Muri
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Post by Muri on Oct 16, 2012 4:20:20 GMT -5
Muri had been staying at a small hotel in Jia Yuan while she traveled across the expansion. The time was 2:59 on the dot as her crying eyes opened and glanced over at the clock by her bedside.
This was not the first time that the very real memories in her dreams had caused her to wake up crying in the middle of the night. This was why, even when she was traveling with others, she preferred to sleep in her own room. Occasionally, she had even woken up crying out, usually a name from a recalled past life.
This was Muri's gift. Her special ability to be able to see and recall all of her past lives. At times, she felt it was the cruelest of curses. It was, however, also responsible for her ability to advance her powers quickly to unimaginable high levels.
This image of a man's back... a man with glowing silvery hair... was all that she could see in front of her. She could see this back so clearly that the actual figure began to manifest by the end of her bed, facing away so that she could only see his back.
When she saw this, Muri's eyes quickly widened and she stood up as the figure headed towards the door on cue with the memory playing in her head. She wore a very elegant white nightgown and slipped into a pair of flat black shoes, not taking her eyes off the figure that disappeared through the door.
Muri immediately opened the door and let it slam shut behind her, echoing loudly through the halls, as she followed the figure down the hall and down the stairs and out into the streets.
In a relatively quiet town like Jia Yuan, the streets were obviously silent; not a soul in sight. Muri gracefully followed the footsteps of the near glowing image of a man in front of her. She could only see his back no matter where he turned or how he moved. She could only follow his back deep into the dark streets, between houses and alleys.
If, per chance, someone were to see this illusion she had created from the front, they might be shocked to see that this man had no face. The entire front side of him was blank, while his entire backside was filled out in such detail.
The tears Muri had been crying before were stained on her face and a melancholic expression was etched into her face as she followed this figure aimlessly throughout the streets as she tried to remember.
There was something she was trying to remember.
Something that she couldn't remember.
Why couldn't she remember?
...She was scared.
That's why.
Her fear was causing this memory to elude her conscious grasp. That was why it had begun in a dream and now remains in this aimless wandering while awake.
Deep in her subconscious mind, she knew the outcome of this memory and she knew the effects that it would have on her waking self. That was why she could not remember, no matter how hard she tried or how long she followed this figure aimlessly through the night.
Aimless... That was the feeling... This aimlessness... Uncertainty... This familiarity that she wanted nothing more than to grasp tightly in her arms... That back she longed to lean against at the cliff side under the pale full moon... That arm that she would hold onto with all of her might... as she begged him... Begged him to reconsider... Begged him...
Tears began to well up in her tired eyes again as she watched his back. They slowly began to pour down her face as she tried to reach out for his shirt to stop him. To beg him. To beg him...
"Please don't leave me..." Her small voice uttered out as her fingers barely missed the fabric of his shirt. A hint of desperation began to fix itself on her face as her tears increased. "Please don't go."
The figure's speed slowly picked up in pace and, so, Muri's speed picked up as well until she was running at a light jogging pace while the figure merely walked fast. "Please! I can't live here without you! Don't leave me! Erian!!" Her voice slowly grew louder with each passing sentence, slowly filling with desperation as her pace quickened.
As she had finally called out a name, she lunged at the figure in a fast sprint and wrapped her arms tightly around him. Her eyes had closed upon impact and she held him tightly in her small arms as she cried.
It did not occur to her in this moment that hugging tightly onto such an illusion was impossible. It took a lot of effort into building a physical illusion and she could not do it on impulse in such a tired and effortless state.
She had, unknowingly, latched onto a real person out in the city after three in the morning the moment this person's figure had overlapped with her illusion. At that same time, upon latching onto this person, the illusionary figure disappeared.
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Sy
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Post by Sy on Oct 18, 2012 10:47:38 GMT -5
Sy awoke with a loud gasp of air at the frighteningly loud noise of something outside. Whatever it is, Sy is thankful that it did, whenever he has this frequent nightmares, it is especially hard to wake him up from it, and the illusions it caused once he did gained consciousness.
