Knights' Roleplay - A New Day

[zarikrahia]

(('Scuseme- Holly looks distinctly different from Zari. As in- Dark blonde hair, green eyes, wearing green. Pretty hard to get them confused))

'Oh? Tza- Uhm, I mean yes. He was with you, on Lady Crystal's other side. Then I got distracted and he wasn't there.' Zari saw the breif look of worry that passed over Wolf's face and frowned. Holly coughed and raised a hand slightly. 'Permission to speak?'
'This isn't Krahia. Go on?'
'I think the sight of me and Zari spooked him a bit. I think you might be used to the whole wings fiasco, but I think he thought he was dreaming or something. He shot past us like an Amayan stinkworm away from soap and a scrub brush. Wait, have I met you before? Nah. Not likely.' Holly looked back the way she had come. 'He went that way. Towards the infirmary.'

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(( True to me [second] word, I've finally made it. Gosh, I love my AlphaSmart. ^_^ ))

A lurch of air escaped Wolf and he bowed his head. He hadn’t had the boy for more than a few moments and already he’d lost track of him. How was he ever going to raise him till manhood when he was barely a man himself?

Wolf took a deep breath and raised his head. “Zari…” he went to say but lost his thought as he made sense of what he’d seen. He hadn’t seen two Zaris at all, and how he could have thought so was suddenly beyond him as the woman to Zari’s other side looked little like her.

“I’m Lord Wolf,” he said, “who’re you?”

* * *

Sir Jonathan felt the King’s hand slip from his own and watched him as he dashed off. Jonathan blinked once, then twice, and followed the man around the hall. Though he had no desire to be here, and certainly no desire to be with the man, he most-certainly had no desire to get himself lost.

And then he saw the most gruesome sight he’d ever seen—two women with wings reaching outwards towered before him and he turned to the side and ran, ran as fast as he could, until he stumbled across a small white kitten whose fur was so pure it seemed translucent.

He fell to his knees at the sight of it and reached his hand out slowly to pet its head. Its fur teemed with small sparks of colorless lightning, but none of it seemed painful, merely amusing. And as he continued to pet it, it sat back and rolled its head under his hand, purring a magnificent roll of distant thunder that fluttered beneath his flesh.

Then the kitten leapt up and darted away. Jonathan jumped up as well and ran after it. It turned down another hall, and when he turned round it as well, the kitten was gone.

He took a few steps forward, but nothing still.

A ray of light fell slanted across the floor and a shadow suddenly crossed through it. The kitten! No, a kestrel sat perched in the window, tilted its head at him and flew away.

Jonathan neared the window and tried to see out of it, though it was too high for him to reach. There was a suit of armor nearby, though, and he carefully tried to climb it. After a moment or so, he was able to crawl wobbly onto the wide windowsill and look outside. The city bustled beneath him, but his eyes were quickly torn away as he watched the shadow of a bird fly across the crowds and toward a distant tree where colorful figures gathered by a black cat.

There was a flash of white fur, and when he reached for the kitten, he fell from the window.

[zarikrahia]

Holly turned white and bit her lip. 'Uh...uh...Zari, methrien thar Yonen?'
'Holly Ailden, thar, sen godria.' Zari rolled her eyes. 'Sorry. Holly isn't very brave. She's my...sister. She came looking for me and ended up following my Trail here.' Holly nodded, then spoke in a voice with the same accent as Zari's had, except much, much heavier. 'Sorry. My instincts get the better of m- uh oh.' Zari had clenched her fists and shut her eyes. Her wings folded, then Vanished. 'An attack. She used to have these alot when she was younger. Someone here is in grave danger. Immediate, Rather than creeping.' The two girls were both obviously under strain. The book Zari had been holding hit the floor with a solid thud and opened. Zari opened her eyes and stared at the book in growing horror. A ghostly hand was extending from the pages.

((And the secret of Zari's book gets loose.))

[Dice]

"Unless we have magical wards that arrest teleportation, it is possible that Liarre may have already left. The best we can do is make sure we're ready the next time she tries anything again, or if we get another attack like this."

Pyro nodded, making sure that the situation was under control before turning down one of the side passageways. She moved quickly towards the library. She had already been toying with the idea of joining the two other Knights, those trying to find magic to counteract the memory spells, but now research was more imperative.

Lady Kat was right, and if attack loomed on the horizon, the Black Knight wanted to be sure that the castle was ready for it. It was at times like these she hated her lack of usefulness. She was no mage and no decent strategist, either. When the fighting began, she would be there and in the middle of it, but pre-battle times set her nerves on edge when she could not predict the moves of the enemy, much less counteract.

The library was empty, surprisingly, when Pyro walked in, though she supposed another Knight could have been concealed in one of the quieter recesses behind the bookshelves. The library was quite spacious, after all. The silence was nice, broken only by the murmur of a breeze through the open window.

It took the better part of fifteen minutes to find a number of books on defensive spells and tactics. Pyro could not cast the spells herself, of course, but she could at least look them up for the mages. As she turned the pages, she recalled, with a flicker in the back of her mind like the last wisp of smoke from a dying ember, some strange incidents with her flameblade. The next second, they were gone, but it made her wonder. She knew that her blood was not magical...but still her fingers lingered on the fire spells she read.

The flow of words on the smooth parchment soothed her. It was strange--others had pointed it out to her, long ago--that she of the flames mixed so well with books. Yet she loved reading. It had been a steady rock in the otherwise tumultous and rushed events of her life. The words themselves--Latin, she was reading now--were beautiful...Defensio flamma arcem obvolvo...a defense by fire to wrap round a fortress...now that could be helpful...

Pyro chuckled a little ruefully. She was more helplessly drawn to fire spells than usual.

