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 Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:29 pm
The chuckle transformed into a fit of laughter at Eponine's comment.
"Strangers, eh? You've got more to worry about than that, Miss Eponine is it?"
Putting one foot slowly in front of the other, the captain walked up and down the length of the line of people standing in front of him.
Wraith winced at the look Eponine threw him. He was going to have to dig them out of this nice, round hole sometime in the near future. Shaking his head, he let his hair distort his features.
"Perhaps we could sit down and talk about this, captain? I would really prefer to do that rather than stand here in this manner."
He turned his head to look at Eponine and Estrelas.
"That's enough. Please let me take it from here."
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:19 pm
((Note: I'm note sure the speeling of Cincapos or whatever. It's a traditional Portuguese small cake used in elaborate celebration.))
Estrelas nearly collapsed in a fit of laught at Eponine's refusal to talk to "strangers."
When Wraith told them to let him pull the whole caboodle, she fought -and fought hard- to keep herself from stripping down to her underwear, pulling out Cincapos, and singing praises to God. Relief flooded her veins, inexpressable relief. Good thing too, her "acting" was wearing down. Where in heaven had Eponine learned to be an actress of that caliber? she thought, battling against her urge to break into the chorus of Hallujah.
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:46 pm
Eponine opened her mouth to whine an insolent response at Wraith, then remembered the actual nature of his order. She shut her gab, and put on a 'Noh' mask - much like the usual Estrelas face.
Hey, actors played what they knew. Like all good artists.
"Yes, sah!" she said in perfect Estrelas fashion. Okay, her acting spree was getting a little out of hand.
The slightest sucking in of the cheeks betrayed her stoic expression. Eponine could tell she was probably messing it up even more.
This was probably not the most succesful of missions.
She'd just have to hope they'd at least get out alive.
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:11 pm
Eponine was getting on his nerves. He could see that she wasn't happy at him telling her to shut up, however necessary that had been. And had it been.
The captain's laughter quieted down to a low chuckle again. "And why should I sit down with the likes of you? What will ye offer me?"
"Well, what is it you want?"
"Pirates want many things, Mr... Thernardier, was it? And I don't think you be in a position to provide them."
"Try me, captain."
The captain raised an eyebrow at Wraith. Who was this man? The man's eyes were locked on his and emitted a smoldering intensity. He had money, no doubt. Money was not in short supply. But this confidence? The captain was hard-pressed to remember the last man who had looked him directly in the eyes.
The last traces of all laughter were swept off his face. "There's only one thing in this world I want. And I've sailed to the ends of the earth to get it-- and failed.
Let's make a trade. Your lives will be spared if you can give me what I want."
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:40 pm
Estrelas, for a moment, thought, Hey- is it one of those damn crystal things he wants? but then wiped the thought out. It wasn't as if it was common knowledge about the crystals....
She shivered as Eponine shot out words that seemed like they would have come out of her own mouth. What was this girl- someone who could pull on different personas and pull them off well?
Totally forgetting to look sissy and swooning, she snapped her back up rigidly and stared at the captain's face... Not his eyes though, Wraith may have been courageous and confident enough, but Estrelas definitely was talking to his nose.
She tossed her long neck back, revealing the clean cut of her lower jaw and sending her black hair flying, making even more a striking effect with her blankly emotionless face.
"And what you want is what?" she demanded imperiously.
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:03 pm
It was as if something had melted away: the face mellowed, the body shrank in, the stature tense and hunched over. The normal, fearful Eponine was back.
She would have asked what the most desired item was, had Estrelas not already opened her mouth.
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:31 pm
Estrelas was overcome with the urge to cuddle Eponine as she did to Angel when the rabbit suddenly tucked in on herself and the whites of Angel's eyes showed all the way around. But she chided herself, saying that Angel was a rabbit and Eponine was a young lady already. Instead, she patted Eponine's arm softly, hoping that her nerves would not transfer to Eponine's already high-strung demenor.
"Well?" she demanded, the imperious look receding into something resembling Eponine's current expression. Everything was a mask for her. The sudden royal tone, the blank face, the childish act... It was all just a defensive mechansim. "What do you want?"
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:54 am
The captain could smell their fear. It was not something new to him.
He walked slowly towards the cabin door, which was ornately decorated in red and gold relief. Opening the door, he cast a glance at the recruits that clearly meant for them to follow him.
"Do not step inside."
Wraith felt a sense of dread as he approached the door. There was... something there that felt not right.
His eyes fell upon a magnificent four-poster bed, upon which a huddled mass twisted up in blankets lay. Straggly hair spread out beneath her, and her face was contorted with pain as beads of sweat ran down it. The mouth was murmuring something intelligible, but it sounded like a repetition of sorts.
Wraith snapped back to the captain. Of what he could see, the man's mouth was set tightly, and his eyes betrayed a deep melancholy.
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:49 pm
Despite Eponine's wish to sink away and disappear, her curiosity overcame her desire to stay still. She slunk after the captain and Wraith, standing on tiptoe to see over Wraith's shoulder.
There was a loud thud as her heels fell back to the deck, and they stumbled back. Her hand flew to her mouth, and she stared with wide eyes at Wraith's back, not daring to look over again. What was that?
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:37 am
Estrelas glared at the twitching mass on the bed.
Something told her that she should be sad.
The helplessness of the woman should have bought her sighing with regret of her fate. The limp and scrapped hair must have once been a mass of shining, beautiful locks- the beauty sunken away should have bought tears to her eyes upon thinking what must have resided there once. Estrelas, being born a farmgirl in the hot, humid regions where food could have gone bad easily and perhaps that icy drink of water was not so refreshing as it seemed, had quite a sense of smell and the indelicacy of sweat was as piercing as if someone had dumped half a bucket of pigslop on her.
Clearly the thing on the giant bed was in pain. Rivulettes of the stinking ((at least to Estrelas; she had no idea if anyone else could smell it)) sweat ran down the woman's face.
All that should have bought Estrelas to her knees beside the bed, praying that God would forgive the poor soul for whatever offense she had done.
But really, all Estrelas could feel was a cold, icy indifference. She did not care about the woman. Something deep inside yelled, FAKE IT! Cry and feign sadness! Do something so that they at least THINK you have feelings, that you're not an emotionless, bland inside as you are outsi- On mental command, the floodgates of the FAKE IT! PRETEND! ACT! screams stopped dead.
Estrelas attempted to adopt Eponine's talent of acting but all she managed was a twisted expression that even the woman could probably see through.
Save me. The Mask is sinking in. Not only will I be a blank mask outside but I will be void inside soon.
She turned to the captain. "What?" she asked suddenly, attempting falsed concern but not managing. "What do you want us do? As if-" Ahhh...
"Sah," she said, addressing Wraith. "Is it in the future that theees type of theeng is easily cured? Fa in mah farm baack home, Father Ferdinando have bought coffin out already," she said.
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 5:56 pm
Fury ingrained every line in the captain's face as he heard Estrelas' comment.
"She will not die! I sense something about you people. You can help her-- I know you can. And if you do not, you'll find yourselves rotting among the seaweed and filled up to your nostrils with salt water.
Help me. Help her... please."
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 5:58 pm
-MISSION COMPLETE-
REPORT: Unsuccessful. Requires follow-up.
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:26 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:58 pm
((Nothing was really accomplished other than some pirates getting really mad. xD And Wraith's angry that you made more work for him. xD
If you don't mind, I'm going to lock this thread now, just to keep it neat and tidy. You can of course discuss in the main thread.))
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