Seth had spotted his...erm lets call them friends for now. They seemed to be talking with another man. Zack somehow seemed drunk, something Seth didn't think possible for them as dopplers, and Bryce was trying to defend him. As Seth drew closer he could hear something about buying the other mans oath. Seth didn't know who this other guy was but he needed him to back off so he could get some help from Bryce and Zack. He needed some sort of cover from the witcher he had tormented earlier. "Here ya go buddy! Fine day isn't it!" Seth said drawing closer he tossed the man a heavy sack of coins. "Keep the change. I don't need it." He then said. As he finally got right next to Bryce, her through his arm over the other mans shoulder. "Hey dude, how goes it? Is he getting himself in trouble again?" Seth indicated to Zack. "Anyways I got a favour to ask of you. If you see a crazed witcher b*tch, then I am not here. Got it. Here is a little tip for your silence." Seth pressed a much smaller sack of coins into Bryce's hand. The coin wasn't actually his, but various drunken peoples that he lifted, but that was besides the point. A bribe was a bribe. "Who is that emo looking ****** anyways?" Seth asked indicating to Callum. Tatiana graciously accepted the water, drinking a fair amount but also dripping some down her chin. Her mouth felt less dry, more like she could talk, that was good. Talking was good, she knew that. Veera began to ask her questions but her focus was on other things, it was on the normally vibrant coloured room. She couldn't see any of the colours, everything was shades of grey. "Everything looks funny." Tatiana said with a groan as she slowly moved her head over to look at Veera. "You... I know you, but what are you... no wait I should know that... right the questions lets see. My name is Tatiana Risen. I am um...." Tatiana hesitated as her mind worked trying to remember her age. It first jumped to the age she saw herself in the first hallucination, seven, but she knew that was wrong, so how old was she? "I'm... uh... right. I am twenty three years of age." Tatiana told Veera. However now she couldn't remember the last question. "What was the..." Tatiana trailed off as she tried to move her arm to realize she was tied up. "What? Why am I...?" Tatiana's eyes flung wide with shock as she remembered exactly what Seth did to her, however after that was too much of a haze and she had to assume she was still tied from that. But Tatiana knew she was missing something else in the mix somewhere. What it was she didn't know. Everything was so jumbled up in her mind at that moment. Tatiana closed her eyes momentarily hoping when she opened them everything would make more sense and her vision would be normal. It wasn't. "I don't know... I don't know what to do." The girl complained as she coughed a couple times and attempted to deal with the fever the best she could, which wasn't that well. Her entire body also hurt a lot. She wished the pain would just go away. "Where do I live? Oh that would be in Novigrad. Ever been there? It is so beautiful." Aaron stated as he ran his fingers through his tangled hair, thinking of home. "Why did I do it? Life is a precious thing. If it was only money anyone was ever worried about. If that was all that ever mattered to anyone, then my sister and I probably wouldn't be around. We lived a lot off of other peoples charity when her work couldn't bring in enough money. As much as we need to money, I wouldn't just sit and watch someone die because they couldn't pay me. Each person has a life to live and I wouldn't dream of seeing it end early." Aaron explained to her. So many times both him and Tatiana could have been left to starve and die, without anyone to take care of them, but people would still be kind enough to give them a hand every once and a while... That was until the entire town heard of what Tatiana did for money. Not long after that he got shipped away to train to become a witcher. After a couple questions Olivia finally stopped to answer his, claiming there was nothing interesting there. "Are you kidding me? The academy for witchers is amazing and always full of action. There is so much to explore through it. The town its self was nothing amazing but the academy... I have never seen anything like it." Aaron ranted. He had loved his time at the academy. It was all so amazing and new. "I will be sure to show you around all the coolest places once we get there." He promised. Olivia proceeded to ask another question about his sister. "No Tatiana is not a witcher. That isn't her dream, it was just mine. She took care of me after my mother died. When my father left she had to find a way to make money.... She was fifteen at the time and the only option for money was not pleasant, but we had to eat. She has been stuck in a life of selling her body out in order to pay for our living ever since. She would have left it as soon as she was old enough to get a proper job if it wasn't for the debt hanging over her head, the debt she owes to the brothel, she would be free. Tiana has a servant heart. She doesn't want to do anything for herself. She just wants to help others, that is all. She could care less for a life for herself, it had always been about me and my dad, and when dad left, she poured all her heart and energy into making sure I would be alright and grow up fine, damn what it cost her. That is why I need to get the money to pay off her debt. I owe her so much." Aaron explained soon realizing he wasn't talking as much about what his sister was like but her situation. Still it gave a pretty clear picture of what she was like. So much was going on around Annabelle. People talking about helping her leave, while Yana made it sound like it was originally her choice to be there. A fight waiting to happen but yet to get to an all out war between the mages. Annabelle did honestly want to take the peoples offer, this wasn't what she wanted, she didn't ask to be trained, only accepted it because she feared her own life. They promised she wouldn't have to be afraid and that she could go with them, but Annabelle knew Yana well enough to know it wouldn't be that simple. Nothing was that simple. She couldn't just walk away from this. Tears dripped from the corner of her eye as she stayed curled up on the ground inside her barrier of sand where no one could see her. They would be able to hear her coughing fairly frequently but besides that there wasn't much you could tell of the young mage inside. She was confused and scared and didn't know how to handle the situation. No one had ever come to her aid before and she didn't know how to handle that or what to do about Yana. It was all so confusing.
Username: Aelin FireHeart Character Name: Samuel Leighyard Age: 15 Level: 6 Appearance: ~~ Weapons/Items/Abilities: > Good with karate but not as good as he is with his throwing stars >Samuel is highly skilled with throwing stars > Dagger he can use if he has to in close combat > Smoke grenades > Planning- Spends a turn planning so the next set of moves it well planned around enemy weaknesses that he can predict, and therefore is more effective. Special Ability: He can see a slight bit into the future. what will happen and how it plays out. Short History: Samuel has always stuck close to his brother, admired him. He followed him around everywhere for a long time just doing as he was told to do. He still does follow him around not having settled anywhere in a long time. The young book worm doesn't know what else to do but at some point is looking forward to settling somewhere. Other: has a photographic memory and is also Oscars brother
Aedion had heard the screaming as well and then the knock before Ana left. He knew he had to go help, but now Ana was going out on her own, the was twice as bad. Aedion got up from playing with the kids. The younger one had fallen asleep but the older one was still playing. "I am going to go see something. You two stay here okay? Don't leave the room." With a nod of understanding from the older child, Aedion slipped out of the room. He tossed the extra sword that Hunter put in front of the closet door at the man. "Go, protect your kids if you have to. I will do my very best to make sure whatever is out there won't get anywhere near your home." Aedion told the man before smacking Hunter on the back of the head. "Lets go." He said walking out the door. Aedion ran outside to see a huge creature threatening the town. People already died from it. Aedion soon noticed the symbol that all the nobodies had. "Damn it." The next thing that he noticed was Ana protecting a child but putting herself in danger to do so. "Double dam it." He grumbled as he took out his sword and charged towards the nobody, ready to attack. "Don't you dare touch them!" He shouted as he attacked the creature, drawing his attention onto him. "If you want to mess with someone, then mess with me." He taunted as he started on the defense for long enough to let Ana get away with the child.
