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 Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:44 pm
She fell forwards, fingers splaying over the gems as she caught herself. It was a shock, and she gasped, eyes fluttering closed. There was something under her left palm, so chilled it felt damp. It felt... right, for a moment, like a familiar charm, worn from carressing fingers. And then it pulsed, flexed, and there was a voice in her bones.
mine
Auri's fingers tightened around whatever it was in a spasm that wasn't entirely her doing, and she hissed through clenched teeth. Painfully, almost unwillingly, she unwrapped her fingers, and opened her eyes to look down at what exactly she'd just touched.
It was an innocent little dragon charm, clutching a blue-tinted gem. Smaller than her palm, and when she poked it with a hesitant finger, it was still cold. Like her glass of water, which she only now realized was laying in shards around her feet. Damn!
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:16 pm
 "Dear me..." Destruction curled himself down into a crouch over the shards of glass, dipping his hear so that his bangs covered the unhealthy smile that slashed his lips, "Don't hurt yourself."
He fanned his great hand over the shards and the water hissed into steam. The remains of the glass bubbled and melted away into nothing...possibly steam as well, but she couldn't be sure.
"Feel free to take any out you like and look at them. " He straightened and moved away, busying himself with the hanging of deep red, translucent skrims.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:04 pm
Auri opened her mouth, almost ready to snap a scolding retort at Harmodius, but the sight of glass bubbling under his touch changed her mind. Her hand closed over the charm again. "This," she began, and ran her tongue over her lips to moisten them. "This one."
mine, the voice repeated and she flinched. Shut up!
"It talks. In my head, I mean." She shoved her fist out towards Harmodius, fingers wrapped around the charm.
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:56 pm
He looked over in a slow, cat-like fashion at the fore-offered fist, "If it does, then it is yours, simply enough."
His tone was self-assured, daring almost. 'Drop it if you can' felt like an after sentence in the smile of his posture. "Does that frighten you? Do you not want it? It is a fetching piece."
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:00 pm
Her jaw dropped, brow tightening as she gaped at Destruction. After a short pause that felt like eons, she scowled at his words. "I'm not scared! I," she trailed off, "I... don't know."
Glancing at her fist, still thrust out, she frowned even deeper. Teeth catching at her lower lip, she started to talk, to refute his offer of the charm. She choked on her words, though, eyes widening as the charm shifted inside her fist.
It was something akin to plunging her hand into the fiercest rapid, the coldest water imaginable beating against her skin. She spluttered for air, staggering forwards and trying to shake the charm from her opening hand. Instead, it stuck, sinking into the flesh and bones of her left palm like a shipwreck: slow and disasterous. With it came the sickening feeling of water sliding over her bones, pulsing under her skin in currents and unseen tides.
With the liquid sensation came panic, and she gibbered nonsense at Destruction, staring horrified at her own hand.
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:34 pm
He waited, smile turned razor with the sharp edges of carnivore teeth. He moved back from her, like a painter stepping away from a work in progress, evaluating the scene before himself and judging it.
It would do.
"You'll be taking that one home, after all. Don't worry, the merging won't last forever. "
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:20 pm
What to do, what to do, what to do? The words roiled in her head, background noise to the rush of water amplified by the heartbeat in her ears and the presence that was unfolding in her mind.
Kawagiri was taking up his temporary residence, spreading out his influence before the shock overcame his new host's adrenaline and she went completely berserk. It was a cool breath of mist over her troubles, soothing stream water lapping away at stress - and her babbling slowed, paused, and stopped.
She stared at Destruction. It took her precious moments to gather up the needed words, as she was suddenly hyper-aware (a second voice, second mind was telling her these things - how different!) of how much time she had before complete collapse. "I," she began, and he was amused by how her lips shaped 'we' before that. "I need quarters, a place to stay. Lord - that is your title, I know these things now - Lord Harmodius, he..." Panic almost overtook her again, and then she shook her head. "He greets you, Lord. Ti Lung, Dragon King Kawagiri, Lifewater of Worlds, greets you."
It was not so much a bow, as it was a barely controlled slump to knees, and from there, a pitch forwards onto her hands. That's good, good., he whispered, all the talking he could have done. Kawagiri was shoving knowledge at her - it would take a day and night, and a day again of sleep to recover from this exertion.
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:32 pm
"Quarters you shall have, girl," he gathered her into his arms like a bride, and stood to his full stature. It was like laying in the arms of a great statue, but warm as hot stone massage on her limbs. "Rest, sleep, and you will wake in a place of your own. You are safe here. "
The emphasis on the last words was strange, and what it hinted at was not easily discernable to the troubled or overtaxed mind. He spoke no more, but started to walk to the great stair and up it, his pace even, and the gentle rock of being carried was reminiscent of childhood images of a father carrying a sleeping daughter to her room at night's end.
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:19 pm
She curled into his chest, a tiny doll-child in his cradled arms. The warmth took away the feeling of being drowned-rat wet, changed it to a pleasant heat.
It was safe, just like he said, and this was the kindest care she'd received in... a long while. Of course, came the voice in her head. He is lord on high, and everything is his, as are you, his child and mine and I am his as well, my child my host my lady my... He paused the rambling speech - too much to be said, and too long without words reduced him to this?
It was no matter anyway, she'd fallen into realms of slumber, deep like the ocean trenches. He stayed, just clinging to the concious shore - someone would need to recall where they were to reside.
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:45 pm
Their passage through the upper, decadently carpeted hall was silent except for the girl's breath and the shifting crackles of heat from his skin. Harmodius paused before a blank section of wall, and it burned. Black scotched the wood, fingering out and then the carbon-ed block grew out. In seconds, ash flaked off, revealing an elegant portal made of Lace agate and Lapis, flecked with copper and silver. Great waves, graphic like japanese tsunami, rushed at the bottom, fed by fan deltas of rivers in which drakes and serpents frolicked. Great mountains spired up, flocked with bonsai and stunted, close cropped vines. It opened out with a glance from the Elder God, and he strode in. Ashes pooled from the droppings of his wings, and they grew and coalesced into sturdy, but delicate ash-wicker chaise, and he lay the new host down upon it.
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