Tavern by the creek Part II (The Storms) (all welcome) - Page 5

Cyril Darkcloud · 02-23-2002, 02:30 AM

"No," he whispers, "it is time to know who we are." Again he releases himself from her embrace. "I, at least, know your name, KayLisa -- you do not yet know mine." As the shock registers on her face, his voice grows very soft, "The locket -- look."

“She was my daughter,” he says as KayLisa looks at the face of the dark haired girl smiling up at her from within the locket. “Seven winters ago we stood facing one another in front of the gathered clans of the Stone Spires and I spoke her name for the last time. The moment is fixed in my mind – I remember every movement, feel the drawing of every breath, still taste the rain. Her tears mingled with the rain on her cheeks and she shook so badly that she could barely pull enough air into her lungs to speak – still she stood where she needed to stand.. All of the others had already spoken, but she, as my child, had the right to stand with me by herself. She stuttered badly before she could finally get the syllables to flow across her lips. Together we spoke – the last time I have spoken her name, the only time she had spoken mine .... the last time my name has been spoken by anyone. Together we spoke, and before the last syllable of each name had been completely exhaled, we each drew in our breath holding the air of the names within our mouths. The wind that moved between us grew violent and we exhaled scattering the syllables of our names upon the wind. The very syllables of her name were pulled from me by that wind and returned to the clans where it is spoken by all but me. The syllables of mine were dispersed – torn from one another by the storm and broken apart not to be spoken again.”

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Neb · 02-23-2002, 02:52 AM

Neb walked into the main room of the Tavern, he looked around, a mad look in his eyes, and lashed out with the Valkyrie at the nearest person.

As the patron's head rolled across the floor Neb walked towards the next one, intending to repeat his actions, for when seen through the veil of madness that had been slipped in front of his eyes all of the other occupants of the bar looked like inhuman creatures of rot and decay....

TAOWolf · 02-23-2002, 04:30 AM

As she looks into the locket, and listens to him, her knees become weaker and weaker, and finally she sinks to the ground under her, tears flooding her eyes.........~and I thought I could somehow help him? Even with my own curses? How do fix a broken heart, and bring back a name that has been lost?~She looks at her gloved hands, and realizes maybe her curse isn't so bad, cursed to .....no, she will not bring that on him......considering she hasn't lost a daughter and a clan, and wonders how he could ever love or accept her, because she can't have childern because of what was done to her. Then she thinks, ~how selfish of me, he would NOT want any other family than his own.........~What a cruel twist of fate, the winds bring to her.....someone who can touch her honestly, ~even though it has to be in the storms~, but yet has such sorrow, that even she is not sure she can render back.......unless...........unless she gives all her power into saving him, sacrificing herself unto the wind and fire, to set back the hands of fate, and offers herself in his place.....~She softly releases his hand, looks at the locket as a single tear drop falls on the picture, and closes it.....She hands it back to him, wordless, and she looks at the ground, completely at his mercy, and the mercy of the fates ~damn the fates for playing with my life and his~and looks up at him, her soul in her eyes, her life bared before him, and her thoughts sent to him in dreams.........she comes to a decision in her mind, and decides to let the fates kill her, to save this man and his daughter....DAMN the fates for making her believe she could love ever again.........

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Cyril Darkcloud · 02-23-2002, 05:25 AM

He follows her to her knees. As she moves to return the locket he again catches her hands in his own. "Hold on to it a few moments longer," he whispers. "Other than myself, none but you have held it since that night."

"My story is not a pleasant one, I know," he smiles, "but it is the tale of the man who held you through the night, the same man who would continue to hold you should you be willing." He cradles her face in his hands and looks directly into her eyes. "KayLisa, you must know what it is you risk in standing with me. You must have no illusions about who I am and what I face."

