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 Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:11 am
"Is this a situation? Lilo here meant no harm. She just.. doesn't like strangers." Bran answered, glancing at the daemon who still held it's aggressive stance.
He then turned to the girl who spoke.
"I live here, yes. And might I inquire as to who you may be? And your companions? And what is your business coming here?"
He directed the last two questions a little towards everyone present. Throughout, he never moved except for the turning of his head to direct his attention towards whoever he spoke to.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:20 am
Another soft growl escaped Lilo's throat as she glared up at Brody. She wasn't a small dog at all. Even crouched up in her offensive stance, her head reached up almost to any normal human male's waist level. Her pink-red ears were flat against her skull, and sharp teeth showed behind drawn lips. She didn't appreciate Brody's earlier language, nor his attitude, nor especially his agressive position. Who was he to come to hers, Rowan's and Bran's castle and act like he owned the place?
Lilo instantly disliked him, even hated him. Rowan felt it, too, and frowned. Her feelings were his feelings, there was no seperation between the two, and everything she saw and heard were things he saw and heard. He disliked him just as much as his daemon did.
Lilo raised her russet head and looked up at Bran. While some of her attention was on the male that resided in the castle alongside herself and Rowan, most of it was still attentively on Brody. Then she did something most daemons never did. She mind-spoke to him.
'Maybe I did mean harm! Not to the females... but to him? Forget these questions, Bran. Let's just take them to the castle!' Lilo and Bran had known each other long enough, were intimate as friends long enough that Lilo did, on occasion, mind-speak with him. But only when it was quite necessary. And Lilo was feeling very impatient. Worry, anxiety and irritation with these rude visitors gave her an itch to bite.
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.Majestic.Sock.Puppet. Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:36 am
Bran's lips quirked slighly at Lilo's words and he gave an almost imperceptible nod.
"Never mind the questions. We can converse elsewhere where we may be seated or at least sheltered. You must be chilled from being wet, as none of you have dried yourselves off. Granted you haven't anything dry to dry yourselves off with."
His eyes looked up and down each of the visitors noting their very drenched state. They hadn't been in the air long enough to dry.
"Follow me if you will."
He turned and led the way to the castle expecting them to follow. They certainly had no where else to go except perhaps out the barrier again. And anyhow, Lilo would round them up.
He strolled, seemingly unconcerned, around the castle a little and took a path through a large courtyard. The enormous doors opened as he approached and he felt their urge to shut before the visitors entered. They stayed open, however, allowing its masters to choose what to do with the intruders.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:18 pm
*She hesitated for a tiny bit, then shrugged and followed the man and began chatting slightly nervously, unable to control herself in her needto release the tension she felt around her*
I'm Caellynn. It's nice to meet you, I think... Anyways, i don't think I caught your name? I don't really know everybody very well yet, so I'll let them introduce themselves. We're looking for something... or perhaps we're looking for someone... *she glanced up thoughtfully* I never did find out what it was we were looking for...
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:35 pm
Bran half listened to the girl's ramblings, glancing at her every so often, almost amused.
"Was there actually a question in there that I needed to answer?" He interjected.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:44 pm
Lilo had begun circling around the small group as the walked after Bran, aware that he might need her help keeping the people together and in control. She ran back and forth in a half-crouch, ears flattened against her skull, and lustrous brown-red fur gleaming and soft in the sunlight. She growled where anyone lagged, and circled around to keep them in a neat, orderly group - more out of the sheperd dog shape's instinct than anything else. She yapped at Bran's response to one of the girl's ridiculous babbling.
Lilo had nothing against the girl, but her continuous chatter had begun to get on the daemon's nerves. Laughter danced behind the sternness in the dog's intelligent eyes as she wound around the visitors tightly.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:55 pm
Arianna hesitated, looking up at the castle that, despite it's beauty, seemed slightly ominous. They were very unwelcome in its depths. She glanced at Brody and Loen and at Caelynn's retreating back. She sighed and followed as the unusually intelligent dog growled at her to get going. She walked silently, observing her surroundings and listening to Caelynn's jabbering.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:00 pm
Seeing the groups move towards the castle, Serene ended the picture and looked back to Rowan. "Do we get to go inside, too?" Her eyes lit slightly at the prospect of seeing the inside of the lovely place. The outside was gorgeous and there was no reason for the inside to be any less beautiful.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:20 pm
Rowan nodded, his gaze distant as he saw through Lilo's eyes. One girl lagged behind, but of course, Lilo was prompt in 'convincing' her to keep moving. He smiled inwardly at Bran's reply to Caelynn.