This is probably why Sy isn't the least bit shocked by the mass of blood on his bedsheets and now pooling from under his bed in a steady crimson flood all around his hotel room. Already acknowledging this as an illusion, Sy only sighed as he pulls off the comforter to the side and slipped off his bed, wetting his feet with the blood on the floor.
The walls are cracking, streams of red escaping from it, yet Sy pays no mind. It's a normal occurence for him whenever he wakes up, and it would took him a long while to pull those illusions back in his control, so Sy just stopped caring to waste his energy on doing so. Thus is why he's simply wading across his illusion, despite the blood is quickly gaining up near his knees.
Having been successful to wade his way towards the window, the former butler then opened it to let in some fresh air to clear his head. The cold night winds breezed through the opening the moment he cracked open the window, flitting the curtains about.
Just as he's taking an inhale, a wisp of silver caught his attention. Looking downwards, Sy was forced to rub his eyes to see if it's just another illusion he had unconsciously created. Being groggy and sleepy can make him create unimaginable things outside of his own control, so he wouldn't put it past himself if he sees anything strange in the middle of the night.
Leaning on the windowsill slightly, he tries to sharpen his eyes to see that indeed, there's a figure of someone familiar chasing...something. 'Muri..?' His eyes slightly widened at the sight, but he shortly loses sight of her when she ran off following that figure in between a couple of buildings outside his range of view.
Now widely awake, his bloody room had faded back into its original form. He grabbed his coat at the coat hanger beside his door before stepping out of his room. Wearing his dark coat loosely around his light-colored nightwear, Sy made his way to the door beside his room, occupied by Muri.
"Princess?" He called with a few knocks on her door, now wondering if that person he saw outside his window really is her or just a figment of his imagination. "Young master??" Recalling the loud noise that had startled him awake, his tone and knocks are beginning to get a bit louder in mild alarm.
"Muri?!" Now fully concerned if she's even in her room and if that girl he saw outside his window is really her, Sy pulled his fist from knocking against her door and immediately disintegrate himself into mist.
Entering through the crack under her door, Sy reintegrate himself from the mist particles and is now standing inside Muri's empty room. One look at her empty bed, and he quickly exploded in particles again, wafting through a window nearby and escaped to the dark streets of Jia Yuan.
Now standing with his full weight on, Sy began jogging through the streets where he had last seen Muri. The figure she was chasing looks like her brother, so he need not be too overly worried like this, perhaps she was merely taking a stroll with her sibling. 'Yet...' His thoughts echoed, 'I must make sure..'
It didn't looked like a stroll. It looks worrisome. Picking up his speed, it was like a maze of houses through this search. Sy had jogged past an alleyway, but then retraced back his steps backwards when he thought he saw a flash of white inside the alleyway.
Indeed, he can see Muri's small frame a distance away from him, chasing a figure of a person he can't seem to recognize. They're going at the opposite direction where he's standing, yet when the figure took a turn to the left, with Muri following behind, Sy immediately ignored the alleyway, skipped his way to the other side of the building, assuring himself that he'll bump into them at the correct turn.
Once he did turn though, expecting to see Muri's brother Eyami, Sy skidded into a stop in shock...when all he sees in front of him a few meters away...is a person with nothing. No face, no clothes, just a white blank form, walking briskly right towards him.
His eyes widened at the sight, his breath caught short. He could hear Muri's voice, with a desperate tone he never thought would fit her, yet it's ringing in his ears. It's of this moment, Sy seemed to have figured the mystery of this man now a few steps away from him.
It's a memory.
This man is her memory.
This man is in her dream, escaped to reality in the form of an illusion.
Just as Sy thought of that, the illusion walked right into him, disappearing in contact with his body, just how he had cancelled out Muri's illusions before. He was awoken with yet another gasp of air for tonight, when the weight of someone was thrown towards him, arms immediately secured around his body.
Before he can even begin to realize what happened, Muri is latched onto him, her face against his torso. Sy is standing with his body leaning to the front a bit by the impact, steadying himself and his center point yet not moving.
He dare not move at this point. His arms are frozen in the air, and his eyes are fixed downwars towards the top of her silver hair. After a long moment of holding a breath he never knew he was holding, he finally releases an exhale now that he's sure his lady is safe from harm.
