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May 31, 2008 3:32:38 GMT -5
Post by narym on May 31, 2008 3:32:38 GMT -5
Narym sighed. She seemed to be doing a lot of that lately, but it was probably better than shouting. Which is what she wanted to do at that moment. " Ok, well I had better tell you what's been happening..........
"............................So, the chances are that all of these things are linked to Donner." She looked at her son's puzzled face. " Ah, you don't know of him do you? He's Kaden's father. He was the one that possessed Merlin and killed Eryn." Leo's look went from puzzlement to murderous rage. " And," Narym continued, " it might just be that he has possessed Dyona as well. It fits in with her strange behaviour!" She buckled on her sword. " So then, my son, are you coming with me?"
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FINE!!!
May 31, 2008 3:37:31 GMT -5
Post by leonyr on May 31, 2008 3:37:31 GMT -5
Leo was already at the door. Try stopping me! he thought. As they ran to Cassandra's suite of rooms, he thought about all his mother had told him. Dyona possessed! If she was, somehow it happened at her Tree. He thought it was safe there! "The letter!" he said suddenly. " Dyona must have taken the letter from me! This mage, or Donner or whoever, is going to great lengths to get this letter to Cody!" They increased their pace.
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May 31, 2008 22:08:04 GMT -5
Post by cassandra on May 31, 2008 22:08:04 GMT -5
Cassandra ran to Cody's room in a panic. Throwing open the door she found just what she'd feared...the bed empty! Looking around frantically she saw Sebby peacefully dozing in the rocking chair and yelled loud enough to wake the dead! "Where is Cody Seb? You're supposed to look after him!"
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FINE!!!
May 31, 2008 22:10:50 GMT -5
Post by sebastian on May 31, 2008 22:10:50 GMT -5
"I'm not deaf..nor am I stupid! I'm well aware of what my duties are! Relax, Dyona peeked in to see if he was well, and woke him, so she said she was taking him to her room for a bit...to read him a story or something" Sebastian replied a bit peevishly.
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FINE!!!
May 31, 2008 22:13:37 GMT -5
Post by cassandra on May 31, 2008 22:13:37 GMT -5
"With Dyona? Oh, no!" Cassandra didn't bother explaining anything to Sebastian at that moment, she just turned and ran out, bumping into Leonyr and Narym in the hallway. "Dyona has Cody in her room..."
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Post by Caedyona on Jun 1, 2008 0:17:48 GMT -5
(I posted in Cody's bedroom that I read him the letter there, but I'll pick up as if I read it to him in my room.)
Dyona took Cody's hand in her own, as they started back towards his room. Cody now had all of the information that he needed at this time, and he needed time to work it out in his mind. She wasn't sure how she knew this, but she did. She had talked to him about what he would say if someone asked, and he'd agreed to say that she'd read him a book about something called trains, that he didn't really understand. Now, she would take him back to his room, and then catch some desperately needed rest. It was harder on her body with the shadowy whisper speaking to her all the time, and with all the recent activity, she was quickly falling apart.
Turning a corner, she saw Cassandra, Narym and Leonyr all headed straight for her, and she slowed as she yawned, to all appearances completely normal. "Hey, everyone...what's the rush?" She queried in a normal voice, her hand gently holding that of the child beside her...
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Post by narym on Jun 1, 2008 6:24:34 GMT -5
" Ah, there you are!" Narym said lightly, hoping to play down their concern for the moment. " We were a bit worried, what with everything that's been happening around here lately! Hey Cody, you've been having fun with Dyona I see!" She smiled at the boy and saw a furtive look cross his face. Then he smiled back and yawned. Narym exchanged looks with Cass. You see to him, we'll see to Dyona, she said silently, knowing Cass would pick up on it. " Now Dyona," she scolded gently. " You should be resting. Come, I'll go back to your room with you and if you can't sleep, I'll mix something up for you to drink." She took the elf's arm, not giving her time to refuse and walked back down the hall with her, Leo close behind.
