Saturday, March 10 7:05 am
Doyle medical center--intensive care center
My eyes scrape open in pain, to see a blurry sight before me and when
they clear up a little better. I notice a small form sitting on my
rising and falling chest, "Hey little one? What happened?" I croak out
very tired and in deep pain from my wounds.
Violet's small face shoots up, to gaze at me and she starts to cry to
me, "You got hurt again and it's my fault!"
"No," I groan again, to her small tear covered face, "it's not. You
tried to warn me. I should have bonded with you weeks ago and this would
not have happened...I am sorry. I wanted to save you from any pain, that
I sent to you via that deeper link. Then if I died, the pain of that
would have crushed you," I gasp out to her from my talking too much.
"But!" she cries again to me.
One of my fingers goes to lift her chin, so I can see her face better,
"When I get out of here and feel better. We are bonding as I should have
done that first week, then you will understand me better and I you, my
little one," I groan out.
Now she looks a lot more cheery to me and smiles, "I would like that!
Then I will have done what no others have done in a many millennia!" she
grins to me.
While I am trying to coax Violet into feeling better, Dr. Tenent has
slipped into my room and is looking over my chart via a data pad she
snatched off the wall. "Well you're up Rohanna, Glad to see that."
"Me too, what hit me? All of it is foggy after lunch?"
What Aung tells me? Is someone ran a incredibly rare blade, through ya!
That only kills Elves. This blade was so rare, even she has seen only
one of them?"
"Was the blade black and had a large black gem on the end of the hilt?"
I cough to her slightly.
"Why yes? Do you know that blade?"
"Ilythiiri elggur!" I hiss out in anger.
"What?" she questions me, walking over to me to sit on my bedside.
"Drow killer...The most depraved evil blades made."
"I am sure they are! That blade almost killed you. If Caitlin was not
here to disarm it" She glances down from my face, "you would be dead."
"Duul'sso," I mumble back to her, mentally correcting her last word.
(Free)
"What was that?" she asked me again, with her stretching to get closer
to hear me better.
"Nothing....it was nothing. Just me being, mad is all."
"Well let me go get those waiting to see you."
"Ma'am? What day is it? I lost track?"
"Only Saturday, why?"
"Darn! I missed costume class. I wanted that one, for the time to work
on my armor!"
She chuckles at me "There will be hundreds of Saturdays to come! So wait
a week?"
Once out the doors of my room, she waves to Sara sitting on a sofa at
the halls end. When Sara sees that wave, she jumps off the sofa in joy
and smacks a sleeping set of elves on the other end to wake them.
"Ro...she is up! Get up you two!" she shouts at both and runs off.
Tenent stops the speeding teen lust demon, at the door to my room with a
gentle hand to her shoulder "She was hurt very bad, again. Give her time
before ya smother with love?...Hummm?"
"Got it doc!" she sings.
When Sara runs into the room, I smile at her "How's things?" I wink to
her, "So anyone get the number off that truck?"
"No one caught her, yet!" Sara growls if in promise to me to do just
that, "But how are you?" she asks me, just as she sits on my bedside.
"Fine, for the most part"
When she leans over to try and give me a hug, but I grunt in pain and
the sound startles her back away from me "Sorry!...jeeesh your still
hurt?"
"Yep, have to get out to the Grove and do this healing right, I guess?"
As Dr. Tenent was letting Nikki and Gwen in my room, she heard my groan
pain and started to chastise Sara for it "I told you, be gentle with
her!"
"But Ro," Sara questions Tenent, "she normally heals much faster than
this?"
"Yes she heals fast...but this time she was injured by a blade made to
kill her race. That cold iron, it literally 'cooked' her from the inside
out!"
"Did anyone save that thing for me?" I interrupt her.
"Why would you even want such an evil thing!" Aung's regal demeanor asks
me from Nikki's body.
"Might make a great souvenir? Or I might need it someday, to kill an
evil Sidhe. Like the Bastard!" my head swims, deep within the beautiful
thoughts of ramming that blade into him or it, in my revenge!
"That can wait for later," Sara insists to me, "But how are really
feeling, please tell me?"
"It hurts when I move too much...in my chest?" I give in too her.
