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"Why do you hide?" the shadows seemed to speak to Joy, their tone a soft and simply sweet tone. The whispered voice went quiet for a few moments no sooner then when it spoke. "I know why you hide..." a pair of delicate, ethereal, deep blue eyes opened within the darkness. The figure of a man wearing a white suit was then made, the figure squating down in front of Joy with a soft, serene smile. "And I know why there are tears...and why you are so very sad..." those eyes, had Joy looked up, would look back into Joy's eyes so calmly, and almost even seem to pierce through her own gaze into her mind, her soul. She might even feel a presence, one that feels her life, touches the very essence of her, that was the gaze this stranger gave. "But you need not be sad, Joy...you need not cry..." and he knew her name too, but how?

The man leaned a little closer to the girl, who almost seemed like she intentionally wanted to shrink away, and vanish from the world. But there was neither pity nor was there disgust in his eyes, simply the peaceful air he carried about himself. "However..." his smile grew, but very slightly. He extended his right hand out, which he wore a black leather glove over it...he did not wear a glove over the other hand though, strangely enough. "If Joy hurts here..." he placed his other hand along his heart softly. "...then Joy can let it out, she can let her hurt out to me...to Tallan..." his hand daringly moved a little closer to her, but only a little. "...I know how you feel Joy...I know how you hurt..." so very pleasent...

Joy flinched,and closed the gold stop watch,looking down she saw deep blue eyes,so deep,so at peace. That it almost made Joy just fall into them,his voice it was so soothing and relaxing. Like a snake charmers song,her swaying to the beat.

Joys hands touched where her heart was. This man seemed to know atleast somthing about her,maybe all of it? Her eyes were dewy as a small smile spread across her face,a soft,lonely,sad smile. If only Joy could,place all this weight on this Tallen-sama..but its my own burden,my own path,my own terrible fate.

Joy reached out as if to touch the mans face. Her face taking one of a foced happiness. She wouldn't lose face,still trying to keep up the act,and place the fake mask of hers tightly on her face. "But Joy dosne't belive in God,So Joy can't be saved.."

Reaching out more joy saw a glint of metal coming towards her,her reflexes kicked in and Joy swiped to the right,the arrow that struck the wall,it would of gone right through Joy if it had gotten her. A long scratch ran across Joys arm though,but she didn't seem to notice.

Hearing a girls voice Joy patted herself on the checks and rubbed her eyes,a childish playfulness and a bright lime green color bouncing back into them. ""Haiiii!!!Joy found arrow-chan!!Over Here!!Over Here!!!" Joy waved her arms at the girl who looked around dazed sitll tyring to get used to the dim lighting,stepping out of the shadows,it would of been hard to see her,with her dark tanned skin,and her wearing a black dress,but it was a surprise to miss her long green hair that stood out so well.

Joy looked behind her shoulder,that small smile spread across her delicate angelic face. She blinked a few times before answering those eyes made her pause for so long,those eyes that memroized her,blood staining the sleeve of her black dress. The smell alluring to Joys digust and dismay. "No..its the Joys thats the one who is wrong and Joys fault for making him something like Joy.."

Turning to the other girl Joy smiled sweetly,and eyes sparkling like two gems,and they twinkled like she had a small inside joke, holding it very close to herself. She even made her cat tail wag to show she was in good spirits,the sound of the gold bell singing filled the air. As if to try and kill the tense atsmophere.

Pulling the arrow out of the wall Joy offered it to the girl. Light falling across half of her face,as she took more steps out of the darkness."Hee hee,what a dangerouse game youw want to play with Joy!!Hee h-..ne wa??" Feeling something warm hold her finger Joy stopped and looked behind him at Tallen,a childish curiosity in her big bright eyes,as some strands of hair came to across her cheek.

"Ahh.this dosne't bother Joy!!Shes tougher then she looks. But she shoudl go and thank her knight in shining armor. If Tallen-sama can guess who Joy is speaking of...?" Raising an eyebrow,a small smirk on her face. Trying to find out how much he knew. But for once,she was at ease with the world,and amazingly hope twinged in her. Those eyes had something to do with it Joy concluded.

"Wrong? There...is no wrong or right. It is only how you take on life...what you yourself believe." his eyes followed her as she came out of the darkness, made herself known to the stranger. "You do not control others...dear Joyous. Their actions...they decisions...are all their own." he shook his head slowly, the long braid down his back tilted from side to side careful as he did. "Now please, my dear...none of this...self doubt. He had no right to try to hurt you...and you have every right to live happily..." still holding her hand, he turned his attentions to Keila for a few moments. She would find his eyes meet with her's, as they had a moment ago. And again came the slight chill of his presence with the meeting of his eyes, and again came the brief images from before. She wouldn't really have control over this, as if it were just...given to her.

