Post by BadInfluence on Jul 22, 2014 4:26:43 GMT 9.5
…The..Curse..Ends..Here…
Dr. Jacob Anikin
..Stop trying to fix yourself, you’re not broken..
..You are perfectly imperfect, and powerful beyond measure..
says to ϕ₦ḁM: ..his brows furrowed a little when you said you hoped Rose would be able to get Sybelle to eat- .. is she not eating?.... his head tilted a little to the side there.. concern was quite evident on his face- .. is she unwell?..I know that elves don’t usually hit the same deal of morning sickness as humans do.. but they can indeed become unwell if they don’t look after themselves.. Elven children can be a great deal more taxing upon the body.. they come out a lot smaller yes.. but.. inside the activity in their brains is.. monumentally so much larger.. so.. to get that perfect mix.. takes a lot.. she does need to be looking after herself.. .. he had passed you the draft notice in that instant.. your reaction caught him a little off guard.. the cussing causing his brow to rise before he would move to stand.. - .. I hadn’t heard a thing to be honest.. and I’m quite surprised.. but I guess when you put it that way.. . he was referring to you commenting on the fact that the military usually kept things quiet.. so that the younger males wouldn’t all either run or be hidden away by their families- .. I don’t know if I’d be of that greater assistance.. like yes I have the skill of a medic.. a surgeon.. and the like.. and I am quite apt with defensive magic.. but.. would that be able to be used out in the open like that?.... he was curious indeed.. often being quite cautious around humans.. he’d yet to be caught using his arts on the surface.. and he really wasn’t sure he wanted to have to try and explain it if he was.. - .. but.. you would know.. of course.. you’ve been down this road before.. it’s all a bit foreign to me.. Understand that I have read about it.. and been on the receiving end of war when I was in the hospitals when I first came to the surface.. but to be actively drafted like that.. it come as a bit of a shock.. I am honour bound of course to go.. I wouldn’t run.. .. he shook his head- .. I couldn’t.. I know full well I’d regret it.. and as silly as it might sound.. it has very little to do with being known as a coward or a deserter.. it’s just.. the way I was brought up.. when you’re called upon to help… you help.. .. his brows furrowed and he exhaled- .. It’s going to kill Rose.. I just know it.. and it couldn’t have come at a worse time really.. neither of them need to be left on their own.. they both need a great deal of support.... the pair of them had shifted outside shortly there after.. and it would be then that you would snap at him.. and he just about sunk down out of the chair completely.. holding his hands up.. palms outward in surrender- .. Calm down.. .. he blinked.. shaking his head- .. you misunderstand.. I didn’t mean to make it sound like I was trying to make light of Sybelles condition.. not at all.. I would never.. ever do such a thing.. I know both physically and mentally she is as fragile as spun sugar.. .. he exhaled.. reaching back to rub against the back of his neck there.. this whole situation was making him feel so agitated and just uncomfortable.. and you pacing around like that wasn’t helping matters.. he blinked when you started punching into the tree there.. his own hands clasped together there.. he almost winced as he knew it hard to have hurt.. you were punching into that tree as if it were nothing at all..- .. paper work always seems to slow things down.. but from what I understand.. from what you just said there really is no way of avoiding it.. when the call up occurs we will have to go .. but first.. we will have to sort out a way to protect these two.. now Rose should be able to port through without a problem.. and she could well lead Sybelle down to Garafin and Caela should we not be able to go with them in that instant.. but.. wether or not Sybelle will be able to make the journey remains to be seen.... he rocked his head back and exhaled- .. if she gets caught on the way through she wont make it to the other side.. she’l end up snagged at the gate by the guard.. and itsa highly possible she will be forced straight to the vale.. .. his fingers reached to rub against his temples there- .. which is practically death for an elf.. or.. the middle land between the two.. but there has to be a way to get around this.. .. his brows furrowed when you said Sydel wouldn’t help- .. so Sydel wont help at all then?.. might be time for you two to have a bit of a chat to see if there is perhaps something you are missing?... he nodded when you said that he wouldn’t like what he saw.. and that it was possible he would hate youfor your actions- .. I find it doubtful I would hate you for your actions Nautilous.. You’ve done a lot for me.. .. he nodded- .. and if your actions.. regardless of how gruesome they might be.. end the war quickly.. then.. it wouldn’t all be for nothing.. it would get us back to them.. otherwise only god knows how long we could be away for..
.°.a sky full of stars.°.
…Sybelle Anikin...
…He came into my life like lightning in the darkness…
.jagged and white hot.
says to ‡Ţŕįʼn: ..she tilted her head when you spoke about Pia and her reaction to the fan..- .. it would have been quite odd indeed I imagine.. having to look upon a weird object that caused the wind to move.. all whilst making her feel a touch cooler.. though I’ll bet she enjoyed the sunshine.. ..she nodded.. - .. I have been to a couple of libraries.. but.. not here.. on the surface no.. this would be the first.. the others were in Arvandor.. and all the literature was well guarded.. not something you could borrow from.. but you could purchase it.. so much was hand written.. was beautiful.. I hope to be able to go back there one day.. see if anything has changed.. you are right though.. I do feel at my most comfortable outside.. surrounded by trees and long grasses.. it doesn’t feel quite so boxed in.. the freedom is.. well.. more magical.. if that makes sense.. more open.. and you can just run.. for miles and not stop.. just run and run and run.. .. her expression had changed.. though it wasn’t her usual friendly self from the start anyway.. she was quite reserved, quiet.. and clearly upset.. she watched when you moved across to her there.. to settle beside her.. sliding your arm around her to rub.. she bristled a little.. exhaling a long breath.. shaking her head when you asked if you did something wrong this morning- .. no.. no.. .. she slowly slid down from the sill there.. her tiny glittered flats pressing lightly to the polished boards beneath- .. you’ve done nothing wrong.. I assure you.. .. she had gone then to the rows of books before her.. tilting them away from the shelf so she could view their covers.. trying desperately to see something.. anything that would remind her of the uniforms she had seen out on the street.. but nothing was there.. nothing that was really of any help.. she saw ducklings.. and fairies.. and toys.. teddy bears.. princesses.. her brows were furrowing and she was just growing further and further agitated as the moments wore on.. she heard when you said that there were books about them.. even a few that had pictures.. - .. I need the historical ones.. .. she nodded.. pushing the books back onto the shelves there.. trying to neaten them as to how they were before she disturbed them all..the little dust clouds were blowing up at her.. making her wipe at her nose.. making her wave her little hands about a little whilst she coughed and sneezed..- ..I have to see.. I have to.. I need the pictures.. .. her breathing was picking up a little there.. hitching there audibly in the back of her throat ..her brows were furrowed.. her hands slid down the front of her dress there and she tugged at the hemline a bit roughly- .. I need to see it all.. I have to.. I need it now Rose.. please.. I beg of you.. .. she exhaled.. slowly falling to her knees there as she rocked forward.. just bursting into tears.. sobbing there as she put her hands behind her head.. letting her forehead come to rest there against her stocking clad knees.. - .. I can’t.. I can’t do this.. .. she managed to get out through quiet reserved little sobs.. her voice was crackling.. breaking everytime her breath caught- .. Nautilous has been drafted.. .. she just pulled those hands there against the back of her head all the tighter.. her little toes curled within her tiny soft coloured shoes.. and she trembled.. she wasn’t handling this well at all.. that small heart of hers was skipping.. stuttering there in her chest as she wept .. finding not a great deal of comfort there upon the hard wood floor.. but it was a care she was not really giving at this very moment.. this was the reaction she should have had when Ace made himself scarce.. but she didn’t she remained alert and her usual bubbly self convinced he would just rock back up to her.. and that she must have been the one to do something wrong.. but it was happening all over again-
(07:26:53 )
ϕ₦ḁṷṭḯḷṓṷṩϕ
ᶲI Loved Her Not For The Way She Danced With My Angelsᶲ
°But For The Way The Sound Of Her Name Could Silence My Demons°
°°°
says to …The..Curse..Ends..Here…: *He shook his head when he said he hoped Rose could get Sybelle to eat… It wasn’t so much that she wasn’t eating… it was that she barely ate anything at all. A bite here, a bite there, and that was it. It wasn’t that he wanted to force her to eat, but the simple fact that he was worried that when he left, she would stop eating entirely. Right now, Rose really was his only hope at keeping her same, or at least alive…*”She barely eats at all, and with her condition being what it is, I don’t feel comfortable with the amount she does eat. If a human ate as much as she did in her condition, the children would be malnourished, and the mother would be almost skeletal. She’s such a tiny thing already, she doesn’t exactly have the body fat to spare, and if she doesn’t pick up eating a little more…”*He shook his head, rubbing his hand along his forehead, the entire situation was so fubar it wasn’t even funny. It was more than just the human food she needed, because she could eat like a hog and it wouldn’t change anything, she would still be sick… And if he wasn’t there? All he could do was leave behind vials of himself, for her to take daily, but only Sydel would be able to do it. Sybelle could take them herself, but the second she knew what it was, what it might be she would revolt he was sure. It was just…hell…pure hell…*”What you read in the books, is not like it is here, not in the real battle. They never really capture the smell of blood, the screams that you can’t tell if they are men or horses dying, the wreckage of bodies left behind that you can’t even tell if they are friend or foe… They always make it so much cleaner in the books, as if there is something to be proud of, or worth bragging about. It’s not. It’s ugly, it’s hell on earth, and sometimes it can be glorious… It can sink into the skin, make you feel like a god in those moments, until you actively seek wars out. The fact is, is that I will want you in my unit…I wouldn’t ask you to do anything you are uncomfortable with.”*He looked over the slip in his hand, noting where they had you at, there in the front lines… Skirmisher… Bullshit! Bloody idiots the lot of them, putting Jacob on the front line would be a waste, a bad one. He would summon a pen out of mid-air, not caring about the show of magic right now, he was in too much of a mental mess. He quickly made some changes, switching his position, and putting him in his own unit. He signed his name at the bottom of each adjustment, making sure there was no way anyone would or could change it, it was the least he could do.*”Every man in my unit has some magical skill in some way or form, sometimes it’s really small, other times they are quite adept. Either way, every man in my unit knows to keep his mouth closed, and never repeat what they see. You would be free to use any magic you wanted to, and to be honest, having that shield of yours while we all sleep, that would be a Gods Send. I hate sleeping naked.”*He did too, once, during his first war he had laid down to sleep for just a few hours… All he had heard was a soft whistling at first, making him wake up and blink, and only a second after that a live cannon had landed next to him and tossed his happy ass fifteen feet in the air and hell knew how far out. After that, he had stopped sleeping, and it played hell with him after about a week. Jacobs shield would do well to shield them all, and make it so that they could all sleep, and sleep safely. They had gone outside and he had rather…snapped a bit… He normally wouldn’t have, but he really was scared, and he sure as shit wasn’t handling it well. After he hit that tree, licking his knuckles to make them heal up, shaking them from the sting he just shook his head.*”I’m sorry Jacob, honestly, you’re seeing me at a low point… You want to know the pathetic truth of it all? For the first, the FIRST time in my life… I am actually scared… Not of the War, or going out to fight, or the blood… I’m scared of losing her… I don’t want to think of what might happen when we leave, all the infinite possibilities of how bad it can be, what I might come home to… I never cared before, Sydel was permanent as the moon, I knew she would never go… I could go off to war, most of the time we went together, and I never had to think about losing her… But Sybelle is as fragile and temporary as a snow flake right now… What if we go, and I can’t end it as quickly as normally, what if the enemy is better prepared than the ones before? What if when I come home… She’s dead? What if she had slipped into a coma and I can’t wake her? What if she goes through a miscarriage and I am not there to hold her hand, to help her through it? What if Sydel takes over again, and Sybelle becomes too weak to come out again, and I lose her forever? What if Sybelle and Sydel merge in her mind, and Sybelle sees everything I was…. What if she sees that and she hates me for it?”*He was shaking, just pacing back and forth more and more, smoking like a damn chimney stack really. He didn’t know how to handle it, any of it, and he was fucking terrified if he was honest with it. He forced himself to stop though, the grass was taking a beating, and he knew it wasn’t going to help anyone. He took a deep breath, till he felt it in the bottom of his feet really, and let it out slowly through his nose.*”I don’t handle fear well… I’ve never been afraid before… Never had a reason to be. I lose my mind when I think about her, about what she will be going through, with only Rose to support her. Rose is her friend, and a sweet girl she really is, but she’s only known Sybelle for a couple of days. She doesn’t have anyone she knows here, everyone who might be a good support base, who can really love her, are all in a world where we don’t even know that we can get her back to…”*He shook his head again, coming over to that tree, to wipe his blood into the trunk, watching it absorb. New leaves started to sprout all over the branches then, and large delicious apples started to bloom and ripen there before their eyes, bushels worth of granny smiths and golden delicious.*”Sydel might not want to… I will have to sweet talk her out, bribe her with her favorite things… Chances are she and I will disappear for a night, perhaps two, while I sate her desires…. If she likes what I give her, she might give me some information, a way to help. If I know my white witch, she knows something, she always does… It’s just getting her to talk that’s the difficult part… “
(07:27:02 )
ϕ₦ḁṷṭḯḷṓṷṩϕ
ᶲI Loved Her Not For The Way She Danced With My Angelsᶲ
°But For The Way The Sound Of Her Name Could Silence My Demons°
°°°
says to …The..Curse..Ends..Here…: *He looked at Jacob there, saying he wouldn’t hate him for what he might do, that he had done a lot for Jacob… He came and sat down in the chair across from him, looking out at the little back yard here, Rose’s delicate hands all over the place in the flowers and general neatness.*”Jacob, you are a good man, you know that? I am sorry you had to see me…snap a bit… new emotions are always hard to deal with. Your mother told me what I would be doing for you, at your wedding, and I promise to make you proud to call me your father and give me such an important position. I can’t say what this war will be like, I can’t even say I understand it because in truth, it is rare for something like this to get past me. Usually there are years of buildup and grumbling, people complaining, whispers on the wind… But there was nothing about this one, it is as if it came out of no-where, just born overnight. I don’t know how well prepared the enemy will be, or what they can use, or might use… I can promise you just one thing though, out of all of this, one thing I will guarantee you… I will bring you home to Rose, I will make sure you are here for when your children arrive, no one should ever miss that… I don’t care if I have to wipe out an entire civilization honestly, I will keep this promise, I swear it… I give you my word Jacob.”
(08:02:25 )
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
says to .°.a sky full of stars.°: *She smiled as Sybelle spoke, about how it was perfectly natural for Pia to look on in wonder at the fan, the sensations it caused. As for her liking the sun though, that made her smile, nodding her head.*”Oh yes, she didn’t want to go in honestly, she started to fuss the moment we came inside. She is like a little gypsy this daughter of ours, I am sure she will run out into as often as she can as she gets older, but for right now she sadly has to listen to mommy. She’ still too small to be out in the sun so much, it will burn her skin, not to mention make her far too hot. She can’t regulate her own temperature yet after all, so I try to keep her comfortable, but still give her all she needs. I can imagine how much she is going to adore her bath tonight, it will be her first time in water, would you like to join us?”*She asked softly, inviting her to play in the tub with the two of them, to spend some simply happy moments with her. She was surprised at the bit about the libraries in Arvandor, how they weren’t like here where you could borrow a book, but you could buy them. She tilted her head there a moment, really a bit shocked, but it made sense too.*”You know, I haven’t seen one yet, Jacob and I arrived a bit late for the celebration so we didn’t have any time to explore before the party, and we left soon after… But I did buy a lot of books though, some that were lexicons so I can teach my self the language, and others books on magic and the history of Arvandor. The writing is still beyond me in so many ways, but I am learning to read it, and it really is the most beautiful thing…”*She paused for a moment, listening how she wanted to go home, so very much. She understood really, more than most maybe, because she missed her home sometimes too. She wanted to see her fathers face… Just once…See if he might smile for her now, proud of what she had grown into be, how she was worth something.*”Sybelle… I promise we will get you home, we are all trying to find ways to do it, and I might be able to help too… When I went through the portal the first time, a part of what I am came to life, and I could see the universe beneath me… all the little paths between the words lit up like silver and blue string. Maybe there is a path there that we can take you on, one that no one knows about, or that they forgot… We will get you home though, all of us who love you, we won’t stop until we can. As for being outside, that’s good you know, to be at home with nature… I am learning, I used to love it as a child, but as an adult there was no life left in my world… Just concrete and stone. It’s… wonderful being here… All the life and green…”*She had set Pia down then, seeing just how upset her friend was, and nothing she was saying was helping. She had gone to sit down with her, to put her arm about her and hold her close, only to feel her bristle which made her think she had done something very wrong indeed. She let her go when she left her arms, hearing her say she had done nothing wrong, but that only made her push harder. Something was indeed wrong with her best friend, but why she was holding it back, she couldn’t really tell. She heard the sneezes there, from the little bits of dust and such stirred up, watching her set the books back. She told her the different kinds of books on war they had there when she asked, about the various ones from fantasy to fact, and which areas they covered. Sybelle… She was just… something was really, really wrong… She came to her side and she just fell to her knees after begging her to show it all to her, to reveal war to her, that she needed to know it. She placed her hand on her back softly, watching her hands rise to her hair, to cup the back of her head. She remained silent, letting her get it all out as it were, to say everything… and it was when she was told Nautilous had been drafted… She paused… She felt all the blood fall out the bottom of her feet there, leaving her pale white, cold… Then it all surged back in a good way, used that surge of anger there, the strength to push the fear away. She would reach down and with her hands under her arms, lift Sybelle up into a standing position, to lift her chin in her hands, so they eyes would meet.*”You Can, and you WILL do this Sybelle, because you have to. You are not a weak human, you are not a child, nor are you helpless. You are Sybelle Anikin, a woman who not only died, but came BACK from death! You are the mother of Aysil, the mother of Jacob, and soon to give life to two more children. You are the fiercest element in the world right now Sybelle, you are a woman and a mother, and nothing in the world is stronger than that. Nautilous is drafted, so then it has already happened, and we know what will happen next. It is not a wait and a wonder, stuck on the blade of indecision, when you don’t know if he will leave or not. You KNOW. Men will fight, they will kill, and they will die. You either fight and survive, or you run and you die, but there is at least activity. Nautilous is too strong, too wise, and too stubborn to die in some puny little human war. He will come back home to you, and sooner than you think, because he loves you too much to leave you alone for too long.”*She wasn’t going to let her friend sink down into that depression, she know it hurt, Gods her own heart was skipping and stopping and starting so often that it felt as if she were going to have a heart attack. Still, she was raised in a time when wars between clans were almost a daily thing, her own father going off to war her entire life. He was never home to visit her, there was always this or that war, with this or that chieftain. It was that fact, that background, that was standing her in good stead.*”Now, you are going to march over to that seat there, and watch Pia for me, and I am going to drag that bastard fiancé of yours back in here. You CAN do this Sybelle, I have faith in you, and that counts for more than you know.”
(08:02:39 )
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
: *She would turn then, and head out that back door to where she knew the boys were, where they had gone. Normally she would have paused to talk to Jacob, but she was NOT happy with him right now, a bit put out if she were to be honest. He wasn’t her focus right now though, no, it was the son of a bitch who decided to just drop poor Sybelle there with her thinking it would be ok. She marched over to Nautilous there, ignoring everyone and anyone right now, reaching up to grab him by his ears and yank him down to her level.*”Listen here, you good for nothing Popinjay, if you want to be worthy of Sybelle, you need to damn well PROVE it! You don’t just… LEAVE her there with me, as if I can help her! She is my FRIEND, but I am not the one she is going to marry, nor am I the one who she is giving birth for!! YOU!! It is YOU, and how DARE you sit there and… And just LEAVE her like that?! GET YOUR ASS BACK INSIDE! NOW!”*Oh she was PISSED! Her cheeks were flaming in anger, those green gold eyes were flashing, her little body shaking. She rounded him a good kick to his ass, not caring that he had been breaking down earlier, she didn’t give two damn pins about it! She would give him a shove if he took too long, her hands shaking, her words snapping sharp in the air.*”You are going to go in there and hold her, you are going to hug her, you are going to promise her that it is going to be ok!! You are going to hold her while she cries! You will wipe her tears, and KEEP holding her until she feels better, and listen to EVERY fear she has!! Then, you will talk to Sydel, and find a way for us to get her home! I am done with you dicking around the bush you good for nothing pretty boy! Be a man, steel up your spine, and just take the leap!”*She would watch him go inside then, his back a bit straighter, his cheeks red with shame. She hadn’t been so mad at anyone in her life. She turned on Jacob there, not sure how to handle him right now, especially after what he had just seen her do. Was he going to leave too? If Nautilous had been drafted, and she had seen Jacob get handed that paper too, and she was putting two and two together. She had suspected there at the store, when she heard the two men talking, the wife confirming it all. She felt a lot of that rage just start to melt off like the snows in spring, and it left her feeling weak, shaking. She couldn’t say anything to him, not right now, instead she went back inside the Library to get Pia. Sybelle and Nautilous would need to talk, and she couldn’t leave Pia there in the chair, Gods no! She went with quick little steps, to where she had set Pia down, picking her up and going to bring her pram out of her office.*
…The..Curse..Ends..Here…
Dr. Jacob Anikin
..Stop trying to fix yourself, you’re not broken..
..You are perfectly imperfect, and powerful beyond measure..