Sara lifts up my top to show me, the a most nasty scar that is just
starting to heal over and change back to my normal skin color from the
gray-whiteness it has now. "Wow! I got messed up! It may take a few
days, to heal a wound that nasty!"
"Yes it will," the doc insists to me, "And I suggest that you don't even
move for at least a day! Unless you can get your friends from the Grove
to float you VERY gently over to there?"
"I guess I am waiting then? Most of them can't come this far out, unless
they have a connection to out here?"
"Well then...till Sunday night at least. For Monday I will write you a
note for missing class and maybe Tuesday?"
Missing class!" I whine to her, "I like class!"
"First I ever heard of a student that liked going to class?" she jest
with me "But you have to wait for basic MID test anyway."
"Why?"
"You had a small burnout and it's warranted after one."
"SHIT! again!" I whine out to her once more, "I did two of them as it
was!"
"And now it will be three!" she laughs at me.
"Fine, fine, fine!" I repeat mad at all this "I can't argue with the
government!" Then shake my head and try to slam a fist to my bedding in
anger.
"No you can't...but I'll leave you girls alone for now?"
After Ophelia has left the room and Gwen goes to check the door for us.
Gwen gives us a thumbs up from the door and Nikki pulls out her charm.
She sets it on my bedside table and we each touch the privacy ward in
turn, to activate its magic on each of us.
When that is done, Sara does not even wait a second "WHO did this!" she
growls at the room.
"My best guess?" I start to say.
"Go ahead...please?" she urges me.
"Who ever tried to kill us both in Boston. No one else is that stupid or
desperate to try to kill in this school, as the repercussions I have
been told are great?"
"This academy is not that well protected Rohanna," Nikki admits and I am
sure Aung is agreeing with that statement too.
"But in the long run, doing such a deed on this campus will get you
killed, sooner or later...am I not correct?" I ask.
"Your right on that! Even the MCO will chase someone on that!" Gwen
states the facts in her opinion.
"Well," Sara growls out again, "I will find out who did this."
"And what, Get expelled? Prove to the nut jobs like Reverend Englund,
that you are a threat to humans at large? What Sara...tell me?" I demand
of her.
"Fine, we will try a softer approach than?"
"That is the best idea, sneaking up on a target is far better!" I grin
from experience.
Just as I am about to suggest more, the door pops open and Everheart
walks in "Nice to find all of you in the same room! Now I don't have to
look for each of you?"
"Sam, what do you want?" Sara asks in a very short sounding voice, to
the second in charge of security at Whateley just coming into the room.
"What I want is who did this found, but for now and to get that ball
rolling? I need to know...did any of you recognize the attacker?"
I laugh all little and start coughing again, "My back was kind of
turned...ma'am?"
"I know, how about the rest of you?"
"I was too worried about Ro," Gwen states.
"Me too," Nikki adds in to that, "But all I did see was a blur that
looked like a girl?"
"I was not there or there would be a body for ya SAM!" Sara more than
threatens.
Sam spots Violet, as she sits on one of my many monitors that show my
health, "So small one, did you see anything?"
Violet very calmly raises her tiny hand and gives Everheart the 'finger'
then goes back to her semi sulking.
As Everheart points a finger at Violet, she asks me "Why did she do
that?"
"Apparently she does not like you right now?"
"Why, ask her for me?"
"Sil'iluuth? ele xun dos jous Everheart folt phlith?"
(Violet? why do you show Everheart such hate?)
When Violet answers me, she jumps to her feet and pounds her spear into
the plastic case below her in anger "Dos hojjau ulu sslig'ne dosst
flas'tlu'gu'ane!" She then points and yells at Everheart. (You failed to
protect your charge!)
Nikki and I both laugh at what violet just said, as we are the only ones
in the room who understand Drow.
"What?" Everheart questions me yet again.
"She thinks, you did not do your job?"
"I was not there," Everheart questions Violet's logic.
"Doesn't matter to her, it's your job to protect the whole school and
you failed...Simple black and white...We don't do grays...ever!" I
explain to her and as I do. Violet bangs that spear loudly once more, to
prove her point.
