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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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 Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:27 am
So esentially she was poisoning Piper too to get the desired results she wanted. Controlled yes, but of course there were still side effects. "I think he would do what I did, and he's already made that decision. If you don't tell at least him, then when things go down hill he's going to either fight hard for you to do something to reverse it all, or let it all go. If you do tell him...he can at least play along with the game so he can be there to soothe her when it all is over." Shaking his head, "We dont' always get what we want in this world. That's life and you have to choose the best road to take." And where was that girl going? Howeer his attention turned to the door at the odd noise on it. Was that clawing? Getting himself up he moved open and opened it lightly. Okay...what the hell was that?
"I was listening to your brother. If I had known he was messing with me, I never would have said anything at all." Sneering lightly, "Not really, but that's not the point. I still blame your brother and attest to my innocense."
Frankly he expected something like this and he didn't give any outward signal that it bothered him, because it really didn't. He had put up with bullies for a long time and they didn't get the best of him anymore, and they were just bullies. "She's where you can't get her. I'm only here to say it once. I want you out of here. Pack up your things, leave Vesendar, leave this plane. I won't have you around anywhere that you can hurt her anymore. If you'd rather play hardball...I can play it even harder."
"I think she's being idle. Things are calming down." At least Zahara wasn't going to give her a ton of grief this time and leave her be. "Tastes like cherries." Shurgging lightly and leaning into him as he settled himself. "So in other words, we're shoving things down my throat that may actually taste good and I'm more or less unaware of. How thoughtful."
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:53 pm
She took the glass of water and glanced down at the old couch with disdain. Was that dust? Everything was covered in dust as if someone hadn't been here for a great many years. If Galesen thought she was giving up her virginity in a place like this, he had another think coming. "Galesen, not here. Not until you clean it up." Dust swirled in the air, gritting her mouth and causing her to sneeze a few times in rapid succession and there was the dank, musty smell of a room that hadn't been used or cleaned in many years. Nope, not happening.
"I have a feeling that he won't honor the bargain we made. I said three months but neither was really intending to let me harm their child. And once the potions are far enough along, there will be no reversing the process." Shaking her head, "Yes, and I disagreed just as Piper will. I suppose there's simply no other option, though. Malik said his wife over his child." She glanced out the door and then, as if she'd heard her husband's exclamation, she moved to stand next to him. "That's a Vah named Cymarron." To the overly large cat, she quirked an eyebrow, "What are you doing here?"
"Maybe now you've learned your lesson. Never listen to my brother. He rarely means well when giving advice about how to pick up women. If he knew his own charm, he probably wouldn't be nearly as popular with them." Shaking her head and lightly patting Mykorian's thigh. "Let's go get you settled at my house. Do you want someone there with you?"
She was rather amused seeing as right now she held all the cards. "And you always get what you want, Dark Prince, don't you? You and your father murder and pillage and in the end get exactly what you want. Well, not this time." Her face darkened as she stood slowly and walked over to him, lightly tracing a finger down his cheek. His arms were held tightly by her personal guard and she had quick reflexes in case he tried anything. "What would you want with a skinny little brat like Kaelin, anyway? She's a decent servant and she might even warm your bed but you'll tire of her."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:42 pm
Cymarron stared at Sevilin, and sniffed at him. this must be the one that was Zahara's mate. before turning his attention to her.
"D'vinn asked Cymarron for kit help. so for piper we make many things. fetishes for good health, teas, we make soft leathers and pillows. have some older toys that our kits no longer need. But we didn't want to interrupt you..and we do not want to be around D'vinn if possible. So we thought to give them to you, and you can give them to Piper."
A light chuckle.
"you could say that. it's not like zahara to be that...flippant though. usually she's a lot more serious about your health. maybe lack of reverie is still catching up to her."
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:58 pm
"Well, those are your options Sweetheart, like them or not. You just have to decide who knows what and if it is best that they know them or not. Like I said...these sorts of accidents happen all the time on the surface." More or less supplying his wife with a ready made excuse to absolve her own guilt that maybe she hadn't had a hand in it at all and indeed nature had just finally given up. But he let Cymmarron with a step aside and closed the door after he was in the room. That was just a strange creature indeed, Sevilin giving him various once overs while he was speaking to Zahara.
