As Lucas fought he heard someone else calling out to him, asking how he used his magic. Lucas let out a sigh and rolled his eyes, deflecting attacks as he yelled back. "Why don't you try reading the damn tutorial one of these days. Besides I couldn't help you if I wanted to. If you haven't noticed we are in the middle of a damn boss fight, so shut your trap and fight." He yelled back at Bryce, not in the friendliest of tones either. Damn that kid was an idiot. Who in the world would think it a smart idea to ask for a lesson on how to do something when they were all fighting, desperate not to let their hp bars hit zero. And if a few did, well it would weed out the weak ones. However even week ones had their use as armour and weapon smiths. Lucas was able to get one other attack in before Jackal began talking to him once again. What was it with people and talking in the middle of battle? Although this time it mostly wasn't to him until then end when she gave him another horrible nickname. "Yeah, yeah, I got this." Lucas waved her off as he prepared and executed a powerful combo with Hercules. Samantha attempted to follow all the instructions that had been thrown at her at once. She tried not to think about how to pronounce the incantations and just do it, quickly. It came out as a mumble of hardly understandable words, but the game figured out what she meant to do and used it. So that worked, that was good. The next thing was aiming. The first couple shots were too high, after that they began to get a bit better but still not centered. She was improving though. "Thanks." She told Samuel quietly as she looked down at her bow thinking about the fact she was stick here and what she had to do about it.
"Interrogating with Hunter. Oh this will be fun." Aedion mumbled. At least they had Ana and she seemed nice enough to be able to talk with the guy in a civil manner and get some answers out of him. Or at least that was the plan. But then Hunter was always there, thinking he was in charge. With that in mind it may not be as civil as he would like it to be. However he wasn't going to say anything. If Hunter wanted to be in charge then he would let him and simply laugh when it exploded in his face. Aedion turned and walked the other direction from where the horses were stabled. "I will catch up in just a moment." He said as he walked towards his own private stables to get his horse. He was not going to ride one he was not familiar with. Lucky for him one of his stables that were around town was only about a block away from the other one, so off he went. Aedion soon trotted up to the other stable on a beautiful white, pure bread mare. As he approached he saw Hunter heading off but Ana still not on her horse. He dismounted his, dropping the reins knowing his horse wouldn't go anywhere before approaching Ana and her horse, patting the horse gently on the neck. "Do you need a hand mounting her?" He asked Ana, offering his help.
Killed during the explosion at Kaer Username:Aelin Fireheart Character Name: Tatiana (Tiana for short) Risen Age: 23 Gender:Female Race: Human Appearance: ~~~ Bio: When Tatiana was seven her mother died of an illness, after that her father gave up on living. He moped around not doing much, drinking getting into fights, whatever he could to forget about his wife. One day he just didn't come home, leaving Tatiana and her younger brother at a loss for what happened to him. At this point Tatiana was fifteen. She was forced to search for work due to her younger brother being too young to get a job yet. She took a job at the only place that would hire her at that age, a brothel. They didn't seem to care how young or inexperienced she was, they offered to train her. Little did she know that later she would have to pay for that training, as well as every unsatisfied customer, they would refund the money and add it to her tab of what she owed them. Thus was the trap of working in a brothel. There was no leaving until she paid her debt, though she was allowed to work as much and as little as she wanted, paying her debt only when she could. This wasn't that helpful however because she had to spend most of her money keeping her and her brother alive no matter how hard she worked. There was no running away either. The owners had men in the shadows, if she tried she would surely be captured and taken back this time forced to live at the brothel instead of at her home with her brother. So day after day she would go back in order to support her brother, even as he went off to school to be a witcher. She would still send him payments, because when his training was complete he promised to return. Make a living as a witcher and support them both. Help her pay off her debt and leave that life behind. Occupation: Works at a brothel Weapons : A single small knife (For now at least. she might get something else later in the rp if she needs it.) Secondary Weapon : N/A Powers (For Mages Only): N/A Other: Aaron Risens older sister. Killed by Bryce (who was really Zack) during the war with the dopplers in Oxenfurt Username: Aelin Fireheart Character Name: Aaron Risen Age: 19 Gender: male Race: Witcher Appearance: ~~~ Bio: Aaron is Tatiana's younger brother so he went through the same loss of parents. However while his sister worked so hard every day and late into the evening, he was too young, so forced to stay home and take care of the house. Through his childhood years he idolized the witchers that came through their town, thinking they were the best things ever. The moment he was old enough Aaron enrolled in the school to become a witcher himself, despite the money it would cost his sister. He made her a promise first however. He promised the moment that he became a full witcher he would work harder than ever before to get enough money to support the two of them and pay off her debt. He promised she was allowed to rest and even settle down with a family if she liked. She would be free to live whatever life she wanted and would have to work any longer. So Aaron trained her butt off to graduate, and was able to graduate at 19 as a full Witcher. Now he just had to make it home and find work that would pay well. Though home was still a long ways away. Occupation: Witcher (Or at least hoping to get work as one soon) Weapons : Silver and Steel Katana's Secondary Weapon : Crossbow Powers (For Mages Only): N/A Other: Tatiana's younger brother.