"Okay...okay. I understand, but since you have to stay here for a day or
better. I am posting a set of guards on your room incase this assassin
comes back."
"I would prefer my own, as frankly Everheart? Yours have shown to me
more than once, that they can be bribed?"
"Really?"
"YES!...REALLY!" Sara shouts out, "You know, heck we all do, that third
squad is the payola squad!"
"You think they had something to do with this Sara?"
I jump in before Sara can even speak, "I do! Someone told the outside
world, not only when we were all leaving to Boston. BUT to what shopping
center! Great Gaea! You list that as a question, 'where we are going
to'? That we have to fill out, to get permission to go off campus! What
a way to lay a trap for us! By making it easy for anyone to jump us out
there!"
"Okay, I will look into keeping that info accessible, by only the top of
the department from now on?"
"Fine by me," Sara adds back.
"But what guards are you talking about Ro? I really don't want, two
dozen Pixies all flying about here." Everheart, she states flatly to me
and thinks back to what she heard from her staff, that three did that
one morning here.
"I will only need two...two Nymphs that are aligned to me. One of water
and one of fire."
"What does 'aligned' mean?" she questions my words.
Aung answers for me "Aligned in Rohanna's case? It means swore to obey
her till death, I am sure, just as she was in her past life?" she nods
to me the question.
"Yes, both are more than 'bound' to me and do not question my orders."
"I am not so sure of this, but I can see that your trusting my personnel
is very limited now after this little incident."
"Fine, I will call them and show you both now?"
"That makes sense, to do that while I am here and I can see what they
are?"
"Gwen? can you go get me a candle or something that small that has flame
about that same size?"
After she runs off out the door, I turn to Sara next. "Sara...love, can
you get me a bowl of water from the bath?"
"Got it."
Once both come back, I have Sara set the bowl on the floor next to my
beds edge and the now lit candle beside it. When I see it's all done, I
reach out to the Grove and call both to me.
Suddenly the bowl of water rocks back and forth, then flows upward into
a tall tower of water and it flattens out a little to more person in
size. Now Joan my bound Nymph, She walks out of the new virtual door of
water, still in her base form of that element. She looks like to all
around the room, to be a clear statue of the liquid from the bowl, then
flows back to a human shape and kneels by the bed silently waiting.
Then with my calling to her, the candles flame grows larger and larger.
When it nears the size of a person, Everheart and the other girls stand
well back, but note nearly no heat flows off the large flames.
Kenna is the next to arrive via her base element of fire and comes
stepping out of the door of flames. She then stands in the room, just a
human size body of flame and a very sexy looking female one!
She takes a knee by her sister, after her flames die down till she
appears as a human and both say in unison to me "Udos inbal doer 'zil
quarthen udossta jabbress, vel'bol zhah dosst veein?"
(We have come as ordered our mistress, what is your bidding?)
"You can speak english in front of the others here. But you both now
know Drow?"
Joan speaks for both, as she should being the 'oldest' now "Yes my
mistress, we both do. I gained the language quickly over the last week
and Kenna seems almost born to it!" she boasts for her new sister.
"Nice and done well. Anything else?"
"Our studies in magic, are going well in the opinion of our matrons? The
other things you asked us to both study, also are going very well....in
their opinions," she glances up at me for acceptance of that statement,
"my mistress."
I give her no signs, that I even care that she is doing the JOB that I
ordered her and her sister to do!
"The reason for you being called here, is that I need to be guarded
after someone attacked me and I recover. The human guards of the school
are not one hundred percent trustworthy...except this one here," I wave
over to Everheart, to point her out better to both of them, "She is one
of the trusted leaders, anything she tells you is true and should be
taken as so!" I ordered both of them.
"Yes mistress, we do your bidding," they say back to me in unison.
"Stand and make sure that your powers that compel others, they are held
in check."
Both stand up at my call and now anyone in the room, can see that the
only thing covering them is see-thru gossamer cloth and beneath it. Both
show the most beautiful of female bodies most will ever see.
"Well Everheart? Do they make your muster of approval?"
"Humm I don't know?" she wonders out loud while she walks around,
studying both of them "Will they obey you? As I remember Violet getting
a little out of hand!"
