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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 13:13 Post #1171 |
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'I...um.' She pressed her hands against her temples, fearing that she would start to cry soon. 'Things that scare me. You know how my mother is expecting a child. I saw her dead and thought I heard the baby cry. Then I saw - I saw you. And me.' She looked at him helplessly. |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 13:18 Post #1172 |
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Had he not seen evidence of her icy touch, he would've thought her completely daft. 'Ah. I see. Well, seeing things doesn't mean they're going to come to pass,' he said in an attempt to comfort her. She looked on the verge of tears and he didn't really want her to attract attention to them by crying. |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 13:20 Post #1173 |
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'I know. I thought of that. But I don't understand any of this.' She sighed once more, swallowing her tears back. He did not want to see her cry, no one here would really care about it. She looked up at him. 'You don't think I'm dangerous, do you?' |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 13:21 Post #1174 |
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'What, because you can turn grass into ice, cure scalds? Hardly.' He drew up a reassuring smile and put a hand on her shoulder. 'Do you know how to control it?' |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 13:23 Post #1175 |
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'I tried it just now,' she whispered. 'I called the owl and it came. And I did this...' She picked up another leaf. It took her a small amount of concentration, but then the thin frosty glister spread over the surface. She held it out to him. |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 13:27 Post #1176 |
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He poked it with his finger, which made the leaf shatter like so many tiny crystals. 'That's...really something,' he said, for a lack of better words. 'Good news, too,' he mused. 'If you can control it, you're hardly dangerous now are you?' Morcant smiled at her again while his mind worked on top-speed. This was really something. Something he could most definitely work with. |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 13:29 Post #1177 |
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She dared to relax now that he showed no sign of revulsion or fear. Still with her legs pulled up she leaned her head back to the tree, staring into the sky. The owl was still there; she did not have to look at it to feel the full-moon gaze on her body. 'Is Cuhelyn scared of me?' |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 13:33 Post #1178 |
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'He's...awed, not exactly scared.' He neglected to mention that Cuhelyn was probably a little too dense to be afraid of anything short of a sword in his stomach. Morcant kept his eyes on Essylt, though he was far too busy working out his plan to notice that she looked extraordinarily pretty in the light of the early afternoon-sun. |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 13:36 Post #1179 |
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'I suppose it doesn't matter then.' She'd go home eventually, and none of this would do any good with all the troubles they had. Romans. Births. Marriages. There was simply no room for anything otherwordly. |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 13:40 Post #1180 |
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'You all right?' he asked, more because he felt that he should. Of course, he was concerned for Essylt, but he had a lot of things on his mind right now. If everything went the way he'd sketched out in his vague plan, he could probably single-handedly depopulate the Roman settlement in Two Lakes, and other territories as well. |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 15:07 Post #1181 |
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'Yes.' It didn;t sound so convincing, even to her. She tried to add a smile. 'Sure. At least it can't harm me.' But she thought of her mother, and what she had seen. Maybe it had not harmed her, but what about others? |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 15:17 Post #1182 |
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'Hmhmm. Is there something I can get you?' he asked, snapping from his thoughts and turning all of his attention to Essylt. |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 15:28 Post #1183 |
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'Hm. Get me some explanations if you can,' she mumbled. 'Otherwise, I don't think I need something right now.' Well, except going home. She knew he would not consider it an option just yet. |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 15:57 Post #1184 |
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'All right, as soon as I've figured out how kidnapping you awoke these eh, powers, I'll let you know.' Morcant stretched his legs towards the fire with a grunt. |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 15:59 Post #1185 |
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She stared at the owl some more. It looked back at her with lively interest. Or was she just imagining things? Could it be that he was only real in her mind - was she making things up? But the ice was definitely real. 'You really don''t see him, do you?' she asked softly. 'Not even though he bends the branch on which he's sitting.' |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 16:02 Post #1186 |
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'See who, the owl?' Morcant inquired, looking about him. He saw the trees, branches swaying in the wind, rustling leaves - but no owl. 'Can't see a thing, no.' |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 16:07 Post #1187 |
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'I wish you could,' she muttered. 'To tell me I'm not going crazy.' |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 16:10 Post #1188 |
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'Your ice is real enough for me,' he said, shrugging. 'We all feel like we're going crazy sometimes, so don't worry all too much over it.' |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 16:12 Post #1189 |
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'Hm.' If he wasn't going to help her, she thought the owl might just as well lift his wings now. She turned her eyes from the branch and deliberatly sought another spot to look at. 'So when did you feel you were going crazy?' |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 16:20 Post #1190 |
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'Eh, on far too many occassions to name,' Morcant shrugged. |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 16:25 Post #1191 |
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Essylt laughed briefly. 'Thanks for not saying that this is weirder.' She knew he should. There were more types of crazy than one; hers was definitely of the more uncanny sort. 'I would call it back, take a feather out of him to see if you would see, but...I don't dare to.' |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 16:27 Post #1192 |
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'I'll take your word for it that you're seeing an owl I can't see,' he answered. 'Besides, it's probably not really that important.' |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 16:28 Post #1193 |
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'But doesn't it frighten you,' she asked, 'to know that there are creatures around you that you cannot see?' |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 16:29 Post #1194 |
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'As long as they leave me alone and don't shove an invisible sword in my guts, I couldn't care less, really.' |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 16:33 Post #1195 |
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She stared at him, then turned it into a more polite look. 'That's practical.' Also, she thought, it was oddly comforting to be around someone who cared so little about the Otherworld. It made her feel as if he could somehow cast a shield between her and the Good Folk. 'When I woke up and the ground had all turned to ice,' she said, 'you just said that it was an early frost. But my hands must have felt freezing.' |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 16:36 Post #1196 |
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'Quite. I didn't put two and two together until Cuhelyn told me how you'd cured his burn, though.' He gave a humorous shrug. 'I'm not the world's biggest thinker, you see. Tend to leave that to others.' |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 17:12 Post #1197 |
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'Then what are you?' |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 17:17 Post #1198 |
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'Someone who acts on impulses, as you should know.' Morcant grinned in her direction. In fact, the plan he'd just thought out was probably one of the most elaborate he had ever thought up. |
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| Marieke | 20 Apr 2010, 17:20 Post #1199 |
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She might have guessed he woudl say that. 'Um - would you still have done it if you had thought about it?' |
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| Sonja | 20 Apr 2010, 17:23 Post #1200 |
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'I guess so,' he said after thinking for a bit. 'It would be the most logical step if I hadn't been able to get any information at all.' |
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