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Bitter Ambrosia Vice Captain
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 Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:41 pm
Selene
Selene's body slowly started to heal, and the poison was slowly pushed from her veins and throat and stomach. She started to stir, her hand first gripping Miron's hand tightly, and then her other hand rising from her side to touch his face gently. Selene slowly opened her indigo eyes, and smiled a little, but then coughed, her hand that was on his face going to cover her mouth. Blood still came up, but not as much as before. Selene's eyes widened as an unbearable thirst overcame her, and she found that she could barely speak.
"Thirsty..." she whispered, unable to say anything more. She needed something to drink, badly, and she was so weak that she could hardly move. Her skin was dry, flaky, it seemed, and also seemed to be ablaze with heat. It was from the after effects of the poison, this fever. If she could not get water or something, she would still possibly succumb to the poison's effects.
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:50 pm
  MinaMina closed her eyes as she sat down next to Selene's body after taking the vial the Kitsune. She handed the vial to Meiun, her eyes still closed as she allowed herself to flow from her body into Selene's. She knew there wasn't much she could do but maybe with all of them working together they could save her. Mina was having such a hard time concentrating on what she needed to do because she knew, without a doubt, that if Selene died and she returned to the castle alone she would wish she had died with Selene. She shook that thought away and tightened her eyes closed as she focused on the poison that was running through Selene. She used her energy to sort of coral the poison in one spot, hoping that if she did that the others could save her from it. When she spoke her voice was strained, she was expanding a lot of her energy to try and keep the poison to one place as well as keep Selene anchored to life. "I-I have b-been able to h-hold the poison to one place. See w-what can be d-done for her. I h-have also b-been able to h--hold her to life, but s-she is sl-slipping away f-fast. M-Miron, you n-need to c-call to her. G-Get her to c-come back to y-you. M-Meiun, use the s-stuff in the v-vial, and p-please help s-save her." Mina had to stop speaking, it was taking more energy from her, energy that she was slowly starting to drain dry from herself. So instead she thought to herself, knowing that somehow Meiun would hear her thoughts. 'M-Meiun, she i-is e-everything to me. P-Please help me s-save her. I-I will w-wish I w-were dead if s-she dies u-under my care. I-I can't return t-to the p-palace w-without her. T-They will m-make me p-pay for their l-loss.'
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Mrs Yachi-san
Mrs Yachi-san
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Mrs Yachi-san
Mrs Yachi-san
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:58 pm
Sheridan  Sheridan blushed more at his words and shook her head. That had to be wrong, no one other then her father and Athrius ever seemed to be kind to her. Everyone had either ignored her or openly hated her. "I have seen no one but you and my father be kind to me, so how can that be so. Everyone I have spoken to either has ignored me, pretended to be kind, or openly hated me." She placed her head on his shoulder as he told her he wanted to spend the rest of 'her' life with her. She was happy and couldn't stop blushing. She didn't know that just like him and her father she would live for a very long time because of the blood that she was occasionally given. But she was happy to be able to spend what time she thought she had left with him. "Lets just say that we are both thankful for each other then. Because if it wasn't for you I would have continued to feel alone in a place that was full of people. Even with my father, which I love to death, I sometimes felt alone because he tends to be gone for a long time because of his goal." She looked to the table and the food that was started to get cold and smiled as her stomach once more grumbled. "I think we should sit and eat before my stomach shakes the castle down."
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 2:09 pm
((Crud, I said "her"? redface ))
Athrius sighed, holding her close, and said "Mostly it's the people who ignored you, for fear of what your father would do..." Suffice it to say, what happened to him verified their fears. Slowly, he picked up a piece of bread, bringing it up for her to take a bite with a smile. "I understand how that feels... Miron and dad used to go out hunting often, once or twice they were out for a couple of days, and I had to stay behind... at the time it was dangerous not to have at least one man in the house... since only men were allowed to argue for property rights... I never really connected well with my mom or sis... and I didn't really have many friends..."
As Selene woke, Miron slowly lifted her, and said "We should bring her inside now..." As he carried her, he reached to his waist, grabbing a waterskin, and began to help her drink from it, using his wings to support her.
Meiun blinked, and, running up, said "Here! Put it in the waterskin!" He was holding up the root. As Miron did so, Meiun sighed, and said to Mina, "She'll be fine... some rest, some of that root, and time with Miron will fix her right up." He was still averting contact with her eyes, and turned, heading back to the back of the inn, pausing a second at the door leading into it, as if he was going to say something, but sighed, continuing on.
Stretching, Kaldra yawned, walking up to Mina, and said "Well... Looks like we're waiting a day to get moving. Can't move with an injured person, we'll cover more ground if we give her a chance to recuperate." Pausing, she looked at Mina, and said "You've seemed upset at that guy all day, but you went to him for help. I applaud you, you're ready to go beyond personal discomfiture for survival. You'd make a good merc." With that she turned, walking in.
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Mrs Yachi-san
Mrs Yachi-san
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 2:12 pm
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ââââââââââââââââââ Sienna soon woke to the smell of strong powerful blood. Not being fully awake she reached out blindly and grasped the source and sank her fangs into the flesh and started to drink from the wound. As she bit down she wasn't gentle but she wasn't rough. The blood, once it reached her stomach, started to work almost right away, bringing color back to her face and healing the wounds she had received. Her eyes flew open as she felt the power of the blood started to strengthen her. She closed her eyes once more, getting lost in the blood lust that had gripped her, she fed, gripping tightly to the hand that was at her mouth, draining the blood from the body that had been near her and injured. It wasn't until she felt the hand to limp in her grip that the blood lust died and she came to her senses and looked about the room, finally seeing where she was and who she had fed from. She gasped as she say the form of King Darian, pale and close to death in the chair near her. She gasped and whispered to herself. "Oh god, what have I done? Stupid man, why did he have to bring me back? Why did he have to be within reach after I had been given blood? God, I did it again. I drained someone to the brink of death again." Tears slid from her eyes as she looked to him, she shook her head and stood, pacing around the room trying to figure out what to do to help him. As she walked around the room she didn't notice the letter opener that was laying on the table at the edge with the tip pointing towards her hand. As she walked past the tip bit into her skin and created a cut. She flinched but other then that didn't notice the wound. She continued pacing, walking from one end of the room to the other, passing by the form of King Darian a few times as blood dripped from her hand to the floor.    