"...How many times..." He whispered out in a tired breath, never knowing he's this exhausted from all that running around until just now, "....have you been aimlessly chasing something that does not exist..?" His tone of voice is uncharacteristically gentle to her, intending to pacify the storm of her emotions.
"..Or has yet to exist." He rephrased his sentence, adding a new possibility, but paused again before adding another set of theory, "...Or had..existed."
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Muri
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Darkness is my home; smoke, smog, mist... They're my best friends.
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Post by Muri on Oct 18, 2012 13:56:38 GMT -5
Muri held tightly onto the person she, in her mind, thought was this man named Erian in her memories. She was unaware of her current self, fully believing herself to be this person in her past life chasing after the man who dared to leave Mount Etna centuries ago.
She cried into his chest, murmuring now and then for him not to leave, her body shaking as she cried. She didn't react to his voice at first, blending it into her memory. It wasn't until he has said she was chasing something that doesn't exist that Muri's crying ceased. That sort of sentence sounded strange to her and her quivering slowly stopped as her grip loosened.
When he then added the theory that it was something that had existed, Muri's eyes shot open and her body froze. She had inhaled slowly in that moment as she stared at the fabric by her face, slowly coming out of her memory as she realized who and where she was. Her eyes opened a bit wider and she immediately pushed herself away from Sy, quickly looking up at him for a brief moment.
Shock was evident on her tear stained face and she then immediately turned herself away from him and lifted her hands up to her eyes. She quickly began wiping her eyes and face clear of the tears as she recalled the memory that caused her to travel outside of the hotel. As she calmed down, feeling the sadness of the memory again, Muri's body slowed down and her arms began to lower as her gaze looked downwards.
Muri's hands stopped around her heart and her small fists clenched slightly as she felt a strange pang, still unable to fully recall that memory. She slowly let out a breath that was still trapped inside of her and fully lowered her arms to her sides, now staring straight forward.
"Sy." She began in a demanding tone before turning back to face him again with a forcibly blank yet also tired expression. "Carry me back to the hotel." Her eyes were red both from being tired and from crying, yet she stood there with her usual demanding stance. She knew that it was too late to pretend that she was not crying, so she decided to just not allow that fact to interfere.
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Sy
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Post by Sy on Oct 19, 2012 15:22:57 GMT -5
When Muri pushed herself off of him, Sy slowly pulled himself back to his full height, fixing his coat a bit while staring sharply at her. He was just about to sarcastically welcome her back, but once their eyes met, his voice failed to come out of his opened mouth.
The shock of her face and the tears in her eyes are so unbefitting of her that it actually froze him in his spot for a moment. As he expected, Muri turned away from him, intent on destroying every bit of weakness present on her face.
Almost on cue, Sy also turned away from facing Muri, perhaps it was due to how he was raised, to always respect the privacy of others, especially in their moments of weakness. He gave her a quiet time to herself, slowly counting when is he able to allow himself to react to her.
Despite himself, Sy cornered his eyes to take a peek of her condition now, trying to tell if it's alright for him to intercept. He can see her standing there, with her hands balled up in loose fists in front of her chest. He watches her without a word as she allows her hands to fall to her sides and then sternly called out his name.
He turned his head to face her immediately as he was called, looking down at her small and tired figure, and closed his eyes when he was ordered by her to carry her back to the hotel. "As you wish," Sy responded with a small nod and then pulled out a handkerchief from the inside of his coat pocket.
"Before that though, at least we must make you look presentable. So if by chance your brothers saw you like this, they would not immediately assume I was the one to blame in doing indecent things to you." He explained slowly and calmly as he leaned down towards her a bit to wipe the bit of tears on her face that she had missed to dry.
After cleaning up Muri's face, Sy folded back his handkerchief to be placed into his pocket and pulled off his coat, only to put it around Muri's smaller frame. "Off we go." Since Muri did not specify to him in what manner he was to use in carrying her back to the hotel, Sy simply bent down so his right arm is behind her knees and scooped her up her feet with ease while having his left arm behind her shoulders.
