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 Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 5:31 pm
Emma grimaced; modern drugs were a frightening prospect to her, but she was getting desperate. "No, not yet. I've been using a Kendari herb, but I think I've developed some sort of immunity to it."
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 5:59 pm
"That's highly likely. Unfortunately, that may become the case with anything I give you." Meaning that there's only one permanent solution. He sent that thought far from his mind. "And it probably will."
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 6:01 pm
"So we're back to magic." Emma sighed. "I'm sorry about this. I've tried everything I could on my own and I can't ask my husband for help on this one."
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 6:44 pm
"I'll offer my help magically if you would take it." The elf looked at the ground.
"I know you don't trust me, so if you wouldn't care for that option I can just prescribe something and we can see how long that lasts."
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 6:48 pm
"I don't trust you as much as Kaok does, that much is true. However, I know you're intelligent and sensible enough to know that if you do anything with ill intent you will be dead before you can blink." Emma looked up at him through dark lashes, a small smile tugging at the corners of her lips. "And that isn't a threat, merely a statement of fact. So, sir, I would gladly accept your offer."
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 6:55 pm
"Yes, because I have a deathwish and I would very much like to meet my end by a rabid, pregnant elfwoman's hands." He laughed to himself. "Besides the fact that I have absolutely no motive for messing with you, you're a friend of Kaok's. And that means far too much."
The doctor was making eye contact now, "Whenever you're ready."
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:00 pm
"One can never be too careful."
Her posture became ramrod straight as she stared right back at the other elf.
"Rabid? I should be hurt."
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:14 pm
"Implying that you aren't, so everything's alright." He responded casually, readying himself for the task of delving into the woman's brain.
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:16 pm
"That's a rather large implication on your part." she jested. "Ready."
A small part of her worried about what he would see, but there was always the option of removing his memories.
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 8:03 pm
James braced himself for it, and within moments entered the Enchantress' mind. It was shocking to say the least, entering a place that completely filled with experience and knowledge, but he tried to shake it off and soldier on towards where the nightmare resided.
His own memories weren't much in comparison, but his first wife and quite a few of his patients (Kaok included) slipped through for all of a second.
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 8:08 pm
Emma's mental landscape blurred around the doctor as he moved on, the curvature of memory changing into the harsh lines of stone. The enchantress' cell from her rape had rematerialized around him, the darkness alleviated by an unseen light source. She was curled in a corner, just as emaciated and pathetic as she had been in reality.
A flicker of red passed by in his peripheral vision, but it would be gone if he turned to look.
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 8:20 pm
"Oh... oh Christ above." The doctor muttered aloud, walking cautiously to Emma's side - he did look at the bit of red, though only briefly - and kneeling down next to her. Kaok hadn't told him that it was anything like this.
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 8:29 pm
The enchantress' eyes snapped open and she forgot for a moment that her legs and arm were still broken. Within this nightmare, everything was as it had been in that moment, and agony shot through her frame as she tried to get away from the elf.
"You're scraping the bottom of the barrel now, aren't you? Taking the form of somebody I barely know, what exactly does that accomplish? Will raping me in his guise somehow make me break even further?" Her words were punctuated by little bursts of hysterical laughter, breaking into sobs.
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 8:45 pm
The doctor stood instantly and stepped away several paces. "No, no, Emma. I'm not... it... I'm not here to... oh Christ." Kaok was going to get an earful when he next saw her.
"Emma, I'm here to make this nightmare go away, remember? It's just a nightmare."
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 8:52 pm
The cell walls flickered, as did the enchantress herself. She drifted out of focus for a few seconds, reconstituting her shape with some difficulty, this time wearing clothes. The hysteria left her face, replaced with a mask of calm. "It's hard to remember that in here."
She had to remember that her legs were not broken, ignoring the sharp pain that jolted her as she stood, bracing herself against the wall.
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