Hermie's Tracker/Sands Of Time Storyline
Explanation of "Time" s/l: From beginning to "set-up" by Tracker.
For anyone who doesn't already know, Tracker was sent by the Dark Gods, originally to bring hermit "back" to them. However, since hermit's "discovery" of what they'd been hiding from her all these years (Gods, both Light and Dark) it seem's Tracker now has license to kill her. if you want to know anything about that, you'll have to try and get it out fo her IC ~grin~
But at the moment, the tables are turned, and it's now hermit hunting him, through the future as he commits or incites acts of evil to create chaos, thus shifting the balance of power towards the Dark.
Since using the Sands of Time to travel had gotten hermit quite sick and would have ended up killing her, she searched for other ways and finally figured out The Void she'd been visiting since childhood was the safe way to go. (*see Convergence, time and the Void below for details) So our hermit is now "time hopping" with the help of visions through a stone Wynter had given her long ago with the promise that hermit would be "going to a distant place, leaving all she knew and loved behind." Which act of violence will be the one where hermit can stop Tracker? You'll have to wait and see. The visions are of IRL events in our worlds history.
1. Jack the Ripper (JR): Brutal slayings in the streets of London, commited by a man no one has been able to identify to date.
2. The assasination of John F. Kennedy, again though the killer was identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, there is still a suspected conspiracy that he was put up to it by a man named Jack Ruby (JR). Oswald never got to testify as he himself was murdered before the trial.
3.The assasination of Martin Luther King by a man named James Ray (JR).
***There are more events that hermit has mentioned but these are the major focus. BTW: These REAL events were picked at random by me...anyone else find it a bit freaky that in each one, a man with the initials "JR" is either the killer, or the one who set the killer up as a fall guy? Don't stop just yet...there's one more that really blew my mind.
Hermit's last vision, the one that was so different from the others that hermit just knew this was the one she had to act on and stop Trackers reign of terror...but was it?
"The One" (RP from #Hermit`s_Fire)
hermit33 heard bits and pieces of conversation throughout the Inn, but her mind began to wander. The last vision she had was "the one" she just knew it. The scene was a crowded area indoors. People were everywhere, carrying bags and things, walking from this place to that. Then there was a man she'd never seen before, a man with his hood up and dark sunglasses on. Hermit saw the scene from behind and at first made little of it.
Then she saw the back of a cloak she recognized from all the previous visions. She watched the second man persue the first as they made their way through the crowd. And then, something different from all the other visions happened. The second man stopped, just even with a large sign showing two letter A's with little wings on them.
Turning his head slowly to look back, as if looking hermit dead in the eyes, he grinned then turned and walked on. Hermit's breath caught as she slept. It WAS Tracker, she'd always known it in her gut, but now it was confirmed.
The scene departed from the usual in yet another way. It ended abruptly just as Tracker was catching up to the man, his hand outstretched just above the hooded mans right shoulder. Hermit shuddered and awoke from the vision in a cold sweat...She hadn't been made to witness the brutal killing as she'd always had to before. Was it a mistake....or....had it NOT happened yet! At last, this MUST be the one she had to act on!
Update: Last night hermit did go to the scene of that last vision to finally stop Tracker. But it turned out to be a set-up! At the last minute, the part where her original vision ended abruptly, Tracker broke off and turned down another corridor (in an airport). Following him, poison-tipped dagger in hand, hidden in her pocket, hermit got arrested as Tracker had led her right through the metal detectors. While she had been detained, and Tracker made his escape, hermit atleast felt secure in the knowledge she'd saved the life of the man Tracker was going to kill, even if only for the moment.
Confused as to why Tracker had gone through so much trouble to only delay the inevitable, hermit picked up the next days newspaper, what she found absolutley horrified her. The man she had saved, was known only as "The Unabomber." That night at the airport he'd planted a bomb on an American Airlines 747.
4.Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski: An American terrorist who attempted to fight against what he perceived as the evils of technological progress by engaging in an almost eighteen-year-long campaign of sending mail bombs to various people, killing three and wounding 29. He was the target of the FBI's most expensive manhunt ever.
