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Welcome to Deus Ex Machina - Redux
A lecture

Getting to know you better- Solo

The walk from the cove had been an interesting one as her partner has so many questions just about everything as she could feel that he was excited to be finally free of the stone tablet that bound him to the cove where his hunter had found him. Walking back slowly back to her dorm room to make sure that she would remember he way around the island and not to get too lost. She did have a feeling that there would be times that she would become lost until she knew where everything was.

When Tori finally got back to her room is and gotten inside to see that there was a jacket laying on the bed for her. Picking it up and looking it over seeing that it had branches on it that she was in the Life.



“I guess, but I think that I will do a little modifications to make it fit me better,”

he murred.

“A change of questions, I thought you wanted to know more about this world?”



“That sounds fair to me but could I make one request that you please don’t call me ‘little one’ as that nickname is painful for me to hear you call me that, Aklin,” Tori asked feeling a little depressed over it.



“I can live with that.”

he asked curious to what she would answer.

“Well when I was small I had a nanny that I cared for a lot and I truly loved her to pieces and she truly loved me back. It was the nickname that she had given me as I was her ‘little one’ that she would never have. But one day she was killed by those very shadows that I saw after her death,” she answered shivering slightly at telling that memory.



“That is true and I’m thankful for it. I’m tired of being alone its all so painful and lonely,”



“Well I belonged to an old family name that had lots of money. My parents are social climbers that would do what they chose to get ahead of there peers. To them I was just a pawn or a puppet in the game that they played. When I was younger I had spirit to not do what they wanted sometimes because I didn’t want to. As I got older and more responsibilities chucked on me and learning that especially my mother would do any thing to get me to obey. She even hurt one of the help that I did care for just to get me to obey her will and after a long struggle to be myself I gave up as I no longer wanted to see others hurt because of me so I became the puppet that she wanted. Many years I was that puppet a perfect daughter house bound like a caged bird. But I rebelled when she tried to hurt a tutor that had taught me many useful things that I wasn’t suppose to know when we got caught. With that rebellion had unbound me and I ran.” She answered glad to be free. “I don’t regret that choice as it was one that I made on my own, but that is my life in a nut shell. So Aklin tell me a little about yourself?”

he answered. Both of them kept on asking questions of each other long after Tori had finished modified her coat and into the early hours of the morning before heading to bed.

Word Count- 849

Solo- Learning how to fight

Looking over in the mirror to make sure the final touches to her coat were to what she wanted it to look like and to reflect some of her personality into it as well. Satisfied that the coat looked good with her scarf and her clothing underneath that Tori smiled just a little. “So Aklin, you were once one of those creatures of Halloween?”



Tori gave a little chuckle to that question. She had wanted to learn how to fight for a long time and once got in trouble for it when she had tried. Her mother especially said that it wasn’t lady-like to learn that type of thing and it was the job of her bodyguard to do that type of thing anyways. “Ummm, not really, I wasn’t aloud to learn how. But I have read a little about it but no practical knowledge,” she replied sheepishly.

Aklin sighed as it was going to be lots of work.

It might have been a long time since Tori has trusted anyone as the only people that at one point she thought she could trust just wanted her money and nothing more. But Aklin was so very different and he filled in the part of her that was always alone. “I trust you with my life,” she answered with no hesitation in her voice as it was all true and it felt good to have someone to trust even if she was the only one that could hear him.

he said warmly as Tori could feel him smile with pride and joy as she could feel that they were no longer alone they had each other and that was all that Tori could have ever wanted.

“That is a good idea,” she replied as that was one thing she hadn’t thought of since she really hadn’t handled a weapon like Aklin before or any other weapon for that matter. “Well let’s go find the place then, Aklin,” Tori replied as she walked out of her room and out of the dorms too. It didn’t take them too long in finding the training grounds well one Tori asked someone were they could practice.



“Alright,” Tori said and wishing that she did have a note book of some kind with her to be taking notes.



Tori nodded as she summoned her partner to her hands to which she almost once more dropped him since he was heavy and the chain part of the weapon clanked to the ground since she had total missed catching it.

Aklin again sighed.

“But you’re heavy…”

Aklin answered sternly.

Tori grumbled a little as she picked up the chain off the ground and thought that this chain might become a tripping hazard. “Well you are right about working out as I did go soft when I was in that pod and work on getting back into better shape. So how do we want to start?”



Tori took a deep breath as she relaxed but not enough to drop her partner on the ground. Once Aklin felt his hunter relax did he take control over her movements slowly and carefully he showed her the basics of using a sword, how to strike, how to block and to which Tori was glad he was sharing and helping instead of just letting her fumble her way on how to wield her sword. After some time Aklin lessened his control as his little filly got the hang of the basics as they spent hours teaching and practicing.



Tori just chuckled a little at her weapons want to ask questions. “Alright and I’m getting hungry too and I think next time we come and practice to make sure to bring water,” she answered. “Just make sure that you ask questions that I can answer this time,”

Aklin answered as he giggled. Tori rolled her eyes as she unsummoned Aklin and headed back up to her room to get a shower and something to eat after words.

Word Count- 1,001

(Mission ORP) Yes sir, thank you sir.
Tori's second mission and her first to Halloween Town.

Time to do lots of practicing.
Tori meets Jude while practicing with her weapon.

[ Examination Room A ] Room of Conquest
Meeting the Horseman of Conquest

Please not a pod
Tori and Reine have pod duty together.