to watch the exchange between the Vah and the shapshifter.
Out side the den, he slapped on a pretty smile and spoke. "Knock, knock, be you home, little wolf kin?"
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