When violet hears that small insult, she sticks her tongue out at
Everheart the next time Sam glances her way. The rest of us in the room
giggle at the sight. In my heart, I love Violet that way...like I said
to myself more than once, "she has the fire of life in her!"
"These two will do what I ask to the letter...even die. If I so ask
them," I inform Everheart.
"Well then fine for now, if it lets you rest better. I will let them
stay, but if they get out of hand, they leave...agreed?"
"Agreed...if they disobey me, they will leave," I make a promise that
fits my mood and my own goals better!
"I am off, as I am sure you need your rest Rohanna?"
"Yes I do, so girls? I will see you later...Gaea I am tired now," I say
in a now fading voice.
"We will leave you here in Ophelia's fine hands, as both Gwen and I have
to study for tomorrow's classes" Nikki laughs at me trying hard to keep
the air of the room light. I can tell, she is upset at seeing someone
close to her hurt yet again.
Sara smiles to both of them, "I am staying, I hope I can Ro?" she asks
me.
"Of course...my love," I yawn out in my tiredness to Sara, "I would like
that and bye Gwen...Nikki. Don't worry I am in safe hands now," I wave
bye to them, as they get-up to leave.
Both wave bye to me, as they walk out the door and once they are gone.
Sara slides a large chair over next to my bed, even though she wants to
crawl into mine and hug me all day. She settles for that spot and holds
my now outstretched hand.
I wave a hand to both my bidden Nymphs and they understand the order
without a word.
Joan takes a place next to the bath, where her power over the water
within that small bathroom is stronger and changes her body to a solid
unmoving ice statue.
Kenna goes to stand next to the door, as the rooms first guardian and
changes to a statue of smooth black stone to wait for any of my needs.
My sleep comes easily, after the room is quiet and Sara helps me best in
that sleep. By keeping the darkest of my dreams from my mind, a hard
sacrifice on her part, but one she makes willingly.
During the day and long night, a few nurses come to check on the room
and even Dr. Tenent joins them a few times. All of them were told of my
plans for guards, but actually coming into the room and finding two
statues of women following your every move with creepy glowing eyes of
red or blue. That does not bode well for their slumber the next night.
With the coming of morning, I awake to lots of great pain in my chest. I
can feel those bones healing up deep in there and my lungs are working
hard on coughing up some of that burnt blood from my wounds.
As I cough a fit again, Sara woke to help me lean up and a nurse had to
come into the room to assist her. When I am done with most of that
terrible coughing, I have to smile at Sara because of her staying with
me.
"Love...please go to class, you don't need more trouble because of this.
Go please? I am fine and by noontime I shall go to the Grove and heal
much better out there."
She leaves my room reluctantly at my request, with a smile to me and
goes to her classes.
Long about noontime, I lifted myself out of that bed and dressed in
hospital scrubs, as my regular clothes were a mess! When I was finally
dressed, a nurse pushed me in a wheelchair along the hallway towards the
main doors and both of my Nymphs kept watch over the path for me.
"Well I sent that ruined outfit of yours over to Rodger's Boutique, she
will clean and fix it all good as new for ya," Dr. Tenent told me at the
doors exiting Doyle.
"I did not know she did that, ma'am?"
"Yes, you pay real good money for her outfits and she backs them no
matter what!"
"That's nice to know?" I nod too her, "But I am off to the Grove for
now."
"Rohanna? Please...are you sure of this? You can wait here in Doyle
longer if you want to?"
"You know and have seen it. I heal much better out there deep within the
Grove?"
"Yes, but I want you back before tonight for a quick look-see and a
quick MID test."
My head lowers at thinking of that again, Gaea I am hating all this
prodding!
Tenent can easily see, that I am upset at more exams and she goes to
comfort me "Hey...this one exam it will be real short, unless we find
something? Then we have to test for that?" she tells me in a cheery
voice, to get me feeling better.
"I understand ma'am. I will be back soon."
After I get pushed outside of Doyle in the wheelchair, I stand up with a
little assistance from my two bound companions and port off to the
Grove. With even more help from them, I make an unsteady walk to the
warm spring pools, to get undressed and settled into one for the other
Nymphs to attend to my healing to begin their work.
