<font color='#0000FF'>Lucas looked at her and smiled. She had done something and he felt a lot better. He saw her fall asleep and decided it was best to protect her. He sat up for some time before he got to tired. He looked down at her and smiled. He crawled over to her and worked his way between her legs resting his head just under her head. He swiftly fell asleep.</font>
<font color='#008080'>Year: 1 Month: Tessera Day: 12 Etincelle woke up feeling an unusual warmth beside her. Her first instincts would have been to leap away from the "mass" but she realized whom this "mass" was and where she was in time not to do so. She was about to go back to sleep, she felt happy and protected where she was, but hunger nagged her. When was the last time she had eaten? She couldn't remember, a day or so .. She had to eat something. Can I leave him here alone, he might think I just left him... Ill scratch him a note ... but is he vulnerable? Eventhough he's much bigger than me he is still hurt and would be an easy prey, but no1 would find him here? Maybe I should cast a protection enchantement which would make the cave disappear for a couple of hous, maybe one or 2, that would give me enough time to hunt a bit. Besides, he must be hungry too ... I'd better leave now. She gently remove his paw from hers and slowly got up. She stretched a little and scratched a quick note which said, in our litteral translation, meant something similar to this "I go hunt, be back soon. You safe I do magic" then opened her wings and took off. Once up, she made the short gestures that would keep her new friend safe. She then sprinted off and hid behind a bush, picking ups the scent of some smaller animal. She knew she was wrong, she knew she was falling in love and was very troubled about this. Her hunt was successful though as she managed to kill 2 Rheyants which would make a good breakfast. She still hadn't solved her problem, she was breaking a major spy rule, she was falling in love. When she got back to the cave she decided to wake Lucas up, he must be hungry. She nudged him gently hoping he would stir</font>
<font color='#0000FF'>Lucas rolled over and his blue eyes fluttered open. He looked at her as he slowly focused. When he finally saw her he had to hold back his smile. He stood slowly and cracked all his bones. He sat back on his hanches and scratched his tummy. "Yes? Are you ok?" He tried to grin. He looked around and saw the note. "Hunt. Magic. I see."</font>
<font color='#008080'>Slept well? Here, have some of this, I got two, one each ... She threw a dead Rheyant across the cave to him, then started eating her own. Her sharp teeth sank into the still warm meat. Rheyants were her favorite food, she loved the delectable fragrance which emanated from it them and above all, she loved hunting them. She had hunted for as long as she could remember. After her parents had left her, shortly after her birth, the reason for which was still unknown, she was fathered by a wise kiom, Fugue (f oo g), who, though he was old and often very tired, was, to her, the best hunter ever. Every day she would go out with him and try and "help" him even though she felt she was, at first, a burden. After a year or so, though, she quickly became very skilled and would often be the one doing the running. Fugue and her lived happily for a few years until one day, Fronima, took his life. His last words had been to tell Etincelle that he was not her real father and that her real parents had gone far, far away to a land called Borejos Sudesha. After his death, Etincelle griefed a griefed until her grief became anger and she start to hate "this unfair world she had to live in, in the which the good die and parents abandon their children". She was 1000 when she first got involved in espionage. At first she had just watched other pendragons, pretending to stalk them like she did with prey when she hunted, meaning no harm. She quite enjoyed this, the statisfying feeling of "I see you but you can't see me" until the day when what she heard was actually very important for it was about killing a Grader. She didn't know what to do and, innocent as she was, thought best to go and tell the Grader. She was greatly rewarded for this and from there on she climbed the stairs of espionnage until it became her profession. Four years later, she was now wondering if espionnage was really her vocation. I am not a good spy, I cannot control my feelings, I must not fall in love, I mustn't ... Do you still hurt?</font>
<font color='#008080'>I should never have become a spy. I don't even know why i did ! Vivid images of the one and only Pendragon she saw as a father, Fugue, came to her mind. She couldn't retain a few tears and looked away hoping Lucas hadn't seen. He must not see, else he will ask me questions... Fugue! How I miss him what would he think of all this  He wouldn't have let me fall into this... I would have become a huntress maybe settled downa and found a mate.. But now... She gave a low yet audidble howling sound which didn't go unoticed. She hid her head under her paws hoping no1 had heard, even though she knew that wasn't so. Think about something else, think .... And she thought, she focused on Lucas, visualising him. That worked for a moment but pictures of the dead pendragon came again. I am not strong enough to be a spy. I cannot take it. How can I live all my life without ever being rightfully trusted? When will this ever stop? Will I just live my life of dirty jobs, and never settle down and have a family? It is decided, when I shall find that pendragon of mine, who was supposed to give me a new job, I shall tell him that I shall no longer be accepting his missions, that I shall no longer be a spy. I wonder where he is... He was supposed to contact me, I was supposed to get in touch with some powerful dragon or another... Once I'lm out of here I will try to find my parents, I long to know who they wer and ,above all, why they left me. I can no longer ignore this I must find out, and I will ! </font>
