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Post by Nalean Silverstar on Jun 28, 2010 20:05:35 GMT 2
Nalean frowned as she looked behind her,confused by her words and wanting to get a better look of what was happening behind Sil. Her face went white when she saw the blood running down the boy's shirt. "What the hell happened?" she asked giving Silisia and accusing look. Even if the queen hadn't injured him, it seemed unlike her to simply leave him lying there dying. She had always thought from the first time she had met Silisia that the queen would be the sort of person to heal some one who was in need of healing. She leapt off Shadow's back, handed the chestnut horse's reins to her and stalked past her. She hated it when perfectly capable healers appeared to ignore those who were in need of healing.
She approached the boy and glanced up when she saw movement. A familiar figure was fleeing the scene. She shook her head, "Gwyndar, should have known you weren't one to prove everyone wrong" she muttered irritably and turned her attention back to the boy. She checked to see if he had a heartbeat and soon found a faint beating. She scowled and resisted the urge to look behind her and give Sil another glare. She then let out a sigh and let her hand rest gently over the wound, she had always hated this part of healing. It was often painful for the victims. She closed her eyes and let herself search for the white light that was her powers. This wound was quite bad but because it had a small surface area it wouldn't require a great deal of her powers.
She sent a small piece of the light to her hand and felt a familiar feeling of warmth as the wound began to close up and the bleeding ceased. "That should do it" she mutured opening her eyes glad to see that where there had previously been an open wound was now a thin red line. She wasn't sure if the mark would eventually disappear or if it would remain, afterall magical healing could only do so much. Nalean sat back on her haunches glancing behind her to see if Silisia was still there. A scowl appeared on her face when she saw that the queen had left, of course, leave Nalean there with a complete stranger seemed like a perfectly sensible idea. She stood up and walked towards Shadow, she kept a bag behind her saddle that had a few supplies kept in it. One of the things she kept in her bag was a satchel with water and a small cotton cloth. She threw some water on the cloth, careful not to spill any, and wiped her hands off. Shadow nickered and nudged her hands once she wiped them off. "Hey boy" she murmured, scratching him under his forelock.
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Post by Gwyndar on Jun 28, 2010 21:01:33 GMT 2
There was the constant crunching pain within the convicts chest as he ran through the foliage, his feet leaving little evidence of his ever having been there. The speed at which he ran was only refected by the fast rustling of leaves around him as the branches whipped against his bare skin. Taking the shortcuts through bushes and the undergrowth meant that he could get to his Dragon faster, but that his wounds were still giving him pain.
There was only a few minutes past when he heard the approach of footsteps. A second flash of panic ran through him as the rider pushed himself even harder. If he was being followed it meant that someone had perhaps seen the body of the young boy. The blood upon the queens clothing and had seen him running. It was an option. He couldn't evade the law forever it seemed.
yet he felt as if his life had been cut short if it was the case. He had never had much of a life. For the past seventeen years he had trained as a warrior and a rider. For five he had been running from the law and for only part of the day he had discovered the emotions he had buried deep inside him for what he thought was forever.
The voice of the Queen as the horse rounded in front of him, he skided slowly to a halt in front of the beast; so much smaller than his Dragon he worried that the weight of his body would weaken him. Take the horse ... What use was a horse when he had a Dragon to evade the authorities. Still, he felt it only right that he do one thing without his orders. And for Silisia it was unquestionable that he would do a great many things. "I thank you." He mumbled, walking toward the Queen and, with great gentleness put a caloused hand on her cheek in sign of affection. There was no smile ... but there very rarely was.
With more ease than he thought required he mounted her horse and looked down at her saddened expression. He knew he had caused this trouble for her. She was caught in a world where he was not welcome, but for any part of her he could get he would be grateful. <"I will. Until we meet once more Silisia."> His voice carried on as his figure depared with a short 'hyea!' and the sound of hoofs battering against the ground. His figure lost into the darkness that was the heavy forests.
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Post by valken on Jun 29, 2010 1:47:45 GMT 2
It was clearly the worst nightmare he had, it was sort of confusing though he disliked the way someone told him that his parents were nothing at all. He was sure it was a dream, something bigger than him was falling over him, like a huge darkness, that was pushing him down to hell, he wasnt able to stop it, it was such a weird dream, though people thought that he was dead, but he wasnt, he just fainted because of the loss of blood. And besides the notice that Gwyndar didnt killed his parents, well he catch it as a huge bomb. But somehow a high light opened his senses, his eyes went blurred and then he saw a face, it was kind and cute, but he wasnt able to speak yet. He felt tired and very out of place.