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TAOWolf · 02-23-2002, 05:47 AM

She savors the feel of his hands on her face as if it is the last thing, the last savored moment she will ever feel......"I will give up my life and my curse for you, regardless of what you say" ~she feels his intense emotion at these words~She touches his lips to silence him with but a finger.....
"Yes, I know we have yet to tell our curses to one another, but.........but I would have you know, just for the sake of seeing your daughter's picture, that I will do anything......ANYTHING.....to help you, regardless of the cost to my own life......"She trails off, breaking down into tears, causing the storm to intensify, lightning hitting all around them.........For the first time in her life, she uses her druidic powers to send him an image the way her wolf cousins would send to her.......... (peace) (yours) (KayLisa laying on the ground, free from her curses) (one final kiss) ~Unbeknownst to her, another vision (fate) breaks in to her flashes to him.......... (a sword of wind) (a dagger of fire) (a fledging saved from a terrible evil) (one soft, last kiss from someone who loves him) (a vision of KayLisa, standing amidst a flame of lightning, surrounding by wolves) (and a new revelation: a child, born of wind and fire...............but whose?)
She looks at him, all emotion showing on her pale face, purple eyes aglow......."My.......my.......my true name is.........GreyWolf, sister of the wolfpack Siruis, and a Druid to the foundation of the citadel of the Kingdom of Ariandor Army......." She looks tearfully up at him.....and continues,......"I was once an excellent ranger and swordswoman........until.......until I killed a child, that was by all rights evil.........." ~She breaks down in tears again......."But I forgot my most sacred oath, to my kin, my druid family.............so now I am cursed to walk this forsaken time ~it has been over 200 years for her now" "So was I cursed, to walk the earth, to be avenger, trial, judge.......with no remorse, no feelings,........ ~here she hesitates, because he has brought out something in her that has not happened in 140 yrs~ "But, you......you my kind, noble wind gatherer.....you have brought out what the fates said would never be brought out again....the compassionate side.........the side of me that I thought was given up..........upon seeing your daughter's picture, how could I not, give my life to bring you back to her??"........She suddenly looks down, afraid he will now send her away, knowing that she is part wolf and part druid, not whole..................

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Cyril Darkcloud · 02-23-2002, 06:53 AM

As she speaks the winds bear her words to his ears. There are images as well, images, if that is what they are to be called, that shine with a sudden and vivid power in his thoughts. You have brought out what the fates said would never be brought out again. These words strike him, as they would any of his people, with particular force. --She has surrendered too long to these 'fates'.-- She turns from him and he looks at her as he did those hours ago in the inn, looking simply to see the one who is before him. She would have hope for me ..... and yet she would deny it to herself ....

The thunderclap is deafening and the hilltop itself shakes. “Time and again you open yourself to me and then look away as if I would cast you aside." The rain grows heavy as he speaks. “I do not reject you, woman. Nor will I allow you to reject yourself." He bends to her and, taking her hands, lifts her to her feet. "I prefer you to live your life and not cast it aside, whether for my sake or that of any other." He pauses and gathers his breath. "No, KayLisa, I would ask much more of you than the surrender of your life for my sake – I would have the living of your life by my side." Again, a pause to collect his breath. "My native tongue has no word for what you name fate – destiny does not bind me to you." His eyes burn with a fierce independence, "I bind myself to you ...."

His eyes soften as he continues, "Perhaps there is no escaping the exiling curses that stand over the two of us, perhaps there is – but, escape or not, this, and no place else, is where we stand." The winds fall suddenly still and the rain slows to a whisper. He brushes a tear from her cheek allowing his touch to linger. When he speaks again, there is no storm in his voice. "This, and no place else, is where I embrace you. But what will you embrace in this place KayLisa, you who are so dangerously balanced between hope and despair? Will your life be your own, or will fate live it for you?.” He falls silent, then, his hands holding on to hers.

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shadowhound · 02-23-2002, 07:05 AM

OOC: well in that case i think i will unstumble lol, mayby i will see yous later in a more populated area.

