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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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 Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:41 pm
Piper looked down at her hands that Meilikki had hold of, just staring a moment before her eyes were drawn back up by her voice. What was it about her that was so comforting? But although the oracle wouldn't see it, Piper frowned and shook her head...though the mere mentioning or rather the permission to cry was given to her she wanted to deny it. "No...I won't." That's right, not can't cry, won't cry. Wanted to deny it so much even though her eyes got that watery look. No, she wouldn't cry. "You don't know what it means to cry in front of him..." No, she wasn't blaming Malik for her lack of tears...for she had cried somewhat already in front of him. She just hated what it meant.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:42 pm
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"It i snot a pig ring, that would be in the noe now wouldn't it Daddy? But thanx for the idea. And I didn't spend any alowance on it, I did it myself!" She was very proud of that, after all she had fasioned herself a hollow needle from a porcupine quill, she had thought it was pretty smart of her, but what would Daddy care about that?
"Oh the world, how different can it be?" She hopped over some horse dung. "you know Daddy I seem to remmeber seeing something like this at home, hmmm what could that be? Oh yes its the same old crap the Beacky brothers used to pelt at me."
"pregnant woman should be proud, its a wonderful experience to share with your mate. When My cousin was pregant, I had the most amazing expereince where I could feel the pup inside her tummy, just imagine what it would be like to have it inside your own?"
She hopped down onto the floor, "Since I am the one who offends people I think you will be all right. I wont think of anythign by it" She gave him a smile, she was so excited, she couldn't wait for the new expereince. "I love to have an understandng of things, so what do i do?"
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:56 pm
Meilikki smiled softly. "I do know. That's why were are here, not in front of your fiancee. I'm an Oracle who knows you want to anyway, because it is so painful to hold it in. You can feel it in the back of your throat, and it makes it hard to breath." She patted the ahnds that she held in her own. "You can cry here, and no one needs to know that you did. Dignity in tact and everything."
O'Konner shook his fist at his side. "That was a vwry foolish thing to do, Kat. I am very disapionted in you! You could have gotten a serious infection from a home made needle!" He glared at his daughter.
"Well, wouldn't you know hten. that's not horse s**t, it's lizard."
"Agreed." Roarke reached out and took a hold of Eliot's shoulders, turning her around and letting her rest agianst his chest in a very intimiate like hug. "Now that the awekward part is over," he jested "I'll show you the fun part. "Okay, close your eyes." He closed his own eyes too. "Now concentrate on letting go of your body. Relax all your msucles, try not to think about anything." A low rumble seemed to flow about them, the comforting sound of thunder at the horizon. They could hear the clouds as the billowed around them, as rain fell to their skin in a playful, soft manner. "Have you ever seen the rain, comming donw on a sunny day?"
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:06 pm
"No I'm not. hatred isn't like chaos. it's not some all ecompassing way of life. it's an emotion. an emotion that I was filled with for a long time. nothign but hatred. hate for everything. hate for innoruuk's taint, hate for cymarron, hatred for all other races. hatred enough to kill tehm all, drive them before me, see thier women and children thrown to pets or used in experiements and not so much as blink. Same as with your society, I'm sure. 'The destiny of the drow is to conquer all'. we didn't want to conquer. that wasn't enough. we wanted to destroy. to rend the world from teh planes and then assualt teh plane of hate and crush our creator with the same hatred we were forged with. You want chaos. I wanted destruction. I wanted my hate to literally rend the world apart."
Though his eyes moved to thedoor that Piper and the oracle were behind.
"Piper..changed that. now, I want a safe place for us..and to rend the rest of the world under my boot. now my hate is for Innoruuk. I want his world rendered, and to see him fall. and my hatred is still for Cymarron, who destroyed my family and has killed me twice. i hide the hate for Piper's sake, since she found herself a friend in him. but it's still there. I would love to feed this world to Malvolence. and let the lich have the dead for whatever purpose he wants."
A chuckle.
"But then that woudl make things unsafe for me and mine, wouldn't it. So I need to pick and choose whom to seek teh destruction of. whom to focus my hatreds on. and right now, my hate is focused on the Lich. He is the bigger threat to me. adn the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I may not like you, Tarathiel. but if the lich moves against you, I'll support you against it."
Onyx didn't notice either, and he kept the powers shifting between them. his heart was slowing, becoming still, but he didn't care. he just wanted Moonstone to know emotional misery, to know the heartache, the pain, the fear..and in the vast amounts that were nearly crippling to him before he learned to temper them.
"Rather be empty than miserable!"
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:07 pm
"Still stinks doesn't it Daddy?" She didn't care if she had gotten the species wrong, s**t on the road was still s**t on the road to her. "And don't be silly, I sterilzed the needle, it was perfectly safe, and I clean it you know." She looked at him side ways "Mom would love it if I did your ear Daddy, just a little hoop."
