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Post by zumi on Jun 7, 2006 23:57:33 GMT -5
Izzy jumped slightly but she didn't look at Sage. She wasn't sure exactly what to do and she was becoming aware of the blood in her mouth really fast.
Wiping her thumb off on her pants she watched her motions instead of the captain. "I was thinking about people I have to face," she answered. She was started to really get used to Sage really fast. There was something about Sage that made her feel safe like when she was with her sister. That was probably also why she had trouble taking orders from Sage as well.
Putting her hands on her thighs, she kept her body in the same position as she spoke, "I just keep obsessing over the same subject in my mind. It's uncessary baggage and I hate it. I won't trouble you with it though." There was a slightly wistful and sad smile on her features.
Standing up on the barrell, she looked over her shoulder at the ocean and then jumped down, sticking both hands in her pockets, her shoulders hunched, posture loose yet guarded. This was the truest her she had shown anyone in a long time.
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 8, 2006 0:07:03 GMT -5
*Sage stood where she was for a moment before sitting on teh deck, leaning back on her hands and spreading ehr legs wide in front of her. This was the closest she's come to actually looking like a seventeen year old girl in a long time. She was so serious for the most part, she had to be. She looked along the deck at Izzy, and spoke, still softly so no others could hear if they were listening.*
"Why don't you tell me anyways. Come sit by me, forget whoa dn where we are and our circumstances for a moment. Pretend we're two girls who have been best friends our entire lives,a dn know eachother's darkest secrest, and everything else about one another. It'll help you relax a little bit. And help you get somehting off your mind. Talking about "baggage" usualy helps to put it out of mind for a time."
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Post by zumi on Jun 8, 2006 0:16:19 GMT -5
Izzy looked back at her and something seemed to waver. Then she perched up on the barrell again but faced Sage. She always found comfort in this position with her hands on her knees that were close to her. She could spring up easily, but yet she was safe ina cocooon almost at the same time.
"When I was in Draysmith two-ish years ago I met with a commoner. She was just two or three years younger than me with wavy hair and intelligence. I was draw I guess...I don't know, but we became something that I wouldn't call friends, but there's no other term for it."
She stared off at something from far away but didn't seem to focus on that either. "I found that I wanted to protect her. I wanted to protect her more than my own country or family, so I taught her how to fight. I thought that in teaching her, I could help her because I knew that I could never permamently stay with her or take her with me."
She chewed on her thumb as she spoke, yet it didn't affect how clear her words were. "One day when we were praticing, she pinned me down and I laughed and told her how much she'd grown in skill and then...she almost killed me."
Izzy's amrs moved so they gripped the knees of her pants tightly. "I didn't understand why. We had been together for a year. I had stayed longer than I ever planned to let alone was allowed to just to protect and help her. I really...I don't know...
"I know we will meet again. I don't know under what circumstances or if she tried to kill me in just the heat of battle. I just remember her killing intent firmly in my mind. I've never seen eyes like that in all my journeys...."
She did not cry nor did she look like she was about to. She had shed enough tears over this already. "It stil lhurts. It keeps me up at night too. Sometimes I wake up thinking she's over me about to stirke, but there's nothing at all."
Looking out at the water she said, "I feel more anxiety over her than I do facing the Laymeirids."
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 8, 2006 0:32:46 GMT -5
*Sage's intuition had kicked in the moment Izzy had said "I was draw I guess...I don't know" only one thing came ot mind, and though she listened and got he rest of her story, her mind kept comming back to one thing. When she finished, Sage spoke.*
"How'd you get away, what happened when you realized she was trying to kill you?"
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Post by zumi on Jun 8, 2006 0:35:59 GMT -5
"Self presservation kicked in. For once I was scarred to the point I couldn't move. Everything's kind of blurry after she had the sword raised...
"I got away and got onto a ship and sailed for Hallenhalk, during this time, you and Sister parted away I think. I was just rather numb and shaken. My next mission went badly, but I got a hold of myself and decided to push it away."
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 8, 2006 1:04:24 GMT -5
"So lemme get this straight. You basically rolled out from under her, and ran to a ship (I'm assuming with her chasing you) and just boarded and left cold-sha-bang, skip-to-me-loo?"
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Post by zumi on Jun 8, 2006 1:09:23 GMT -5
Izzy stared at her blankly a minute and then shook her head. "I got out from under her and battle her off, ran for base (I never showed her where that was) and after a bit of hiding I went to a few ports over and got on the ship bound for the place I should have gone five months prior.
"I actually told Sister that I was in the place I was supposed to be in. I was an idiot, and I can't bring myself to hate her. If I had to jump in front of a sword to defend her, I would without hesitation. It's stupid."
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 8, 2006 1:29:08 GMT -5
"Yeah, but..."