He looked at the surrounds, and the sun was falling down into the forest, it was a pretty sunset, shame he wasnt in a nature mood, he saw his arm healed, it didnt hurt anymore, he touched his lump and made a pain face, a sigh came to him, as he tried to stood up, he leaned in the rock to stay upright; he looked around for Gwyndar, but he saw nothing, neither of the woman. damn it he whispered as he tried to remember what happened before faint.
Then he realized he wasnt all alone, a woman was just near him, and he looked at her, trying to understand what just happened, and how did she got there with out being killed by gwyndar.
"Hi" was everything he could think of, he didnt had a chance to think in how make good conversations. He just stared at her and her stallion, suddenly he remembered he had his animals, where? he didnt knew yet, but he was sure they were safe, at least safer than him.
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Post by Nalean Silverstar on Jun 29, 2010 14:04:27 GMT 2
Nalean was still rubbing Shadow under his forelock when she heard the boy greet her. "Umm errr Hi" she said as she turned around to look at him. She was pleased to see that he had recovered quickly from his wound, that meant that the wound wasn't as bad as she had originally thought and that no major arteries had been damaged. She glanced in the direction that Gwyndar had vanished in, why did it seem as though where ever there was trouble that specific dragon rider always seemed to be there. She frowned to herself remembering the last time she had met the outlawed dragon rider in Strylak, she wondered if his ribs were healed yet or if he was too stubborn to accept the help of some one other than Aila.
She looked back at the boy with a small smile on her face. "I see you've met Gwyndar" she said nodding in the direction that the dragon rider had vanished. "Pleasant isn't he?" she said with a hint of sarcasm in her voice. She glanced around, looking to see if the boy had a horse of his own. A small frown appeared on her lips when she saw that there was no horse standing close-by. "Where's your horse?" she asked curiously. "Or didn't you come with one?" she added, worried that she might sound rude simply assuming that the boy had a horse. She had always had a habit of assuming things about people and it had often gotten her in trouble with people in the past. She led Shadow forward, still curious about what the boy was doing there in the first place.
"So what brought you here?" she asked tilting her head to the side. "You don't seem to be the type of person who would enjoy the company of a rogue like him" she said looking thoughtful. "Or a queen like Silisia" she added still looking thoughtful. Nalean frowned as she looked up and saw that the clouds that were forming in the sky. She had better get home before the storm started. She looked at the boy, "We better get out of the open before the storm gets here" she said turning her horse around, determined to get home before she got rained on. "Oh my name is Nalean, and you are?" she asked glancing back at the boy and raising her eyebrows, waiting for him to reply to her question.
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Post by valken on Jun 29, 2010 23:15:16 GMT 2
"Umm errr Hi" he voice was like she didnt knew what to say, and now they were both alone, strange situation after all, he had been hit, physically and mentally, it was surprising how someone can destroy you in that way, he just wasnt ready to find the right person, he wanted justice, indeed he wanted that. But first he needed to prepare himself, since life decided to conserve him alive, by taking gwyndar away, then he should make something worthful on his own. "You know, who did this?" he said staring at his wound that was already a pink scar. "hum pink" he whispered to him as he saw his hand. "I see you've met Gwyndar" she said, and he quickly nodded to her, his gaze didnt reflected pain, fear or revenge, just surprise. "Yeah" then she replied "Pleasant isn't he?" a small laugh came to him, was he laughing? oh he was! a very nice surprise, he was smiling after all he had been trough. He liked the sense of humor, it was nice to laugh, when you dont have a reason to be sad tough. "Wonderful human being" he said rolling his eyes, but with a half smile, he was glad someone shared the same thought about gwyndar with him.
"Where's your horse?" she asked curiously. "Or didn't you come with one?" My horse... valken thought, oh stupid thunder he said in his mind, he nodded and tried to walk a little to see if someone else was around, or if his friends were there, hiding as chickens. But his stomach made him stoop, a face of pain and a small silent scream took all over his body. He took some air and tried to stand upright, and did a huge wheezing. He knew that certainly that sound could be heard by steve, in a radius of 3 miles. "I order them to leave, when Gwyndar wanted to finish...me, they are probably on their way back here, but i bet thunder, my horse wont come back, he is worse than a chicken" he said, rolling his eyes. it was a shame that a huge animal were so scared as a rat from a cat.
