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 Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 8:13 am
Sal gave a light smile and picked up the last bag. "Sure thing." This was a nice feeling. If anything just for the normalcy of it. "Just so you know, if I had known he was your brother I wouldn't have killed him." He confessed, plopping the final bag on the wall. "But thanks." He brushed a bit off dirt of his face and blew a few strands of hair out of his eyes. It wasn't until now that he started to feel a bit embarrassed to be so ragged looking. "So this is where you're living now?"
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:24 pm
" I.." The question had thrown her off balance, her expression puzzled as she leaned against the stacked bags.. studying her hand bewilderment. She had been looking at him, feeling oddly peaceful with him near.. but, what was she doing here? " t-there was something important.. I cant remember it now." she had woken in a abandoned house at first light, had gotten up and went about helping a kindly man as if it were the most natural thing in the world.. but she did not remember why she was there. Trying to swallow her fear she pushed at the thoughts, standing and turning away as she started wipe the dust from her arms. " He was not my brother. i didnt know then, my real brother is much worse.. the man you killed was a dull replacement to keep me passive. I owe you."
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Turinan Dusk Watcher Crew
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:39 pm
"Well, I haven't been the best guy in the world for the last few years so I think you can skip the owing bit." Salazar started to wipe his arms too, it was just then he remember that he hadn't put on his claws since he left the graveyard. After a moment of thinking, he decided against putting them back on and looked back up to Jackie. "So who's your real brother then?"
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 8:01 pm
If possible she tensed more, her head ducking forward as her nails dug into the sand bag under her hand. " If.. i remember right, my baby brother's name was Gerard Rosenthal." She grew quiet, her hand loosening as the bag started to tear. " I am not who you think I am, Sal. Im not who I thought i was either, i cant sleep without seeing both of their lives.. both of my lives. I just keep thinking was what i did so wrong to be punished like this? to live two lives as 'good' and 'bad' for saving my little brother, to love someone so much that i'd be willing to kill him for doing something that i thought hurt me, and then find out all the terrible things i've done with necromancy--" With each word of her rant her voice had risen, tears gathering on her lashs as she cut herself off.. keeping her back firmly to Salazar as she appologized faintly. " Forgive me.. tis been a long day. Find Duke, he'll pay you for the work." gesturing towards the street for him to take she lifted her sack of weapons.. head down as she tried to blend with the small market crowd.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 8:19 pm
He watched her fade into the crowd and stood silent. After a moment he slammed his hand against the sandbags with such fury it split on of them open, toppling as few bags over onto the ground. He was livid, it seemed that even when he had the faintest grip on a normal day it slipped from him. Could he not get away from those damned people! Avarice, Kirai, and worst of all Edward. He would give anything to be rid of them. Giving a small sigh, Sal picked up the bags that had fallen and headed out of the village. Not quite sure where he would end up.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 8:55 pm
Penelo watched him go, leaning against the shop wall and pressing a hand against her heart. It would stop hurting.. the best thing she could do was let him walk away, not to drag him down with her. The thoughts did not dry her tears, but it gave her the strength to ignore them.. smoothing her hair away from her face and pulling the loaded glock from her waist band. with a deft flick she released the safety, traceing the trigger as her eyes narrowed. She couldnt heal what troubled him, had lost the right to do so by sharing her blood line.. but she would never stop careing for him, fool that she was. Damning herself a masochist she fallowed after him, shoving the safety in place once more before placing the gun in her waist band. She could not allow him to storm off as he was.
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Cassandra_Complex Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:32 pm
With disreguard for her mother's warnings, Red left her house in the dead of night. For weeks now she'd heard a calling to her. little red, little red.... come out and play.... he would say, come to me and see what I am.... he'd cry out to her. she'd gone many nights without rest... now she'd find her answers....
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:34 pm
Salazar, Eve, and Ivy arrived at the city a few minutes before 6:00. It was getting dark so they would need to eat soon. "So, what do you girls feel like?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:45 pm
Ivy and Eve looked past Salazar at each other, each with their hand to their mouths, thinking. Then, they both looked up at Salazar with adorable little confused faces. They had never had anything but a sort of gruel, made for their fast growing bodies. Occasionally, they were allowed to have some of the food that they served for meals at the Asylum... but only once or twice. But Ivy and Eve were hungry, so...