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Jun 1, 2008 11:37:10 GMT -5
Post by Caedyona on Jun 1, 2008 11:37:10 GMT -5
Dyona smiled and let herself be led away, calling behind her, "Night Cody! Night Cass! Sleep Well!" in a fairly normal voice. She did, however, realize that she was being moved along at a pretty quick pace. Looking at Narym, she queried, "What's up? I know that I've had a busy day, but you're walking the shoes off my feet Narym." Compared to how she had acted earlier, she was most demure now, the out of character looks she'd been throwing Leo seemed to have passed, and she wasn't flirting outrageously, either.
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Jun 1, 2008 12:08:56 GMT -5
Post by narym on Jun 1, 2008 12:08:56 GMT -5
" Well Dyona, to be honest, I'm tired. But I can't settle until I know that you're settled. So, the sooner I get you tucked up in bed, the better for my poor weary bones!" She made a joke of it, realising that Dyona was suspicious. But at least she was pliant now and good humoured. Narym had been expecting hard words at the very least. What the hell was going on? she wondered for the umpteenth time. She decided not to use mindspeech with Leo in case the elf picked up on it and so, by using facial expressions and warrior hand signals she indicated to her son to leave her to it. At Dyona's door, she bid her son goodnight and steered Dyona inside, shutting the door behind her. " Ah what a night!" she sighed, yawning. " Here, let me have a quick look at your wounds Dyona." She helped the elf undress and examined the arrow wounds in her shoulder and legs. " They're healing very well!" she said happily, applying fresh dressings. " Now you hop into bed and I'll put your clothes in the laundry basket." Having done that, she poured the elf a glass of water. " I'll leave you now my friend," she said gently. " You must be very tired, I know I am!" She smiled. " If you need anything, call me and I'll come arunning!" She went to the door and switched off the light. " Goodnight Dyona," she said, and left the room. Outside, she pulled out the letter that she had taken from Dyona's pocket and handed it to Leo. " Come," she whispered and walked back to Cassandra's suite.
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Jun 1, 2008 17:52:39 GMT -5
Post by Caedyona on Jun 1, 2008 17:52:39 GMT -5
(Ahh! Slick! LOL! I didn't catch what you were doing, until the very end! LOL!)
Dyona yawned as she climbed into bed, without a thought to what she had done only moments ago. She could still hear something on the edge of her thoughts, but it was too quiet for her to understand. She smiled as Narym bustled around the room, her voice light, "Narym, you don't have to worry over me so much. I'm feeling much better, I just can't believe someone tried to chop down my tree...I still don't understand how he got to that particular plane...it's quite difficult to find. Ahh, I'll worry about it tomorrow." She said to the movement that was Narym. As Narym moved towards the door, Caedyona smiled, touched by how much her friend was worried, and replied in a happy but sleepy voice, "Good night, my friend, sleep well."
As the door swung shut, the darkness in the room seemed to expand around her, and Dyona sat up uneasily, looking around with childlike fear. The whisper that had been plaguing her sounded louder with the absense of light, and she pulled the covers higher up, as she spoke aloud, "It's just the dark...there's nothing in here...so why am I being so childish...it's creepy, yes...but it's just the dark." Her uneasiness didn't ease, though, instead, it felt like there was something else in the room with her, and that the room went on forever. Easing her feet over the edge of the bed, she lowered her feet closer and closer to the floor, only stopping when she realized that she should have reached the floor by now. Her heartbeat was racing, her breath coming in tiny little breaths as she tried to rationalize her way through it. She was in her bed, in her room, in the castle...the floor was there, she had just imagined that it wasn't. Again, she slid her feet over the edge of the bed, as the shushed whispers continued rising around her. "They know...they know what you've done...How did they find out? But you've delivered the first message, you've done well...You know what you must do next....They know...they suspect...Tread carefully until their suspicions move elsewhere..." She tried to ignore them, her feet reaching towards the floor, until she came once again to the place where the floor was supposed to be and passed it by. She paused, trying to convince herself that she had just mistaken where the floor was, when something touched her toe. She jerked her foot towards her, swallowing back the quick shriek that started from her, and tried to laugh it off, but it came out more of a sob than anything.
