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((Quick little postie to this! WOO WOO!))

When they had all emerged out of the woods Lok took the whole thing rather quietly. He didn't seem to notice Red being all excited about her new squishy appendeges. Though, he did make an odd face when she squished them for all of them to see.

"Red... ew." He said. "If you're going to have boobs, you gotta know... girls don't do that. They keep their boobs themselves." He glanced at the ittle piggish man, his lip curled into a snarl. "Otherwise you get dolts like this falling all over themselves." He finished, eyes sharp and dangerous.

He gave him a warning growl as he trotted over to the prince. Though, he backed up a step as he swung around a little tea kettle. Lok raised a thick brow and wrinkled his nose. "Percy... I have to ask you a bit of a personal question..." He squinted his eyes. "... Are you... you kow... a tad..." He raised single finger and raised his eyebrows imporingly.

"Because if you are... I want you to know I'm absolutely okay with that." The wolfish smirked with a mean flash in his eyes.

((.... yeah... and maybe I'll make it move next post!))

Amleth pinned his eyes too the floor as Sally fiddled with her...her boobs... further. Nnnnnnnnnh. He let out a little whine as she knelt down and touched his shoulder, assuring him. "I-I'm fine it's j-just I'm not... not used t-to, um, uh, y-y'know, um... w-women. And umm! I-I don't want to make you uncomfortable or anything and I don't want to uhh uh uh... o-oggleyouoranythinglikethat." He tugged his ears miserably as the wolf sneered at him. The Pigman whined a bit and hunched his shoulders, wishing he could vanish into a hole in the ground. He wasn't a pervert or anything, he just was freaked out by... by how SUDDEN her growth was.

The prince piped up, and Amleth was relieved by the change of subject from womanly body parts. "I-I-I know, we're... really... really... REALLY really sick of it... and all the... the stuff... but..." A cup of tea was shoved in his hands before his thought process could finish. He glanced up to the dashing ma, lips pursing into a confused frown. He simply couldn't wrap his mind around why someone so well-liked, attractive, successful and dashing would want to change how things went for him. Amleth's own life was miserable as hell, yes, but princes had awesome lives, didn't they? Amleth shook his head and glumly took a sip of tea. These people were just too confusing for him to understand.

"S-so," he mumbled over his drink. "I, um. I've never really done anything but... but build stupid houses." He swished his tea around ruefully. "So, I, uh, don't really know how to do... anything else, and uh... what... what're we gonna do? 'C-cause... I probably won't be much of a help with it or anything or whatever... so... s-sorry."

((WOO POSSSTSSSS!!!))

Lok quirked a thick eyebrow at Sally/Alex when she rather stuck her chest into his personal space. He looked down upon her knew founded womanly parts with a sort of sneer. "I've seen better." Was his harsh remark and looked her straight in the face. "And what would I want with a little woman?" He growled at her. "I'm the wolf... and if I had been any kind of a man I would do better for myself than some little girl."

The wolfish man than frowned at her 'coming out' remark and proceeded to ignore her. He tried to focus on Percy's defense about him being rather straight and princess kisses... but Lok somehow still managed to hear her. The hackles along his back bristled with irratation. "MAKE UP YOUR MIND!" He roared at her, unable to contain himself. "First you say I can't have you and now you say I can! If you're going to insult me at least be CONSISTENT!"

((hahaha. WTF? *loves him*))

He turned to Percy with a sort of 'god help me' sort of expression and gripping the offered tea in his claws drank it all down like a shot.

At being asked who he was Lok shrugged. "I'm Lok." He said. "First dark of stories." He added on with what might have been a proud snarl on his face. "But I'm sure you've faught me often enough to know that, hero."

"And don't encourage that pig!" He growled suddenly, pointing a clawed hand at Amaleth. "He's PITIFUL. Who the hell builds houses out of STRAW?" He demanded of the pig. "You're lucky you have your brother to save your sorry hide every story or you'd be MINE." ((JERK! HAHA, YAY!))

And Lok didn't find it necessary to say anything as Percy stowed away his tea set, the smirk on his face was remark enough. Though, he then nodded his head.

"Good plan, Percy... but honestly I don't see why I should stick around with the lot of you." He said, heading out into the distance. "What can all of us do that I can't do on my own?"

((hahaha, yes... what CAN they do that he can't do on his own?!))

Amleth couldn't help but scowl at his tea as Dash gave his reason for wanting to change things. Boredom? That was a terrible reason. He tried to push the irritation away, as Dash offered some kind words. Amleth gave a weak grin. "Th-thanks," he mumbled. "You, um, you're really k-kind, but, umm, I kn-know I'm really useless, y-you don't have to p-pretend I..."

