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 Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:18 pm
K is about to reply to her when he realizes she's fading away. His eyes widen and his heart skips a beat. It's still really weird to him that people just vanish! He's not sure what to do with himself for a moment, stopping in his own step. But he looks over at Cora who seems to just be sipping her wine calmly. He couldn't help but smile. No one was fawing over him, or trying to pamper him. She was almost ignoring him! It was great.
He walks over to the bar to join Cora and takes a glass, then pours himself the wine set out on the counter.
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:29 pm
:::Cora takes one last sip before setting down the glass and sighing. This seemed to be the oppertune time:::
K, I am sorry to be the bringer of bad news. Do you remember what Luke once told you about how this place is dangerous. Well, it wasn't quite like that, this place is not dangerous, but those who exploit it are putting its members in danger.
There is a man called the Seraphim, he is very powerful, so powerful that it is hard to gague. And he seeks to gain control of the Brink. There have been multiple encounters during which many of the members here have been injured, near fataly.
:::She takes a deep breath and moniter's K's reaction before she continues. She goes on to tell him about the different encounters, what the theory about what the Seraphim wants is, and what the Captain plans to do about it:::
((didn't feel like writing out pages and pages of back story, but I know you all do your brink homework ^_^))
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:34 pm
K's expression showed utter confusion. The Seraphim...what is that?
It took him a moment. He seemed to turn pale, it all sounded so strange to him. After a good bit of silence he looked up at Cora, into her eyes.
"Well, I am here. Whether that means anything or not, I will help to protect this place." He sighed "It almost seems like fate."
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:41 pm
:::His words stirred something inside her::: Thank you, K. You don't know how much that means to me. :::Suddenly tears dripped down her face. She had not even meant to cry, they just started coming:::
:::She began wiping them away, embarassed that she couldn't control them::: Oh! I'm so sorry, I don't mean to do this...
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:50 pm
K was surprised when Cora suddenly started to cry. He moved over and put his arms around, resting his hand on the back of her head so that it would find its way to his shoulder.
"Shhh... It's alright. Tell me why you're crying. Are you frightened?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:59 pm
:::all Cora wanted to do was stop crying, but somehow the comfort just made it harder to control. She found herself letting it all out:::
I hate my world! I hate it! :::she sobbed::: It is not my home anymore, I never want to return there ever again. Everyone is so cold and heartless. :::She cried for a little while::: I wish...I wish the Brink could be my home. It is the only place that I ever feel happy, but now it's being attacked, and the people I care about are getting hurt... I'm so...scared.
:::She felt herself cradled there, and didn't want to move:::
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:29 pm
K gives her a pat. "Everything will be alright Cora, I promise." He realesed her and put his hands on her shoulders, steadying her. "I am sorry that you have come to hate your world so much, Cora. If I could, I would go with you, to help change it, but I cannot. I can promise this though, it will not be that way forever. And as for this place, all I can offer you is my help protecting it."
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:46 pm
:::Cora sniffled and looked up at him. Something he said intrigued her:::
How do you know? :::Sniffle::: How do you know that things in my world will not just continue to go on the way they have for so long?
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:46 pm
K paused a moment, then lowered his arms.
"Because everything changes Cora. Especially when people want it to. Now that you want change, it's bound to happen, perhaps you just need to let it be known."
Just then, K began to fade out. He saw it happening just in time.
"I will see you again soon Cora"
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:50 pm
:::When he was gone, she wiped off her face. She was a bit stunned. The way he spoke, so sure of himself, it was disarming. She wasn't sure how to feel at this point, way too confused. She picked up her glass of wine, and headed for the key wrack, and then to her room:::
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:54 pm
*Luke enters into the main room, wearing faded blue jeans and an old wifebeater -- er -- He thinks back to the last girl who had lashed out at him for using the unpolitically correct term. Mentally he corrects himself with sarcasm 'a sleeveless white shirt'. Christ, Broads...they were correcting him inside his MIND now too.*
*He's a little hung over, but it's not bad. He walks inside, wishing he could have brought one of his law books with him.*
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:59 pm
:::Cora shortly enters the main room from the guest rooms. When she sees Luke there, she swallows her breath, not sure how to feel around him. It had happened again, they had gotten upset with one another. How could she feel so upset around someone she felt so happy being with? Her own emotions confused her:::
:::As she approached him, she decided she would appologize:::
Hello, Luke.
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:05 pm
*Luke saw her... Crazily enough, he'd forgotten about their fight, but now it was fresh in his mind, along with the scornful words he'd shared with her.*
*They embarrassed him.*
*Anyone could hear it in his voice.*
Hey....
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:09 pm
:::Yeah, she heard it:::
Luke...I want to appologize for allowing myself to become so...emotional when last we spoke. I don't mean to take it personally, but this place really is all I have. I would do anything to be able to keep it, and the people in it.
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:17 pm
*Luke shakes his head, tired... and unhappy.*
No. Don't apologize to me... *Luke is slowly finding that it's easier to take credit for arguments, when there's little way anyone can hear about it.*
None of this is your fault....
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