<font color='#FFFFFF'>Out of Character - Everyone please disregard 'tootles' posts. #1 - He/She is not a registered member & #2 - Powerplaying & metaplaying is not allowed. tootles, please take the time to register properly with the site (shadowlack.com) and read the rules. Thanks.</font>
<font color='#0000FF'>OOC - Dude he is not evil. ~whines~ You're powerplaying...Oh well. Don't control other peoples characters! Or their history. BIC Lucas awoke after his little sleep and looked at Etincelle. She wailed. Why is she upset? He slowly walked to her side and nuzzeled her neck. "What is wrong?" He looked at her intently. The wind blew and something didn't seem right. This feeling. A feeling of dread crept over him. This same feeling had come when that winged monster had attacked him to kill him. He was talking about revenge. Why? Lucas unwitingly made enemies where ever he went and he couldn't understand why. They would just see him and hate him. And in that case, this monster had come out of nowhere, he had never seen him before and it attacked him. He was taken aback and it scared him. He wasn't vicious but he could be upset when he wanted to be.</font>
<font color='#008080'>Nothing, I'm ok... she lied. After a few seconds, though, she found herself telling Lucas her entire life story, without omitting the fact that she was a spy. When she had finished she felt relieved, she did not have to keep this secret any longer. Please, I beg you to keep what i have heard you to yourself... I have decided to give up espionnage she added. After the relief came shame. She, a spy, had given out vital information to an almost complete stranger... He knew everything about her and she nothing about him ...</font>
<font color='#FFFFFF'>* ok guys, 2 things: First off, i am a registered member, i dont know where whoever it was pulled that out of, i registered before i wrote nething (my member name is tootles). Second of all, i wasnt trying to powerplay, i ws thinking more of a sort of misunderstanding between Lucas and Turon - hey, Turon could stil be the bad guy, he thinks hes in the right obviously (i mean, saddam husain and ben lamad think they're in the right, too!, but that doesn't mean he is! Just cuz Turon thinks something about another character that doesn't mean it's true! anyway...* As Turon rounded a bush at the bottom of the path, Etincelle and Lucas suddenly became visible to him once more. He stopped abruptly. Lucas had woken and was standing there, apparently deep in conversation with Etincelle. The chance for secrecy was gone. He started to go forward anyway, but something stopped him. Although he would rather have died than admitted it, even to himself, he had an uncomfortable feeling that he knew what stopped him: fear. In fact, he realized, if he was comlpetely honest with himself, he realized that he had always been afraid of the big black pendragon in front of Etincelle. All through the years, he had tracked Lucas secretly, and sent his minions after Lucas instead of going himself, done deals with demons and devils to attack Lucas. The last one had almost succeeded - and then Etincelle, damn her, had come along and helped Lucas! Well, he couldn't really blame her, he supposed, how could she have known? <Thats where all that secrecy gets you, I suppose> he thought to himself. In fact, he wondered suddenly, did Lucas even know that his varied enemies were almost all sent specially by him? It was a startling and highly disturbing thought. In fact, thought Turon, why was he seeking to destroy Lucas? He couldn't even remember any more! <Oh yes,> he remembered suddenly, <Yonara, my Mentor (a Mentor is a specialezed Sorcery teacher), requested it of me on her deathbed. She said to seek and kill a large black pendragon with blue eyes (blue eyes were a rarity for black pendragons, who usually had brown, yellow, or green eyes) named Lucas. She said I would know him when I found him. And I did! I found him. But she refused to tell me why she sought to kill him, and died before I could pry it out, the old cow. Always so secretive, she was! But a better old Sorceress there never was, not in my lifetime anyway, and besides, I shouldn't speak ill of the dead anyway, I guess.