As they entered the guild hall, Silvia looked down at her hand held in Leo's. "Should we formally tell anyone, or should we just let them figure it out themselves?" Silvia asked as she glanced around the room at various familiar faces before letting her gaze rest on Caliborn. She kind of wanted to tell him everything that had just happened, after all she trusted him and was always nice to her and there for her. However Caliborn seemed busy talking to someone else and Silvia would feel bad for interrupting them, on top of that she didn't really didn't know what to say. She wasn't really good with words anyways. So Silvia looked up at Leo waiting for his input on the situation. In the story The young raven haired girl strolled around the castle gardens, tending to the flowers. She was humming a sweet tune since she was alone. As much as Silvia liked to hum she didn't like to do it when other people were around. Though she was a princess in this story and princesses hummed all the time, right? That was close enough. So Silvia did as was narrated and began to hum nervously as she walked around, pulling weeds and tending to the flowers, completely oblivious to the huntswoman behind her. Thomas used Thunder "No it is not okay." Thea told Vance. "Nothing is okay, nothing is ever okay! Why do people hate us for being noble. I haven't done anything to anyone. I don't understand it. Why does all of this happen? Why can't I have a normal life? Why can't I not have powers? I don't want to be afraid that whenever I get upset my powers might hurt someone. I can't stop from getting upset. They don't understand and I don't like it. I just want to be a normal girl living a normal life." Thea explained as something else exploded in the barn. Thea let out a shriek and covered her head. "I didn't mean for that to happen, I swear." She promised as she trembled slightly. "I am sorry father." She apologized. "I am really tired." She then told Vance after it all. Her magic was depleted after all of that and she was physically exhausted because of it all.
Tatiana accepted the help sitting up, but she hated needing it. That feeling of being helpless, not even being able to do the simplest thing on her own, it drove her nuts. Hopefully this potion would help, hopefully she would be healed and these injuries wouldn't kill her, nor would the potion. It was all a came of luck and chance, whether she lived or died was in the gods hands now, she just prayed that they showed favour to her, though she somehow doubted that. Throughout her life it was just a series of but fortune, mistakes, and pain, so why would it change now? Perhaps the mage would have been a better option, but then she would be alone. Tatiana was so sick of always feeling alone. It seemed everyday she shared a bed with a man, but that was her job and it still felt very lonely. No one cared for her, no one except Aaron, but he was a Witcher now, off on all sorts of adventures she couldn't offer him as just his older sister. She didn't expect him home for a while. She didn't want him to come home for a while, she wanted him to live his life even if that meant more of a burden on her. The fact that this woman, this witcher put herself through the torment of watching everything that happened to her, and stayed though she couldn't help. The fact that she was at her side trying to save her life meant more to Tatiana than she would ever know. Drinking the potion as fast as her broken body would let her, Tatiana laid back down while Veera left the room for a moment, only to come back with strips of cloth. Tatiana couldn't resist even if she wanted to as the woman tied her down, but she believed her when she said it was for her own good. As the restraints were fastened, a shard of panic started through Tatiana's veins but she did her best to keep it at bay as her entire body tensed. She knew it was going to be okay, that Veera wasn't going to do anything to her, but still after what had happened not long before, she couldn't help but panic slightly as tears trickled down her cheek. She tried not to think of what had just happened, tried to put the picture of the mans amused face out of her head, but it didn't work. "Veera.... I am scared..." She finally admitted, right after the girl gave her her name. It was not long after that that the seizure set in. At one moment Tatiana was focusing on her breathing, in the next everything went blank. She couldn't feel it when her body began to violently shake, pulling against the restraints as it did. As her body jerked thrashed and shook from how bad the seizure was getting, Tatiana's mind was slipping away to a far off place. She felt like she was falling, falling into a dream of some sort. A world spun around her, a bright world full of candles and stories and laughter. When Tatiana stopped falling she was back in the house, but it wasn't the same one that her body was in. This one was brighter, happier, not broken. This was how she remembered the house when she was a child. Tatiana stopped shaking, and her eyes opened, but they were glazed over and had a blank look. She was alive, she was awake, but she wasn't totally there, not yet. Her mind was lost somewhere, trying to find it's way back to reality. Spoiler: Tatiana hallucinations and flashbacks It felt like she was watching a movie. Tatiana could see a young version of herself running around the house singing while her mother told stories to a young baby, Aaron. Tatiana wanted to reach out and hug her mother, but she wasn't really there. Her mother wasn't there, it was all an illusion, all her mind playing trick on her, dragging her through the most painful of days. Almost testing her will to live. "Oh mom..." Tatiana said, her voice reaching past her hallucination as she spoke out loud for Veera to hear as well. Tatiana listened to her mothers story, her sweet voice soothing Aaron to sleep. When her brother had finally fallen asleep the scene changed slightly. Aaron was in bed, and she was supposed to be, but instead of sleeping she was peaking out her door as she listened to her mother cough, her voice growing weaker and her strength failing. She was dying from an illness that she had kept hidden from them for so long. That night she was going to pass away. Tatiana remembered sitting there peaking through her bedroom door and her mothers eyes slid shut, her coughing silenced and she could see the tears on her fathers face before he buried his head into his wife's limp body. However this was not the scene that played out before Tatiana. She did not watch her mother die from illness or her fathers grief, no. What she saw was far worse than that. The scene that played out, as young Tatiana watched through the crack in the doorway involved the man her hurt her. Seth stood over her mother as he pulled off her dress, doing similar things to her mother as he had done to her, but he spent a lot less time with her mother, stabbing her through the heart after. "No! Mom! Stop please!" Tatiana tried to yell out, but Seth couldn't hear her. The only person who her weak voice could reach would be Veera. "That is not what happened to her. It's not. I remember." She said quietly as she felt herself fall again, this time arriving in an area she did not recognize. Looking around she was in a desert. Tatiana began to walk, to search for something, anything. It felt like the desert was going on forever. She kept walking, soon losing sight of the fact it was all a trick of her mind. Tatiana kept walking until she couldn't keep focused on anything. She couldn't do anything but walk until she was too tired to do so any longer. When the point came that she collapsed, she found Aaron's bloody body in front of her, dead. "Aaron. No Aaron. Breath. Please! No!" Tatiana begged and cried. He was the only family she had left, he couldn't die. She was ready to close her eyes and let the heat and dehydration take her right there. In the vast desert where surviving seemed hopeless and her only family lay dead in front of her. However something in the back of her mind told her to just get up and go a little further. Something said that if Aaron was dead then she had to live for him. Live out his life. Tatiana was about to close her eyes, they were drooping and once they did, well it was all over both in her mind and with her body. However she held onto that thought, live on for Aaron, live the life he didn't get too. So she pushed herself onto her feet and stumbled forward a few steps, pain suddenly wracking her body. The glazed look on Tatiana's face faded. Her cheeks felt sticky from all the tears she cried due to the things she had seen. She was back in Aarons bedroom it seemed, though everything looked off. Her body ached greatly as she tried to move, but that was hopeless it seemed. She could remember clearly what happened with Seth, however after that was all kind of fuzzy and she remembered nothing of what she had just saw. She turned her head to Veera and stared at her blankly and seemed confused. Nothing made sense to her at that time. She knew that she knew the woman sitting next to her, but she couldn't remember her name or how she knew her. When Tatiana attempted to talk her tongue felt like lead, dry and heavy in her mouth, preventing her from getting a word out. Her body felt cold, yet she was shivering. It seemed as though a fever had just broken out, and Tatiana laid there lacking the strength to move or even say anything to Veera. The moment she tried to rest her eyes for a minute, images of Seth violating her and cutting her flashed through her head and she quickly opened her eyes once more, breathing more heavily than before. She began shaking more, not just from the fever that she seemed to be running, but now also from fear. Tatiana quickly began to lose hope in her survival. Finishing his second celebratory drink Seth began to feel a little bored. He was in trouble, but perhaps he should track down some of the other dopplers he knew of. He wouldn't exactly call them friends because, well he didn't know what they thought of him, they probably didn't think well of him considering he had stolen from them before. However he also tried to get them out of some scrapes that they were in. Do considering all that, he didn't really know what to call their relationship. Either way it would be good to hang around someone who didn't want to murder him when they found out what he was, so off he went. Seth casually strolled through Novigrad, trying not to look over his shoulder too much as he made his way towards the edge of town and out. The most likely place to find people he knew would probably be Oxenfurt, given that was the most central place to everything. It would be in that direction he would head, but not before stopping in another pub for a drink on the road and to lift more than one pouch of money for the road. If the other dopplers were mad at him, perhaps a little money would go a long way in convincing them. With the money in hand and confidence that he wasn't being followed yet, Seth made his way out of Novigrad towards Oxenfurt.
