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 Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:59 pm
He grinned lighty, and scooped her up, though the effort did make him stagger a bit.
"now now. no cold floor.'
An dhe carried her out of the room, and upstairs, and carried her into the kitchen since that was the last place he saw Zahara.
"Zahara..about that favor.."
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:21 pm
She knew she should have left when she had the chance. Now here he came asking for her help once again. Well she was going to make him beg, he was going to grovel ro she wasn't going to help him. Nails tapped in a slightly slower beat and her face blended into a mask of indifference. "Yes Malik? What about that favor?"
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:28 pm
She merely let her head rest on his shoulder, eyes falling half closed. "Where are you getting all this energy from..." She certainly didn't have any. Eh, maybe because he was bigger than her or more conditioned or something, who knew. "And it's not that cold..." Yes it was once of those moments where the two drow could hurl sharp objects at each other and she wouldn't object.
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:01 am
"Tarathiel hardly lives at the keep. He drops in every now and then. I let myself because it's not that bad of a deal. He leaves me alone, and I do what I want. Ocaasionaly, he makes a request. And rather than feeling like a slave who has to do it, I feel liek a freind who would be glad to." She crossed her arms.
"So hat's it, eh? Instead of fullfilling your promis to keep me safe, you'd just sit back here and watch tings happen? It would have been easy to see me without Warhammer even seeing you. And your worried mroe about your pride and honour than you are about me!"
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:55 am
"Years and years and years of physical training and war, Piper."
A small smirk to her, before his attention went back to Zahara.
"If you can bless ground, so that beings like liches can't use thier abilities to affect it, you will be of some value now. if not, I'll need to send you to Tarathiel..or Kimmuriel, whichever you prefer, and get you trained. Perhaps by his sister. either way, you're going to learn, and your going to help."
Onyx snarled lightly.
"And you don't understand. It's not about honor or pride. it's about being worthy. It's about feeling like I'm...not a burden. A friend that you are still a friend with because you take pity on them."
Claws raked down the table, leaving gouges.
"I promised to protect you. and I was cast aside in that attack like a damned kit by your warhammer. like I was barely worth the effort of him even stepping off the boat. Then we came, and I was angry..and again, swept aside by Warhammer's magic like a kit."
His turn to turn his back to her.
"I feel like I'm less than nothing. like the only reason I even exist now is becuase you like me. if nto for that warhammer or the others would have finished me off by now. Or even your Oracle. she can see the future, and she prefered to see me and moon get beaten up rather then simply keep them at bay."
A snarl again, though softer.
"At least here...I'm seen as at least somewhat of value. Or it appears that way. more likely malik tolerates us becuase keeping us relatively safe means our father won't come crashing down his front door. But there...I'd just be a joke. a pet for whirlwind, becuase heaven knows without your presence they'd just as soon be feeding me to the kobold."
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:15 am
She raised an eyebrow and her nails began that agitated beat once again. "Let me get this straight, Malik D'Vinn. You ask me to help you out and then when I act slightly interested in whatever it is that you might need me for, you tell me that I am going to do it whether I want to or not? My dear Malik, let me explain something to you, when you ask someone to do you a favor, it helps if you dont' demand that they do it before they can even respond. In my case it tends to upset me and I don't want to help you anymore. Besides you just up and walked away and that's very rude. I don't help rude people. I know this is hard but if you could just try again and maybe ask me what it is you want, I might be more likely to aquiesce to your request. Come on, just try.'
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:33 am
"Your age is showing." Well that was all she had to say to that and she said it with a giggle. Wait, giggle? Oh yes she was feeling quite giddy at the moment...pretty much letting herself wallow in new sensations as Malik held her. Though a slight shift of her eyes to Zahara with another giggle. "Malik doesn't remember his manners. He meant to say please before all of that and thank you afterward." This was going to become a catchphrase wasn't it? Though she wasn't the happiest in the world that they were trying to dig claws in. Remember A'mael, pr skills. Try to exercise them... Oh hey look, it did work without a condut item now...though it came across as a faint whisper seeing as the ability traversed new territory.
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:36 pm
"Pity? Pity! You honestly think, after all I've been through, I'd take pity on anyone?" She groweld and shook her fist.
"Don't you dare bring the others into this. This isn't about them."
"I'm so glad that you are comparing my worth to your inferioty complex. It's my fault that people don't always listen to Meilikki is it? It's my fault Warhammer 'swept you away like a kit.' Because we all know how much sway I hold over any of them."
"What am I to you then? Hmm? If I keep causing you all this hardship then why do you even bother? Or am I just a promis? That's it. I'm a burden. A responsibility. Like taking out the trash." She turned on her heel and marched for the exit.
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 1:50 pm
"That's not it!"
A jump and a glide and he landed heavily in front of her, and rose to his full height and looked down at her.
"You are not a burden, not just a promise. I care about you, I want you to care about me. I want to be more than your friend. IF you asked, I woudl kill all of them. without reservation and without any hesitation. by any means. I am plagued by nightmares about what might be going on there. what might be done to you, all the what ifs and possibilities."
He gave her a push back.
"How many nightmares have you had about someone you care about being used as a sacrifice to a dark goddess? How many dreams about someone cast aside because thier purpose is done, tossed into the abyss, fed to a dragon, given to a kobold for the amusement of others."
Red light flared around him, he was positivly livid.
"How many dreams of coming to say hello and seeing them with someone else? how many sleepless nights becuase you don't want to see the nightmares and the insecurites and the doubts anymore?!"
Yep, he was baring teeth and nearly roaring now.