Before he could finish his self-deprecating thought, the Wolf finished it, harsher and shorter than Amleth would have ever gotten around to. Flinching from the man's hard words, the squat fellow turned his eyes down and bit his lip as Sally knelt down to assure him. He shook his head, hot tears rising in his eyes.

"No," he muttered. "He's right. He's totally right. I'm pathetic. I'm totally useless and no one wants me around, ever. Everyone knows so. Everyone hates me and loathes me and teases me, and all I ever do is pointless, futile work that no one ever appreciates and it never does me any good and I don't even like it. My live is miserable, it's an unending cycle of futility and fear and desperate, useless attempts to stay alive. I hate it, I hate my life, I hate every stupid fiber of my being with every stupid fiber of my being,

"And YOU," he brandished an accusing, chubby finger at Dash, "you have NO RIGHT to complain about how BORED you are and how that makes YOUR life terrible. You can do whatever you want, go wherever you want, be with whoever you want, and you have tons of money, and everyone likes you and knows you and appreciates you and I don't GET that, and you have, you have the GALL to COMPLAIN!" Why was he turning on this man? The Prince had never been mean to Amleth, never cruel or harsh, hell, he'd saved the fat man's a** just a scant few minutes ago, but Amleth couldn't stop the flow of furious words. "My live is a sack of s**t, a heaping, stinking pile of misery, and you just take what you've got for granted!"

"And... and you!" He turned to Sally now. Even as he did it, he regretted it, he liked Sally, she was his friend, she was nice and sweet and nothing but good to Amleth, but he just couldn't stop. "Why... why do YOU get to change, huh? You, you just take a few steps, and just, just BOOM, you get what you want! You get to look sexy and hot and you get big honkers and curves and whatever out of nowhere, but I don't get anything! I don't want to be so short or fat or stupid or ugly, and I didn't get anything, I just stayed my stupid ugly loser self, and you didn't even need it! You were fine before, I thought you were pretty before and you didn't need boobs anyway. Why do you get what you want while I still get nothing! I never get anything I've ever wanted, and it's not fair! It's just not fair."

He stopped, finally, finally he stopped. Something at the back of his head moaned at him to stop being mad, to take back everything he'd said. But the throb of conscience seemed so weak in comparison to the burn of general irritation. He wasn't even mad at them. He was just... he was just in that angry mode where he let his mouth run off with his emotions.

Amleth waited, panting weakly, staring at the two victims of his rant. The furious burn started to wear off, and the horror of what he'd done started to sink in. "I..." He looked down, quavering. "I... I didn't..." He gulped. "I... do things like that, sometimes. I just... I do that. It happens. And, uh. I..." he shuddered. "I'm sorry. I am, I just do that. So, um, uh, if you want me to... if you're mad--you probably are, you should be, I'm sorry, that was wrong, you should be mad, I'm sorry, I am--I could... I should just go. I can go back, now, and you all can, um, go farming and whatever, I've got plenty of straw anyway and stuff, so, um, yeah, I can go, and um yeah."

((Ha, uh, yeah, he just needed to have a giant angst fest right there. It's part of what makes me love him; he's a miserable sack of crap, through and through. Sorreh.))

((HOMGS I'M GOING TO TRY AND POSTTTTTT!!!... Cos... yes. Hahaha, and yeah... someone needs to knock Lok down a few notches... or... hahaha, he's SO ANGRY.))

Lok paused in his tracks as Sally proceeded to quite thoroughly chew him out. He didn't turn around and thusly his expression could not be seen, but the hackles along his back were once more on end and a little growl was rumbling low in his throat. That might have been warning enough for any SANE person to stop whatever it was they were saying, but Sally was Sally and had dealt with the wolf's temper far more times than were healthy for any of these aforementioned 'sane' individuals.

"Shut the hell UP!" He roared at her, swinging around. Somewhere beneath his smouldering eyes and snarling expression he looked hurt, like a dog that had been slapped with a newspaper. "You only just MET him. I've kown you FAR longer than that PIG has." He said of the pig, eyes still hard on her face. His canines were bared into a fearsome growl. "What friend is he?" He snorted and looked to the prince.

"I'm better off alone, you see." Lok replied. "Just ask Sally." He said in a quietly cold voice. "She wants to get rid of me so I'll just save you the trouble of getting your hands dirty. I'll take care of myself. Wolves don't keep good company."

And he turned away again to head out to he was not even sure where. The prospect of this idea, of leaving to set out to change when he knew nothing could be changed... not on his own, like the prince said. But that's how it was, wasn't it? He was the wolf, that was all he'd ever be.

He cast a look over his shoulder and snarled once. Then he was gone. Those who watched him go could see distantly over the slowly simmering dunes of the desert a great wolf galloping over the land. And slowly he vanished into the horizon.

A howl came back over the dunes, a warning. He was on no one's side either.