When a few hours have passed and the healers have done their best on me
for now. I get up in somewhat less pain and move over to the large stump
to eat a small meal of the fruits of this Grove has to offer me.
One of the matrons, as she serves me another small plate and she warns
me "Guardian? Please take your time healing. That vicious weapon did
much damage and the regular healing I can do for you, is not near
enough. These wounds you have, they will take time to heal."
"Thank you for your best, I have to go. The humans of this new world,
they do not let me rest."
"Maybe you should ignore them and just stay here?"
"No I can't. This one attack showed me for sure, that we are all
vulnerable. The weapon was only used by the GOO. So some human out
there, hunts us all and in time. A hundred years, a thousand maybe? They
will come here, if we hide now and kill us all."
After I stand, my armor comes out instead of me redressing in the ER
scrubs and I walk out to the campus again. My first stop, doc Tenent as
promised.
When Tenent finishes scanning me, she smiles at the sight. "Humm all is
great in there! Well healed and like I said. If you ever bottle what is
out there, I am out of a job!" she laughs a little to me.
"Ya I'll look into that?" I jest her back.
"Any pain?" she asks while my armor comes back onto me with a silent
pop.
"A little when I bend down low and when I cough?"
"That's to be expected with a injury that large to the muscles and your
ribs. Just take it slow...no working out till Friday for you! Doc's
orders!"
"Yes ma'am. I will obey."
"Now git! You have an appointment upstairs for that MID test, but it
should not take too long? Then tomorrow you have one with Doc Bellows
too?"
At her insistence, I go up and get that test done. When I get out of
there a few hours later, I have two things in my mind. One my speed went
up a notch, just barely noticeable. This was found in the renewed MID
testing and I am so very hungry, Time to go eat!
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Monday, March 12 6:05 pm
Crystal hall
With a tray piled high with food, I am looking for a spot to sit and
eat. My neck cranes to see if anyone is up a level above me, where the
Poe crowd goes and when I am about to go up there via the stairs.
A boy that looks all the part of a true Werewolf, he is walking toward
me with two others by his side. One I have seen before, you can't miss
that kid with my nose. Gaea that kid reeks! The other? I don't know him.
But what grabs my eye is, All three of them wear a 'UV' band, in another
color from what mine is?
The large wolf kid, purposely bumps into me at the stairs and slaps my
tray from my hands. "Watch it fairy!" he shouts loudly to me.
All I do in reply is stand there, close my eyes and breath slowly. 'I so
want to tear him apart...but I can't?' So I mumble to him, "Sorry to get
in your way."
"You bet you are...lesbo chic!" he barks back at me, with a grin
covering his face.
I stoop down to gather my fallen tray and he tries to give me a new
shove from my side. With a quick sidestep, I am up and out of the way of
his meager try.
But my Violet, she is more than mad at his act on me and she flies
toward his face. Her nasty spear comes out and I just know her intent is
on revenge.
"No Violet, come back here now!" I order her.
She stops her flight, just at his face and sulks on her way back to me.
The wolf boy starts to raise a hand, to swipe at her back, as she flies
back to me and when I see that very stupid move on his part...I go more
than nuts on him!
"You hit her and I will PAINT this very building's insides with your
guts and blood!" I shout in warning to him of pain and death to come.
When the echo of that shouting of mine dies inside the building, I hear
a lady shout at me from just behind me "ROHANNA!" and I look over my
shoulder to see Circe staring angrily at me.
"Yes ma'am?" I sigh now caught.
"Please clean up that tray for me and get a new one for yourself. I will
have a talk with this boy?"
"Yes ma'am." I surrender to her.
As I clean up that fallen tray of mine and go to get myself more food to
replace it.
Circe pulls the three boys aside, far from prying eyes and ears "What
are you nuts? All of you?" she questions the logic of the three.
"She threatened me!"
"Miss Leigh does not do threats, if you had hit her Pixie. She would
have killed you...simple and for sure. You have no idea the tie those
two have, she would kill for her Pixie or die? And the Pixie the same
for her!"
"So what! That little fly was going at my face!"
"No she was not! Miss Leigh called her back, before she even got close.
