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 Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 7:14 pm
It was early still, But Ollie had been invited over for breakfast. Things were still in an awful state of disarray, but Nena had worked very diligently to get her dorm back in order, mostly for Vallie's sake, but it certainly helped her own peace of mind as well. She'd managed to scrounge up a bit of food from the cafeteria, and while it wouldn't be anything special, scrambled eggs with melted cheese and hash browns were better than cold cereal anyways. She'd just finished setting the plates down on the table and taken a seat across from the young Sun hunter when her phone buzzed. She didn't answer it at first, but instead flashed Ollie a bright smile as he played with Val. "She really likes you." It was said around a fork full of eggs, and only now did she pick up her phone, curious as to whether it was something important, or something that could wait until after they'd eaten. Noting the sender, she unlocked her phone to scroll through them. Only, as she did so, the smile on her face slipped. Peace and content melted into confusion, then to concern, and deepened into something settled between fear and rage. The phone slipped from her hand to clatter against the floor. Her breathing had picked up, chest rising and falling in a quickening rate, and it took everything not to simply flip the table she was seated at. It was so...so homey! She was masquerading as a hunter, as a single mother- Pale eyes snapped to the little girl in the highchair beside her, and widened. Where was Valdis? "Soren!?" It was strained, almost strangled, and for the briefest of seconds she looked slightly relieved as a familiar voice breezed through her mind. Then she realized why...
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Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 7:53 pm
His mouth was full of eggs when Ollie’s own phone rang – and he chewed, idly, as he reached for it, shoveling more in and paging through the strange messages on the screen. Slowly, a puzzled expression came over his face: eyebrows knitted in the middle of his forehead and eyes lifted up onto Nena’s face. For a moment, he didn’t recognize her as the same woman. Her skin had washed out to something human, the brightness of her eyes faded, more subdued and more serious. Then he looked down at his own hands, still gripped around a fork, more nut brown than ebony, and memories slid back to him all in a rush. “...strange...” Nergui was panicking, but Ollie still looked more thoughtful, serious, with his head tipped to one side and fingers shifting around the fork. Watching them move was strange, since somehow he couldn’t accept them as his own. They reacted to his thoughts, spreading and curling and shifting, and Ollie watched them like he was in a dream. “This is really strange.” As he dropped the fork his eyes lifted up again, to where Nergui hyperventilated, and it drove him immediately to his feet. Any concern he might have had over his own transformation was forgotten in the face of her breakdown. He was a foster kid, after all – no, he was a horseman, he was an Ashen warrior – He settled at her side, one hand against her arm, offering whatever support she needed. And at least his expression, serious and focused and mildly concerned, was familiar.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 4:41 pm
Nergui seemed to be on the verge of a hysterical fit as Ollie got up from where he'd been sitting to move swiftly around to her side. She didn't notice at first, two preoccupied by the voice in her head doing his damnedest to calm her, only for that deep baritone to have the exact opposite effect. By the time Ollie was reaching out to her she was making a high, hopeless keening noise as she rocked gently in her chair. Shejumped as his hand landed on her arm, a small startled little scream escaping, but the look on her face was more than just fear. There was rage there, and something close to manic flashing in pale eyes for all of a second before she seemed to realize who he was. "Oliatos..." Some measure of sanity seemed to return to her, though the confusion remained, and on top of it all, concern. "Where are they, Ollie?" Turning, she grabbed at his arm, clutching at him. "This isn't my baby." She didn't know this child, it wasn't Valdis. Sh was too pale, too human. She gave the little girl a piercing look, one that was returned by a childish smile, before looking quickly away again. Head falling forward to rest against the young man's chest. "Where is my baby?" Why was she here? "Where is Soren, why isn't he here?" < I am here. I am always here with you.> She seemed to flinch, head shaking against Ollie's chest. "No no no nonono. It's not him. It's not real. Where are we?" < Nena...> "That's not my name!" It was sudden and loud, and too Ollie and Vallie, completely unexpected. They couldn't hear the weapon speaking softly through her mind. "Get out of my head! You're not my guardian!"
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 8:06 pm
“N...Nergui...” He stumbled over the name, unfamiliar in his mouth – and then incredibly familiar, the right name, the other one had been someone else. Awkward and still trying to reconcile two different timelines and realities into one, he patted her lightly on the shoulder and tried to be reassuring. “It’s okay. It’s...a dream, or something. It must be?” But he didn’t sound certain, not at all. Fingers smoothed over the white of his coat, the golden fur at its collar, and he made another thoughtful little sound. “It can’ be real.”
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 5:55 pm
She clutched at him as if the world might shatter around her and she'd be cut adrift to float away into the abyss. It already felt like it had. Small hands were trembling, eyes squeezed shut, and she tried to block out the masculine rumble that continued to speak softly to her, trying to soothe her. It wasn't working. "Just a dream," she echoed Ollie, voice shaking slightly. "It has to be. Medea would never have allowed this to happen." All she had to do was wake up. But how?
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