Eliot layed back comfortably in Roarkes arms, "Not akward at all." she said to him and shut her eyes. At first she felt as if her whole body was on fire, but it was not painful, it felt wonderful. Suddenly it was gone and she oculd here a song inside of her head, it was very beautiful song and it soothed her. She did as she was asked and thought of nothing. She could feel the rain around her, oh how she loved the rain! She tilted her face up so she could feel it splatter pleasantly off of her lashes and pebble on her lips. She licked her them expecting to taste water, but her lips where dry. She was disapointed for only a moment she simply looked up again and twister her head a bit to let her ears flicker fromthe droplets. She felt very happy and content. She sighed deeply and she could feel a smile playing on her lips. She did not want it to end.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:10 pm
"No. He would know, a closed door makes no difference, and elven bond can feel through a closed door." Though you could hear it in her voice, and like Meilikki said, she could feel in in the back of her thoart, it did make it hard to breath. Again shaking her head even though the action went unseen by her present company. "Crying would only prove to him how much I can't really handle things...and what then? I've seen the way he looks at tears...something to hate and a weakness." It was horrible thinking...and a part of her knew no matter how bad she or Malik for that matter though of tears, he would never think badly of her for them. Though pride was shoving that out the window. "I just don't..." Don't what? Want to loose him? Have him think somewhere in his head that she was a weakness? Didn't want to be the typical surface elf? By nature she was more sensitive. One hand was pulled from Meilikki and brought across her eyes as if to push back those tears that indeed wanted to come.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:25 pm
Moonstone growled. With a finall push, he made that step across the line. He forced himself onOnyx, at the same time making himself vulnerable to the things Onyx was in turn pushing into him. "Then be empty!"
And suddenly he was on his knees, screaming as things filled his head, things he's never thought of, things he had never felt. A heart beat painful in his chest, pulsing against his ribs, more painful then he could imagine. He was instantaniously filled with an uplifting joy for finally being able to feel sometihng, and consumed by an overwhemling hate at Onyx for doing it to him.
"You're mother would kill me." He grabbed hold of his daughters arm to keep her form getting lost in the rpessing crowd. Soon, the found themselves at the Deep Water castle. "This knew king better check in day planner. The only one and I had an appiontment."
She chuckled softly. "He is frightened you know. He wonders why you aren't crying, he wishes you would."
"You are perhaps the only thing in this world that he doesn't hate, and can never bring hismef to hate. You are a pillar for him, something that has turned his life in a different direction." She stroked the hand that remained in hers. "Don't push them back, Dear Piper. Let them come. You will feel better after wards. I promiss."
Roarke let the sensation carry on for a little while longer, enjoying the fact that he had been able to share this with someone so interested in the magic. "See? Not painfull at all." The feelingd faded, the thunder receeded into the distance, taking the warm rains with it. He smiled. "Neat, eh?" He felt like a kid showing his best friend something he had found and caught ourside, like a frog, or a rabbit, except this was much nicer than either.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:25 pm
Tarathiel nodded. "That makes total sense, since emotions are not controllable and the like... Chaos certainly does promise more than blind hatred." Tarathiel shrugged. "So, Piper changed you from a hateful man into a hating man." Interesting.
"Yar. You have died? How is it you think you can compare to me when you have been killed twice, mind you, I believe you will defend yourself with saying, I couldn't defend myself from the shadow when I was a child, or he surprised me, and the like, just as every other person who had been resurrected has tried to defend themselves to me..."
"I have never died. Damn close, but never slain. Perhaps that was skill, to live so long in a drow society and never being struck down, perhaps it was merely luck because my reputation for being the child of a god inspired love in creatures so willing to hate. Perhaps though, its merely because with me alive, so many gods can live out their wills."
"Something I have noticed about direct divine interference, in cases such as yours... Oh wait, did you think you were unique in being chosen? I would hope you were not that naive. They always bring that which their god promises. In your case, you thing promises hatred. Since you have arrived her, you have done nothing else. You are a slaver, that alone makes you many enemies... You are a drow. It is easy to hate drow. You are you, a shadow knight, or Paladin of the dark. You cannot change that, or anything else about yourself, but see through the mask that is your own blind furry. Furry? Hatred? Both are weaknesses to true warriors. Furry makes mistakes, Hatred is careless. Calm and neutral are the only true allies to warriors..."
"If that is true... Then how did I get so powerful?"
"Maybe it was the conquest... War... General since I was 20, and never a moments peace. How my people loved to trick submissive nations into rebellion, how we enjoyed the slaughter, how I was part of the war machine that now controls several billion lives... Damn goblinoids..."
"You... You seem to have nothing but your own hatred and love. Your existance never seems to be part of anything grand, you live for your aims, and you don't even know what they are... You claim to wish to settle down, and make your home safe... But what safety is there for drow?"
"High elves will always hunt us, claiming righteousness over our vile kin. I have known many evil elves, and so have you, that mock that very justice."
"Calm... Calamity."
"In the end, both our lives are empty. You, because you are a prophet of Innoruuk, me... Me becaue people think I am a prophet of Lolth."
"Interesting, the son of chaos and the child of hatred..."
"Chaos and hate. Fruitless endevours."
"If I believe that, then why do I persist in my life style."
"Simple."
"Or not."
"Maybe we both need to change our perspectives."