Cyril Darkcloud · 02-23-2002, 07:11 AM

ooc: Things should be picking up again once KayLisa and Cyril get back down off the mountain. If we don't see you then I'll PM you.

But -- even better -- feel free to write yourself back in near the tavern and we'll work to bring the characters together. You don't need to wait for Cyril and KayLisa to participate in the thread. It will be good to have you back.

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Cyril Darkcloud · 02-23-2002, 05:54 PM

THE TAVERN

The Dead Wind begins to focus it attention on Neb ....

Such an intensity of rage and madness in that one! So powerful a mind, so easily provoked to violence! I simply must know more ....

The stale air stirs slightly around the psionic and whispered thoughts seek entry into his mind.

shadowhound · 02-23-2002, 06:22 PM

OOC: cancel that i have anothe idea [img]smile.gif[/img]

IC: Shadowhound walks into the Tavern and looks around "well this is weird, hello everyone, anyone here? I'm sorry i dissapeared but i heard about some rich monastry to the south and i thought i should um.. lessen their temptation of sin by borrowing some stuff. I found this realy cool amulet." He says as he pulls out a amulet which is glowing bright blue. "well its never done that before."

02-23-2002, 07:05 AM	#47
shadowhound Ma'at - Goddess of Truth & Justice Join Date: November 24, 2001 Location: Australia Age: 39 Posts: 3,281	OOC: well in that case i think i will unstumble lol, mayby i will see yous later in a more populated area. __________________ Carpe Noctem: Ph’nglui mglw’nafh cthulhu r’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.

02-23-2002, 06:22 PM	#50
shadowhound Ma'at - Goddess of Truth & Justice Join Date: November 24, 2001 Location: Australia Age: 39 Posts: 3,281	OOC: cancel that i have anothe idea [img]smile.gif[/img] IC: Shadowhound walks into the Tavern and looks around "well this is weird, hello everyone, anyone here? I'm sorry i dissapeared but i heard about some rich monastry to the south and i thought i should um.. lessen their temptation of sin by borrowing some stuff. I found this realy cool amulet." He says as he pulls out a amulet which is glowing bright blue. "well its never done that before." __________________ Carpe Noctem: Ph’nglui mglw’nafh cthulhu r’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.

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02-23-2002, 02:30 AM	#41
Cyril Darkcloud Lord Soth Join Date: February 7, 2002 Location: New York Posts: 1,980	"No," he whispers, "it is time to know who we are." Again he releases himself from her embrace. "I, at least, know your name, KayLisa -- you do not yet know mine." As the shock registers on her face, his voice grows very soft, "The locket -- look." “She was my daughter,” he says as KayLisa looks at the face of the dark haired girl smiling up at her from within the locket. “Seven winters ago we stood facing one another in front of the gathered clans of the Stone Spires and I spoke her name for the last time. The moment is fixed in my mind – I remember every movement, feel the drawing of every breath, still taste the rain. Her tears mingled with the rain on her cheeks and she shook so badly that she could barely pull enough air into her lungs to speak – still she stood where she needed to stand.. All of the others had already spoken, but she, as my child, had the right to stand with me by herself. She stuttered badly before she could finally get the syllables to flow across her lips. Together we spoke – the last time I have spoken her name, the only time she had spoken mine .... the last time my name has been spoken by anyone. Together we spoke, and before the last syllable of each name had been completely exhaled, we each drew in our breath holding the air of the names within our mouths. The wind that moved between us grew violent and we exhaled scattering the syllables of our names upon the wind. The very syllables of her name were pulled from me by that wind and returned to the clans where it is spoken by all but me. The syllables of mine were dispersed – torn from one another by the storm and broken apart not to be spoken again.” [ 02-23-2002: Message edited by: Cyril Darkcloud ]

02-23-2002, 02:52 AM	#42
Neb Account deleted by Request Join Date: May 17, 2001 Location: . Age: 39 Posts: 8,802	Neb walked into the main room of the Tavern, he looked around, a mad look in his eyes, and lashed out with the Valkyrie at the nearest person. As the patron's head rolled across the floor Neb walked towards the next one, intending to repeat his actions, for when seen through the veil of madness that had been slipped in front of his eyes all of the other occupants of the bar looked like inhuman creatures of rot and decay....