Before his identity was known, the FBI referred to him as the UNABOM (from "university and airline bomber"). Variants of the code name appeared when the media started using the codename, including Unabomer, and Unabomber.
***...what, no JR? Read on...after further research, i found out that again, hefty proof points to a government conspiracy. Whats the name of the guy the evidence points to? J Ray Dettling (JR)..heh...of course. Don't believe me? Check this out... Unibombers.com ~does the paranoid shifty-eye thing looking much like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory, waiting for the FBI to make her "disappear"~
SO....there you have it folks. This last vision had been sent by Tracker, not Wynter, which meant he'd caught on to the fact now that Wynter had been helping hermit. Had he killed Wynter? Was that why the visions stopped?...and what a harsh way for hermit to learn how tricky it is to meddle with time and events. In every instance he'd gone by the initials JR. It was as if he wanted hermit to know just what he was responsible for, and agonize over it. What will she do now? **more will be posted as it happens**comments welcome on HF Site msg board under Gobshyte: Hermit`s Time S/L Comments.
**point's of interest, side info.**
Convergence, time and the void
hermit33 had the answer right in front of her the entire time, she just didn't know it yet. The Void. The place she'd been visiting her whole life when she'd felt at wits end. The place where she was first hidden from the prying eyes of the Gods as a small child, by a man whose name and face she couldn't recall.
hermit33's Void wasn't the same as she'd heard others speak about, the the place one went after the physical body left the material plane. No, that was just a name, a title given to something unknown, to make it more defined, less scary.
hermit33's Void was that of the true meaning of the word, no "where" no "thing" and thus it held the potential for all possibilities. Both pregnant and empty at the same time...and speaking of Time? If she could only confirm her suspicions of it being non-linear, what then could be created if that knowledge was expressed in a realm of all things possible.
hermit33 ...From hermit's consciousness, into existence? Heh...one could scarcely imagine.
First experience with alternates (RP'd at Inn)
hermit33 Even when she wasn't consciously thinking about it, her mind was always working on making sense of the visions Wynter had been sending back through time, through the Obsidian stone given her months ago now. There was London, The States, Germany and more, images and events playing through her mind as it searched for a connection between them all.
hermit33 And thats when it happened. The room became a blur, ripples warping everything around her as it began to become transparent. New ghostly images appeared overlapping what was already there.."wha' the..."...she may have said aloud. A burst of light and a shooting pain coursed through her head as her fingers clutched the stool she sat on tightly, as if trying to hold on to reality itself.
hermit33 There was the image in London, a cloaked man butchering some poor woman in the streets, she saw herself running to the scene. There she was again, the sword to capture Ankh's soul held in her hand ready to strike the death blow. Herself as a child huddled in a corner, chained to a wall. Lonit reaching through the "symbol" she'd been trapped in, to take Hermit's hand and be pulled to safety.
hermit33 All these realities, there at one time, overlaying eachother, walking right through eachother as if each were the only one that truly existed. There were other scene's as well, some recognizable while others were foriegn to her. Other hermit's, her and yet not. An alternate her for every decision she'd ever made, she going her way, and an alternate created for all other choices possible going it's.
hermit33 With all this overloading her brain at once, the impact was staggering, yet in the room where she sat, all that would be noticed was hermit clutching the stool, white knuckled as she cried out. It only lasted a fraction of a second, but to hermit it had been eternity. Countless lifetimes of eternities.
Currently Being RP'd
hermit33 stopped at the edge of the tree-line and took a few moments to look towards the Inn, seeing if it looked crowded or not, eyes scanning the clearing and fires. There was someone out by her small fire, but it being only embers, she couldn't make out who it was. After getting OMi settled into the winter house last night, she'd gone off into the woods. Back to the "First Light" meeting place of herself and Wynter.
hermit33 sat there till long after dawn, the stone Wynter gave her, clutched in her left hand, a thumb trailing across the small round indent in it's center. All she had to do was look down at it for long enough, and she'd be taken to the Abyss where Wynter was....trapped at the moment. Tracker had found out she was sending hermit visions of his detructive deeds and had gone after her. But..that was what he wanted, right?
