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 Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:05 pm
 Ling sat silently in the darkest corner of the unlit room. His antenna waving slowly as he enjoyed the silence and solace of the darkness. He wore a blank expression, though to most combined with his stitched eyes would creep most people out. Not that Ling cared what others thought about him. Rather in most cases he would rather people keep their opinions to themselves and leave him alone.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:21 pm
 Antarmur'ss was everywhere. Not litterally of course, but figuratively. Anywhere there was darkness he could be, and he liked for the pockettu to think that it was always true. So that even in the darkness their secrets were not safe. While Ling sat there, so impassive, Antar peered upon him. Truth be told he had not yet seen a pockettu with antenna such as this one. So out of the darkness he reached a hand to gently stroke a taloned finger over one.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:40 pm
Ling's sensitive antenna sensed the touch coming milliseconds before contact. They twitched and Ling's blind head swiveled towards the area of darkness the hand had reached out to touch him. Though the motion was more slow and methodical than a jerk of surprise. "Who are you that more than hides within the darkness?" He asked, voice cool and mysterious. Ling may not have eyes but eh had ways of 'seeing' things around him.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:06 pm
Antar found it curious, the way the boy's head moved before he even did touch him. Carefully he moved his hand, merely testing to see how the boy would respond to a seemingly disembodied hand floating around his head. Without actually touching the boy, Antar withdrew his hand, causing it to vanish into the darkness. More then hides? Inwardly Antar grinned, and he allowed a soft chuckle to issue out from the darkness. "Hide? The Darkness does not hide within itself. It merely is." He murmured in a teasing manner. Should he just...nab the boy? The urge to snatch him up and see how amusing he could be to play with tugged at Antarmur'ss.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:33 pm
Ling's antenna twitched slightly as the disembodied hand moved about his head. His head turned back to face the way it had been, as if the floating hand was less than amusing. Another twitch came from his antenna as the hand melted back into the shadows around him. He could no longer sense the physical presence of anything. But he could still feel his presence.
Ling didn't react to the disembodied chuckle. He ran his black, clawed hand through his hair as the voice spoke. His expression never changing he responded. "To darkness, darkness cannot hide. So darkness one must be." His mysterious voice held a note of confidence.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 12:34 am
Antarmur'ss smiled as he watched the boy. His answer was worded differently from what most would say. It was easy to see he was of a poetic nature. Antar tilted his head and after a moment debating, he reached out with both of his arms in an attempt to grab Ling around the waist. All so he could jerk the pockettu through the shadows and directly into his lap while he sat comfortably on his throne. "Darkness indeed I am." He replied softly.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 12:58 am
Ling's antenna twitched as the arms reached out to grab him from the darkness. He reacted instantly and rolled away, landing in a crouch, his clawed arm flattened on the ground. Lifting his head to face the reaching arms he spoke. "Darkness one may be, darkness I be not." He loved the dark, but he wasn't the trusting type.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:31 am
Antar allowed his arms to fade away. Leaving Ling with no physical presence in the area to focus on. He was rather amused by the reaction of the other. Chuckling softly he allowed Ling a few moments unharrassed before he smoothly replied. "You do not need be Darkness for the Dark to take note." He murmured softly. Antarmur'ss waved a hand in the air before him, and caused a tendril made of shadows to form behind Ling. The Tentril waved back and forth for a second, then leaned forwards to try and stroke down the wary ones back.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:54 am
Ling had never dealt with such a strange being as this one that called himself the Darkness. Once again the physical presence vanished and he was left with only the feeling. He was on alert, acutely aware of the dark space around him. Though his expression remained calm, almost bored. Ling was left in silence for a moment before the voice spoke again and he sensed motion behind him. He shifted, turning around and backign up in one fluid motion, away from the intruding tentacle. "Darkness seems to note what wants not to be noted." He spoke, his voice still level and mysterious. Ling much preferred to meld into dark spaces and have none take notice of his presence. He still wasn't sure what to think about this darkness and he didn't know what it wanted. Nor did he particularly care to find out.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:28 pm
Softly Antarmur'ss spoke. His voice dropping in pitch as he would reply to the boy. "You may wish to be un-noticed...but this can not be the case. All things that dwell or hide within the darkness are unveiled before mine eyes. From the smallest bug skittering through the light-less tunnels of the earth, to the grandest of tree's standing tall on a moonless night. I can not help but see, and as you sat here in silence..I too saw you. Of all these things I may watch, you have proven to be what strikes my curiosity the most right now. Come..." As he spoke, the tendril of darkness twisted and reshaped itself into a outstretched hand. If's fingers beckoned to Ling. "Let me see you with my true eyes. Let me show you the lonely places of my realm, where no others have passed but the shadows themselves."
