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Post by Ryosei Zealotes on Jul 11, 2002 10:46:17 GMT -5
Ryosei walked into the shimmering Sapphire Quartz Gardens again. It was sunset, and the cool wind was setting in, although Ryosei didn't feel much of it through his long jacket.
It seemed much less beautiful now. The crystal was shining as bright as always, but there was something dull about it. Some hooligans had destroyed a few of the larger crystals, cracks and missing chunks defacing their former splendour. Ryosei kneeled and picked up a piece of sharp crystal that had been broken off one of the larger pieces.
Staring into it, he reminisced. This is where it had started, the source of his pain. Everything had seemed so simple before he had met her here...
Ryosei let a little gasp of pain out as the crystal slipped, leaving a gash across palm. The bloodied crystal hit the floor and shattered, just like his dreams.
Why did I come back here? he thought to himself, staring at the wound in his palm.
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Post by Audrey Thatch on Jul 11, 2002 11:11:35 GMT -5
Audrey played with a pile of crystal sand, gathering it up in her palms, sqirling patterns into it then allowing it to gently run off onto the ground.
Chipped crystal tended to make shards of light dart across the ground, so the ground danced with coloured flecks as the sunlight hit the crystal formation Audrey sat against.
'I shouldn't have come back..' she thought bitterly. 'All this beauty makes me sick.' Audrey stood and brushed herself free of the sand, looking about her to make sure she hadn't dropped anything.
And as she walked away, Ana-Dreya sang.. an old elven lullaby.
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Post by Ryosei Zealotes on Jul 11, 2002 11:24:24 GMT -5
Ryosei's ears twitched.
"No..."
The soft tunes of the familiar lullaby wafted into his ears, like a ghost returning to haunt him...it was almost more than he could handle.
"Why can't you leave me alone?!" Ryosei said, whacking the crystal in front of him, leaving a smear of red. He fell to his knees, and held his head.
"Why can't I forget...why can't you just leave me in peace..."
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Post by Audrey Thatch on Jul 11, 2002 11:33:43 GMT -5
"WHAT?!" Audrey turned, and spotted a familiar blue-haired elf harrassing a tower of crystal.
"For crissake!" she moaned aloud. "Not again."
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Post by Ryosei Zealotes on Jul 11, 2002 11:41:00 GMT -5
Ryosei opened his eyes. There was a moment of silence, as he contemplated the outburst. Was it all in his head too, or...
Ryosei turned, removing his hands from his face, leaving one half reddened. "Hey...you ARE here!"
Using the pillar of crystal to help himself up and look slightly more respectable, he faced Audrey again.
"I don't know whether to accuse you of following me or accept it as coincidence. I knew I'd be seeing you again, but not so soon..."
He clenched his tunic with his bloody hand to stop the flow.
"Looks like fate has thrown us together again."
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Post by Audrey Thatch on Jul 11, 2002 11:45:58 GMT -5
"Coincidence.. I was just leaving." Audrey's eyes drifted to his clenched had and gasped.
"What happened? Cut by the crystal..?
..should tend to that.. shouldn't we? Unless of course, you'd rather it continued bleeding.."
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Post by Ryosei Zealotes on Jul 11, 2002 11:51:34 GMT -5
Ryosei winced. The pain was getting worse, and he didn't have anything on him to tend to it.
"Yes. I had an accident with the crystal."
Ryosei himself was surprised at the amount of blood. He didn't think he had cut himself very deeply.
"I'm surprised you're offering to help...you're obviously off duty, Ms. Thatch."
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Post by Audrey Thatch on Jul 11, 2002 12:02:22 GMT -5
"I'd have helped regardless.. noone should have to suffer a crystal wound.. they don't heal quickly, and yours is in a most unfortunate area.."
kneeling beside him, Audrey ripped her cloak and taking Ryosei's hand, tried to matt the blood somewhat with it. "Do you have any water on you?.. oh, never mind..this'll sting a little."
She pulled out a flask and tipped the contents onto the would before wrapping up the hand with the remaining clean fabric.
"Don't take that off until you see a healer.. that liquid was medicinal, but won't work if you reveal the wound.."
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Post by Ryosei Zealotes on Jul 11, 2002 12:10:54 GMT -5
Ryosei winced a little. It did sting, but not to an unbearable point.
"You're just full of surprises."
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Post by Audrey Thatch on Jul 11, 2002 12:16:40 GMT -5
Audrey smiled warmly. "I try"
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Post by Ryosei Zealotes on Jul 11, 2002 23:17:21 GMT -5
Ryosei sighed, and looked at his bandaged hand.
"Thanks for that...what are you doing here, anyway?"
Ryosei thought a little.
"And before you ask me the same question, I have no idea. Cutting myself and having a lot of bad memories seems to be what I've done so far, though."
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Post by Audrey Thatch on Jul 12, 2002 3:56:15 GMT -5
"Thinking about things.. It's the best place to come.. "
Audrey narrowed her eyes for the umpteenth time that day. "Cutting yourself? You don't mean to tell me you've been inflicting pain upon yourself?"
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Post by Ryosei Zealotes on Jul 12, 2002 7:07:07 GMT -5
"You think I slipped with the crystal on purpose?"
Ryosei clenched his bandaged hand in front of his face a couple of times.
"Of course I wasn't inflicting pain upon myself. I've got other people to do that for me."
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Post by Audrey Thatch on Jul 14, 2002 3:41:41 GMT -5
"Right. Like me I suppose?" audrey shook her head gently.
"Hope I didn't disturb you Mr. Zealotes.. I'll be on my way now." She said, turning to gathered her belongings.
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Post by Ryosei Zealotes on Jul 14, 2002 4:08:14 GMT -5
Mr. Zealotes...nobody has ever called me that. Ryosei thought to himself, rolling the term over in his head and deciding he wasn't very fond of it.
"You don't have to call me that, you know. It's kind of informal. I know you don't want me to call you by your first name, but I'm pretty indifferent."
Ryosei watched Ana-Dreya pick up her things.
"And...no, you're not disturbing me. Not really."
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