Annabelle didn't know what to do. On one hand a nice seeming lady was calling out for her to go to her. However on the other hand that would probably bring on Yana's wrath, Yana wouldn't let her go so easily. Going to the lady might just bring misery to her as well. So Annabelle ended up staying put, she just wanted to see how the fight would turn out. If this other lady won, and defeated Yana perhaps she could walk away just fine, but that was only a hope. Annabelle had seen small bits of Yana's powers, and knew that she wasn't going to go down all that easily. There was little hope to be had for her leaving. As the battle began, Yana simply took a fireball before countering with her own fireballs raining down. Annabelle held on her bunny tightly, frightened of the fire raining down. However none hit her, instead her sickness grew so greatly that she couldn't stay standing. Annabelle fell to her knees coughing and hacking, shaking, and throwing up as she curled herself into a ball on the ground, her eyes watering. She didn't know if she was thankful for Yana protecting her from the fire, or if she didn't like it. Annabelle put a lot of her strength into manipulating the sand and dirt on the ground to create a barrier around her, hoping it could protect her from the falling fire and get Yana to back off slightly, enough for her to try to feel better. It was almost pleasant to hear someone else say Aarons name... She even called him a witcher, despite the fact that he had just graduated not days before. "Yeah, he's my younger brother... It took some convincing from me to get him in... but he made it." Tatiana said weakly, as a small smile crossed her face. She had been able to convince the school to let him in so he could become a Witcher, the only thing he ever dreamed of doing. It was not long after she finished talking that Veera started on the stitches. Tatiana wanted to be strong and not react to the stitches, but goodness they hurt like all hell to get. Tatiana let out grunts and small screams of pain from between clenched teeth. Why? Why did this have to happen to her. The smile that had crossed her face not long ago had now turned back to just tears. Tatiana gripped the bed sheets tight with each stitch right until the end, seeming out of breath and hardly away by the end. The pain was pushing her to the brink of unconsciousness. "Please.... Don't leave me..." Tatiana begged as she reached over, barely able to to grab Yana's hand. Fear was in her eyes, fear of being left alone, fear of dying. "Please miss." Tatiana begged, realizing that she didn't even know the woman's name. Tatiana's eyes drifted over to the potion. She had read in some of Aaron's letters what the potion was. He liked to tell her a lot about what he was learning and about that was one of them. She was terrified at what might happen if she took it, but if she died at least she wouldn't be alone. The woman would be beside her the entire time, she could feel it. "If I don't make it through tell Aaron... Tell him that I am sorry.... Tell him Tiana apologizes." Tatiana was finding it more and more difficult to talk, but she was forcing herself to do it. Tatiana gave Veera a final nod, telling her to give her the potion, tears forming in her eyes as she feared what the next few hours would hold for her, whether she would die or not. "What brings me out here? I was on my way home, in a roundabout way. I just finished my training at the academy for Witchers, so I was going to head home, make sure my sister was okay, but I wanted to get a few jobs on my way home. You see she is in a bit of debt to her work. She owes them a lot of money but hasn't been able to start paying them off because she has had to support both of us. If I can just get a little money and then get home it will be home. However she isn't really expecting me home any time soon, she wants me to travel and see the world. I just can't leave her in the state she is in now, not working where she is working." Aaron explained about himself. Given all the information that he had just given this lady, he thought it fare to ask her to return the favour. "So why did you turn back from heading to Kaer Morhem? What is your story there and what are you planning to do?" He asked her in return, brushing strands of his long white hair from his face.
Aedion couldn't help but roll his eyes as he heard the muffled yelling at Hunter for so called putting the kids in danger by bringing them to a back room with a window large enough to escape out of, but besides that no entrance beside the one that they came through, the one Aedion positioned himself close to. If there really was danger than he would hear it and they you be able to escape while the intruder was occupied with Hunter and Ana. If they happened to make it past those two, which he hoped would never happen for Ana's sake, then he would ship the kids out to run to safety and he would slow the intruder and follow to keep them safe. But for now he didn't want to seem tense. He didn't want to make the kids more nervous than Hunter already was. He would focus on distracting them, perhaps stories, stories were good. So Aedion settled down to start a story on a prince and his daring rescue of a princess who didn't actually need rescuing at all because in the end she was just as capable at fighting as he was, so they fought along side each other slaying dragons and falling madly in love and eventually getting married at the end. It was a rather entertaining story if he did say so himself, and he did. Besides the kids seemed to be distracted with it, and that was the goal after all.
Annabelle had followed as close behind Yana as she dared, trying to keep herself from coughing too much. She hated being sick all the time but she also knew that there was nothing that she could do about it, she simply had to suck it up and follow as Yana supposedly got ingredients for a cure, one that she doubted would work. The young girl didn't look up from the bunny that she was gripping tight until Yana turned around and yelled pretty much in her face about finding someone to burn and that she should watch. "Yes, your greatness." Annabelle replied quietly as she looked up at the two people before them, then back to her bunny and blistered and bleeding arms. She tried to adjust the bunny a bit to cover them, but realized they would just see all the blood on the bunny instead. And on top of that she was still covered in other bandages, including ones on her face and neck and some on her sides that were now exposed due to Yana stripping her of her clothing. Annabelle looked away from them, embarrassed of her current state. She wished that no one had to see her in the state she was in, it was after all a miserable state. So Annabelle stayed back, trying to keep herself partly hidden behind Yana, and away from the fight that she was sure was about to happen. Seth changed skins soon after leaving the area of which Tatiana's house was in. He knew that wouldn't do much to slow a witcher, but it would help a little. He didn't know how much time he had before the woman followed, so he had to find a place to lay low, and quickly. His natural instinct told him to leave the city right away, but as he thought about it, he decided it would be better to stay. The withcher would probably expect him to skip town after all the horrible things he did to the young lady, making her watch. So if he hid within town. Right in plain sight, then he would be more not noticed, in theory. She might just walk right out of town and never notice him. With these thoughts in mind, Seth decided to go a few more blocks away, in the opposite direction of the towns main exit, and duck into a tavern, joining the horde of people drinking, and singing and just having a good time. At times people bugged him, but right now he was in a great mood. It wasn't often he got to break a witcher like that. He liked to watch the girls face as she tried to scream in agony with every cut. Her scared eyes when he forced himself on her. And the the face of defeat when he he only touched her, but there was nothing she could do about it. However what was even better than that, was the face of the witcher as he did all that. The rage, the wanting to kill him but knowing it would put the girls life in danger. Oh that was the best part of it by far. Now he could celebrate it all with a drink, and so he did. Chances were that the witcher wouldn't leave the girls side for a long time. He had left the young woman in a state that she could easily bleed out, even if the witcher tried to help, but it wasn't for sure yet. So the results would be interesting to find out after it was all over.
