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 Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:30 am
A fresh evening breeze chattered softly to itself among the boughs of the great sycamore trees, creating patterns of leafshadows and moonlight on the nearly overgrown dirt path below, where a glittering green nimbus swooshed down the trail, emitting excited whistles as it approached an ancient solitary oak tree.
Dragon sighed and hurried her pace to catch up, thinking gloomily to herself. Might as well camp out here, these nightly walks had become so frequent. Day or night, she never stopped, and who could get any rest with that infernal whistling in their ears? Apparently illusions needed no sleep, she concluded with a grumpy yawn.
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:37 am
"Sorry!" Melody called out, wincing slightly as she hurried away from the angry shopkeeper chasing after her. Adjusting Mereneth in her arms, she finally got away, panting slightly.
"See what you've done," she scolded the other redhead, not knowing whether to laugh at what he did or be angry at it. Mereneth only grinned back mischeiviously, another spark of fire appearing in his hands.
Sighing, she wagged her finger at him, "Oh no, not again, mister," she berated, "You're NOT setting fire on another thing, hear?"
Mereneth only gave her an innocent look and turned in her arms, gurgling and pointing to the trees around them.
"Woah." Melody was so preoccupied in running away that she didn't know where she was. Spotting another young woman, she called, "Um...hey, do you know what this is?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:03 am
The musical whistling noise sang just around a bend, now out of sight. Dragon kept on plodding down the path a ways behind, having lost any incentive to force her protesting muscles to move any faster. Her electric blue eyes were bleary and shadowed with lack of sleep. The sigh of the wind was so quiet and relaxing... the bright blue orbs drooped closed of their own accord, but snapped back open as she suddenly found the ground moving toward her unusually quickly. She shot out a hand to catch herself, wincing at the impact, and sat down to untangle her foot from a snag of vines that had grown over the trail, muttering darkly. Catching a movement down the other end of the trail, she got up and watched the approaching figure apprehensively. She hadn't seen anyone else come this way before, ever, assuming it was a secret. Who knows what else lurked in the woods at night? She sighed and waved, releived, when she saw only a rather normal looking woman with a baby in her arms. She blinked, nonplussed, at the question. "Um... it's a path" She kicked the treacherous vines off her shoe, "or at least it was at some point. And these are trees..." she trailed off and shrugged. "It's quiet out here, and the air's clean. I didn't think anyone else knew about it." She smiled a little.
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 6:11 am
Melody blushed slightly, "I'm sorry, I mean, where exactly is this place?"she fidgeted slightly, "I...I mean we, just got a little lost. It is rather dark in here."
At this, Mereneth gave a giggle and the spark of fire in his hands seemed to glow brighter, lighting up the rather dreary path. The fire mage gave him a suspicious look before looking back at the other woman, "I didn't know about it either. Until now."
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:22 pm
Dragon shrugged smiled a little, embarrassed. "Sorry, but I don't really know much more than that, maybe it used to be a park or something. It doesn't look like the path here was really maintained." She points out past the trees to the south, "The city's not far, it's out that way."
Althaia had stopped whistling, and was humming along the path quietly, to see what was taking her guardian so long. Hopefully she hadn't managed to fall into the creek again...
Dragon smiled at Mere's display, "What a sweet baby." Her eyes lit up, as an idea struck her. "Wait... is he by any chance an illa...whatsit... illusionary? I heard that there were a lot of others, but I've only seen one so far." The glowing green wisp whistled excitedly as it approached and whirled around them all with a happy chiming hum, eliciting a smile from Dragon that quickly faded as she asked the other woman worriedly, "You can see her too, right?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:12 am
"Illu...whattis?" Melody blinked as Mereneth gave a grin at the compliment, "Well...I'm not sure, I think he came from a fire wisp thing."
Her ears picking up a hum, she looked in wonder at the green wisp that was pulsing with a slight greenish glow, "Woah, yeah, I can see her. Is she a Illu thingy then?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:39 pm
Dragon nodded excitedly, relieved that she wasn't hallucinating after all. Half a smile escaped her at what she would have seemed like, a crazy person chasing after an invisible friend at odd hours of the night.
