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Post by Jukebox on Sept 15, 2007 23:35:08 GMT -5
"Hm, alright. I'll accept that." He shifted again, managing to get his tail out form behind and him and get more comfortable.
"Well, no matter what we need to find a way out of this mess...before they can do whatever it is they want you for...err, sorry. That sounded way wrong..." he stopped speaking, realizing we wasn't getting any more coherent. He turned to look at the shackles on the wall, but he couldn't do anything to them.
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Post by Lilium on Sept 15, 2007 23:38:33 GMT -5
Roni sighed. She might as well just tell him.
"Ix, how old do you think I am?"
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Post by Jukebox on Sept 15, 2007 23:41:19 GMT -5
"Huh?" That distracted him for a moment. He stopped his shuffling and gave a confused to look to the shadow on the wall.
"Seems an odd question right now, but if you want....I don't know, you can't be any older than me, around 20? Why?"
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Post by Lilium on Sept 15, 2007 23:53:33 GMT -5
"Well, technically, I'm twenty-one, but..." She paused, then said, "I'm actually one hundred twenty-one."
She waited for his reaction.
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Post by Jukebox on Sept 15, 2007 23:58:40 GMT -5
"One hundred? Nonsense." He shifted again, trying to get a better look at her in the gloom but finding it futile.
"If it's true no one could possibly tell. I'd love for you to explain, it's magic isn't it?" Cirxel hastily spoke out, ears perked for her response. He practically lived all manner of story, had acted anything from the magician to their victim, and another was just as easy for him to believe as any other.
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Post by Lilium on Sept 16, 2007 0:54:33 GMT -5
"No, it's true. I am 121 years old. And yes, it was magick. Very powerful magick. Where should I start...
"A hundred twelve years ago, I was nine years old. I was Princess Ronyshia of Ahsla. Ahsla was a hidden kingdom deep within the Haunted Woods, concealed by a magickal barrier that hid it from Neopia for years. Anyway, I wanted so badly to leave the kingdom. I wasn't even allowed out of the palace. So one day I repainted myself red and got my friend, the palace mage, to help me through the barrier. I didn't realize she'd put another spell on me in the process.
So I left and traveled through the woods for five days, or so I thought. For you see, on the fourth day, when I slept, I didn't just sleep for a night. I slept for one hundred years. When I woke up, everything looked the same, and I felt no different. I made it to Sakhmet and talked to Amira, and learned that someone had found ruins of a village in the Haunted Woods. Fearing it was Ahsla, I ran all that way back in one day. It was. My kingdom was in ruins. I found a note in my demolished room from my mage friend, Mynallesna, saying dark faeries came and destroyed the place, and she'd envisioned it, so that was the only reason she'd let me out."
She looked back over at him to see what his expression was.
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Post by Jukebox on Sept 16, 2007 21:12:09 GMT -5
Cirxel's ears twicthed as he listened, but otherwise he didn't interupt her. Once she had finished though he mumbled to get the thoughts into order, almost as if it was a script he had to learn. Ix was terribly vocal about almost everything.
"Alright, Ahsla, 100 years or so, magic barrier, leaving, sleeping for a hundred years, ruins, dark faeries....Alright, that's starting to make sense. So your body just remained safe? Was it part of the spell? I mean, The Haunted Woods is the last place I'd want to be in a hundred year sleep. And do you think these dark faeries of our have anyhting to do with that?"
He now was pretty much bombarding her with questions, but he liked to have little details like that. He had bad experience with the haunted woods anyway.
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Post by Lilium on Sept 23, 2007 15:21:38 GMT -5
"I don't know. She didn't say anything about protecting me, but.... somehow, I think I did. And I think she knew that." Finally irritated with the shackles, she pulled her right hand forward and the iron snapped easily. She caught it before it could hit the floor and make noise. She took the other shackle in her freed hand and pulled it off the wall and gently laid it on the floor.
"I'm absolutely positive, though, based on the conversation we overheard, that these faeries have something to do with the destruction of my kingdom." She crawled over to Ix and reached out. She found his foot and scooted herself forward. The weird fog was really annoying. She found his wrist and pulled off both shackles and laid them silently on the floor.
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Post by Jukebox on Sept 23, 2007 15:32:24 GMT -5
"Alright...well that doesn't seem to do much for us." He said, hearing the metal snapping and seeing her shadow coming closer. He twitched when she touched his leg, but once she had the shackles off he sat up , scooting away form the wall.
"Thanks. More of your magic, I guess?" he said, turning to look around some more. Glancing over to her, he got up slowly and made his way to the bars, trying to see out but not catching anything.
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Post by Lilium on Sept 23, 2007 15:42:13 GMT -5
She smiled wryly, though she knew he probably couldn't see it. "Maybe," she said mysteriously. "If you can guess, then maybe I'll give you something." If we get out of here alive, she added silently. "Come on." She stood up and moved her fingers along the wall until she found cell bars. She gripped them both tightly in her fists, and then when she let go, holes where her fists had been rained steel dust. She took the steel in her hands and pulled them apart from each other, leaving a space through which she could step out.
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Post by Jukebox on Sept 23, 2007 15:47:48 GMT -5
Ix chuckled a little as she neared him.
"I don't think I could fathom a guess, no matter what the prize," he said as she took the obstacle of the bars easily out of the picture. He found it slightly unnerving that she possesed such strength, but he tried on to dwell on it. At least she was doing more than he was. He slipped out of the cell behind her and looked around, trying to locate any exit, or st least the source of this annoying fog.
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Post by Lilium on Sept 23, 2007 16:09:24 GMT -5
Roni held her arms out and found a cylinder-like thing. She pulled it down and it came down with a hissing noise. Metal screeched and there was a BOOM sort of slam, and then the fog sank to the bottom of the floor. She could see everything above her knees. The room was small and surrounded by rotting bricks with mold and slime oozing out of them.
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Post by Jukebox on Sept 23, 2007 16:24:46 GMT -5
"Brilliant," Cirxel said with a small grin. "That accursed fog is lower. You're wonderfully good at this escaping, you know." He strolled to the wall, examinging it a bit closer. He turned to the door, hopeing it was in as bad a state as the walls.
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Post by Lilium on Oct 14, 2007 2:06:46 GMT -5
"Thanks," she said, flashing a smile. "It comes in handy." She chuckled quietly and then headed to the steel door, which fell down easily with a tap of her index and middle fingers. She put her foot on the end before it hit the ground, then lowered it easily, silently, to the floor. She climbed on top of the steel door and walked across it into a dark hallway, wishing she had Trei's abilities with light and fire. She helped Ix out and then lifted the door back into place, enclosing the hall in total darkness. Using the vibrations in the ground, which was of great luck to be actual soil, good raw earth, she found Ix, and then seized his hand in hers before leading him stealthily down the pitch-black hall.
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Post by Jukebox on Oct 14, 2007 14:52:58 GMT -5
Cirxel followed after, jumping when she grabbed in hand but following obediently. ow that they were in the dark tunnel he was doing his brest to refrain from speaking. He silently wished for his rapier, the actual sword sitting in his hotel room. The fake he had been using in the play was of course gone as well, but he couldn't help dwelling on what use it could have been. All the while he followed after Roni and kept alert for any change in the darkness.
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