So I decided to make a cosplay. First one that I ever actually made myself. Spoiler Spoiler not too bad if I do say so myself.
It was painful to move her arms and legs as the restrains were cut away, but she did anyways, bringing her arms to her side and closing her legs. She was completely naked before this woman, but no shame was felt, instead just relief that she was alive. Tatiana began to sob and tremble as Veera worked on her various wounds, trying to stop the bleeding. The world was spinning around her, even with Veera's attempts, she was still suffering from blood loss, causing her to go ghostly pale. Despite all of this, she still attempted to talk, her voice weak from the screaming and slightly distorted by the sobs. "You're... a witcher. My brother just graduated from the academy. Perhaps you have met him..." Before she could continue to a name she let out a groan, gripping for one of her wounds as Veera was bandaging it. Tatiana grit her teeth trying not to scream in pain as the necessary pressure was applied to slow the bleeding. Slowly the pain blended in with the rest of the pain that wracked her body and Tatiana relaxed slightly, however now breathing really hard. Her sobs became silent as her entire body shuttered. She didn't fight as Veera wrapped her in a blanket and picked her up, she couldn't fight even if she wanted to. It was a struggle for Tatiana to even keep her head up, so there was no use trying to protest being moved from her now blood stained bed. However where Veera brought her was a room that Tatiana rarely entered. She tried to keep things just the way they were when he left. It was her brother Aaron's room. "Aaron... I am sorry, I couldn't keep myself safe..." The girl said softly as she glanced over at a picture on a shelf of their family from before her mother had died and her father had left them. Before she was forced to work at a brothel for money, a time when their family was respected still. Tatiana then looked back at Veera, moving her head slow as not to make things worse than they already were for her. "Thank you.... for not leaving me...." She said as her eyes drooped, she was tired, but she forced them to stay open, she couldn't sleep. Tatiana was afraid to fall asleep, afraid that if she did she wouldn't wake up. She had to stay alive, at least until Aaron returned home, but right now it seemed to be a battle for her life, if she fell asleep, she didn't know if that battle would end. So she forced her eyes to remain open, focused on the pain in her body to keep her lucid, anything she could do to not fall asleep. "They can do many things, so do go out to harm, but not all do. However there is no point in arguing this. Shall we walk?" He offered, but not before shaking the girls hand. However her next question caught him slightly off guard. He looked down at his bare chest. "Oh... um not all the time, sometimes I just forget to put it on. I didn't realize I wasn't wearing one today. Sorry about that." Aaron said rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly. Well that was quite the situation to be caught in. People at the academy had stopped noticing or pointing out when he wasn't wearing a shirt, so to be called out on that... well that was a little embarrassing. Aaron began to rummage through his bag to try to find a shirt to put on but came up empty handed. "I guess I lost all my shirts, I hope you don't mind." He told her with a slight chuckle. The situation was just getting more and more awkward the more he talked. "Anyways to the academy!" He said turning around and marching the way he had just come from.
Aedion simply put his hand over his face and shook his head. This was going to be a long, long day wasn't it? An embarrassing long day too. But it was okay, Hunter could go ahead and embarrass himself, Aedion hung to the back apologizing after every incident that came. Every dumbfounded face, awkward silence, and slaps to the face. Aedion was the perfect gentleman there, to apologize, and occasionally offer compensation if they broke something throwing it at Hunter, or if Hunter broke something. Luckily for him, few people took him up on the offer, which was good because then he wouldn't have to listen to a lecture on how he was wasting money. Aedion followed Hunter in the last house to promptly be yelled at by Hunter that he was wrong about the man having a family, as the man was clearly mourning over his dead wife, however soon after two children walked out. Instead of a snide remark or a glance to say he was right, from Aedion, Aedion simply followed Hunter to where he pushed the children. Aedion removed the sword from the ground but kept it with him as he opened the door. "Come lets go play. Sorry about the scary man, he isn't good with children. He didn't know what to do about you two being here. Everything will be all right, they just need to ask your dad some questions about your mom, okay? Neither of them mean your father any harm." Aedion said in a calm voice, but Ana's yelling wasn't helping his case. Though she was defending their dad, it probably just sounded like angry yelling to the kids. "What kind of toys do you like to play with? Why don't you show me?" He requested as he lead the children into a back room that seemed to be a play area, shutting the door behind him to muffle the sound.
"I don't think spies are really necessary. What would I use them for? I am just a cook, nothing more." Adelina responded to Zack's comment. "I think you think far too highly of my powers." She giggled. He then went on to tell her about what he was able to do in a kitchen, or lack there of. "Perhaps I will have to show you one day. Or you could just do dishes. It is always helpful for someone to be around to do dishes. Never think that job isn't useful, because it really is." Adelina told Zack. She couldn't help but laugh when Tessa hit him either. "I guess you better go too, training sounds important. Besides the hunters should be back soon with meat for dinner." Adelina stated as she stood up from the table and started to collect dishes to take with her to the kitchen. "I will see you after dinner tonight, I promise it will still happen." Adelina assured Zack with a smile before turning away from him. "Now we just need to get Zack here and we will be good to go. We will start by doing simple runs with the 3D Maneuver gear, just to make sure that it is running as smoothly as ever. Although I trust Akari's skills we won't want to be caught in the midst of titans with something malfunctioning. After those simple tests we will move onto something more interesting. Akari's new invention, I will be having her supervise those tests and give you instructions, mean while I will be on the sidelines just watching those ones." The king instructed before motioning to a couple sets of 3DMG that he laid out before the rest arrive. "You better get those on, hopefully soon your friend will stop flirting and join us, and then we can begin." The king said sounding a bit unimpressed with how long Zack was taking to get there. Before he left the dining area, he heard with his superb hearing, Zack trying to flirt with Adelina, which was fine, the young woman could use someone like that in her life, but he needed to get there for training. There was priorities he had to learn, and training was one of them. "Just keep your head down, and your eyes averted. I am sure Drake will keep them busy, and if something does happen and someone sees us, it will seem you are upset, hopefully that is enough to deter them. We are nothing more than scouts working with them." Flame replied to Veera, not worrying too much about the comment on someone eyeing her up. It did make her nervous but she wouldn't let that show, she would just get them away from the group of humans as fast as she could. If she, the leader in training became really worried, others would most likely follow suite, and she didn't want that to happen. "It is actually a bit painful. Every time I shift my teeth grow, my nails grow into claws, things like that happen that cause physical pain. It is changing and growing all at once. But once I am shifted, I feel a lot more free, as a leopard I can run around faster than I can even as a fae. I can run alongside other animals and be like them for a moment, not as much in danger from the titans... however the one thing I can't do is walk around with other humans, by those people in the city. I can't fit in. Unlike you humans I am in danger by more than titans and wild animals, but by humans too. And that is a horrible feeling." Flame explained to Veera as they walked. There was always a trade off when it came to being something special, like fae. "Oh nothing sir, I was just surprised to see another one of you guys is all. I didn't realize there was one hiding around the corner." The woman who was eyeing Flame said as she fumbled with the buttons on her shirt seemingly nervously. One soon popped off and fell to the ground. When the girl bent over to pick it up her shirt came open, and revealed quite a bit of her cleavage. As this happened she gave a small nudge to her friend before trying to cover herself up frantically. "Oh my goodness. Oh no. I didn't mean to. I am sorry my button fell off and well. I didn't expect that to happen. You didn't see too much did you?" The girl said in a fluster as she held her arm over her boobs, holding the collar of her shirt up to cover herself better. While this was happening another young woman slipped from the crowd during the fluster of her friend showing her boobs to the man talking to them. It was really quite funny to see, but it was a good cover. The girl who had come to get the other person with Drake looked slightly familiar. She shared many features with a fae that had been captured and brought to the city fifteen years before. The fae woman didn't live long instead was tortured and killed within days of being brought in, trying to instill fear of the mythical creatures into everyone, it had worked too. Now it was possible there was another one trying to get into their town. They were going to destroy even more, and after the titan attack that couldn't happen, not on this girls watch. So the young woman snuck away, trying to follow where the two girls went. If she could get the jump on them then perhaps the fae one would die quickly and the other, well it didn't matter who died in that fight. Life was going downhill for them anyways. Before the woman attacked though she needed to see the ears or the teeth, make sure the suspicions were correct before she attacked. Killing an honest scout, now that would be bad.