His head tilted slightly, a light curiosity seemed to play upon his face. "Keila? Well...I am Tallan...Tallan. Mirakai...Drachorsa." he meant for the both of them to know, as it was only proper they both know his full name. There was a slow roll of the R's of the name 'Drachorsa' as well. "Tell me...why have you attempted to invade my mind?" he said, finally letting out the reason for his curiosity. But he would not persue the question much longer, as Joy spoke of leaving. "No..." he turned his eyes back to her, and again they stopped onto her glimmering gaze with their hypnotic like beauty.

He lifted her hand up, placing it against his right cheek softly, allowing the hand to feel the warmth over his face. "Please...do not leave. Dante matters not for the moment...he will be fine. I ask though...do not leave, stay a moment longer...talk with me...I wish to help you, Joyous." he closed his eyes halfway, glancing down at her slender, soft hand. He lightly slide the palm over his lips, barely touching it while his eyes opened again, glancing up to Joy. There it was again, the piercing, tender gaze so that she may lose herself in...endlessly.

Joy pointed to herself,tapping the tip of her nose with her cat tail. "Ahh!!Joy is Joy!!Not Joyous..if Keilie-chan is wondering!!!" Not looking over at Tallen,trying to avoid his eyes. She couldn't lose face here,not right now.

Though knowing her could hear her speak,from the voices in her head. But at first she had wondered if all this stress had started making her go insane after all this time. Who are is Tallen-sama to say Joy dosne't deserve this..Joy wants to be punished by him,by the world,its sickens her at times that Joys getting away with the things she done....and help won't come with kisses and sweet nothings whispered in Joys ears..but thank you..

Looking over at him as she ran her hand over his soft lips,Joy eyes were more directed at the red diamond ring around her finger,her eyes lost the happiness in them for a moment. Tallen-sama is like him..

Joy slipped her hand from his grasp and ran to Keila and hid behind her back,playing innocent as she peeked her head over her shoulder. "Epp!!Tallen-sama is trying to seduce Joy!!Nee waa..." Taking Kelias hand she slipped it in Tallens,smiling proudly with her hands on her hips as if she had found a cure to cancer.

'Besides!!Joy is much too old for Tallen-sama!!! Nyhaan!!!" Giggling Joy covered her mouth with both of her clawed hands,wagging her tail as Joy lifted up her leg. "Tee hee!!Kawii couple!!" Her eyes meeting Tallens for a second. But will Joys trust be betrayed like before??

((bahh..ignore any spelling mistakes..))

"Hm..." Tallan lowered his eyes to the floor for a moment when Joy quickly moved away from him. He didn't answer to Keila's apology, and instead went silent. A few, meger thoughts danced through his head, barely noticeable through the expression his now glazed over eyes gaze. "How amusing...heh..." his eyes slightly tilted up to look into Joy's, his hand slipping away from Keila's at the same moment that this happened. "Seduce you...hm...the ways of love are...not exactly something of an area I understand..." even though he smiled no differently, his demeanor had changed. There was a slight difference in his tone, a shifting in the contortions of his face. "I was merely attempting to have you understand, dear. Do not mistake my affectionate actions...for something they are not, please." his eyes glanced sideways to Keila, looking into her eyes for onlly a short moment.

But in the moment of his eyes meeting her's, she would again be answered with images. Again with the field of grass that seemed to go out endlessly from left to right with the large, steel gate and white manor. The tall figure in shadows was there again, raising his arm into the air. For a brief moment, he became more visible as the light's rays passed him. It revealed another man, on his knees in front of the much larger, taller one, who's irises were blood red. With a white smile on his face, fangs exposed, his hand could be seen lunging down at the man on his knees. Behind this very tall figure and several feet away was, like before, Tallan. In front of him, with his hands placed on the shoulders of a smaller child in a lilac dress, both of them smiling. Tallan then inexplicably reaches out toward Keila, or at least, the image of him does. The entire area around them from this image turns black, she would feel the gloved hand grip her face.

This was all occuring because of that moment she opened her mind to speak to his. The image's eyes widened, the grip tightened like a vice. "Dao mi gas dey eta! Dao me gas tria en deh!" a deep, scratching voice spoke. But in a flicker of a moment, the pain the grip caused and the image itself vanished. And Tallan himself...was now in front of Joy. "I am simply...trying to help you understand. Trying to let you know that...you are not alone. I understand you Joyous...and I understand why it all happened, all of it. I have been watching you...for some time yet...have not been able to speak to you. And now..." the glaze over his eyes ceased, their proper color and life, so to speak, returning. His smile broadened a little, and the sweetness returned more sincerely with his next few words. "I will be here to understand your pain. Let not my appearance cause you to misjudge in how well my experience is...or how wise I am in such matters. Let me...help you..." and again, he reached his gloved hand out, for her to take perhaps?