So there they are, under the darkness of the night, guided by only the faint lamps littered at the sides of the paths, with Sy walking briskly back towards the hotel and Muri in his arms. She looks even smaller than she is with how he's carrying her that she looks so fragile from afar.
"Is this a normal occurence that I should get used to?" He suddenly asked quietly, now seeing the hotel in his view, just a bit down the road that would take less than 5 minutes to reach there.
"Because if it is, then I should consider in putting tracking devices in all of your nightgowns to ease my search." He wanted to ask her of what just happened, but thankfully was educated with the decency of giving some time and space for her, so he opted in speaking of his lighter concern.
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Muri
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Darkness is my home; smoke, smog, mist... They're my best friends.
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Post by Muri on Oct 20, 2012 11:24:55 GMT -5
Muri stood there in her usual tall and demanding stance as she looked up at Sy. As he moved in to wipe her face, her eyebrows lowered just a bit in annoyance. Still, she stood there watching her servant as he cleaned her face, closing her eyes briefly only to keep the cloth from touching them.
As he placed his coat around her, Muri crossed her arms to hold it so it wouldn't fall and her eyes glnced away from Sy finally. She had realized a moment before that she was getting cold, but had refused to show it. She had expected him to carry her princess style, so she wasn't surprised when that was exactly what he did. Muri tilted her head a bit to rest against his arm as he carried her, closing her tired eyes as he walked.
When he suddenly questioned her, Muri's eyes opened again. She found herself staring at his shirt that was by her head, then she glanced away. His comment about placing tracking devices in her nightgowns caused her eyebrow to twitch down in annoyance. "No. I don't usually wander off half asleep." She said a bit quietly but in full voice, embarrassed to be admitting what she did tonight.
She turned her head a bit to see where they were and her eyes widened slightly for a moment before relaxing again when she saw the hotel not far from them. Glad to know they had almost returned, her head rested back against Sy's arm with her eyes closed again.
This situation embarrassed her, having her servant seeing her like that. The occasional time this occurred before, she always eventually woke up alone and tired and usually not knowing where she was. Muri let out a breath as she admitted to herself only that it was kind of nice to have someone that she can rely on to take care of her.
She could recall such feelings from past lives' but none of her siblings in this life made her feel like she was taken care of. Even with Eyami, although he worried, he was never this attentive to her. Her hands tightened a bit around the edges of Sy's jacket and her face contorted slightly in annoyance as she recalled Eyami siding with Hikaru when they were in Evnae previously.
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Sy
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Post by Sy on Oct 24, 2012 12:04:01 GMT -5
Once Muri had answered his question, in an annoyed tone no less, Sy exhaled audibly. Inwardly, he's already plotting to get his mother's friend in Gradia, who's skilled in nanotechnology apparently, to help him in making tracking devices so he could embed them within Muri's nightgowns in secret later.
It took him almost an hour of running around earlier just to find her, and it exhausted him. Thus, he definitely would execute his plan soon. Actually, he would call his mother the very next morning to get him appointed with her friend.
Then, Sy stopped himself from thinking. 'What am I reasoning myself with?' Why is he planning so deliberately like this, it's not like him to actually care for someone. Especially this girl in his arms. Shrugging it off as a part of the deal he had with her, with his concern only being associated with their unwritten contract with each other, Sy continued walking in the silence of the night.
When he had arrived at the hotel, he was thankful when the front entrance is not locked. Sy made his way up the stairs and into the hallways where their rooms are. Pausing in front of Muri's door, he doubted she had bring her door keys, and he silently is thankful that the hotels in Kumo isn't that greatly advanced like in Gradia, where hotel doors would automatically locked itself once closed. Meaning, her door would not be locked now.
Tilting Muri's body closer to him so he can reach the door knob using his hand behind her knees, his conclusion was correct, her door opened easily. Pushing it open with his foot, Sy stepped inside her room, walked by her bed, and then gently places her on the bed.
Pulling himself up after that, he looked down at her questioningly. "Anything else you need, Princess?" His keys are still in his coat, which Muri is still wearing, but he found no need for it when he could just enter his room after disintegrating himself.
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Muri
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Darkness is my home; smoke, smog, mist... They're my best friends.