((hahaha, for some reason... I couldn't convince him to stay... he'll be back, NO WORRIES. Maybe he'll find Rain's character... that is... if she's still alive... *wonders*))

((I've been keeping up J. Reading and waiting for a point to bring my character in without it seeming so awkward. What are the chances of 5 different characters running into each in a forest, specially when dragons prefer open areas to closed in ones. I WAS going to post last night, but unfortunately, the power went out and I was un-able too. I stayed up till around 5:00 a.m. waiting for it to come back on so I could post since no one seems to have faith in the fact that I'm watching, but it never did. I even posted a page or two ago that I was reading and waiting for a point to enter in. I don't know how long the power will last today, since, apparently, there is now a tornado warning. Hopefully, a post will be added to this before that happens again))

Honestly, what was she DOING in this god awful place wearing this god awful cloak.
"Oh that's right, you were CHASED out here by some stupid paranoid villagers. You are quite the smart one Ryuu, letting them catch sight of you blasted face," she growled to herself, running black nailed fingers with their sharp points through slightly tussled long red-brown locks. Pausing, she kicked at the hot sand with a single booted foot and stared out over the rolling dunes through slitted pupils set in golden green eyes.

She heaved a sigh and continued on, she was alone in the desert, no one was around, she could leave her hood down for a little relief from the sun. She didn't have to worry about burning, her little patches of scales reflected and absorbed most of the light. Maybe this god awful place was a better home for her.

They wouldn't find her here, the people who made her play over and over the scene where she lost against the dashing prince and he white stallion. Away from the sorceress or twisted parents that used her to guard the object of their jealousy or their twisted daughter from the world.

A loud howl split her train of thought right down the middle. Again she stopped, squinting toward the direction of the loud sound. A wolf in the desert? Curiosity immediately tugged her toward where the sound had come from. The wolf was a fellow evil wasn't it? And one in the desert, perhaps it was trying to escape, just as she was. She moved over the dunes as quickly as her legs would allow her without running on the loose sand.

She could see it, a blob on the dunes ahead of her, in the back of her mind, she hoped he wouldn't run from her or turn the other way, just as everyone that saw what she represented did. Her hand moved to the long curving horns that ran along her head, people always ran. Swallowing, she paused, what was she doing? Getting so desperate as the move toward someone who probably didn't even want another's presence. Turning away from the slightly formed blob, she sat down on the dune she had stopped on.

"It's best not to have anyone around anyway. They'll just end up chased if you went within the proximity of a town. They probably don't want anyone around, they're in a desert by themselves for heaven sakes..." she mumbled.

((I know it's kinda short. I had one typed up but I had to edit it and cut a lot out. The cable keeps flashing in and out, so, I wanted to get this up before I was un-able to use the internet.))

((I still love ya too J, and I understand that I haven't been a good guild captain at all. I have apologized and just left a few days later more than once. I feel bad about, which is the main reason I have hesitated to come back more than once. I'm irresponsible, I get addicted to something and ignore my other responsibilities. I admit to it all, but I need to stop, which is why I'm still here, and which is why I plan on keeping up even if I am swamped with college stuff.

Just a warning though, I may not be on as often this week, I have to go college shopping for all the stuff I need for my dormitory and for my books and the such. Then I am going to WV to get acquainted with the town. The hotel as internet, but I do not know how often I will be able to get on. I'm going to be un-naturally busy... I'm STILL going to be getting on though, at least once a day, just not for hours at a time. If I miss every now and then, I apologize. But I'm still here.))

((Fortunately, the storm wasn't half as bad as they said it would be. So, power is still on and we are a'okay. Though I am partially distracted by the new anime sitting in my computer disc tray. But I am being the bigger person and posting before watching it xd ))

Despite all the doubts she had had in her mind, the wolf she had smelled on the winds and whom she had heard soon sat before her. He greeted her gruffly, though it was much better a greeting than she had ever gotten before, and questioned her presence in this place.
"Trying to get away," she stated simply, not wanting to relay the story behind her presence in the desert itself.

She gave him a smile of her own, though it was more of a sad smile than anything else. Glancing over him with sharp eyes, she noticed his dried lips, and upon further examination, nothing to drink on his person. Reaching to her side she pulled out a pouch holding it out to him.
"You look thirsty, it's warm, but it's better than nothing. If you don't mind drinking off a belly dragger that is," she stated.

"So what brings you out into these sands without any supplies?" she questioned. Though, she had no right to talk, when she had left the sorceresses keep, she had left with nothing. She had stolen when she couldn't manage to get them to sell to her, and used the sorceresses coin when she could buy.

The leaving thing, had been a sudden and rash decision, but she would NEVER say she was regretting it.

((I know it's short... but she asked him a queesssstion ^^))