"No I am fine." Alexis said to Operator quietly. She just wanted him to leave her alone. He freaked her out quite a bit. That was when Shane also approached her. "Moping? No I am just a bit unnerved by this. I guess I didn't really know what I was getting myself into." The girl admitted as she looked up at Shane. "That being said you can still take me up on my offer whenever you like. I will be okay. Trust me I am good at this..." She trailed off. I am better at this than a girl of my age should be. She thought making herself a bit upset but not showing it. A mask was another thing she was good at. Her owners didn't like her moping either so she had to always wear a mask. A mask to say she was happy to serve them and that everything was fine. Everything was all just a damn mask. Hopefully that would change though when she made it through here. Hopefully this would change her fate.
As the back handed slap hit Annabelle's face, she couldn't help but let tears flow. Fresh blood started to leak through a bandage on her face from a rather deep cut she had received days before. The cut stopped bleeding the day she got it, but the backhanded slap seemed to have reopened the wound on the young girls face. It stung quite a bit, and the tears in which were absorbed into the patch over her eye were not comfortable either. "I am sorry your greatness." The girl sobbed again but that wasn't the end of her punishment... no that would be too nice given who her teacher was. Yana took a hold of her so it made it hard for her to fight back and then ripped off her dress. She could feel the heat from the flame that Yana used to help burn through the straps holding it on her shoulders. The girl was left with no clothes, her only ones she had lay torn on the ground, unwearable any more. She shivered as the chill from the open air snaked her way up her spine. And of course with Yana standing so close to her now the torment went on. Knee's trembling Annabelle fell to her knees coughing viciously as the illness that Yana spread, took hold of her more. It was the woman's special ability, everything around her got sick and lots of things died just because she stood by them a moment too long. If she kept some distance from Yana it generally wasn't too bad, but with Yana right beside her, she was struggling not to cough and lay on the ground completely. Luckily for Annabelle Yana backed off, however this was only for another fireball to be thrown for training. If she messed this one up she would have to go for a walk in town like that. It was possible that she would be able to find someone to help her there, someone would take pity on her for sure. However if she went with them, Annabelle was certain that would only lead to their death. Yana wouldn't let her go that easily. So as the next fire ball was thrown at her she had to do her best to put up a golem to protect herself. The problem was to make one it took Annabelle a lot of concentration and energy, making it hard to make one while a flaming ball was thrown in her direction. This time she was able to make one, however it wasn't big enough to protect her fully. The ball of fire hit the small rock golem and the flames licked around the side lighting a few of her bandages on fire. "Ah! Make it stop! Make it stop." The child screeched as she started hitting at the flames to try to put them out, though they had caught bandages on both arms on fire. "It hurts! Please help me Ya- I mean your greatness!" The girl begged as she desperately tried to put the flames out without sucking the air out of the area because chances were she would accidentally kill herself trying to do that, catching the air in her own lunges as well as the rest of the area. It was a few hours before Seth left the room in the brothel. Oh that had been fun, so much fun. He had left the girl gasping for more and more, until he pushed it a little too far. Of course then to keep the girl from talking right away he had to knock her out and stage it like she was simply sleeping, enough for him to slip out of the brothel unnoticed, then he slipped back into his preferred skin to continue walking around. With a different face there was no way anyone could tell it was him, and on top of that he had a great few hours, it was a lot of fun... at least for him. By the end perhaps not as much for the girl but he liked to get a little more violet when he got bored with the normal stuff, that is when the girls tended to get a little too loud. Now what was he supposed to do? He had his fun with the ladies, he had stolen plenty, including a new set of clothes that some guy left laying on the floor of his room in the brothel when he passed out, leaving his behind, just in case someone decided to look for him based on his clothing choices. He would soon ditch these ones too when he got far enough away and decided to buy new ones, but for now they would do. Perhaps he should slip into another brothel down a ways more, or perhaps there was something else a little more exiting he could do here, the question was what? From the corner of his eye Seth caught sight of some horses that seemed to belong to law enforcement in the area. Perfect. Once again Seth slipped through allies until he found a drunkard to take the appearance of. With that done, and the man now knocked out so he wouldn't be showing his face anytime soon, Seth slipped out to the horses, when no one was looking he mounted one and galloped away. It was time for a full speed chase.
