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 Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:02 am
Further downstream from Andrew, Arienh sat beneath the long sweeping boughs of a weeping willow, picking at the tufts of grass about her, idly waiting out the guards. Her mount stood beside her grazing in trained silence as the lady reached a hand up to stroke his silky neck. The tree concealed them fairly well, and it was on an underbank, further hiding them from sight. However, if she had to, she could charge across the water and up the steep banked side, then using her earthen abilities, manipulate a small mudslide to prevent pursuit. She wouldn't push her horse any more than she had to though... so for now, she waited.
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:38 pm
Although Andrew knew that those guards weren't going to give up easily, he also knew that they were completely incompetent. That girl, whoever she was, could be standing right in front of them and not see her. Especially that captain fellow. People like him seriously give men a bad name. Drew decided that it was useless to try and find that chick. She could be halfway through the country by now, or she could be in the branches above his head. Either way, he wasn't going to be finding her.
"Well, Teddy old pal, looks like the damsel in distress turned out to be more of a knight than anything else." Drew said, in his rough, street-wise voice. He heard his words echo in the forest and smiled. He could definatly imagine the little fairies mimicking his words, just like his parents always told him. "Too bad."
The oak that supported Drew's back seemed to stand straight and proud; much like Andrew himself stood. He remembered that, before, he was slouchy and unsure of the world around him. As the years went by, he developed a certain sense of justice, one that made him become the local hero and rebel around the town. He learned to stand up for himself and become what he was today. It was a tough road, but he even got the attnetion of a few guards. Being invited to a royal ball was a big thing for the little people, and Drew would never forget that night.. Or that young woman on the arm of that bratty captain.
While Drew reminiced and daydreamed, Teddy was dooing his own thing. The young stallion was very intuitive and independent. He could care less about Andrew at the moment. This young horse could sense another horse nearby. Sure, it was amle the same as he, but he would love the company of a horse much more than that little punk. Teddy still had a soft spot for Drew, but a human was a human. So, the chestnut horse made it's way through the brush, making sure not to alert Drew of his wandering and soon came to the river bank. There was the other horse, grazing quietly, and another human. This one was a femal though.
Trotting over, Teddy made his presence known with as little noise as possible. After all, there had to be a reason why they were so quiet. He felt a bit bad for leaving Drew, but maybe he could bring this female to him. Drew liked females.
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:32 am
Arienh's mount pricked his ears forward at the approaching sound of hoofbeats. They were soft on the mossy riverbank but there was no mistaking the sound of one of his own. The gelding raised his head, alerting his mistress to the tertiary presence. Arienh's eyes narrowed as she dropped to a crouch, one hand resting on her mount's foreleg as she peeked through the drooping willow branches. Straining her ears she listened. The hoofbeats were nearing closer... The creak of leather. The horse was saddled... but there was no rider, the horse was stepping too lightly to be bearing the weight of a human. A lure? Creeping around behind the tree from the opposite direction, scanning for the guards, but she saw none and on closer inspection... the horse wasn't a military mount. The tack didn't bear the insignia of her father's guard. Breathing a hushed sigh of relief she sneaks silently over to the strange horse and tentatively reaches a hand out to stroke the stallion's muzzle gently. Where was this horses' rider?
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:14 pm
Teddy couldn't help but enjoy being petted by this human female, even though he knew that he shouldn't have left Drew all by himself. He tapped his back hoof happily and totally dismissed the fact drew was still back at the spot alone. Who cared about humans anyway?
Drew continued to think about the young lady from the night before. Perhaps she was the one that the commander was searching for? But it couldn't be.. seeing as how she didn't look like someone who would be running away from the palace. She was probably just as stuck up, spoiled, and selfish as they came. After all, she was a royal. Drew had always had a thing against the royal, since his parents store had been seized by them and now they were only living off the money his mother made by hard labor and his own salary from his various odd jobs. Of course, who didn't have something against the royals these days?
Standing up, Drew scratched the back of his head and adjusted his wool-knit beanie. "Alright Teddy, i don't hink we're going to find anyone. That girl is probably long gone, albeit for the better, ey?"
Turning around, Drew was shocked to find that Teddy had disappeared. That horse was always giving him trouble! Why couldn't they let him use a nice, obedient, sane horse? But no, they always landed him with the rebellious, stupid Horse wth the rediculous name. Who would name a horse Teddy? Kicking the tree he had been leaning against, he set off along the riverbank, searching for the chestnut stallion.
