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 Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:13 pm
Eliot was quite sure this man was just realing her in somehow.
"Yes," she replied, "Slavery is a dreadfull thing. You know someone who enslaves others? i do not see how that is to impress me."
She was keeping her guard up. She was not abotu to cozy up to someone. She had made that mistake alread.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:19 pm
He kept the easy smile. Spread his arms. "Why, I thought someone like you wouldn't approve of someone making slaves out of free people." He sighed, let the smile fall. "I thought somone who's father was a slave would understand, no one deserves to be salve, do they?"
He wrapped his cloak around. "But I guess I was wrong. Now that you've got your father, you don't care about the rest of them. Well then, if that is all, I'll just be going." He turhned around and slowly started to trudge off, looking down trodden.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:22 pm
Kieran raised an eyebrow. Broog, the ogre, and apparent collar worker of the place. Knew how to put them on and taken them off apparently. And he couldn't help but be amused as he asked if Kieran was to be collared. A look back to Piper, hand moving to indeed touch at mentioned collar a moment. That got a draw back from him at Piper. Funny he expected a flinch.
Broog...so eager to please. But why would Broog be needed? Didn't take long for her mind to give her the answer. Her collar, and that was only confirmed by the soft confirmation, at least soft to her, of Malik's word. He...wanted to take her collar? Take the one thing Kaden couldn't from her? Kaden could take her ring, her could take her confidence and courage, and he could take words and twist them into something vile. But he could of never been able to take that collar from her. Piper's collar that Malik had gave her, that she had used to show him that he couldn't expect everyone with one to obey him. No...he couldn't take her collar. Another look over to them both, eyes dull, but something else in them as well besides the present fear.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:22 pm
Eliot kikced herself. For crying out loud! why did he hhave to show up!!
"I never said I was not intent on freeign the slaves. I merely assumes you were part of the...selection process. Might I ask why you know so much about my father and I?"
She hated beign manipulated, adn thats exactly what was hapeneing.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:31 pm
He turned back, but he still looked sad. He batted his eyes, as if they had been filling with water. "I am magi. I know many things. The Acedemy watches all it can, especailly the slaves. We do so hate slavery."
HE toed a boot in the ground. "We know much of what happens. I assumed from the condition of your father, that only one thing could have come of it." That and form his observations of her with the Vah...wasn't hard to put two and two together.
He sniffed. "Me? Part of the process? What am I going to do, convince you to be a slave again? No, slavery is wrong,. Utterly worng. All peoples should be living free."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:35 pm
Eliot sighed.
"Mr. Roarke, i would prefer that you drop the charade and act as your true character, not as what you think I wish to see. i do no tlike to play games."
She hoped he would stop acting like a child.
"Yes you are right, my father was enslaves and we believe that all people shoudl live free, if they so whish it."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:37 pm
Malik watched Piper, saw the look, the way she moved when the collar was touched by her father. Brogg was already getting out his tools to remove it, when Malik put a hand on him.
"I changed my mind, Broog. seems Piper still wants her collar. and there's no way I'm taking it off if she wants it on."
Broog smiled brightly with a toothy grin.
"Mistress likes da collar still? Broog ish happy den. and we'll makes da person dat hurtz da mistress pays da pricey."
Broog put his tools away, and picked up his chest, whistling as best on ogre can and presumably to put his shinys up and then go and brutalize Kaden.
He walked over to Piper, but didn't touch her, just talked to her.
"I wouldn't take your collar, Piper. you know that. It's somethign no one else can take. no one has the power to take it form you, unless you want it taken. I love you very much piper...no matter what, I'll be here with you. Just like your collar is always there, so am I."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:49 pm
Piper seemed to relaxed a little, as if she had been tensing up to force herself into motion should one indeed try to go for that collar. Hurting, yes, weak, yes, but despite that she was ready to fight for that collar. If anyone wanted it they were going to have to take her head off to get it as far as she was concerned. But her eyes followed Malik as he walked over again. Habitually a hand moved to grip at her collar in comfort of herself. For a brief moment, the gold in her eyes shown a little before it was snuffed out again, like it tried but couldn't succeed. "...I...I'm so-sorry..." First words she spoke, half broken in how they came out and hard to get out at that. She had wanted to tell him that before even anything happened, she wanted to tell him while it all was happening and only now did she get to tell him that.