"Trash. All of this is utter trash and made up nonsense. I swear. Aliens aren't real and you are stupid for believing so.... Oh who am I kidding the proof is in the sky, in peoples bodies, and on the news. There is no other explanation." Drew, a former cop sighed before taking a swig of his drink. He looked around his beat up apartment. "One month huh? One month left to live, if that? What is it all for?" Drew asked as he paced the apartment picking up a picture of a couple kids. At one point he wanted to adopt them after they lost both their parents. He didn't have a wife, to help him take care of them, she had left him a couple years before, but he still believed he could help them. However whenever he saw the boy, Colton he could see the hate in the boys eyes. The boy despised him cause he was there for Tasha more than he was. So instead he got them out of the foster system, a task that cost him his job. "I wonder how you are doing Tasha. I heard your bother passed away a year ago now." He spoke to the picture looking at the blonde haired girl in a pink dress. He knew that was not what she was like anymore. Since the accident she had dyed her hair black and changed her outfit choices. However he didn't have a picture of the kids after the crash, just one from before that he got during his investigation into the crash that had killed the two kids parents. Drew stared at the photo a moment longer, she had just been able to get her life back on track. Half way though college and it was all going to end. "Damn it! Damn it all!" He yelled out before chugging the last of his rum and throwing the empty bottle against a wall, causing it to shatter into pieces that flew everywhere including back at him. One of the shards cut his arm and Drew winced in pain but ignored it. He stepped through the shards of broken glass to get to his cupboard of alcohol and take another bottle out, this time of whiskey. He had next to no other food in his house. As Drew paced his apartment drinking his whiskey rather quickly, he left a trail of blood behind him from his feet. Blood also dripped down his arm. The once handsome man now had quite the scruffy beard, longer hair, a bit of fat that was never there before and dark rings under his eyes. He didn't look too good. Finishing an entire bottle of whiskey he went back to his cupboard grabbing the rest of his alcohol stash out of it and stumbled back to his couch, setting it all down on the table in front. "Well if the world is going to end. I have nothing else to live for now. No one left to see. Guess I will spend it with my old friends." He said as he looked over to the bottles of alcohol on his table. Selecting the vodka he opened a new bottle and began to drink that one as well. It didn't take him long to lose track of how much he drank or what he was doing. He began to pass in and out of consciousness but each time he gained consciousness he attempted to drink as much as possible before throwing up. This cycle repeated for a while, each time he found it harder to breath, and concentrate, his skin began to feel cold and clammy. But it was all that he had left. Alcohol, his only constant friend. It was only a matter of time before he passed out, never to awake again. The alcohol had so much effect on his system from drinking such high amounts that his heart and brain stopped functioning, leaving Drew Wendel, dead, most likely not to be found for a while, on the couch of his apartment, cause of death, alcohol poisoning.
Alexis followed the group up the stairs to the stasis room where she found a comfy seat on the floor to rest on her own. She kept to herself, glancing up at Operator once. It was a bit unnerving for her, the fact that he knew her past, it was in records. She couldn't believe there would ever be records of human trafficking, especially ones that some random guy could access. The whole idea of it was something that sent shivers up her spine. That being said if anyone else asked she would probably admit her past, given there wasn't many logical explanations for her tattoo, powers, or the way she dressed. She may as well be truthful. However she would only deal with that when/if someone actually asked.