: .. he exhaled.. shaking his head when he heard you speak about Sybelle just not eating much at all.. that she was pecking at her food more so than actually sitting down for a meal.. - .. have you considered getting her to drink sugar water?.. it will act as a nutrient.. might perk her up a little too.. it’s what we give pregnant mothers back in Arvandor when their appetites aren’t where they should be.. just get the sugar right from the cane.. dilute it in some water.. .. he nodded- .. give that a go first.. and if that doesn’t work.. we will try something else.. something has to work there.... he listened then when you spoke about how war was not how it was in the books that it was so much darker and a hellova lot more gruesome .. it made sense in some regards.. it was kind of the same when it came to surgery and a lot of medical examinations.. the books all made it sound so clean and precise.. never mentioning the amount of blood that could be there.. or the stenh of certain bodily organs once they were opened up..- .Well I certainly don’t have a problem with blood.. it wouldn’t matter the amount.. or death.. I have seen it.. often enough.. but yes.. I imagine it could get quite ugly indeed and would change people for life.. .. he watched as you flicked your magic around there.. he felt that little prickle.. it made the little hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.. thankfully though since the library was closed there was no one around to see him do it anyway.. he took the paper back after you were finished with it.. noting the changes that had been made before he slipped it back into the breast pocket of his red blazer..- .. Well that’s reassuring.. .. he nodded..this being his reponse to finding out that other members in the group would be magically minded also.. so he would be pretty much free to use it at will.. and the fact that his shield would be helpful certainly made things sound a little better- .. of course.. .. he nodded once more- .. anything I can do to help.. naturally.. .. he watched when you began to suck on those broken knuckles of yours.. he couldn’t see the blood but he gathered you must have broken the skin with the force you had behind those thrusts into the wood.. - .. It’s fine really.. don’t apologise.. we all handle things very differently..you can sit here and wonder about the what ifs till you go completely grey.. .. he tilted his head there as he slowly moved to stand from his seat- .. thing is.. all of those horrible outcomes could very well happen regardless of wether you leave or not.. we don’t know whats going to happen tomorrow.. We can only work with what we have before us.. and I know we will figure something out that will help her.. I know we will.. as for you not handling fear well.. that’s only natural of course.. it’s new to you.. you haven’t really felt it out.. you haven’t figured how to harness that fear and use it..but you will.. .. he nodded when you began to speak about Sydel.. and how she could well be quite stubborn not wanting to even have a talk..let alone help any..- .. I have no advice to offer in that regard im afraid as I really don’t know this.. Sydel.. but.. you do what you need to do.. even if she isn’t helpful.. at least you will know then to look somewhere else for your answers.... he looked toward you then when you began to talk abou the wedding and your position within it.. how you wanted to make sure he was proud to call you his Father and he nodded.. - .. We will get through this.. I don’t know the how or the whys but.. I have a feeling.. though it will be bumpy.. we will get through it.. .. he’d blink then as Rose came barrelling out the door like a bat out of hell.. he took a step backward watching as she pretty much laid into you .. the shoving.. the pushing.. the yelling.. his jaw dropped open just a touch.. a little on the shocked side really by th display as a whole.. but it would soon come to light the reasoning behind it.. Sybelle must have told her about Nautilous being drafted.. his shoulders sunk and he exhaled.. soon Nautilous would head back off indoors and his eyes would fall back upon her.. standing there in the paved courtyard.. .. no words were exchanged at this point.. it was just a look..and she wasn’t looking toward him which made it all the worse.. he drew breath as if to speak before she would make her way back inside.. a quiet sigh sounded before he would follow her in.. watching as she picked up Pia and went back toward the office off to the side- .. Rose.. please.. stop.. .. he’d speak softly- .. I . he hesitated.. just how does one go about delivering this kind of information without it all coming across so very wrong and possibly insensitive- .. I didn’t want to say anything earlier.. as I didn’t want to ruin your day.. but I was going to tell you when we got home.. when I would have had a bit longer to explain things with you.. just.. you and I..somewhere quiet.. somewhere private.. with no interruptions.. .. his right hand rose as he lightly rubbed it against his forehead- .. please don’t think I was keeping it from you for a horrible purpose.. I would never.. ever do such a thing.. yes.. I was handed my draft notice this morning.. Nautilous was handed one this afternoon.. .. he exhaled.. shaking his head- .. I’m not certain when the call out will be.. I really don’t understand a lot about it all.. I’ve never been a soldier.. or in a war.. only ever helped the sick and near dying in the hospitals in the after math.. Nautilous has worked his magic to keep me in the same faction as him so we can keep an eye on one another.. .. he swallowed the breath that was threatening to hitch there in his throat.. god he hoped he was explaining this all properly- .. I am hoping to send you both back to Arvandor in the interim.. so you are both safe and looked after.. it would settle my heart to know you were out of harms way..
ϕ₦ḁṷṭḯḷṓṷṩϕ
ᶲI Loved Her Not For The Way She Danced With My Angelsᶲ
°But For The Way The Sound Of Her Name Could Silence My Demons°
°°°
says to …The..Curse..Ends..Here…: *He was more than a little shocked when Jacob suggested he get Sybelle to try and drink some sugar water. What in the world would that do for her? Sugar might taste good, but he had never really thought it was anything special, just a sweetener. He couldn’t help the brow rising on his face there, the surprise that registered there, along with a bit of disbelief. He just… he couldn’t see what it would do for her, other than perhaps make her hyper?*”Seriously?.... Sugar water? Like… What you make for humming bird feeders, like that? Huh… You know, I have never once thought of using that as an aid, but now that you mention it… She has been leaning more towards eating sweet things over savory… I will give it a go… anything to get her to start eating. I just hope it works, but at this point I’m willing to try anything really, just so long as it helps…”*He had told Jacob a bit about war, just a few of the truths that they never write in the books, that no one ever talks about outside of old war circles. He figured Jacob wouldn’t be squeamish, but there was another part to war, one that sometimes make men question themselves… Did Jacob have it in him to kill a man he had never known, in a war he didn’t know the cause of, nor the benefit in the end result? Some men just couldn’t do it, once they saw the face of a man they killed, how it could be their neighbor or a co-worker… Sometimes that right there… That was what did it in for them, and one of the main reasons for deserters. He scratched his chin a bit, feeling the scruff there, the way it was soft but crisp against his fingers.*”It does… sometimes it’s for the better, sometimes it’s not… Some men love it too much, and live only for war, and don’t know what to do with themselves out of it… Others are broken by it, terrified, and never really live a full life again afterwards… Then sometimes you’re lucky, and you get the men who realize it is a duty, and they perform it without love or hatred for it. They are the ones who go into war, and come out almost unscathed. There is always the memories, the nightmares that might stay around for a while, but they are able to return to the lives that they had before. A little bruised for wear, but that fades in time, until it’s just a memory.”*He had summoned that pen there, not really too worried about it, he had never been one to be shy about his magic use… For him, if it was needed at the moment, it was needed and he just rolled with it. He had made sure that each note on that draft there was corrected, that he was given the proper rank with him, with notes that this was permanent. He wouldn’t tolerate Jacob being put front lines like that, literally just a foot soldier, cannon fodder. He now had the rank of Second Lieutenant, the bottom rank of the top cream as it were, ensuring him a bit of a safety net. He didn’t want to put him too high, that would just look nine shades wrong, and people would start to poke at him. He was low enough to go unnoticed by most of the higher ranking ones, but high enough to keep the actual grunts and peons under thumb, and free from trying to order him around. It also meant he would get information earlier than others, and if there was a chance for home leave, he would be one of those who would get them before anyone else. He told him then that everyone in his little group were magic minded, even talented though in different digrees. After all, he used magic in vast quantities, and very openly too in war. He didn’t pussy foot about it, hell, it was the reason that his wars never lasted long. He couldn’t get everything done that he did, using power the way he did and not get caught, if it weren’t for the fact his group were of the same mind. Plus his shield really would be a godsend when they needed to sleep, he couldn’t stand not having one up, but wards weren’t exactly his specialty… Plus he couldn’t keep one up when he was sleeping, his wasn’t a spell, but a controlled version of raw magic.*”Really I appreciate it Jacob, there is nothing worse than sleeping in the open without one, I did that once and took a cannon ball about five feet away. Thought I was a bird at first… Lost all the hearing on one side, and I swear I walked crooked for a bit… It sucks… a LOT. I hate cannons… Nasty things really, just nasty, no warning but a whistle…. Then BOOM. They takeout whole chunks of formations. It’s one of my first jobs, to go in and take them out, make sure they can’t use them on our forces.”*He wasn’t always about the bloodshed, he tried to preserve life too, or at least it had been something he had tried to start doing more often in his later years. Made sure his side was protected, while the enemy got the worse end of the stick, making the battle decidedly tilted in their favor. He had apologized then, about his reactions, how it was something he had never had to deal with before. It certainly made him into something of a mess. It was something he would have to get used to, something he would have to work on, as time passed.*”Well, we all got to live sometime, right? Life is all about learning new experiences, making things work, growth… This is just another part of it, as shitty as it is, it’s just something that’s gonna happen. As for Sydel… I just need to lure her out with her favorite kind of… cookie… and see what she has to say. There is nothing else I can do besides that after all, just run with it and hope she is of a….generous mind today…”* He was about to reply about the bumpy part, make a joke about it… Or try to anyways… That is, before a blond Tasmanian devil came out of the wood works, and laid into his ass like he owed her money. He had his head yanked down by his ear then, forcing him to bend, more at a level with her. He heard her not quite yelling at him, but definitely a pitch that someone uses when you have pushed them too far, when they’re pissed as hell. He listened to it… every bit… and guilt pricked him because he knew it was true… He hadn’t wanted to deal with it, and had not really pawned her off, but hoped that Rose might calm her down before he talked to her. His voice was low, not silent, but low.*”Sorry Rose… You’re Right…I’m going…”*He would stand then, the kick to the read end not needed, as he made his way inside… He wasn’t looking forward to this at all…*
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ᶲI Loved Her Not For The Way She Danced With My Angelsᶲ
°But For The Way The Sound Of Her Name Could Silence My Demons°
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: *He had gone back inside then, the cooler room feeling quite good really, against the heat of outside. He felt it rather wash over him, calming him in a way, settling his nerves a bit. Still, what did he say to her, really? Sybelle had been left by Ace, ignored and forgotten for the most part, and then ultimately sacrificed at the end. Because of that, she probably had a very valid, very deep fear of being left behind again. After all, when you start to see an inkling of history repeating itself, it’s the first thing you react to. He didn’t know how to settle her mind down, how to make her feel more at ease, no more than what he had already told her. Rose did have a point though… He should have her ask him questions, try to answer them as best he could, and just hold her for a while… He came forward on soft feet, not wanting to make too much noise, but not be silent either. He had come up to her then, hearing Rose at his heels, and waited until she took Pia before he looked to Sybelle again. He could see she had been crying, there were tear streaks down her face, her beautiful eyes were slightly red… He Came forward a few steps, his arms out, open for her if she wanted to come to him. If not, they would drop down by his sides again, sliding his hands into his pockets.*”Baby I… I don’t know what to do, I really don’t… I’ve never had anyone be sad that I was leaving… never had anyone to leave behind… It was always me… and if I died, well no one was going to be sad about it. To me… This is just another war… It will be over and done with before I even really notice, but it’s different for you, because you would be the one left behind… I know that you don’t really have a happy past with men…. I know you have no background to go off of, no real reason to believe me, to believe what I say… That’s alright, because you as you are now, don’t… But the other side of you, Sydel… If you can show her… Let her see… Just a little… that I’ve never once left you alone for long… That I’ve never abandoned you, that I always came home… I would appreciate it… Just… Don’t let her cry…. Not like this… I won’t have the time to show her before I have to go… And she doesn’t deserve to worry like this…”*He would pause, and if she came into his arms, he would press a soft kiss to the top of her head, wrapping his arms about her a little bit more.*”Also Sydel… we need to talk, and it is urgent… If you can come out… I promise you a few good hours of your favorite pastime… but you can tear me up… I’ll even let you at my neck this time… Just please come out for a little bit… talk to me… let me know what we can do… and I will give you whatever you ask for…. Just show me what I can do to save you both…. And how to get Sybelle to Arvandor… To safety… Even just a hint…a clue…. I’ll be grateful….”
.°.a sky full of stars.°.
…Sybelle Anikin...
…He came into my life like lightning in the darkness…
.jagged and white hot.
: .. she had all but crumbled there.. having just let it all out.. telling Rose just what had happened.. just what had gotten her in such an agitated and saddened state.. she didn’t mean to tell really.. she had pretty much told Nautilous that she wouldn’t breathe a word.. but.. it got to a point where it just came out all on its own.. just flowing like water out from between those soft little lips of hers.. she had fallen to her knees.. reaching back behind her head to grip her petite little framer into an even tighter ball than it would have been already.. before she felt your hands upon her.. drawing her up into a standing position.. you’d need to use a great deal of that strength really as.. she just wouldn’t plant her tiny slippered feet down.. she didn’t have the will to if she were to be honest.. she just felt like.. fading.. like.. crawling into a hole and .. just sleeping the days away.. as it was when she was asleep that everything seemed easier.. a lot more numb and she didn’t have to really deal with anything.. soon though she would place those feet down so you wouldn’t have to carry her.. you’d manage to lift her chin though her gaze remained downward.. try as you might she wasn’t going to look up.. she really didn’t want to…she listened to you..your words of support.. of strength circled her mind.. over and over.. telling her she wasn’t weak.. that she wasn’t a child or helpless.. that she was a woman that came back from the dead.. that she was the mother of Aysil.. and of Jacob.. and then of course the two on their way..her breath just kept hitching there against the back of her throat.. quite audibly.. her body trembled and shook.. goosebumps flooded her pretty pale skin..she wanted to believe it all.. she truly did.. she wanted to believe that you saying he could come back.. that he wouldn’t die in some puny human war was all true.. but her doubt.. was immense.. her personal experience was clouding her proper judgement.. her past was circling.. and she was starting to feel quite ill.. a bit queasy.. quite possibly because she hadn’t had a lot to eat.. and yet.. food was the last thing on her mind.. she wouldn’t have eaten it even if it were placed there right before her.. she swallowed when you said she was going to march over there and watch Pia.. it would be then that her gaze would lift.. if only for a moment..her lids were quite heavy and she practically looked to you through those long charcoal coloured lashes.. before you turned and headed outside.. her shoulders sunk there and she exhaled.. well as best she could with her breath hitching over and over and over again.. she was trying to catch her breath.. slowly she stepped across to where Pia was resting.. and she too curled up sideways upon that lounge seat.. drawing her knees up to her chest.. the tears continued to trickle down her cheeks.. she tuned out the sounds around her.. so she missed Roses’s loud speech outside there.. her gaze had fallen down upon little Pia.. just to watch her however.. she was not focusing.. not properly.. though she’d know it if the child moved an inch in a direction she shouldn’t have..she’d blink though when she saw someones arms reaching in to take Pia.. her reflexes kicked in almost instantly and her arm swung around.. and before Rose even got hands upon Pia her fingers would be wrapped around Rose’s wrist.. more than prepared to break it if it wasn’t who it was meant to be..if it were perhaps someone trying to take Pia away.. someone that wasn’t Rose, Jacob or Nautilous.. before realisation would strike her.. and she would release her hold.. drawing her arm back to her side.. she’d offer a whispered sorry before curling back up into her ball.. her cheek down upon her knee there as her lids finally fell closed.. she exhaled a long deeper breath.. it only managed to hitch twice this time.. she was beginning to calm a little.. the cry she’d had.. was good.. it managed to get all the rawness out of what she was going through.. she was still upset yes.. she was still saddened and confused.. and perhaps even a little bit angry.. but it was mostly emotions she didn’t quite understand or register.. things she hadn’t felt before.. she heard his voice before she’d notice he was there.. her eyes remained closed so she missed him opening his arms out to her.. she listened to him speak.. about how he didn’t know what to do.. that he had never had anyone be said that he was leaving.. that he never had anyone to leave behind before.. then he began to speak to Sydel.. and that made her draw a little further into herself on that oversized cane lounge chair.. she pulled away from him then.. to turn against the cane.. drawing her head down into the little spot there nearer to her lap as her hands came up behind her neck.. interlacing there.. and she said nothing.. she just let him speak.. let him.. continue to talk.. promises made.. something about urgency.. a lot of it was coming through a little muffled with her sharply pointed ears being slightly squished by her arms.. he’d feel the change.. the shift.. as if the temperature in the room.. or.. perhaps more so the immediate area dropped quite a few degrees.. though her appearance didn’t appear to change.. - .. What the fuck have you done now.. .. she’d groan.. slowly lifting her head from her knee there.. those beautifully coloured eyes had been replaced by those rather haunted looking white orbs.. she stretched her legs out.. looking down at the dress she had on.. her brow would rise when she looked to the shoes.. clearly she was displeased at the choices.. to her it all looked rather ridiculous- ..as for your promises.. of a few good hours.. mm.. no.. .. she clucked her tongue against the roof of her mouth as she slowly and with such an unnatural grace moved to stand..- .. I’ll be expecting a lot more than that.. but .... she looked around the room there.. - .. not here.. no.. You can keep your.. .. she waved a hand at him dismissively - .. rancid foul smelling book collection.. to you and your BFF’s….. she screwed up her face there.. pressing a finger to the bridge of her nose- …What is that?.. Dust?.. Mold?.. Leather?.glue?. .. she wriggled her nose a little- ..Ah! Someone’s been fucking around in here.. .. her gaze narrowed .. s’that what you did wrong?.. .. she whispered there- .. wee bit premature?.... she shot him a wink- .. no it’s not you.. I know you.. that scent is not you.. that’s .. someone else
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
says to .°.a sky full of stars.°: And Jacob)*She had torn a damn strip into Nautilous there, and he was lucky that she didn’t really lay into him, because she was so mad at him if she had a frying pan the damn thing would be dented with how hard she’d smack him. She had a lot of patience, a lot of understanding, and normally she was a very calm and sweet person… But every now and then, someone hit a trigger for her, and she just let loose and ripped into who ever had caused it. What had happened with Sybelle, how scared she was, how sad… What the hell was Nautilous thinking, just leaving her like that, knowing she didn’t need her friend but her lover. She could tell her it would be ok, she could reassure her, but words were wind… She didn’t need to hear those words from her, she needed to hear them from him, and just walking out to talk with Jacob like that… Bullshit! She was not going to tolerate that kind of thing, not at all! She knew that she wasn’t exactly lady like, but this was war, and all things are fair on the battlefield. She wasn’t going to let him just hide out like that, to avoid the reality he needed to face, no matter how uncomfortable it might be. It wasn’t as if he was the only one to be afraid, or to be worried, or hurt. She and Sybelle had the most to lose no matter how you looked at it, they were both pregnant and engaged yes, but not married. They would have to go through their pregnancy alone, with only each other for support, without the calm reassuring words of their lovers. If something happened to their men, Sybelle would be utterly ruined, and she knew she wasn’t prepared or even sure how to help her friend if that happened. She herself… If Jacob died… She would solider on… Not because she wanted to, but because if she let herself die… It would be a mockery to everything she and Jacob had done together… She would stay alive no matter what, she would bring their children into the world, and raise them up on stories of their father… She would do her best to raise them right, to give them all the wisdom she could from both worlds, asking Caela and Garafin to help her with them as they had with Jacob… She would give them the best of herself… And when they were grown and married, ready to have children of their own… Her duty would be done, and she would be free, free to look for him… She would use this power of hers, this gift from her mother, and look through every universe, every world for him… She wouldn’t give up until she found him, and when she did… She would tell him all the stories of their children, everything he had missed, everything life had forced him to be absent from… She hadn’t been able to look at him, with all that anger dissipating as quickly as it had risen, she just felt utterly sick. She had heard his sigh as she went back inside, not giving him a chance to talk, she wasn’t ready to listen to him just yet. She had gone to get Pia then, seeing Sybelle hadn’t taken her words well at all, as though they had taken no effect. She knew it would be hard for her, Sybelle hadn’t really grown up with much hardship that she knew of, and such things as this were going to hit her quite hard indeed. She had tried to guide her up, had had to actually bodily hold her up honestly, her little body’s strength working well for her in that instance. It had taken a bit of a minute for Sybelle to actually put her feet under her, but she had after a time, and she had tried to bolster her as best she could. Sybelle could be so strong, she knew it personally, she had been on the receiving end of it when her bleached out side decided to make her into a play toy. Sometimes her ribs still ached a bit when it got too cold, right in the place where she had bent them in, warping her titanium casing. Oh yes, she was so much stronger than she realized, she just didn’t want to see it. It hurt her to see her friend like this, it really did, and it was why she had made Naut come in to help her. She reached out to pick little Pia up, only to have her wrist be grabbed with the speed of a rattle snake, nearly making her pull her hand away. She felt that steel there in the grip, and a part of her worried for a fleeting moment that the other one had come to the fore, and was ready to give it another round. She took a deep breath to calm herself, heard Sybelle apologize for it then, she nodded her head and reached down to pick Pia up. Nautilous had come in then for Sybelle, waiting for her to arrive before he would talk with Sybelle. She had left them in peace, moving to her little office there on the side, to settle Pia into her little pram there. She heard Jacob come in behind her, heard him start to talk. She almost asked him to stop, to not say another word, to just…. Let her process it all. She didn’t though, she let him talk, let his words sink into her mind… She wouldn’t rage at him, she wasn’t mad at him, she couldn’t be… She was hurt yes… but not mad. She also knew that… right now… these might be some of the last moments she had with him for who knew how long? He could leave tomorrow, and the last thing she wanted, the last thing she could tolerate would be some of their last words being spoken in anger and hurt. She let him finish speaking, she didn’t interrupt him, but she didn’t turn to look at him either. She just looked down at Pia there, seeing her little face scrunch up a bit, confused at the different sounds. When he was done, she turned then to look at him, keeping her face carefully neutral for the moment. Her voce was soft, calm, soothing really.*”Please take a seat?”
