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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 2507415" data-attributes="member: 2323">[PLAIN][Realms #316c] Making it Worse[/PLAIN]Huzair and Hildegunna, both smoking cigars, found Feln standing vigilantly over Wolf's bloodied corpse. About ten feet further on lay the charred remains of the man who'd killed the animal, his body still in flames. At first, they didn't spot Lela; the faen was draped across Wolf's body, her tiny face buried in his fur as she sobbed."Lela, I am so sorry," Feln was saying awkwardly as they approached. "My old friend, Windstryder, had a little pet and I know how attached she was... I suppose it is the same for you." He stood awkwardly to the side, afraid to offer comfort to one so small for fear of inadvertently harming her, and unsure of what to do instead."Well, wizard, looks like ye were right about th' animal's fate," Karak muttered as he marched along behind the taller pair."Sparky saw the whole thing," Huzair explained as the hummingbird flitted up to him and alighted on his finger. "Now you are just a baby, Sparky, but I have big plans for you," he told the bird as he planted a kiss on its diminutive head. then he tossed it high above his head and it zipped off toward the manor. "Do be careful and stay out of the way, sweetheart!" he called and Karak harrumphed, shouldering his way passed the pair."Sorry about the 'dwarf' remark back there," Huzair called after him. "I was just using a direct quote." Karak didn't respond."I was not brought into this world in this form, Lela," Feln was saying as Karak approached. "I was reincarnated by Great Oak and this is what I became." He thumped himself on the chest. "I know little of how that magic works, but if you would like to get this priestess we're supposed to be rescuing and see what she can do, I would be happy to carrry wolf for you." Lela sat up and smiled, turning a tear-soaked face toward the half-ogre."Yes, please, Feln. You are a true friend," she said, a note of hope showing in her voice. "Wolf is worth saving. I would be so grateful for the opportunity to have him back with us.""Uhhh... Are we going to carry around a dead wolf with us?" Huzair asked, incredulous. "I mean, what are we going to do with it when we are fighting?""WE aren't gonna do anything!" Feln growled. "If Lela would allow me the honor, I would like to carry Wolf.""Come on! We don't need the whole body. Perhaps cut a peice of fur off of the animal and I will hold on to it for her," the mage suggested. "Isn't that how Feln was reincarnated?""You are a cruel and nasty dragon-thing who's starting to get on my nerves!" Lela shouted up at Huzair wagging a miniscule finger at him. "I heard their other dragon friend was nice. Why aren't you nice?""I have done nothing mean to Wolf. The only one I am mean to is Morier," Huzair said matter of factly. "Morier knows to ignore me and he chooses to do so even when I am correct.""I'll be sure to make note of that if it ever happens, Huzair," Morier said as he and Ledare finally caught up to the others. Huzair just rolled his eyes at this and went on."I suggested taking a peice of Wolf's fur for Reincarnation. That way we don't have to carry the body around. That is not mean; that is what a druid would want," the wizard explained and Ledare let out a resigned sigh."I do not presume to know what one of the druidic faith would or would not want, Lela," the Janissary said. "But I think that Huzair has a point here, however poor his presentation of it. I think it's a bad idea to bring Wolf's body with us as we advance.""See!" Huzair said, pointing at Ledare. "And I even gave Wolf a healing potion when Morier or I could have used it. So do not go around saying I am mean, when I am not." He puffed on his cigar for a moment and then turned an accusatory eye on the others."Actually people here have been 'mean' to me first," he went on. "I did not know you found it necessary to harass people from the Ethnegarian Karnate, or perhaps you think I am young, inexperienced and an easy target for bullies." He winked at Morier and the albino shook his head in disgust."We only think that because you're young, inexperienced, and an easy target not only for bullies, but for anyone with the ability to think one step ahead of where they are right now," the eldritch warrior shot back earning a reproachful look from Huzair."Feln, your rude comment about wizards, after an injury causing immense pain, hurt me as much as the scalping I received," the mage went on, pointing his cigar at the half-ogre. "I will think twice before I cast Protection from Arrows on you again. I can save it for myself!" Huzair started to turn toward Karak, apparently done with the martial artist, but Feln was not quite done with him.His long arm shot out quick as a cobra strike and clamped down on the wizard's neck, swallowing most of Huzair's bald head in his fist. He easily lifted him off the ground and drew him up close to his bestial face, growling, "Then you won't mind when I side step a baddie and it comes up and feeds on your face... will you, Huzair?""Feln! That's enough!" Ledare started to step forward, but the half-ogre had already released Huzair and walked away from the wizard in apparent disgust.The mage in turn looked ready to spit fire, but he got himself quickly under control and straightening his gear snapped, "There is no reason we cannot be friends if we all respect each others skills and value. Feln, I just know you are to be on the front line and I can be a helpful ally to you in this party if you would let me. I respect your skills, you should respect mine." The albino stepped forward with a consoling look on his face."Huzair, honestly, and I say this as a friend - You have got to learn to shut up," Morier said, gripping the wizard's fluted shoulder guard and turning him so that he could look up into his face. "I can't even say 'quit while you're ahead' because you're so far off the mark on this. You simply cannot go about spouting off about how everyone around you is an idiot, and then say something so ridiculous as 'I respect your skils'. Please, please, please, I beg of you... just shut up.""Yeah, Huzair!" Lela chirped, tearfully stamping her teeny tiny foot with her teeny tiny hands on her teeny tiny hips. "I know it's hard for someone like you to understand but THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU!!! SO SHUT UP!!!" The mage managed to look shocked and wounded in equal measures."Lela. I am hurt. I thought we were getting to be friends." he said in a sullen tone. "But I will get over it. You are just in a time of grief. Again I am sorry for your loss." Then he turned to Hildegunna and Ledare and continued with a tone utterly free of any remorse, "Kind servants of Flor. Not only are you both beautiful, but kind as well. As I said before you both have earned my gratitute. I would have expected nothing less from people of your faith. I hope my master's gift serves you well. By the way your hair looks beautiful."And saying thus, he bowed slightly, presenting his still-wounded head unsubtley.Ledare and Hildegunna exchanged bemused looks. Utterly speechless, the Janissary walked away - shaking her head."What?" Huzair asked, his face filled with apparently-genuine shocked."Ugh..." Morier said as he walked away with Ledare, shaking his head, equally disgusted as she. "Ledare, I truly am sorry," the albino said to her, his voice just barely audible to the others. "I thought perhaps he had grown up in the years since I last knew him... most do." Ledare discerned the hidden compliment and smiled at Morier."What?" Huzair asked again, still unsure of what had just happened. "Isn't anybody gonna heal me?" Grumbling, Karak fished out the stouter of his two healing sticks and prepared to go to work on the mage."Your loss is tremendous," Ledare said to Lela while the dwarf doled out healing. "It is understandable if you are not up for this advance. But advance, we must.""Battle may be something we are becoming familiar with, but Lela has not," Feln protested. "She has lost her most trusted ally and I will not move forward until she has dealt with it properly.""I understand," Ledare nodded. "We could use you to watch our backs, and be certain that no one escapes the manor, if you wish some time to mourn. Or, you can redouble your efforts and meet this challenge with Wolf's spirit strong in your memory. Either choice is honorable."Lela brushed tears out of her eyes and scowled up the hill in the direction of the manor. "I'll not have Wolf's death be in vain!" she said determinedly. "I am ready to fight."</blockquote>

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