02-23-2002, 04:30 AM	#43
TAOWolf White Dragon Join Date: December 1, 2001 Location: Mountains of Arkansas, US Posts: 1,887	As she looks into the locket, and listens to him, her knees become weaker and weaker, and finally she sinks to the ground under her, tears flooding her eyes.........~and I thought I could somehow help him? Even with my own curses? How do fix a broken heart, and bring back a name that has been lost?~She looks at her gloved hands, and realizes maybe her curse isn't so bad, cursed to .....no, she will not bring that on him......considering she hasn't lost a daughter and a clan, and wonders how he could ever love or accept her, because she can't have childern because of what was done to her. Then she thinks, ~how selfish of me, he would NOT want any other family than his own.........~What a cruel twist of fate, the winds bring to her.....someone who can touch her honestly, ~even though it has to be in the storms~, but yet has such sorrow, that even she is not sure she can render back.......unless...........unless she gives all her power into saving him, sacrificing herself unto the wind and fire, to set back the hands of fate, and offers herself in his place.....~She softly releases his hand, looks at the locket as a single tear drop falls on the picture, and closes it.....She hands it back to him, wordless, and she looks at the ground, completely at his mercy, and the mercy of the fates ~damn the fates for playing with my life and his~and looks up at him, her soul in her eyes, her life bared before him, and her thoughts sent to him in dreams.........she comes to a decision in her mind, and decides to let the fates kill her, to save this man and his daughter....DAMN the fates for making her believe she could love ever again......... [ 02-23-2002: Message edited by: TAOWolf ] [ 02-23-2002: Message edited by: TAOWolf ]

02-23-2002, 05:25 AM	#44
Cyril Darkcloud Lord Soth Join Date: February 7, 2002 Location: New York Posts: 1,980	He follows her to her knees. As she moves to return the locket he again catches her hands in his own. "Hold on to it a few moments longer," he whispers. "Other than myself, none but you have held it since that night." "My story is not a pleasant one, I know," he smiles, "but it is the tale of the man who held you through the night, the same man who would continue to hold you should you be willing." He cradles her face in his hands and looks directly into her eyes. "KayLisa, you must know what it is you risk in standing with me. You must have no illusions about who I am and what I face." [ 02-23-2002: Message edited by: Cyril Darkcloud ]

02-23-2002, 05:47 AM	#45
TAOWolf White Dragon Join Date: December 1, 2001 Location: Mountains of Arkansas, US Posts: 1,887	She savors the feel of his hands on her face as if it is the last thing, the last savored moment she will ever feel......"I will give up my life and my curse for you, regardless of what you say" ~she feels his intense emotion at these words~She touches his lips to silence him with but a finger..... "Yes, I know we have yet to tell our curses to one another, but.........but I would have you know, just for the sake of seeing your daughter's picture, that I will do anything......ANYTHING.....to help you, regardless of the cost to my own life......"She trails off, breaking down into tears, causing the storm to intensify, lightning hitting all around them.........For the first time in her life, she uses her druidic powers to send him an image the way her wolf cousins would send to her.......... (peace) (yours) (KayLisa laying on the ground, free from her curses) (one final kiss) ~Unbeknownst to her, another vision (fate) breaks in to her flashes to him.......... (a sword of wind) (a dagger of fire) (a fledging saved from a terrible evil) (one soft, last kiss from someone who loves him) (a vision of KayLisa, standing amidst a flame of lightning, surrounding by wolves) (and a new revelation: a child, born of wind and fire...............but whose?) She looks at him, all emotion showing on her pale face, purple eyes aglow......."My.......my.......my true name is.........GreyWolf, sister of the wolfpack Siruis, and a Druid to the foundation of the citadel of the Kingdom of Ariandor Army......." She looks tearfully up at him.....and continues,......"I was once an excellent ranger and swordswoman........until.......until I killed a child, that was by all rights evil.........." ~She breaks down in tears again......."But I forgot my most sacred oath, to my kin, my druid family.............so now I am cursed to walk this forsaken time ~it has been over 200 years for her now" "So was I cursed, to walk the earth, to be avenger, trial, judge.......with no remorse, no feelings,........ ~here she hesitates, because he has brought out something in her that has not happened in 140 yrs~ "But, you......you my kind, noble wind gatherer.....you have brought out what the fates said would never be brought out again....the compassionate side.........the side of me that I thought was given up..........upon seeing your daughter's picture, how could I not, give my life to bring you back to her??"........She suddenly looks down, afraid he will now send her away, knowing that she is part wolf and part druid, not whole.................. [ 02-23-2002: Message edited by: TAOWolf ]