"So what brought you here?" Valken nodded and leaned in the rock, suddenly steve, jumped down the huge rock, it was amazing the flexibility of that animal, valken smile was from ear to ear, "Well, I was looking for something, and I didnt knew where was I getting too, and suddenly that guy appeared, look his Steve" he said very proud and caressing the head of the wolf, both seemed like brothers, not for the body of course, but they were very close friends, the wolf was very happy to see him again, and alive. "You don't seem to be the type of person who would enjoy the company of a rogue like him" "Or a queen like Silisia" Valken glanced at the girl surprised "The queen? you mean Silisia from Samarid? both of them together? that its...surprising, and not im not his type,i though he was the person im looking for, but he isnt, and to know that it almost cost my life" he said with a smirk "We better get out of the open before the storm gets here" "Oh my name is Nalean, and you are?" He glanced at the sky, it was getting gray, how fast the sun fell. He started to walk, well he tried to. He was behind the girl when she said her name. "I shouldnt be saying this, but you saved me somehow, im in debt with you, i usually lie about my name, Im Valken Allen" he said with a soft smile.
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Post by Nalean Silverstar on Jun 30, 2010 18:05:35 GMT 2
Nalean raised her eyebrows when Valken asked a question with a fairly obvious answer. "I healed your arm if that's what you mean" she said with a small smile on her face. "But if it sounds more heroic, Gwyndar healed you. He hates it when he leaves injured people alone and helpless" she said with her voice laced in sarcasm, attempting to keep a straight face. She glanced at the wound that was now healed, she was proud of her handiwork even if it hadn't been a very complicated wound to heal. She smiled at his reply to her words about Gwyndar. "He's an absolute gem" she added, laughing. The boy didn't seem to be too bad to talk to even though she hardly knew him. She would rather not share the fact that she had met Gwyndar a few days earlier and had humiliated herself by simply saying that he was a half-elf like she was. She had a few words for Gwyndar, concerning the fact that he had pushed her out of the way simply because they had figured out who he was. She actually had no idea what she would say to him, but she did know that she would prove that she wasn't the stupid child that he had assumed she was.
She raised her eyebrows with a look of surprise on her face when he mentioned that Gwyndar had wanted to finish him off. She had a feeling that that hadn't been Gwyndar's intention, or this boy would have been dead and not merely wounded on his arm. "I'm pretty sure Gwyndar would have killed you if he had really wanted to" she said observantly. She had heard the story of Gwyndar and how he had become a rogue but she had a feeling that he was not the heartless killer that he had been made out to be. Afterall he had let her, Alice, Aila, Sil, and this boy live when he had come across them, so she had to believe that he still had feelings and emotions like anyone else. She glanced at the boy with a puzzled look on her face when he mentioned that his horse was a chicken. "Really? is he that scared of things? Well horses are prey animals so they would let their instincts take over sometimes" she said with a small thoughtful frown on her face. She was sure though that there was a way to train horses to not always follow their instincts, the only problem was to do that the horse had to trust its owner.
Nalean rested her hand on Shadow's shoulder as she listened to the boy. "So what were you looking for?" she asked curiously, wanting to know what he had been looking for. She jumped slightly when the wolf suddenly appeared, although it soon became apparent that this boy knew the wolf. "Steve?" she asked, sounding confused. Of all the names he could have called his wolf he had called it Steve? She shook her head deciding it was not her place to decide what the name of his wolf should be. Afterall if he changed the wolf's name it would just confuse Steve. She couldn't help but smile at his reaction to her words. "Yes that Silisia" she said still smiling. "Although as far as I know there isn't another Silisia" she added. She frowned at his words about him wanting to find Gwyndar. "You wanted to find him, Why?" she asked looking at him with a look of interest on his face. Wanting to find Gwyndar was one way of wanting to look for trouble. She had simply stumbled into a situation where Gwyndar was present, how was she to know that he had decided to give Aila"s shop a visit the same time as her?
She frowned and glanced behind her when he said that he usually lied about his name. She couldn't think of any reason why he would want to lie to anyone about his name. "And what makes you have to lie about your name?" she asked, with a sly look on her face. "Done something that you shouldn't have and now you're a fugitive from the law?" she asked him teasing him lightly. She was sure that whatever her father had done was worse than what Valken had done, afterall he hadn't been banished from his own people. She was puzzled, the only people who thought that they had to lie about their names were either smugglers or people who were running away from theirselves.
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Post by valken on Jul 1, 2010 3:20:22 GMT 2
"I healed your arm if that's what you mean But if it sounds more heroic, Gwyndar healed you. He hates it when he leaves injured people alone and helpless" valken couldnt help but sigh and then nod at the girl it was so strange to say that, even with the hint of sarcasm "Thanks, and nice joke, he wouldnt heal me even if his life depended of it" he said with almost a small, somehow in relief she had crossed over there, to that moment he would probably be food for the dragons. "He's an absolute gem" valken smiled more easy to that random comment about Gwyndar. He was at least Happy he could remember how to smile and how to joke after all he had been trough all this months.