"At least she is trying to eat today." Mrs. Willson said to the nurse as she paced around the halls. The nurse that took care of her young daughter had finally convince the mother to leave her side and go for a walk. They walked together leaving the three year old to her pudding. "You know worrying and staying by her side like you have is putting you at health risks too. I know that going outside doesn't seem like a good idea right now but at least get up and walk. She wouldn't be going anywhere and she is in good hands. We will take care of her." The nurse said to Mrs Willson. "Now if you excuse me I have a couple other patients to check up on. The nurse said, leaving the young mother to her walk. Meanwhile Evangelina sat in her room eating chocolate pudding and watching one of her favourite children cartoons about a girl and a giant red dog. Clifford, she wanted to name their dog after Clifford but her mother had said no and that Clifford was a boys name not a girls name, so the settled on Sandy. Though she was sick from a sickness brought by aliens, Evangelina still seemed blissfully unaware of what that actually meant. That being said she was only three so it would be a stretch for her to comprehend it at all. The young girl was just trying to enjoy her life despite being in the hospital and always tired. "Someone play with me!" Evangelina called out. She was an only child and used to getting whatever she wanted, in this case she wanted to be entertained. She just hoped someone heard her. ~~~~~ "Really after spending so much time and money to get through school to get a great career, the world is going to end with in three months of me officially finishing. Damn aliens and damn them wanting to end the world." The young man Carson strolled past a mob of people that were rioting wanting the government to fix the disaster that was the alien attack. "Idiots can you not see how much more advanced their technology is? We are all screwed so you better start saying your goodbyes now. What in the world do you think we can do about it. Just look in the sky that should tell you enough." Carson grumbled to himself as he walked carrying his school books, debating if he wanted to keep them. School was canceled for now, and if the threats were true then he didn't need them. That being said if the threats did prove false or the human race somehow won out then he would need them again. He figured it wouldn't hurt to carry them around a little longer. Finally after a while of walking, avoiding rioting people, Carson entered a local bar to meet some friends. May as well have fun in the little time that he had left.
Operator shot into the air causing a loud noise a debris to fall on them as the other two seemed to come to their senses and run off. Tessa seemed really out of it, while Shane had minimal reaction. Alexis barely looked up as he commented on it being a nice trick, instead she remained sitting on the ground for a moment, trying to put her bra back on. She didn't feel embarrassed at all, she was used to all sorts of different things like that. She was disappointed however. First off sex was the only thing she was familiar with and comfortable with at this point. Everything else was so strange, even fighting she was okay with but it wasn't her favourite thing in the world or most comfortable. The second thing was that no one could see through it to her desperate cry for help and attention. She needed help, she needed someone with her. She needed support and something stable in her life. No one could tell what she needed. No one could see through her outside attitude to what was hiding beneath. What did she have to do for them to see that. She didn't know what to do. She couldn't do anything it seemed. She was just so out of place and useless, part of her missed her life as a sex slave. At least she knew where she was, what was expected of her, and how to deal with things. She didn't know this here, nor did she know it while on the streets. Finally Alexis picked herself up off the ground after a moment to herself to pity herself. She passed Tessa along the way and stopped behind the girl. "There is no need to apologize. It was my fault. Don't beat yourself up over it." Alexis told the girl before continuing to walk to the stairs and up to the next floor, to another fight, to another step closer to her escape from her horrible life, or at least she hopped that was what it would lead to.