Kieran was quite intrigued by it. Indeed, Piper didn't see it as a collar, it was something so much more to her than that. That collar seemed to be a sort of constant to her that she was afraid to loose at all. Malik knew it too. They both may of called it a collar, but to them it wasn't a collar at all. To them it was as good as the elvish bond that had been formed between them over their time together. No one wanted a bond broken, she didn't want her collar taken. And that was proved as she even gripped at it. Though another one of those looks from him and a shake of his head as she spoke that she was sorry. She thought it was her fault because of her and Malik's fight didn't she. A look over to Malik then. "Do you want to be alone with her Malik?" Hey, he knew when it was better for him not to intrude.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:59 pm
"Charade? No charade. I am eanrist and sincere," he placed a hand on his chest again, as if her was hurt by the accustaion. He turned around and started to walk off in the direction of his dragon. Eyes closed, head slightly tilted. "But I'm not going to beg for help from soneone who obviously doesn't want to help. Otherwise it wouldn't be from the heart."
He sighed. "There are so few willing to fight anymore."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:00 pm
Malik looked at Kieran, and nodded. Time for just him and Piper right now. and once Kieran had left, he sat on the bed and took Piper's hand.
"You don't need to apologize. I know you didn't mean it...it's me who should be apologizing. I should have been here, I should have taken more care of you. Instead I went to try and see the Oracle to have her tell me if you were in danger. If I'd been here..we coudl have come sooner. we could have spared you some pain. But I wasn't and I'm sorry for it."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:05 pm
Eliot was not enjoying this.
She turned to her father. "Stay here nad heal, I will be back. I'll see if I can't find a plce with a better abundance of food to. I caugth some rabbits for you so you should have enough to keep your strength up. there is a sparrow as well but he is dessert daddy! i don't want to find out all you ate was junk food while I was gone!" She kissed him goodbye nad he licked her face.
She hailed Roarke. "I want you to know right now that I hate you." Now that thinsg were straight...slightly..."Now whats all this about freeign slaves?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:10 pm
Roarke sniffed. "Hate me? For doing what excatly?" He was enjoying this. It was better tyhan making Alaran angry.
"Oh, I didn't think you were interested in freeing slaves. And I don't want you to work with someone you hate, so we'll just leave it at that." He sighed. "I supoose the slaves will just have to stay slaves.."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:12 pm
But Piper didn't expect Malik to take care of her all the time. She was fiance, not his daughter. She should be able to take care of herself sometimes and she was just off putting herself in her own trouble. Piper should of just stayed home, but she had to go be stubborn about it. "No...I d-did it..." She was trying not to cry again. And as far as Piper was concerned, she had learned her lesson about going against what she knew fairly well was better judgment. Her fingers twitched in his hold again for whatever reason they chose to this time. Thogh she still watched him it seemed warily...after all, he snapper her collar bone and frankly her mind couldn't decide which was worse; Kaden putting it in ro Malik ripping it out.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:24 pm
" I won't argue that you ran off and did somethign stupid that got you in a really bad situation. and I know it must have been very painful when that chain got yanked out..I did hear the snap of your collar bone."
He sighed lightly.
"But if I'd tried to be gentle, I was afriad that he woudl just keep jerking on it to undo the work I woudl have done trying to get it out. I was frightened when I saw you like that. I was scared I woudl lose you. all that blood..you looked so..broken."
he picked up her hand, and kissed it lightly.
"Don't let him do that to you. don't let him break you like that. Be stronger, tougher, and sho w him that yur better than that. that he can't take you away from me."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:33 pm
Eliot was anooyed.
'Yeah?i think you can work with someone who hates you just fine. I think your someone who knows how to play your cards and I'm doing exactly what you want me to do. Now your goign to tell me what they Hell we're going to do abotu these slaves!"
She really did hate him.
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