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Post by Muri on Nov 2, 2012 4:27:49 GMT -5
Muri was glad to be back at the hotel. She closed her eyes with her head leaned against his arm as he carried her in and towards her room. She opened her eyes when she was moved closer to him and glanced over at the door as he opened it. She glanced up at Sy again as he lowered her to her bed, her expression looking annoyed but her eyes only appearing tired.
Muri kept her eyes almost sharply staring up at him with an almost increasingly annoyed expression before she finally glanced away and sat up. She pulled his coat off of herself and shifted over in her bed with her legs moving under the covers as if making room.
"Lay down with me." She ordered a bit quietly with an almost angry expression on her face, her head still turned away from him. She was annoyed to even be giving such an embarrassing order and hoped he wouldn't misinterpret it. She also hope that he wouldn't question it either.
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Post by Sy on Nov 4, 2012 11:50:36 GMT -5
Sy inwardly sighed. Personal appearance matters greatly to him, and he just realized right now as he watches Muri staring at him that he didn't even look in a mirror at all ever since he woke up. '.....I must have looked horrible..'
Just as he opened his mouth to apologize of his terrible appearance, Muri suddenly sat up. He closed back his mouth as he watches her curiously now that she had removed his coat from herself and shifted, almost seeming like she's giving room to him.
Her words surprised Sy, so much that his tired sleepy eyes widened. "I'm sorry?" He automatically said, but immediately regret. Knowing her and her tantrums, she probably needs some kind of comfort. 'Yes, but...lay down? With her? On her bed? Mother would be ecstatic.'
An order is an order, he sighed. Before she could respond to his question, he sat down next to her, pulled his legs up after he left his slippers on the floor, and then eases down on her pillow, right next to her. It's a good thing the bed is big enough.
After he had made himself comfortable beside her, Sy inhaled a long breath and sighed again. "..This is not gentlemanly." He whispered out, just audible enough for her to hear. "But by your orders, I follow your every word." He then turned his head to the side a bit, his eyes cornering sideways to look right at her.
Almost as if waiting for her next order.
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Muri
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Darkness is my home; smoke, smog, mist... They're my best friends.
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Post by Muri on Jan 20, 2013 15:58:05 GMT -5
Muri remained looking away, tensing her body somewhat in annoyance as he questioned what she said. She simply sat there, looking away with an angry expression. She didn't feel the need to repeat herself, merely waiting for him to comply with her quiet order.
Her tension slowly began to drift away as Sy sat on the bed beside her, then laid down there. She remained sitting while facing away from him for a few minutes as she allowed her thoughts and tension to settle.
Slowly, her head began to lower a bit as she felt increasingly tired again. She glanced back at Sy, then glanced away again as she decided on what she wanted to do. Finally, her voice uttered out a bit quietly and hesitantly a sort of order. "D...Don't think that this means anything."
Her body tensed again slightly as she spoke, before relaxing again. She finally looked at Sy again. She reached over to him and pulled the arm that was closer to her out across the pillows. Then, glancing away, she laid down very close to him, with her head on his arm. She closed her eyes immediately, but her expression was furrowed and frustrated. She moved a bit closer to him, trying to bury her face a bit so that he couldn't see her expression directly as she tried to fall back to sleep.
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Sy
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Post by Sy on Jan 25, 2013 19:50:36 GMT -5
After all the years serving people, this is by far the strangest order that was ever given to him. Still, being the excellent flexible servantbutler that he is, Sy complied quietly without questions.
As he was busy thinking about this, he notices his lady is finally letting gravity to pull her down on the pillows. He kept catching her glancing and then avoiding his eyes. It seems to be a readable pattern with Muri, he noted in his head.
When she suddenly uttered out something, it heightens his curiosity. Just as he was about to ask what she meant, he felt her hands taking a hold of his arm and then pulled it over to her side of the pillow.
"Ack!" Since his mouth is already opened from the question he wanted but failed to ask, a short gasp escaped his lips. Still, he didn't said anything more, only looking up at the ceiling in a pained and sleepy expression once he felt that she's using his arm to make her comfortable to sleep.