"I love you Malik." Tarathiel smiled and tilted his head. "You are such an interesting person..." He smiled smeered, making him look rather devilish. "Don't ch just hate when I don't lie..."
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:33 pm
Aella put a hand to her head. That was all too complicated for her, and it all sounded so bitter. She didn't think she had ever heard Tarthiel talk so much, which means Malik had struck acord, which emant Tarthiel had beent hinking about this stuff for a long time. She pinched the bridge of her nose, just about ready to put a stop to the bickering.
Love. Hate. Chaos. Love. Hate. Chaos. A wonderfull, ironic little circle.
Iris said nothing. Stood there the whole time, back as staight as she could make it.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:39 pm
"PFFFT you don't know that Daddy, she might like it." She was quite aware that her mother would probably peirce his other ear just for punishment. Indeed she had trie dthta with her lip ring but Kat and been glad to do it, now hwe mother just ignored the peircings and just complained about her hair. "whats so great about a king anyways?"
Eliot sighed when she felt the cool rain leave her skin. She smiled up at Roarke through her white bangs, "That was wonderful, you feel this all the time? does it always feel good like that? Does it create that sence of peace for you as it did for me?" She felt good, her mind was clear and she was wel rested, she felt like she was a well of energy. She looked at him curously. "where you singing Roarke? I could here you in my head! but not like I was hearing it with my ears! It was amazing! I loved it!" She turned around and hugged Him thankfully. "I wonder if I can show you how it feels to become an animal without the pain? I have never tried it before, but you never know we might be able to figure it out!" SHe was almost beside herself with exitement.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:44 pm
She wanted so badly to belive her...well part of her wanted to, the other part already knew she was right. Yet another part, teh part that held her pride wanted to deny it, throw it back, call it a lie and deny the tears that threatened. But oracles speak truth and don't ever lie, and if they did so it was rare. And there was a logic to him...for the Piper that Malik knew...wasn't really there at the moment. Not the Piper he found a need to have without having to hold her down under his boot. A shuddering breath and Piper looked down at thier hands again before a drop splashed on those hands. "I...." She searhced for something to say, but as another drop fell that was the end of it...they won, the damnable tears. Please don't let him feel it and think ill of it...she was always concerned with how she looked to him, wasn't she? So without words to fight...she just cried.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:49 pm
"Special, are you getting Jealous of Malik?" Tarathiel asked his cohort, who seemed rather displaced by this whole mess. "You are still Special, Special."
"I wonder what is Taking Significant so long..." The chaos set back in. He was thinking too linearly for too long. He didn't use logic did he? Hopefully not. That would be bad.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:53 pm
'We've lost two full shipments of cattle, Kat. I need to see if this king has any alternate trade routes. Otherwise this city is going to starve. Being king is like being the dominate male in a heard of horse. He has to look after everybody, while nipping upstarts in the arse."
Roarek smiled and hugged her back. "it's like that most of the time. It fluctuates with my mood." He chuckled. "No I wasn't singing, I was just thinking about a song I liked." He cleared his throat. "Ah well, that only hurts for a short time. Actually being an animal is okay." He smiled. Kind of a trade off. I become the essence of soemtihng else, but that essence demands a price. Wolf is a part of you, that's why it doesn't hurt. I'm not part animal though, so I need to...take out a lone."
Meilikki smiled, drew Piper down into a mother-like hug. She didn't say anything, she didn't need to. She had said enough for now. For the time being, she would let Piper cry, without the eyes to see, Meilikki couldn't look at Piper, and could therefore not make the girl uncomfortable for seeing her cry. Sometimes, being blind came in handy. It felt good too, to help make someone feel a little better, to help rather than just sit and watch as things passed by. Thank you Piper. In your pain, you have helped me.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:55 pm
"I admire your accomplishments, Tarathiel. but Hate can be a powerful ally to a warrior. using hate to focus the mind. the more you know, the more you hate them. that same hate keeps you warm in the cold. hateful determination I think it's reffered to as. but I know I'm not the only chosen of any god. and the ressurection seems to be part of that pakage. they don't wnat thier little pets gone fomr thier planes forever. at least not until every possible use is expended."
A slight chuckle.
"Death serves it's purpose. Sure as hell makes you not want to die again. Comparing to you in combat prowess is simply that your sheer speed, and your dual wielding skills, I believe will equal out when balanced agasint the gifts of Malvolence and my dark magics. and to make my home safe...well..just have to find defenses or destroy those that woudl try to take what safety I can get."
A smirk.
"I coudl hate you for a number of reasons. lying is just on the list."
Onyx growled and pushed back, before they both got forced back away from eachother...and he was..empty. no heartbeat. no emotion. no hate, or love, or fear...nothing. it was interesting to say the least.
"This isn't so bad at all. I don't see what you were bitching about."
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:58 pm
"Jealous? No, fraid not. I would rather be told I was loved because i am truly loved. Not the bitter, twisitng way you made it sound." Was that what had gotten her goat? maybe. But she hadn't liked most of the conversation to begin with. It was like there were all slaves anyway. Malik a slave to hatred, Tarathiel a slave to chaoes, Aella Whirlwind a slave to slavery....
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