Serene's voice, though, brought him back into the here and now, and he looked hard at Serene and Breeze, as if evaluating them.
"Aye. You do. Follow me, ladies. If you please." Rowan's voice was quiet and bland as he turned away from them. He'd added the last bit to soothe Breeze's blistering temper. It didn't bother him terribly, and he was far from being frightened or ashamed of his behavior towards them. But he wanted no bad energy entering his castle - it was his home, and he would protect it from anything, even psychic attack.
Slowly, Rowan led the girls through the garden and into a hidden path. Wall creepers towered in thorny curls above them, and wild red and white rose bushes hovered in the air around them at chest-level. Wild sunflowers hung over their heads, like many suns lighting their path. Small wild-flowers dotted the grassy sides of the pathway, and peppered the green grass around the footstones the path was made of with their yellow, blue, pink and violet petals. A light, citrus-y fragrance curled around Rowan and the girls, clinging sweetly to their hair and clothing. Birdsong fluttered from unseen holes in the walls, and from out of the hidden pathway.
A dark, intricately carved metal gate loomed before them, dressed in shadow. A curved roof hung over it, and red and white grape vines hung from it, leaves and stalks and fruit intertwined with each other and with the thin but strong wood of the roof. It blocked off most of the sunlight, but left the archway over the gate with a sweet, fruity smell, and ripe, sweet grapes hanging just within arm's reach.
"Do not take the grapes. They're not yours to take." Rowan warned quietly as they approached the gate. Anything past it was oddly too difficult to see. It seemed like enchantment hung in a heavy mist over the place and forced the eye to look away.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:24 pm
Bran Straston Bran half listened to the girl's ramblings, glancing at her every so often, almost amused.
"Was there actually a question in there that I needed to answer?" He interjected.
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silentbreeze90 Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:36 pm
Breeze followed Makai, but began to lag behind, staring in wonder at the beautiful flowers all around. She revelled in the scent surrounding her and took it into herself, imprinting it in her mind as one of the sweetest scents she had ever smelled. She noticed that the other two had gotten ahead, and walked faster to catch up with them, just in time to hear Makai's words..Majestic.Sock.Puppet. "Do not take the grapes. They're not yours to take."
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:03 pm
Serene semi-followed Rowan, becoming distracted at every turn of the way. She often stopped to touch a leaf lightly, take in the scent of a flower, watch a fluttering insect or listening to the songs of birds. How it was that birds and insects ended up here never crossed her mind. There were always possibilities and this place was full of oddities that one could ponder at for years on end and stumble only upon more questions than answers.
She wanted more than anything to stop for a bit and spin and dance and play in this almost enclosed yet open area. But she restricted herself to going side to side on the path to give a little attention to everyflower and leaf on the way. She did rather well on the keeping up aspect despite her wanderings. Though her attentions were split between way too many things, she did keep an eye on their escort.
As they came to the gate and grapes, she inhaled the scent contentedly and reached up to touch a grape. She hadn't been planning on picking one but Rowan's warning was enough for her to pull her hands back and behave as they entered. Certainly there must be many things within that she shouldn't touch. She was a little girl andlittle girls did have the tendancy to break things on accident. So she would be good and avoid and such possibilities.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:30 pm
Bran almost laughed at the girl's, Caelynn's reaction to his simple statement. He answers her question with as brief an answer as there ever was and in turn asks her a question.
"Bran. Bran Straston. You said you don't know these people? Then why are you.. traveling with them?"
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:34 pm
*she looks thoughtful for a while, trying to be a little more sparing with her words after his earlier teasing rebuke. Despite this, her answer still comes out quite elongated and rambling*
Well, I just happened to drop down on the island. It was really very strange, but thankfully, the ground where I happened to drop was very soft, so I wasn't truly hurt or anything. Realizing I was somewhere new, I started looking for sentient life forms to speak to and get some information. i happened upon these other travelers, who seemed to be looking for something in particular, but they seemed to know where they were headed, so I decided to tag along and learn a little about the culture here. But right after I met them, we went under water and I couldn't really speak to them, and then we were here. So I started out just following them.
*Realizing she was rambling, she quickly shut her mouth again, making another clicking noise, and looked a little embarrassed by her very random tale. Quietly, she offered an apology for her rambling ways.*
sorry I talk so much...
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:46 pm
ninja mmmmmmmmmm.........
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