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Fortunatly, Kaylyn did. In one step she is beside Shadowsage and holding the other in her arms.

"Go burn ina fire," Kaylyn says, "I am going to save my sister. If you all wish to die, then so be it!"

Kaylyn shakes her head slowly, "If we don't do something, they all will die. In her
current state, Dannin could destroy everyone.

She turns to Alaric, "Now is the time to begin. Will you aid me in a task that should have never been repeated?"

"Kaylyn, I will go," Batrias declares. "I am tired of waiting and tired of talking. We are letting our enemy dictate our terms to us. Now, even if we must fight in a losing effort, we will be choosing the battlefield and we will be the ones deciding who fights and when. We should grab that advantage while we still can."

He pauses, as if a new thought has come into his mind. "The rest of you, whoever doesn't come, well, I could care less about you cowards."

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"Mother!" Saberstryke shouts. "Enough of this! We have a mission Dannin, have you forgotten, and we are still within sight of the Wolfrider camp. Is it your wish for Talpa to know how long we have tarried? If it is not, then follow me and leave this confusion behind."

(co-post b/w myself and damage.)

Batrias answered, "I'm the man who has been waiting for you people to make up your crazy minds all this time! Batrias Kenketsu, if you have to know."

Then, he muttered to himself, "For crying out loud..."

"It's.... not their fault... all they have really known has been peace... with few exceptions, anyway."

Batrias shot back, "And who cares about that? When someone decides he wants to kill you, you don't sit around waiting for him to do it! You fight back!"
She shook her head. "They don;t realize that... and most ofthem.... do not know what a fighting spirit is... even fewer realize what must be done."

"I've already told them," Batrias admits, "But I don't know what else they want. Either they're gonna fight, or they're gonna die. I don't see how they have any choices, do you?"

she sighed, bowing her head. "They could run..... but that wouldn;t save them." She took a steadying breath, gathering what little stregnth she had left. "The only ones who have been through dark times are adoptees from the fringes of the lands, collectively.... lone survivors here and there, and now, one clan knows what it is like. They don;t have a choice, not really.... but they do not know that, even though they've been told." Her voice shook, both with sadness and with fatigue. "And I can't fight with them." The last was muttered in frustration.

Batrias, with a new idea coming to him, says, "There is one who could. The one who sent me here from the distant future, and followed. Her name is Dani."

Her eyes popped open. "You're both from the future?" There was surprise in her voice.

"I'm surprised you haven't heard, as I haven't exactly made a secret of it," Batrias says, shrugging. "Another came as well, but a warrior from the, um, they call them Wolfriders? One of those came and killed him and injured Kaylyn. If I had my yoroi orb, unbroken, I could probably do it myself, but I don't..."

"That's probably why I've been fighting things, then...." she closed her eyes and winced. "A broken yoroi?" after a long minute, she lowered a hand from her forehead. "May I see it?"

Batrias, who had picked the three pieces off the ground after Kaylyn had delayed in her promise to fix it for him, pulls it out of his pocket and holds it forth. He says, "It didn't shatter, or leave shards, oddly enough. It just, kinda broke. I don't really remember it that well."

"Yoroi orbs only shatter when the armor itsself is completely destroyed. Otherwise, the orb only splits, granted.... fixing them is a pain..... but it is possible. There are a handful of people with skill enough." She held out a shakyu hand, and dropped it with a sigh. "When I've.... recovered some from being bombarded by visions, I'd like to examine it."

"Mine," Batrias closes his eyes and concentrates, trying to pull the memory forth out of the foggy depth of his recollection, "Shattered because it had become impure. There's more to it than that, but I remember that much."

She nods, and abruptly slides into unconciousness, Alaric catching her full weight with surprise.

Alaric nodded, and settled Shadowsage gently in a nearby tent, as Michael showed up out of nowhere- and showed a surprising amount of concern for the girl.

Alaric fiddled with his sleeves while he waited to escort Kaylyn into his tent nearby.

Saberstryke looks at Dannin cautiously. He is leading her towards the Clan of the Ancients, though he remembers that, the last time he journeyed there, it took him many days of walking. "That one, I honestly cannot understand her...it is as if she were from another world..."