*And here she spoke what had been on her mind.*
"...do you think maybe you had no choice in the matter? That you were bespelled in some way? The first thing that came to my mind was that she was a tool...and I'm thinking it was of one of the unknown kinds?"
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Post by zumi on Jun 8, 2006 1:34:09 GMT -5
Izzy stood up and made a violently fast gesture in the hair. "GODDAMIT, THAT CAN'T BE IT!" she roared and then brought her voice back into normal volume.
"I was supposed to protect her. I was supposed to keep her safe. Nothing was supposed to get her. Nothing ws supposed to posess her. That's what happens in storybooks."
She growled and seethed. "I...If she was posessed, I should have been able to sense it! It wouldn't have hurt, because then it wouldn't have been her who attacked! It would have been her who..."
Izzy bit back a pained howl and simply shook with something between rage and helplessness. "It was all of her. It wasn't soemone posessing her. It couldn't have been..."
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 8, 2006 1:53:36 GMT -5
*Trippy had remained totally calm and in her seated position on the desk. She spoke calmy to Izzy knowing full well that is Izzy were as she thought, the calm of her voice would probably irk her more. She risked it anyways*
"I never said she was possessed, I said she might have been a tool. Blackmailed maybe. Or simply not good, and joined leagues with them to begin with. A witch or spell caster of anysort can cause a charm or spell like that. To make you think or feel what they want you too. For all you know, your conviction of her being so..um...good?...innocent?...no lets stick with her being so okay....your current conviction of that could still be the reminants of that magick. Magick is easy to ide so you can't detect its use. And you're conviciton is so strong its almost too true to you. You keep repeating it. keep insisting, like you're trying to convince yourself deep deep down. Do you understand what I'm getting at?"
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Post by zumi on Jun 8, 2006 1:58:35 GMT -5
"Yeah," Izzy mumbled quietly, her back to Sage. Turning around, she got back up onto the barell and into her typical position. "I hear you."
Taking out a stick, she put it in her mouth for comfort and to keep herself from destroying her thumb. "I just kind of wish I could believe it."
Looking out at the water, she frowned and then put the stick back in its package. Standing up on the barrell, her eyes widened and almost in seconds all of her walls were back up and she was in the mode she carried herself on the ship normally. "Holy...scope out what's coming toward us."
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 8, 2006 2:14:14 GMT -5
*Trippy ahd seen it at the same time Izzy had, and was up at the same time too, because heading towards the ship was a giant black mass of "what the hell is that" and it was moving fast.
It loomed a head, and thugh it was still at least five miles away, it was just that big, and moving faster than something that size should.
It wasn't a tidal wave, that had been Trip's first thought. But the sea didn't meet the sky, the ocean hadn't lowered. Then She realized that it was comming from the exact same direction at the land that had been spotted earlier was in. Trippy stormed forward, shouting orders, her first was that Izzy stay near her. Which she looked back to be sure was followed before continueing.*
"Batton down hatches! Prepare for batttle people! I don't know whats comming at us, btu its not water,a dn its not going to be pretty!"
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Post by zumi on Jun 8, 2006 2:19:49 GMT -5
Izzy's eyes widened for a brief moment and then she started shouting over Sage. "Okay, people, some Laymeirids are coming, and don't let that get you in a twitter. You have to keep your head about you. For all we know they might not even be comming at us." As if, but it was a possibility.
Standing up on the barrell to get a better look, Izzy set her features. She wasn't going to throw her lifea way and she was going to save her country and her sister.
Feeling a pang, she pushed her baggage away and set her features. Her back was straight and her eyes lighter and more defiant. Gone was the girl Sage had just been talking to about ghosts of the past.
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 8, 2006 2:41:47 GMT -5
*sage crossed her arms on in fornt of her waist and drew her swords. Uncrossing her arms, she spun teh hilts ofer her hands and loosened her shoulders in preperation. She's seen some messed up tings in her short life. Noting could surprise her now. She glanced down quickly to makes sure the two daggers at her sides, and the various hidden blades about her body were in check.
Next she glanced over to check that Izzy was close by. Then to see her crew ready. They have done all they could to prepair, not was zero hour.*
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Post by zumi on Jun 8, 2006 2:45:35 GMT -5
Izzy watched the approaching doom on the horizon. This was the third time in her life she had seen this formation. One time they had passed and the second time, they had destroyed everything.
She wasn't going to even pretend that they were after some one other than the Insomnia. Her arms were folded and her schimitar still sheathed. She didn't draw it until it was necessary out of habbit from when she was training.
Feeling them grow closer, she quelled the panic that rose in her stomach and fought to keep her flight reflex in check. It was time to fight.
"Do not feel shame if you run from battle," she spoke in her clear and loud voice that the crew was accustomed to. "There is no shame in self preservation."
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