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:19 pm
Ling's antenna swayed and his sightless face remained locked on the tentacle as Darkness spoke in an ominous tone. He frowned slightly, not much liking that he had caught anyone's interest. The hand beckoned him to do as the voice said, but Ling didn't move or respond. As if he hoped this Darkness guy would get bored and leave him be.
At the mention of dark, lonely places a brief flash of interest, almost excitement, flash across his face. Though it was quick to melt back into passiveness. He wasn't about to be drawn in that easily.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 10:34 pm
Oh...he noticed that flash. Antar's lips curled into a small smile as he made the hand perform a coaxing gesture to Ling. "I know a place, so deep in the ground. The wind that flows up from it carries the scent of aged stone and the warmth of the very worlds breath. I have seen a place...riddled with gemstones of such clarity that shadows dance within their hearts. Where the faint whisper of a winds touch causes them to sing musically through the curving tunnels that are their homes. I have created a garden, thriving with life that can only be nutured by darkness. Where blooms of flowers and curling vines offer up unique scents, as such to lull you into a gentle sleep. A pool of water so deep it's reach is endless and it's touch softer then a shadows caress. Come to me...I shall show you these things... but only if you come to me wanting it."
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 11:53 pm
The words were like sweet music to Ling's keen ears. His mind imaging the wonder of such a beautiful darkness. A place the could please his senses like they had never had been. A chill of excitement ran down his spine. His clawed had flexed and his lips turned up ever so slightly. He couldn't force back his interest, he wanted that darkness. His desire ate away at him until he couldn't stop himself from slowly walking towards the dark, beckoning hand and alluring voice.
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 12:30 am
As always, it was easier to catch someone with a soft lulling voice then with a quick grasping claw. Antar waited, expecting Ling to take the offered hand that waved at the end of the shadows tendril. Once he did, it would so gently wrap around his wrist, and pull him into the darkness. Into the embrace of something cool and fluid, yet not so chilly as to make him shiver. Antar would use his power to displace Ling, so he could find himself standing upon a precipice overlooking a very deep and dark ravine within a underground cavern. Here, in the Caliginous cavern, Ling would be the first to see, yet not see the secret depths that Antar was keeping hidden from the rest of the world. A warm breeze steadily wafted up from the depths, and a strange hushing sound of falling water echoed so very far below.
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:10 am
Slowly, like he was in a trance, Ling approached, reaching out to the darkness he could more feel than see. At his touch he felt the coolness of the tendril as it wrapped itself around his wrist. He allowed it to pull him into the waiting darkness. His antenna waved methodically as if feeling the wondrous cool of Darkness's embrace. It was like nothing he had ever experienced before, a state of euphoria. Then he was suddenly somewhere amazing. He didn't need eyes, or rather eyes would be a hindrance, to the glorious ravine below him. Enveloped in the darkness, aroused by the sweet sound of running water as a warm wind blew through his black hair, ruffling his cape. The clink of the metal chain that fastened the cape only added to the ambiance of the awe-inspiring place before him. His smile soft and full of his wonder.
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