Ivy spoke up. "Um... food, please."
Eve nodded her head.
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:54 pm
Salazar was about to explain what he meant but then remembered where these girls had come from. They walked about the city until they found a little sit down restaurant. They went inside and found a small booth for them to sit in, Salazar on one side and the girls on the other. he handed them a menu and started to look over his own. "So what looks good to you?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:06 pm
The girls were in awe as they walked inside the restaurant. With wide eyes, they looked all around them. There were so many people! And they all looked and were dressed so differently from each other! The inside looked so different from the inside of the Asylum, actually, they had never been outside of the Asylum... The smells were entirely new to them.
Eve and Ivy sat right beside each other in the center of the booth across from Salazar. The girls both shared a large menu. Eve would ask Ivy what a word read, and Ivy would sound it out for her. After they went through the whole menu, they didn't know what any of these foods were.
"These are food?" Eve asked innocently, peeking up at Salazar over the edge of the menu.
Ivy leaned her head to the side, looking at Salazar from the side of the menu.
They looked like two little dolls, with cute heart shaped faces and small, perfect features. Each one full of life and personality, despite the fact that they had been exposed to so little and they had hardly been alive for two weeks.
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:02 pm
Salazar scratch the back of his head and smiled at the two. "Yeah, guess you two don't know much about food huh?" The waitress came around and he ordered three turkey sandwiches, hoping the girls would like that. Salazar was a bit at a loss for words, not really knowing how to talk to children, let alone ones that had been in the Asylum. "So, what do you two like to do in your free time?" He noted that he should probably stop starting his sentences with 'so'.
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:45 pm
Ivy and Eve both started to talk at the same time, but then paused and looked at each other. Ivy took the menu and sat it down on the table and Eve started to talk.
Swinging her legs back and forth over the edge of the booth and raising her small hand to her chin, looking up and thinking, she said, "Well... I like coloring, and drawl-ing..." Eve looked over at Ivy, then smiled and hugged her, looking back to Salazar. Her voice was a lot lighter and freer now. "And I like playing with my sister!"
Ivy gave a very small smile when Eve hugged her. While Eve didn't let go, Ivy turned her attention to Mr.Neri. She spoke softly and flatly with her head turned down, only glancing up at Salazar with every other word, "I like reading... I like listening..." Ivy was thinking. What did she like doing?
Eve unknowingly interrupted her sister when she paused. Letting go of Ivy and jumping up with her elbows on the table, she asked excitedly, "What do you like Mr.Neri?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:41 pm
The question made Salazar wonder. "Well I like...um...well." He couldn't exactly say 'I like to kill people and eat them'. Finally he settled to say. "I like to work with my hands." It was true enough. "Um, so, I talked to grandpa and he said that you could stay with me for a bit, if you wanted to."
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:58 pm
The girls looked at each other, then looked down. Neither one of them had ever left the asylum before... Nor had either of them actually really thought about it.
Eve raised her hand to her mouth and whispered in Ivy's ear, "Mr.Neri is really nice."
Ivy whispered back, "So is Grandpa..."
"Mr.Neri said, that Grandpa said, it is okay."
Ivy was silent for a moment, before having to respond. "...yes."
Eve lowered her head a bit and said, "But...I miss Grandpa..."
Ivy cut off whatever else Eve said after she said 'I miss Grandpa'. She looked around them. There were so many people.... mean people, like who chased her and her sister... And nice people, like Mr.Neri (despite that she didn't fully trust him yet). Grandpa was always busy... and whenever he was around them, he was still busy. Playing made Eve happy, but he never really played with her... he actually got a bit angry at her. Grandpa never got angry with Ivy, and he was very happy she showed such an interest with reading... but Grandpa never really talked to Ivy and Eve. He didn't talk to them like Mr.Neri did. Ivy just had one question before she said 'yes' to staying with Salazar.
"Mr.Neri, um..." She looked down into her lap, then looked back up to him, trying to speak as fluidly to get what she wanted to say across as she could manage with her fairly limited vocabulary. "Do you have books you would let me read? And can you help me read?" Ivy was thinking and trying to remember each word as she said it, longer sentences were harder. Did she say that right?
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