Perhaps it was because her thoughts had turned to blazing and burning that the shift of the cool breeze against her neck was more noticeable. It toyed with the ends of her hair and brought the murmur of voices along with it. Pyro frowned, moving towards the window, one hand lightly resting on the hilt of her flameblade.

There were several strange visitors in the yard below. It looked as though Ikkin had gone down to greet them, as they were obviously not of Dunburrow. Pyro leaned out slightly, watching. So many interesting happenings in one day, almost too many to be coincidence. She would obviously take no action against these odd newcomers, and if they were amicable would welcome them fully, but it never hurt to watch, to guard, against all possibilities.

[nope]

Lady Ringo, the wandering fire, had been traveling for many days due to her castle and home had been attacked and turned to ruins, she was searching for a new castle.

Her horse, Earl (Yeah, Earl) was beaten by weather and his legs where weak, he would not last much longer.

[Vyt: Down, but Not Out]

"This castle... It's elusive!"

SILE could not remove the amazement from her eyes. The beauty of the castle in front of her gave the pink cat a jolt of exhilaration as she ventured around it, observing its elegance.

SILE walked a little more to the left, just below a window too high from her reach. From that window, a young boy fell down. The speck of animal instincts warning her, she quickly looked up, only to see the lad. Fearing that the fall might caused his death, SILE expelled an amount of her mana to make the boy levitate in mid-air.

((SILE + Jonathan = OHNOES HE'S FALLING! *saves*))

[zarikrahia]

Zari darted forwad and shut the book with a snap, picking it up and stowing it under her arm. 'Sorry 'bout that. Fae magic tends to try to get loose, especially mine.' Holly was still obviously petrified. Zari grabbed her by the arm and marched her down the corridor. 'Tern mer Libriaten, Holly-Melfirien.'
'Tza, Rien.' Holly turned down a crridor and found the library. Finding a book on earth magic, she sat down and started reading.

Zari exited and went round the side of the castle, trying to find the place she often sat and thought. However, she found something else. A pink cat, quite obviously a new Knight, stopping a young boys Fall. She ran over, skidding in her haste. She knew withoutuch doubt that this was King Wolf's young charge. 'Miss, I think you should save the child some fright and lower him to the ground. I think levitating is almost as scary, for a human child, as falling from a window. Mind you, I jump out of windows all the time, so how would I know?'

((Melfi is a way of saying 'Idiot', in a joking way, and Rien is 'Sister' so Holly-Melfirien is Referring to Holly as a 'Idiotic Sister' but not really meaning it.)
Pyro, you wanted someone to spaz at? Spaz at the Fae that currently in the library))

[Dice]

The newcomers in the yard didn't seem to be doing anything interesting, but a rustle in the room behind her alerted Pyro to the presence of another being in the library. The lack of clanking metal--a weaponless intruder?--told her that this being was probably not one of the Knights. She turned to see a strange creature, and a very vaguely familiar one. Pyro frowned deeply, laying a hand on the dagger at her left side.

"Who are you?"

Had this creature been in the hallway when the confrontation there had occurred? All the more reason to be suspicious, then. Pyro took a few steps closer, fingers tightening on the dagger's grip, squinting to try and read the title of the book the being held. It didn't look English. "Do you speak English? I warn you, if you're an intruder you won't meet with any mercy from me."

[Shadaras]

Shade frowned. Hadn't the cat been a woman just a second ago? She supposed that one or the other might be an illusion, but she didn't know of anyone in the castle with a talent for illusions. One of the newcomers might, though. Shapeshifting was a possiblity, but that really didn't help. Shade sighed, opening the window. There's probably another way down, she thought, but this is the fastest. She jumped, spreading her wings and soon as she was clear of the window. They were almost invisible in the light, but they did cast a shadow on the ground below her.

Shade landed near the cat, ignoring the newcomers for now. "Hey," she said, folding her wings and kneeling. "You a cat or a human? You don't quite seem to be either." It was true. The cat's aura felt too intelligent to be a cat, but didn't seem normal for a human, either.

[Kat]

[shadow=purple,left,300]((I assume that I am at the infirmary right now so Lady Kat won't be making an appearance for a while. ^_^

Shade - you talking about the white cat or the black one?))[/shadow]

[Shadaras]

((The one that changed from a woman to a cat, whichever one that is. I think it's the black one.))

[zarikrahia]

Holly bit back a scream and fell off her chair. 'Wah! Uh...I'm Holly, Holly Ailden. I am by no means an intruder. I came back to collect my dagger, but I ran into my sister on the way, got waylaid by the king looking for someone called Jonathan, and Zari told me to come here. I speak english, but My accent mangles some sounds. like...duh...uh...Ah, I can't say it.' She stood up and folded her dull-green wings, absently smoothing the ruffled feathers back into place. 'And who're you?' she asked

[Vyt: Down, but Not Out]

As soon as her invisible force surrounded Jonathan, SILE looked at an incoming creature. It was a tall and slender girl. She wasn't sure if the person was from the castle in front of her, but she dismissed it anyway.

"Miss, I think you should save the child some fright and lower him to the ground. I think levitating is almost as scary, for a human child, as falling from a window. Mind you, I jump out of windows all the time, so how would I know?"

SILE looked at Jonathan. The boy was terrified, having to experience such a traumatizing situation. Slowly, she pulled the force downward, gently putting him down. "Are you in a good condition?" she asked. "I am hoping that you were not greatly terrified..."

SILE stood up and fixed her hair. She kept silent as she confronted Zari, her eyes fixed towards Zari's for some reason.

[zarikrahia]

Zari's golden ees narrowed at the cat, but she said nothing right back, folding her arms.

[Vyt: Down, but Not Out]

SILE smiled. "... I could not sense any sign of malicious intentions from you. At what name does your identity cling on?"