"TEDDY!? Teddy, I swear.. Get your Stallion a** over here right this minuet!" Drew shouted as he walked along the riverbank. The water was so tranquil and flowing free, it was a lovely sight. drew often envied the water for it's freedom. "Teddy! Come on! Don't do this to me.."
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:52 pm
Arienh had led Teddy over to her mount and their hiding spot and had been intently scritching both of them in all their favourite places when a man's voice nearly startled her out of her skin. He was close, closer than he should have been she'd let her guard down. Stupid... She peeks through the vine-like tendrils of the willow tree and her eyes pick out the man as he pushes through the forest's undergrowth looking for his mount. Slightly panicked that the man's horse would whinney and give her away she tries to urge the stallion to leave and go to his master. She wasn't positive, but she was almost certain that she'd seen that man at the ball the night before. If he had anything to do with her father, she didn't want him finding her...
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:33 pm
Although Teddy was taking a liking to this young femal human, he certainly wasn't going to listen to her. He had a reputation of being stubborn and he wasn't going to ruin it now. Besides, he rather liked this girl better than Drew. 'Sorry pal,' he thought quietly. Sometimes, that stallion could be a real pain in the a**. Of course, he was just like every other wild animal; looking out solely for themselves and their own best interests. Since Teddy was originally a wild horse, he still hadn't been broken of that. Not ever Drew would be able to break his free spirit.
So, instead of trotting over to Drew, he simply sat down. That's right. A horse sat down on it's hind legs. It was a very comical sight, since horses don't normally do that. In fact, it was extremely rare to see a horse do such a thing. Leave it to Teddy to do the extraordinary.
Meanwhile, Andrew stopped at one spot surrounded by many willows. It was such a pretty spot that drew made a menatl note to come back one of these days. That is, if his friend didn't kill him for losing Teddy. Hopefully, it wouldn't come to that if he could find the stallion. He looked around the area and didn't see and signs of human or horse life. That horse was going to cost him a month's pay if he didn't find him.
"Teddy.. Are you trying to make me go broke? You know that I'll have to pay for you if I show up without you." Drew said to the air. He just felt like shouting about something. After all, it was probably going to be the last thing that he did. "I SWEAR! This is one of the worst days i've had in a long time. First, I have a horrible headache from that party last night, then I nearly run myself out of breath running to the stables, then I get to frickin' face off against that know-it-all a*****e commander while trying to play hero for some chick I don't even know. Smartest thing i've ever done..."
This young street punk was seriously pissed. Sometimes, he got very angry and simply went out into the forest and screamed. So, he figured, that might help right now. He just didn't know that he may have had an audience other than nature itself.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:26 pm
As he screamed, he would suddenly find a hand clasped firmly over his mouth as someone attmpted to seize him from behind and pin his arm...
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:49 pm
Andrew's angry shouts and rants were quickly cut off as a hand clasped itself over his mouth. He felt a firm grip take over his wrist and try to seize his arm behind his back. The hands that had him didn't seem very big, but he wasn't paying that much attention at the time. All he knew was that someone was attacking him, and he had to defend himself. Being the ripe, strong young man he was, this was probably not much of a challenge. Swinging his other arm around, his hand came to the wrist of the assumed attacker. With one huge tug, he swung the attacker around, and nearly just tossed them to the other side of the clearing.
Almost, but he didn't. Pulling it in a bit, the person simply landed on the ground before him. Picking the person up by their shirt, he pushed them up against the tree, and looked at them. His ice blue eyes stared at the hooded figure, trying hard to see the face in the blackness.
[[ooc: Sorry if it was a little god-modey. Didn't have much to work with. I also assumed that this person was wearing a hood, or if it's Arienh, then she had her hood on still.]]
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:13 am
((That's fine, I can work with it ^^ ))
The startled expression of the 'attacker' was lost in the depths of her cloak as her own wrist was seized and things were quickly turned around. A shooting pain tore through her right shoulder and arm as she was thrown. She felt the muscles strain for a brief moment and then tear, a scream tearing loose from her throat as she's slammed up against a tree, her hood falling away from her delicate face, now pinched with pain.
Wincing as this man digs his grip into her freshly dislocated shoulder, her strange gold-green eyes eyes widening, tears welling up from the overwhelming sensation. But before any could be shed, her vision that had been dancing with starbursts went black. Arienh passed out completely, going limp in Andrew's hands.