"I don't care either way. Just plop me on the couch or something and you can leave me there if you have things to do. I'll catch up on my reverie, I haven't been getting enough lately."
"Murdering and pillaging are all self proclaimed definitions and sometimes necessary evils." Merely standing there in his own defiance as well as Kaelin's to this woman. It was going to take way more than this to scare him. Besides...he wasn't worried about being trapped her as with his arsenal of skills. He wasn't here to bargain with her over Kaelin either, not like it would matter what it meant to her. "More meaningful things than you'd ever care to want with her." Narrowing his eyes that had gone steely. "We can do this the hard way or the easy way. You leave...and I either kill you or put you someplace so dark and painful that you'd beg like a child to be dead. You want to call me my father's son, I can be that in every detail of the word."
"I'm enjoying the reprieve from her. And you do know that when all of this is over if I have my way I'm never letting another cleric, Zahara or otherwise touch me ever again." Nibbling every now and then and tugging at her collar lightly.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:15 pm
She'd known that even before he said it but hearing the words made her want to begin crying all over again. It was inevitable just as she'd known it would be in the beginning. If only Malik had let her kill the baby off then...Piper wouldn't have been as attached or as weak right now. "I'll think it over and decide. Nothing has to be done right now." She nodded to Cymarron, rather pleased he was willing to help. "I'd be glad to, Cymarron. Do you have them with you now? You can leave them here with me and I'll make sure she gets them. She'll be very thankful. I laid upon one of your pillows and drank your tea when I was pregnant with my first and it truly was lovely."
"No need. You can have my bed or my brother's." Picking up the small pack she usually took along with her, she motioned him out. "I'll stay with you because my father has runes all over the house. I'll have to trick them into thinking there's no one around. Just don't leave whatever room you choose until I give you the clear signal in the morning."
"Sometimes necessary evils," she mocked in a sing-song voice. Kaelin thinks you're kind and good and she trusts you. But you aren't, are you young Lord D'vinn? You've killed your share and performed black deeds to get your own way. I wonder if she knew that how she'd feel about you then." Her face hardened and she slapped him hard across the cheek. "You can neither kill me nor keep Kaelin. I want her back. She belongs to me. It's a fair price after you stole my brother's virility."
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:47 pm
Cymarron nodded and handed over the bag carried in his tail.
"We are glad you were pleased. We have helped care for many kits including our own...you have more kits? how many do you have now?"
he was not unaware of the looks he was getting from sevilin...but was used to it from similar looks at Piper's wedding. But somethign did nag at him a bit.
"We did your mate not come with you last we saw you. it was unwise to let you roam without protection while with kit."
A light grin at his wife and running a hand through her hair.
"But you know you are not going to get your way with that. I already agreed that no one but Zahara gets to prod you. but if you need clerical care, you are getting it. Only one of us is allowed to be stubborn with that and I called it first."
Of course something else was nagging a bit. usually Malikhai was up by now...which would make Kaelin up as well. and no one had seen either of them today. maybe he'd been hurt a little worse then they thought?
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:05 pm
He could only assume from that line of questioning that this had something to do with God's forsaken Andal. And he could guess the time period there as well. "We werent together then." Being bluntly honest and crossing his arms, leaning against the wall as the two exchanged pleasantries of the sorts.
"I'll make it a point to ask her that myself. What she thinks of me doesn't matter so much as her being safe from you does." He didn't flinch as she hit him, or as the skin at his cheek shaded purple, merely kept that steady steel ridden gaze on her. "Your brother...I don't even know what you're talking about but as you may have noticed, things aren't like they used to be. Your old ways are dead and she is hardly your property. What being your daughter makes her that? I beg to differ. I'm only going to tell you one more time to make a choice before I make it for you."