"I coudl track you from here to any point in the world, I know your scent that well. I coudl find your shadow in a cave, I know your form that well. When you around I can't get my heart to stop fluttering, and I can get my stomach to settle, and nothing I do is enough. nothing is enough!"
His fist slammed down on the nearest table, splintering it. at least that seemed to dissipate the anger.
"nothing is good enough. I'm not strong enough. I don't have any great power. I can't fix your problems, I can't even help. And I want to. I want to help, I want to make things better and I can't even keep things the same."
A glance at both piper and Zahara.
"let me redefine things then. it's not a favor. it's asking you what you can do, comparing it to what I need you to be able to do, and making sure you can do it. Like it or not, Zahara, your in a war. us agasint a liched demi-god who grows his army, literally, in a place called the 'corn fields'. I plan to burn them down. and, in order to hinder regrowth, I need a priestess, or priest, who can bless the ground to prevent said lich from using his abilities to enhance or accelerate the regrowth of said fields."
Then back to Zahara.
"I was being polite by saying 'favor' and asking you. but I am not going to let your pride hinder what needs to be done. if I have to drag you and bless the ground by sacrificing you to Lloth I'll have that done."
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:05 pm
She took a step back, caught off gaurd. But the shove just made her more angry.
"None. Because I don't dream about them at night, they frighten me whe I am awake. But I don't just sit there and let my insecurities take hold of me. I was naked so I clothed myself. I had no weapon so I armed myself. What have you done? Wallowed in self pity over the thigns that you just can't do."
"So you know me better than I know myself. Great. Wonderful. Have a medel. But what have you done, Onyx? What have you tried? What have you amounted to do that would make yourself worth of the term 'nothing is enough'?"
She swung her staff and whacked the vah in the shin. "You're foolish if you think you can keep things the same. Nothing ever stays same. I'm not looking for you to fix my problems Onyx. No one's fixed them for who knows how long. I can take care of myself. I need to fix my own problems."
"When are you going to clue in that I don't care how strong you are? You want a girl who'll fawn over your muscle or magic, go to Deep Water. There are lots of girls there who don't care about anything else." She rested her staff against her shoulder, and once again headed for the door.
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:16 pm
"And once again, you're being rude. THis really isn't a hard concept Malik. Ask nicely, give me e amoment to think about your request and then I'll give you my answer." Those nails tapped faster and harder. She looked at Piper and hten raised an eyebrow. "What happened to you? Lost a fight with a tree or something?" She sighed, "Now come on Malik, ask nicely. That's not too big of a request is it?" His threat didn't bother her whatsoever, she knew and he knew that there would be no sacrificing to Lloth. First of all he didn't like Lloth, and his hatred of her certainly would mean that he wouldnt' make her day by sacrificing the one who'd run away to her. That would make the Spider Queen far too happy to sit well with him. And Piper would never allow it.
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:23 pm
Every Vah has a breaking point. a trigger that makes them go from relatively humane to beastial. And lucky girl, she struck one of those cords. Prodding at his insecurities, when he had been trying to open up to her...not that he was going about it the best way...got that kind of reaction. his hand grabbed her staff, just long enough to toss it, and her back into the room with a quite loud and this time pretty obvious roar. Claws extended.
"What would you know of it? What do you know?! what woudl you know of pleasure or pain?!"
Desks got flung aside, and he was approaching her.
"How many beatings have you suffered? I saw no marks or even faint scars on your skin. how many battles have you been in?! What do you know of living in someone else's shadow!"
He picked up a desk, and flung it over her head.
"Power and strength don't interest you? then why do you seek comfort in your damned Warhammer! the strongest and most powerful one there?! I don't see you running to that kobold or to the wizard!"
Oh he was positively feral at this point, fur standing and wings splayed. and probably little to no idea what he was doing.
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:24 pm
Oh couldn't he just ask her and be done with it? Why did he have to antagonize her...he was ruining her currently floaty happy feeling. Though Zahara was being no better about it by antagonizing him about it. The two were impossible as it was and each day they seemed to get moreso. So then, a nuzzle to the crook of his neck. "A'mael." She wasn't asking him to give in or anything...just merely prodding that he at least try to give Zahara more slack on the proverbial rope the two had between them in a childish tug of war game. Like she said before, he couldn't force things on everyone.
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:37 pm
"Fine. Zahara, if you possess the ability to bless the ground agaisnt the undead, I am asking that you help us strike at an enemy. if not, I am requesting that you go to Kimmuriel to learn this ability in order to help."
And she was lucky she was getting it that nice. Oh he just wanted to smack her when she got like that. or better yet yank on her collar. but right now he had his arms full with Piper, not that he minded.
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:41 pm
"What would I know? Have yopu been listen to a thing I have ever told you? I just lived a happy life as a young little half -elf, had my home and my family taken away form me. And oh yeah, I just remembered. Rapped for so long I don't even know how old I am anymore. But gee, I guess since those scars aren't on the outside of my body, they don't mean anything."
Flying furniture, calws, teeth, loud roars, it wasn't fazing her.
"I've been in more battles than I can remeber. Do you know what it takes to hold on to your sanity? I didn't even have the good graces to live in someone's shadow. Lucky me, I got to be something much worse."
"How would you even know if I go to Warhamemr for comfort? I showed nothing in the way of kinship when you last saw us together. What have you been doing Onyx? Spying on me? Don't trust me?" Sometihng cold hit the bottom of her stomach. "OR WATCHING ME CHANGE? OR BATHE?"
Suddenly cool. "You know what? Fine. I don't need to sit here and have someone tell me that I all I've been through means squat." She collected her staff, which was half way across the room.
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