> All Turon knew was that over the years, while he had failed to do his old master's (or mistress's, in his case! bidding, a deep, dark terror had taken root in his soul, and expanded, until now he virtually lived for the day when he could see Lucas torn apart. But it was all so unreasonable, and so unlike him. It frustrated Turon, to the point where it almost drove him mad for a second, there standing near the ravine's sandy bottom. But then the crisis was past, and he was able to calm himself. shaking himself, he decided that the only way to resolve his past was to confront Lucas and Etincelle. For like Etincelle (and this was one of the first things that had first drawn him to her), he knew virtually nothing of his past, and it irked him the way a mesquito continually buzzing round your pillow before you fall asleep might irk you. Maybe - although this was a faint hope, and he knew it - Lucas might know something of his past. Or at least Yonara's. Silently, He descended the last few feet of the path down the ravine and into the circle of firelight near Lucas and Etincelle. He sat quietly, waiting for one of them to notice him, and at the same time rueing himself for what Yonara had alway called - and Turon regarded Yonara's words as gospel - his worst fault: namely, curiosity. Still, he had to know, and resolve this inner turmoil within himself, or else lose his sanity.</font>
<font color='#810541'>ps. *sorry guys, i forgot to sign in b4 i rote that last message, i was using a diferent computer from the one i usualy use and i forgot that it wudnt log me in otomaticaly. the reason it calld me rachel is cuz i put it in cuz that is my real name. by the way, lucas, if u doubt me, ask chuya (chandrika, rika, whatever u want to call her) she knows me personally and knows i wudnt purposely do sumthin like that. :S plz forgiv me? *</font>
<font color='#0000FF'>OOC - Okay sweets but you still have to register at shadowlack.com (The sister Web-Site to this forum and go to the Sign up there) But its okay. I will still rp with you. BIC "All safe." He nodded at Etincelles request. Just then Lucas felt something change in the air around the fire. Lucas looked to the new arrival. So that is who he felt. He smiled at him but somehow recognized him. There was something about his eyes. He walked over to the other penpen and looked into his eyes. "Hi." One little word that expressed everything he had wanted to say.</font>
<font color='#008080'>OOC: Everything that Tootle (Rachel) said is true. I introduced her to Ramath via Msn messenger and didn't have the time to tell her more about rping so it is basically kind of my fault... Shall we just rp on and forget this little incident? BIC: Etincelle turned around to see who Lucas had been talking to. She almost jumped as she recognised the familiar figure. Turon, she thought, What is he doing here?! Has he heard me? Does he know i wish to quit espionage? What will he think... H..Hello Turon she said, smiling weakly. She wanted to ask him for how long he had been there but only said What are you doing in Sudesha? I thought you were to stay in the HQ ? She looked at Lucas then at Turon, then at Lucas again. Do you know each other? she said seeing the look on their faces. Turon indeed... How long it is since I have seen him ! Why is he here... Could he, no he couldn't possibly... know something about my parents, could he? No, he is here for Lucas, I can see it in his eyes. I can't imagine why though ... </font>
<font color='#0000FF'>Lucas looked at the other pendragon. He recognized him but he didn't think they had actually met before. "Not that I remember...but then again it took me a while to remember my name." He sat looking at the other with extreme interest.</font>
<font color='#810541'>Turon sat there in front of Lucas and Etincelle quivering with (he hated to admit it) fear and self-restraint from not bursting at Lucas. Â He was glad the night and his long fur ruffling in the wind would hide it - he hoped! {Etincelle...} he telepathed, and saw Etincelle's head jerk in surpise. Luckily Lucas seemed too busy scrutinizing Turon to notice. {Etincelle, I need to speak to you privately...you know Tall n Handsome here better than I do, how would it be best to handle it? I dont want him getting suspicious about our proffessions...} and then sensing her sudden surge of alarm before she shielded her thoughts, {You haven't told him that have you??} Turon was silent for a moment, then, realizing that she wasn't going to reply, he added, {I do need to talk to you sooner rather than later you know...preferably tonight. And without Lucas knowing anymore then you can help, pleaze!} This last was in a sterner tone. Â Â Finally Turon spoke aloud to Lucas. "Greetings Tall One. To whom do I have the pleasure of speaking?" He paused then added, "I am Turon."</font>
<font color='#008080'>{No. I can't. you, you don't understand ! I am a spy no more, i have broken the Rule, I am no longer worthy of it. You know i can't. You kow they won't except me anymore. What is your problem with Lucas?! And yes, I have revealed my secret identity to him ! So what, I don't want to be a spy nemore and ... I trust him ! } She couldn't think of anything more to say/think, instead she looked at a running Reyhant in the distance waiting for turon's repsonse.</font>
<font color='#0000FF'>"I am Lucas..." Lucas looked at Turon once again with extreme interest. Now he remembered. "You the one hunting me." He backed away and his face fell from interest to no emotion. He looked at Turon. He turned his head to the side and bit and then looked at Etincelle. She seemed tense. He smelled the air. It was going to rain. He looked at Turon. "Going to rain, Turon. Take Etincelle to safety. Leaving. No fight or dying tonight. Hunt me another day." Lucas looked at Etincelle. "He hurt you, I kill him. Okay?" Lucas turned and limped away from the two of them. Why must I always love and loose? Even my wife. The earing in his ear rung. It was her ring. He had fused it into his ear after she had been murdered.</font>
