Haunted Memories Part 2

[Flash_Guardian ] Flash stands there a moment as his laughter dies down, seeing quickly that Glyniss doesn't seem to be joining in. He brings a hand to his mouth, coughing and looking away, a little ashamed. He turns now, moving to an empty side of the hammock and leaning back into it, settling next to her, causing the hammock to swing gently back and forth as it did before, his legs dangling over the side and his hands behind his spiky-haired head which now turns to look at Glyniss. He smiles to her. Nothing malicious or derogatory ... just a friendly smile. "I've remembered a few more things," he tells her. "And I've been thinking, too. About how to get you your voice back. It's going to take some time, I'm afraid. But you know me, Glyniss ... if there's a way, I'll find it." He smirks confidently.

Glyniss_McMasters shifts wiggles a little away from him as he slouches in the hammock....head turning to look at him......nodding very slowly....lips pressing close together unsure what to do....and after a few tense minutes she too leans back tentively...

Glyniss_McMasters fingers griped the hammock edges even in this seemingly relaxed position it was obvoius she wasnt ...her brows knitted heavily at the mention of her voice ..yes the Flash she knew would do that....bluey grey eyes look at him hard...she had heard only half of his convesation with the preacher and what she had heard that man say seemed like the first cracks beginning to show

Flash_Guardian is silent for a while, not certain where to start. "Firstly, I should probably tell you ... though it may be obvious ... you're no prisoner here, Glyniss. You've got a working set of legs, and I'm more than happy to see you use them," he states. "You know where the land bridge is ... and you know your way around the Keep as well. There's more than just me and the others waiting for you. The Pub's still there ... I can't remember the last time I visited the streambank." He chuckles in fond memory. "Wonder how that old pine tree we planted is doing?" He loses himself in his own memories for a moment, only to come back down to earth and look into Glyniss's face with concern. "And now that I've told you all this ... I worry. I ... don't want to leave you alone. I'm afraid you'll ..." Flash cuts himself off, shaking nasty images out of his head. "I don't want anything bad to happen to you."

Glyniss_McMasters eyes blink at him unsure whether he was telling her to go away....trying to judge not the words spoken but the tune he used...a hidden message maybe...for an instant a bright light shone in her eyes as he spoke of streambank yet dulled almost straightaway as she suddenly sat bolt upright coursing the hammock to swing ..as she looks about quickly searching all about......yet his words made her look back at him......was he worried about her...Hab was good she knew that....yet something.......something was different.

Flash_Guardian stops in midsentence at Glyniss's sudden motions, sitting upright in the hammock as well. "Glyniss?" he asks her, his eyes wide with worry. "What? What is it?" And then he rolls his eyes into his head, making a face at himself. "Oh. Duh. Right." His hand is quickly extended, palm flat and facing up. "Take my hand and tell me." His eyes glaze over for a moment as he focusses on something, his fingertips suddenly surrounded by a subtle rainbow glow ... it feels familiar ... like Flash's very essence distilled and released into the air as multi-colored vapors, Flash's spirit yearning to reach out to her.

Glyniss_McMasters swallows.......slowly tentively her hand reaching out for his...the knuckles only seconds before had been white gripping the hammock so tightly was she......she could swear she could feel him....she wanted to believe why couldnt she..why did she have to fight for every second....she waited now wondering how she was to tell this image her head moves as she begins to feel .....something....her heart quickens fearing this was the moment this would be the time the dream ends....and she waits...her fingers tightening around the image she holds not wanting it to go

Flash_Guardian holds onto Glyniss's hand tightly, his eyes staring straight into her face. Through their grasp, a kind of connection is formed between Flash and Glyniss, of mind and spirit. She can feel his worry even as he can feel her uncertainty, the doubt she wrestles with. Across the connection, he simply thinks to her, and she hears his voice in her mind. "Glyniss, it's me. Talk to me. Think, and I will understand. Please ... your silence weighs too heavily on my heart." Every finger that she touches, every word he says, every thought he thinks and feeling he feels ... every last detail and nuance projected from this man is undoubtedly the Flash she knows ... and yet there's something more there as well. A youthful presence, and a newfound sense of life and purpose. A vibrant kind of joy.

Glyniss_McMasters feels like her heart was trying to burst away from her....so hard and fast was it...like a herd of wild horses racing across the pariaire...eyes lifting to look at him study this image he seemed the same yet....yet there was something different....something she had not ever felt Hab use ..at least not to this extent ..her brows knit in puzzlement only when Flash had been with Bidda did she feel anything like this from him before..yet even..even that was not like this...she didnt understand it......his words echoed in her mind and at first she had run away tried to bury herself somewhere in the dark...hoping....yet not wanting her hope to be lost....he could see in her mind her hands covering her ears....eyes shut tightly...desperate to not be taken in again..slowly one eye opened...wanting what he was offering....whispering in low......." Help...........me".

