Nick Corwin is in a large open area in the main palace of AmKelosh. He stands pretty much near the center of this area. He's waiting for Nyss to come. She's either been sent or or someone has told her in advance to be here. Nick doesn't know which and doesn't care. That's not part of his job. He's just suposed to be here for the first test. He thinks Kayos is out of his mind offering this type of test to someone they don't know, but it can't hurt her. In theory anyway. Nick is tall by Kelosh standards. He's 6'2". His hair might be considered long to some, but it's a whole lot shorter than what it was before he was flayed. Nick isn't exactly human, but he looks the part. He's got that exotic look though that says he might have some dragon in him. His whole family are powerful magic users and they don't seem to ever get old enough to die. His mother is 3,000. Nick looks to be a human in his early twenties, but most humans around here grew up with horror stories about him. Or the Amazons did anyway, don't mention it to him, it's a sore spot. He doesn't like to be mentioned in any story of any kind. He'd rather just stick to his shadows. He has a corked bottle in his hand and inside the bottle is a black crescent moon shape made of metal. It's too big to have been placed in the bottle by natural means.

Nyss Nothing to do.. Reminds her almost of her old home within the Umbra, besides the point that this place was.. well more colourful.. Strands of the raven tinted hair crossed the ivory flesh of the face, obscuring the vision slightly.. She was told to go to (insert name here since Kehle never posted it).. Probably cause Kayos wants to do the tests.. Oh yes! He said they would do those today.. Perhaps she should ressurect the maturity that she burried slightly away.. Be wise.. She hated acting older than her age, then again she had to in human standards, or she'll barely be walking.. Cladded feet groped against the ground beneath daring not to make a noise.. Digits idly played with the material that dressed her form, a mere pair of black leather pants, and a matching tank top style shirt.. She fought to keep the illusion of the normal looking tongue, as the snake beneath tried to shatter the image.. A slender brow arched as she entered the area to see no one else but Nick himself.. Kayos must of cancled.. Figured.. Now she must take upon the role that she showed Nick, the mature curious woman that he still owed a night to see those places he promised her.. From within the hole it was burried, her maturity surfaced as shoulders slightly slid back into a straighter posture before she came to a halt a few feet infront of him.. " Where isss Kayosss? " She tried her best to keep her extended 's' at bay, but that would take time and practice.. Everything would and she still had yet to get even the slightest used to it..

Nick Corwin does not miss how Nysss speaks. He wonders breifly if she is yuan-ti. He's heard they are all kinky and wouldn't want to be around that. She's never come on to him though, so he dismisses that thought. Either he's wrong about them, or she's not one. He's never met one. "Kayos asked me to conduct the test. He's currently busy squashing an uprising in a far off area of the empire." Nick's tone isn't considered a friendly one, but it's his normal every day tone. It's just a little bland and lacking of emotion. Nick never shows much emotion. He even forgets to greet her or offer any type of smile. He instead is focused on his job. He sets the bottle down on the floor and then starts to guide Nyss away from the bottle toward the edge of the area. "Are you ready for the instructions?"

Nyss A slight tone of dissappointed echoed within her words, barely audible to those that really paid attention it.. " Oh.. " A frown collapsed momenterally upon her darkened lips before Nick began the lesson, she merely followed like a puppy to its owner before they both came to a stop...She came to a halt where he told her to as the right hip slightly came out as the weight shifted, her limbs curling up to snake along the stomach region within one another.. " Yes.. " She said impatiently, though the tone was hid.. She wanted to get these tests over with and get down to the real fun..

Nick Corwin points back out toward the bottle. "See that bottle? Get the darkcresent out without breaking the bottle or uncorking the lid." Odds are she can not do this task, but that's what the tests are for. She doesn't know what she can do, so they'll give her impossible seaming tests to prove she can't, or find out she can. Nick isnt' sure why she can't uncork the lid in the start, the thing won't come out the top anyway, it's too big. "Oh, and don't touch the bottle. You can get as close as you must, but do not touch the bottle." This test comes in several steps. If she can't do it at first, he takes away a restriction and has her try again.