SO try to explain this mess you almost made, to someone who did not
watch you start it! I watched all of it and I am not going to let you
bait her into hurting you!"
The wolf boy shakes his head to Circe.
"I know what you're thinking Bloodwolf, you actually think because
you're big and bad. You can take her? Jade a little girl, she nearly
killed you last term and she was untrained!"
"She surprised me and had help!"
"Fine then, let me show you what you're up against and before you go
after her?"
"What?"
"Follow me...NOW!" Circe orders all three of them.
All three follow the head teacher of the magic department, up a level
and she spots me sitting with Gwen, as she runs me over her class notes
on the classes I missed today.
Circe stops at my table and clears her throat to me to get my attention,
"Miss Leigh?"
"Yes Ma'am?" I say, as I stand up for her.
"Miss Leigh, I want to stop a fight before it happens. Please show
Bloodwolf your armor...that special set you showed me, please?"
"Yes ma'am, as you wish?" My voice mumbles out in my not even liking
this idea.
When my lighter armor flashes over to my heaviest, The wolf boy cringes
back from it and I smell just a little fear on him....'so you are a true
Were! And you fear Mithril!' are my thoughts on his sudden fear of me.
"See Bloodwolf? Miss Leigh has armor, that you can't even touch without
you getting burnt!" Circe tells the boy.
"Then add this?" I almost giggle to him and one of my Mithril blades
comes siding out into my hand, then shakes it's sharp point at his face
in a warning of pain to come.
"Put that away Miss Leigh! NOW!" Circe barks, only once at me.
"Yes ma'am, sorry?" I relent my teasing the boy with my blade and it
fades from view.
"So, both of you, is this all settled then?" she questions us both, as
her hands go to her hips in a most motherly way?...but MAD mother way!
"Up to him ma'am, my tray of diner. It did not commit suicide by
itself?"
"Yes I saw that, Bloodwolf since you started all of this. Please take
this warning and please stop. Before this gets of out hand?" she asks
him and at the same time warns him.
Then Circe turns her anger on me once again "Miss Leigh, no retaliation
for today's little spat, please?"
"I had not planned on any of that. BUT if he hurts one of mine. I will
come for him," I warn both of them.
Circe's hand comes up quickly to my face, palm flat to me in warning of
'stop that' "Miss Leigh, enough of that," then she glares back at the
boy, "This is over before it begins, got it?"
"Yes" he growls to us both reluctantly.
"Yes, what?" she corrects him, with a firm voice of demanding his
manners be far better than they are now!
"Yes...ma'am?"
"Better, now!" she warns again, then nods back to me, "Miss Leigh, you
can go back to your meal?"
"Thank you ma'am." I nod to her and she leaves with the boys in tow.
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Just an hour later
I am porting over to Poe, to shower up and maybe catch up on a few class
notes with Gwen or Nikki?
As I enter the building at the front door, Gwen was waiting for me,
laying in wait too strike! She grabs my arm quickly and starts dragging
me toward the sunroom "What...what!" I shriek at her over and over all
the way down the hallway, as I am being dragged!
Once fully dragged into the room. Jade shoves a small carrot cake into
my hands. On top of it, is one lit candle and she yells with the others
in the room "Happy one month!"
"What?"
"One month!" she sings out to me her joy, "You made it one month after
your change!"
"Why all this?" I question the group in my confusion, at all this
celebrating over one month of being the 'new' me?
"Because, we have to celebrate the small steps once and awhile!" someone
yells at me from across the room.
"Awww guys?" I start crying...why...heck if I know?
"Hey be happy!" Sara whispers into my ear, with her sudden appearance
just behind me.
"Okay? But this cake is so small?" I stare down at the small cake in my
hands, "How can I slice it this much? So all of you get a slice?"
"That one is all yours GIRL...we all know how much a Drow can eat,
besides we have our own!" Toni shouts at me and then points a spread of
food resting on a small table at the rooms edge.
Nikki comes at me with a fork in a hand raised in a threatening manner?
Then jams it into the cake like a murder victim and takes out a hunk of
it. "EAT!" she shouts at me, while shoving that hunk into my mouth.