Flash_Guardian lets out a sharp, painful breath. She can feel his heart drop as she hides away from him, shying away to the safe recesses of her mind and wanting to shut him out ... and at the same time, wishing that he was really there. Her cry for help moves him, but not nearly so much as hearing the sound of her voice once more ... even if in his mind alone, it makes him smile broadly, his eyes twinkling with a growing moisture. "Ask anything of me, Glyniss. Anything at all, and I shall fulfill it if it lies in my power. As you once took care of me in my weakness, now let me take care of you." A gentle squeeze is given, perhaps alerting Glyniss to a silver band he wears around his pinky ... one with a leafy pattern that she would find intimately familiar.

Glyniss_McMasters bluey grey eyes look at him even as her mind eye does......he wanted to help....she wanted to trust....and she knew someone somewhere hd to make the first move....this image had done all that it could to make her believe..seem to plead with her can she risk giving it a chance to prove itself would her mind be able to take another battering even if she let herself believe every instint in her now cries out for her not to...perhaps survival instint she doesnt know but everything everything seems a constant battle to her...yet all she really wanted was to feel safe.......feel as if she was.......home....she shoulders sag a little she was getting tired of this inner battle yet she couldnt wouldnt give up hope of ...help...her friends.....eyes both physically and in her mind look at him intently now..how can she tell him when she didnt know herself.....her mouth opens yet no sound comes from within...yet on another level Flash hears......" Be........my........friend...."

Flash_Guardian just smiles, and draws her slowly to him in a warm embrace, arms wrapping about her as hands rub along her back, his spirit still in touch with hers even in this more intimate form of contact. "I am you friend, Glyniss. Always have been, always will be." Flash closes his own eyes now, and opens his mouth as gently song begins to pour forth from his mouth ... a song that Glyniss may know as well, for it is the very song which she sang to him when Flash's mind had gone, the song she sang to him to awaken his mind when it had been ripped from him so long ago. Perhaps it is the power of the melody ... perhaps the enchanted ring he wears upon his finger ... perhaps the connection of souls, or maybe even just the memory recalled in such rich detail ... who else could know such a song but Flash?

[Flash_Guardian ] Whatever the reason, Glyniss feels that song calling out to her, seeking the truth that she knows is there but refuses to believe, like a rope thrown out to her where she hides upon her island of doubt, with Flash waiting on the other side to bring her home.

Glyniss_McMasters stiffens as his arms go about her.....she had not liked being touched even before she had been with Hab....tight muscles harden.....yet that song.......that song.....head tilting as she looks up wide eyed at this Flash....that song was hers.....she had used it....blended it to her own makings...and it tugged at her..pulled at her memory images of Flash..of Dev's office...her holding Flash much as this one held her....yet all the whole she could feel the tone of the music seeping into her bones...calling to her...she wanted to join in...hear her voice....as she stubbornly dug heels into the dark clinging to its saftey....yet always she turned to look to hear...wanting..something inside her was breaking she could feel it...shreads of glass....something...slowly her physically arms rose to rest loosely around this Flash's waist.....a tiny crack suddenly zig zagging...from a tiny hole before suddenly slowly the zig zagging cracks begun to spread....tears trickled down her cheek....as she rest her head .

Glyniss_McMasters rest her head against this Flash chest.....the trickle of tears turning into a cascading alvanche of tears....as the cracks seem to spread like a spiders web ..

Flash_Guardian just keeps on singing, drawn into the song in much the way that Glyniss would have been, letting it become a part of him, his melody lifting her up and speaking to her spirit, not just to her senses. Slowly his song tugs at those cracks, Flash's voice nowhere near as powerful as Glyniss's own ... even the ring which he wears yearns for its former master, to rest upon her slender finger and empower her song once more. And should Glyniss try now to sing, to part her lips and call to the winds once more, perhaps the harp might hear and be shaken, the bars of her vocal prison dangerously rattled. Certainly no bars of magic can withstand so powerful a voice should it seek its freedom, especially with the aid of another ...

Heyuka_Seisioko Appears from a black portal out of now where, he walks out with his right foot looking around. Puts his hands on the ring of the protal and pushes himself out walkingout of it as it devours itself, He grins a little walking over to Flash as he smeels the fresh air and breeze of the baches around the island. Heyuka glances around a few times still walking to him notice the big forest around them.He sees Flash but with someone.....He wonders who is it? He walks up to FLash looking to him his hair down over his face casting a black shadow like the fur of a cat on it. He clearshis mind saying in a few words. "Are you ready today", he knees down infront of him. Looks up saying in a few other words, " Since you havent been training me Karasu has ".