hermit33 For hermit to know of his actions, come after him. That was the supposedly the whole point, so....why let on he knew and try to stop Wynter? Something...just wasn't right about the whole mess. Something that hermit hadn't thought of yet. Hopping up to grab the limb directly over her head, she pulled herself up and into the tree, to settle back against the trunk with her legs stretched along the limb.
hermit33 set her head back against the tree..."What is it...."...she whispered. What part of Trackers plans had changed, and why. Why would he leave off with his plans of luring her into the future, to go after the very person that had made hermit aware of what he was doing in the first place. And why was he showing up "near" The Fire. Things weren't supposed to go down this way, not at all. It just seemed to defeat his purpose.
hermit33 sits there snatching acorns and flicking them against the tree opposite her as she thinks. Suddenly she lets her legs drop from either side of the limb, sitting upright, her hands in front of her on the tree for balance...."That's IT....he came back fer me original offer! He still NEEDS it!".....a soul was what she referred to. It was to be Ankh's originally..."he STILL needs it...."
Hermie gets SHOT!!
hermit33 hadn't even made a move for the Sands of Time yet, just incase. "Well, ya may have noticed i ain't totally ignorant ta yer time. Been there meself on...business. I have a way that, by holdin' the image of where ya last stood, ya can get back. Interested?" noticing he was getting more and more annoyed by something. She got to her feet. The sooner he was out of here, the better.
Dr_Spayed His eye brow perched up, rather liking her idea as his hand formed in his duffle..he was getting anxious all of a sudden. "Sure! That would be absolutely terrific! When do you think it could be done?" He was in more of a hurry now to get home more than ever! He had no wife or kids, but he loved the time it was in as a whole! He stood up just as she did with a bright smile on his face.
hermit33 smiled warmly, though somewhat forced. All she had to do was get him through a portal, and he wouldn't even be able to get back since he had no knowledge of getting here in the first place. If he was an "innocent" she didn't even have to feel bad about it. She was doing him a service by returning him to his home. If he was what she thought. He couldn't be left to roam around this land.
hermit33 "Right this very minute as a matter of fact....step inta the woods a ways will ya?" she motioned with a hand out for him to go first as she reached into her vest to pull out the small bottle. Man the guy was tense. After he'd started for the woods she slipped one grain of sand into her palm and tucked the bottle away. It wouldn't do having an insane man with the means of getting "anywhen."
Dr_Spayed Had indeed walked where hermit had suggested. Towards the woods he went as he kept her in close eye range just incase she was bull shitting him. He was in no mood for tricks at this time and wanted to make sure she wsa telling the truth.
hermit33 kept two paces behind as she instructed him on how to use the portal. "Im'ma open up a kinda door fer ya. All ya have ta do is concentrate hard an' see the place ya last were in yer mind. Just how it was afore ya got....taken. Then when ya have it clear, just jump in, an' thats it. Yer home. Here's good. Any questions?"
Yeah. Does it affect me at all going through it? Will my head be on backwards or my ass and my switch?
hermit33 shook her head and kept that smile on her face..."Nope, so get that image in yer head now." she waited awhile until he nodded, then with a sigh of relief the grain was tossed about six feet away..."Safe journey now!" the portal would only remain open for about eight seconds.
Dr_Spayed Had smirked wider as his hand flew out of his duffle the moment she tossed the pebble and aimed a dinky 6 shot revolver that had only 4 shots left in it. He growled at her as he heard the portal open up and shot straight at her twice. The first shot missed but the second one managed to pass through the left side of her head just barely over her forehead. "Sorry, but Mom's dead", he says.
hermit33 was just turning back to him to prod him on before it closed and caught the glint of moonlight on steel. She tried to dive off to the side, but it was too late. The first one went whizzing by her ear, but the second one hit. Down she went, her body actually propelled backward a bit as she landed. At first she wasn't at all sure she even got hit and tried to get back onto her feet. And then occured to her to ask.
hermit33 "wha...what is yer name?" she just had to know the name of her killer before he got away, but she had a feeling she knew."