Annabelle grabbed her bunny and hugged it close to her chest, not really caring that her blood was dripping on it. It was comforting to have the bunny near, especially when they were going to do something like going into a deep dark cave. She hated the dark. Annabelle followed Yana, but not too closely. She dismissed her Golem before following however. She didn't need that thing with her causing her to be even more jumpy in the cave at its shadow or something. Annabelle wouldn't speak up as they walked, Yana's laughing made her grip the teddy harder. She simply followed followed Yana to the cave with nothing better to do and really no other choice given it was Yana and Yana didn't like being disobeyed. A woman approached Tatiana as she was crying around the side of her house. From the tone in the womans voice she didn't seem to mean her any ill will. "I-I'm fine. It just as been a long day." Tatiana tried to explain as she moved her hair in attempts to block the woman's view of the many marks left on her by the man at the brothel. "Don't worry about me. I will just finish cleaning up and then you and the rest of the neighbourhood doesn't have to see me, I don't have to exist to you." Tatiana told her, so used to people only talking to her in order to tell her to leave because she didn't belong there. Seth had become bored of walking around rather quickly and decided to backtrack to Tatiana's house right away instead of waiting awhile. When he got within distance to see, he realized that she was not alone, but that wouldn't be much of a problem. He snuck around to a back ally then behind the house. He slipped around the corner, a steel dagger in had as he approached Tatiana, pressing it to her back. "Come my dear." He whispered in her ear as he looked up to see that the woman that was with Tatiana was more than a random citizen, but a Witcher. Could his day get any better? "I wouldn't try anything if I were you, one flinch from you and this dagger goes straight through this lovely ladies back and into her heart." Seth threatened, a smirk spreading across his face as he looked at Veera. "If you listen I won't kill her. Come watch and you will see. She will be alive by the end. I swear, you may just not want to let us be alone." He added wanting the witcher to watch. He wanted her to feel helpless as she was forced to watch every horrible thing he had planned to do to the girl that he held the knife too. Tatiana was forced forward by Seth as he finished talking. There was a great deal of panic in her eyes, but after Seth had placed the knife to her back he also placed his hand over her mouth. Though she did not recognize the man as the same one from before, she had a bad feeling about it. Just in the way he spoke, it was familiar. Tears welled in Tatiana's eyes as he pushed her through her back door and shoved her onto her bed soon after. His knife never faltered from being held above some sort of vital spot as he worked with stripping her of all clothing and tying down her arms, legs, and gagging her once again. She was not getting out of this so easily was she? "There you go, doesn't this remind you of earlier?" Seth asked as he moved the hair out of Tatiana's face. "I don't know why you are trying so hard to hide these marks, I think they are beautiful. Perhaps we should make them harder to cover!" As Seth said that his knife moved up right below her collar bone, slashing one of the red marks on her skin from him biting her earlier. Seth then chuckled as she attempted to scream through her gag, simply moving his dagger back into place over her heart, a reminder to the Witcher not to get too close. It wasn't long before he dropped his own pants and started to have his way with the tied down young woman, stopping every now and then to cut her, or bite her, or anything really to make her suffer. Oh the muffled sobs were like music to his ears and knowing that he had the perfect leverage, a hostage on the witcher, something that could break her mind, was amazing. He had not had that much fun in years, but the fun would soon have to come to a close. "I would love to stay and have more fun, but I am scared if I do, my life might be in danger, you know how it is don't you?" Seth said, patting Tatiana's cheek before giving her two more really deep cuts. "Now you could either save her, or kill me. You won't be able to do both before she dies. And remember I didn't kill her. If she dies that is on you, I keep my promises. I never said I would majorly injure her, just not kill her. Make a wise choice my dear Witcher friend." Seth warned as he started for the door, not bothering to be slow to taunt more. Witchers were fast and he had to put distance between them or else the woman was going to find a way to keep the girl from dying then be on his heels right away, and a change of skin was not going to help much this time. The final two cuts came and Tatiana tried to scream louder than before, for them still to just be a muffle. Her body was covered in blood from various cuts that the doppler and decided to give her, and his sexual action, the way he rubbed himself against her, had cause the blood to smear everywhere making it hard to tell were each cut was. But with these final two, Tatiana was finding it hard to breath as the world spun. He obviously knew where to cut that wouldn't kill her right away but left for too long would. She could only home the lady from earlier would be willing to help. Tatiana turned her tear stained face towards Veera, a silent beg for help. "I don't think it has to be that way all the time if you just look at how the creature lives. Yes some kill for the sake of killing but these ones..." Aaron trailed off as he walked over to one of the dogs and placed his hand on it's side, feeling each rib on its overly slip side. "...these ones were just starving, looking for any source of food for their family." Aaron then walked into the cave where he found a couple pups, huddled together looking scared. He quickly stuck his sword into the side of each. "Those two had no chance of surviving now that their family was dead. They can't hunt on their own yet and would starve to death. That was a mercy killing. But not everything has to die." Aaron stated back to the girl. Perhaps he had too big of a heart, or just knew what it was like to be something that didn't quite seem to fit in anywhere and was starving. "Anyways, I just came from the academy. Would you like me to take you back there? I graduated yesterday and was on my way home, but a detour back wouldn't hurt. I can show you around the area too if you want." He offered the girl not know if she turned back because she didn't know where she was going or got too nervous. "Name is Aaron by the way, Aaron Risen. Nice to meet you." He said as he offered his hand for a hand shake.
Isabella started humming as more people entered. Apparently no one wanted her coffee, that was okay with her. There was a problem however, the girl screaming would bring more people and that wasn't good. There had already been two people arrive since they started screaming. The more people here the more likely it would be that she would have to share her coffee with someone. So despite Lucas' warning she started something. She grabbed a cloth from the kitchen, bleach from under the sink, and some alcohol, and poured it all on the cloth. Isabella then hid the cloth as she approached the group that was surrounding the girl, looking as innocent as ever. "What is happening is that I tried to be nice and shake her hand and she began to freak out. So I offered her coffee and she freaked out more and attacked me. The girl is obviously a nut job." Isabella stated. Analise tried to avoid looking at anyone around her, but this was made difficult when Lucas bent down to her level to speak with her. She didn't look up at him, instead she kept her eyes to the ground as she held her head. He asked her name, and though she didn't know if she wanted to tell him her name, she spoke up anyways "Analise." She said in a quiet, scared voice. He worked with the government, that was okay, so far she had no issues with people from the government. They were helping her with the issue of her fathers abusiveness after all. This question was followed by another, this time from another male voice. Someone else had entered the room as well, that was just great, exactly what she needed cause she wasn't panicked enough. "She got too close... I warned her not to. But she came to close. It was her own fault." Analise tried to explain, though her a hysteric, scared voice. She was still crying and still holding her head, wanting to scream but couldn't find the strength too anymore. Her entire body shook and though she wanted to go to her room, but couldn't stop shaking enough even to stand, much less find the strength she needed to do so. "Yeah yeah, who are they going to believe more. Me? The one who was trying to be nice? Or you, the crazy girl." Isabella stated as she pushed Lucas to the side to get closer to the girl. "Excuse me Lukey." She stated cheerfully as she pulled out a cloth from her pocket and shoved it in the girls face. "There you go. No more screaming, nighty night." Isabella said as she held the cloth with her chloroform that she made with house hold items, to Analise's face waiting a moment before the girl stopped shaking and completely collapsed to the ground. "Now that she is all quiet I can enjoy my coffee." Isabella skipped off to pour herself a cup, not at all caring that she just knocked a scared girl out in front of three other people. She was being too loud so that was what she deserved, simple as that. Sven tried to reassure her that it wasn't the Warden, and even if it was he would take care of her, protect her, but that would still be hard. He also had offered up his bed and said he wouldn't sleep. If there was one thing that Cierra knew, it was that the body needed sleep. When she was in jail, for the first while she was too terrified to sleep, but that quickly caught up with her and started messing with her body. "I won't take your bed, you need sleep too." Cierra told Sven. She wanted to say that she would just go to her own apartment, but in reality she would prefer to stay with Sven. There was a lot more comfort being with him, and she knew that he didn't judge her for the chains she wore, unlike others might. When evening came they could figure it out, until then she was kind of hungry, one problem though was her lack of ability to cook. "Um, is there any food?" She asked seeming somewhat shy to be asking about it.