After I swallow that large bite, and smiling at Nikki for it. I cut off
a slice for Violet to enjoy and set her a place on a shelf to eat in
peace. Now that she is set, I wander about the room looking at everyone
having fun.
As I wander about the room, Ayla taps my shoulder to get my attention
from the small party all around me "Hey try this candy my sister sent
me, it's super rare and VERY good!"
I take a offered chocolate candy from the box of them and unwrap it as I
stand there. Once I pop it into my mouth...Gaea! the taste is heavenly!
"WOW Ayla! This is good! I have never tasted something so sweet!"
"Yep it's a secret blend of several types of rare cocoa beans, from the
jungles of South America and others."
"I love it, can I have another?" I ask her quickly, now that I am
totally hooked on them!
"Sure, I got a few boxes, just incase?" she winks at me.
Another candy gets popped into my mouth and the 'heavenly' taste keeps
going. Then I roam around the room even more. As I wander around the
room, I notice that I feel great! All warm suddenly from within...a very
nice warm!
I notice that, My hearts are both beating hard in sync and my breath is
getting deeper? 'why is that?' I wonder to myself, but don't seem to
care as much as I should?
When I spot Hank or is it Lancer? What ever is that darn name of his is?
'I think a little in a fog?' I just have to walk over and talk to him
'Gaea he looks so...sexy...tonight! And that Doogie standing next to him
TOO!' I smile at the thoughts.
"Hey Hank!" I almost shout at him, when I get close to him...almost too
close! "Why don't we go talk some in my room?" I say in a very
flirtatious tone to him.
Hank looks over Rohanna standing RIGHT next to him, standing real close?
A usually calm and collected Drow is her normal self. What he sees now,
is a girl that seems to be asking him out? Flirting...too? Then add that
strange pink-purple glow is in her eyes? That glow only seems to happen
for Sara or Roz? Not any guys so far, that he has seen yet?
"I don't think that is a good idea Ro? I have a girl?" he shrugs to me.
"So? Have two?" I insist to him.
"What?" he asks and his whole face questions me, with its sudden change
to one of surprise.
"Have two? or if you want to...bring Doogie along?" I make a grab at him
too "He is good looking too?"
"Are you okay?"
"I am great! Never felt better! COME on let's go?" My voice sings to
him, As I tug on him harder to move and get closer to him at the same
time.
"Are you...purring at me?" he asks while hearing a new sound coming from
me, a deep rumble. That is not unlike a large cat and one he can feel
too! Now that I am wrapped around his arm and leaning into his side VERY
close indeed!
"And you don't like my purring? Perhaps you prefer the rougher growl?"
and I let out a deep almost threatening one, that makes him step back a
little at the sound.
"I think, it's a no for tonight," he tells me softly.
"Shoot, party pooper!" I yelp at him and I spin to face Doogie instead,
"Well how about you then?"
Doogie looks at me, more than stunned at the question and notes the
small body sway I have now. That 'sway' is new to his medical mind and
makes him think? But he knows by reading my file....no alcohol or drug
on the planet could even 'dent' me? Or make me 'stoned' in anyway he
knows of?
"You okay Rohanna?" he asks me in his 'medical' person voice.
"Why does everyone keep asking me that? I am great, Never been better!"
"Ahh you do know I swing for the other team?"
"Well then, try an at bat with a Drow and I may change that team for
ya!"
"No thanks Rohanna?"
"Well shit! I know a girl upstairs who wants me? Or a nice lust demon
that never turns me down!" I bark at no one in particular and walk off
in search of more of Ayla's candy!
In a few seconds, I have found my intended prey and pounce again on the
small box of chocolates! My hand quickly grabs three more of the small
delicious morsels! AND I pop one into my mouth and savor that taste, as
it melts!
Doogie takes it upon himself to go and find Sara and Nikki. Once he
does, he interrupts their conversation over magic with a strange
question "Did you both notice Rohanna? She seems out of it and more than
a little 'flirty?'.."
"What was that?" Sara laughs to him and near madness of his statement.
"Ya what are you saying Doogie?" Nikki asks confused by the same
question.
"She seems 'off' to me?" he puts out his hand between them all and
shakes it to indicate imbalance "Her eyes have a strange pink-purple
glow and she is acting real weird?"