Dr_Spayed Felt safe enough at this point in time to give such information, though the portal seemed to be fading and took his duffle with him as he smirked. "James Reynold Spayed. Remember it the next time you decide to look like someone else's mother!" he torched at her before taking a deep breath and lept into the portal as fast as he could, one of his shoes falling off in mid-jump, dropping to the ground after the portal closed.
hermit33 watched him jump through and looked back towards the flicker of her fire as she leaned heavily against a tree. She had to make it out to the clearing at the very least. Making her way from tree to tree she stumbled closer, her vision fading fast, the left side of her shirt absolutely blood-soaked. The second she set foot in the clearing, nothing to hold onto, she dropped like a rock.
hermit33 Funny thing, as she lost consciousness, all she could think was..."It just......never ends."
Kassidri`Amariah 's head snaps up at the sound of the revolver.. that was a sound she knew and the succubus had been cheating a bit, using the shadows to eavesdrop "BLOODY HELL!!" Her form drops into her shadow with breathtaking speed only to rise out of hermie's own and gently gathering the smaller woman into her arms "TSUNAMI!!!!!!!!!!!!" She couldn't see powder burns so it was close range, but not point blank, a savage growl escaping the redhead's throat as she uses the shadows within hermie's own body.. the natural darkness there, to locate the bullet and remove it without hurting her further "You are -not- dying on me, hermie.. you got that??" She couldn't heal her fully.. not without doing something neither of them would be able to live with afterwards, so she settles for the next best thing and leans down to claim hermit's lips with her own. Intimate contact was the only way that she could channel her healing abilities, the kiss allowing her to take a tiny fragment of hermit's own essence and then infuse her own healing energies into it. It wasn't enough to wholly heal her, she'd be bedridden for awhile, but at least she wouldn't die this way.
hermit33 didn't fully regain consciousness as Kassi went on with the healing, only enough to still not know what was going on, and be combative as is the way with head wounds. The small woman flailed and thrashed about for all she was worth trying to push the much larger succubus away.
Tsunami`Amariah Stops beside his wife, a hand resting habitually on the hilt of his katana. He didn't watch her method of healing.. if he did, that katana would probably come out.. or almost anyway, until he came to his senses. "Next time, we're tying the guy down, using one of my truth darts, and killing him afterwards if he has that kind of intent." He spoke in a flat tone.. totally serious, turning his head to stare over at his wife once she's done with the healing. "He's already gone."
Kyevera Was far from full grown, though some might consider her to be considering the time frame and all. At fourteen,s he was still a kid, her kind weren't considered mature til 60! Didn't pay attention to the fact that she was being followed, but as she skidded into the clearing where the smaller fire was, she nearly dropped her katana at the sight of Kassi kissing Hermie, who looked awfully limp. Somewhere her brain registered the fact she was armed and she slipped the katana into its sheath. If anyone could describe the look on the kids face it was something between shock, and sheer dumbfoundness and worry. A whole rang of emotions flitted over her face and she even ignored Athy's comments at the moment.
Duvessa_ReNoire came out of the forest's edge beside the small fire, looking around curiously "Hellooooo we're home!" she shouted. Frowning she trotted out of the forest and closer to the group of folks
Kassidri`Amariah A tentacle slithers from Kassi's hip, wrapping around hermie's legs gently, but firmly while her arms tighten around the smaller woman to keep her from thrashing around "Shhhh.. easy, herm.. it's Kassi.." She very gently touches the woman's mind, careful not to damage anything.. just letting her feel the presence of the succubus holding her "I think he's in Ningenkai, Love.. and I heard the 's name. I -told- her not to go anywhere with him alone.. we're going hunting later.."
Thaevia_N`Maro frowned, looking at the group..."Duvy...Duvy, what's going on?" She asked
Athoris stepped forward a little, glancing back as he hears Duvessa and Thae. He was quite well together, mainly because he knew Herm was going to be fine. She's been through worse! He figured when she comes to, the only thing she'll be upset about was having to miss Kassi make kissy kissys. He looked to the two women and shushed them, "Patience."