Heyuka_Seisioko Appears from a black portal out of now where, he walks out with his right foot looking around. Puts his hands on the ring of the protal and pushes himself out walkingout of it as it devours itself, He grins a little walking over to Flash as he smeels the fresh air and breeze of the baches around the island. Heyuka glances around a few times still walking to him notice the big forest around them.He sees Flash but with someone.....He wonders who is it? He walks up to FLash looking to him his hair down over his face casting a black shadow like the fur of a cat on it. He clearshis mind saying in a few words. "Are you ready today", he knees down infront of him. Looks up saying in a few other words, " Since you havent been training me Karasu has ".

[Heyuka_Seisioko ] * smells

[Heyuka_Seisioko ] * beaches

Flash_Guardian appears to be lost to his song at the moment, eyes closed with his arms around Glyniss and rather unresponsive to anything else at the moment. Not that he would if he could, for fear of the magic of the moment shattering like brittle pottery at the slightest lapse in the song.

Heyuka_Seisioko Just watches flash lost in his little world of happyness he can tell by the look on his face, he stands up walking off exploring more of the Island. He sighs a little kicking a little rubble of dirt around. Finds a big rock as he settles himself on it looking around and concertates as he puts his blade out infront of him letting go, The blade spings in it own as he keeps clearing his mind sitting indian style now. Heyuka closes his eyes as his mind is now clear and he relxes himself in a clear though of mind now.

Glyniss_McMasters arms seem to tighten more around him the tears soaking her cheeks.....his chest where they splashed..soaking into clothing the webbing of zig zagging spreading quickly in all directions from the central spot.....weakening the hold....as the music rises....as it seeps deeper reaching the marrow of her bones she could feel it as if it was a solid matter...calling spinning holding her....the cracks becoming more threaded...before suddenly without any warning the glass shatters into a millionth zillionth peices...tiny shards of glass flying everyhwhere...as she sags in his arms overcome by sheer emotional release....

Flash_Guardian can feel the change in Glyniss, feel her at last beginning to let go ... and even as she cries, he is crying with her, tears of joy at her homecoming. Slowly his voice begins to die away, his arms still holding her as his spirit wraps about her like a warm blanket, a hand reaching up as fingers stroke the back of her head. No words are there to share, just this wonderful moment of realization ... that no lie, no matter how potent, can ever outshine the truth.

Glyniss_McMasters rest there only her sobbing being heard...yet even those seemed to have changed somwhat ..sutle yes but still changed she could feel his hand stroking her and couldnt believe herself that she believed this was Flash.....the Flash she knew...how long had she been gone she had no idea lost as she was....the warm safefty blanket that he was the last of the stubborn shards hanging there in place swaying momentarily before falling itself into a dark bottomless abyss.....she was safe....safter....she was.....tilting her head a little as bluey grey eyes look up into his face.........home

Flash_Guardian looks back into those grey eyes with his own of endless blue, and can certainly see the change, like a veil having finally been lifted. Again she can see him waiting on edge, as if standing with bare feet on those broken shards that kept her at bay, waiting for her to move, to speak ... to do anything! Again his voice calls out in her mind, even softer and more testingly than before. "Glyniss ...?"

Heyuka_Seisioko Holds his hand out, the blade keeps spinning faster and faster almost at un stoppable speed. He grins a little opening his hand a little white orb floats next to the blade, he clears his mind cleary now as he holds his hands out infront of him almost touching the pure white orb.He adds the elements fire,water,wind,and takes a rock adding earth into it. He looks to the orb looking up to the sun as he sees litle white dots in the endless universe. He stares to them a little thinking possibally if he can finish his move now.

Glyniss_McMasters looks at him for the longest of times.....before a tentively smiling her eyes looking at him as if seeing him for the first time....a hand coming up to rest upon his cheek feeling thr dampness of his own tears...mouth opening wording the words that never come...yet in her mind the bright light that had emerged looked at him....whispering the echoing sound of thank you....the surprise..the freedom in those few words like a young colt finding its legs after birth

Flash_Guardian laughs gently at first ... and then louder, and more full of joy as he pulls her to him, laughing almost so hard that it hurts. Eventually he forces himself to stop, placing his hands upon her shoulders and breathing excitedly, beaming at her from a distance before he reaches to the pouch at his side, tugging it free of his belt and placing it in his lap. He shows his palm to the rune, and speaks the word of opening as the pouch swells to full size, quickly reaching inside with both hands to fish for something. "I know only two of these are yours," he tells her happily, "but two out of three ain't bad, right?" A few moments later, his hands emerge holding a hat, upside-down, that is very much like the stetson Glyniss used to own ... perhaps too new and not quite of the same color, but it will still look good on her. And in the bottom of this hat are two things that surely Glyniss would recognize ...

