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| There Are No Bears In These Caves [Fin]; Kemi | |
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| Topic Started: Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:13 am (985 Views) | |
| Shan Orison | Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:47 pm Post #61 |
 
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"AHHH!" Shan started, jerking up to a sitting position. Holy knob on a wizard's staff, where did she come from?! his second thoughts said. It seemed she was feeling better, and put a shroud on to cover her ruined clothing. "Um...Hi...so...You can hear again. Um Jackson said to tell you he's heading back to the mansion. I'm hoping you know what that means." Shan looked down. "Oh, ice cream? Um, sure, I guess." Shan said, and stretched out his hand, opening it to reveal the medal. "You can have this back now. I only really needed it to get us out of the caves after..." He trailed off. "Yeah, you probably could've handled him on your own. Or I could have done something else. I didn't need to...I mean, you had your head cut off and you're still fine. If I had just thought for two seconds, I could have...I dunno, played that song and grabbed you and ran. Or something... "Is it chocolate ice cream? I like chocolate with almonds." |
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| Kemi | Sat Aug 27, 2011 1:31 am Post #62 |
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Evals giggled at Shan's freak out. He went off on one of his long talks that invoked a lot of his own confusion, it seemed. As they exchanged the half pint of ice cream for the coin, the zombie held the coin in her palm and looked at it for a minute. It always felt good to hold, yet she had to put it away. Save it's feeling for when she needed it. Pocketing the medallion, Evals sat down on the grass next to Shan. "You seem quite protective of people." She pointed out as he went into almost gibberish verbal thought about what happened. "As for the ice cream, I have no clue what it tastes like." Evals added with a shrug. |
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| Shan Orison | Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:45 am Post #63 |
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With the coin gone, the weight of depression sank Shan back into despair. However, it did grant him time to think and come to terms with what he did, and he pushed back. He might never get over it, which was fine with him. He didn't want to get use to taking lives. However, he'd learn enough coping techniques and past experience to keep moving forward, as always. Chocolate almond ice cream helped, as well. "You seem quite protective of people," Evals said as Shan dug into the ice cream with his fingers. He wasn't going to bother searching for a spoon, but he did clean his fingers before answering. "Well, um, I guess. I don't really get a chance to be protective. I'm usually the one getting rescued, so the last half of this adventure has been a bit of a switch, even though I'm the cause for your needing rescuing. Thanks for the ice cream. Not sure if you want any now I've stuck my fingers in it." He sighed. "I just wish I was strong enough that I didn't feel the urge to...um...Not that it's a habit. I just wish I had alternatives to those stupid enchantments." Evals smiled as he spoke. Maybe she was listening. Maybe she was just nodding at his pauses for breath. Shan didn't care. He just need to talk. "As for the ice cream," Evals said when he trailed off. "I have no clue what it tastes like." "Oh, you've never had choclate with almonds. Go ahead, have a taste, I don't mind. Or um...are you saying that you can't taste it?" Despite seeing her burn someone to a crisp and get stabbed more times than any living person could, it seemed Shan couldn't help but now see her as a young girl. It wasn't even like he had younger siblings. "I mean, if you can, go ahead and try it." |
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| Kemi | Sat Aug 27, 2011 3:14 am Post #64 |
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Evals shrugged again. "Either way, thanks for your help. Or well, if you want me to be completely honest. It's the thought that counts. Now, next time I tell you to sit there and look cute, sit there and don't try and save me." She said with a smile and a tone that suggested she wasn't upset about it. Since they all got out of there okay it didnt matter to her any more. He wasn't a member of the Shadow Society so he shouldn't be expected to follow protocol. Even if they were just simple requests. "No, I can't taste anything. I don't need to eat. I don't need to sleep. In fact, I don't even need to blink. I'm incapable of smell and I don't feel physical pain." Evals explained to him, before she focused on the other thing she said. She also pointed at her mouth, eyes and then nose as she mentioned the senses and functions related to them. She looked him directly in the eyes and then scanned his entire body, as she thought. "I can give you power, if you want. Give you more options than those two enchantments. I can do more too, I know if I was in your situation I wouldn't accept either, but I can make you immortal. Like me." She offered him, trying to sound sincere as possible. |
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| Shan Orison | Sat Aug 27, 2011 3:27 am Post #65 |
