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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 876100" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUNSEGMENT 064“Page From The Future’s Past”It has been a day now.  Cosa has talked quietly and calmly to him the entire time.  She “read” the section about Fairies to him.  He suspected she was making it up but didn’t care.  It was clumsy at best, but he tried to depict one by cutting at the moss as she had done of the noble creature.  It looked more like a bug that was splatted by a large flat club against the wall.  But they laughed.  It was pure and good.She then proceeded to sort books and maps and scrolls and trinkets and so on and so on.  It seemed she wanted to carry the entire room with her.  Mania tried to convince her otherwise but she just smiled and whistled a tune suggesting “You’ll see”.  If her magic was as strong as her personality he knew he would do well with her.Do well with her.It was then he realized he had just given his complete trust into a woman he not only knew little about, but also prided herself in keeping up false illusions of herself.  Was she a mage?  A rogue?  Both?  Heck-  was she a she?  Like her, he was beginning to enjoy the game.  Isn’t that what he once referred life as…a game?  Why should it be any different now?  He had someone whom understood him for himself.  She may even know him better than he knew himself.  Why is that?  It was not until last meal before resting that he found the strength to ask that.“You spoke of a prophecy.  A child of a Sorcerer-king would either end or renew everything.  Where did this prophecy come from?”“The lumpy stuff looks like crap but it’s tasty and good for you.  Eat.”“No.  Seriously, if I am to follow you, I need to know more.”  He looks at her sternly trying his best to intimidate her into telling him more.  She sees through it as part of the game they are playing.  She knows it is truly not a game, but if that is how he wanted to proceed…. “Eat.  I’ll tell you after.  I’ll show you something I found.”The moss was not tasty.  In fact he had tasted better sand and dust at the gith ruins.  The water was good.  It was clean, magically clean.  Food finished, she waved a quick gesture and some strange phrase and the food bits fell off of the clay bowls as if self-cleaning.  She then said something else and motioned the bowls away and they floated away to the shelf with other bowls.She changed into her sleeping gown and came out after waving at the blue symbols once more on the doorway that separated her bedroom from the rest of the sanctuary.  She held a large book in her arms.  She opened it carefully to a page which had a carefully folded piece of paper held.  She carefully unfolded it and turned it to show Mania.It was a series of drawings with unknown runes on it.  The picture (OOC- I’ll scan a depiction in soon) showed a large armored man and a female figure then a child.  “How does this suggest it’s me?”  “I have yet to decipher it but it according to those that know the language, it depicts a sorcerer-king’s child.”Mania stares long and hard at it.  He tries to memorize it as completely as he can.  He is no mage or has the skills of many rogues but he is not stupid either.  He knows he is gifted.  He knows there had to be a reason.  He didn’t ever suspect it to be this however.“Where did you get this?”“I told you- in some ruins.”“Riiiight.”  Mania agrees to play the game.  So long as it is a game the reality and pressure of it will not get to him.They talk a bit longer about life, childhood and dreams.  He has never been more comfortable with anyone before.  It is strange.He catches himself staring at her eyes.  Her hair.  Her skin and the crazy freckles.  Her bare leg and hip…exposed….Mania shakes his head then realizes she saw but is pretending not to see.  She is looking down at his hands smirking the way she does.  The smirk is driving him crazy.She gets up and suggests it is time to rest.  Tomorrow they need to decide what to pack for him.  She waves her hand and goes through the blue arch.  Mania stares at its receding glow with a smile.  He understands now.Ten minutes go by and he finds he can’t sleep.  He rolls over and stares at the blue runes.  In her bedroom, she looks at the runes herself.  She rolls over smirking, understanding a private joke.  She closes her eyes.  Then she feels a soft touch on her hip.  She turns with her eyes closed and kisses him.“Burnt hair…riiiight” He says.The rest of the night is blissful for each of them.</blockquote>

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