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 2:01 pm
The body of the girl, whom Andrew assumed was an attacker, slumped down towards the tree, he scooped her up into his arms. This girl had attacked him, and just before she went out, it looked like she was in serious pain. In his blind defense, had he seriously injured this young woman? Carrying her over to one of the willow trees near the stream, he set her down and sat back onto his feet. What was he suppose to do now?
He looked her over, figuring that this was probably the girl that the guards were after. Remembering back to a few moments ago, he thought that the pain was more evident when he hand moved to her shoulder. Something must've injured it when he threw her about. Crwaling over to her after a moment, he removed the cloak from her body and squeezed around her shoulder area. His fingers felt a weird dip where soldi bone should have been, but it was jagged like a break. It must have just been a dislocation.
Having dislocated both of his arms in the past, he knew just how to fix. Andrew took a deep breath and was glad that the young woman was unconcious, as it was going to be a bit painful to pop her arm back into place. Getting into a more firm position, he crouched next to her, placed his hand on her shoulder, a little along her arm, placed a hand along the crook of her neck and shoved the two together quickly. Hearing a faint pop sound, and her entire shoulder quiver from pain, he quickly went over to the river. Pulling up his sleeves, he removed the cloth bandages from his arm that he used to cover up some of his scars and dipped them into the freezing cold stream, along with his beanie, which he ripped in half to fit perfectly along her neck and shoulder.
Going back over to the young lady, he pushed her sleeves out of the way and began wrapping her joint with the bandage. Finishing up by laying the ruined cap on the crook of her neck and shoulder, he sat back. The entire time he worked, Drew tried to remember where he had seen this young lady before. Realization dawned on him as he saw that it was none other than the young lady he had seen the night before, the one whose ball he attended. It was the Princess!
Andrew had dislocated the shoulder of the princess! That was a death sentence, the injury of a royal! Slipping back to the river, he plunged his head into the icy water, to try and calm his nerves. Coming back up, he ran a hand over his short blonde hair, ice blue eyes turned towards the girl. Boy was he in trouble! Well, he figured that it was going to be awhile before she woke, so he set about creating a fire. There must have been a reason why she wanted to get out of the town, and he sure as hell wasn't going to bring her back after what he just did. All that was left to do was to catch some fish for dinner and try to make her as comfortable as he could. Draping the cloak back onto her unconcious body, he went back to the river and caught fish to cook over their meager flame.
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:10 pm
Arienh drifted, embraced by a dark void that had enveloped her. Gradually she became more aware of her body. Something hurt... distantly. Everything was disjointed... she felt seperated from her body but slowly, the pressure of firm, cold hands was calling her back to herself.
Her eyes fluttered open, and she gazed about her trying to remember what had happened. Here she sat in the hazy dusk, amidst the forest trees... she should be back at the--- The Castle! That's right... she had fled. And the guards... that repulsive captain... It all came back to her gradually. Her eyes flicked toward a small campfire, the smell of fresh fish greeting her nostrils, awakening a hunger within her. She made a move to stand but a strangled yelp eascaped her throat when she tried to move her arm and she sank back down, biting her lip. Eyeing her shoulder she was surprised to see that her shoulder had been bandaged. Who--?
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:29 pm
The day was leaving, and night approcahed quickly. Andrew had decided to stop fishing when he felt the slimy bodies of the fish wrap around his legs and trip him, sending him flailing into the icy water. Breaking the suface of the water, which he learned to be a bit deeper than he fist imagined, Drew shot out, running a hand over his hair and a bit red in the face from the frigidness. Pulling himself up onto the bank, he shook off his body and grabbed his white longcoat from the branch he hung it in. Drying off his face and hair, he looked to the fire and then glanced at the girl. She was awake, and he could see the fire in her eyes that gazed around the area in a confused way.
"So you're awake, huh." Andrew said, to the young woman before kneeling down beside her and looking her staright in the eye. "You've been out for a bit, but not long. Figured I may as well fix what I broke."
Fetching back a fish for her, stabbed through with a long branch, he handed it to her, telling her to take it with her usable hand. "You shouldn't move it for awhile. If the situation gets worse, i'll have no choice but to bring you back to the palace, where you can get some of that royal doctor treatment. But, it shouldn't come to that. Give it a few hours and it'll be good as new, and you'll even have the nifty trick of dislocating your shoulder for the rest of your life."