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‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
says to .°.a sky full of stars.°: & Jacob)*She would wait for him to take a seat there, or not, it was up to him.*”Remember when I said I trusted you with my whole heart? That I would love you forever, no matter what, because you are my heart beat?.... I didn’t mean it lightly…”*She would pause a moment, moving so that she sat on the edge of her desk, her legs crossed as they dangled there in the air. She was trying… fighting to make it easier on him, despite the fact that that right now, She very much wanted to break down much as Sybelle had… But she couldn’t, and she knew it. She had to be strong for Sybelle, for Jacob…. For all of them. It was a lot of weight on her small shoulders, but she could do it, she could carry it… She had to.*”I don’t think… anyone wanted to ruin our date today, and it was beautiful… It still will be... I am glad to be told before we got home personally Jacob… I will be staying there while you are gone, and I don’t want our walls that have only heard our laughter and pleasure to be colored with the sadness of parting… I want our home to only hold good memories for us… It will become my sanctuary, my bastion, my haven in the…..time that will pass while you are away…”*Oh it was getting terribly heavy in her heart… She felt it settling there at the bottom, like a slow lead drip, just adding that much more weight every few words… When she couldn’t bear it anymore, she would slide off of her desk there, to come and sit in his lap and wrap her arms about his neck and hold him close as she rested her head over his heart. She would listen to that steady beat there, feeling each sweet, gentle thump beneath her cheek there. It was something she needed right now, to hear that sweet sound, that steady rhythm that calmed her.*”I am glad he took you under his wing, at least I know someone will be watching your back… The fact of the matter is that I am mad at him for just walking away from Sybelle like that, not realizing how much she needs him right now… It was like the night in the garden of memories, when I said goodbye to my children, and I asked you to give me some space… But you didn’t… You came and held me, knowing I needed it more than anything else, that being alone wasn’t what I needed… Sybelle needs that same sort of thing, and no one can give that to her, no one but him.”*She shook her head softly, remembering how it had hurt so badly to let them go, remembering all the pain of losing them… It had all left her raw, empty, aching… She had done it alone for so long, so long that she forgot that people might want to help, might want to give her that shoulder to lean on… And in that moment… she realized that she was doing it again…. Like that night in the garden, when she insisted she could do it alone, when inside she knew it was a lie. She curled up about him tighter then, nuzzling into his chest then, trying to make herself just… let it go… She was afraid to show him how scared she was, because she didn’t want him to go to war, to be worried about her…*”If you want me to go home, to Arvandor…. Because it will help you feel better… I will try… But if you think…for one, single moment…. For a second… That you will go into this alone, you are out of your mind…” *She shook her head softly, pulling back from him for just a moment, lifting her hands to cup his cheeks softly in her palms.*”My clan…. You know we have a saying… ‘Cónaí ar mo Chreideamh i Dhuit’… My Faith Resides in Thee… We were powerful warriors once, descendant from a fierce race of humans whose blood ran fierce with the coldest winds and ice of winter… We were not soft, not a one of us, we are raised as tough as the seas that constantly crashed against our home… ‘Fire And Steel’ is what we say when we went to war… My entire childhood was full of wars, between clans or outside invaders, but always fighting…”*Perhaps that was why she was taking this so well, not because she didn’t care, but because she was so used to war that it didn’t faze her as much… She wasn’t worried about the war, just him, just his place in it.*”Let me give you a proper send off then… We will throw a grand party, a big bash, with all of your favorite foods and lots of alcohol and drinks… We will celebrate and dance for hours and hours, we will sing and feast, and tell brave stories of wars long past… Then when you are truly partied out, exhausted, and you can’t take another drop of alcohol… We will camp out under the stars like we talked about… Just you and I… The day before you go… I will give you your presents then… Bits of memories, keepsakes to warm your heart while we can’t be together… I will send you letters every day, with bits of flowers and pictures, sometimes I will send you cookies and cakes… But you will get something from me every day…I promise…”*She would lean in to run her nose along his gently.*”All I ask is you promise to come home to me… No matter what happens, you must promise to come home to me, to be with me when our babies are born… If you can do that, I promise I will go to Arvandor, to pass the time with Caela and Garafin…I will take care of Sybelle and make sure that she is ok, I’ll do my best to keep her spirits up… I will hold on for as long as I can, to make sure you are there when it’s time… Sometimes wars are fast, sometimes….not so much… We really don’t know how long I’ll be pregnant, we don’t know about how my being a plains walker might effect it, or how you and I will only have babies that are a fourth elf and the time it might take for them… I might only take eight months if it is closer to human… Or I might take a year with our elf babies… So you had better go and kick their butts, make sure they run with that tail of theirs between their legs, and be home in time to hold your babies, you understand? If not, Rosetopia will have to come over and kick that rather sexy bottom of yours Jacob. Sound fair?“
ϕ₦ḁṷṭḯḷṓṷṩϕ
ᶲI Loved Her Not For The Way She Danced With My Angelsᶲ
°But For The Way The Sound Of Her Name Could Silence My Demons°
°°°
says to .°.a sky full of stars.°: *There was no missing that temperature change, the inside was cool yes, but nothing could produce that sort of cold as instantly as that shift could. It was as if someone came in and sucked all the warmth out of the area, stealing along with it any sense of security, any hope of it’s return. It could be vastly unsettling to anyone not familiar with her, hell it was downright scary for others, rather like seeing a ghost suddenly come into the flesh. It was…. Disturbing. Yet, to him, it was quite the familiar thing really, almost soothing. After all, he had always run towards hot, he seemed to carry the Egyptian heat in his veins. With him, she was actually warm, and more than once he had caught her burrowing up to him to enjoy that heat he gave off naturally. She had done well to cool him off, and he had returned the favor in warming her, the two rather like the sun and moon together. Unlike those two heavenly bodies though, he and Sydel were never in such synch, they were always off balance. Sometimes they were just a little off, other times they couldn’t stand being near each other, to the point they either fucked like rabbits or fought like wolves. There was never really a peaceful time with them, she always found something wrong, something to push him away. He hated to see her pull into herself like this, to see Sybelle in such anguish, suffering because of something he had no control over and yet had done all the same. He should have stopped that bastard before he had started to talk, but what had happened, he had not expected. A parade perhaps, a celebration of sort, some sort of little drill he had to run… Not war… He had not expected that. He had no way to prepare her for it then, no way to let her know ahead of time, to soften the blow. He had no idea either, that it would affect her so deeply, or unsettle her so much… He had tried to hold her, but she was having none of it, none of him right now. He wanted to give her comfort and solace, but she just didn’t want him near her period honestly, she was balling up away from him as it was. What did he do? Honesty? How the hell do you handle an emotional woman? A PREGNANT emotional woman? There was no book on this, no guide, no walk through to tell him how to handle this. The fact of the matter is, all of this was new to him, and he hated it. He hated that he had hurt her this morning, hated that he had pushed her, that he was afraid for the first time, he hated that he was scaring her because he had to go… He hated the fact that because of him… her life was in danger, because HE had decided to be an idiot…. Yeah, he was just doing this… fucking beautifully. He watched her turn and look at him, lifting her head up from those long legs of hers, those ghostly white eyes looking at him. Naturally, it just wouldn’t be her if she didn’t come out swinging, so to speak. His voice dropped just a bit, shaking his head softly, crossing his arms over his chest.*”Hur Hur Hur, you’re hilarious, you should look into doing some stand up comedy, you’d kill…”*He watched her look over her dress, the cute little flats that Sybelle had chosen, and just saw the look on her face. Rather like someone had stuck a lemon in her mouth, or some other unsavory thing in her mouth, she just looked so displeased. He didn’t know why she couldn’t just come out and visit and be happy to be out, rather than to be so damn irritating, really she always flipped that switch. Yet… It was what they were… they were always like this. Normally he would have just laughed, but he wasn’t in the best of moods right now, certainly not his most tolerant.*”What I did, I didn’t actually do, thank you very much… There is a conscription going on right now, everyone in town has been enlisted, including Jacob and I… She isn’t handling it well, to be honest, I’m worried it’s breaking her and I sure as shit don’t know how to help her.”*He figured she couldn’t be content with just a few hours, knowing her, she might want a night or even longer… Which was fine with him in all honesty. He could do thing with her that… well… Sybelle couldn’t hang with… In truth, he needed a good old savage fucking, a way to release the tension he was holding onto right now. He had a lot dropped on him in a short amount of time, and with him, the best stress relief was what he and Sydel did best. A good, hard, brutal slaughter followed by a fucking that could never be called gentle. Letting her get as his neck though, oh he knew he was going to regret that one later, he would come out of this looking like he lost a fight with something clawed. Big claws… and teeth…sharp little canines that did quite well to rent into flesh…*”Alright… I will give you as long as you ask, IF you give me what I’ve asked for…. Give me the information I need to save you both, to get her back to Arvandor… Do that, and you can stay with me until I have to go to this idiotic war…”*He shook his head, as if he would want it here, this rather normal and generally not bad little library. He would take her out to range, pushing out far past the city, out into the wilds where the gypsies were. Though the joke about his little…bffs…. He looked to her and smiled, oh so sweetly there, those baby blue eyes just innocent as a newborn lamb.*”My dear, you forget that that my… bffs are your family… Your son and soon to be daughter in law. YOUR blood, not mine, I’m just marrying in.”*He batted those big blues at her there, before noticed her rub her nose there, scenting out all the smells in this little library. The joke about being premature made him snort a bit, raising his brow before cutting a look at her, his lips curling a bit.*”I have many flaws, but shooting my rifle before my targets in sight…. Has never been one of them. But if you don’t trust me, I can always grab you by that pretty hair of yours, drag you off to a meat locker and hang you from some hooks like a pretty little ornament before I fuck you until you beg me to stop?”*They were entering a game he knew very well, her teasing him because she wanted him, and him tormenting her back as he sparked that keen little mind of hers.*”As for who… That would be Jacob and Rose… they go at it as bad as we do… Your son has a bit more of you than he does Sybelle in a way… Got a kinky streak in him, one that, as much as I love Sybelle, she just doesn’t have. So… Do we have a deal?”
(19:20:14 )
…The..Curse..Ends..Here…
Dr. Jacob Anikin
..Stop trying to fix yourself, you’re not broken..
..You are perfectly imperfect, and powerful beyond measure..
says to ‡Ţŕįʼn: .. he had stepped into the office shortly there after her.. taking it upon himself to slowly and quietly close the door.. if she wanted it open he would of course oblige her and re-open it.. but with Nautilous and Sybelle dealing with an issue a little ways just outside he thought that both couples needed a little bit of privacy.. he pressed his back to that door there.. sliding his hands down into his pockets.. he was watching her.. observing how she placed little Pia down into the pram.. how she wasn’t really looking to him and hadn’t done so since she ripped into Nautilous outside.. and that was making him curious.. a little confused and rather saddened.. she caught his attention though when she asked him to take a seat.. he glanced up to her.. allowing his gaze to wander over her neutral features.. before he would give her a little nod.. crossing the room there till he settled down upon one of those wooden chairs.. his hands would come back down to rest there upon the tops of his thighs.. he was fidgeting a little.. concerned that she was going to tear into him like she had done to Nautilous..he tilted his head to the side a little.. she asked him if he remembered when she said she trusted him with her whole heart- .. yes.. of course.. .. he nodded.. he did remember.. vividly in fact.. it would be something that would remain with him for years to come he just knew it.. his hand rose as he tapped it against his own heart there.. - .. I wasn’t going to leave it till we got home.. .. he exhaled softly.. his hands rose as he lightly rubbed at his forehead- .. it’s a bit of a raw area.. I see it.. in the eyes of the Mothers and Wives in the village.. the tears that were shed.. the crying.. the screaming.. .. his brows furrowed.. his hands falling to rest there behind his head- .. I don’t understand a lot of it.. I really don’t.. this is not something I have really experienced first hand before.. like I have read about it.. and I have seen what happens to those who return.. having worked in the medical system for hospitals away from here when there was a war on.. and it can get pretty gruesome and there are a lot of deaths.. but.. this is.. something very new to me.. .. he drew a breath he was having trouble articulating his feelings.. the emotions that were running through his mind at that very moment- .. in some ways I am in the same boat as Nautilous.. in that .. I have someone to come home to.. .. his gaze.. that vibrant blue and green lifted to look to her there- .. I have someone that holds my heart and who is carrying my children.. who is.. my world.. and I’d pretty much do anything.. Anything to make sure she was safe..Nautilous had mentioned that.. we could take for the hills if we wanted.. just go.. leave it all behind.. .. he exhaled.. shaking his head a little- .. and as horrible as it may sound.. I just can’t.. I can’t.. I am duty bound.. I was called upon to represent the country that allowed me.. that gifted me with you in my life.. that has put me in the position of.. such.. immense enjoyment and merriment.. that I do feel.. I owe the land my service.. I have the skills.. I should put them to use.. and if I was to run.. I don’t think I could live with myself.. .. his brows furrowed.. he so did not want her to think she was not worth it.. it was not that at all.. oh he was making an utter mess of it all.. nothing was coming out the way it was supposed to- .. Please know that I adore you.. ever single fibre of your being.. I do.. I love you Rose.. and I always will.. .. he watched her as she crossed the room then to settle down to sit there upon his lap.. curling in so close with her head resting against his chest.. his arms wrapped around her.. drawing her into such a loving warm embrace..he’d press a kiss there to the top of her hair- ..He’d really quite scared.. .. he spoke softly.. when she let him know she was angry with Nautilous.. - .. He’s absolutely besotted with her.. and he’s never been in the position to have someone to come home to.. to Want to come home to.. he’s afraid that something will happen.. that she wont be strong enough .. she’s having quite a few problems.... he would softly stroke her hair..- .. the children are putting a great deal of strain on that body of hers.. and she’s not eating.. .. another kiss there to her hair.. - .. he’s genuinely afraid.. and he isn’t sure how to handle what he is feeling.. your actions were just what he needed.. the kick in the pants to get inside and deal with it head on..but yes you are right.. that’s what she needs.. she needs his support.. more than anyone else right now.. .. he exhaled softly.. he let his eyes close over as he rested his chin down upon her shoulder.. just holding her like this was.. just perfect.. it was just what he needed.. just what he wanted..- .. if it is possible I would like you to go back to Arvandor.. as I know.. you will be safe there.. but in the end.. the decision is yours..if you feel more comfortable staying here.. in our home.. .. Our home.. not something he had really let sink in until that moment.. he had often called it her home.. that he would need to find somewhere in the village for himself.. but it was ‘our’ home now.. - .. then you do whats right for you and the babies.. I will always stand by you .. completely and fully.. you just need to let me know where it is you will be.. so I can come and sweep you off your feet upon my return.. because Rose.. my sweet tiny dancer.. I will be coming home to you.. I promise you that.. .. he held her just a little bit tighter.. - .. and I will try my best to write you back.. Your letters though.. receiving those would be perfect.. thank you.. honestly.. I love the idea.. and of having a send off.. you are just so.. utterly perfect.. I love you
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
: Jacob)*She had avoided looking at him for quite a bit honestly, not because she didn’t love him or because she was mad, but because she would start crying if she did. He would see everything there in her eyes, he would come and hold her, and she would just start crying. She couldn’t unload that on him right now, even if she wanted to just break, she couldn’t… After he left, when the blessed numbness of the moment wore off, along with the happy feelings from a perfect morning…. Oh she knew the second she was alone, she would just break down into a million little pieces, soaking her sorrows into her pillow… Until then though, she had too much spunk, was raised perhaps a little too strong… She was worried honestly, so very worried, about everything… Jacob was leaving during famine, and though the town would be able to balance perhaps a bit better with so many people gone, there wouldn’t be much food even then. She had to think about feeding Sybelle, plus herself, and through her little Pia too… No… She was doing what he had asked her not to do, and holding it all in, keeping it under that steel lid of her mind. She just couldn’t let it out right now, even though they were alone, it just wasn’t the time she could… Maybe tonight… When they were alone outside, surrounded by the woods, laying under a blanket of stars… Then she might be able to…. But not right now… No… Just too many people were leaning on her. So… She didn’t look at him… Not until she had gotten herself firmly under control, with every little bit of fear, every bit of sorrow locked up tight. She had asked him to take a seat after she had Pia settled, hearing the soft click of the latch, the door closed with them nested up in her office. She had look to him then, asking him if he remembered what she had told him, how he had her whole heart. She loved him so much it hurt, she often wondered sometimes when he did just one of those amazing little things that were as normal as breathing to him… She thought her heart would just pop right there in her chest. She loved him enough to understand that this wasn’t his fault, it wasn’t Nautilous’s fault, not any of theirs. They were victims in a cruel twist of fate, as if the furies couldn’t stand it, seeing people so happy. She listened to him speak, nodding her head softly, clasping her hands in her lap with the engagement ring on the top.*”A lot of people are going to be hurt in this… There are going to be a lot of empty saddles, sword belts with no one to wear them, and lonely seats at the hearthside… Many of the men here won’t be coming home, it’s something we women must realize, must accept. It doesn’t make it easy, it’s why you see so much emotion out there, all that chaos… They can’t let go… Nor can I… I can just choose how much I let show, and how I handle myself, and this situation… What good will crying do my love? Would it make your heart feel better to see me breaking down? Would you feel somehow easily in going if I screamed at you? No… You would feel worse than you already do, and this is an ugly enough situation as it is…”*She didn’t see it doing him any good, she knew he would fight, as soon as she saw that paper handed to him… He had read it over, not with any sort of regret or reluctance, simply acceptance for what it was. Jacob was who he was, honor bound to do what was right, no matter what. It wasn’t a flaw, it was an asset. It was just…a little sad…to see it take him away from her side. The fact was that she knew this, knew what he was like, going into this with him and even before. As a Doctor, she had faced against his stance, how he would not bend even a little bit. She had literally had to break out in the middle of the night to get away, sneaking out her window, trying to get to one of her little gold stashes in town only to end up in his room that night. If there was any sort of fate there, it certainly had them entwined, quite tightly… She had to trust in that same sort of fate, that it would never let them be far from each other, they were too intrinsically bound.*”I know Jacob… Do you think I would expect anything less from you? My love, I can’t say I know everything about you, I would be quite sad if I did… I am learning you, and you are learning me, as you said we are going to find the cracks and dents within one another… I know your honor, how deep that river runs, and how swift it flows. I think I am the only reason you ever bent on it, and even then, it was only after I was well on the way to recovery…”*She smiled just a bit for him there, trying her very best as it were, to make him smile if only for a moment… She could see just how much it was eating him up, how it was hurting him inside, this entire thing.*”I am going to be your wife in a year, we will be parents to a beautiful little boy and girl, and our little family will be the most perfect thing in the world… None of that is going to change, no matter how far you go, no matter where your feet may take you… You are right, you do have the skills, and without you even more of these men might not come home… You could be the very thing that will keep them safe, bringing them home to their wives and children, letting their mothers weep tears of joy at their home coming… If you ran… I would drag you back.. It isn’t in you to run Jacob… Your my sweet, wonderful, amazing tin soldier… But before you go, your little dancer will make sure you have a coat of steel first, for the goblin kings are fierce my love…”*She had gone over then, to settle in his lap after he told her he adored her, every little bit of her… She just smiled very softly there for a moment, thinking of him calling her a little bug, something she had never thought she would love quite as much as she did. She sighed softly when he wrapped his arms about her, her breath shaking just a bit, a soft stutter before she exhaled. She had known something was wrong with Sybelle, she had barely seen her eat at all, and Sybelle was even thinner than she was. She thought maybe it was just an elf thing, but with both Nautilous and Jacob being concerned about her… It made her think about things perhaps a bit differently… She loved that little kiss to the top of her head then, just melting against him a bit more, the stroking in her hair was almost mesmerizing… Hypnotic…*
(20:48:02 )
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
: Jacob)”I am sure her appetite will pick up once we reach Arvandor, she might just be terribly homesick, so that combined with everything else she can’t tolerate the idea of eating perhaps? If not, you aren’t the only person in this little family of ours, who can use medicine… I can put her to sleep with laudanum if I have to, and tube feed her to make sure she eats, I won’t let her give up… Though I am sorry you had to see me like that… It doesn’t happen too often, I certainly am not the kind of person prone to such outbursts, but every now and then something comes along and flicks a nerve and I just… I guess I blow up a little. Even if it was what he needed, I never wanted you to see me get so… nasty… But that’s part of what this year is about isn’t it? To make sure we know each other as best as we can…”*He would see her flip that switch at some point, and she was rather glad they got it out early, so he would know that she did at times have a little bit of a temper… She raised her hand then, to brush her fingers through his hair when he leaned his head on her shoulder, just gently soothing him there.*”I will go… I won’t be there entirely though, I will come home to send off your letters and your care packages… I will run by the hospitals and make sure I know about what is going on… I won’t hide in Arvandor away from this all… But I will spend most of my time there… I do promise that if the war gets too close to home, or if the travel gets too hard on me or the babies, I will remain in Arvandor and try to find a way to send letters through the gate… I hate a feeling Hanali won’t let me fail… She knows how much I love her Paramour Jacob…”*Him calling it their home hadn’t been missed on her, he nearly continuously called it her home, insisting it was her space. Now that he was marrying her, her property was his, he would indeed be getting a bit more than just his little dancer. She laughed so softly then for a moment, hearing him telling her he would sweep her off of her feet, making her smile there.*”I promise I will write you each time I move from one place to another… So you will always know where I am, after all no woman would ever want to miss such a home coming… Though I will probably be a bit heavier than you remember me now…I might be quite round after all you know… But… Don’t worry about writing me back as often… So long as you can get my letters, and know how much I love you, that I am thinking of you… That is all I want…”* She squeaked just a bit when he held her a little tighter, making her giggle just a little, just a bit.*”I am far from perfect Jacob, as you saw just a few moments ago, I rather popped that bubble, didn’t I? Goodness, I don’t think I ever saw you look so shocked, I honestly didn’t…. I felt so bad…. But yes… I very much want to give you a send off… We will have it as your early birthday party… and I will make you a big, moist, delicious lemon and lavender cake, just for you. Now… if you don’t mind… Can you just hold me like this… for a little while longer please?... In all honesty Jacob… I am doing my very best to hold it together… but tonight I will probably cry… a lot… and I will soak your shirt probably… and need several tissues… I hate that you have to go after we just found each other… We’ve only had a month… It isn’t fair… I am very, very mad at the whole world, and all I want to do is cry… But I can’t… Not yet… But will you be there for me, when I do?”
