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[4e] [ePoL] Heroic Souls IC (R6 Heian > Monsters > Eldan&Champy > Quinn > Silvi > )
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<blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4303100" data-attributes="member: 3087"><p>[sblock=Eldan]The helm is comforting to <strong>Eldan</strong>. He finds himself carrying it along with him as he goes about his daily activities. His heart hurts all the time now, a dull directionless throb.</p><p>[sblock=Helmet]I've been imagining something like <a href="http://www.kollectablekaos.com.au/images/300-Helmet.jpg" target="_blank">this</a>. Do you have a preference?[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>He has breakfast like normal. His grandfather is extravagantly troublesome, repeatedly lighting up his stinky pipe only to have your father wrest it from him and put it out in the water barrel (which causes your mother to express her unhappiness with a dull, irritated look). </p><p>Through it all <strong>Jeillia </strong>looks stupefied; dull and completely listless. That's troublesome somehow.</p><p></p><p>For a minute <strong>Eldan </strong>remembers her as something else, smiling like he's never seen her before, radiant in silver light. But he can't square the image of her in his minds eye with the dull woman sitting before him. But it passes.</p><p></p><p>The feeling passes, just like that dream he was having when he awoke this morning, about the short man who was his friend. He can still see him sitting at edge of the forest in his big brown, wide-brimmed hat and waving at him.</p><p></p><p>**************************</p><p></p><p><strong>Eldan </strong>and his father sit by the bank of the river as they always do. As he does <strong>Eldan</strong>'s father periodically leaves to go "on patrol".</p><p></p><p><strong>Eldan </strong>sits by the side of the river and stares at the forest. With a start he realizes his arm is painfully hot. The little helmet. It's hot, uncomfortably so. He picks it up. There is a red glow from inside the helmet, a visible light that seems to shoot out from it across the river to the opposite bank.</p><p>The red-beam is hard to see in the bright sun, but on the far side of the river, revealed in it's light, is a shadowy creature with burning red eyes. Something like a rat mixed with a cat, but the size of a dog.</p><p></p><p>For a minute your eyes meet its. <strong>Eldan </strong>feels a powerful hostility from it. And then it slips into the woods and disappears.</p><p>The helmet goes cool.</p><p></p><p>And he sits by the river and stares. Shouldn't he be surprised to see it? Why does he feel like he's been watching these things his entire life? Seeing them but not?</p><p></p><p>His father returns from his patrol a few minutes later. And the day goes on much as every other day.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Heian]<strong>Heian </strong>sprints through the darkened streets. It's dark save for the light of the moon. But he could find his way to the bramble blindfolded he knows the route so well. </p><p></p><p>Up ahead the massive tangle of the bramble looms. Javelins in hand he strides in. The pull on his heart is stronger now. As he runs he feels a sudden tug, pulling him to the left. There is nothing there but a little space where the bramble has made space for a ring of toadstools. </p><p></p><p><strong>Heian </strong>swears he can hear someone (<strong>Neeloo</strong>?) calling something out far in the distance. </p><p></p><p>He shivers and steps into the ring. </p><p>Everything looks a little bit different. The shadows seem longer, and yet everything is better lit, greener. The bramble seems different, like it moved around when he blinked. There are paths in all directions now, radiating out from the toadstool circle like it's the hub of the wheel and the paths are the spokes. </p><p></p><p><strong>Heian </strong>feels another pull on his heart, and hears <strong>Neeloo</strong>'s voice again. He can't make out the words, but the sound has some sort of primal quality and gives him gooseflesh.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Graf, post: 4303100, member: 3087"] [sblock=Eldan]The helm is comforting to [B]Eldan[/B]. He finds himself carrying it along with him as he goes about his daily activities. His heart hurts all the time now, a dull directionless throb. [sblock=Helmet]I've been imagining something like [url=http://www.kollectablekaos.com.au/images/300-Helmet.jpg]this[/url]. Do you have a preference?[/sblock] He has breakfast like normal. His grandfather is extravagantly troublesome, repeatedly lighting up his stinky pipe only to have your father wrest it from him and put it out in the water barrel (which causes your mother to express her unhappiness with a dull, irritated look). Through it all [B]Jeillia [/B]looks stupefied; dull and completely listless. That's troublesome somehow. For a minute [B]Eldan [/B]remembers her as something else, smiling like he's never seen her before, radiant in silver light. But he can't square the image of her in his minds eye with the dull woman sitting before him. But it passes. The feeling passes, just like that dream he was having when he awoke this morning, about the short man who was his friend. He can still see him sitting at edge of the forest in his big brown, wide-brimmed hat and waving at him. ************************** [B]Eldan [/B]and his father sit by the bank of the river as they always do. As he does [B]Eldan[/B]'s father periodically leaves to go "on patrol". [B]Eldan [/B]sits by the side of the river and stares at the forest. With a start he realizes his arm is painfully hot. The little helmet. It's hot, uncomfortably so. He picks it up. There is a red glow from inside the helmet, a visible light that seems to shoot out from it across the river to the opposite bank. The red-beam is hard to see in the bright sun, but on the far side of the river, revealed in it's light, is a shadowy creature with burning red eyes. Something like a rat mixed with a cat, but the size of a dog. For a minute your eyes meet its. [B]Eldan [/B]feels a powerful hostility from it. And then it slips into the woods and disappears. The helmet goes cool. And he sits by the river and stares. Shouldn't he be surprised to see it? Why does he feel like he's been watching these things his entire life? Seeing them but not? His father returns from his patrol a few minutes later. And the day goes on much as every other day.[/sblock] [sblock=Heian][B]Heian [/B]sprints through the darkened streets. It's dark save for the light of the moon. But he could find his way to the bramble blindfolded he knows the route so well. Up ahead the massive tangle of the bramble looms. Javelins in hand he strides in. The pull on his heart is stronger now. As he runs he feels a sudden tug, pulling him to the left. There is nothing there but a little space where the bramble has made space for a ring of toadstools. [B]Heian [/B]swears he can hear someone ([B]Neeloo[/B]?) calling something out far in the distance. He shivers and steps into the ring. Everything looks a little bit different. The shadows seem longer, and yet everything is better lit, greener. The bramble seems different, like it moved around when he blinked. There are paths in all directions now, radiating out from the toadstool circle like it's the hub of the wheel and the paths are the spokes. [B]Heian [/B]feels another pull on his heart, and hears [B]Neeloo[/B]'s voice again. He can't make out the words, but the sound has some sort of primal quality and gives him gooseflesh.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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