Duvessa_ReNoire shakes her head "I don't know!" she hurries forward to find Kassi holding Hermie and everyone looking really clenched. She laid down so Thae could dismount and she could shift forms she looked at Athy and snarled a little
hermit33 struggled at the retraints until she couldn't any longer. It was only then she thought she heard Kassi's voice, but it was if her consciousness wasn't even in her body, rather floating off in some darkness. *Oh Gods, it finally happened* she thought....*The son of a bitch got me, he....won* Of course it was Tarcker she was referring to, not the man who shot her.
hermit33 More than likely, James Reynold hadn't even known what he was here to do or that Tracker had set him up as well.
Thaevia_N`Maro slid down off of Duvy's back and sprinted up as fast as she could, barely managing to not knock Athy over as she shoved her head under his arm so she could see...her eyes widened and she had to raise her hand to cover the gasp that escaped her throat..."Hermie!" She cried, muffled behind her hand
Duvessa_ReNoire quickly shrank to her human form folding her wings. Realizing she was leading on her broken hand she let out a little yelp of pain and fell over. Scooting around she got up and walked over to see Hermie and Kassi.
She'll be alright, I removed the bullet and healed most of the damage. She's gonna be in and out of it for awhile, and we're all gonna have to chip in keeping an eye on her.. but she'll pull through. This isn't the first time she's been shot.. *She was nearly shaking with fury.. only her fear that she'd hurt her friend further kept her still, levitating hermie's body to keep from jostling it as she stands* Let's get her to the winter house and into bed, okay?
Athoris blinks as he's being pushed around when there's so much room! He shrugged and slipped an arm around Thae's shoulders in a comforting manner, "Shh..She's fine. I've seen her wrestle a cyclops with her bare hands and come out on top." Eh, he wasn't so good with expressing emotions, but that was just Athy.
Thaevia_N`Maro nods quickly..."Ok...ok..." She said, panicking.."Um...maybe you should take her through the shadows, Kassi? So we don't have to move her? Or should we let her rest by the fire?" She asks...Hermit always seemed most at home by the fire
Athoris nods at that idea, "I think a fire sounds good. She'd probably rather wake up to one burning rather then all of us huddled over top of her in her bed.."
hermit33 The movement registered and she beagn to struggle again, her mind going between reality, and the pain, the very heavy pain, and a sort of detachment. It was very confusing, one moment she'd be struggling, the next seemingly watching it, unable to stop herself..."Neaahhh!" she yelled and fought so hard.
Doesn't leaving an injured woman outside where anything can get at her seem a bit foolish? *Walks beside his wife as she carries Hermit. His wife was upset and his friend was injured, which made for a pretty unfriendly attitude, the man's personality becomming like the ice he wields so often. He wouldn't say anything else.. just walking beside his wife.
Thae.. she still has a bit of a hole in her head at the moment. If we keep her by the fire she runs the risk of an infection, plus her body will be going into shock. The winter house is the best place for her, we can light the fireplace in the bedroom and keep her nice and warm.. but I can't take her through the shadows.. it's far too cold and it'll just hurt her more. I can levitate her easily while we walk her to the house.
Thaevia_N`Maro sighs..."Fine, but you can deal with her when she wakes up..." She mumbles and steps back, letting Kassi do whatever she has to do
Duvessa_ReNoire walked with Kassi towards Hermie's house. "I-I-I brought her some stuff...from when I went....I thought she might like it....I summoned it right into her house. It might be in the way"
Don't worry.. I've taken her tonguelashings for the way I tend to her when she's too brokeassed to take care of herself before. And even if she doesn't want to admit it later she'll know I was right, Thae. Besides, we don't know if that can get back, and the house is the only really secure place besides my Citadel, and I won't risk taking her through the portals.. *She tilts her head to look over at Duvvy and nods, still gently restraining hermie so that she dunna frellin reopen the frellin wound... -.-* Okay, when we get there if you can just clear me a path to the bedroom?