"I can still fight all I want about that. Don't take that away from me too." Sticking her tongue out at him in childish fashion as he claimed his rights to being stubborn. Raising an eyebrow however at him. "You just got that 'I think something is off' look."
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:14 pm
Zahara smiled as she took the bag and held it in her hands. "Five. Three boys and two girls, three of which are full grown, and the youngest is still a child." She nodded to confirm Sevilin's answer. "He was not yet my mate and so I felt he had no say over my person or my life. The child was his, however, and that alone should have given him the right to protect me and through me, his child. But I'm sure you remember how stubborn I could be at times, Cymarron. I haven't changed all that much, simply realized what it meant to have a mate."
She threw her head back and made a sound that was a bit too dark to qualify as laughter. "You crippled him. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Don't you dare play stupid with me." Her hand rose and fell a few more times in quick succession and then she stepped back. "Oh, I see. You think of him as my husband. As if any man could wed and bed me. And that little b***h is no more from me than the man lying in the other room is my husband. I saved that b***h's life and she owes me. Without me, she'd be dead by her own mother's hand."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:39 pm
"Well, normally Malikhai is up by now. which would wake Kaelin up I'm sure. but no one has seen either of them. and it's not like malikhai to stay in his room without either calling for someone to bring him a meal or breakfast or his work papers."
Cymarron tilted his head.
"Why would you bear a child to one who is not your mate?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:57 pm
"And here's comes the complicated part."
This just got very interesting. This woman was not Kaelin's mother, nor was her supposed father that either. Kaelin had always called them as such though. Malikhai widened his stance a little, "All the easier to not worry about her being upset for your choice then. Sad day in history to know that you're so black hearted that you trump even mine. A life of a slave is your payment now. My father treats his serf better than you treat her. Who's the monster now?"
"Is he feeling okay? The only time he's ever out of sorts is if he's not feeling right or something like that." The boy may be grown but she was still his mother and she still worried. "You don't think he's up to sneaking out again like he thought he could when he was younger, do you?"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:12 pm
Obviously her "mate" wasn't going to give her any help with this one, was he? "The folly of youth and heat of passion? Mating is not just about children, Cymarron, you know that. Sevilin and I conceived a child, he was born, and through him we grew to love each other as true mates should."
She smiled triumphantly and once again fingered the knife, dangerously close to Malikhai's attractive face. "Ah, but that's where you're wrong, young D'vinn. You think I care what you think? I offered Kaelin a home and she accepted. She knows her place and she knows where she belongs. You are keeping her from the only thing she knows. And what will you do with her when you tire of her innocent ways, Lord D'vinn?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:27 pm
"You assume I have a short attention span." He didn't care for how close she was. Besides...a wrong move gave him a perfectly valid excuse to mess her up. "That's the great thing about youth though...we learn new things." Sideglancing her partners in crime as they could be called. "What with them? I thought you weren't impressed by me." Which was saying that she shouldn't need them if she didn't feel threatened by him.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:40 pm
"I assume nothing, Malikhai D'vinn. I know far more than you think I do. But you and I still wage a battle here, D'vinn. A battle that I won long ago when I saved the worthless b***h's life. Either relinquish her to me or I will go get her myself. You have no right to her. She is mine to do with what I will and that's not your concern." Her gaze flicked to the two men holding him and she laughed again. "Never underestimate your opponent. Of course, D'vinn, you crossed onto my land uninvited. You just might not be heading back home tonight. Does that bother you?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:54 pm
Galesen gave a small smile and got up. "We won't be doing it here, I just gotta clean my room, it won't be as bad as you think trust me." So off he went and took his time with cleaning the place up, changing the sheets to clean ones that he had stored away properly and even lighting a few candles that would give off the scent of some flowers to take away that odd smell. When he was done he looked at Zahara and smiled a little. "Alright, everything is ready." And his room was clean, the dust that had settled on the bed post and nightstand was gone, the floor was clean as was the bathroom for later when they needed it, it was just like it when he used to live there, and the candles had kicked in by the time he had finished cleaning anyway.
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