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 2:23 pm
Selene
Selene drank the water so fast that she prectically choked on it. But she was still thirsty, still unbearably thirsty. The fever still burned her, and she was delirious, struggling weakly against the strong arms that held her. She couldn't tell that it was Miron, but knew hewas nearby from the worry she felt in their bond. She weakly reached out to him in their bond, trying to reassure him, but was soon struggling in his arms again, trying to get down to find him. The thirst burned in their bond as she struggled, the fever clouding her mind. The poison would soon be gone, because of the root that she had drunk with the water in the waterskin, but she still needed to be given water, and plenty of it.
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Bitter Ambrosia Vice Captain
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Bitter Ambrosia Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 2:27 pm
  King Darian
Darian's eyes moved, his entire body weak. He watched Sienna as he paced back and forth, and then he caught sight of her hand. He didn't want her to be injured again! The thought was loud and clear in his mind, but it didn't seem to register with the rest of his body. Weakly, he reached out to her, but was unable to catch her arm.
"Sienna..." he whispered, his voice barely there. He wanted to protect her, but his body felt so unbearably weak. He slowly closed his eyes, his body relaxing back into the chair...
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 2:33 pm
Miron laid Selene in the bed, darting off and back again with as much water as he could carry... He had picked up as much water as possible from the inkeeper, in explanation that she had been poisoned from his food (He was very quick to help him at that point) and brought them up as fast as possible. He was currently giving her more water, stroking her cheek, and saying "Don't worry, Selene... I'm right here..." He sent reassuring emotions through to her, calming emotions...
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Mrs Yachi-san
Mrs Yachi-san
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 2:43 pm
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 3:12 pm
King Darian
As he started to drink, Darian's eyes opened. He looked at Sienna, and his strength returned. He could feel the bond forming, and found that frankly, he didn't much care. He rather liked it, and he was going to tell her so.
"Sienna... I love you." His voice was no longer weak, and niether was his body. He stopped drinking from her, and he licked his lips, then shook his head. He didn't need to say anything else, not in his opionion. He pulled Sienna into his lap and looked deep into her eyes. "I love you and I will never let you get that wounded ever again, I promise. Please... Please don't leave again..." This time, his voice held a broken note as he looked away, unable to bear letting her see the heartbreak in his eyes. He knew that with the bond now, his love for her would grow, and he knew that that wasn't a bad thing. But.. He knew that she would want to leave again, would want to not harm him again. But if he didn't let her get wounded like that again, she would have nothing to fear, right?
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Bitter Ambrosia Vice Captain
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Bitter Ambrosia Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 3:15 pm
Selene
Selene downed as much water as she could, slowly fighting through the delirium. She blinked, looking around the room, feeling Miron's worry dimly under the burning of the ever present thirst. But the fever was abating, and she was no longer so weak. She soon fell to slumber, a good sign, after all the water that she had drunk, that she was getting much much better.
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 3:23 pm
Miron sighed, wiping his brow... He couldn't make her drink while she was asleep, so he placed the jug he had been using at the moment down. Sighing, he slowly curled up with her... She needed to sweat this out, get rid of the rest of the fever... So he provided some of his body heat to it...
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Bitter Ambrosia Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 3:45 pm
Selene
The nightmare came, and it was shared by both of them, though experienced by Selene.
Selene was in chains, her clothes in shreds. She was nearly naked, and Linda danced around her with a whip, cackling with glee as she caused new welts, wrenched new cries of pain from Selene. Selene was sobbing and bleeding, begging for mercy as a fiery inferno raged in the villages around her. She saw her people being slaughtered, executed to becaome part of Darian's Undead army, and she saw them... She saw her people, bloody and dead, rise from the ground and start to swell the ranks of Darian's army. Selene screamed in pain as Linda buried a knife into her shoulder, commanding her to watch, to look in front of her to the person who would kill her. Selene's eyes widened in terror, heartbreak and pain filling her face, tears tumbling from her eyes. An arrow was launched from his bow and it buried itself in her broken heart, making her scream in pain, struggling even more against the chains while her blood leaked from her, and her strength left her. She finally fell, limp, to the ground, the light leaving her eyes as she died. The last thing she saw before the life left her was him, coming over to her, pretending to cry over her dead and broken body...
Selene woke screaming and sobbing, struggling to get away from whoever was binding her. She could not comprehend what was going on, could not feel Miron's worry over her own intense terror. She was still thirsty, her voice hoarse, and the screams coming from her seemed to make her throat bleed. She soon ended up in a corner, sobbing, holding herself, clutching her chest, as if it were a spell to keep the nightmare away. She sobbed helplessly, tears spilling down her cheeks as she tried to erase the images, the painful images from her mind.
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 4:21 pm
Swiftly, Miron got up, grabbing a pitcher as he did so. "Selene... it's me... Miron..." He started to send reassuring, happy emotions to her. He desperately wanted to calm her down... "Selene... Please..." He saw the nightmare... He didn't see who shot her... but he saw the nightmare... "Selene..."
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