Nyss A slight smirk of confidence blazed from her as she thought.. He must be kidding.. She used to do this all the time as a kid to get the cookie out of the jar.. Be a piece of cake.. A yawn emerged from the chambers of the mouth as a single limb stretched from its holding place.. Digits stayed curled into the palm besides one, the index finger uncurled pointing directly towards the bottle.. The rest of the fingers joined it as a tendril of the shadows formed from within the floor beneath sliping into the bottle.. As a snake with its prey the tendril mimiced, it appeared as a snake in a sense as it formed a mouth like figure and swallowed up the item that it must retrieve.. Soon as it did that it merely dissappeared back into the floor where it once came.. The same small tendril that retrieved the object appeared beside the right foot of Nyssscire before intertwining itself over her leg and coming to an end upon the hand that was extended.. It layed there for a moment or two before it faded within her hand itself leaving behind the item that it retrieved.. " Is that all? "

Nick Corwin gives a little shrug. "Yeah that was the test." Okay, so he was wrong. It was too easy for her. But then he didn't come up with the test and it's not his job to find what she can do. He wonders if he should tell her she passed, but it's not a pass or fail type of test. He walks back out toward the center of the room to get the bottle. He doesn't say much else, but then he rarely does. A few years ago he'd have been annoyed with having to say so much to give her instructions. He's getting a little more used to speaking to people though. He wasn't told to get the darkcrescent from her, so he'll let her keep it. Someone else can retrive that if they must.

Nyss She watched him wondering what others tests she was suppose to do as her orbs shifted to the Dark Crescent within her hand.. " What do I do with this? " Her limb slowly drawing back towards the stomach area where it came from.. She wondered if the next test would be harder.. She hoped so.. She liked impressing others.. Espically others that could prove her useful.. She wanted to be known.. Not just be another one of 'them'..

Nick Corwin icks up the bottle and glances back at Nysss He shrugs again. "Keep it." There is nothing special about the metal she now holds but that it is the symbol for the Kelosh empire, a black crescent moon. It's not magical or anything. Most likely it was meant to be welded onto some metal contraption of war. He isn't sure what to do now and his life has become pretty boring. He walks back over to Nysss He's in no rush to report this test result. Kayos isn't even here. "That was the only test I was instructed to give you."

Nyss She didn't really want to keep it but oh well.. She shifted her wrist putting the moon into the cover of her arms to allow a tendril to come and take it.. Abyssal orbs continued to watch the movements of Nick.. Her boredom was slowly comming back in.. " Oh... " She paused a moment debating her next set of words.. " Now what? " She herself could not think of anything to do..

Nick Corwin: "Now we go back to being bored, waiting for Kayos to tell us what to do next." He has come to think that this is just the way it is. He's a good little soilder. He'll stand around until orders are given. He tried to leave, but they hunted him down. He most likely won't try to leave Kelosh ever again. It didn't work. He rarely tries anything that doesn't work the first time, so when something doesn't work. He tends to think it can't be done. Of course he didn't put as much planing into his leave and he didn't go far enough. Plus Kayos asked The Oracle. That's so unfair, but Nick doesn't really take all that into acount. He just assumes now it's impossible to run from Kelosh.

Nyss A frown resurfaced upon the lips to response to him.. She didn't know of anything to do.. Just stand here? How fun is that.. Pshh.. Kayos seemed to offer something more than what she had in Umbra.. So far he did a little.. She was noticed by at least two so far.. Perhaps staring at a wall is called to order.. Something.. Anything.. Her young mind can not take this boredom much longer.. A sigh formed from her as she continued to watch Nick.. Waiting.. impatiently..

Nick Corwin does not seem to know how to respond to Nysss He wonders why she just stands there. Isn't she going to go do something? Don't people do things? He can't think of anything to suggest she do, becuase he doesn't ever do anything. If he's not following orders he's standing around or training. He used to do things, he used to do a lot. That all seems like a far away dream now. She doesn't know much about tech, maybe he should take her over to the factories so she can see something being made? He won't let her in his lab. No one can enter his lab but himself and Holli. Not even his Amazon bodyguards can enter there. But then they haven't tried yet. He needs to find a way for Kayos to take those Amazons back. He's tired of being guarded. He knows they're keeping an eye on him, afraid he'll run.

Nyss Her eyelids slowly rolled across the orbs as she felt like sleeping to rid herself of this boredom.. That sounded like a good idea.. " What are you? " Her mind spoke before she could actually think of saying the words.. They just.. well.. fell out.. She quickly opened the eyelids and shifted her gaze to Nick once again.. She asked Kayos the same thing when she first met him, and examined him.. Though he caught her in a unmature mood..

Nick Corwin has already been asked that by her, he's sure of it. That night in the garden by the roses. He's pretty sure he answered then that he doesn't know, so he doesn't respond again now. He sometimes forgets not everyone has as good a memory as he does. It's been said he has photographic memory. You could tell him a number today and five years from now if you asked him, he'd repeat it back to you. Maybe she's just bored. He thinks of sparing with her, but worries he'll only prove Iatha right. Iatha says he's getting soft. It doesn't dawn on Nick that his own fears on such a matter will impair his abilities. He is his own worse enemy. He walks over to a table against a wall and sets the bottle there.