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 Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:23 pm
The eagle shrieks and backwings. Sensing the futility in trying again, it switches directions and speeds upward and forward toward Iri and her crow.
Iri quirks a brow upon receiving Reeve's mental message. "What the hell did you just say? I don't think that was even English."
About that time, Iri feels something bad. It's an increasing pain in her wing. She extends it once, twice, and then it freezes. With only one wing operational, she starts to spin in midair. She drops a couple dozen feet before she recovers enough to glide. In the meantime, the crow is making for a heavily wooded area, searching for shelter.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:28 pm
Reeve sighs, watching her spiral downward.
"HELL. Be right back, hun."
He takes off at a run, toward the spot Iri went down.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:34 pm
Iri glides through a narrow gap in the trees. She touches down heavily, breathing like she just ran a marathon. Fresh blood is pouring out of her wound. Maybe she should have let Nyl heal it after all?
The crow pokes its head out of a hole in a tree. It looks at her with a bird's best attempt at a sheepish expression. Iri raises one arm and points at it.
"The moment I find out you're expendable, yer gonna be roasted!"
For once, the crow doesnt have the gall to argue. Overhead, the eagle is still searching for them.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:41 pm
Reeve skids onto the scene, shaking his head.
"Roasted tengu tastes like trash. Are y'okay?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:48 pm
Iri turns and looks at him with one of those "Help me!" expressions. "Won't be flying for a while, but it's nothing I can't handle. That's if you meant to ask if I was hurt. Psychologically, I think I need help, especially if insanity is hereditary."
She casts a glance at the crow. It ducks inside the tree hole. From the confines of its shelter, it gives Reeve a pleading look. Apparently it's afraid of the girl. "And what's a tengu?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:51 pm
Reeve sighs and pulls his medipack from apparent nowhere, as he's apt to do. "What's going on? I'm at me wit's end, too. Tengu, by the way, are crow demons."
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:02 pm
"It's a demon?" Iri shakes her head. The crow looks indignant at her next statement. "I don't think so. It's too cowardly to be a demon. As for what's going on..."
Iri looks around, as if expecting someone to be lurking nearby. She glances at the sky. The eagle has passed over by now. It's not a threat at the moment. "Guess I should tell someone." Iri leans against the crow's tree and looks back at Reeve. "Trouble back in my homeland. My mother sent me a letter via trouble maker here. She didn't tell me any details, but sounds like the family's split up and there's been bloodshed. And she told me that this guy has to be guarded at all times. I think that last bit borders on ridiculous, but I've found out by now that it's not a normal bird." She closes her eyes and asks, "So what's your problem?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:07 pm
"I didn't mean to say it's literally a demon- I was just being derogat'ry."
Reeve sighs, unfurling bandages to put on her wing.
"And what's my problem?"
Here, he takes a deep breath, as if about to plunge into a pool of suck. The words come out as one.
"Idon'twannagetmarried."
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:09 pm
Seph shuffled out of the Ho Dojo, his face a different shade of bluish-green. He had a hand placed tenderly on his stomach, and held a warm wetcloth over his head like a hood. He rubbed his eyes, then sneezed, grumbling incoherently before aimlessly walking out onto the porch.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:14 pm
Iri barely catches that. She looks over at the crow. The crow tilts its head and squawks. They look at him together. "You've got to be kidding me. You got cold feet? Look here, I was in the kitchen when you spoke to Fenris last night, and I heard what you said. Don't tell me you took being late to your own wedding as some kind of bad omen or something."
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:16 pm
"Said what, now?"
Reeve blinks, fidgeting with his bandage.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:25 pm
Iri points at the bandage on his leg. "About the sniper that shot you. I know it's not every day that a guy gets shot on his way to his wedding, but you shouldn't let that scare you."
The crow is looking between the two people. It's taking in every word they say, trying to figure out what's going on. Honestly, it hadn't paid attention to last night's events.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:28 pm
"Iri...wanna see a secret?"
He begins to untie the knot on his own bandage.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:32 pm
"Eh? What's so secretive about a bullet wound?" She looks down at Reeve's leg anyway. A bit of suspicion is starting to build up in the back of her mind, though she doesn't know where it's coming from.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:34 pm
Reeve peels off the bandage, fully expecting it to hurt.
No wound.
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