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Post by ShadowRune on Jul 25, 2004 0:26:14 GMT
Shadrak woke up beside an old and greatly worn road. He lay in a pool of fallen leaves, all orange and brown and gold and red. He blinked and sat up, brushing some leaves off him. Now how in all the blazing Rings of Tarsus did I get here?! He looked up and down the old road and saw nothing, just lonely, dead leaves washing across its worn surface. He tried to get up, and realized belatedly that he was stiff all over and his extremities had pretty much all gone to sleep. He spent an interesting few minutes waiting for the tingling to stop. When it did he carefully levered himself to his feet, a few new injuries making themselves known in the process. He looked around, still bewildered, then smacked himself across the face and opened his eyes again. Well, no, he wasn't sleeping then. He stumbled onto the road, still looking for some sign or clue of how he'd come to be lying injured on the side of an unfamiliar road with no memory of what had occured.
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Post by rainlightlyn on Jul 25, 2004 1:48:00 GMT
Two pairs of eyes, one set golden and the other gold tinged with green, watched as the strange human wandered down the road. In a barely hear rustle of leaves, the eyes disappeared.
Silently, the pair followed the man. One ran on four feet, one on two.
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Post by ShadowRune on Jul 26, 2004 0:42:35 GMT
Shadrak frowned and spun, he could've sworn he'd heard something. He paused and shook his head, porlly just a squirrel and I'm freaking out he thought. Yet he still couldn't shake the feeling that he was suddenly being watched. No matter how fast he whirled there never seemed to be anything there. He growled low in his throat and set off finally, picking a direction at random, hey everything'd be fifty/fifty this way.
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Post by rainlightlyn on Jul 26, 2004 0:48:23 GMT
The four-legged shadow paused and looked up at his two-legged friend. There was a questioning look in the black panther's golden stare. The young woman shrugged as she crept out from the concealing brush.
She laid her cat-like ears back as she knelt to examin the man's trail, her long dark-brown tail twitching nervously.
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Post by ShadowRune on Jul 26, 2004 0:53:41 GMT
Shadrak staggered suddenly, remembering a vivid flash of violence. It was there and gone in a split second, heat noise, screams, oh the screams overrode all, and the flashing blades. The sun....it had been noon... but where? Nothing more came to him nd that brief flash faded just as he grasped it. He was left shaking his head with a vague remembrance of violence, like an old dream and deja vu.
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Post by rainlightlyn on Jul 26, 2004 0:58:50 GMT
Brother made a deep rumbling noise in the the back of his throat. She looked back at him still hidden in the brush and sent a thought-tendril back to touch his mind. <What is it?>
The panther growled shoftly, the fur on his back raise. She could feel the fur on her tail do the same.
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Post by ShadowRune on Jul 26, 2004 1:06:12 GMT
Shadrak frowned and plunked himself down in the middle of the road. He felt something dig into his back. He felt over his shoulder and drew out a sword that had been sheathed on his back. He frowned, I'm a mage, not a warrior! what's up with this?! His thoughts turned around and around themselves, and he had to take a few quick calming breaths before he started hyperventilating due to his rather vivid imagination. He sat on the road, staring at the sword. There were strange and unreadable inscriptions on it, in no language he knew... and blood, dried blood had streaked the blade. He frowned again, he may be a nice piece of trouble, but he wasn't a murderer...
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Post by rainlightlyn on Jul 26, 2004 1:11:44 GMT
She nodded and returned to the cat's side. In a language of words without words, they decided what to do next. They continued through the undergrowth along the road.
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Post by ShadowRune on Jul 26, 2004 1:24:40 GMT
Shadrak picked himself back up, sheathing the blood-crusted blade and very rather suddenly, and with no prior prerogative leaped off the road into the forested area in the vicinity, landing neatly in a pile of leaves. Ahhh, nothing like the silly to relieve stress! he picked himself back up and saw a shadow out of the corner of his eye. He turned quickly.
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Post by rainlightlyn on Jul 26, 2004 1:28:40 GMT
The pair froze as the man jumped into the pile of leaves ahead of them. The woman tensed, ready to run at the slightest hint of threat from the man. The panther half crouched beside her.
Suspicion was plain in the woman's green-gold eyes.
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Post by ShadowRune on Jul 26, 2004 1:30:46 GMT
Shadrak sighed, shook his head and snorted into the leaves, whereupon he began spitting like a maniac, he hadn't meant to eat any! He made a face and called out, "Hola? Espaniol?"
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Post by rainlightlyn on Jul 26, 2004 1:32:48 GMT
The panther snorted in obvious amusement. Sister didn't move at all, still watching the man warily.
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Post by ShadowRune on Jul 26, 2004 1:37:13 GMT
Shadrak flumped over in the leaves, Imean what the heck, he was already covered in them anyway. He'd heard something that WASN'T a squirrel...well...I guess it could be, but whoever thought of a squirrel with a cold? He tried again, "Anybody there? I appear to be a teensy bit totally lost...and since when was it fall?" he frowned at the almost bare trees above him.
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Post by rainlightlyn on Jul 26, 2004 1:42:33 GMT
Brother paced up to the man in the pile of leaves and sniffed at his hair. Sister glared sharply at the panther.
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Post by ShadowRune on Jul 26, 2004 1:49:48 GMT
Shadrak stayed lying in the leaves blinking up at the large kitty cat that had just come out of seemingly nowhere. "Wow..." he muttered, his strange feeling towards cats suddenly ignited. He had the strangest urge to jump up and snuggle it and jabber 'kitty kitty kitty' at it like a brain-dead moron. Shadrak took into account the very nice pair of incisors on the cute widdle kitty and decided he was better off playing dead...
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