The Worn Out Road.

Mischief and Mayhem Joined : 10 Oct 2007 Posts : 3669

"Darrok. That is my name, and my whole name. I dropped my last name. Who is the girl?"
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Subject: Re: The Worn Out Road. Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:55 pm

Subject: Re: The Worn Out Road. Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:01 pm

Ardent stopped, scowled, and growled.

"I can't believe she continues to go by that..."

He gripped his sword a little tighter before speaking, again.

"You are an idiot!" Blackhart yelled, "She cannot wake up in that state. I've seen it happen before, she nearly died. I know how to save her, though, and I'm the only one that can..."

Blackhart began walking again.

"You can try to stop me if you like, but I'll cleave through you and anyone else in my way if I have to."
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The Man Without a Rank Joined : 13 Oct 2007 Posts : 2381

"The girl is a friend of mine and the boy is her's, I assume." He shrugged carelessly. "Well, I'm a bit sleepy, so I'm going to call it a night." He threw Darrok an apple and climbed into the tent.

He lay down in the still darkness for a time, looking at Opal. His breathing synchronised with her's, and he began to sleep.

After a while he started to snore.
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Subject: Re: The Worn Out Road. Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:03 pm

Bastian was surprised.
"What is she to you? Why do you want to save her?"
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Subject: Re: The Worn Out Road. Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:05 pm

"She is everything to me." Blackhart muttered, loud enough for Bastian to hear, "She is the only thing I have left in this world. She is my daughter."
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Subject: Re: The Worn Out Road. Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:08 pm

Bastian was shocked.
"So, even a monster like you has a family." he muttered.
Bastian turned around and walked inside.
"Come on. She's just upstairs."
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Subject: Re: The Worn Out Road. Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:10 pm

Ardent was glad Bastian wasn't putting up any resistance. He couldn't afford to use what strength he had before what he had to do. He sheathed his sword and passed by Bastian, pushing the door to the inn open and moving inside.

"Take me to her."
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Subject: Re: The Worn Out Road. Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:15 pm

Bastian walked upstairs. He knocked on the door to their room.
In a cheerful voice, he called to Sara from behind the door.
"Sara, honey. We've got company!"

Sara opened the door. "Don't call me that!" she said, flustered. "Now what do you mean by com..."
Sara's voice trailed off as she saw Blackhart looming in the doorway.
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Darrok caught the apple, and watched the man walk into the tent, and listened to his breathing to even out. He was asleep, and now Darrok's only company was the silence of the night. He was used to it though. He liked the feeling of solitude it granted. Darrok got into a comfortabe position in the shadow of the tent--it wouldn't do to stand watch only to have anyone that was a potential threat see him in the moonlight. Once settled, he bit into the apple, and focused on making sure nothing that could harm Mortimer or the girl, and especially not the child.
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Subject: Re: The Worn Out Road. Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:48 pm

Blackhart stared past the woman and into the room. He couldn't quite see Cassandra from his vantage point, so he stepped forward to speak.

"Where is my daughter, I must attend to her, now." He said, putting emphasize on the urgency of the situation.
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Subject: Re: The Worn Out Road. Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:38 pm

Sara pointed over to the bed next to the window.
"There. She's been sleeping since we got here."
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Subject: Re: The Worn Out Road. Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:09 pm

"She is not asleep, she's in a self induced trance." Ardent said as he entered the room, "She's trying to hold her soul together from inside her body."

He kneeled down next to the bed and began to unlatch her breastplate and scalemail. He sighed heavily as he worked.

"That spell you were witness to was a complete unleashing of all her white magic. The process is a little more than that, though." Blackhart explained, "The spell is used to revive someone who has died, or is dying. Because of this, she has to re-tether their soul to their body."

Ardent removed the armor from Cassandra chest, leaving her pale chest barely covered by a silk bra. He proceeded to remove his gauntlets and place his hands on her chest.

"The process of doing that requires her to use some of her own souls binding to repair the other person's." Ardent finished, "She is desperately battling to fix that undoing, and I have to help her..."

He lowered his head before finishing his sentence.

"By using the same process on myself."
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Subject: Re: The Worn Out Road. Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:18 pm

"Well, we'll be over here rooting for you." Bastian said sarcastically.
Why would she do something like that for someone she doesn't even know?

Sara watched nervously. On the way to the inn, Bastian had explained everything to her. How Cassandra would travel with them for the time being, and about how she was looking for Blackhart so she could kill him.
But why would she want to kill someone who cares about her?
Sara teared up a little. Blackhart reminded her of her own father, of how he would do anything for her.
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Subject: Re: The Worn Out Road. Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:14 am

Blackhart sighed heavily as he reached up to his own chest with his right hand. A glimmer of light could obviously be seen, both from himself and Cassandra. When the light faded, nothing obvious seemed to happen.

"It's done." Ardent said, standing.

He cracked his nect and turned to look at the two near the doorway.

"I need to stay with her." He said, "I must be here when she awakens."
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