When they reached the walled city, Flame was forced to switch in order to use her 3DMG. It only took a moment and a flash of light for the leopard to become the stunning red head princess. The woman did a quick survey of the area around them before activating her gear to bring her up atop of the wall with the others. It seemed safe enough with no humans around. However part of her was still nervous. She could feel her delicately pointed fae ears stilling out from her hair. There was no hiding what she was if a human were to see. That being said she couldn't hear anything besides Drake, Veera, and Gale with her heightened sense of hearing. That was both a good and a bad thing. Flame made it up to the top of the wall and looked over the town. Inside the wall was completely destroyed, bodies still littered the ground. "I will check the rest of the wall for the way the titans got in. If there is any titans or any other sign of trouble I will be sure to use my flare." Flame told them before taking off running, still in her fae form. That body still moved plenty fast for this mission. She moved around the wall until she spotted a break in the wall. It was completely crumbled somehow. Looking around from there she could see the entrance into the next wall, it was opening sending people out, unassumingly to gather stuff from the destroyed city. If humans were coming out then she had to leave. Flame took off running once more back towards Drake and the rest of the group. "Your mother survived for quite some time in the walled city from my understanding. Just that makes her very special, not many of our species can do that. Reports say that it is possible that a titan wasn't the one to kill my wife but it is possible that she ran into a group of humans outside the wall. The people she was out with and separated from thinks they killed her or captured her and took her with them. There was no trace of a body but they were scattered because they had to keep out of sight from a group of humans. They would have had no reason to do it. My wife would never hurt a human unless they attacked her first. She liked the humans actually. She was a kind woman and a good queen." King Rhysand told the girl, a pang of pain also in his voice. "All that being said with your inventions you are working on I am sure your name will be remembered for generations to come. I am sure of it. You will be the one future inventors will look up to." Rhysand said with a smile as he gave Akari a small pat on the back. "Shall we go grab lunch now?" He asked as he got up ready to head towards the buffet table that had recently been set. Once everyone was occupied with food Adelina walked away to the pantry with an armload off ingredients like she was just going to put stuff away. Once inside the small room she placed the food down, closed the door, and sank to the ground sobbing for a moment. Just everything that had gone on with everyone else when she was trying to get ready for lunch, and the loneliness of preparing lunch without Issac, it was all catching up to her. Then there was how happy Zack seemed when she agreed to go hang out with him that night. That was the last string and not because it was bad, just unexpected. Adelina never thought anyone would care for her enough to be excited to just hang out and talk with her. It was pleasant and unexpected. However that was the last straw, she couldn't hold back tears any longer. So while everyone was eating, in the closet she hid, crying. As lunched neared its end she knew she had to pull herself together to eat something. She hadn't eaten all day, despair gripping her so hard in the morning she had lost her appetite. Adelina wiped the makeup that had ran from her face before taking a breath and putting on a strong face. She then walked out and filled a plate before sitting across from Zack. "Sorry I took so long. I hope you don't mind I joined you." Adelina said in a quiet but sweet voice, talking as if nothing was wrong.
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Thea as Cinderella please Maybe Silvia as snow white too cause why not
"She wants to hurt him?" Thea repeated. "Why? I won't let her. I won't lose my family again!" Thea shouted out. She was scared, this time not of herself but of someone else. They were going to take her new family away from her too. "Conrad shouldn't run. He should help! He has to help me save father! I don't want to lose him too!" Thea cried out, tears welling in her eyes. The whole idea of this was scaring her to no end. She didn't even want to think of someone trying to hurt Vance. "Please just say it isn't so..." Thea said quietly. The other thing she was scared of was being taken away from Vance. The lady already warned Conrad off, what if Conrad told someone that would take her away from Vance, or this woman did. She couldn't let that happen. Then again she didn't want to hurt anyone either. It was a hard place to be in, a scary place for such a young girl. Silvia stared at the flower for a moment thinking if she wanted to ask that of him, to buy her something, already. "Um... yes please." She said with slight hesitation, sniffing the flower once more. It was pretty and she much preferred the white rose over the red ones. White reminded her of purity while red of blood. White was much more a comforting colour. "Thank you." She said quietly and nervously as she debated something in her mind. After a moment she stretched up and placed a small, quick kiss on Leo's cheek before blushing and moving away from him a bit.