02-23-2002, 06:53 AM	#46
Cyril Darkcloud Lord Soth Join Date: February 7, 2002 Location: New York Posts: 1,980	As she speaks the winds bear her words to his ears. There are images as well, images, if that is what they are to be called, that shine with a sudden and vivid power in his thoughts. You have brought out what the fates said would never be brought out again. These words strike him, as they would any of his people, with particular force. --She has surrendered too long to these 'fates'.-- She turns from him and he looks at her as he did those hours ago in the inn, looking simply to see the one who is before him. She would have hope for me ..... and yet she would deny it to herself .... The thunderclap is deafening and the hilltop itself shakes. “Time and again you open yourself to me and then look away as if I would cast you aside." The rain grows heavy as he speaks. “I do not reject you, woman. Nor will I allow you to reject yourself." He bends to her and, taking her hands, lifts her to her feet. "I prefer you to live your life and not cast it aside, whether for my sake or that of any other." He pauses and gathers his breath. "No, KayLisa, I would ask much more of you than the surrender of your life for my sake – I would have the living of your life by my side." Again, a pause to collect his breath. "My native tongue has no word for what you name fate – destiny does not bind me to you." His eyes burn with a fierce independence, "I bind myself to you ...." His eyes soften as he continues, "Perhaps there is no escaping the exiling curses that stand over the two of us, perhaps there is – but, escape or not, this, and no place else, is where we stand." The winds fall suddenly still and the rain slows to a whisper. He brushes a tear from her cheek allowing his touch to linger. When he speaks again, there is no storm in his voice. "This, and no place else, is where I embrace you. But what will you embrace in this place KayLisa, you who are so dangerously balanced between hope and despair? Will your life be your own, or will fate live it for you?.” He falls silent, then, his hands holding on to hers. [ 02-25-2002: Message edited by: Cyril Darkcloud ]

02-23-2002, 07:11 AM	#48
Cyril Darkcloud Lord Soth Join Date: February 7, 2002 Location: New York Posts: 1,980	ooc: Things should be picking up again once KayLisa and Cyril get back down off the mountain. If we don't see you then I'll PM you. But -- even better -- feel free to write yourself back in near the tavern and we'll work to bring the characters together. You don't need to wait for Cyril and KayLisa to participate in the thread. It will be good to have you back. [ 02-23-2002: Message edited by: Cyril Darkcloud ]

02-23-2002, 05:54 PM	#49
Cyril Darkcloud Lord Soth Join Date: February 7, 2002 Location: New York Posts: 1,980	THE TAVERN The Dead Wind begins to focus it attention on Neb .... Such an intensity of rage and madness in that one! So powerful a mind, so easily provoked to violence! I simply must know more .... The stale air stirs slightly around the psionic and whispered thoughts seek entry into his mind.

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