"Illusionaries, that was it after all. He probably is one too." She nodded almost to herself with a groggy blink, her dull sleep-deprived memory clearing a little, so she continued. "And yes, she is, that's what I've been told anyway. I think they're supposed to come here from another world, reincarnated or something, first they start out like this, then they grow into a baby, and then apparently no one knows what happens after that." She shrugged and smiled, "I doubt it could be anything horrifying though, not with Althaia anyway."
The green wisp hummed and glowed cheerfully at the mention of her name, and proceeded to whisk curiously in circles around the baby boy with dragon wings.
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:27 am
So Mere wasn't an imaginary friend. Melody blinked, but she wasn't THAT surprised. This was Gaia after all.
"So they're both Illusionaries," Melody said, more absent-mindedly than really talking as she watched the green glow. This was how Mere had started out after all, though she wondered why he didn't do much like Althaia.
Mereneth's eyes widened in curiosity and leaned forward, his hand still glowing as he tilted his head and observed the green thingy in front of it. Was it real? He waved his hand at it to make sure.
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:31 pm
The swirling green mote let out a painfully high-pitched screech as she collided with Mere's outstretched hand and the firey spark that came with it, and lurched backwards to hide behind her guardian, the green glow significantly dimmer. Dragon watched in alarm, and caught Althaia gently out of the air like catching a moth or a bubble, murmuring a reassurance to the quivering wisp. She frowned worriedly as she spoke to Melody, "I don't know what happened, I've never seen her act like this..."
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:40 am
Melody gasped the screech resounded in her ears, and she winced, drawing Mereneth closer on reflex, "No...I'm sorry, it's...ugh..." she held Mereneth up to her eye level, looking him straight in the eye, "See? You've done it again!" she scolded softly, so as not to agitate Althia any longer.
The little boy seemed a little puzzled, as he looked from his guardian to Dragon and th green glow. What happened? He was just going to touch it...
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:38 pm
"What, you mean he normally throws fire at people?" her remark coming out more sharply than she intended, Dragon muttered an apology, rubbing her eyes.
Althaia, apparently over her sulking already, flitted out of Dragon's sheltering hands to hover above Mere, safely just out of reach, emitting a humming buzz that was remarkably similar to a raspberry. The drowsy Dragon just blinked, looking bewildered.
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:40 am
"Er..." Melody couldn't exactly blame Dragon for being angry, after all, Althia seemed hurt by it. "He did it just now, when we were out. Perhaps I need to find a way to bind his powers before he does any more harm," she said, aknowledging the apology with a slight nod.
Mereneth seemed to shrink in his mother's arms, staring cautiously up at the green wisp. After being shocked by that scream, he seemed to draw into a shy mode, careful to keep his hands to himself.
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:07 pm
Dragon nodded, the other woman's words fading out into a vague and distant buzz as she felt her eyes droop closed again. She blinked herself awake quickly, finally remembering that Melody was talking to her. "Wha...erm, sure." She nodded vaguely, really only hearing the last few words before a huge yawn escaped her. She shook her head in embarrassment, "I'm sorry, I've hardly gotten a wink of sleep lately, since Althaia here's been taking all these wonderful little evening strolls." She sighed, "We really should be getting back soon. It was nice meeting both of you, ... um..." She stared blankly at them and blinked, belatedly realizing she couldn't come up with a name for either of them.
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:13 am
"Oh well then, you've better get some sleep," Melody's face settled in a worried frown. Realising she hadn't exactly introduced herself, the woman blushed and replied, "Melody and Mereneth. You are...?" the baby seemed to perk up as his name was called.
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:35 am
"Dragon." It might be an odd name, but then again, odd names went well with odd people... "And this is Althaia." She held carefully held out her hand with the strange little glowing orb resting in it, offering a slight smile to the other woman. "Nice meeting both of you, I'm sure we'll run into each other again soon."
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