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Hiyru dodged the fire and the door and using them to change his attack angle but he stumbled. he came to a stop breathing hard, but something was wrong. He returned to the bottle he tossed aside and giving the top a sniff it was apparent what happened. "The b*****d, he switched it on me, i told him i would have handled it." He tossed the bottle aside; "The next exchange will be our......last." Hiyru charged straight at him, his dagger in one hand his other hand prepared to inject his deadly venomn.

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Carnath chuckled, but he hissed cause it aggravated the wounds to his side. 'In no time, then don't mind me, i'll just take a nap, you can just wake me up when its all over."

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Toole climbed up to see what was going on below, but as much as he wanted to help them he continued on towards the delta. Lisa found Mary, and her three other younger siblings.( the ones i haven't names for) "Listen we need to follow Toole, something is up, he going to the delta for some reason, and i don't like the fact he only has Ailes with him.

Tolly caught up to his children as they were breaking up; "What happening, and just where are you all going?" Mary brought him up to speed as the others took off in pursuit of Toole. "Toole is heading into the Delta, were going to be his backup, now you can join us or stay here, and direct the clean up. All you need to do is let the sprites do the work at this point, they are faster, and more potent." Tolly just laid his nose on top of hers; "Isabella will settle this matter, I have delivered her to where she needs to be, and Sorrow is watching her. I have a duty to help my sons and daughters with their problems, now more then ever, but let us be going less we be late."

Tolly saw a smile form on Mary's face; "Its about time you came around, mother said you'd be hopeless to drag away from your work." Tolly smiled jumping into the air to be followed by Mary and Tolly mused a bit brushing wingtips with her. "You can say I had enough help in getting my priorties straight."

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Toole landed at Yumiru's village after releasing Ailes from the spell he set her down and put his amulet on. Ignoring everyone else he focused on Ailes; "I'm sorry I didn't take you to your father. The situation, as it stands in Arias, is heading to victory with the aid of the sprites and your father. I also have faith in your father as person, he would not abandon his promises to you, and will be just fine."

there was more commotion as Toole turned around to see his other brothers and sisters coming in to land as well, his father, and mary a few moments behind them. They gathered around and all looked at Ailes; "Toole what are you doing, are you proposing to her, cause from up here that is the only thing we can think of." Toole coughed a bit standing up; "No Roothemay, I've done that days ago, but I was assuring her about another matter."

"Then perhaps you can assure me why you are in my village earlier then the agreed time and with more then one of your family?"

Toole took a deep breath turning to face Yumiru; 'Well lets just say i got motivated, and secondly you need all the help you can get. Thirdly, your going to give us a break like I did you, or I'm calling in on the deal we struck at the rivers edge."

Yumiru raised an eyebrow; "Well you are not leaving much room for negotiations, but luckily I'm feeling charitable since we've located a number of their camps. However we are going to dine before we fight, might as well rest as i can tell some of you have fought already from the smell."

Quannah looked closely; "That's carnath, c'mon..." Quannah moved over and smiled watching the sprites work. "Thanks a bunch you guys, when i get back to the abyss look me up if you need anything, because my brother is worth more then a few favors." Quannah kneeled down; "Hey Carnath, you miss me, just got back, and you look like crap."

Carnath opened his eyes and they focused on Quannah. "Quannah, is that you?" Quannah nodded, and Carnath rolled onto his feet how long have I been sleeping her like some little kid?" Quannah chuckled; "I don't know, and before you ask the guy with me is Tsume." Carnath looked at Tsume; "Right, well, lets just say the whole height and giant sword proves rather intimidating at the moment. So what are you doing here Quannah?" Quannah replied; "Well Lena showed up in the abyss, we were worried, and well Vermillion would not let it go until one or all of us came back here to stop this mess. However, it appears to me to be taken care of, so where's lena's body?"

Carnath shrugged; "I dunno, we can check Mary's first, but they headed off to the delta to see what Toole was up to." Quannah's eyes got real big; 'What in the hell is he doing, committing suicide like i did, my god Carnath go after him, and get him back here they'll kill him." Carnath shook his head; "He didn't go alone I'm sure of it, but I'm going nowhere so soon after being patched up. My day is done, but I'll help you find Lena.

Carnath started for Mary's house and he looked back at Quannah; "you coming?" Quannah snapped out of her trance and for some strange reason as if it was require took Tsume's hand and followed after Carnath.

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Sorrow pushed Isabella to sit for the fourth time; "Relax your highness, he'll......." Sorrow saw Kaos stagger into view, and she grabbed Isabella's hand and dragged her along till she got to him. 'Dammit Kaos, your hurt, you said you'd age, not get...." Sorrow finally made the connection; "You took my wound, dammit Kaos, I would have been fine, c'mon Isabella help me set him down over here. Isabella got on his other side and they manuvered him over to a rock and sat him down. Sorrow took a deep breath, and began healing his largest wound. "Now don't fuss, i'll take care of you, but don't you dare die on me. I'll kick you butt, and so will Ailes and Akuma. Someone has to give them away to Toole and Lucid. That is your job, and i'm not letting you out of your responsiblity by getting hurt.