<font color='#810541'>For some reason which he couldn't explain, Turon didn't feel too surprised. Still, he sent a wave of shock, alarm, and extreme disapointment out to Etincelle. {Etincelle! How could you!} he fell silent for a moment, then added coldly, {But there are still many matters to discuss. Your breaking your agreement does not mean that you can break you contract as well. It ends in 3 years I believe, although doubtless you can tell me for sure. I very much doubt whether any one will want to rehire you at the closing of your current contract, but until then your duty is still to continue as a spy. In the mean time you must either dispose quickly and quietly of Lucas, or, if that is not possible, bind him to his word to never tell anyone of what you revealed to him. If you choose within the next two suns.} Turon sighed inwardly. He intensly disliked having to give her such cold treatment, but he had to admit it, she did rather deserve it. Then suddenly sensing that she might just possibly refuse, he added {and I hope you won't think of refusing...for even I don't like to think of what I might have to do to punish you then...} Then he decided to let her see some of his confusion and bewilderment, and added { Oh, Etincelle, Etincelle, how could you?? You had everything going for you, you were shaping into such a wonderful spy!! Now I will be forced to give an unfavorable report of you to our superiors! O, Etincelle, Etincelle!} Â Â Â All this took scarce seconds, and Turon then focused his attention on Lucas, who was walking away. "Lucas! No, wait, please! We need to talk!" He reinforced his message telepathically {Lucas, please, come back! For my sake? I swear on my honor to attack neither you nor Etincelle without extreme provocation until the next moon rises! Please? There are things I must know, and if I can't find any answers from you I don't know what I'll do. Besides, I believe, if I may be so bold, that I may have answers to some of your questions. I apoligize for hunting you all these years - there are many things I still don't understand. Please come back and talk?} There. That had sounded uncomfortably like begging, even to proud Turon who never begged, but he had felt he had no choice. He had to talk to Lucas! he had to find his answers or he sensed he would go mad, and he felt somehow that if Lucas left now then a truce between the two of them would be impossible. Perhaps he was wrong about that but he didn't want to take any chances. He reached out to Lucas's mind once more, and feeling him hesitate slightly, he added one last silent plea, {Please, Lucas?}.</font>
<font color='#0000FF'>Lucas felt something hit him. He had felt this before. He turned to Turon and he was looking at him. He growled. He was talking to him through telepathy. He didn't speak telepathy. Is he uttering death threats? Lucas turned his body to Turon. "YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY TO ME, SPEAK!" His voice shaking the ground with anger. "DON'T THROW INSULTS THROUGH BRAINWAVES!" Lucas growled.</font>
<font color='#810541'>"Oh!" Turon said, staring at Lucas. "I'm so sorry, I had no idea you couldn't telepath! Um, actually, I was just asking you to come back...please? We need to talk...I'm truly sorry to have hunted you all these years...please come back? I swear on my honor to harm neither you nor Etincelle without extreme provocation until the next moon rises! Please? There are things I must know, and if I can't find any answers from you I don't know what I'll do. Besides, I believe, if I may be so bold, that I may have answers to some of your questions. I apoligize for hunting you all these years - there are many things I still don't understand. Please come back and talk?" Turon called pleadingly to Lucas, trying to repeat more or less what he had said telepathically.</font>
<font color='#008080'>Etincelle didn't know what to do. She looked at one then then other not knowing what to say. this is their discussion, she thought, i'd better not interfere {Turon, don't harm Lucas, he has done nothing wrong. He has nothing, well little to do, with my decision. I have to quit espionnage for personnal reasons which you know. Fugue ! From now on i wish to live a "normal" honest life, i am not strong enough to be a sp. Besides, Fugue wouldn't have approved. I do nor know why you are so hateful towards Lucas, will you let me know? Although you may not consider me worhty of your trust anymore, do believe me when I say that he is guileless and do promise me you won't harm him, ever. I don't ware what you do to me, no contract will stop me. Harm me if you want. Do you want to harm me Turon? Do you? Do you really think that that is necessary? Ostracise me as you wish but leave me alone. Do I, just because I wish to lead a happy life, deserve to be punished or even worse, killed? you know your argument makes no sense. As soon as the others find out about me they will kill me if they can get me. So, do you want to make it easier for them? You cannot kill me, you know you do not have the autority. It is the Law. You cannot kill me until after 3 moons. by then, I will be far, far away... With or without Lucas. So Turon, what do you say/think?}</font>