ϕ₦ḁṷṭḯḷṓṷṩϕ
ᶲI Loved Her Not For The Way She Danced With My Angelsᶲ
°But For The Way The Sound Of Her Name Could Silence My Demons°
°°°
says to .°.a sky full of stars.°: Fixed)*He snorted a bit there shaking his head, unsure if she had no idea what it was here, or if perhaps it was one of those things from an era he had visited that wasn’t here… Either way, her reaction was honestly pretty hilarious, and it had done well to chase away a bit of the cobwebs there. For some reason, even if she was a cold hearted little thing, he never wondered where his footing was with her. Sybelle often had him wondering if he was doing the right thing, if he was being too hard with her, or pushing too fast… But with Sydel, it was always the same, cold and hard but predictable.*”There can be, but only if you are good, and I don’t quite think you have it in you to make it in that area…”*He told her of what was going on, what had happened, why he was calling her out. The fact that he was being forcefully enlisted, how it had torn Sybelle up, and how he had no idea what to do about it honestly. Her response just had him shaking his head, rolling his eyes heavenward, figuring she would be like a candy kid in a store… Just that bit about him breaking Sybelle’s heart had him a bit pissed, and she kept twanging that nerve rather hard.*”Yes, there is going to be a war, and for the first time in my life I wasn’t even aware of it sneaking up. Normally you know we hear these whispers on the wind, little tremors on the web as it were, but this time there was nothing… There wasn’t even a whisper, it just suddenly happened out of the blue, like a sudden storm but without the cloud buildup. I am quite interested to see who’s puppeting this whole affair honestly… It isn’t too often someone can pull the wool of my eyes, or my ears for that matter, so naturally I want to know who’s started it.”*She asked then, if she were to be allowed to go to war, and he had to tilt his head at her.*”I was debating it… Slap you into a temporary body so to speak, drag you along with me for a while. Since we were both young pups Sydel, we’ve never missed a war together, we’ve always done these things as a set…”*Oh, there she went flicking that nerve again, making him roll his neck releasing several loud pops. She was really, really, really pushing it.*”Tread carefully Sydel, keep in mind I can keep you alive by a sliver if I want to, and I am just as creative if not more so than you with torture… YOU don’t know how to work that body completely yet, where as I do, and I could block all that dopamine in your system so you couldn’t move. No more could you use the pain for pleasure either… I would rather not go there, I do love you, just as I love Sybelle… But you are treading on rotten black ice my dear… I might look like a tame little puppy dog, but if you push me, that wolf will come out… He’s sleeping right now, but he is far, far from gone…”*He watched her stand, and wondered if she was going to fall on her ass, and that wasn’t a good sign. Just how bad was she right now? Then she slapped out that little ultimatum then, he would only get his help, if he gave her what she wanted…. He tilted his head a bit.. just a bit… Watching her really, debating and measuring the benefits versus the drawbacks of this enterprize.*”Ok… Let’s lay it out. You STOP interfering with Sybelle’s responses and emotions, you tell me how to Successfully get her back to Arvandor, and how to save the two of you… And you can be right by my side the entire damn war. I’ll even let you take the finishing blow on each enemy, and make you your bloody baths, all nice and hot how you like it… Hell, I’ll throw in the bonus of sparing you any of the good looking boys on the enemy side, so when you take your baths you have a nice little uh…rubber ducky to play with… Or should I call it a rubber fucky?”*He paused a moment, and he just started to chuckle there, a brow raised.*”Oh my God… You’re actually sulking that you weren’t there! You know, if you actually ASKED Rose, she might just do it… Maybe… I will tell you though… She’s got a hot little set of hands… Watching her suck that jizz right out of your sweet little slit was hot… She certainly is a little vixen, I wish Jacob joy of her, boy will be loving his sex life until he passes from this world I think. I certainly hope to enjoy a few more bath scenes, I won’t lie, and besides since when did either of us turn our noses up at stuff like that? We’ve never cared, so long as it is in the pursuit of pleasure, genetics never came in. Besides, it isn’t as if she is my blood child, she’s just marrying in. Just like I am.”*He chuckled softly then, shaking his head, moving to lean against one of the book shelves that was standing not far from his back. She was right though, only once had she not been able to handle him, and it had been with rather sad results… Ones she wouldn’t remember, and yet for as long as he lived, he would never forget.*”Oh normally, I would say you were right, you always did roll well in the hay with me… But your pregnant, and the way it rolls right now, I can’t really go the full distance… Sybelle gives me what I want and need, but you satisfy a craving I have, for that nice dark side of the mattress as it were…”*He paused, for just a moment… She had gone from wanting to just go to war, then adding her last little demand, how he had to admit he missed her. He walked over to her then, resting his hands on the back of that chair there, looming over her as he leaned down to whisper in her ear.*”You want me to admit I miss you?... I miss the sex… Not all of it… Sybelle gives me things you can’t…but you give me things she can’t… I need you BOTH or it just…doesn’t work… So yes… I miss you… I miss the way you love it when I welt your ass… The way you adored all the kinky levels we could play with… How I could fuck you raw and yet you’d still want more because you’re like me and we get off on the pain… So there… I miss you, you white little witch, my dark little Princess… and you can come to war with me… So now YOU give me what I want, or it is all off the table… And for God’s sake, slice me already, you’re going to fall over as you are… But if you’re going to get my neck, don’t spill a drop, I rather like this shirt…”
…The..Curse..Ends..Here…
Dr. Jacob Anikin
..Stop trying to fix yourself, you’re not broken..
..You are perfectly imperfect, and powerful beyond measure..
says to ‡Ţŕįʼn: .. he listened to her when she spoke to him about what good would crying do.. would it help? Would it make him feel better to see her break down.. would it make him feel better if she screamed at him.. he exhaled softly.. and continued to stroke his fingers through her hair- .. Rose.. my dear sweet little Rose.. there is nothing wrong with crying.. don’t ever .. Ever feel that I would think you weak or less because of it.. if you have a need to let it all out then I would much prefer you did.. whilst I was able to hold you.. to console you.. I would much rather be able to help you through your worries.. your concerns and the things that put you in that spot.. than to make you even consider going through them on your own.. .. another kiss to her head there.. just gentle and light..- .. of course Id rather you didn’t scream at me.. .. he chuckled just a little.. his chest lifting as he did so making her bounce a little there upon his lap- .. but if you need to.. you go right on ahead.. You are right..in that we are still learning a great deal about one another.. and I honestly think we will be learning about each other.. forever.. it’s not something that will ever stop.. or change and that in of itself is wonderful.. .. he slowly stroked along her arms there.. - .. I have a duty of care here.. and I will do my best to bring as many of those young men home as is possible.. .. he slowly drew her away from his chest.. tilting her chin up so she would look to him..- .. and every single step I take.. out there without you by my side.. you will be in my thoughts.. in my heart.. pushing me onward to make sure I come home.. for you are the reason I would want to come home.. there will be no time for reckless actions.. I am not there to be the hero.. I am there to play my part.. to fill in that missing puzzle piece.. and then I will be back.. upon your door step.. no doubt probably a little worse for ware.. but desiring nothing more than the sight of you before me..as for seeing you getting so nasty.. .. he chuckled softly shaking his head- .. don’t be silly.. I want to experience all sides of you my dear.. from the super sweetheart.. to the stubborn little bug I adore.. The fact that you can stand on your own like that to someone that is almost twice the size of you is incredible and I love it.. You’ve got so much spunk my dear.. and I wouldn’t want you any other way.. .. he pressed his lips to her forehead before he would allow her to curl back in against his chest once more.. - .. I am looking forward to seeing that body of yours develop Rose.. pregnancy is such a beautiful thing.. it really is.. and honestly.. your size means nothing to me.. large or small.. I’ll love you all the same.. afterall.. it wasn’t just the body that I fell for.. I fell in love with you because of a million tiny things you never even knew you were doing…You just take care of yourself.. look after you and those children.. stay as healthy as you possibly can.. .. he rubbed along her arms- .. that is my only concern.. I have a feeling though should you go back to Arvandor.. that Garafin will fatten you up in no time.. he thought you were a touch on the lean side when we first got there.. so be prepared to be filled with copius amounts of food.. .. he chuckled..- .. we will figure out a way to get Sybelle back there with you.. and I know you will keep a close eye on her.. I will look forward to receiving those letters ..and I will endeavour to send at least one back to you.. I am sure there will have to be a way.. even if it is by magical means.. it will get to you.. then one day I will return to that door step.. and surprise you with my return.. . her giggle there when he squeezed her was music to his ears.. and it made his smile only brighten further.. oh how he adored it- .. Don’t feel you have to hold it all together..you don’t have to force being strong.. you are allowed to just let it all out.. to just cry.. to scream and yell and be angry at the world.. it’s perfectly fine.. in fact I would prefer it.. rather than you bottling it all up.. stress on that body of yours in your current condition is not such a good thing.. .. he slid his hands down her back there.. to settle there just above her ass there.. his fingers interlacing..- .. I will be there for you.. right there.. to hold you.. even when you tell me not to.. even when you try and push me away.. and call me all manner of terrible words.. .. he chuckled- .. I will be there.. just to annoy you.. because I know.. deep down its what you need.. it’s what you want.. you’re just having trouble dealing with all the anger and hurt that’s coursing through you.. ..he smiled when she spoke about their celebration- .. How did you know my Birthday was coming up mmm?.... he shook his head chuckling- .. seems there are no secrets at all are there.. I’m going to guess Sybelle told you.. .. he pressed his lips to her temple there.. just lightly- .. we can stay here.. right here.. for the rest of the day.. I have no need to be anywhere else.. just here.. with you.. is right where I want to be
.°.a sky full of stars.°.
…Sybelle Anikin...
…He came into my life like lightning in the darkness…
.jagged and white hot.
says to ϕ₦ḁM: .. she tilted her head at him when he spoke about her having to be good.. she screwed up her face a little and pouted- .. well.. I’m not going to be good.. that’s not going to happen any time soon.. what a waste of good energy.. .. she sunk back down to sit there.. having had enough of her wobbly little legs.. her balance was way off.. her knees were a little shakey.. and she hadn’t even had the forsight to change what she was wearing she was just that ‘stuffed’.. - .. How is it you didn’t know it was happening hmm?.... she questioned him when he spoke about it being sprung on him.. she knew he was pretty much always in the know of these things.. especially when it was a full scale war.. - .. what colours are we talking?.. is it the English?.... she sunk down into the cushions there.. her long lean legs dangling over the edge of the chair.. those long white locks spread out on either side of her head- .. perhaps you’re just getting old.. hmm?.. couldn’t blame you if your hearing was a bit off.. I’m surprised they wanted you at all.. aren’t you about ready for a walking frame?.. I see the white hair is sprouting.. don’t you just look dashing.. .. she stifled her laughter then.. her body trembled as she covered her mouth with her hand.. - .. Oh it’s probably someone saying something stupid somewhere along the line.. pissed someone else off and here we are.. humans have a knack for such stupidity.. .. she swung her legs a little ..her bare feet lightly brushing against the floor boards as she did so…she heard his threat then..telling her to tread lightly.. that it was him keeping her alive.. that he could block all the dopamine.. and etc etc.. she rolled her eyes and groaned a little- .. you wouldn’t hurt me.. so don’t bother wasting your breath.. .. she waved her hands around dismissively.. You forget.. I’m the one wielding all the power here.. .. she waves her fingers then as if she were conducting an orchestra- .. I know what she’s thinking when you speak to her.. I know what she wants from you.. I know a lot more.. than you do..as for rotten black ice… I like ice.. and I don’t care for tame little puppies.. if I wanted puppies id go into the village and pluck me a nice ripe new soldier.. no.. I am here for the wolf.. and if he doesn’t show his head soon.. I’m going back to bed.. .. her arms crossed then about her chest.. yes she was acting like a child that hadn’t gotten what she wanted.. he listed out what he wanted out of the deal then.. for her to stop toying with Sybelles responses and emotions.. she put on a bit of a pout there.. it was a lot of fun to muck with her.. she was quite easily lead afterall.. and to get her back to Arvandor.. she exhaled.. the little benefits were nice though.. going to war.. taking the finishing blows.. the blood baths.. hot at that.. and the little enemy soldier boys.. her arms uncrossed there and her fingers tapped together..- .. hmm.. it’s all rather tempting.. .. she captured her lower lip there.. dragging it into her mouth as her gaze shot upward.. she watched him coming to stand there against the back of the chair.. looking down to her as he was..- .. fine.. Fine.. .. she grumbled- .. I wont interfere with her responses and emotions anymore.. .. she mumbled something a little unlady like about him taking away all her fun..she was enjoying having a puppet to play with.. - .. But I better get my soldiers.. or No deal!.... she sunk down into the cushions a little when he called her out on her sulking about not getting playtime in that bath.. he was right.. she was a bit miffed she missed out.. it did look like a bit of fun.. - .. I’m not even sure I Like Rose.. .. she huffed.. turning her head to the side so she didn’t have to look to him.. peering through those dark lashes of hers as she was chewing on the grin there.. before she laughed.. she groaned when he reminded her that she was pregnant and her hands slid down to her flattened stomach there- .. Ohhhh.. right.. .. she whined.. poking at her stomach with her fingers- . I had almost forgotten.. .. she frowned a little.. she really did not like being pregnant.. she hated it.. ballooning out like that.. ugh.. and it always threw her balance right off.. she watched as he leant down to her there.. whispering in her ear that he missed the sex.. that he needed them both.. that he missed her.. her dragged her tongue across her teeth there as her grin only widened
(23:45:43 )
.°.a sky full of stars.°.
…Sybelle Anikin...
…He came into my life like lightning in the darkness…
.jagged and white hot.
says to ϕ₦ḁM: .. she got what she wanted.. he admitted it.. she lifted her head up a little.. pressing her cool little lips there against the sharp curve of his jawline.. - .. I don’t give a flying fuck if you like that shirt.. .. she’d quip.. using the same breathy whispered tone as he had done to her only moments before.. she reached up with those rattle snake like reflexes.. wrapping her hands about the back of his head as she latched her teeth onto the side of his neck there.. that special sweet spot where his neck met his shoulder.. and she dug right in.. breaking through his supremely hot smooth flesh.. allowing that blood to trickle down past her teeth.. pooling there upon her tongue.. before it would slither its way down her throat.. her precious little heart didn’t know what to do.. it sped up quite quickly .. the fingers that were holding against the back of his head curled in.. scratching her nails against his skull.. against his scalp.. tugging on his thick richly coloured hair in the process.. sowly but surely.. each precious little inch of Sybelle would begin to fade. The colouring from the skin.. the plumper curves of the body.. all returning into those sharper leaner lines.. the perfectly pale flawless flesh.. that dress too faded.. along with those sparkly little flats.. slowly along those long lean legs of hers crawled a pair of super tight black leather pants.. they clung to every inch of her.. sucking the literal life out of her and leaving very little to the imagination ..there was a belt around the waist.. an o ring right at the front.. perhaps for him to tug on.. the top was more of a boned corset.. sucking that little petite frame of hers into a svelte silhouette.. forcing those beautiful tits of hers up and a sweet little valley to be on display.. around her neck there was several lengths of leather.. all spidering out to hold the corset up.. the more she drank.. the tighter those curls became.. she had just about torn a chunk out of his neck at this stage.. before she yanked her head away.. breathing deeply.. gasping almost as her gaze widened considerably and her upper body arched up so tightly.. it was like a jolt of energy it wasn’t quite expecting.. she groaned.. her hands slid down the length of her frame there.. - .. Fuck.. .. she hissed.. her brows furrowed.. she blinked.. and blinked.. it would take her a moment or two to focus.. - .. Oh good god.. .. she swallowed.. one tiny trickle of that richly coloured blood slowly made its way down her chin.. before she’d look up to him there.. she’d stretch her arms up above her head.. - .. mmm.... she murmured.. it did taste good.. she had to give him that much.. he did taste heavenly to her.. like her own personal drug.. thing is he knew it- .. if she wants to go back.. .. she’d murmur.. speaking as though she were just a little high..- .. she can.. but she and I would have to separate.... she’d chew on her lower lip.. slowly drawing up into a knelt position there as she pressed her knees to the back of the chair.. reaching up to grab a handful of that precious shirt of his.. pulling him forward.. closer to her.. the only thing between them being the chair back- .. find me a hot little body.. and she can go home.. temporarily.. not permanently.. she will not survive .. mm.. no.. .. she shook her head- .. she’s not strong enough without me..but she can go for a time.. .. she nodded.. releasing his shirt suddenly.. giving him a little shove.. before she would fluidly move to stand.. that leather clung to her ass like a second skin.. she wandered around the room there.. not off balance.. not wobbly at all..- .. it’s a bit of a catch twenty two really.. she can’t survive without me.. .. she shrugged.. moving toward the window there.. her hands down upon her hips- .. I can’t survive with the children in there.. but.. I wont survive without her.. but there’s time for her to.. go have her playtime in marsmallow ville
(00:43:08 )
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
says to …The..Curse..Ends..Here…: *To her, if she was emotional like that, just letting it all go like everyone else seemed to… It just wouldn’t benefit anyone, it would just make Jacob worry about her, feeling bad about something he just couldn’t help… Sybelle had a valid reason when she broke down, she was a delicate little thing, the world could knock her over with a feather really… Yet there was strength there too, the way she had grabbed her wrist with that steely grip there, Sybelle just didn’t know it yet was all… Or… Maybe she was just making excuses… Using everyone else’s feelings to cover her own, making them the excuse for her desire to hold it all in, like a band-aid made from their needs of what she could provide? She honestly couldn’t have admitted one way or the other, she was truly a mess inside and it certainly wasn’t getting any better, the fact was that Jacob was the only thing holding her together right now. He calmed her when she felt so very turbulent, soothed her when she was hurting, and gave her a safe place to rest when she grew weary of it all. It was because of him that she could pretend to be a little Valkyrie, zipping about here and there like a hummingbird, and making sure everyone she cared for was safe and cared for. He gave her so much by just being around her really, because of his seemingly limitless strength and calm, she felt as though she could do anything. Oh she was going to be terribly, terribly sad when she was gone, trying to figure out just how to live with the absence of his presence and the strength that had gone with it. He was right though, she would need to let it all out at some point, and it would be better if he were there to hold her together while she rather fell apart a bit.*”Mmmm… I wonder what it will be like, married to a man with more common sense that he should have. I almost feel sorry for our babies… Can you imagine them, trying to play the games that children always do, trying to pit us against one another so they get what they want… You know me so well, you would be able to call them out on their bluff whip fast, and I can just see them trying to backpedal… I don’t think they would try it more than once or twice at most, poor little babies of ours, they’ll never know a victory over us… I know you are right though, that it is better to let it out with you, when I know you can keep me safe…. When the numbness wears off a bit more, I probably will break down a bit, and you’ll have to hold me for a bit…”*She sighed softly, just adoring those little kisses there, just melting against him with each little one. That last bit though, that sweet little tease that made him laugh, sending that musical sound right against her ear as it bubbled down from that wonderful place deep inside him. She smiled there, giggling herself a bit, shaking her head.*”I don’t think you could handle me like that Jacob, you would feel so very bad, thinking I was truly mad at you! Honestly, I don’t want to yell at you, but at the world?... That one is certainly more likely… If I could, I’d certainly love to be given a chance at it’s shins, it deserves a few sharp kicks for this mess…” *She smiled softly, lifting her legs a bit there, feeling the gentle tug of her newest addition. It would certainly take some getting used to… Still, she would gladly ensure this ten times over for it, she loved it and all that had occurred in it’s placement there. She raised her hand a moment there, rubbing on the bridge of her nose just a bit, pressing a kiss to his chest.*”You’re right, and I don’t ever want to see a day go by, that I didn’t learn something new about you… Every day is full of little delights, things that I find out about you, things that just make me love you even more… For instance, you know that you only blush when he kiss now, when I say something teasing to you? And you now know that I do have…a bit of a temper…but only if someone pushes me that far.”*She felt him reaching down, drawing her away from his chest, making her frown in just the most adorable way. She was honestly so very comfortable there… She looked up at him when he tilted her head up just a bit, loosing herself almost instantly in the beautiful lines of his face, the wonder of his beautiful green and blue colored eyes.*”You do have one, but not to here, but to anyone who will need you help Jacob… I know this, I knew this from the start, falling in love with my handsome doctor… I knew you had things in your life that were important to you… Precious… Things that would take you places, to long hours, to back aching labor… I still fell in love with you anyways… I don’t care if you come home worse for wear, I rather expect it, and maybe look forward to it… You’ll be so exhausted, you might actually let me spoil you a little bit, baby you about the house as it were… Imagine when this of over and you come home, and I’ll spoil you with all your favorite foods and sweets and ice cold wine… I’ll send you off to the baths with me, and I’ll wash you from head to toe, rubbing you down and assuring myself your real… Then for the next oh… week or so? We will just laze around the house and on the property, doing nothing but getting fat and reading books and playing like children… I can’t stop you from going to war Jacob… But I can at least promise you, I will wipe as much of it from your mind as I can, so it’s just a distant memory under all the new ones we will make together…”*She would do her best anyways, she wanted to just make him laugh and smile, to let him know it was ok… She blushed when he talked about how she had taken Naut down as it were, just basically kicking his own butt, and how he thought it was incredible. She shook her head, holding up her hands a bit, giggling softly.*”Noooo it’s not good! I don’t think of the fact I am quite short, or how tall the other person is, and it can be very bad! I am just lucky a bit, because I have such a shock factor doing it, that whoever is on the receiving end is so stunned they just rather go along with it!”*She felt him kiss her forehead then, and when he allowed her to lay against his chest again, oh she certainly nuzzled up in right quick! She thought about pregnant being a beautiful thing, and she hadn’t exactly thought about it from someone else’s view, just her own joy at it. She didn’t really look at herself in a mirror, she just looked down to see it all, how she loved watching it get rounder and sweeter.*
(00:43:20 )
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
: ”So, even if I get so vey round, an all I am is a belly and feet, you will still think I am beautiful hmm?... Or what if I and only belly, and I stay the same everywhere else? Oh no! What about my ankles! Oh Jacob, just pray for me, don’t let me get swollen ankles, I love my ankles!”*She laughed at the idea of Garafin doing to her, what she tried to do to Jacob and Sybelle, to get them to eat more. Not that she would complain, oh no, the food there was soooo good she would gladly glutton on it! Which meant that unless he kept rather active, she was going to get round, very round! Though, with the temple not being too far, she would probably be quite busy with her studies and learning how to handle her duties.*”Oh bless Garafin… Once he finds out we’re pregnant, I think he would put me in a nest surrounded by pillows, and not let me do anything… Now, I love the idea of just lazying about with a book, eating myself silly and reading all day, but I really would get soooo fat!” *She smiled there, just imagining the day he did come home, probably covered in a few days worth of dust… She would love it. He had squeezed her and made her squeak, making her giggly shortly after, leaning in just a bit closer to him. She sniggered a moment there, just a little snort, and if a kitten could giggle it would sound about the same.*”Mr. Jacob! First off, I have never called you a dirty name, you just make me say dirty things when you’re being so terribly good! I’m just… I guess I am so used to holding it in Jacob, that I don’t know how to let it go, how to just let it out… I never had a chance to really…lean on anyone before, just… Always dealt with it on my own… Your right though, I don’t want to do anything bad to myself, anything to hurt our babies… You might just have to drag it all out of me… I don’t know how you would go about doing it, but I think you can do it… For some reason, you always know just what I need, before I even say anything… I trust you… Though I can’t promise I won’t soak your shirt…” *She grinned like a wee little Cheshire cat there though, when he asked her how she knew his birthday was coming up, her eyes just flashing that bright golden green color.*”Ah ah ah! No getting on Sybelle like that, she didn’t tell me, I asked her! I wanted to know when your birthday was, so I could throw you a grand party, just give you a day where I can celebrate you without you telling me to stop.”*That smile spread even brighter, just lighting her face up really, doing well to lighten the atmosphere that had settled in the beginning.*”You know your birthday isn’t long after mine either, which is rather wonderful, because it means we can spoil each other not long after the other. Besides, there are plenty of secrets here, I just know them all.”*She cackled in laughter a bit then, tapping against his chest with her hands teasingly, tickling him just a bit in the process. She leaned into that kiss to her temple, pressing her own to his neck, nipping it softly.*”You know… I never did have a camp out in a Library before… How about… We find a place here in the library somewhere just for us… We will call it our special spot… We will go upstairs and bring down the blankets and pillows and make a little nest for ourselves, and bring lots of candles too, and we’ll read each other stores and snack on the little finger food Mina and I keep on hand here for the children who come in… Then when it gets quite late and all the stars are out, we will go out into the back yard and watch the stars for a while, we’ll climb the tree back there and feed each other apples we pick… Then we will go back inside and curl up to sleep together, you me and little Pia makes three… What do you think?”
Dr. Jacob Anikin
..Stop trying to fix yourself, you’re not broken..