Duvessa_ReNoire opened the door of the house for Kassi, inside Hermie's house were several open chests with treasure spilling out, a few rolled woven carpets stacked in one corner and what looked to be a crate sitting the bed surrounded by sacks of coins
hermit33 kept fighting tooth and nail though she really didn't mean to. Things kept changing so fast. Incredible pain, her head bursting open, then Kassi's soothing touch and voice. No sooner would hermit start to register this and calm, than Kassi would suddenly be Tracker, holding her right in his grips. Learing down at her in his embrace, spittle dropping from the corner of his mouth as he spat out his desires.
hermit33 Oh sweet Gods, he didn't want her dead. He wanted more, so much more. "NoOoOoOo" she yelled aloud and in her mind, from the depths of the very Soul whch he decided to claim. So thats why he had passed on the one hermit had tried to offer.
The hell is she dreaming of??? *She could feel the flurry of mental activity, but she hadn't intruded.. unless she thought it was life or death she wouldn't intrude on the thoughts of another* Ummm.. Duuvy? In the footlocker at the foot of her bed is a box with a folded up black hole in it.. I never got around to showing it to her. Can you take it out and store all this stuff in it for now?
Duvessa_ReNoire looked at Kassi and flushed slightly embarassed. she rushes over to hermie's bed which is straining under the weight of the crate on it. She pulled the portable hole out of it and started levitating bags of coins into it as well as the carpets and the crate
Thae, while she's doing that could you go into the kitchen and get a bowl of warm water, a clean cloth, and the first aid kit out of the pantry, please?
Thaevia_N`Maro nods quickly and darts off into the kitchen
hermit33 had come up with the only solution, months ago now. To get rid of Tracker once and for all. The only thing he lacked, the only thing keeping her from being able to kill him once and for all, was a Soul. She'd met him under the guise of him ressurection Shi, and in return, hermit would give him the soul he needed. Ankh's soul that she'd captured with the sword Kasun made her specially for the death match.
hermit33 Once Tracker was infused with a Soul, it was true he'd be more powerful, but he'd also be....Mortal. It wasn't until she realized that he'd gone into the future that he wasn't going to go through with "the deal." Rather he kept causing Chaos there, luring her, baiting her until there was no turning back. Then everything stopped. No killings, no chaos, no more JR's.
hermit33 Knew he was back in time, very near her land as evidenced by the scars on her back opening up and bleeding. Yes, hermit would get another shot at offering him a Soul. Little did she know just WHO's Soul he had in mind. No, this could NOT be happening. Hermit would rather die than be part of him...."Nice plan, one flaw dearie..." the spittle flew..."Now I die.....you die." Hermit's body lurched at the thought, she tried swinging at him but to no avail. "Never....NEVER!" she cried out an thrashed around.
Thaevia_N`Maro returns moments later with what kassi asked, a bowl of warm water, a cloth, and the first aid kit from the pantry
Kassidri`Amariah Once the bed was cleared she laid the still thrashing hermie down gently, using loops of shadow to pin her down so that she couldn't thrash around and hurt herself more "Whatever she's dreaming of she's fighting that thing very hard.."
Tsunami`Amariah Just stands beside his wife.. resting an arm around her waist after she sets Hermit down and makes sure she can't thrash around. "I'm trying to track the guy in ningenkai.. I'm not there, but I can find him if he's got water in his body.."
Duvessa_ReNoire frowned and watched Hermie tears stinging the corner of her eyes as she watched her fight. "Who is doing this to her?"
Kassidri`Amariah takes the cloth, dipping it into the water once she was safely restrained and gently cleaning the site of the wound. Soon the bullethole was clearly visable in hermie's head and the bowl was red with blood "Well, it's healing a bit slower than I'd like, but she's not of a race that regens naturally so it takes longer.. bloody inconvienient that. Damn stubborn woman.. I told her he was a nutcase.. I said it didn't I.. that he was some sorta fruitcake serial killer or something.. but noooooo off she goes all alone with him.. with Athy snoozin away.. and gets herself shot.. again!" Tears were starting to stream down the cheeks of the succubus as she applies a sterile dressing and bandages her head carefully "I'm sooooo gonna kick her ass when she wakes up.."
hermit33 felt Kassi's presence once again, the face in front of her changing back and forth between her and Tracker. For now it was Kassi, but with that reality, came the excrutiating pain again. Her eyes fluttered as she tried to cling to consciousness for dear life, a hand struggling to raise against the shade. Ah, Tsunami's voice now. Keep going hermit, almost there, tell them...."I-i....don't Ki..."
hermit33 needed desperately to tell them, don't kill JR, any of them, her attacker included. She lay there, licked at her dry lips trying to get the strength again. Everything was fading in and out so quickly it was dizzying. Tracker kept appearing only inches from her face, taunting...."Don't kill JR...." said in a high panicked mocking tone making her scream.