Living in the forest were not good at all for his healthy, or at least the healthy he was used to. There were days that he couldnt find something to eat, and he did not liked to kill rabbit's or animals, he was more of fruits perhaps or green things, just to not kill, So he wouldnt be surprised if at the time of killing gwyndar -if he were at that point- he just stopped there, and letting him live another day. In a fight he would probably be dead, just for the simply reason of not wanting to have innocent blood in his hands.
"I'm pretty sure Gwyndar would have killed you if he had really wanted to" Valken looked at the girl with disbelief and narrowing his eyes "Your always so sure about things dont you?" he said not trying to be rude, but the comment just made him feel out of the way. He kept walking with Steve by his side. "Really? is he that scared of things? Well horses are prey animals so they would let their instincts take over sometimes" Valken smiled again and looked to the sky, his dark and straight hair fell to his shoulders, his big blue eyes with a playfully touch. "He has been a chicken since I knew him years ago. He once let me alone in the forest at my 6 years, I went back walking, Its like the best friend that always leaves you behind, but he is there when you need him" it was sort of confusing, but that was the perfect word to describe their relation ship master-horse. Confusing.
"So what were you looking for?" she asked curiously, but then Steve interrupt the conversation, such a nice boy. "Steve?, Yes that Silisia, Although as far as I know there isn't another Silisia, You wanted to find him, Why?" he was certainly confused by this girl, she was so curious, and asking lots of things, but well she had saved his life, and after all they were strangers, and somehow they were alone and in the mountains. He coughed a couple times before start talking. "Steve is my wolf, and yeah I should have named him Arthur, but Steve was more him". He just loved that name in that wolf. It wasnt like the names could change personalities, there was thunder, who instead of give him the help of a thunder just ran away. "Well, Im looking for someone who took away something from me, its something complicated, he can not give it to me again, so im probably taking something of him, that would mark him forever, as Ive been marked forever" he knew that he didnt said anything, but what could he say? that he was looking to kill a person? No.
"And what makes you have to lie about your name? Done something that you shouldn't have and now you're a fugitive from the law?" Valken walked next to her, and tried to explain something very complicated as easy as just tell her that someone wanted him dead. "Erhh. I think someone wants me dead. Gwyndar recognize me from the only fact of having the Allen's face. But i cant reveal who i am, not until i find the one that wants me dead, same im looking for, and i mistook with Gwyndar" he finalized.
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Post by Nalean Silverstar on Jul 1, 2010 11:31:47 GMT 2
Nalean glanced at Valken with a thoughtful look in her eyes. "You never know" she said with a knowing smile on her face. "Sometimes people surprise you with their actions towards other people" She knew that people were capable of change and from what she had heard about Gwyndar, he had mainly killed in self-defense. "How much do you know about Gwyndar's story?" she asked looking at him with an unreadable expression. Since coming across Gwyndar in Aila's shop a few days ago, Nalean had been doing some research about Gwyndar and from what she had learnt the real reason for the dragon riders wanting to capture him was injured pride.
Nalean smiled to herself, "I am usually" she said with a small laugh. She would rather not reveal that the one time she was never sure of herself was when she had to use her powers for anything other than healing. She had never been able to get her powers to do what she wanted when she wasn't using them for healing and it scared her. Nothing bad had happened, but at times she was worried about what could happen if she lost control. She smiled at his words. "That's an odd way to describe your relationship with Thunder like that. Why did you name him Thunder?" she asked, knowing that she was asking alot of questions. But it was the way she had been raised, with an elf for a father she had been taught to always look for the facts and sometimes that involved asking questions. "Sorry if I sound rude, but I can't help asking questions at times" she sid with a small smile, feeling a bit like Alice the girl who she had met in Aila's shop the same day she had first come across Gwyndar.
"Interest choice of name" she said with a smile on her face, not sure what else to say. She had always taken weeks on choosing a name for an animal. The only exception had been Shadow, he had gained his name from the way he had followed his Dam around when he had been a new born foal. He now followed Nalean around like a shadow whenever she let him. "And you thought that Gwyndar was that person" she added softly with a thoughtful expression on her face. Gwyndar had been accused of many different crimes over the years, some crimes that he couldn't have possibly committed, other crimes were those committed by others who had needed a scapegoat. She had always found it interesting how some people blamed Gwyndar for their own problems. When a few farmers crops had failed the previous year, they had pinned the blame on Gwyndar claiming that he had put an enchantment on their crops causing the crops to die. "You know who ever took that something away is more likely to be some one you least expect, than some one like Gwyndar" she added.
Nalean walked for a few minutes deep in thought about Valken's words. She stopped and looked back at him. "You know, just because Gwyndar recognised your face, doesn't necessarily mean some one wants you dead. Sometimes they do things to get people out of the way, not kill them" she said with a frown on her face. "And how do you know some one wants you dead? You don't seem like a threat to me" she added with a confused smile on her face.
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