Cierra entered the room with Sven, glancing around, taking in what was around her while Sven spoke. The humans had apparently been pretty oblivious, this was obvious due to everything that had happened in the class room. No one even noticed when a girl jumped out the window, or at least they didn't say anything. Cierra couldn't judge that too much herself though because she chose not to say anything either, she quite frankly didn't care. Cierra never knew what humans were up to and why they did what they did, it rarely made any sense to her. Cierra was drawn out of her thoughts when Sven asked if she wanted to stay in the room with him. She looked around once more trying to figure out if what she originally thought was true, it was. "There is only one room though. Where would I sleep?" She asked, just as she cringed from the sound of someone screaming not far from where they were, pretty much across the hall actually. Cierra looked around nervously once again. She felt so defenseless without her powers. If there was someone here trying to attack them, to hurt them, she wouldn't be able to fight them, not without her powers. Walking over to the door Cierra quickly latched the door shut and looked over at Sven worried. "I can't fight... not without my powers, what if the Warden...." She started to say. Just the thought that the Warden might be there scared her. She kept her eyes on Sven, he was not just her master, but also her source of comfort. She knew him, she knew she could trust him, but it went deeper than that too. How deep? Cierra couldn't tell, she wasn't good at figuring out what her emotions where telling her, one of the downsides of growing up in a prison. She was often quite confused with how she felt, what it all meant, so she simply pretended that it didn't exist. After all it was about the only way she knew how to get through things. If she couldn't figure it out, she ignored it and would hope it would go away. So far this feeling had not. In the middle of cooking Tinarah heard a scream. This made her more nervous than she already was. The girl was going to try to leave her door unlocked if her roommate that she assumed that she would have, arrived, however the scream made her change her mind. Tinarah quickly ran to the door to lock it, before going back to making her food. She could distract herself with the food she was sure. She wouldn't worry about the scream. Someone else would take care of it, what could she do anyways? Without her powers she couldn't heal anyone or help them sleep or anything, and she was too weak to fight. So she was rather useless here anyways. That meant she was left to her cooking she had started. Tinarah moved back into the kitchen, humming a tune that she had made up herself. She picked up the knife she was using and continued cutting up various vegetables including carrots, celery, zucchini, and bok choy for her stir fry. The rice had already been turned on, so the young girl turned to the stove to heat up a pan with some butter for the veg. It wasn't long before she was flipping them watching flames go up as she did so, a small smile finally crossing her face. Tinarah enjoyed cooking, she had forgotten that. It had been so long since she had a chance to cook, because the kitchen at SHELTER was always so busy. Soon enough the sauce was being added and the rice was finishing cooking. It all smelt so good, though it still came no where near anything from heaven. Tinarah sat down with her food, setting out an extra place setting and serving of food just in case her roommate decided to show up. though Tinarah was more than a little nervous about that, it would also be rude if she ate in front of someone else without offering them food first. She would have to at least try to be nice, there was no reason not to. No one had talked to her yet, but so far no one showed any ill intent towards her, so it should be fine. Everything would be okay, this is what Tinarah actively tried to convince herself of as she started to eat her food. Isabella was surprised when the younger girl tackled her to the ground. "You are a feisty one aren't you? A fighter? This will be even more fun!" She stated as Analise began to punch her. "That really hurts you know." Isabella began to whine after as her face began to sting from being punched more than once. It wasn't long however for her knight in shining armour... er agent in a black suite more like it, came to her rescue. "Thank you Lukey." Isabella said happily like she wasn't even phased by the fact that she had just been attacked. "Can I keep her for experiments Lukey? Please?" Isabella begged over the screams of the girl he was holding. Analise was thrashing and screaming louder as Lucas pulled her off of Isabella. "Leave me alone! Please just get away from me!" The girls screaming started to mix with sobbing. She was terrified, there was no question about that. The man talked to her in a somewhat calm voice asking her not to attack the girl from before, but she could not agree to that. Instead she still attempted to fight back, thrashing against the man who was a lot taller and stronger than her, as he held her back away from Isabella. Analise could hear the woman asking to keep her or something, that didn't help the situation at all, not in the slightest. "I just want to go back to my room." She begged. "Oh you can go back to your room, I will just bring my stuff there, it is not a problem! We are going to have lots of fun. I have lots of stuff to test and your brain would be so interesting to examine given the way you react to everything. This will be great. And remember it is all for science!" Isabella explained excitedly as she walked over and poured herself a cup of coffee as if these kind of things were perfectly normal. Turning back she noticed yet another person entered the room, this one seeming to try to threaten Lukey. Like that would work. Lukey was a big strong scary, yet somewhat unintelligent man. He could handle this girl easy. Though Isabella had other idea's too. "Oh would you like coffee too. It would help you be less cranky." She offered to Ana as if nothing was going on at all. Analise froze for a moment when she heard a voice of another person. This one seemed to be trying to help her, but that was not how Analise saw it. She only thought it another person to make her life more miserable. Could no one understand that she didn't like them, she didn't trust them, and they shouldn't get near here. There as only a select few that she would willingly approach or talk to normally, those were people like her case worker, that had helped her since the day of her arrest, and her psychologist from the hospital. Besides that she didn't like anyone else, though she learned not to fight the nurses and doctors at the hospital either. They had a terrible habit of sticking her with needles when she got too visibly worked up around them, and man did she hate needles. Analise's mind started to swim with many thoughts, memories of her father, time at the hospital, when she nearly killed the boy when she ran away from home... the police that restrained her in a similar manner to the way she was being restrained now. Analise tried to grab her head. She stopped supporting herself, letting her knees collapse as her body shook. "Just get away! I can't handle this! Leave! I will kill you all!" She yelled again in desperate anger. The doctors had always said her anger issues pared with her anxiety was dangerous, and this was exactly why. If she could reach anything sharp, she would probably be trying to stab someone by that time. @Glen @Magick
Seth continued to walk, as he did, he passed a young woman scrubbing her door, sporting various marks on her neck. Seth couldn't help but chuckle when he saw this. "Oh I will be sure to visit you later my dear." He mumbled to himself as he kept walking before she became at all suspicious of his presence there by her house. Besides he was still only about a block away from the wharf where he had caused all the trouble, and despite changing faces so the guards couldn't track him, he wasn't confident that there wasn't any witchers in this town. The town was a big place after all, one could be hiding anywhere, and if they caught a whiff of him, well he might not be able to return and visit this pretty young lady again, and that would just ruin his day. Seth slipped further into town, blending with the crowd and passing through various streets, but not without leaving a trail of people trying to figure out who just stole their money. If he was going to keep himself entertained he would have to have money to pay for all the brothels he planned to go into after he finished messing with the young woman from before. It was always so much fun when they realized though he wore a different face, the same man that had scared and hurt them before had found them again and was back. A shiver went up his spine as he imagined the look in her eyes when she found out. Perhaps he wouldn't kill this one though. She was almost too pretty and almost innocent to waste, despite her job. Even after finding out he was a doppler, what was she going to do? Give his description to the police? Like that would do anything. Tatiana thought that she could feel someone watching her, but when she looked back there was no one there, so back she went to scrubbing. Her back and shoulders ached from having to do it so much. Stopping to take a break for just a moment, Tatiana allowed the salty air caress her skin ans sooth any pain from the wounds she had received from her client. A nice long hot bath, that was what she needed, and that was what she would have as soon as she was done with cleaning the outside of the house, and that was going to take a lot of work to do. It didn't take long for her to get back to work, scrubbing more than just the door, but the rest of the house, hoping by some miracle she could get all the writing off of it. However she would soon find this to not be the case. As she worked a couple of local boys came along laughing. They began to throw rotten fruit at her house, despite her being right there and then telling her she didn't belong there, calling her bad names and simply making her life miserable. Instead of yelling back or defending herself, Tatiana took everything that they threw at her, all the insults and rotten fruit. She worked through it all, still cleaning, now just with more to clean and now she needed a bath more than ever due to the fruit not only being aimed at the house. As they left Tatiana finally stopped working and covered her face, beginning to sob. "I refuse to leave someone to fight alone. If you will not run then I will fight alongside you." The young witcher told the girl, not wasting time before moving onto the offense as a couple more rabid dogs came to attack them. Aaron's movements were swift and concise, it rarely took him more than one swing in order to kill the animals. He knew what he was doing, that was for sure, even though he was fresh out of the academy. His biggest downfall however was his want to keep everything alive. He wanted to protect people. He wanted to protect Tatiana, however he didn't want to kill more than he had to. However if people like this woman were going to remain in harms way, then he would do what he had to in order to keep them safe. It wasn't long before they took down the last dog, no more seemed to be come from the cave it seemed. Aaron secured his sword on his back once more before looking at the young lady. "So what are you doing out here anyways? What is your name?" He asked her in a casual tone.