"It's a blanket...it's a mouse. It's something normal. You'll see, Dyona, just try again." Her hands clutching the blankets in a deathgrip, she pushed one foot down, feeling around for whatever it was that had touched her toe. Instead of the blanket, or mouse, or floor, the thing found her. It wrapped a cold ropelike grip around her ankle within seconds, and this time she couldn't stop the terrified shriek that left her. Pulling her foot up on the bed, she pulled the blankets up around her in the only sort of shielf that she could find, and found that she couldn't stop screaming. One part of her mind looked on the events with a detatchment that was almost laughable, if she thought she was going to live through it, the other part couldn't get over the feel of that cold thing wrapping around her ankle....it never occured to her that they might be able to hear her outside the door, from where she was at, she couldn't find the door, the darkness in the room was as complete as if she'd been dropped into the middle of a black hole...
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Post by narym on Jun 2, 2008 4:03:45 GMT -5
(( I'm learning from you!! lol))
Narym heard Dyona scream a second after Leo. They had reached Cassandra's door and were just about to go in. By the time she had called out to Cass that Dyona was in trouble and had thrust the letter at an astonished Cass, Leo was already running back the way they had come. She huffed as she ran, it was alright for Leo, he was only 75! She was getting a bit creaky in the joints these days and was begining to find all the rushing about rather tiring! She skidded to a breathless halt outside the elf's room. Leo was already inside.
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Post by leonyr on Jun 2, 2008 4:15:30 GMT -5
Leo threw open Dyona's door and in typical worried lover fashion, had charged inside without thinking. His hand scrabbled for the light switch and clicked it on, but nothing happened. It was blacker inside than it should have been, the moon should have been shining some light thru the thin curtains. He groped his way across the room, one hand in front of him, the other holding his sword. " Where are you Dyona?" he called out. " Are you alright?" He seemed to be walking for ever, shouldn't he have reached her bed by now? Why wasn't she answering? Belatedly he called up his orb to light the room. Nothing happened. What? He tried again. Nothing. He turned around to look back at the open door, his mother should be right behind him. He couldn't see the open door. There was nothing but blackness all around him. " Mother?" he called loudly. " Are you there?" He was answered with silence. Damn!
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Post by narym on Jun 2, 2008 4:28:25 GMT -5
Narym stood at the open door and peered in. All was now silent, which unnerved her more than if Dyona had still been screaming. The room was in absolute darkness. The light from the hallway penetrated no further than the doorframe. There it stopped as if it were refusing to go any further. She called out Leo's name, but was met with silence. The hair on her neck was raised and she had goosebumps up her arms. She shivered. " Leo!" she called. She called up her orb and sent it into the room, but as soon as it passed the door it faltered and went out. What the hell? " Kaden! Cass! I need you here!" Fallow? What's happening? I know not. Brynd lost contact with Leo a few minutes ago! Damn!
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Post by Kaden on Jun 2, 2008 9:37:22 GMT -5
Kaden had just got back to the castle from Main Street when he heard a distinctly female scream. "That sounded like Dyona..." He realized, starting to rush in the direction he heard it from. His concern wasn't helped by then hearing Narym calling him and Cassandra. He found her outside Caedyona's room and practically skidded to a halt in front of the door, almost falling over into the unnatural darkness inside. Breathing a sigh of relief, he put his hand out inside the room and moved it around a bit.
It wasn't long before something wrapped around his wrist and threatened to pull him inside. Unfortunately expecting this, he froze it quickly and yanked, shattering it. When the wizard pulled his hand out, there was a telltale bruise on his wrist, but none of the ice shards left the room. "Shit! It is him...Narym, please tell me no one went in there."
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FINE!!!
Jun 2, 2008 12:58:21 GMT -5
Post by narym on Jun 2, 2008 12:58:21 GMT -5
" I left Dyona in bed just a few minutes ago," Narym replied, checking the wizards hand for injuries. "Everything was fine. Then Leo and I heard her screaming, which was worrying just by itself, I've never heard her scream about anything!" She cast a worried look into the room. " Leo got here before me and ran inside! My orb won't shine in there. Kaden what is it? Is it Donner?" Narym felt a band tighten around her chest. Leo was in there! Gods! She told Kaden about finding the letter for Cody in Dyon'a possession. " Kaden, she was with Cody earlier, by herself. She said she was reading him a story! I wish I knew what was going on!"
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