I.. I don't know. This isn't normal.. the thrashing is for a headwound like this, but.. not the way her energy feels, and her scent is pure fear..
Kyevera Picked herself up off the porch and slowly entered the house. She could hear Hermie and a deep frown marred her usually cheerful features. Looked around for a few moments and closed the door behind her and moved to stand near fireplace. Her arms were still around her stomach and she was wondering where three certain people were. One was off at war, one was at home, the other was at home too, sleeping most likely. Shook her head and glanced off towards the stairs, her sapphire blue eyes brimming with tears of her owns that surely no one at all could see.
Tsunami`Amariah Closes his eyes, sighing and running a hand through his wife's hair.. fingers drifting down to her cheek, tracing gently.. His mouth turns into a frown.. seeing her with tears in her eyes hurt.. so he tries to comfort her as she tends to Hermit.. leaning down to kiss the top of his wife's head.. "I love you Kassi' baby.." Mumbles.. eyes turning to Hermit.. "I think she's trying to tell us something. Maybe JR's that guy's initials?"
Kassidri`Amariah nods.. "I heard him through the shadows.. she wouldn't let me follow, but she can't stop me from listening. He said his name was James Reynold Spayed.."
hermit33 used every scrap of will, every second of near consciousness to try and speak. Sweat coated her entire body. Suddenly, her eyes flew open, wide with pain and terror. It was the mention of JR, and the name of the man who'd shot her that she heard and clung to. She just knew they would be hunting them, kill him mercilessly. "D-don't Kill J...."
hermit33 And Trackers hand came down over her mouth, there in the dark recesses she'd been dragged back to. Again she tried to struggle, her real body fighting against it's restraints, she against his grip. It was to do no good at all. Tracker merely cackled and raised a hand, a darker energy than hermit had ever seen eminating from it and wrapping itself around her, caressing her like a lover.
hermit33 One last scream came from her before all motion ceased save shallow infrequent breaths.
Thats it for me! Oh....the darkness Tracker put around her. It will negate any further outside healing. ~is gonna wait to see any further posts)
JR... there's something familiar about that.. something... *She thinks carefully, her memory rolling back to when when hermie'd gone missing in the caves under the falls and what she'd told her..* JR.. Love, we can't kill him! Not yet, at least.. *She nearly jumps as hermie screams, immediately feeling the smaller woman for a pulse* Bloody shaggin hell.. okay, we get it. He has somethin ta do with the ... I wanna wait until she's a bit stronger and if I have to I'll go digging in her mind to see if I can reach her.."
Thaevia_N`Maro sighs quietly, moving to sit against the wall, leaning her back against it...large blue-green eyes stayed focused on her Hermie mother bear in silence...she'd stay here until Hermie was better, like she had the last time she watched over the woman...She only hoped she didn't fall asleep this time like she did last time...
Tsuni.. can you build the fire in the fireplace while I finish bandaging her? *She looks to Thae and smiles softly* She'll be okay.. just don't try to release her from the restraints cause if she thrashes she could reopen what I've healed and we'll just take turns keeping an eye on her, okay?
Thaevia_N`Maro nods slowly..."Alright...I'll be here..." She says quietly as she looks to Kassi...her reasurring words did little to comfort the young drow though as she sat there, leaned against the wall...
Tsunami`Amariah Nods.. wandering over to the fireplace and working on the fire.. sitting down next to it afterwards and watching his wife.. "I guess we can't go after him then."
Kassidri`Amariah leans over and kisses hermie on the cheek "Get better quick, Hermie-chan... we're already missin you like crazy, and if you think you're getting outta all this construction you're nuts.." She holds out her hand to her husband, heading downstairs once he was with her and stopping by Kye. She rests a hand on the Unari girl's shoulder and squeezes gently "Keep an eye on Thae for me, okay? I don't want her falling over from exhaustion trying to take care of hermie all by herself, make sure she gets some rest too and that she eats, okay?"