Letting out a silent sigh, he closed his eyes once he can tell she's trying to relax. Silence hanged in the air for a moment, and then Sy slowly tilts his head to the side, so his chin slightly touches Muri's hair.
"Go to sleep now.." He whispered in an almost gentle manner, before pulling his head back so he's facing upwards. "Good night, Princess." Then, Sy pretended to fall asleep.
He's fully conscious despite being genuinely tired and sleepy, only because he needed to make sure his lady is sound asleep first before drifting off to nightmareland himself.
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Muri
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Darkness is my home; smoke, smog, mist... They're my best friends.
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Post by Muri on Mar 30, 2013 18:28:20 GMT -5
Muri slowly drifted off to sleep with that furrowed expression and a feeling of sadness inside of her. As she slept, she began to dream. Her dreams, however, are not merely normal dreams, but memories that recover from her past lives while she sleeps.
~dream~
She ran fast down the mountain trail. A heavy blizzard was distorting her view, and tears froze across her cheeks. Her heart was pounding as heavy as ever as she ran for what, to her, was her life.
"Erian!!" She shouted as she finally caught sight of the familiar back through the blizzard. The figure of a man turned around, looking at her with a surprised expression as she crashed into him and held him tightly. She could feel his arms slowly and gently wrap around her in an embrace. "What are you doing out here in the cold?""Don't leave me Erian! Please don't leave me! I can't live without you!"He chuckled at her melodramatic words, and placed a gentle kiss upon her head. "You'll be fine without me. With everyone else here, you don't need me." He stated with a gentle smile.At his gentle smile and smooth voice, she felt her tears falling again. She clung even tighter to him. "You can't leave me, Erian! I love you! I love you, I love you, I love you! I need you with me.... Please.... Don't leave...." Her tears fell more, making it harder to speak.His expression showed worry again as he looked down at her. He lifted her face to look at her clearly. A gentle smile showed on his face again as he tried to wipe her tears away. "There you go being overdramatic again. I love you too. You're my adorable little sister. I can't stick around forever, though. There's so much world out there that I'm dying to explore. You'll be safer here on the mountain." She could feel his fingers brushing away her tears, and she could hear his words that made her heart feel like it was breaking. She tried to hold on tight to him as he slowly pulled himself away."Go on back home, now." He said with a smile and a hand rested on top of her head, carefully pulling away from her. "I'm sure the rest of our siblings are worried about you."She felt her heart drop even more, making her feel ill. She couldn't get herself to speak with her tears falling, and she knew now that he wouldn't listen to anything she said. He was leaving, walking away, leaving her feeling more desperate than ever.
A small mass of smoke began to materialize in her right hand in the shape of a knife as she watched his back walking away again. Tears blurred her vision. In a moment, she sprinted towards him again. "Erian! You can't leave me!!" She shouted in a pain stricken voice as she embraced him from behind and jammed her knife of smoke straight into his heart. His body froze in shock, and a sharp breath of air released from him. In a rhaspy tone, he forced his voice to ask a single question. "W..why..?"She continued to cry silently against his back as a small relieved smile began to form across her lips. "I love you, Erian.... You can't leave me.... I need you.... I can't live without you...."
As she spoke, slowly, his body grew heavy and fell out of her arms onto the ground. His body then dematerialized into the soul of his element and began its travel back to the birthing cavern of the quintessences. Tears now began to flow harder from her eyes, and she dropped to her knees in the snow watching his soul fly away.
"Erian... I'll see you in our next lives...." She began to speak quietly with a sad attempt at a smile as she slowly raised the knife of smoke towards her own chest. "Maybe then... You won't try to leave me again..." She finished as she roughly jammed the knife into her heart so that she could join him tucked away in the mountain.
~Dream End~
Muri lay sleeping deeply and silently with her head against Sy's arm. Her expression furrowed more into sadness as tears began to leak from her eyes while she dreamed. Her body was shaking slightly as though she were sobbing in silence, and freezing cold.
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Post by Sy on Mar 30, 2013 21:31:06 GMT -5
After a moment of staying completely still while being silently wide awake, Sy could feel slight shudders from Muri. Slowly, he opened one of his eyes to check on her, only to see her expression twisting in pain.