..You are perfectly imperfect, and powerful beyond measure..
says to ϕ₦ḁM: ..his brows furrowed a little when you said you hoped Rose would be able to get Sybelle to eat- .. is she not eating?.... his head tilted a little to the side there.. concern was quite evident on his face- .. is she unwell?..I know that elves don’t usually hit the same deal of morning sickness as humans do.. but they can indeed become unwell if they don’t look after themselves.. Elven children can be a great deal more taxing upon the body.. they come out a lot smaller yes.. but.. inside the activity in their brains is.. monumentally so much larger.. so.. to get that perfect mix.. takes a lot.. she does need to be looking after herself.. .. he had passed you the draft notice in that instant.. your reaction caught him a little off guard.. the cussing causing his brow to rise before he would move to stand.. - .. I hadn’t heard a thing to be honest.. and I’m quite surprised.. but I guess when you put it that way.. . he was referring to you commenting on the fact that the military usually kept things quiet.. so that the younger males wouldn’t all either run or be hidden away by their families- .. I don’t know if I’d be of that greater assistance.. like yes I have the skill of a medic.. a surgeon.. and the like.. and I am quite apt with defensive magic.. but.. would that be able to be used out in the open like that?.... he was curious indeed.. often being quite cautious around humans.. he’d yet to be caught using his arts on the surface.. and he really wasn’t sure he wanted to have to try and explain it if he was.. - .. but.. you would know.. of course.. you’ve been down this road before.. it’s all a bit foreign to me.. Understand that I have read about it.. and been on the receiving end of war when I was in the hospitals when I first came to the surface.. but to be actively drafted like that.. it come as a bit of a shock.. I am honour bound of course to go.. I wouldn’t run.. .. he shook his head- .. I couldn’t.. I know full well I’d regret it.. and as silly as it might sound.. it has very little to do with being known as a coward or a deserter.. it’s just.. the way I was brought up.. when you’re called upon to help… you help.. .. his brows furrowed and he exhaled- .. It’s going to kill Rose.. I just know it.. and it couldn’t have come at a worse time really.. neither of them need to be left on their own.. they both need a great deal of support.... the pair of them had shifted outside shortly there after.. and it would be then that you would snap at him.. and he just about sunk down out of the chair completely.. holding his hands up.. palms outward in surrender- .. Calm down.. .. he blinked.. shaking his head- .. you misunderstand.. I didn’t mean to make it sound like I was trying to make light of Sybelles condition.. not at all.. I would never.. ever do such a thing.. I know both physically and mentally she is as fragile as spun sugar.. .. he exhaled.. reaching back to rub against the back of his neck there.. this whole situation was making him feel so agitated and just uncomfortable.. and you pacing around like that wasn’t helping matters.. he blinked when you started punching into the tree there.. his own hands clasped together there.. he almost winced as he knew it hard to have hurt.. you were punching into that tree as if it were nothing at all..- .. paper work always seems to slow things down.. but from what I understand.. from what you just said there really is no way of avoiding it.. when the call up occurs we will have to go .. but first.. we will have to sort out a way to protect these two.. now Rose should be able to port through without a problem.. and she could well lead Sybelle down to Garafin and Caela should we not be able to go with them in that instant.. but.. wether or not Sybelle will be able to make the journey remains to be seen.... he rocked his head back and exhaled- .. if she gets caught on the way through she wont make it to the other side.. she’l end up snagged at the gate by the guard.. and itsa highly possible she will be forced straight to the vale.. .. his fingers reached to rub against his temples there- .. which is practically death for an elf.. or.. the middle land between the two.. but there has to be a way to get around this.. .. his brows furrowed when you said Sydel wouldn’t help- .. so Sydel wont help at all then?.. might be time for you two to have a bit of a chat to see if there is perhaps something you are missing?... he nodded when you said that he wouldn’t like what he saw.. and that it was possible he would hate youfor your actions- .. I find it doubtful I would hate you for your actions Nautilous.. You’ve done a lot for me.. .. he nodded- .. and if your actions.. regardless of how gruesome they might be.. end the war quickly.. then.. it wouldn’t all be for nothing.. it would get us back to them.. otherwise only god knows how long we could be away for..
.°.a sky full of stars.°.
…Sybelle Anikin...
…He came into my life like lightning in the darkness…
.jagged and white hot.
says to ‡Ţŕįʼn: ..she tilted her head when you spoke about Pia and her reaction to the fan..- .. it would have been quite odd indeed I imagine.. having to look upon a weird object that caused the wind to move.. all whilst making her feel a touch cooler.. though I’ll bet she enjoyed the sunshine.. ..she nodded.. - .. I have been to a couple of libraries.. but.. not here.. on the surface no.. this would be the first.. the others were in Arvandor.. and all the literature was well guarded.. not something you could borrow from.. but you could purchase it.. so much was hand written.. was beautiful.. I hope to be able to go back there one day.. see if anything has changed.. you are right though.. I do feel at my most comfortable outside.. surrounded by trees and long grasses.. it doesn’t feel quite so boxed in.. the freedom is.. well.. more magical.. if that makes sense.. more open.. and you can just run.. for miles and not stop.. just run and run and run.. .. her expression had changed.. though it wasn’t her usual friendly self from the start anyway.. she was quite reserved, quiet.. and clearly upset.. she watched when you moved across to her there.. to settle beside her.. sliding your arm around her to rub.. she bristled a little.. exhaling a long breath.. shaking her head when you asked if you did something wrong this morning- .. no.. no.. .. she slowly slid down from the sill there.. her tiny glittered flats pressing lightly to the polished boards beneath- .. you’ve done nothing wrong.. I assure you.. .. she had gone then to the rows of books before her.. tilting them away from the shelf so she could view their covers.. trying desperately to see something.. anything that would remind her of the uniforms she had seen out on the street.. but nothing was there.. nothing that was really of any help.. she saw ducklings.. and fairies.. and toys.. teddy bears.. princesses.. her brows were furrowing and she was just growing further and further agitated as the moments wore on.. she heard when you said that there were books about them.. even a few that had pictures.. - .. I need the historical ones.. .. she nodded.. pushing the books back onto the shelves there.. trying to neaten them as to how they were before she disturbed them all..the little dust clouds were blowing up at her.. making her wipe at her nose.. making her wave her little hands about a little whilst she coughed and sneezed..- ..I have to see.. I have to.. I need the pictures.. .. her breathing was picking up a little there.. hitching there audibly in the back of her throat ..her brows were furrowed.. her hands slid down the front of her dress there and she tugged at the hemline a bit roughly- .. I need to see it all.. I have to.. I need it now Rose.. please.. I beg of you.. .. she exhaled.. slowly falling to her knees there as she rocked forward.. just bursting into tears.. sobbing there as she put her hands behind her head.. letting her forehead come to rest there against her stocking clad knees.. - .. I can’t.. I can’t do this.. .. she managed to get out through quiet reserved little sobs.. her voice was crackling.. breaking everytime her breath caught- .. Nautilous has been drafted.. .. she just pulled those hands there against the back of her head all the tighter.. her little toes curled within her tiny soft coloured shoes.. and she trembled.. she wasn’t handling this well at all.. that small heart of hers was skipping.. stuttering there in her chest as she wept .. finding not a great deal of comfort there upon the hard wood floor.. but it was a care she was not really giving at this very moment.. this was the reaction she should have had when Ace made himself scarce.. but she didn’t she remained alert and her usual bubbly self convinced he would just rock back up to her.. and that she must have been the one to do something wrong.. but it was happening all over again-
(07:26:53 )
ϕ₦ḁṷṭḯḷṓṷṩϕ
ᶲI Loved Her Not For The Way She Danced With My Angelsᶲ
°But For The Way The Sound Of Her Name Could Silence My Demons°
°°°
says to …The..Curse..Ends..Here…: *He shook his head when he said he hoped Rose could get Sybelle to eat… It wasn’t so much that she wasn’t eating… it was that she barely ate anything at all. A bite here, a bite there, and that was it. It wasn’t that he wanted to force her to eat, but the simple fact that he was worried that when he left, she would stop eating entirely. Right now, Rose really was his only hope at keeping her same, or at least alive…*”She barely eats at all, and with her condition being what it is, I don’t feel comfortable with the amount she does eat. If a human ate as much as she did in her condition, the children would be malnourished, and the mother would be almost skeletal. She’s such a tiny thing already, she doesn’t exactly have the body fat to spare, and if she doesn’t pick up eating a little more…”*He shook his head, rubbing his hand along his forehead, the entire situation was so fubar it wasn’t even funny. It was more than just the human food she needed, because she could eat like a hog and it wouldn’t change anything, she would still be sick… And if he wasn’t there? All he could do was leave behind vials of himself, for her to take daily, but only Sydel would be able to do it. Sybelle could take them herself, but the second she knew what it was, what it might be she would revolt he was sure. It was just…hell…pure hell…*”What you read in the books, is not like it is here, not in the real battle. They never really capture the smell of blood, the screams that you can’t tell if they are men or horses dying, the wreckage of bodies left behind that you can’t even tell if they are friend or foe… They always make it so much cleaner in the books, as if there is something to be proud of, or worth bragging about. It’s not. It’s ugly, it’s hell on earth, and sometimes it can be glorious… It can sink into the skin, make you feel like a god in those moments, until you actively seek wars out. The fact is, is that I will want you in my unit…I wouldn’t ask you to do anything you are uncomfortable with.”*He looked over the slip in his hand, noting where they had you at, there in the front lines… Skirmisher… Bullshit! Bloody idiots the lot of them, putting Jacob on the front line would be a waste, a bad one. He would summon a pen out of mid-air, not caring about the show of magic right now, he was in too much of a mental mess. He quickly made some changes, switching his position, and putting him in his own unit. He signed his name at the bottom of each adjustment, making sure there was no way anyone would or could change it, it was the least he could do.*”Every man in my unit has some magical skill in some way or form, sometimes it’s really small, other times they are quite adept. Either way, every man in my unit knows to keep his mouth closed, and never repeat what they see. You would be free to use any magic you wanted to, and to be honest, having that shield of yours while we all sleep, that would be a Gods Send. I hate sleeping naked.”*He did too, once, during his first war he had laid down to sleep for just a few hours… All he had heard was a soft whistling at first, making him wake up and blink, and only a second after that a live cannon had landed next to him and tossed his happy ass fifteen feet in the air and hell knew how far out. After that, he had stopped sleeping, and it played hell with him after about a week. Jacobs shield would do well to shield them all, and make it so that they could all sleep, and sleep safely. They had gone outside and he had rather…snapped a bit… He normally wouldn’t have, but he really was scared, and he sure as shit wasn’t handling it well. After he hit that tree, licking his knuckles to make them heal up, shaking them from the sting he just shook his head.*”I’m sorry Jacob, honestly, you’re seeing me at a low point… You want to know the pathetic truth of it all? For the first, the FIRST time in my life… I am actually scared… Not of the War, or going out to fight, or the blood… I’m scared of losing her… I don’t want to think of what might happen when we leave, all the infinite possibilities of how bad it can be, what I might come home to… I never cared before, Sydel was permanent as the moon, I knew she would never go… I could go off to war, most of the time we went together, and I never had to think about losing her… But Sybelle is as fragile and temporary as a snow flake right now… What if we go, and I can’t end it as quickly as normally, what if the enemy is better prepared than the ones before? What if when I come home… She’s dead? What if she had slipped into a coma and I can’t wake her? What if she goes through a miscarriage and I am not there to hold her hand, to help her through it? What if Sydel takes over again, and Sybelle becomes too weak to come out again, and I lose her forever? What if Sybelle and Sydel merge in her mind, and Sybelle sees everything I was…. What if she sees that and she hates me for it?”*He was shaking, just pacing back and forth more and more, smoking like a damn chimney stack really. He didn’t know how to handle it, any of it, and he was fucking terrified if he was honest with it. He forced himself to stop though, the grass was taking a beating, and he knew it wasn’t going to help anyone. He took a deep breath, till he felt it in the bottom of his feet really, and let it out slowly through his nose.*”I don’t handle fear well… I’ve never been afraid before… Never had a reason to be. I lose my mind when I think about her, about what she will be going through, with only Rose to support her. Rose is her friend, and a sweet girl she really is, but she’s only known Sybelle for a couple of days. She doesn’t have anyone she knows here, everyone who might be a good support base, who can really love her, are all in a world where we don’t even know that we can get her back to…”*He shook his head again, coming over to that tree, to wipe his blood into the trunk, watching it absorb. New leaves started to sprout all over the branches then, and large delicious apples started to bloom and ripen there before their eyes, bushels worth of granny smiths and golden delicious.*”Sydel might not want to… I will have to sweet talk her out, bribe her with her favorite things… Chances are she and I will disappear for a night, perhaps two, while I sate her desires…. If she likes what I give her, she might give me some information, a way to help. If I know my white witch, she knows something, she always does… It’s just getting her to talk that’s the difficult part… “
(07:27:02 )
ϕ₦ḁṷṭḯḷṓṷṩϕ
ᶲI Loved Her Not For The Way She Danced With My Angelsᶲ
°But For The Way The Sound Of Her Name Could Silence My Demons°
°°°
says to …The..Curse..Ends..Here…: *He looked at Jacob there, saying he wouldn’t hate him for what he might do, that he had done a lot for Jacob… He came and sat down in the chair across from him, looking out at the little back yard here, Rose’s delicate hands all over the place in the flowers and general neatness.*”Jacob, you are a good man, you know that? I am sorry you had to see me…snap a bit… new emotions are always hard to deal with. Your mother told me what I would be doing for you, at your wedding, and I promise to make you proud to call me your father and give me such an important position. I can’t say what this war will be like, I can’t even say I understand it because in truth, it is rare for something like this to get past me. Usually there are years of buildup and grumbling, people complaining, whispers on the wind… But there was nothing about this one, it is as if it came out of no-where, just born overnight. I don’t know how well prepared the enemy will be, or what they can use, or might use… I can promise you just one thing though, out of all of this, one thing I will guarantee you… I will bring you home to Rose, I will make sure you are here for when your children arrive, no one should ever miss that… I don’t care if I have to wipe out an entire civilization honestly, I will keep this promise, I swear it… I give you my word Jacob.”
(08:02:25 )
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
says to .°.a sky full of stars.°: *She smiled as Sybelle spoke, about how it was perfectly natural for Pia to look on in wonder at the fan, the sensations it caused. As for her liking the sun though, that made her smile, nodding her head.*”Oh yes, she didn’t want to go in honestly, she started to fuss the moment we came inside. She is like a little gypsy this daughter of ours, I am sure she will run out into as often as she can as she gets older, but for right now she sadly has to listen to mommy. She’ still too small to be out in the sun so much, it will burn her skin, not to mention make her far too hot. She can’t regulate her own temperature yet after all, so I try to keep her comfortable, but still give her all she needs. I can imagine how much she is going to adore her bath tonight, it will be her first time in water, would you like to join us?”*She asked softly, inviting her to play in the tub with the two of them, to spend some simply happy moments with her. She was surprised at the bit about the libraries in Arvandor, how they weren’t like here where you could borrow a book, but you could buy them. She tilted her head there a moment, really a bit shocked, but it made sense too.*”You know, I haven’t seen one yet, Jacob and I arrived a bit late for the celebration so we didn’t have any time to explore before the party, and we left soon after… But I did buy a lot of books though, some that were lexicons so I can teach my self the language, and others books on magic and the history of Arvandor. The writing is still beyond me in so many ways, but I am learning to read it, and it really is the most beautiful thing…”*She paused for a moment, listening how she wanted to go home, so very much. She understood really, more than most maybe, because she missed her home sometimes too. She wanted to see her fathers face… Just once…See if he might smile for her now, proud of what she had grown into be, how she was worth something.*”Sybelle… I promise we will get you home, we are all trying to find ways to do it, and I might be able to help too… When I went through the portal the first time, a part of what I am came to life, and I could see the universe beneath me… all the little paths between the words lit up like silver and blue string. Maybe there is a path there that we can take you on, one that no one knows about, or that they forgot… We will get you home though, all of us who love you, we won’t stop until we can. As for being outside, that’s good you know, to be at home with nature… I am learning, I used to love it as a child, but as an adult there was no life left in my world… Just concrete and stone. It’s… wonderful being here… All the life and green…”*She had set Pia down then, seeing just how upset her friend was, and nothing she was saying was helping. She had gone to sit down with her, to put her arm about her and hold her close, only to feel her bristle which made her think she had done something very wrong indeed. She let her go when she left her arms, hearing her say she had done nothing wrong, but that only made her push harder. Something was indeed wrong with her best friend, but why she was holding it back, she couldn’t really tell. She heard the sneezes there, from the little bits of dust and such stirred up, watching her set the books back. She told her the different kinds of books on war they had there when she asked, about the various ones from fantasy to fact, and which areas they covered. Sybelle… She was just… something was really, really wrong… She came to her side and she just fell to her knees after begging her to show it all to her, to reveal war to her, that she needed to know it. She placed her hand on her back softly, watching her hands rise to her hair, to cup the back of her head. She remained silent, letting her get it all out as it were, to say everything… and it was when she was told Nautilous had been drafted… She paused… She felt all the blood fall out the bottom of her feet there, leaving her pale white, cold… Then it all surged back in a good way, used that surge of anger there, the strength to push the fear away. She would reach down and with her hands under her arms, lift Sybelle up into a standing position, to lift her chin in her hands, so they eyes would meet.*”You Can, and you WILL do this Sybelle, because you have to. You are not a weak human, you are not a child, nor are you helpless. You are Sybelle Anikin, a woman who not only died, but came BACK from death! You are the mother of Aysil, the mother of Jacob, and soon to give life to two more children. You are the fiercest element in the world right now Sybelle, you are a woman and a mother, and nothing in the world is stronger than that. Nautilous is drafted, so then it has already happened, and we know what will happen next. It is not a wait and a wonder, stuck on the blade of indecision, when you don’t know if he will leave or not. You KNOW. Men will fight, they will kill, and they will die. You either fight and survive, or you run and you die, but there is at least activity. Nautilous is too strong, too wise, and too stubborn to die in some puny little human war. He will come back home to you, and sooner than you think, because he loves you too much to leave you alone for too long.”*She wasn’t going to let her friend sink down into that depression, she know it hurt, Gods her own heart was skipping and stopping and starting so often that it felt as if she were going to have a heart attack. Still, she was raised in a time when wars between clans were almost a daily thing, her own father going off to war her entire life. He was never home to visit her, there was always this or that war, with this or that chieftain. It was that fact, that background, that was standing her in good stead.*”Now, you are going to march over to that seat there, and watch Pia for me, and I am going to drag that bastard fiancé of yours back in here. You CAN do this Sybelle, I have faith in you, and that counts for more than you know.”
(08:02:39 )
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
: *She would turn then, and head out that back door to where she knew the boys were, where they had gone. Normally she would have paused to talk to Jacob, but she was NOT happy with him right now, a bit put out if she were to be honest. He wasn’t her focus right now though, no, it was the son of a bitch who decided to just drop poor Sybelle there with her thinking it would be ok. She marched over to Nautilous there, ignoring everyone and anyone right now, reaching up to grab him by his ears and yank him down to her level.*”Listen here, you good for nothing Popinjay, if you want to be worthy of Sybelle, you need to damn well PROVE it! You don’t just… LEAVE her there with me, as if I can help her! She is my FRIEND, but I am not the one she is going to marry, nor am I the one who she is giving birth for!! YOU!! It is YOU, and how DARE you sit there and… And just LEAVE her like that?! GET YOUR ASS BACK INSIDE! NOW!”*Oh she was PISSED! Her cheeks were flaming in anger, those green gold eyes were flashing, her little body shaking. She rounded him a good kick to his ass, not caring that he had been breaking down earlier, she didn’t give two damn pins about it! She would give him a shove if he took too long, her hands shaking, her words snapping sharp in the air.*”You are going to go in there and hold her, you are going to hug her, you are going to promise her that it is going to be ok!! You are going to hold her while she cries! You will wipe her tears, and KEEP holding her until she feels better, and listen to EVERY fear she has!! Then, you will talk to Sydel, and find a way for us to get her home! I am done with you dicking around the bush you good for nothing pretty boy! Be a man, steel up your spine, and just take the leap!”*She would watch him go inside then, his back a bit straighter, his cheeks red with shame. She hadn’t been so mad at anyone in her life. She turned on Jacob there, not sure how to handle him right now, especially after what he had just seen her do. Was he going to leave too? If Nautilous had been drafted, and she had seen Jacob get handed that paper too, and she was putting two and two together. She had suspected there at the store, when she heard the two men talking, the wife confirming it all. She felt a lot of that rage just start to melt off like the snows in spring, and it left her feeling weak, shaking. She couldn’t say anything to him, not right now, instead she went back inside the Library to get Pia. Sybelle and Nautilous would need to talk, and she couldn’t leave Pia there in the chair, Gods no! She went with quick little steps, to where she had set Pia down, picking her up and going to bring her pram out of her office.*
…The..Curse..Ends..Here…
Dr. Jacob Anikin
..Stop trying to fix yourself, you’re not broken..
..You are perfectly imperfect, and powerful beyond measure..