Karina slowly opened her eyes as she realized that she was not dead... at least not yet. Instead she was inside a cage somewhere. Looking around she was not alone, others had been captured too. Thankfully Beuce and D'daear wasn't among them. The only reason Karina was stuck in this mess was so those two could get out, so if they had landed there, well Karina would have to wring their necks for that one. She could over hear something the man who had them caged said, before he pulled them all closer. He said something about extracting hearts, most likely theirs. He would have fun with hers though. It was black as night, like that would be of any use to anyone. "So is this the part that you go on a big rant about what your evil plan is then I go and defeat you because of that? If so can we skip the talking and go to the point that I kick your butt?" Karina asked in an unimpressed voice as she raised her keyblade to attempt to use it in order to unlock the cage.
"Yes.... Sven." Cierra hesitated to say Sven's name. She owed him her life, she was in debt to him, so in her mind he was her master and she would call him such, however Sven didn't seem to like that, and told her so often. He then spoke of apartments and of a key. Cierra nodded as she walked over to the desk that she had woke up at, and reached in to pull out a key of her own, examining the numbers which meant very little to her. Walking back over to Sven, Cierra handed him her key. "I will follow you" was all Cierra told Sven as she gathered her chains in her arms so they would not drag on the ground as they walked towards the apartments, and hopefully the answer to what was going on. Tinarah was still hiding by the door as the school bell rang and all the students started to head out. She pushed her back against the wall more to try to get out of the way, but it wasn't working. It seemed best if she just left, however that would require going outside. That being said all these other people were and they weren't being attacked. Perhaps if she just blended in with the crowd she could make it to her apartment. She also didn't have her wings so no one would be afraid of her, in theory. Yes she could do this. It wasn't far she would make it. Stepping out the doors, Tinarah stopped for a moment, not out of fear, but enjoyment. She felt the warm air kiss her cheeks and blow her hair in her face as she stood there. The air smelled so fresh and clean. How long had it been since she actually went outside? Far to long apparently because this felt really nice. She almost felt like she was missing out on something all that time that she hid within SHELTER, away from the world. But it was safe for her at SHELTER, not outside of it. Now here Tinarah didn't know if it was safe or not, but she didn't care as much. It just felt good to be outside in the fresh air. Not lingering too long, Tinarah started forward again following the flow of the crowd across the street as she looked up at the building that she would be living in. Tinarah looked back at the number on the key, 207. Tinarah figured out that meant it would be on the second level and headed towards the elevator, only slightly glancing up as she passed others that were either making friends or trying to find their own rooms. Talking to people was never Tinarah's strong suite, so she went by herself trying to find where to go and eventually she did. Tinarah unlocked her apartment and entered. There was nothing special about it, but it was more than she ever had at SHELTER. The girl paced around, examining various things, peaking into the two bedrooms, examining everything in the cupboards in the kitchen before settling on making herself some food. A simple stir fry sounded good to Tinarah, so off she went on making that. What was the man talking about. She didn't give a crap if he had a wife and a child, she would do her experiments on him anyways. It didn't matter to her, it was all for science after all. Yet the man would not come with her, and Isabella herself was by no means strong enough to force him to come. Then to make matters worse, Lucas came over to scold her. "But it was all for science." Isabella whined. During this time the man walked away, but of course not before making another sly remark towards her. "Are you sure I can't take him to test some of my new drugs and gasses on. I mean he is a real jerk after all, no one would miss him." Isabella begged Lucas but she knew the answer to that one already. Soon something else occurred to her. "Stop calling me that! Using my last name makes me sound so serious and boring and I am not boring. I am amazing. Just because I am an amazingly smart scientist doesn't mean that I am boring." Isabella protested. "Just call me Isabella, or Bella the Awesome works too. Whichever you prefer Lukey." She informed him. Not once had she called him by a proper name, why should he call her by hers? Soon after Isabella was heading into the hall. "Come on Lukey lets go see our apartments!" She shouted as she rushed ahead out of the school and straight across the street to the apartment building. Isabella ran up the stairs and through the hall until she found her room. Entering she left the door open for Lucas to follow if he chose. First thing that Isabella searched for, and found, was the coffee. While that was brewing she explored her apartment, to discover it had two rooms, one rather plain with nothing really in it, the other one with a desk full of sciency type objects just like she had at her lab, which she practically lived in. Nothing too dangerous there but enough for her to have fun with. Besides she was a genius, she didn't need proper supplies to cause destruction if she wanted. However then she thought about the other bedroom. "Oh I wonder if someone else is staying here too! Perhaps they will be fun to play with!" She thought out loud. "Oh Lukey! You should come have a cup of coffee and wait to meet my new roommate with me, perhaps she will make a good test subject, unlike that other lame man from before." She called out, assuming that Lucas had followed her. She had spent too much time cowering. She couldn't remain on the ground outside the school forever, not after making a scene with jumping out of the window. Analise finally rose to her feet, though her hip still ached, and started around the side of the school. Instead of heading towards the crowd of people Analise made a point of avoiding them, taking a wide circle to get to the apartments. She walked down the street a fair ways, away from the school and crossed there, where there was less people, but still plenty of cars, one in which nearly hit her. Once across the street she walked one more block up, then backtracked in the direction of the school, eventually finding the back side of the apartment building. As she walked she kept her eyes to the ground and shoulders hunched, avoiding most people when she could. It was definitely better than taking the direct route with all the people. Analise rushed through the halls of the apartment, desperately looking for hers, when she found it, the door was open. Analise hesitated and trembled as she entered the room. She wasn't going to be alone here was she? As she entered She saw a woman standing at the kitchen counter, staring at coffee that was brewing. This was the lady that was yelling out about fun at the front of the class earlier, that was not okay with Analise, not at all. "Oh hi! You must be my roommate! We are going to have so much fun!" Isabella said turning from her coffee and approaching Analise, shaking her hand. Analise backed off yanking her hand away from Isabella's grip. "Don't touch me! Stay away!" Analise ordered in a scared but harsh tone. "Why? We are going to be roommates after all aren't we? You will just have to get used to me is all? Want some coffee?! I have some coffee!" Isabella then offered trying to take Analise's hand again. "Stay away from me!" Analise then screamed at the top of her lounges. This was not the end however, no the scared girl did what she always did when she was scared and attacked Isabella. Analise yanked her hand free once again, this time instead of backing off she jumped forward tackling Isabella to the ground and biting at her before throwing a few punches. "Leave me alone! I don't want your coffee! I don't want you here! I don't want anything to do with you! Leave me alone!" The girl screamed. You could tell by the look in her eyes that she was in a panic, just doing whatever she could in order to rid herself of the thing that was scaring her.