Sorrow was fussing a bunch, but it was helping her calm her nerves and keep her from spazing out at the severity of the wounds. Isabella just stared at kaos dumbfounded for awhile, before just putting her hand on his forearm and letting a bit of her energy seep in. She was very conscious and controlled about it and apparently taught in how to do it.

Carnath opened the door and Quannah followed him in. Sure enough Lena was inside, and Quannah set to work checking her over. "They used a slow poison, bastards, and this will take awhile. More time then I probably have, but I can maybe lessen it so it will pass through her system. Damn Toole, he could fix this, if he wasn't so messed up in the head over me dying. The boy was great at healing, but sucked at potions."

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Isabella stood up and gave him a respectful bow to kaos; "Thank you very much for helping me and my people." She walked a bit away to give sorrow some privacy.

Sorrow just wrapped her arms around him; "You'll know if I'm not, and same applies for you." She just kissed him passionately.

Yuma wiped her eyes; "I can't I promised to watch Isabella, and I can't break my word. I'll see you again soon, but get going before Chrono comes looking for you here."

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Toole had never dreamed he would be having dinner with Lighting demons ever, they ate simple foods, but the whole social structure facinated him somewhat. Women were served first, and then the higher males. The only reason Toole could think they were served the same as the women was the fact they were guests. However, Ailes plate touched first, and Toole didn't start eating until the lowest of males. Yumiru noticed this and she spoke up; 'Toole why do you wait to eat when the lower males were served?"

Toole set his fork down; "Mistress yumiru, i mean no disrepect to the food or you, but it is a old habit steaming from a large family gathered together." Yumiru smiled; "I did tend to notice that, but remember that some social situations require that personal habits not interfere. I'll forgive it this time, but please be careful since your actions influence the young here."

yumiru stood up her eyes flashing anger; "It does matter here, our social structure is different then Arias or any of the other realms. The men do not find it insulting or degrading, if anything they are driven to become stronger in order to obtain a higher standing, and possibly have children. I'm asking for you to respect our system, not accept it or practice it yourself, because my young who will grow up to protect this village when I can no longer do so are watching us right now. It worked for hundreds of years, and were not about to change it over a silly word like equality."

yumiru sat back down and started eating. Toole picked up the fork and started eating hoping it would make ailes happy and not get them thrown out of the delta.

Yumiru looked at Tolly and then up the line to where Toole sat eating. "Do you all share her opinons?"

Tolly set his spoon aside; "There are things i would love to see you change, and there are things that can be learned from your way as well. The ability to tolerate things no matter how minor is the difficult step that needs to be made right now. I see both sides of the story, but one common ground. The common ground being the tables set up here, anytime you gather a large group conversation will take place that both sides will not like. If we both learn to just tolerate it and not act upon it with either of our beliefs then no issues arise. In effect we set both our cultures and customs aside and focus on what the pupose of this meal is for. To eat and to talk, right now were eating and arguing over whose culture we as your guests should follow. Neither of of cultures belong here right now, in this moment we should be eating and discussing the fight that is about to happen. However to answer the original question honestly, some I agree with some I don't, but i will not say yes or no to the whole arguement ailes presented.

yumiru slid past the three youngest(the three i have no names for) to rest on Roothemay. "What about you?"

Roothemay laughed; "I work for a living, i haven't the luxury to deal in politics, or get involved in matters that don't involve cooking. I came to take care of your rodent problem, after that i have a resturant to go repair and get back in business. So I have no opinion, no choice in the matter, so leave me out of it."

yumiru slid down the line to Toole; "So what do you think Toole?" Toole set his spoon down and swallowed before responding. 'I'm thinking the food was rather good myself, although i'm going to pay for it later having ate too much today, but if you truly hadn't changed at all I would have holes in my wings before I landed. You've spent enough time in my house to realize what direction you want to take with your people, but your finding resistance to change. This dinner was a result of that resistance, and your worried that those people will undermine you. Your senior mistress of this village, you earned that right when merril named you, if they refuse to change then punish them or follow what you think is a reasonable course of action. Its your choice in the end, and what Ailes proposes is not too much to ask for one evening. One dinner where both sides do what they are used to doing. So yes i do support her because you have the right to change it with a few simple words."

(*gasp* i dunno what to say, never had to moments in one night before. *basks in the moment* alright back to work)

Toole smiled a bit but kept his eyes on Yumiru.

yumiru looked at everyone else; "They can do as they please while here, and your free to talk to them without punishment. Anything else must be given permisson before acting upon, no exceptions, and no arguments."

Toole smiled at her before returning to his piece of roast. Their was grumbling and hushed words being spoken all around the tables.

Tolly stood up; "Excuse me a minute Yumiru, Ailes may I borrow a few minutes of your time to join me in a walk?"

Toole glanced at his father; "What are planning dad?" Tolly shook his head; "Nothing she can't handle on her own." Tolly came down to stand behind her chair a few steps and held out his hand for her to take.