: .. he exhaled.. shaking his head when he heard you speak about Sybelle just not eating much at all.. that she was pecking at her food more so than actually sitting down for a meal.. - .. have you considered getting her to drink sugar water?.. it will act as a nutrient.. might perk her up a little too.. it’s what we give pregnant mothers back in Arvandor when their appetites aren’t where they should be.. just get the sugar right from the cane.. dilute it in some water.. .. he nodded- .. give that a go first.. and if that doesn’t work.. we will try something else.. something has to work there.... he listened then when you spoke about how war was not how it was in the books that it was so much darker and a hellova lot more gruesome .. it made sense in some regards.. it was kind of the same when it came to surgery and a lot of medical examinations.. the books all made it sound so clean and precise.. never mentioning the amount of blood that could be there.. or the stenh of certain bodily organs once they were opened up..- .Well I certainly don’t have a problem with blood.. it wouldn’t matter the amount.. or death.. I have seen it.. often enough.. but yes.. I imagine it could get quite ugly indeed and would change people for life.. .. he watched as you flicked your magic around there.. he felt that little prickle.. it made the little hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.. thankfully though since the library was closed there was no one around to see him do it anyway.. he took the paper back after you were finished with it.. noting the changes that had been made before he slipped it back into the breast pocket of his red blazer..- .. Well that’s reassuring.. .. he nodded..this being his reponse to finding out that other members in the group would be magically minded also.. so he would be pretty much free to use it at will.. and the fact that his shield would be helpful certainly made things sound a little better- .. of course.. .. he nodded once more- .. anything I can do to help.. naturally.. .. he watched when you began to suck on those broken knuckles of yours.. he couldn’t see the blood but he gathered you must have broken the skin with the force you had behind those thrusts into the wood.. - .. It’s fine really.. don’t apologise.. we all handle things very differently..you can sit here and wonder about the what ifs till you go completely grey.. .. he tilted his head there as he slowly moved to stand from his seat- .. thing is.. all of those horrible outcomes could very well happen regardless of wether you leave or not.. we don’t know whats going to happen tomorrow.. We can only work with what we have before us.. and I know we will figure something out that will help her.. I know we will.. as for you not handling fear well.. that’s only natural of course.. it’s new to you.. you haven’t really felt it out.. you haven’t figured how to harness that fear and use it..but you will.. .. he nodded when you began to speak about Sydel.. and how she could well be quite stubborn not wanting to even have a talk..let alone help any..- .. I have no advice to offer in that regard im afraid as I really don’t know this.. Sydel.. but.. you do what you need to do.. even if she isn’t helpful.. at least you will know then to look somewhere else for your answers.... he looked toward you then when you began to talk abou the wedding and your position within it.. how you wanted to make sure he was proud to call you his Father and he nodded.. - .. We will get through this.. I don’t know the how or the whys but.. I have a feeling.. though it will be bumpy.. we will get through it.. .. he’d blink then as Rose came barrelling out the door like a bat out of hell.. he took a step backward watching as she pretty much laid into you .. the shoving.. the pushing.. the yelling.. his jaw dropped open just a touch.. a little on the shocked side really by th display as a whole.. but it would soon come to light the reasoning behind it.. Sybelle must have told her about Nautilous being drafted.. his shoulders sunk and he exhaled.. soon Nautilous would head back off indoors and his eyes would fall back upon her.. standing there in the paved courtyard.. .. no words were exchanged at this point.. it was just a look..and she wasn’t looking toward him which made it all the worse.. he drew breath as if to speak before she would make her way back inside.. a quiet sigh sounded before he would follow her in.. watching as she picked up Pia and went back toward the office off to the side- .. Rose.. please.. stop.. .. he’d speak softly- .. I . he hesitated.. just how does one go about delivering this kind of information without it all coming across so very wrong and possibly insensitive- .. I didn’t want to say anything earlier.. as I didn’t want to ruin your day.. but I was going to tell you when we got home.. when I would have had a bit longer to explain things with you.. just.. you and I..somewhere quiet.. somewhere private.. with no interruptions.. .. his right hand rose as he lightly rubbed it against his forehead- .. please don’t think I was keeping it from you for a horrible purpose.. I would never.. ever do such a thing.. yes.. I was handed my draft notice this morning.. Nautilous was handed one this afternoon.. .. he exhaled.. shaking his head- .. I’m not certain when the call out will be.. I really don’t understand a lot about it all.. I’ve never been a soldier.. or in a war.. only ever helped the sick and near dying in the hospitals in the after math.. Nautilous has worked his magic to keep me in the same faction as him so we can keep an eye on one another.. .. he swallowed the breath that was threatening to hitch there in his throat.. god he hoped he was explaining this all properly- .. I am hoping to send you both back to Arvandor in the interim.. so you are both safe and looked after.. it would settle my heart to know you were out of harms way..
ϕ₦ḁṷṭḯḷṓṷṩϕ
ᶲI Loved Her Not For The Way She Danced With My Angelsᶲ
°But For The Way The Sound Of Her Name Could Silence My Demons°
°°°
says to …The..Curse..Ends..Here…: *He was more than a little shocked when Jacob suggested he get Sybelle to try and drink some sugar water. What in the world would that do for her? Sugar might taste good, but he had never really thought it was anything special, just a sweetener. He couldn’t help the brow rising on his face there, the surprise that registered there, along with a bit of disbelief. He just… he couldn’t see what it would do for her, other than perhaps make her hyper?*”Seriously?.... Sugar water? Like… What you make for humming bird feeders, like that? Huh… You know, I have never once thought of using that as an aid, but now that you mention it… She has been leaning more towards eating sweet things over savory… I will give it a go… anything to get her to start eating. I just hope it works, but at this point I’m willing to try anything really, just so long as it helps…”*He had told Jacob a bit about war, just a few of the truths that they never write in the books, that no one ever talks about outside of old war circles. He figured Jacob wouldn’t be squeamish, but there was another part to war, one that sometimes make men question themselves… Did Jacob have it in him to kill a man he had never known, in a war he didn’t know the cause of, nor the benefit in the end result? Some men just couldn’t do it, once they saw the face of a man they killed, how it could be their neighbor or a co-worker… Sometimes that right there… That was what did it in for them, and one of the main reasons for deserters. He scratched his chin a bit, feeling the scruff there, the way it was soft but crisp against his fingers.*”It does… sometimes it’s for the better, sometimes it’s not… Some men love it too much, and live only for war, and don’t know what to do with themselves out of it… Others are broken by it, terrified, and never really live a full life again afterwards… Then sometimes you’re lucky, and you get the men who realize it is a duty, and they perform it without love or hatred for it. They are the ones who go into war, and come out almost unscathed. There is always the memories, the nightmares that might stay around for a while, but they are able to return to the lives that they had before. A little bruised for wear, but that fades in time, until it’s just a memory.”*He had summoned that pen there, not really too worried about it, he had never been one to be shy about his magic use… For him, if it was needed at the moment, it was needed and he just rolled with it. He had made sure that each note on that draft there was corrected, that he was given the proper rank with him, with notes that this was permanent. He wouldn’t tolerate Jacob being put front lines like that, literally just a foot soldier, cannon fodder. He now had the rank of Second Lieutenant, the bottom rank of the top cream as it were, ensuring him a bit of a safety net. He didn’t want to put him too high, that would just look nine shades wrong, and people would start to poke at him. He was low enough to go unnoticed by most of the higher ranking ones, but high enough to keep the actual grunts and peons under thumb, and free from trying to order him around. It also meant he would get information earlier than others, and if there was a chance for home leave, he would be one of those who would get them before anyone else. He told him then that everyone in his little group were magic minded, even talented though in different digrees. After all, he used magic in vast quantities, and very openly too in war. He didn’t pussy foot about it, hell, it was the reason that his wars never lasted long. He couldn’t get everything done that he did, using power the way he did and not get caught, if it weren’t for the fact his group were of the same mind. Plus his shield really would be a godsend when they needed to sleep, he couldn’t stand not having one up, but wards weren’t exactly his specialty… Plus he couldn’t keep one up when he was sleeping, his wasn’t a spell, but a controlled version of raw magic.*”Really I appreciate it Jacob, there is nothing worse than sleeping in the open without one, I did that once and took a cannon ball about five feet away. Thought I was a bird at first… Lost all the hearing on one side, and I swear I walked crooked for a bit… It sucks… a LOT. I hate cannons… Nasty things really, just nasty, no warning but a whistle…. Then BOOM. They takeout whole chunks of formations. It’s one of my first jobs, to go in and take them out, make sure they can’t use them on our forces.”*He wasn’t always about the bloodshed, he tried to preserve life too, or at least it had been something he had tried to start doing more often in his later years. Made sure his side was protected, while the enemy got the worse end of the stick, making the battle decidedly tilted in their favor. He had apologized then, about his reactions, how it was something he had never had to deal with before. It certainly made him into something of a mess. It was something he would have to get used to, something he would have to work on, as time passed.*”Well, we all got to live sometime, right? Life is all about learning new experiences, making things work, growth… This is just another part of it, as shitty as it is, it’s just something that’s gonna happen. As for Sydel… I just need to lure her out with her favorite kind of… cookie… and see what she has to say. There is nothing else I can do besides that after all, just run with it and hope she is of a….generous mind today…”* He was about to reply about the bumpy part, make a joke about it… Or try to anyways… That is, before a blond Tasmanian devil came out of the wood works, and laid into his ass like he owed her money. He had his head yanked down by his ear then, forcing him to bend, more at a level with her. He heard her not quite yelling at him, but definitely a pitch that someone uses when you have pushed them too far, when they’re pissed as hell. He listened to it… every bit… and guilt pricked him because he knew it was true… He hadn’t wanted to deal with it, and had not really pawned her off, but hoped that Rose might calm her down before he talked to her. His voice was low, not silent, but low.*”Sorry Rose… You’re Right…I’m going…”*He would stand then, the kick to the read end not needed, as he made his way inside… He wasn’t looking forward to this at all…*
(13:10:28 )
ϕ₦ḁṷṭḯḷṓṷṩϕ
ᶲI Loved Her Not For The Way She Danced With My Angelsᶲ
°But For The Way The Sound Of Her Name Could Silence My Demons°
°°°
: *He had gone back inside then, the cooler room feeling quite good really, against the heat of outside. He felt it rather wash over him, calming him in a way, settling his nerves a bit. Still, what did he say to her, really? Sybelle had been left by Ace, ignored and forgotten for the most part, and then ultimately sacrificed at the end. Because of that, she probably had a very valid, very deep fear of being left behind again. After all, when you start to see an inkling of history repeating itself, it’s the first thing you react to. He didn’t know how to settle her mind down, how to make her feel more at ease, no more than what he had already told her. Rose did have a point though… He should have her ask him questions, try to answer them as best he could, and just hold her for a while… He came forward on soft feet, not wanting to make too much noise, but not be silent either. He had come up to her then, hearing Rose at his heels, and waited until she took Pia before he looked to Sybelle again. He could see she had been crying, there were tear streaks down her face, her beautiful eyes were slightly red… He Came forward a few steps, his arms out, open for her if she wanted to come to him. If not, they would drop down by his sides again, sliding his hands into his pockets.*”Baby I… I don’t know what to do, I really don’t… I’ve never had anyone be sad that I was leaving… never had anyone to leave behind… It was always me… and if I died, well no one was going to be sad about it. To me… This is just another war… It will be over and done with before I even really notice, but it’s different for you, because you would be the one left behind… I know that you don’t really have a happy past with men…. I know you have no background to go off of, no real reason to believe me, to believe what I say… That’s alright, because you as you are now, don’t… But the other side of you, Sydel… If you can show her… Let her see… Just a little… that I’ve never once left you alone for long… That I’ve never abandoned you, that I always came home… I would appreciate it… Just… Don’t let her cry…. Not like this… I won’t have the time to show her before I have to go… And she doesn’t deserve to worry like this…”*He would pause, and if she came into his arms, he would press a soft kiss to the top of her head, wrapping his arms about her a little bit more.*”Also Sydel… we need to talk, and it is urgent… If you can come out… I promise you a few good hours of your favorite pastime… but you can tear me up… I’ll even let you at my neck this time… Just please come out for a little bit… talk to me… let me know what we can do… and I will give you whatever you ask for…. Just show me what I can do to save you both…. And how to get Sybelle to Arvandor… To safety… Even just a hint…a clue…. I’ll be grateful….”
.°.a sky full of stars.°.
…Sybelle Anikin...
…He came into my life like lightning in the darkness…
.jagged and white hot.
: .. she had all but crumbled there.. having just let it all out.. telling Rose just what had happened.. just what had gotten her in such an agitated and saddened state.. she didn’t mean to tell really.. she had pretty much told Nautilous that she wouldn’t breathe a word.. but.. it got to a point where it just came out all on its own.. just flowing like water out from between those soft little lips of hers.. she had fallen to her knees.. reaching back behind her head to grip her petite little framer into an even tighter ball than it would have been already.. before she felt your hands upon her.. drawing her up into a standing position.. you’d need to use a great deal of that strength really as.. she just wouldn’t plant her tiny slippered feet down.. she didn’t have the will to if she were to be honest.. she just felt like.. fading.. like.. crawling into a hole and .. just sleeping the days away.. as it was when she was asleep that everything seemed easier.. a lot more numb and she didn’t have to really deal with anything.. soon though she would place those feet down so you wouldn’t have to carry her.. you’d manage to lift her chin though her gaze remained downward.. try as you might she wasn’t going to look up.. she really didn’t want to…she listened to you..your words of support.. of strength circled her mind.. over and over.. telling her she wasn’t weak.. that she wasn’t a child or helpless.. that she was a woman that came back from the dead.. that she was the mother of Aysil.. and of Jacob.. and then of course the two on their way..her breath just kept hitching there against the back of her throat.. quite audibly.. her body trembled and shook.. goosebumps flooded her pretty pale skin..she wanted to believe it all.. she truly did.. she wanted to believe that you saying he could come back.. that he wouldn’t die in some puny human war was all true.. but her doubt.. was immense.. her personal experience was clouding her proper judgement.. her past was circling.. and she was starting to feel quite ill.. a bit queasy.. quite possibly because she hadn’t had a lot to eat.. and yet.. food was the last thing on her mind.. she wouldn’t have eaten it even if it were placed there right before her.. she swallowed when you said she was going to march over there and watch Pia.. it would be then that her gaze would lift.. if only for a moment..her lids were quite heavy and she practically looked to you through those long charcoal coloured lashes.. before you turned and headed outside.. her shoulders sunk there and she exhaled.. well as best she could with her breath hitching over and over and over again.. she was trying to catch her breath.. slowly she stepped across to where Pia was resting.. and she too curled up sideways upon that lounge seat.. drawing her knees up to her chest.. the tears continued to trickle down her cheeks.. she tuned out the sounds around her.. so she missed Roses’s loud speech outside there.. her gaze had fallen down upon little Pia.. just to watch her however.. she was not focusing.. not properly.. though she’d know it if the child moved an inch in a direction she shouldn’t have..she’d blink though when she saw someones arms reaching in to take Pia.. her reflexes kicked in almost instantly and her arm swung around.. and before Rose even got hands upon Pia her fingers would be wrapped around Rose’s wrist.. more than prepared to break it if it wasn’t who it was meant to be..if it were perhaps someone trying to take Pia away.. someone that wasn’t Rose, Jacob or Nautilous.. before realisation would strike her.. and she would release her hold.. drawing her arm back to her side.. she’d offer a whispered sorry before curling back up into her ball.. her cheek down upon her knee there as her lids finally fell closed.. she exhaled a long deeper breath.. it only managed to hitch twice this time.. she was beginning to calm a little.. the cry she’d had.. was good.. it managed to get all the rawness out of what she was going through.. she was still upset yes.. she was still saddened and confused.. and perhaps even a little bit angry.. but it was mostly emotions she didn’t quite understand or register.. things she hadn’t felt before.. she heard his voice before she’d notice he was there.. her eyes remained closed so she missed him opening his arms out to her.. she listened to him speak.. about how he didn’t know what to do.. that he had never had anyone be said that he was leaving.. that he never had anyone to leave behind before.. then he began to speak to Sydel.. and that made her draw a little further into herself on that oversized cane lounge chair.. she pulled away from him then.. to turn against the cane.. drawing her head down into the little spot there nearer to her lap as her hands came up behind her neck.. interlacing there.. and she said nothing.. she just let him speak.. let him.. continue to talk.. promises made.. something about urgency.. a lot of it was coming through a little muffled with her sharply pointed ears being slightly squished by her arms.. he’d feel the change.. the shift.. as if the temperature in the room.. or.. perhaps more so the immediate area dropped quite a few degrees.. though her appearance didn’t appear to change.. - .. What the fuck have you done now.. .. she’d groan.. slowly lifting her head from her knee there.. those beautifully coloured eyes had been replaced by those rather haunted looking white orbs.. she stretched her legs out.. looking down at the dress she had on.. her brow would rise when she looked to the shoes.. clearly she was displeased at the choices.. to her it all looked rather ridiculous- ..as for your promises.. of a few good hours.. mm.. no.. .. she clucked her tongue against the roof of her mouth as she slowly and with such an unnatural grace moved to stand..- .. I’ll be expecting a lot more than that.. but .... she looked around the room there.. - .. not here.. no.. You can keep your.. .. she waved a hand at him dismissively - .. rancid foul smelling book collection.. to you and your BFF’s….. she screwed up her face there.. pressing a finger to the bridge of her nose- …What is that?.. Dust?.. Mold?.. Leather?.glue?. .. she wriggled her nose a little- ..Ah! Someone’s been fucking around in here.. .. her gaze narrowed .. s’that what you did wrong?.. .. she whispered there- .. wee bit premature?.... she shot him a wink- .. no it’s not you.. I know you.. that scent is not you.. that’s .. someone else
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
says to .°.a sky full of stars.°: And Jacob)*She had torn a damn strip into Nautilous there, and he was lucky that she didn’t really lay into him, because she was so mad at him if she had a frying pan the damn thing would be dented with how hard she’d smack him. She had a lot of patience, a lot of understanding, and normally she was a very calm and sweet person… But every now and then, someone hit a trigger for her, and she just let loose and ripped into who ever had caused it. What had happened with Sybelle, how scared she was, how sad… What the hell was Nautilous thinking, just leaving her like that, knowing she didn’t need her friend but her lover. She could tell her it would be ok, she could reassure her, but words were wind… She didn’t need to hear those words from her, she needed to hear them from him, and just walking out to talk with Jacob like that… Bullshit! She was not going to tolerate that kind of thing, not at all! She knew that she wasn’t exactly lady like, but this was war, and all things are fair on the battlefield. She wasn’t going to let him just hide out like that, to avoid the reality he needed to face, no matter how uncomfortable it might be. It wasn’t as if he was the only one to be afraid, or to be worried, or hurt. She and Sybelle had the most to lose no matter how you looked at it, they were both pregnant and engaged yes, but not married. They would have to go through their pregnancy alone, with only each other for support, without the calm reassuring words of their lovers. If something happened to their men, Sybelle would be utterly ruined, and she knew she wasn’t prepared or even sure how to help her friend if that happened. She herself… If Jacob died… She would solider on… Not because she wanted to, but because if she let herself die… It would be a mockery to everything she and Jacob had done together… She would stay alive no matter what, she would bring their children into the world, and raise them up on stories of their father… She would do her best to raise them right, to give them all the wisdom she could from both worlds, asking Caela and Garafin to help her with them as they had with Jacob… She would give them the best of herself… And when they were grown and married, ready to have children of their own… Her duty would be done, and she would be free, free to look for him… She would use this power of hers, this gift from her mother, and look through every universe, every world for him… She wouldn’t give up until she found him, and when she did… She would tell him all the stories of their children, everything he had missed, everything life had forced him to be absent from… She hadn’t been able to look at him, with all that anger dissipating as quickly as it had risen, she just felt utterly sick. She had heard his sigh as she went back inside, not giving him a chance to talk, she wasn’t ready to listen to him just yet. She had gone to get Pia then, seeing Sybelle hadn’t taken her words well at all, as though they had taken no effect. She knew it would be hard for her, Sybelle hadn’t really grown up with much hardship that she knew of, and such things as this were going to hit her quite hard indeed. She had tried to guide her up, had had to actually bodily hold her up honestly, her little body’s strength working well for her in that instance. It had taken a bit of a minute for Sybelle to actually put her feet under her, but she had after a time, and she had tried to bolster her as best she could. Sybelle could be so strong, she knew it personally, she had been on the receiving end of it when her bleached out side decided to make her into a play toy. Sometimes her ribs still ached a bit when it got too cold, right in the place where she had bent them in, warping her titanium casing. Oh yes, she was so much stronger than she realized, she just didn’t want to see it. It hurt her to see her friend like this, it really did, and it was why she had made Naut come in to help her. She reached out to pick little Pia up, only to have her wrist be grabbed with the speed of a rattle snake, nearly making her pull her hand away. She felt that steel there in the grip, and a part of her worried for a fleeting moment that the other one had come to the fore, and was ready to give it another round. She took a deep breath to calm herself, heard Sybelle apologize for it then, she nodded her head and reached down to pick Pia up. Nautilous had come in then for Sybelle, waiting for her to arrive before he would talk with Sybelle. She had left them in peace, moving to her little office there on the side, to settle Pia into her little pram there. She heard Jacob come in behind her, heard him start to talk. She almost asked him to stop, to not say another word, to just…. Let her process it all. She didn’t though, she let him talk, let his words sink into her mind… She wouldn’t rage at him, she wasn’t mad at him, she couldn’t be… She was hurt yes… but not mad. She also knew that… right now… these might be some of the last moments she had with him for who knew how long? He could leave tomorrow, and the last thing she wanted, the last thing she could tolerate would be some of their last words being spoken in anger and hurt. She let him finish speaking, she didn’t interrupt him, but she didn’t turn to look at him either. She just looked down at Pia there, seeing her little face scrunch up a bit, confused at the different sounds. When he was done, she turned then to look at him, keeping her face carefully neutral for the moment. Her voce was soft, calm, soothing really.*”Please take a seat?”