Kyevera Was wishing that she hadn't thrown her cloak to the ground earlier, for it'd come in handy to mask those tears! Feeling a hand on her shoulder, she tensed a little at first but relaxed after realizing it was Kassi. Didn't think to bother wiping the tears away this time, so she stared up at the Succubus with tear-filled eyes. "O...ok." After taking a couple breaths she got up a bit more nerve. "Is....she gonna be ok?"
Thaevia_N`Maro sighed as she was alone now with Hermie...crawling over to the side of the bed from her place against the wall, Thae leaned up and just watched her for a moment, her head tilted as she watched the woman's facial features...she huffed a little as she felt tears well up in her eyes...she should have been here, damnit...but she supposed it was too late now..."Hermie?" She spoke softly to the woman..."I don't know if you can hear me..." She said...and she didn't, but it made the young drow feel better to talk to her..."It's me, Thae...I just wanted to tell you that Me and Duvy are back and we're alright, and we're going to have a really neat adventure to tell you about...so you have to get better soon, ok?" Her voice squeaked through the tears at the last word..."I love you, Hermie Horsie-Bane" She said and placed a light kiss to the woman's forehead, before lowering herself back to sit on the floor, leaning against the wall beside Her {More}-->
Thaevia_N`Maro *cutfix* bed, the young drow pulling her piwafwi tightly around her and settling in for a long day of watching.
Yeah.. it'll take awhile an she'll be in and out of consciousness. As long as we keep the wound clean it should heal nicely.. but what she needs now are cheerful voices around her, okay? It's up to us to help her fight this.. so try not to let her hear you crying. I know it's not easy, Kye.. but we all have to be strong for her the way she is for us, right? *She leans over and hugs the Unari girl, then looks over to Tsuni and holds her arms out wanting to be carried now* Let's go out to the fire, Love?
Tsunami`Amariah Gathers his wife in his arms and carries her outside, making their way out to the fire then sitting infront of it, rocking her back and fourth.. "Baby? You okay?" Whispers.. kissing her head.. He knew she wasn't going to be okay after something like that.. but he asked.. he wanted to comfort her..
Kassidri`Amariah manages to maintain her smile until they're finally out at the fire and he's rocking her in his arms. Only then, away from everyone else does she finally really break down, burying her head into her husband's shoulder and sobbing heartbrokenly "I should have gone with her.. I shoulda just said the hell with it and gone, I -knew- he was dangerous and I listened to her and stayed behind..and she.. Love.. if I hadn't been eavesdropping I wouldn't have gotten there fast enough! I should have been the one he shot.. the bullet wouldn't even have hurt me..."
Shhh.. no.. I should have gone.. *Closes his eyes and rests his head against her shoulder.. stroking her hair..* Baby.. it'll be okay.. you healed her and she'll survive.. *Sighs.. just hugging her close to him.* I love you, Kassi' baby..
That's just it, Tsuni.. I'm not sure. Something's going on inside her mind, I could feel the edges of it without even trying to read her and.. it's not good, Love. It has something to do with that Tracker person she told us about.. that's what the JR is, which means that he somehow manipulated it so that guy came here. Geeze, she mighta stayed by her fire all night talking to Athy or something if I hadn't given her a heads up because the guy was acting suspicious. Whatever it is that she's fighting.. I don't know, but I have this bad feeling that it could still kill her. But I can't tell that to all of them.. how the hell can I face them and tell them that no matter what we might still lose her?"
We could have someone try to heal her more..? But.. maybe the guy had something to do with why she was fighting like that? I mean, she's always had that tracker thing going on.. maybe that has something to do with it all? I've never heard of a JR thing.. so if it's a conspiracy or something, that's all I can think of that'd be related.. *Kisses his wife's shoulder.. hugging her tighter.*
(BTW: This will be gone into more at the end of the "Time" S/l...it will be the start of the next one, which is going to be an open room S/L for anyone who wants to join in!)
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