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Shan tried to keep a straight face. From the strain on his facial muscles, he probably didn't succeed. He had been feeling empathy for her condition. She might be practically immortal and powerful, but she lost a lot in gaining those qualities. And then she made her offer. Shan swallowed the ice cream in his mouth, mostly by letting it slide down his esophagus. "If you're offering what I think you're offering, Emily, I think I'll have to pass," Shan said as kindly as possible. "I could say things like I need to build up my own strength and not take shortcuts, or that I'd miss the smell of lilacs and the taste of ice cream and immortality isn't worth losing those things to me. But, to be honest, it's mostly because my mother would kill me if I let that happen. "Wait, if you can't feel pain, why did you rip out your eardrums?" |
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| Kemi | Sat Aug 27, 2011 3:48 am Post #66 |
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Evals couldn't help at smile at Shan. "Kids these days, being led around by the nose by their mother even at this age." She said and elbowed Shan gently. She stood up and was about to walk over to her wagon at when he asked about her ripping her own eardrums out. She sighed and shook her head, still with a smile though. "You don't know much about your own instrument, do you? What you played is a mind affect, I'm not immune to those." She explained quickly before walking around to the front of the wagon. Kaelin wasn't here, but she looked in the coach seat; a red stone was there. She picked it up and started to speak into it. Now to wait. Dropping the stone back into the seat, she walked back over to where Shan was. "I can at least give you a ride, right?" Evals asked, wondering if he'd turn that down too. |
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| Shan Orison | Sat Aug 27, 2011 4:12 am Post #67 |
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"You don't know my mother," Shan said as Emily stood. She walked back to the wagon. "You don't know much about your own instrument, do you?" she asked. "What you played is a mind affect. I'm not immune to those." Shan couldn't argue with her about that. "I've had this thing for over a decade and I didn't know it was enchanted until a little while ago. It wasn't my idea to put spells on it that only make things madder. I would prefer making them sleep or something." Shan stared at the fiddle again. He loved it dearly, and didn't begrudge it for the magic it possessed. His mother said it belonged to his late father, and once again Shan had to wonder exactly who he really was. His only memories were that of a toddler, hardly a solid basis for character analysis beyond the knowledge that his father loved him and never harmed him. "I can at least give you a ride, right?" Shan looked up from his reverie to see Emily sitting on the wagon seat. "Oh, if it isn't too much trouble," Shan said. "Mind if I lay in the back? I just need to relax and think some more." He walked to the wagon and noticed an issue. "How are we planning to move the wagon? Am I going to have to pull it? I hope that's not your plan, because you'd be better off walking at the speeds I'd manage," Shan half-joked. |
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| Kemi | Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:02 pm Post #68 |
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Evals grinned. "Traveling at your walking speed is still a lot less effort than walking on my own." She said and shook her head afterwards. She pointed at a large black shape that was climbing down a tree nearby. "That's my beast of burden." Evals said as the horse sized spider came over. Getting out of the wagon, she went over to it and started to speak to it in a tongue alien to Humanoids. As she hitched the wagon around the spider's abdominal, she looked at Shan. "Yeah. You can lie in back if you wish. Though, where do you want to be dropped off?" Evals spoke as she tightened the harness around the spider. She went back over and climbed into the coach seat. |
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| Shan Orison | Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:22 am Post #69 |
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Shan watched the giant spider approach with far less fear than he'd normally feel. He was too rung out, it seemed, for something as mundane as a spider drawn carriage to phase him. He shrugged at Eval's question. "I don't know. Nearest town, farthest town. I don't care much at the moment. Maybe after I've had some rest, but not now. Thank you for the ride, at least." Shan went to the back of the wagon and flopped on his back. It wasn't quite long enough for him to lay out straight, so his heels were hooked up on the back of the wagon's walls. He shut his eyes and held his violin to his chest, staring above him. You're going to need a new instrument case, too, his second thoughts said quietly. You should splurge and get something heavy duty to ensure it stays safe. "Mmm," Shan said, too tired from the adrenaline crash to internalize. He closed his eyes to deal with his personal demons. |
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| Kemi | Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:30 pm Post #70 |
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Evals looked at Shan as he lied down. He didn't care where he was going, then. Just somewhere not in the Dark Lands. The girl relaxed in the coach seat as Kaelin started to pull the wagon. Looks like it was going to be the closet town, unless Shan didn't want to stay there. She wouldn't mind going further, she didn't have much else do to. The plan to kill off those slavers was complete, without any problems to disrupt it. A smooth operation, if she could say so herself. |
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