[Flash_Guardian ] ... one is the silvery necklace worn by Flash only moments before, hastily removed while his hands were in the sack. The other is a string of shark's teeth hanging from a leather cord, spaced with seashells. The necklace given to her as a gift from Devaine. Flash beams happily, offering her these three gifts. "Here. Take back your life."

Glyniss_McMasters blinks a litle taken back by the laughter.....so much laughter......though the smile tentive at first widened grew in strength at the sound he made....she could see his excitment as her own heart was beating wildly...slowly it was becoming calmer as she slowly accepted where she was.....swaying a little in the hammock....watching intently as Flash moves back and produces his bag of holding....eyes lifting from it to him constantly...her fingers still clinging to his robe as she watches...eyes going wide at as the stetson emerges.....peering inside...eyes liftting to look at him..bright...reaching for them..slowly..letting him go to do so her lips trembling just the barest..as a hand dips into the hat. fingers clutching around the shark teethed necklace...lifting and pressing it to her cheeks before swiftly trying to get it over her head yet seeming all fingers and thumbs

Flash_Guardian grins, chuckling as he watches her try to do everything at once with too few hands. He shakes his head, reaching out a hand to help guide the leather cord, with her help, over her black tresses and down to her neck, the shells and teeth resting against the front of her white kimono. He waits silently for her to deal with the rest on her own.

Glyniss_McMasters looks up at him as he helps her head bending a little so to let him slide the cord over.....feeling it rest upon her a hand coming up and patting it as if to reassure herself...fondling it a little before looking back into the hat.....eyes settling on the ring...turning to look at him...slower to reach out for this item.....this was a aprt of her she had told no one...did he know the imprtance of the ring...a hand goig into the hat a lot slower then for the necklace....slipping it onto the thumb in the shadow of the stetson...easing it onto the limb that had til recently been absent

Flash_Guardian sees how she looks upon the ring, as if some private space of hers may have been invaded. He swallows, looking between the ring of silver and her face and not quite knowing what to say to her. "That ring," he tells her, "was the single most helpful clue, the biggest bread crumb in the trail that led us to you. Without it, I doubt we would have been able to find you." He gazes back to it, his eyes tracing its leafy patterns. "That ring bears quite a history, really ... birthed in light and slowly bathed in darkness." Flash's forehead wrinkles, as if he still isn't quite sure what to make of such a ring. He looks back to her inquisitively, hoping that perhaps she would be able to explain.

Glyniss_McMasters swallows slowly....the ring slipping into place upon her thumb...a finger rubbing over it's design....because of it she had lost her thumb...seen it being torn and eaten...eyes rising to look at him from his words she knew he had delved into it's past knew something of its powers...yet still she shred away from the telling..unwilling to share for that part was her that no one knew about not even Kade......she blinks as his name comes to her mind...she had not seen him even when first appearing in this illusionary place that she thought ....Dev had been here...so was Kalakri....but no sign of Kade..her finger rubbing the leaf pattern brought her back..this was her secret.....how much did Flash know? looking at him intently now as if the looking would tell her.

Flash_Guardian can read the expression on Glyniss's face easily enough to see her unease over the ring. He takes a deep breath, looking around to see if anyone else is near. "Perhaps," he begins, "you are finally ready for me to tell you just how we found you. Maybe the telling will answer your questions." He looks to her now to see if she would like to hear his story.

Glyniss_McMasters pauses before suddenly nodding as she slaps the stetson upon her mope of hair....flicking the brim of it to tilt it a little...something she always did with her own hat...maybe Flash would remember..nodding slightly she eases back in the hammock letting it take her full weight.....relaxing a little eyes intent upon him

Flash_Guardian beams in fond remembrance, seeming like things were slowly getting back to normal. "Now that's the Glyniss I remember so fondly," he tells her, his smile crinkling the corners of his eyes. "The story is long and involved, so feel free to stop me any time." He coughs and straightens, rolling his shoulders a bit before he begins. "It all started a little over two months ago, when the imp Viimz first showed his ugly head here on Redfang ..." And so he begins, and all is told. The troubles the imp caused them here, the chase over the island, its capture in a bottle ... the information gained by Flash and Dev about the ring ... of finding Sam in the Pub, and confronting her about the sisterhood of witches ... of Sam's great sacrifice and Viimz's interrogation, of the names Haborym and Numinous ... of Sam and Flash's journey there to rescue her, the great battle with the demon lord, and their flight from the realm which crumbled upon his demise.

[Flash_Guardian ] At last he finishes, and the sun is lower in the sky than when he started. He lets out a breath and looks back to her, curious to know what she thinks of all this.

[Flash_Guardian ] At last he finishes, and the sun is lower in the sky than when he started. He lets out a breath and looks back to her, curious to know what she thinks of all this.