"Hm well we can't have you go dying on me before we can have our fun." Alexis said to Shane as he got hit for quite a bit of damage. Alexis rushed forward and slashed the beast with her sword before stepping in front of Shane to block for him.
"Just Flame, please. Out here I am not your princess I am just a normal girl who got off track from her hunting mission and is now joining you on your scout mission. Nothing more." Flame told him. "Now I am going to shift but I am not going to run away. You guys all have horses and frankly I hate riding those things, so I will be using my leopard form to keep up." She told him before a flash of light enveloped her and she turned into a leopard. Flame licked her paw while waiting for the rest of the group to be ready to go. She was rather restless waiting to move on. Flame was never good at staying in one place for very long. King Rhysand chuckled at Akari's sass. "Well I guess that is a fair point. Kudos to you for pointing that out." Rhysand commented casually. He then went to address her other question about the finding of the city. "Ah it was my great great grandfather. The original king, when titans took over, he and many others were denied protection from the humans. They feared us and thought the moment we were safe we would throw them out as bate to the titans while we remained safe. The idea of the city started from simply looking for a safe place to sleep. No where on the ground was safe rest so he had to find high enough trees. This is were he stayed and eventually started taking pieces from destroyed cities to build a small shelter in the trees. Days went by and he found more and more creatures that were rejected by the humans needing refuge and took them back to his shelter. That of course caused it to have to expand, eventually becoming the city you see." He explained. The ruling of the city was then passed down through the generations, which he figured that Akari could figure out without being told. "It wasn't because of you, Hunter is just a cruel person." Adelina told Olivia so she wouldn't blame herself. "It is okay, I am almost done and Zack is doing a great job running the food out already." Adelina tried to force a smile on her face as she dismissed Olivia to go get ready to eat soon. That was around when Zack came back. "I guess I could use going out to talk and more just get out. Yeah sounds good. How about tonight?" Adelina agreed with a little more of a genuine smile on her face. Adelina finished putting together the last plate. "Here take this one and then you can line up with everyone else to eat while I finish cleaning up a bit. I will be out in a bit when the line dies down." Adelina told Zack as she set the last plate down on the buffet table and rang a bell to let everyone know dinner was served.
"You don't have the slightest clue what you are doing? Do you? After all you would never ask me for an opinion otherwise. You are the big strong fearless leader who apparently knows how to keep us all alive. That is your job to figure out, not mine. Besides apparently I don't know how survive unlike you." Aedion retorted in a mocking tone, refusing to help. He actually considered going home, and considering what was waiting for him at home that was a shock. Aedion was only ever home to eat and sleep and when his father ordered him home for one of his annoying lectures. But even that had to be better than dealing with Hunter. The only reason he was willing to stick around was in order to help keep everyone else alive when Hunter inevitably messed up.
"I like flowers." Silvia told Leo flushing a bit. It was sweet that he was offering to get her a flower, but the next thought that came to her mind was the money it might cost. Coming from a poor family, it was always a worry. However then she realized she had made a decent amount of money already from being with the guild, and Leo was an S-class, he had to make more than her. She guessed it might be fine given that. Beside it was just a flower, that wouldn't cost too much. Silvia wondered over to the flower stand examining all the flowers. Her mind first thought of their medical properties, at least of some, before she drew back slightly just too look at how pretty they were. They were all so pretty. Silvia picked up a white rose and give it a long sniff. "It smells so pretty." Silvia held it up to Leo so he could smell it as well if he wanted to. As Veilen helped him to his feet, Thomas stopped his crying, instead eyeing Mikasa. "Your hot when you are angry." He stated to her as he leaned on Veilen for support. Though he wasn't entirely flirtatious with Mikasa. "But I don't wanna go back. I wanna kill a damn dragon before I disappear. It will be fiiiiinnnnneeee. I am a big boy. And did I mention I am the best. I mean this isn't even my original magic.... What was it again? Eh I can't remember. The point is that I am the greatest!" Thomas rambled in his drunk state. He was clearly doing a great job of convincing Mikasa that he could handle this mission, obviously.
