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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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 Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:20 am
"I think you're a surface elf with a drow complex. That's why I asked if it had to be Malik or if it was just a Drow you were looking for." She shifted a bit and then took a seat on one of the chairs interspersed throughout the room. "Frankly I don't know what to think Piper. I don't know how you let him control you the way you do but even that I could accept when he's such an overbearing jackass. But I don't understand why you want to tie yourself to him permanantly. What if he gets tired of you? Or you get tired of him? What if you get tired of the Underdark...?" She shrugged, "It's not so much that I care, it just confuses me and maybe it's because my parents weren't married. I don't even know who my father is for sure. And it wasn't that common in my House either. I was always warned against it and I just dont' want to see you get hurt or make a mistake. I...I like you PIper, I don't know why but I do. And I'd hate to see something happen to you because of...him." WEll that awas quite a speech coming from what was supposed to be a heartless Drow priestess now wasn't it? Oh well, she was already chanigng and the one responsible for it sat right in frotn of her.
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:32 am
"Drow complex...well I guess it would seem that way. Surface elf living in the Underdark with a drow and having a drow name." For a moment she considered how she wanted to word this all. "Well...he doesn't really control me...pretty much let's me do what I please. Though he does try to put his boot down when I go doing something foolish...though that's right of him. And it's his business that I let him take care of, I want little to no part in it really. And...I just know I don't want to be away from me...a sense of completion I guess you could call it." Though she frowned a little at those series of questions she had heard before and hated them no less this time. Piper took a breath...no need to turn this into a fight. "After twenty years of each other, whining and fighting and what not...I don't see the potiential to get tired of each other. As far as the Underdark...it won't be the only place I ever am again. Malik lets me go topside when I feel the urge to really do so. Besides...in most realms I'm considered a traitor. The Underdark is safer for me really." She let her head tilt to the side as the drow she knew was stating things that weren't sitting quite right with her rearing. "Malik would never hurt me...we may fight and say things, even take swings at each other...but he woulnd't. I told him once long ago that I wasn't afraid of him...and if he did turn on me...he'd be the one loosing out, not me. I stick by that. Besides...things change. And that's what's happening to you as well..."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:42 am
"Twenty years? I didnt' know that. I suppose if he's stuck around that long then he's alright with you in every aspect. I just...I've seen Drow together for a very long time and then one gets bored, usually the female and drops the male like yesterday's sacrifice." She shook her head, "I wouldn't put it past Malik to do the same thing but you say you see a different side of him. Maybe that's what gets me so much. He's so mean to me but he treats you differently. Certainly not the way a Drow usually would a surface elf but then that's me as well." She sighed, "This is all new to me and I know I question a lot of things I probaly shouldn't poke at but I can't help it. Love is a foreign concept. At least not the kind of love you profess to have for him." She nodded, "I do know what's it like to be viewed a traitor and if this is the safest place for you then by all means stay here. I just...seeing your mom and dad the way I have and you and Malik, it's all new and I just wonder about these things...am I making any sense at all?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:53 am
"Yes he's put up with quite a lot from me in those years, and I was much younger and more wanderlust oriented than I am now. And as for Malik's other side...well that's just how it is. He's mean and brash and cruel as ever to anyone other than me really. Though he's reacted to my parents in a rahter pleasant way...after he punched my father in the face that is." A little laugh...it was funny in retrospect. "Malik has never treated me like a drow would a surface elf...because I've never cowered to him, I've yelled at him when he yells at me and I challenge him where as a normal surface elf would cringe and obey or flee." Piper shook her head. "No harm in questions, like you said it's all new to you, they're expected. And it's a...romantic love and a completing love really. Like...that something that you've always been missing...you've found."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:04 pm
She shook her head, "Not that sounds like the Malik I know and hate. Punch first, ask later. Or massacre as the case may be." A small silence and she said softly, "I think I know what you mean. For as long as I can remember there's been a void and I never really knew what to fill it up with. I asked my sister if she had the same thing but she just cuffed me and told me I was being fanciful. Her whole goal in life was to be the best possible priestess to Lolth. Maybe that's why I'm so different from everyone else. I dont' know though, nothing seems to really connect for me. I've never really experienced what you're talking about so how could I miss it? It's the one question that continues to plague me. You have no idea how it makes me feel to hear the imps call me Star Flower and when he hugged me..." she couldn't continue. "I'm a traitor to my own kind in more ways than one...and I'm okay with that. ISn't that the most insane thing you've ever heard?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:12 pm