(09:03:49 )
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
says to .°.a sky full of stars.°: & Jacob)*She would wait for him to take a seat there, or not, it was up to him.*”Remember when I said I trusted you with my whole heart? That I would love you forever, no matter what, because you are my heart beat?.... I didn’t mean it lightly…”*She would pause a moment, moving so that she sat on the edge of her desk, her legs crossed as they dangled there in the air. She was trying… fighting to make it easier on him, despite the fact that that right now, She very much wanted to break down much as Sybelle had… But she couldn’t, and she knew it. She had to be strong for Sybelle, for Jacob…. For all of them. It was a lot of weight on her small shoulders, but she could do it, she could carry it… She had to.*”I don’t think… anyone wanted to ruin our date today, and it was beautiful… It still will be... I am glad to be told before we got home personally Jacob… I will be staying there while you are gone, and I don’t want our walls that have only heard our laughter and pleasure to be colored with the sadness of parting… I want our home to only hold good memories for us… It will become my sanctuary, my bastion, my haven in the…..time that will pass while you are away…”*Oh it was getting terribly heavy in her heart… She felt it settling there at the bottom, like a slow lead drip, just adding that much more weight every few words… When she couldn’t bear it anymore, she would slide off of her desk there, to come and sit in his lap and wrap her arms about his neck and hold him close as she rested her head over his heart. She would listen to that steady beat there, feeling each sweet, gentle thump beneath her cheek there. It was something she needed right now, to hear that sweet sound, that steady rhythm that calmed her.*”I am glad he took you under his wing, at least I know someone will be watching your back… The fact of the matter is that I am mad at him for just walking away from Sybelle like that, not realizing how much she needs him right now… It was like the night in the garden of memories, when I said goodbye to my children, and I asked you to give me some space… But you didn’t… You came and held me, knowing I needed it more than anything else, that being alone wasn’t what I needed… Sybelle needs that same sort of thing, and no one can give that to her, no one but him.”*She shook her head softly, remembering how it had hurt so badly to let them go, remembering all the pain of losing them… It had all left her raw, empty, aching… She had done it alone for so long, so long that she forgot that people might want to help, might want to give her that shoulder to lean on… And in that moment… she realized that she was doing it again…. Like that night in the garden, when she insisted she could do it alone, when inside she knew it was a lie. She curled up about him tighter then, nuzzling into his chest then, trying to make herself just… let it go… She was afraid to show him how scared she was, because she didn’t want him to go to war, to be worried about her…*”If you want me to go home, to Arvandor…. Because it will help you feel better… I will try… But if you think…for one, single moment…. For a second… That you will go into this alone, you are out of your mind…” *She shook her head softly, pulling back from him for just a moment, lifting her hands to cup his cheeks softly in her palms.*”My clan…. You know we have a saying… ‘Cónaí ar mo Chreideamh i Dhuit’… My Faith Resides in Thee… We were powerful warriors once, descendant from a fierce race of humans whose blood ran fierce with the coldest winds and ice of winter… We were not soft, not a one of us, we are raised as tough as the seas that constantly crashed against our home… ‘Fire And Steel’ is what we say when we went to war… My entire childhood was full of wars, between clans or outside invaders, but always fighting…”*Perhaps that was why she was taking this so well, not because she didn’t care, but because she was so used to war that it didn’t faze her as much… She wasn’t worried about the war, just him, just his place in it.*”Let me give you a proper send off then… We will throw a grand party, a big bash, with all of your favorite foods and lots of alcohol and drinks… We will celebrate and dance for hours and hours, we will sing and feast, and tell brave stories of wars long past… Then when you are truly partied out, exhausted, and you can’t take another drop of alcohol… We will camp out under the stars like we talked about… Just you and I… The day before you go… I will give you your presents then… Bits of memories, keepsakes to warm your heart while we can’t be together… I will send you letters every day, with bits of flowers and pictures, sometimes I will send you cookies and cakes… But you will get something from me every day…I promise…”*She would lean in to run her nose along his gently.*”All I ask is you promise to come home to me… No matter what happens, you must promise to come home to me, to be with me when our babies are born… If you can do that, I promise I will go to Arvandor, to pass the time with Caela and Garafin…I will take care of Sybelle and make sure that she is ok, I’ll do my best to keep her spirits up… I will hold on for as long as I can, to make sure you are there when it’s time… Sometimes wars are fast, sometimes….not so much… We really don’t know how long I’ll be pregnant, we don’t know about how my being a plains walker might effect it, or how you and I will only have babies that are a fourth elf and the time it might take for them… I might only take eight months if it is closer to human… Or I might take a year with our elf babies… So you had better go and kick their butts, make sure they run with that tail of theirs between their legs, and be home in time to hold your babies, you understand? If not, Rosetopia will have to come over and kick that rather sexy bottom of yours Jacob. Sound fair?“
ϕ₦ḁṷṭḯḷṓṷṩϕ
ᶲI Loved Her Not For The Way She Danced With My Angelsᶲ
°But For The Way The Sound Of Her Name Could Silence My Demons°
°°°
says to .°.a sky full of stars.°: *There was no missing that temperature change, the inside was cool yes, but nothing could produce that sort of cold as instantly as that shift could. It was as if someone came in and sucked all the warmth out of the area, stealing along with it any sense of security, any hope of it’s return. It could be vastly unsettling to anyone not familiar with her, hell it was downright scary for others, rather like seeing a ghost suddenly come into the flesh. It was…. Disturbing. Yet, to him, it was quite the familiar thing really, almost soothing. After all, he had always run towards hot, he seemed to carry the Egyptian heat in his veins. With him, she was actually warm, and more than once he had caught her burrowing up to him to enjoy that heat he gave off naturally. She had done well to cool him off, and he had returned the favor in warming her, the two rather like the sun and moon together. Unlike those two heavenly bodies though, he and Sydel were never in such synch, they were always off balance. Sometimes they were just a little off, other times they couldn’t stand being near each other, to the point they either fucked like rabbits or fought like wolves. There was never really a peaceful time with them, she always found something wrong, something to push him away. He hated to see her pull into herself like this, to see Sybelle in such anguish, suffering because of something he had no control over and yet had done all the same. He should have stopped that bastard before he had started to talk, but what had happened, he had not expected. A parade perhaps, a celebration of sort, some sort of little drill he had to run… Not war… He had not expected that. He had no way to prepare her for it then, no way to let her know ahead of time, to soften the blow. He had no idea either, that it would affect her so deeply, or unsettle her so much… He had tried to hold her, but she was having none of it, none of him right now. He wanted to give her comfort and solace, but she just didn’t want him near her period honestly, she was balling up away from him as it was. What did he do? Honesty? How the hell do you handle an emotional woman? A PREGNANT emotional woman? There was no book on this, no guide, no walk through to tell him how to handle this. The fact of the matter is, all of this was new to him, and he hated it. He hated that he had hurt her this morning, hated that he had pushed her, that he was afraid for the first time, he hated that he was scaring her because he had to go… He hated the fact that because of him… her life was in danger, because HE had decided to be an idiot…. Yeah, he was just doing this… fucking beautifully. He watched her turn and look at him, lifting her head up from those long legs of hers, those ghostly white eyes looking at him. Naturally, it just wouldn’t be her if she didn’t come out swinging, so to speak. His voice dropped just a bit, shaking his head softly, crossing his arms over his chest.*”Hur Hur Hur, you’re hilarious, you should look into doing some stand up comedy, you’d kill…”*He watched her look over her dress, the cute little flats that Sybelle had chosen, and just saw the look on her face. Rather like someone had stuck a lemon in her mouth, or some other unsavory thing in her mouth, she just looked so displeased. He didn’t know why she couldn’t just come out and visit and be happy to be out, rather than to be so damn irritating, really she always flipped that switch. Yet… It was what they were… they were always like this. Normally he would have just laughed, but he wasn’t in the best of moods right now, certainly not his most tolerant.*”What I did, I didn’t actually do, thank you very much… There is a conscription going on right now, everyone in town has been enlisted, including Jacob and I… She isn’t handling it well, to be honest, I’m worried it’s breaking her and I sure as shit don’t know how to help her.”*He figured she couldn’t be content with just a few hours, knowing her, she might want a night or even longer… Which was fine with him in all honesty. He could do thing with her that… well… Sybelle couldn’t hang with… In truth, he needed a good old savage fucking, a way to release the tension he was holding onto right now. He had a lot dropped on him in a short amount of time, and with him, the best stress relief was what he and Sydel did best. A good, hard, brutal slaughter followed by a fucking that could never be called gentle. Letting her get as his neck though, oh he knew he was going to regret that one later, he would come out of this looking like he lost a fight with something clawed. Big claws… and teeth…sharp little canines that did quite well to rent into flesh…*”Alright… I will give you as long as you ask, IF you give me what I’ve asked for…. Give me the information I need to save you both, to get her back to Arvandor… Do that, and you can stay with me until I have to go to this idiotic war…”*He shook his head, as if he would want it here, this rather normal and generally not bad little library. He would take her out to range, pushing out far past the city, out into the wilds where the gypsies were. Though the joke about his little…bffs…. He looked to her and smiled, oh so sweetly there, those baby blue eyes just innocent as a newborn lamb.*”My dear, you forget that that my… bffs are your family… Your son and soon to be daughter in law. YOUR blood, not mine, I’m just marrying in.”*He batted those big blues at her there, before noticed her rub her nose there, scenting out all the smells in this little library. The joke about being premature made him snort a bit, raising his brow before cutting a look at her, his lips curling a bit.*”I have many flaws, but shooting my rifle before my targets in sight…. Has never been one of them. But if you don’t trust me, I can always grab you by that pretty hair of yours, drag you off to a meat locker and hang you from some hooks like a pretty little ornament before I fuck you until you beg me to stop?”*They were entering a game he knew very well, her teasing him because she wanted him, and him tormenting her back as he sparked that keen little mind of hers.*”As for who… That would be Jacob and Rose… they go at it as bad as we do… Your son has a bit more of you than he does Sybelle in a way… Got a kinky streak in him, one that, as much as I love Sybelle, she just doesn’t have. So… Do we have a deal?”
(19:20:14 )
…The..Curse..Ends..Here…
Dr. Jacob Anikin
..Stop trying to fix yourself, you’re not broken..
..You are perfectly imperfect, and powerful beyond measure..
says to ‡Ţŕįʼn: .. he had stepped into the office shortly there after her.. taking it upon himself to slowly and quietly close the door.. if she wanted it open he would of course oblige her and re-open it.. but with Nautilous and Sybelle dealing with an issue a little ways just outside he thought that both couples needed a little bit of privacy.. he pressed his back to that door there.. sliding his hands down into his pockets.. he was watching her.. observing how she placed little Pia down into the pram.. how she wasn’t really looking to him and hadn’t done so since she ripped into Nautilous outside.. and that was making him curious.. a little confused and rather saddened.. she caught his attention though when she asked him to take a seat.. he glanced up to her.. allowing his gaze to wander over her neutral features.. before he would give her a little nod.. crossing the room there till he settled down upon one of those wooden chairs.. his hands would come back down to rest there upon the tops of his thighs.. he was fidgeting a little.. concerned that she was going to tear into him like she had done to Nautilous..he tilted his head to the side a little.. she asked him if he remembered when she said she trusted him with her whole heart- .. yes.. of course.. .. he nodded.. he did remember.. vividly in fact.. it would be something that would remain with him for years to come he just knew it.. his hand rose as he tapped it against his own heart there.. - .. I wasn’t going to leave it till we got home.. .. he exhaled softly.. his hands rose as he lightly rubbed at his forehead- .. it’s a bit of a raw area.. I see it.. in the eyes of the Mothers and Wives in the village.. the tears that were shed.. the crying.. the screaming.. .. his brows furrowed.. his hands falling to rest there behind his head- .. I don’t understand a lot of it.. I really don’t.. this is not something I have really experienced first hand before.. like I have read about it.. and I have seen what happens to those who return.. having worked in the medical system for hospitals away from here when there was a war on.. and it can get pretty gruesome and there are a lot of deaths.. but.. this is.. something very new to me.. .. he drew a breath he was having trouble articulating his feelings.. the emotions that were running through his mind at that very moment- .. in some ways I am in the same boat as Nautilous.. in that .. I have someone to come home to.. .. his gaze.. that vibrant blue and green lifted to look to her there- .. I have someone that holds my heart and who is carrying my children.. who is.. my world.. and I’d pretty much do anything.. Anything to make sure she was safe..Nautilous had mentioned that.. we could take for the hills if we wanted.. just go.. leave it all behind.. .. he exhaled.. shaking his head a little- .. and as horrible as it may sound.. I just can’t.. I can’t.. I am duty bound.. I was called upon to represent the country that allowed me.. that gifted me with you in my life.. that has put me in the position of.. such.. immense enjoyment and merriment.. that I do feel.. I owe the land my service.. I have the skills.. I should put them to use.. and if I was to run.. I don’t think I could live with myself.. .. his brows furrowed.. he so did not want her to think she was not worth it.. it was not that at all.. oh he was making an utter mess of it all.. nothing was coming out the way it was supposed to- .. Please know that I adore you.. ever single fibre of your being.. I do.. I love you Rose.. and I always will.. .. he watched her as she crossed the room then to settle down to sit there upon his lap.. curling in so close with her head resting against his chest.. his arms wrapped around her.. drawing her into such a loving warm embrace..he’d press a kiss there to the top of her hair- ..He’d really quite scared.. .. he spoke softly.. when she let him know she was angry with Nautilous.. - .. He’s absolutely besotted with her.. and he’s never been in the position to have someone to come home to.. to Want to come home to.. he’s afraid that something will happen.. that she wont be strong enough .. she’s having quite a few problems.... he would softly stroke her hair..- .. the children are putting a great deal of strain on that body of hers.. and she’s not eating.. .. another kiss there to her hair.. - .. he’s genuinely afraid.. and he isn’t sure how to handle what he is feeling.. your actions were just what he needed.. the kick in the pants to get inside and deal with it head on..but yes you are right.. that’s what she needs.. she needs his support.. more than anyone else right now.. .. he exhaled softly.. he let his eyes close over as he rested his chin down upon her shoulder.. just holding her like this was.. just perfect.. it was just what he needed.. just what he wanted..- .. if it is possible I would like you to go back to Arvandor.. as I know.. you will be safe there.. but in the end.. the decision is yours..if you feel more comfortable staying here.. in our home.. .. Our home.. not something he had really let sink in until that moment.. he had often called it her home.. that he would need to find somewhere in the village for himself.. but it was ‘our’ home now.. - .. then you do whats right for you and the babies.. I will always stand by you .. completely and fully.. you just need to let me know where it is you will be.. so I can come and sweep you off your feet upon my return.. because Rose.. my sweet tiny dancer.. I will be coming home to you.. I promise you that.. .. he held her just a little bit tighter.. - .. and I will try my best to write you back.. Your letters though.. receiving those would be perfect.. thank you.. honestly.. I love the idea.. and of having a send off.. you are just so.. utterly perfect.. I love you
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
: Jacob)*She had avoided looking at him for quite a bit honestly, not because she didn’t love him or because she was mad, but because she would start crying if she did. He would see everything there in her eyes, he would come and hold her, and she would just start crying. She couldn’t unload that on him right now, even if she wanted to just break, she couldn’t… After he left, when the blessed numbness of the moment wore off, along with the happy feelings from a perfect morning…. Oh she knew the second she was alone, she would just break down into a million little pieces, soaking her sorrows into her pillow… Until then though, she had too much spunk, was raised perhaps a little too strong… She was worried honestly, so very worried, about everything… Jacob was leaving during famine, and though the town would be able to balance perhaps a bit better with so many people gone, there wouldn’t be much food even then. She had to think about feeding Sybelle, plus herself, and through her little Pia too… No… She was doing what he had asked her not to do, and holding it all in, keeping it under that steel lid of her mind. She just couldn’t let it out right now, even though they were alone, it just wasn’t the time she could… Maybe tonight… When they were alone outside, surrounded by the woods, laying under a blanket of stars… Then she might be able to…. But not right now… No… Just too many people were leaning on her. So… She didn’t look at him… Not until she had gotten herself firmly under control, with every little bit of fear, every bit of sorrow locked up tight. She had asked him to take a seat after she had Pia settled, hearing the soft click of the latch, the door closed with them nested up in her office. She had look to him then, asking him if he remembered what she had told him, how he had her whole heart. She loved him so much it hurt, she often wondered sometimes when he did just one of those amazing little things that were as normal as breathing to him… She thought her heart would just pop right there in her chest. She loved him enough to understand that this wasn’t his fault, it wasn’t Nautilous’s fault, not any of theirs. They were victims in a cruel twist of fate, as if the furies couldn’t stand it, seeing people so happy. She listened to him speak, nodding her head softly, clasping her hands in her lap with the engagement ring on the top.*”A lot of people are going to be hurt in this… There are going to be a lot of empty saddles, sword belts with no one to wear them, and lonely seats at the hearthside… Many of the men here won’t be coming home, it’s something we women must realize, must accept. It doesn’t make it easy, it’s why you see so much emotion out there, all that chaos… They can’t let go… Nor can I… I can just choose how much I let show, and how I handle myself, and this situation… What good will crying do my love? Would it make your heart feel better to see me breaking down? Would you feel somehow easily in going if I screamed at you? No… You would feel worse than you already do, and this is an ugly enough situation as it is…”*She didn’t see it doing him any good, she knew he would fight, as soon as she saw that paper handed to him… He had read it over, not with any sort of regret or reluctance, simply acceptance for what it was. Jacob was who he was, honor bound to do what was right, no matter what. It wasn’t a flaw, it was an asset. It was just…a little sad…to see it take him away from her side. The fact was that she knew this, knew what he was like, going into this with him and even before. As a Doctor, she had faced against his stance, how he would not bend even a little bit. She had literally had to break out in the middle of the night to get away, sneaking out her window, trying to get to one of her little gold stashes in town only to end up in his room that night. If there was any sort of fate there, it certainly had them entwined, quite tightly… She had to trust in that same sort of fate, that it would never let them be far from each other, they were too intrinsically bound.*”I know Jacob… Do you think I would expect anything less from you? My love, I can’t say I know everything about you, I would be quite sad if I did… I am learning you, and you are learning me, as you said we are going to find the cracks and dents within one another… I know your honor, how deep that river runs, and how swift it flows. I think I am the only reason you ever bent on it, and even then, it was only after I was well on the way to recovery…”*She smiled just a bit for him there, trying her very best as it were, to make him smile if only for a moment… She could see just how much it was eating him up, how it was hurting him inside, this entire thing.*”I am going to be your wife in a year, we will be parents to a beautiful little boy and girl, and our little family will be the most perfect thing in the world… None of that is going to change, no matter how far you go, no matter where your feet may take you… You are right, you do have the skills, and without you even more of these men might not come home… You could be the very thing that will keep them safe, bringing them home to their wives and children, letting their mothers weep tears of joy at their home coming… If you ran… I would drag you back.. It isn’t in you to run Jacob… Your my sweet, wonderful, amazing tin soldier… But before you go, your little dancer will make sure you have a coat of steel first, for the goblin kings are fierce my love…”*She had gone over then, to settle in his lap after he told her he adored her, every little bit of her… She just smiled very softly there for a moment, thinking of him calling her a little bug, something she had never thought she would love quite as much as she did. She sighed softly when he wrapped his arms about her, her breath shaking just a bit, a soft stutter before she exhaled. She had known something was wrong with Sybelle, she had barely seen her eat at all, and Sybelle was even thinner than she was. She thought maybe it was just an elf thing, but with both Nautilous and Jacob being concerned about her… It made her think about things perhaps a bit differently… She loved that little kiss to the top of her head then, just melting against him a bit more, the stroking in her hair was almost mesmerizing… Hypnotic…*
(20:48:02 )
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
: Jacob)”I am sure her appetite will pick up once we reach Arvandor, she might just be terribly homesick, so that combined with everything else she can’t tolerate the idea of eating perhaps? If not, you aren’t the only person in this little family of ours, who can use medicine… I can put her to sleep with laudanum if I have to, and tube feed her to make sure she eats, I won’t let her give up… Though I am sorry you had to see me like that… It doesn’t happen too often, I certainly am not the kind of person prone to such outbursts, but every now and then something comes along and flicks a nerve and I just… I guess I blow up a little. Even if it was what he needed, I never wanted you to see me get so… nasty… But that’s part of what this year is about isn’t it? To make sure we know each other as best as we can…”*He would see her flip that switch at some point, and she was rather glad they got it out early, so he would know that she did at times have a little bit of a temper… She raised her hand then, to brush her fingers through his hair when he leaned his head on her shoulder, just gently soothing him there.*”I will go… I won’t be there entirely though, I will come home to send off your letters and your care packages… I will run by the hospitals and make sure I know about what is going on… I won’t hide in Arvandor away from this all… But I will spend most of my time there… I do promise that if the war gets too close to home, or if the travel gets too hard on me or the babies, I will remain in Arvandor and try to find a way to send letters through the gate… I hate a feeling Hanali won’t let me fail… She knows how much I love her Paramour Jacob…”*Him calling it their home hadn’t been missed on her, he nearly continuously called it her home, insisting it was her space. Now that he was marrying her, her property was his, he would indeed be getting a bit more than just his little dancer. She laughed so softly then for a moment, hearing him telling her he would sweep her off of her feet, making her smile there.*”I promise I will write you each time I move from one place to another… So you will always know where I am, after all no woman would ever want to miss such a home coming… Though I will probably be a bit heavier than you remember me now…I might be quite round after all you know… But… Don’t worry about writing me back as often… So long as you can get my letters, and know how much I love you, that I am thinking of you… That is all I want…”* She squeaked just a bit when he held her a little tighter, making her giggle just a little, just a bit.*”I am far from perfect Jacob, as you saw just a few moments ago, I rather popped that bubble, didn’t I? Goodness, I don’t think I ever saw you look so shocked, I honestly didn’t…. I felt so bad…. But yes… I very much want to give you a send off… We will have it as your early birthday party… and I will make you a big, moist, delicious lemon and lavender cake, just for you. Now… if you don’t mind… Can you just hold me like this… for a little while longer please?... In all honesty Jacob… I am doing my very best to hold it together… but tonight I will probably cry… a lot… and I will soak your shirt probably… and need several tissues… I hate that you have to go after we just found each other… We’ve only had a month… It isn’t fair… I am very, very mad at the whole world, and all I want to do is cry… But I can’t… Not yet… But will you be there for me, when I do?”