"We can't fight it?" Karina repeated thoughtfully. She didn't like that idea, there had to be something that they could do about it. Karina grit her teeth, always so helpless. How was she supposed to take care of others if she couldn't take care of herself? This was so dumb. That was when D'daear was attacked. A dark shadow appearing beneath him, luckily Oswald was able to push him out of the way in time. However now it seemed that they had a problem. Small creatures were creeping out at them. Threatening them. Oswald was going to hold these creatures off so they could retreat. "I will not leave you to fight alone. I will help cover the retreat. It isn't like I am good for anything else." Karina then turned and glared at D'daear and Beuce. "Don't you dare try to stop me. Just run. You have saved me Beuce now it is my turn, and if I don't make it out.... Well I will just stop dragging you all down with my attitude." Karina let out a twisted laugh to go with the insult to herself. She had seemingly given up, which wasn't a huge surprise given her entire situation. "Run! Let me do one good thing in my damn life, in my 17 damn years of life I haven't been able to successfully do anything! Just run and leave so I can accomplish something!" Karina yelled at them. Believing she was going to die here, her true feelings about herself and her life was voiced. Now Karina couldn't focus on whether or not the two men ran, instead she had to focus on the ink. "We may have had a rough start, but lets work together this once, just so the people who could actually do something to save you will be able to live." Karina told Oswald with a nod. With that she charged forward, slashing at ink that simply reformed right after she cut it. Drawing the attention of as many ink creatures as she could leaving for less to go after Beuce and D'daear. She could only keep this up for so long though. She wasn't particularly fast meaning that eventually while fighting one ink creature, another opened a dark hole under her. Karina simply closed her eyes as she began to fall, embracing what she believed to be her death.
Huge thanks to Cstar for this banner Annabelle began to come to as water splashed all over her, causing the girl to shiver, this was followed by the bucket hitting her. Annabelle gasped for air as the bucket hit her. She was already finding it hard to breath after the last beating she had taken. But there was no rest for the weary, not with Yana around. Annabelle forced herself to stand, knocking the bucket off of her. Annabelle began to cough soon after awaking. Ever since Yana had found her and forced her to train under her, she had been sick. There was a rare occasion when she was not around Yana that she began to feel better, however that never lasted long. "Yes, your greatness." Annabelle replied to Yana as she ordered her around. Annabelle was rubbing the bandage around her neck when Yana was already throwing the fist fireball. The young girl let out a high pitched scream as the fireball came towards her. She knew what she had to do but panicked too much to make it happen. Instead of creating a golem to stop the fire ball, Annabelle suddenly sucked all the oxygen out of the air. It would cause the fireball to stop, fire couldn't burn without oxygen but it also sucked the oxygen out of Yana's lunges. "No!" Annabelle shouted as she tried to fix her mistake with her magic. It wasn't long before she undid her mistake, but now she had to face Yana. "I'm sorry your greatness. Please let me try again. Please don't punish me." Annabelle began to beg as she trembled slightly. Her fingertips touched some of the many bandages on her from previous beatings and training. This was all that she had in her life now. She was Yana's apprentice now and she was not going to escape. Annabelle already knew that so she simply followed. She was too broken and scared to leave anyways. The only comfort she had was from her stuffed bunny, but she wasn't allowed to have that during training and Annabelle didn't know where Yana kept it when she forbid Annabelle from having it. And even this was something that Annabelle was learning to accept, well not accept really just live with, loosing the will to fight against it. Every day any will to fight against Yana was being sucked away, leaving an empty shell of a girl with powerful magic powers to be bent to Yana's desire. The town of Novigrad seemed peaceful enough, but they didn't seem to all realize that they had a trouble making prick in their presence who was also a doppler. Seth Semour walked through the streets of the town unnoticed by most, using his favourite skin from a dead man in another town. As he walked along he would slip into skins of men he passed, then he would grab a girls butt or slit their purse or grope them, then change back into his favourite skin before people could notice in the busy streets. It got plenty of men in trouble and eyes stayed off of him as he stole things. After all he had to steel to eat, and eat to live but he didn't have enough time to tell you all about it, after all he was a man on a mission. The mission was a simple one. Cause as much trouble in this town as possible, while keeping unnoticed before moving on to another town and doing the same thing. After all his life as a doppler was boring. He had no friends or family to speak of and really no purpose to life. So may as well cause as much trouble as he could possibly manage. Speaking of which.... Seth spotted a drunk man in an ally passed out. or dead he didn't know. But the man didn't seem to be important enough to notice. That skin would work well. Using that one Seth walked into a brothel and promptly began chatting up one of the woman, paying with cash he had stolen from a purse he had slit earlier.