'A nightmare again?' He opened both of his eyes and turned his head to look at her closely. In the dark, he couldn't see clearly, but when he got closer, he realized she's weeping. Her tears are wetting his white pajama shirt and he exhaled his breath through his mouth at this, the water vapour brushed against her skin by how close they are.
Very slowly, Sy tries to carefully pull his arm that extends over the pillow, the one that she's resting her head on, to enclose it beside her in a loose hug. Then, he uses his feet to pull the comforter above both of them and positioned himself comfortably before closing his eyes.
Before he drifts off to sleep, he turned his body slightly to face her just to drape his other arm above her, slightly hugging her. 'So you won't run off again.' Then, Sy quietly drifts off into unconsciously.
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Post by Muri on Mar 30, 2013 23:56:32 GMT -5
Muri slept deeply, remembering various other things from that short lifetime she'd spent with Erian. She unconsciously nestled close to the person she was lying next to, as though she were nestling next to the man in her dreams.
As small beams of sunlight began to shine through the window, Muri was recalling a memory of Hikaru from long ago. A battle in her dreams between light and dark, and a blinding light that sparked a fury within her.
Small bits of smoke began to emanate off of her body as her expression turned to anger and her fists clenched. Muri slowly opened her eyes, with an angry expression on her face, feeling a burning hatred for Hikaru emanating in smoke off of her body.
She recognized Sy's body next to her, looking as though they were in a romantic sleeping embrace. Her eyes opened a bit wider in realization, and she slowly moved herself away just enough to pull her feet up between them and push him off the bed.
Without waiting to see if that woke him up, Muri sat up in a dignified manner with an annoyed expression on her face as the smoke dispersed from around her. She moved over to the side of the bed and stepped over Sy to get off of it. She then turned around to glare down at Sy.
"Get up and go into your room to change. Meet me in the dining room downstairs. We're going out after we're done." She ordered in a stern tone, then turned away and walked into the bathroom, shutting the door a bit loudly and locking it.
Muri stood by the sink and glared into the mirror. The memories of that battle fresh in her mind from her last dream, she felt a fury of hatred towards Hikaru, and damned him in her thoughts again. She gripped the counter tightly, looking down at the sink, then glancing back up into the mirror before letting go and standing up straight. She then began to undress and stepped into the shower to get ready for the day.
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Post by Sy on Apr 1, 2013 11:06:17 GMT -5
"Uh!" Sy flew off the side of the bed with a thump on the floor. "Augh.." He murmured against the wooden floor, face-down. Pulling a hand to massage his forehead by the sudden impact, Sy took a moment to recall what happened.
Once he does, he lets out a sigh under his breath, right on cue as Muri stepped on top of him, so the sigh ended up sounding like a choking exhale. Sy grunts, staying still on the floor, still rubbing his forehead.
He heard Muri's order clearly and fought to release yet another sigh. Without even looking at her, he can hear her stomping and then the sound of the bathroom door shutting loudly. "....Ugh.." Sy finally pushed himself up on all fours, lazily opened his eyes and feels around the bed to find his coat.
Once he does, he pushed himself on his feet using the bed and automatically made the bed, half-consciously, with the coat loosely hanging over his shoulder. After he's finished, Sy trudged his way sleepily t exit the room and enter his own room, unlocking the door.
After running so much yesterday, he can feel his feet throbbing slightly, and the sleep wasn't enough to restore his energy. Yawning, he finally got his door unlocked and went inside, just as a spectacled man in green exited a door across from him.
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Anthony
Immigrant
Local Incubus
Once my eyes caught sight of you... You're mine.
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Post by Anthony on Apr 1, 2013 11:08:27 GMT -5
Anthony opened his door just to see the neighbor across his room closing the door. After stepping out and locking the door, he planned to jog a bit before breakfast since it's such a nice refreshing morning today.
"No harm in exercising once in a while," he stretched himself, and then he saw a woman coming out of the room across the hallways, wearing shorts and sports bra.
"Yay, motivation~" Then off he went following the woman down the stairs and out to stalk jog.
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