His icy eyes were looking over the young girl, wondering why she had run from the lap of luxury in the first place. After all, had it not been her own ball he went to the night before? Sure, she didn't seem to be having much fun, but it was better than living on the streets, like he did. Walking away from her, he sat across the fire and simply watched her, taking his own food. "I really don't see the logic in it. You seemed to be having such a wonderful time on the arm of that Commander last night. Why run from such a promising future?" he didn't really expect an answer from her.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:08 am
Arienh turned slightly startled eyes toward the riverbank at the sound of a man's voice. Squinting she was able to make out his features through the obscuring smoke of the fire. She breathed a sigh of relief as she made note he was NOT a member of the castle guard. Nor did he seem to have any ties to the palace and her father.
As he spoke she glanced back to her arm and made a weird face at it. So he was the one who dislocated it? Well, she couldn't really blame him. She did attack him-- sort of.
"Huh. Sorry, I only meant to silence you a moment as not to draw the attention of the guards... I didn't mean to scare you."
Smiling she takes the fish and wrapping it in leaves, sets it down to cool a moment, before turning around a little akwardly so that her back was to Andrew. Slipping her injured arm free of the dress, from around the bandages, glimpses of smooth, unblemished skin would be illuminated by the flickering flames of the fire. She laid her good hand on the shoulder, an almost sensual pose... and in a moment, the injury was engulfed with a soft green light.
The woman bit her lip as she felt the muscles move under her skin, the bones realigning as if nothing had ever happened at all. 'Drew might not know just what she was doing, but he might catch a glimpse of bone moving beneath bandages. Either way... the green light emenating from Arien's hand was a dead give away. She was practicing the magicks of the old ways... the daughter of the very man who hunts down any such person in his lands and has them executed.
"Ironic, isn't it?"
She mused bitterly. At his comments about her palace life and the ball the night before she could only stifle a harsh laugh as she unwrapped her shoulder to inspect her work. No muscle or ligament damage remained, just a nasty bruise and a fair bit of soreness. Re-wraping it she slips her sleeve back in place and turns around just as he mentions the Commander.
It would be strangely beautiful and yet quite frightening the way the firelight would illuminate the darkening of her features and expression. Her angry eyes turned his way.
"Have you ever actually met that thick-wit Mrithas? If I appeared to be having such a splendid time of things, then mayhaps I should take up acting and add to my list of crimes. The man's brains have been blugeoned to bits and all intelligance seems to escape him. He cares not to hear a woman speak anyways... unless it is to praise him. A hard task, since there is nothing praiseworthy about him in my eyes."
Picking up the fish, she unwraps it takes a bite. Then another, she'd missed two meals and after the healings she'd done the night before and her own minor treatment now, her body was in dire need od nutrience. She probably she skip her appointments tonight, but how could she leave her patients high and dry?
"Promising future?... funny."
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:24 pm
Although quite impressed with the Princess's abilitied to heal herself, and the fact that she would practice that magic at such high risk, Andrew wasn't very impressed with her lack of a sense of humor. Perhaps they didn't teach humor in that cushy palace of hers. He sat back a bit, crossing his arms and smirking at her obvious disdain for the Lord Mrithas. She was a fiery one, this princess. For some reason, he had always imagined her to be submissive and boring, like most of the royalty he had met at the ball the night before. His ice blue eyes danced with amusement in the firelight. Of course, to her, his eyes must have looked orange, since his eye color was so light ad she hadn't seen it's true color yet.
"I met him a few hours ao, when I followed the entire royal army into the forest after you." He said, teasing her a bit. It wasn't his right to tease the princess of the kingdom, but it was fun and he was willing to take the risk. "Not the most charmig man i've ever met, but he seemed to enjoy your company last night. He also seemed quite.. eager to loacte you earlier, when he approached me."
This girl seemed so difficult. He hadn't even been talking to her for very long, and he could see that. She sure was a weird girl, different from any other one he had met. One, she was roaylty and she didn't seem to enjoy it, not even at the ball last night. Two, she goes around running from guards and attacking random people in the middle of the forest. Plus, she knew magic. For some reason, Andrew couldn't figure this girl out. He sort of liked it.
Running a hand through his damp hair, he stared at her. "If you don't mind me asking, My Lady, why are you running from the palace anyway? There are so many people out there who would die to have the kind of life you have, to live like you do. Maybe I don't know what i'm talking about, seeing how I have never lived a day in your life, but it can't be all that bad. Right?"
The night air blew past him a bit, causing him to shiver slightly, as he was still wet and quite cold. The fire was't helping much. Laying himself out next to the flames, obviously not afraid of catching on fire and dying, he looked up at the sky. "Sorry, I was being a bit bold. You don't have to answer. You should get some more rest though. I can stand watch for the night."
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