She smiled, chuckling slgihtly. "I'm a traitor to my own kind in more ways that one," she more or less mimicked back to the drow and indeed it was true for the both of them it seemed. "If I say that's insane, then I must really be out of my mine." Piper paused a moment and considered some words. "That void that one fills with everything they can think of, but never seems to be filled for long....I say in is everyone. Even the drow. Every soul...has a void, and only another soul can perhaps fill it. You don't miss it Zahara, your soul is missing it...you just don't know it."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:23 pm
She laughed as well, "I suppose that's true. And if you're out of your mind then I'm right there with you. Maybe we're both insane and we don't know it." Then all joking aside and she was quiet once again. It was hard to hear that she was missing half of her soul. Wasn't a nice thing to hear at all. But she had to agree taht it was probably true. It had been like that her entire life so she really didn't notice it much. Except at certain times that tugging inside. She'd never understood it and no one she'd talked to had even understood what she was talking about. Made for one very confused drow. "So how am I supposed to find it?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:28 pm
Piper gave that baffled blink, she hadn't been expecting that question at all. "How do you find it?" And it was times like this that Piper that took on that look that transcended her young elven looks and showed that she knew more than her young appearance let on. A hard life would do that to you. With a smile, and her answer found, she turned tripled colored eyes to Zahara once more. "You don't go looking for it...you run into it one day." Simple as that was Piper's thinking on it...much like that 'things change' thiking she had going on. But she wasn't speaking strictly love either.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:33 pm
Zahara was a bit taken aback by the look Piper gave her, spoke of a great deal of wisdom and such. "Which means I have to be patient and that's not one of my strong suits, though I suppose I can't rush it." Well damn, here she thought she'd figure out how to find it and go ahead and find it. Apparentely it wasnt' that easy. All a game of chance, that pissed her off. Lucky wasn't an option in drow society. You were either on top of things and stayed allive or you weren't and you were run through with the nearest dagger. "Maybe I should have asked that stupid high elf how to find it. Would have got rid of him a lot quicker," she mumbled.
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:43 pm
"We're elves...we're blessed with patience, drow and surface alike. Time is on our side I guess you could say. But you'll know it when you run into it." Indeed...because a deviation in what one would usually do would occur, no matter how simple it was or if one wasn't even aware that they found that void filler. After all...under normal circumstances and habits...she would of never talked to or followed Malik home that day. Let alone trust him like she did. In retrospect...it was a bit surprising...but she was yanked from her musing by the subrace mentioning. "High elf?" Okay, little red flag going up.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:50 pm
"I suppose..." she was quiet in her own thoughts until Piper yanked her back out with her question. "Yes, some high elf stood outside the fortress and would not stop yelling. Malik was nowhere around and neither were you so I went down and talked to him. He asked for the Master of the Keep and I told him I was since Malik wasn't around. Then he told me that I didn't look lik eMalik D'Vinn and I told him I'd killed off Malik for murdering you. I didn't know what else to say and I just watned to get rid of him but he wouldnt' stop asking questions. He was searching for wisdom or somthing like that. I told him we couldn't help and went back inside. Damn High Elf."
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:00 pm
Piper swallowed, and old p***k of fear about other elves surfacing yet again. Not to mention a surface born high elf...last high elf she ran into...well she'd rather not think about it. In normal habit fashion, her hand took hold of her collar. Though then a shake of her head and a sigh. "Malik isn't going to be happy if that rumor gets around. Elves can be quite vengeful creatures when they want to be..." Referring to a high elven rumor, not to Malik's blatant violence he could express. "He'll be mad enough for you saying you killed him, even more at you saying he killed me." One problem right into another one. "An certinally not happy that another surface elf is here...he kinda has it out for them since someting happened to me."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:10 pm
"I figured as much. But the elf had ot have figured out I was lying. He asked so many damn questions, I just didn't know what to say. Once I had told him I was the Mistress and he launched into his whole 'ou don't look like Malik D'Vinn' speech I was clueless as to what to say next. So the next thing that came to mind was I killed him and by drow law all he owned became mine. But I had to have had a reason for killing him so when he asked about you well...the story progressed."She shook her head, "I don't blame him. Nasty things, surface elves." A hasty glance at her, "Except you of course and your parents."
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:14 pm
She waved a hand. "None taken, I'm used to hearing it by now anyway. The way we think of drow, sometimes I think we are nasty. But then again...you drow think the exact things of us." Funny little circle, wasn't it?" But she shook he head lightly, tugging at her bandana. "Well...he wont' be happy. But I'm used to that...and he can't have at you anyway. You were doing what you thought best and Malik has a way of...correcting....rumors about himself as well."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:14 pm
"I have."
"No."
"Yes."
"Of course!"
"Are you kidding, we had tea yesterday."
"Whodda now?"
"Wait wait wait, maybe we should come up with a concensus."
"A what?"
"You know, one answer."
"Oh. Yes?"
"I vote no."
"Well gees, that's not good. A compromise then?"
"Yo."
"Nes."
They turned on Mailk and smiled. "Purple."
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