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| Sonja | 25 Apr 2010, 19:52 Post #1621 |
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'I don't see any other explanation. It was like a spark, a tiny lightningbolt of sorts, flitting the images my way.' |
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| Marieke | 25 Apr 2010, 19:54 Post #1622 |
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'But...the other things...the owl, you didn't see it, even though I held your hand.' She didn't understand. She searched his face, his eyes, his mouth, all for an answer and and explanation of some sorts. 'Tell me what's happening to me, Morcant.' |
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| Sonja | 25 Apr 2010, 19:56 Post #1623 |
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'I don't know,' he said truthfully, taking her small hand in his. 'But I want to help, Essylt...' |
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| Marieke | 25 Apr 2010, 19:59 Post #1624 |
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Essylt waited. ‘Fine,’ she said then, leaning back without pulling her hand away. ‘Then call it. Call the owl for me.’ She pressed her fingers in his hand. ‘Now.’ |
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| Sonja | 25 Apr 2010, 20:00 Post #1625 |
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He blinked, then looked at the surrounding undergrowth, a little lost. 'Ahem. Come here, owl. ...Please,' he added. It was best to be polite when dealing with the Good Folk, and he was pretty sure the owl was one of them. |
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| Marieke | 25 Apr 2010, 20:04 Post #1626 |
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She bit her lower lip again and again, but only the silence happened. Finally she bowed her head. ‘So you can’t do it even if we’re connecting. Owl! Come to me.’ It was the harshest snap she had made in days and it startled even herself. The beat of wings told her that it was not a creature that had to be summoned from far away. He landed in the mouth of the cave, staying away from the fire. ‘Now he’s here.’ She looked up at Morcant with something in her eyes she didn’t know how to name. ‘Freeze something. See if you can.’ |
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| Sonja | 25 Apr 2010, 20:07 Post #1627 |
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Still baffled, he picked a twig from their fire and held it between the fingers of his free hand. He frowned at it, trying to freeze it by every means he could think of. Making himself angry didn't work, pleading the twig to get frozen helped just as much. Morcant shook his head. 'I don't think I can do anything you can,' he said. |
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| Marieke | 25 Apr 2010, 20:11 Post #1628 |
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She pulled the twig from his fingers. It turned into an icicle within a breath. Without looking at it, she threw it away. ‘Why is it only me!’ Her hand beat against his knee. ‘It is you who desires all of this! If I could give all of it to you, you’d be free to take it, to have everything!’ She was breathless without running. ‘And you wouldn’t want anything of me –’ |
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| Sonja | 25 Apr 2010, 20:17 Post #1629 |
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He was surprised, if not shocked by her sudden outburst. 'I would take it from you if I could,' he said, gathering her other hand in his, too, 'if only to make it stop hurting you.' |
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| Marieke | 25 Apr 2010, 20:22 Post #1630 |
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But the burden was still hers. She shut her mouth, watching as the owl shuffled in the entrance of the cave. Perhaps it would not leave until she told him to. But why was he not approaching? Was it the fire, was it the smoke? She looked back to the frozen twig that she had dismissed so easily. ‘Since you know what I can do…’ Essylt hesitated. |
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| Sonja | 25 Apr 2010, 20:24 Post #1631 |
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He let go of her hands and cupped her face when she faltered. 'What is it?' he asked. 'Essylt?' |
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| Marieke | 25 Apr 2010, 20:27 Post #1632 |
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'...this.' And every part of her body knew that he was not like Cuhelyn at their goodbyes. 'Exactly this.' |
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| Sonja | 25 Apr 2010, 20:35 Post #1633 |
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He searched her face for he didn't know what, then took his hands off her. 'I'm sorry. I have no right to.' How could he explain to her something he himself didn't even know? |
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| Marieke | 25 Apr 2010, 20:44 Post #1634 |
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He didn't. Her father and her promised husband would both agree. Just as he hadn't had the right to kidnap her, nor to defy Gwyddien's orders and take her here. But he still had done all of that, and it left her with very little power to fight him on another level. He wanted her to murdur Romans and she had to find out what was happening to her and that swallowed most of her worries. Softly, she asked: 'Aren't you afraid I will turn you into that tree?' |
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| Sonja | 25 Apr 2010, 20:49 Post #1635 |
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He hadn't really thought of that yet. Was he? 'I don't know,' he answered truthfully. |
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| Marieke | 25 Apr 2010, 20:55 Post #1636 |
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Just as Gwyddien had said: he didn't think before he acted. Not at all. Essylt wondered if he'd take her question as a warning, or even as a threat. It hadn't been, but if she could kill whole trees with a single touch of her hand he might be wise to heed it nonetheless. So far, she had hardly commented on it. She hadn't been able to. Because it was the only way to let me know that I haven't been lost to the Otherworld. 'I'd....hate myself if people would have to fear me for that from now on.' She dropped her gaze, staring hard at the ground. 'I don't want to be...a fickle and dangerous creature.' |
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| Sonja | 25 Apr 2010, 21:00 Post #1637 |
