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Faevan charged forward, gathering Shin and holding him back.

"Wait a moment." She held her arm out to stall Dio for a moment. "Wh should stay back, behind the villagers. Trust me on this one." Dio looked at her, as if to doubt her judgementm but she fixed him a steel strong gaze, and he understood.

"Absalom." Toshihiko managed, strangled. The sound was quiet.

He stiffened, and then swung the long axe once, twice, experimentally. It /had/ been a long time. Teaching. He'd wanted to settle down for a quiet life, with books and summers in a classroom, lecturing on this and that or rambling on about the world's history. Its poets and scientists, the yellowed books and God.

And then he and the weapon were still. His volume rose only slightly, no longer a whisper, tone flat.

"You have my son."

Nosmirc brought up the rear only to stop dead after parting the bush. Her knees shook violently, her focus fell on the teeth of the brown fae. She grimaced, taking a step back unconsciously.

Chiaku took a step back, a hand at her mouth. This was more than she expected. Between the handful of villagers present, there was very little fighting experience to spread between them. They would be slaughtered if they were not cautious.

Nosmirc was slow putting the puzzle together, fear was twitching in most of brain. Her trembles began again as she sank slowly to the ground keeping the beasts in sight. She wondered if they were communicating amongst each other. Her heart had given up racing, it kept up a slow, steady beat as she looked from one fae to the next, then their captive, the lone man's child.

Zeejay Moratao followed quietly, her deep red eyes forver grateful for being re-united with her wonderful daughter... But every bit of her happiness faded, dwindled away between her fingertips, at the sight of those grotesque Faes. Her heart thudded in her chest, stommach tightened. Breath came sharply, even moreso considering her wounded lungs.

She was the towns guardswoman.. she must protect the vilagers.. But, but.. She was wounded, there was no way Zeejay could ever best these.. tese monsters alone!

Though, the young girl cast a quick glance around... there were people, and Fae, on all sides of her. Her heart thumped harder, for once in her dreary life she was surrounded by friends! kind faces... Her troubled eyes fluttered on Toshihiko.

It was his son. His duty to save him, but hers also.

The ever shy, Zeejay Moratao, took several slow steps until she stood next to Toshihiko, her blood red eyes gleamed with such a strong determination, never seen in them before. "Do not fret, Sir," she whispered, her voice almost pained. "I'll help you save him, at all costs. I know how much he must mean to you."

Zee's words were powerful, odd to her own mouth. She enforced her words with her calm presence, she was determined to fufill them. At all costs.

Seriva watched, quietly, as her mother stepped forward. As her mother's hands tightened their grip on her weapons... The girl's golden eyes were wide, shocked, at the sight of these other fae. they were.. Horrible! there was a burning inside her heart.. A pain, it.. it hurt to look at their distorted faces.

But, no, what they said was worse than any appearance she could ever see. Seriva's soft look hardened, any bit of fear left her eyes, her pose. the soft yellow appendages on her back flared angrily, lashing about like they had a mind of their own. slowly... Oh so slowly, the golden fae walked up and stood by her mother, the small golden dagger clenche din her metal flecked hands.

Kizzy had stood silently and unmoving so far, her eyes fixed on Absalom. She was sick of all of the running around, sick of the situation and especially sick of two new Fae's lip. She stamped her left foot firmly down infront and yelled towards the duo. "The only blood ya'll be feasting on is yer own, when I'm done kickin in yer ugly faces!"

Sai blanched. Her last string of composure was fraying. Her love of her daughter kept her a firm grip on one of Kizzy's spines. She knew her little girl wasn't the most tactful but there was no time to care about that now. Sai's left eye twitched violently as she frantically sought in her mind for an escape route.

Cordain layed a hand down upon Nekura's shoulder, "Calm down Neku...Now is not yet the time to bring out the violence that lies within us." he says quietly to his son as he watches the two fae with Absalom, straying to inside of his shirt, his hand rests upon a the pommel of a large hidden knife while he keeps his bokken near to Nekura's hand.

Nekura blinks once and looks up at the expression upon Cordain's face, cold as stone with a hidden rage fire beneath his amber eyes. Cordain has been angry with Nekura before but it was nothing like what Cordain held and Nekura knew it.

"...Yes Human...I will stay calm for now." he mutters, his tone aggravated at having to stay still but even he knew better than to attack at this moment.