"Hm." The king though about what the girl was explaining. "That sounds like a very useful idea. I would love to see the outcome of it when it is done. Be sure to let me know when you are finished." The king told her while imagining the amount of people a device like that might save. It would be an amazing inversion, but for now he would focus on the new invention that he had before him already. They still needed to test it and perhaps do more work on it. He knew Akari was good, but she was not magic. She could not just magic the new inventions up instantly, though sometimes he wished she could. The king sppm was staring off into space, a look of worry across his face. He was thinking about all the good that Akari's inventions could do, only to remember his daughter was out hunting today, something that was dangerous to say the least. He had already lost his Mate, his beloved, and the mother to Amber. He wouldn't let Amber die too. However he couldn't watch over her the entire time. She had to become strong and independent on her own. If she died then she wasn't strong enough, as hard as that was to think. If she couldn't survive on her own, she couldn't run a kingdom. They were all dead, all the titans were gone. Drake had arrived and killed some and Veera finished the last off, but this wasn't before another person died, that made four. Flame looked around with a blank expression trying not to pay too much mind to the corpses around her. She couldn't dwell on it, neither could anyone else. Flame walked up in her fae form to the group. "We have to keep going." She told the group, giving Drake a apologetic look. A flash of light later she was a leopard, prowling around waiting for the group to be ready to go. There was no way that she was turning back now. She wasn't going to leave them, not after that many had died. Their team was short and now she needed to fill in. She wouldn't let them go alone. She didn't want them to die. She didn't want Drake to die. Damn it, what was this feeling? Flame ignored it for the moment because she couldn't afford to dwell on it. Too much was on the line now. Flame prowled forward, glancing at Drake a couple times, he was the leader after all, but she wouldn't listen to him if he told her to go home. There was no way she would leave. Not now. Not after everything that had just happened. She couldn't deal with leaving them, she would not stop worrying, not about Drake or any of them. Flame turned back to the team once more turning into a fae so she could speak with them. "I will ensure my father is informed of all your bravery and you are all rewarded for it." The princess told the group, not shifting back until they were all ready to go. With Hunters comment about bringing back the dead, tears started flowing harder from Adelina's eyes. Adelina didn't make a sound but she couldn't hold back the tears any longer. It was all just too much. She kept to herself while the others continued to talk and bicker. She just had to get the food done, that was all. Adelina didn't look up till she heard her name being said by the nicer male that was there. "Oh um... I guess you could start running these things out to the buffet table while I finish everything else. I would rather not leave the kitchen right now." Adelina tried to keep her voice even and calm, not cracking and sound like she was crying, but that was a harder task than she thought. Her face was red and tears still dripped down but she seemed to have composed herself better. Adelina started to push bowls and plates to the side for Zack to take out. "Thanks...." She said quietly. "... for taking the time to help." She finished.
Hunter had walked away but Aedion remained, his knuckles turning white from how hard he was clenching his fists. "You think I don't know how to survive? My father has made some really powerful enemies in his time and do you think they care how young and innocent you are? No they will attack you and your family ruthlessly. Try to murder you on numerous occasions, you have to fight and learn to survive. I never asked for any of this, and I sure as hell don't like having to watch every meal to make sure it isn't poisoned and watch my back every step of the way, but I do. I know how to truly survive." He mumbled, not really talking to Hunter any more, not really talking to anyone. He was just annoyed. Aedion walked over to Ana and Hunter and simply leaned against the wall away from them, just watching waiting to go. He didn't care to argue anymore. The entire issue of him not being leader was just to please his father. His father was the one that wanted him to take command of Neophs group, or at least second. Aedion couldn't care less. In fact he wasn't that thrilled about being there in the first place. He would rather run off and enjoy his life his way. But no, he had to do stupid publicity stunts and raise his power so when he took over for his father, he could surpass him in power. None of this was Aedion wishes but he followed along anyways.
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