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 Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:54 pm
Vilya mumbled something far away and then took a drag from a cigarette. Clouds suddenly began to drift in from the west.
Alu shouted something else, and the clouds turned a deep grey, beginning to downpour manically.
Naur lifted his hand to the sky, and sparks of white-hot fire danced beneath the cloud. It was like something out of the bible, really.
Arda just kind of waved.
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:56 pm
"Whoa," Ethan and Crow said. Julian just watched, allowing hope to leach into his expression at last.
Lenore sneezed.
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:58 pm
Hellis looked over at Lenore, surprised, and then laughed slightly. He patted her head.
The clouds traveled into the centre of the square and hovered carefully, Vilya looking for all the world like he was playing pinball in his attempts to keep them in one place.
...and then a bolt of white-hot fire seared down through the sky and engulfed Rabid's body.
Just as soon as the exciting events had begun, they ended. The siblings began walking toward the centre of the circle, looking very self-satisfied.
Rabid, looking no worse for the wear, suddenly sat up and stared wide-eyed around her.
"...whaaaat?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:02 pm
Crow shrieked, elated, and promptly burst into tears. Julian's grip slipped off her shoulder and he stumbled to the ground, kneeling.
"RABID!" he shouted, voice coarse. He tried to make himself stand up, but found his legs refused to obey him. Ethan, gaping, could do no more than stare.
Len sniffled.
"Sorry," she said, grinning at the pat. She looked to Rabid then. "Good morning!"
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:04 pm
Rabid laughed and threw her arms around Julian, grinning and burying her face in his chest for a moment.
"What happened?"
"You were dead," Liam said, laughing with relief, "and now you're not!"
"Welcome back."
Hellis' head snapped suddenly toward Rabid as Len spoke. He grinned and waved violently.
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:08 pm
Unable to stifle it anymore, Julian sobbed. The angry, dark and confused thoughts he'd fought with and tried to ignore since Rabid had died faded into obscurity. Nothing else mattered. She was alive. She was safe. He held her, terrified to let go, terrified it was only temporary and he'd lose her if he let go.
"I missed you. I thought I lost you, I'm sorry, I'll never...Rabid, love, I..." he rambled, laughing through the tears at how stupid he sounded.
Crow, sniffling still, grabbed hold of Ethan and hugged him and proceeded to bawl into his shoulder.
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:10 pm
Liam laughed at Crow and patted her back a few times. How cute.
Rabid grinned and kissed Julian briefly.
"I love you too."
"Well!" Naur said suddenly, "While this is as adoable as it is, it's going to begin raining soon. Please, accept an invitation to stay with us for the night. Consider it an apology for our sister's bad behaviour."
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:15 pm
Laughing again, wiping his eyes hastily and pretending he had dignity, Julian let Rabid go with purest reluctance and stood, only to loop an arm around her out of protective instinct.
Ethan, steadily turning blue as Crow strangled him with her hugging, patted her awkwardly and motioned somewhat frantically for someone to get her off.
"Thanks," Len said to Naur. "We'd love to."
She tugged at Hellis' hand.
"Right?" she asked, suddenly valuing a second opinion.
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:18 pm
Rabid wrapped an arm around Julian's waist, positively beaming, and leaned her head on his shoulder.
Liam laughed at poor Ethan's plight and grabbed Crow's hips, tugging to try and get her off of him.
"C'mon, you. You're strangling the man."
Hellis turned to Len, and then to Naur. A smile split his face and he nodded graciously.
"Alright, then! Follow me," Naur nodded and began to lead the group from the forest.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:40 am
~ Part Twenty-Nine ~
It was realtively early in the morning, and it appeared that everyone was awake.
Scratch that. Everyone was awake, miraculously.
Björn sat in a rather large arm chair, Hellis curled up in his lap, arms around his neck and looking half-asleep. Rabid had dragged Julian to a nearby couch and lay down sprawled across him, and Liam had opted for a loveseat nearby, simply because he and Crow were, sadly, small enough to fit with room left over.
Arda, Alu, Naur, and Vilya were randomly pacing about, cooking...something of the sort. Arda had settled down with a newspaper, written entirely in Vavvian, and humming quietly to herself as she read it back-to-front (who knew why?).
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:45 am
Julian had only been able to sleep a few hours, and that had been fitful at best. He'd woken up every hour, half-frantic, thinking that Rabid was still dead and he'd been dreaming. So he'd given up on sleep, not minding how early it was or how tired he'd probably be later, and sat comfortably with an arm slung around her. Crow had manifested a book seemingly from nowhere and leaned against Liam as though he was a pillow, licking her finger now and again as she turned a page.
Lenore, using Ethan's head as an armrest, was counting the beads on her bracelet and trying not to blink for more than five minutes at a time, her reasons to the strange game wholly her own.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:49 am
"Ooh! Will you lookit that!" Arda suddenly cried, "They caught the Gre'al a Sangrie!"
This immediately struck Rabid as strange. She sat bolt upright suddenly and looking rather flutered.
"WHAT?!"
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:51 am
"Huh?"
"The Gre'al a what?"
"What...what's that?"
"Ooooh s**t."
Crow, Ethan, and Lenore all looked at Julian, who blushed at the curse and tried to direct his attention to Rabid.
"I'm guessing you didn't have a partner," he said.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:01 am
"Well, aside from that one time y--" Rabid began, glanced at Julian, and then turned back to Arda, "Let me see that."
Arda handed the paper over, looking fairly worried.
Rabid mumbled a bit as she read the article over, and then spoke aloud once more.
"Seems someone was off buying drugs and killed a guard or tw--"
And then she saw the picture, and the paper fluttered to the floor.
"It's IKE!"
"WHAT?!"
"HOLD ON...EH?!"
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:05 am
"WHAT?"
Len scrambled for the article and seized it, gray face turning blotchy white as she stared at the picture.
"s**t. s**t, s**t, s**t," Crow chimed in, looking at the article over Len's shoulder. She blanched. "Ooooh man. Rabid, what're they gonna do with him?!"
Ethan took the article, staring at it wide-eyed.
"We have to get him," he said, turning to Len.
Len's white face turned an even more sickly color. Ike had said they'd hang him if they caught him. Crap. CRAP.
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