ϕ₦ḁṷṭḯḷṓṷṩϕ
ᶲI Loved Her Not For The Way She Danced With My Angelsᶲ
°But For The Way The Sound Of Her Name Could Silence My Demons°
°°°
says to .°.a sky full of stars.°: Fixed)*He snorted a bit there shaking his head, unsure if she had no idea what it was here, or if perhaps it was one of those things from an era he had visited that wasn’t here… Either way, her reaction was honestly pretty hilarious, and it had done well to chase away a bit of the cobwebs there. For some reason, even if she was a cold hearted little thing, he never wondered where his footing was with her. Sybelle often had him wondering if he was doing the right thing, if he was being too hard with her, or pushing too fast… But with Sydel, it was always the same, cold and hard but predictable.*”There can be, but only if you are good, and I don’t quite think you have it in you to make it in that area…”*He told her of what was going on, what had happened, why he was calling her out. The fact that he was being forcefully enlisted, how it had torn Sybelle up, and how he had no idea what to do about it honestly. Her response just had him shaking his head, rolling his eyes heavenward, figuring she would be like a candy kid in a store… Just that bit about him breaking Sybelle’s heart had him a bit pissed, and she kept twanging that nerve rather hard.*”Yes, there is going to be a war, and for the first time in my life I wasn’t even aware of it sneaking up. Normally you know we hear these whispers on the wind, little tremors on the web as it were, but this time there was nothing… There wasn’t even a whisper, it just suddenly happened out of the blue, like a sudden storm but without the cloud buildup. I am quite interested to see who’s puppeting this whole affair honestly… It isn’t too often someone can pull the wool of my eyes, or my ears for that matter, so naturally I want to know who’s started it.”*She asked then, if she were to be allowed to go to war, and he had to tilt his head at her.*”I was debating it… Slap you into a temporary body so to speak, drag you along with me for a while. Since we were both young pups Sydel, we’ve never missed a war together, we’ve always done these things as a set…”*Oh, there she went flicking that nerve again, making him roll his neck releasing several loud pops. She was really, really, really pushing it.*”Tread carefully Sydel, keep in mind I can keep you alive by a sliver if I want to, and I am just as creative if not more so than you with torture… YOU don’t know how to work that body completely yet, where as I do, and I could block all that dopamine in your system so you couldn’t move. No more could you use the pain for pleasure either… I would rather not go there, I do love you, just as I love Sybelle… But you are treading on rotten black ice my dear… I might look like a tame little puppy dog, but if you push me, that wolf will come out… He’s sleeping right now, but he is far, far from gone…”*He watched her stand, and wondered if she was going to fall on her ass, and that wasn’t a good sign. Just how bad was she right now? Then she slapped out that little ultimatum then, he would only get his help, if he gave her what she wanted…. He tilted his head a bit.. just a bit… Watching her really, debating and measuring the benefits versus the drawbacks of this enterprize.*”Ok… Let’s lay it out. You STOP interfering with Sybelle’s responses and emotions, you tell me how to Successfully get her back to Arvandor, and how to save the two of you… And you can be right by my side the entire damn war. I’ll even let you take the finishing blow on each enemy, and make you your bloody baths, all nice and hot how you like it… Hell, I’ll throw in the bonus of sparing you any of the good looking boys on the enemy side, so when you take your baths you have a nice little uh…rubber ducky to play with… Or should I call it a rubber fucky?”*He paused a moment, and he just started to chuckle there, a brow raised.*”Oh my God… You’re actually sulking that you weren’t there! You know, if you actually ASKED Rose, she might just do it… Maybe… I will tell you though… She’s got a hot little set of hands… Watching her suck that jizz right out of your sweet little slit was hot… She certainly is a little vixen, I wish Jacob joy of her, boy will be loving his sex life until he passes from this world I think. I certainly hope to enjoy a few more bath scenes, I won’t lie, and besides since when did either of us turn our noses up at stuff like that? We’ve never cared, so long as it is in the pursuit of pleasure, genetics never came in. Besides, it isn’t as if she is my blood child, she’s just marrying in. Just like I am.”*He chuckled softly then, shaking his head, moving to lean against one of the book shelves that was standing not far from his back. She was right though, only once had she not been able to handle him, and it had been with rather sad results… Ones she wouldn’t remember, and yet for as long as he lived, he would never forget.*”Oh normally, I would say you were right, you always did roll well in the hay with me… But your pregnant, and the way it rolls right now, I can’t really go the full distance… Sybelle gives me what I want and need, but you satisfy a craving I have, for that nice dark side of the mattress as it were…”*He paused, for just a moment… She had gone from wanting to just go to war, then adding her last little demand, how he had to admit he missed her. He walked over to her then, resting his hands on the back of that chair there, looming over her as he leaned down to whisper in her ear.*”You want me to admit I miss you?... I miss the sex… Not all of it… Sybelle gives me things you can’t…but you give me things she can’t… I need you BOTH or it just…doesn’t work… So yes… I miss you… I miss the way you love it when I welt your ass… The way you adored all the kinky levels we could play with… How I could fuck you raw and yet you’d still want more because you’re like me and we get off on the pain… So there… I miss you, you white little witch, my dark little Princess… and you can come to war with me… So now YOU give me what I want, or it is all off the table… And for God’s sake, slice me already, you’re going to fall over as you are… But if you’re going to get my neck, don’t spill a drop, I rather like this shirt…”
…The..Curse..Ends..Here…
Dr. Jacob Anikin
..Stop trying to fix yourself, you’re not broken..
..You are perfectly imperfect, and powerful beyond measure..
says to ‡Ţŕįʼn: .. he listened to her when she spoke to him about what good would crying do.. would it help? Would it make him feel better to see her break down.. would it make him feel better if she screamed at him.. he exhaled softly.. and continued to stroke his fingers through her hair- .. Rose.. my dear sweet little Rose.. there is nothing wrong with crying.. don’t ever .. Ever feel that I would think you weak or less because of it.. if you have a need to let it all out then I would much prefer you did.. whilst I was able to hold you.. to console you.. I would much rather be able to help you through your worries.. your concerns and the things that put you in that spot.. than to make you even consider going through them on your own.. .. another kiss to her head there.. just gentle and light..- .. of course Id rather you didn’t scream at me.. .. he chuckled just a little.. his chest lifting as he did so making her bounce a little there upon his lap- .. but if you need to.. you go right on ahead.. You are right..in that we are still learning a great deal about one another.. and I honestly think we will be learning about each other.. forever.. it’s not something that will ever stop.. or change and that in of itself is wonderful.. .. he slowly stroked along her arms there.. - .. I have a duty of care here.. and I will do my best to bring as many of those young men home as is possible.. .. he slowly drew her away from his chest.. tilting her chin up so she would look to him..- .. and every single step I take.. out there without you by my side.. you will be in my thoughts.. in my heart.. pushing me onward to make sure I come home.. for you are the reason I would want to come home.. there will be no time for reckless actions.. I am not there to be the hero.. I am there to play my part.. to fill in that missing puzzle piece.. and then I will be back.. upon your door step.. no doubt probably a little worse for ware.. but desiring nothing more than the sight of you before me..as for seeing you getting so nasty.. .. he chuckled softly shaking his head- .. don’t be silly.. I want to experience all sides of you my dear.. from the super sweetheart.. to the stubborn little bug I adore.. The fact that you can stand on your own like that to someone that is almost twice the size of you is incredible and I love it.. You’ve got so much spunk my dear.. and I wouldn’t want you any other way.. .. he pressed his lips to her forehead before he would allow her to curl back in against his chest once more.. - .. I am looking forward to seeing that body of yours develop Rose.. pregnancy is such a beautiful thing.. it really is.. and honestly.. your size means nothing to me.. large or small.. I’ll love you all the same.. afterall.. it wasn’t just the body that I fell for.. I fell in love with you because of a million tiny things you never even knew you were doing…You just take care of yourself.. look after you and those children.. stay as healthy as you possibly can.. .. he rubbed along her arms- .. that is my only concern.. I have a feeling though should you go back to Arvandor.. that Garafin will fatten you up in no time.. he thought you were a touch on the lean side when we first got there.. so be prepared to be filled with copius amounts of food.. .. he chuckled..- .. we will figure out a way to get Sybelle back there with you.. and I know you will keep a close eye on her.. I will look forward to receiving those letters ..and I will endeavour to send at least one back to you.. I am sure there will have to be a way.. even if it is by magical means.. it will get to you.. then one day I will return to that door step.. and surprise you with my return.. . her giggle there when he squeezed her was music to his ears.. and it made his smile only brighten further.. oh how he adored it- .. Don’t feel you have to hold it all together..you don’t have to force being strong.. you are allowed to just let it all out.. to just cry.. to scream and yell and be angry at the world.. it’s perfectly fine.. in fact I would prefer it.. rather than you bottling it all up.. stress on that body of yours in your current condition is not such a good thing.. .. he slid his hands down her back there.. to settle there just above her ass there.. his fingers interlacing..- .. I will be there for you.. right there.. to hold you.. even when you tell me not to.. even when you try and push me away.. and call me all manner of terrible words.. .. he chuckled- .. I will be there.. just to annoy you.. because I know.. deep down its what you need.. it’s what you want.. you’re just having trouble dealing with all the anger and hurt that’s coursing through you.. ..he smiled when she spoke about their celebration- .. How did you know my Birthday was coming up mmm?.... he shook his head chuckling- .. seems there are no secrets at all are there.. I’m going to guess Sybelle told you.. .. he pressed his lips to her temple there.. just lightly- .. we can stay here.. right here.. for the rest of the day.. I have no need to be anywhere else.. just here.. with you.. is right where I want to be
.°.a sky full of stars.°.
…Sybelle Anikin...
…He came into my life like lightning in the darkness…
.jagged and white hot.
says to ϕ₦ḁM: .. she tilted her head at him when he spoke about her having to be good.. she screwed up her face a little and pouted- .. well.. I’m not going to be good.. that’s not going to happen any time soon.. what a waste of good energy.. .. she sunk back down to sit there.. having had enough of her wobbly little legs.. her balance was way off.. her knees were a little shakey.. and she hadn’t even had the forsight to change what she was wearing she was just that ‘stuffed’.. - .. How is it you didn’t know it was happening hmm?.... she questioned him when he spoke about it being sprung on him.. she knew he was pretty much always in the know of these things.. especially when it was a full scale war.. - .. what colours are we talking?.. is it the English?.... she sunk down into the cushions there.. her long lean legs dangling over the edge of the chair.. those long white locks spread out on either side of her head- .. perhaps you’re just getting old.. hmm?.. couldn’t blame you if your hearing was a bit off.. I’m surprised they wanted you at all.. aren’t you about ready for a walking frame?.. I see the white hair is sprouting.. don’t you just look dashing.. .. she stifled her laughter then.. her body trembled as she covered her mouth with her hand.. - .. Oh it’s probably someone saying something stupid somewhere along the line.. pissed someone else off and here we are.. humans have a knack for such stupidity.. .. she swung her legs a little ..her bare feet lightly brushing against the floor boards as she did so…she heard his threat then..telling her to tread lightly.. that it was him keeping her alive.. that he could block all the dopamine.. and etc etc.. she rolled her eyes and groaned a little- .. you wouldn’t hurt me.. so don’t bother wasting your breath.. .. she waved her hands around dismissively.. You forget.. I’m the one wielding all the power here.. .. she waves her fingers then as if she were conducting an orchestra- .. I know what she’s thinking when you speak to her.. I know what she wants from you.. I know a lot more.. than you do..as for rotten black ice… I like ice.. and I don’t care for tame little puppies.. if I wanted puppies id go into the village and pluck me a nice ripe new soldier.. no.. I am here for the wolf.. and if he doesn’t show his head soon.. I’m going back to bed.. .. her arms crossed then about her chest.. yes she was acting like a child that hadn’t gotten what she wanted.. he listed out what he wanted out of the deal then.. for her to stop toying with Sybelles responses and emotions.. she put on a bit of a pout there.. it was a lot of fun to muck with her.. she was quite easily lead afterall.. and to get her back to Arvandor.. she exhaled.. the little benefits were nice though.. going to war.. taking the finishing blows.. the blood baths.. hot at that.. and the little enemy soldier boys.. her arms uncrossed there and her fingers tapped together..- .. hmm.. it’s all rather tempting.. .. she captured her lower lip there.. dragging it into her mouth as her gaze shot upward.. she watched him coming to stand there against the back of the chair.. looking down to her as he was..- .. fine.. Fine.. .. she grumbled- .. I wont interfere with her responses and emotions anymore.. .. she mumbled something a little unlady like about him taking away all her fun..she was enjoying having a puppet to play with.. - .. But I better get my soldiers.. or No deal!.... she sunk down into the cushions a little when he called her out on her sulking about not getting playtime in that bath.. he was right.. she was a bit miffed she missed out.. it did look like a bit of fun.. - .. I’m not even sure I Like Rose.. .. she huffed.. turning her head to the side so she didn’t have to look to him.. peering through those dark lashes of hers as she was chewing on the grin there.. before she laughed.. she groaned when he reminded her that she was pregnant and her hands slid down to her flattened stomach there- .. Ohhhh.. right.. .. she whined.. poking at her stomach with her fingers- . I had almost forgotten.. .. she frowned a little.. she really did not like being pregnant.. she hated it.. ballooning out like that.. ugh.. and it always threw her balance right off.. she watched as he leant down to her there.. whispering in her ear that he missed the sex.. that he needed them both.. that he missed her.. her dragged her tongue across her teeth there as her grin only widened
(23:45:43 )
.°.a sky full of stars.°.
…Sybelle Anikin...
…He came into my life like lightning in the darkness…
.jagged and white hot.
says to ϕ₦ḁM: .. she got what she wanted.. he admitted it.. she lifted her head up a little.. pressing her cool little lips there against the sharp curve of his jawline.. - .. I don’t give a flying fuck if you like that shirt.. .. she’d quip.. using the same breathy whispered tone as he had done to her only moments before.. she reached up with those rattle snake like reflexes.. wrapping her hands about the back of his head as she latched her teeth onto the side of his neck there.. that special sweet spot where his neck met his shoulder.. and she dug right in.. breaking through his supremely hot smooth flesh.. allowing that blood to trickle down past her teeth.. pooling there upon her tongue.. before it would slither its way down her throat.. her precious little heart didn’t know what to do.. it sped up quite quickly .. the fingers that were holding against the back of his head curled in.. scratching her nails against his skull.. against his scalp.. tugging on his thick richly coloured hair in the process.. sowly but surely.. each precious little inch of Sybelle would begin to fade. The colouring from the skin.. the plumper curves of the body.. all returning into those sharper leaner lines.. the perfectly pale flawless flesh.. that dress too faded.. along with those sparkly little flats.. slowly along those long lean legs of hers crawled a pair of super tight black leather pants.. they clung to every inch of her.. sucking the literal life out of her and leaving very little to the imagination ..there was a belt around the waist.. an o ring right at the front.. perhaps for him to tug on.. the top was more of a boned corset.. sucking that little petite frame of hers into a svelte silhouette.. forcing those beautiful tits of hers up and a sweet little valley to be on display.. around her neck there was several lengths of leather.. all spidering out to hold the corset up.. the more she drank.. the tighter those curls became.. she had just about torn a chunk out of his neck at this stage.. before she yanked her head away.. breathing deeply.. gasping almost as her gaze widened considerably and her upper body arched up so tightly.. it was like a jolt of energy it wasn’t quite expecting.. she groaned.. her hands slid down the length of her frame there.. - .. Fuck.. .. she hissed.. her brows furrowed.. she blinked.. and blinked.. it would take her a moment or two to focus.. - .. Oh good god.. .. she swallowed.. one tiny trickle of that richly coloured blood slowly made its way down her chin.. before she’d look up to him there.. she’d stretch her arms up above her head.. - .. mmm.... she murmured.. it did taste good.. she had to give him that much.. he did taste heavenly to her.. like her own personal drug.. thing is he knew it- .. if she wants to go back.. .. she’d murmur.. speaking as though she were just a little high..- .. she can.. but she and I would have to separate.... she’d chew on her lower lip.. slowly drawing up into a knelt position there as she pressed her knees to the back of the chair.. reaching up to grab a handful of that precious shirt of his.. pulling him forward.. closer to her.. the only thing between them being the chair back- .. find me a hot little body.. and she can go home.. temporarily.. not permanently.. she will not survive .. mm.. no.. .. she shook her head- .. she’s not strong enough without me..but she can go for a time.. .. she nodded.. releasing his shirt suddenly.. giving him a little shove.. before she would fluidly move to stand.. that leather clung to her ass like a second skin.. she wandered around the room there.. not off balance.. not wobbly at all..- .. it’s a bit of a catch twenty two really.. she can’t survive without me.. .. she shrugged.. moving toward the window there.. her hands down upon her hips- .. I can’t survive with the children in there.. but.. I wont survive without her.. but there’s time for her to.. go have her playtime in marsmallow ville
(00:43:08 )
‡Ţŕįʼnįţŷ‡
♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
says to …The..Curse..Ends..Here…: *To her, if she was emotional like that, just letting it all go like everyone else seemed to… It just wouldn’t benefit anyone, it would just make Jacob worry about her, feeling bad about something he just couldn’t help… Sybelle had a valid reason when she broke down, she was a delicate little thing, the world could knock her over with a feather really… Yet there was strength there too, the way she had grabbed her wrist with that steely grip there, Sybelle just didn’t know it yet was all… Or… Maybe she was just making excuses… Using everyone else’s feelings to cover her own, making them the excuse for her desire to hold it all in, like a band-aid made from their needs of what she could provide? She honestly couldn’t have admitted one way or the other, she was truly a mess inside and it certainly wasn’t getting any better, the fact was that Jacob was the only thing holding her together right now. He calmed her when she felt so very turbulent, soothed her when she was hurting, and gave her a safe place to rest when she grew weary of it all. It was because of him that she could pretend to be a little Valkyrie, zipping about here and there like a hummingbird, and making sure everyone she cared for was safe and cared for. He gave her so much by just being around her really, because of his seemingly limitless strength and calm, she felt as though she could do anything. Oh she was going to be terribly, terribly sad when she was gone, trying to figure out just how to live with the absence of his presence and the strength that had gone with it. He was right though, she would need to let it all out at some point, and it would be better if he were there to hold her together while she rather fell apart a bit.*”Mmmm… I wonder what it will be like, married to a man with more common sense that he should have. I almost feel sorry for our babies… Can you imagine them, trying to play the games that children always do, trying to pit us against one another so they get what they want… You know me so well, you would be able to call them out on their bluff whip fast, and I can just see them trying to backpedal… I don’t think they would try it more than once or twice at most, poor little babies of ours, they’ll never know a victory over us… I know you are right though, that it is better to let it out with you, when I know you can keep me safe…. When the numbness wears off a bit more, I probably will break down a bit, and you’ll have to hold me for a bit…”*She sighed softly, just adoring those little kisses there, just melting against him with each little one. That last bit though, that sweet little tease that made him laugh, sending that musical sound right against her ear as it bubbled down from that wonderful place deep inside him. She smiled there, giggling herself a bit, shaking her head.*”I don’t think you could handle me like that Jacob, you would feel so very bad, thinking I was truly mad at you! Honestly, I don’t want to yell at you, but at the world?... That one is certainly more likely… If I could, I’d certainly love to be given a chance at it’s shins, it deserves a few sharp kicks for this mess…” *She smiled softly, lifting her legs a bit there, feeling the gentle tug of her newest addition. It would certainly take some getting used to… Still, she would gladly ensure this ten times over for it, she loved it and all that had occurred in it’s placement there. She raised her hand a moment there, rubbing on the bridge of her nose just a bit, pressing a kiss to his chest.*”You’re right, and I don’t ever want to see a day go by, that I didn’t learn something new about you… Every day is full of little delights, things that I find out about you, things that just make me love you even more… For instance, you know that you only blush when he kiss now, when I say something teasing to you? And you now know that I do have…a bit of a temper…but only if someone pushes me that far.”*She felt him reaching down, drawing her away from his chest, making her frown in just the most adorable way. She was honestly so very comfortable there… She looked up at him when he tilted her head up just a bit, loosing herself almost instantly in the beautiful lines of his face, the wonder of his beautiful green and blue colored eyes.*”You do have one, but not to here, but to anyone who will need you help Jacob… I know this, I knew this from the start, falling in love with my handsome doctor… I knew you had things in your life that were important to you… Precious… Things that would take you places, to long hours, to back aching labor… I still fell in love with you anyways… I don’t care if you come home worse for wear, I rather expect it, and maybe look forward to it… You’ll be so exhausted, you might actually let me spoil you a little bit, baby you about the house as it were… Imagine when this of over and you come home, and I’ll spoil you with all your favorite foods and sweets and ice cold wine… I’ll send you off to the baths with me, and I’ll wash you from head to toe, rubbing you down and assuring myself your real… Then for the next oh… week or so? We will just laze around the house and on the property, doing nothing but getting fat and reading books and playing like children… I can’t stop you from going to war Jacob… But I can at least promise you, I will wipe as much of it from your mind as I can, so it’s just a distant memory under all the new ones we will make together…”*She would do her best anyways, she wanted to just make him laugh and smile, to let him know it was ok… She blushed when he talked about how she had taken Naut down as it were, just basically kicking his own butt, and how he thought it was incredible. She shook her head, holding up her hands a bit, giggling softly.*”Noooo it’s not good! I don’t think of the fact I am quite short, or how tall the other person is, and it can be very bad! I am just lucky a bit, because I have such a shock factor doing it, that whoever is on the receiving end is so stunned they just rather go along with it!”*She felt him kiss her forehead then, and when he allowed her to lay against his chest again, oh she certainly nuzzled up in right quick! She thought about pregnant being a beautiful thing, and she hadn’t exactly thought about it from someone else’s view, just her own joy at it. She didn’t really look at herself in a mirror, she just looked down to see it all, how she loved watching it get rounder and sweeter.*
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♥ There He Stood, As Steady on One Leg as Any of the Other Soldiers on their Two. ♥
♥ But Just You See, He'll be the Remarkable One. ♥
[Love is Composed of a Single Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies]
: ”So, even if I get so vey round, an all I am is a belly and feet, you will still think I am beautiful hmm?... Or what if I and only belly, and I stay the same everywhere else? Oh no! What about my ankles! Oh Jacob, just pray for me, don’t let me get swollen ankles, I love my ankles!”*She laughed at the idea of Garafin doing to her, what she tried to do to Jacob and Sybelle, to get them to eat more. Not that she would complain, oh no, the food there was soooo good she would gladly glutton on it! Which meant that unless he kept rather active, she was going to get round, very round! Though, with the temple not being too far, she would probably be quite busy with her studies and learning how to handle her duties.*”Oh bless Garafin… Once he finds out we’re pregnant, I think he would put me in a nest surrounded by pillows, and not let me do anything… Now, I love the idea of just lazying about with a book, eating myself silly and reading all day, but I really would get soooo fat!” *She smiled there, just imagining the day he did come home, probably covered in a few days worth of dust… She would love it. He had squeezed her and made her squeak, making her giggly shortly after, leaning in just a bit closer to him. She sniggered a moment there, just a little snort, and if a kitten could giggle it would sound about the same.*”Mr. Jacob! First off, I have never called you a dirty name, you just make me say dirty things when you’re being so terribly good! I’m just… I guess I am so used to holding it in Jacob, that I don’t know how to let it go, how to just let it out… I never had a chance to really…lean on anyone before, just… Always dealt with it on my own… Your right though, I don’t want to do anything bad to myself, anything to hurt our babies… You might just have to drag it all out of me… I don’t know how you would go about doing it, but I think you can do it… For some reason, you always know just what I need, before I even say anything… I trust you… Though I can’t promise I won’t soak your shirt…” *She grinned like a wee little Cheshire cat there though, when he asked her how she knew his birthday was coming up, her eyes just flashing that bright golden green color.*”Ah ah ah! No getting on Sybelle like that, she didn’t tell me, I asked her! I wanted to know when your birthday was, so I could throw you a grand party, just give you a day where I can celebrate you without you telling me to stop.”*That smile spread even brighter, just lighting her face up really, doing well to lighten the atmosphere that had settled in the beginning.*”You know your birthday isn’t long after mine either, which is rather wonderful, because it means we can spoil each other not long after the other. Besides, there are plenty of secrets here, I just know them all.”*She cackled in laughter a bit then, tapping against his chest with her hands teasingly, tickling him just a bit in the process. She leaned into that kiss to her temple, pressing her own to his neck, nipping it softly.*”You know… I never did have a camp out in a Library before… How about… We find a place here in the library somewhere just for us… We will call it our special spot… We will go upstairs and bring down the blankets and pillows and make a little nest for ourselves, and bring lots of candles too, and we’ll read each other stores and snack on the little finger food Mina and I keep on hand here for the children who come in… Then when it gets quite late and all the stars are out, we will go out into the back yard and watch the stars for a while, we’ll climb the tree back there and feed each other apples we pick… Then we will go back inside and curl up to sleep together, you me and little Pia makes three… What do you think?”