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Morcant didn't know what to think of this. She was dangerous, there was no doubting that, and he should be taking care to touch her as little as possible. But she had said that she had been glad that he'd made her feel less alone, and how else could you accomplish making anyone feel not alone than by touching them? 'You have some amount of control over it now, don't you,' he said, trying to sound encouraging. 'You wouldn't if you were fickle or dangerous.' |
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| Marieke | 25 Apr 2010, 21:07 Post #1638 |
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She was silent for a while. The fire made little sounds, throwing sparks into the air like falling stars. ‘If I’m to kill your Romans,’ she finally said, ‘then I don’t want to return home if it means looking into their faces and having them see me for what I’ve become. If you want to help me…’ she took a breath and wound her hand around his wrist, if only to prove herself that she wouldn’t curse him instantly, ‘then bring me somewhere I will not have to look into their faces. And where I can’t be found easily.’ And where there will not be a man whose touch would make me shudder from disgust. |
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| Sonja | 25 Apr 2010, 21:14 Post #1639 |
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Gods, what was he doing to her? He promised her in silence that after this, he'd do everything in his power to shield her from further harm. 'All right,' he said quietly. He wanted to offer to take her home to see her family one last time, but he was afraid it might weaken his resolve. This had to be done. Perhaps afterwards, it would not seem so bad - though he doubted it. |
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| Marieke | 25 Apr 2010, 21:19 Post #1640 |
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It was the hardest decision she had ever made, and her chest ached like it was under the weight of a flaming boulder. Obey his wishes or he would not let her go home. Obey his wishes, and she could not go home until she had found a way to disinfect herself from the taint brought on her by spilling a river Roman blood. ‘Well, shall I practice a little, see if I can bring the death of a man, on you?’ |
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| Sonja | 25 Apr 2010, 21:21 Post #1641 |
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He smiled faintly at her joke - or at least, he hoped it was one. 'Go ahead.' He deserved as much, anyway. |
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| Marieke | 25 Apr 2010, 21:26 Post #1642 |
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She looked from his face down to their locked hands. Gently, she turned his around, placing her open hand over his palm. A fragile varnish of ice covered his skin. He was a lot more weathered than she was. The ice spread out like the ripples on the water, moving down to his wrist. There she stopped, lifting her eyes to his. Did he look frightened now? ‘I believe that any man who gives orders must know what it is that he’s commaning,’ she told him softly. ‘I’m not a commander, but my father is still a chieftain. Do you feel how cold it is?’ |
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| Sonja | 25 Apr 2010, 21:30 Post #1643 |
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So it wasn't a joke. Well, he had it coming. Morcant'd be lying if he didn't admit he was afraid she might find it all too easy to let the ice travel further and rid herself of her captor. 'Very cold,' he answered, suppressing a shiver. |
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| Marieke | 25 Apr 2010, 21:34 Post #1644 |
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‘Imagine how it feels if I let it enter your veins,’ she said unsteadily, not shifting her gaze. ‘How it’d creep up through your arms, your legs, your chest into your heart.’ She let go of his hand and put hers to where his heart must be, hidden but not safe behind his tunic. ‘Imagine it all, Morcant. Because that’s what I will do to the Romans.’ |
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| Sonja | 25 Apr 2010, 21:41 Post #1645 |
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A chill gripped at his heart and he ground his teeth together to push it away, make his heart like stone. It proved remarkably difficult. Was that her doing, or the strength of the picture her words had painted? 'I imagine...' It was truly terrifying. Morcant frowned. 'Now you imagine one of those Roman soldiers pushing you down, spreading your legs and raping you, like so many girls before you. Imagine your father's caer burning to the ground, everyone inside perishing. Because that is what they will do if given half a chance.' He knew he was playing with fire - or rather, ice -, but she needed to know. To realize. |
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| Marieke | 26 Apr 2010, 10:02 Post #1646 |
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'You say so.' She didn't have to imagine; Essylt knew exactly what would happen once she had been married to the Roman man her father had proposed her to. All her freedoms would be taken away, for the sake of being a Roman wife rather than Dobunni. She also knew very well that he would push her down and spread her legs - that was not simply for rapists. 'Every husband does the same.' She withdrew her hands. |
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| Sonja | 26 Apr 2010, 10:13 Post #1647 |
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'Not every man is a Roman,' he retorted, flexing his fingers. The ice covering his hand and wrist was so thin that when it cracked, it drifted to the ground like crystal feathers. 'I'm not saying there aren't bad men among our people, but you shouldn't generalize them if you've never experienced it, either.' |
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| Marieke | 26 Apr 2010, 10:14 Post #1648 |
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'It?' she asked, rather more sharply than she meant. |
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| Sonja | 26 Apr 2010, 10:17 Post #1649 |
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'Marriage,' he said curtly. |
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| Marieke | 26 Apr 2010, 10:19 Post #1650 |
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'Oh.' She was silent for another while. 'What do you know about that?' |
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