"Weird how?" Sara asks him in a tone, that shows her now rising concern.
"She tried to pickup on me and Hank?" he whispers to them, then adds,
"And she is kind of 'swaying' like she is goofy?"
"This I have to see child!" Aung states to them both and they walk off
in search of me.
Just as they spot me across the room, that second candy. Has found it's
way into my mouth and I am sucking on that delicious thing for all it's
got. As I try to walk or stumble my way across the sunroom, to get up
stairs to Roz's room and have fun with her.
I stumble suddenly off my feet and fall on my butt, "Whoops!" I shout
out and start giggling like mad at my falling down.
Gwen who happens to be standing there, just stares down at me sitting on
the floor and my strange act of giggling like mad, "Rohanna?
Crap!...your shit faced!"
"No way!" I laugh up at her from my butt and that strange idea of her's,
"I don't get drunk! There is no Elvin bandy here? I could go get some of
mine and let's see?" I ponder that new idea now.
All three of them now stand over me, as I try to get up and fail once
trying? When I try again and nearly fail. Sara finally takes my arm and
pulls me to my feet, when she sees that I can't get up anymore.
"Thanks Sara...ohh there ya are!" I state as if I just noticed she was
there, "Lets go have some fun! Maybe grab Roz too?
Both of Sara's eyebrows go up, when she stares at Nikki in surprise,
"She is toasted! What makes a Drow 'bent' or 'stoned' Aung?"
"I have no idea what could? She nearly drank that dragon's blood the
other week, that alone should have killed her?"
I try to hand my last candy to Sara and get her to eat it, "Try this!
It's great!" I offer it to her with a shaky hand.
Nikki takes it instead from me, "Where did this come from?"
"Ayla...and I like it! It tastes real good!" I say with a cheesy grin on
my face.
"Did you start feeling 'real good' after having some of that?"
"Ya...I guess? But let's go have fun?" I purr at Sara, then make a grab
at her chest, "I always love these things...mine aren't that big...yet?
But maybe soon?" I ponder and make a grab at mine again to compare the
size difference.
"Ayla! come here!" Nikki yells in a way out to the room, that everyone
knows something is wrong.
Ayla runs over to them all, from her room just down the hallway "What?"
She asks just getting there.
"Where in the heck did this chocolate come from?" Sara asks next and
shows a piece to her.
"It's some uber rare blend, my sister found on her travels in Europe and
it's mostly made of very rare beans from the South American jungles,
why?" Ayla questions the demon girl.
"THAT!" Aunghadhail shouts back at her, while pointing right at me, "You
found by accident, the only thing that makes her goofy? AS You kids
say?"
Ayla turns to see me pawing at Sara, a lust demon! And I am winning!
When I finally notice Ayla standing there with us, I just have to ask
her, "Hey join us in my room, it will be fun!" I giggle to her and go
back to my pawing at Sara.
"No thanks...me in the same room with a drugged Drow and a lust demon?
Nope I like my sanity!"
"Coward!" I say to her with a sloppy smile on my face.
Ayla shakes her head at the whole strange thing "Who would have thought
that a simple candy, would make a Drow that can drink poison on her
cornflakes. Act like this?"
Aunghadhail sees a growing issue in this "Children come closer to me and
listen to me. Please, none of you say or tell anyone of this!" she
insists.
"Why Aung?" Jade asks the queen.
"Why child? Because if that simple candy can be combined with yet
another drug? It can be made to kill Rohanna! Understand my issue now?"
"Yes Aung...we do" most of the room says in turn to her.
"Well I guess, I will take 'miss grabby hands' back to her room and put
her to bed then?" Sara states next to Nikki, while keeping me at bay,
with her many tentacles.
"Sara...no sex with her, she is not in her right mind!" Nikki's eyes
narrow in warning the lust demon.
"What me! roofie a girl to have my way with her! I do have
morals...low...but morals! Anyway I love a challenge like this!"
"What challenge is that?" Nikki scowls next at her "If I can ask?"
"Me 'NOT' having my way with her and avoiding her advances!"
Soon enough, Sara drags me to my room and when I finally become aware
what she is doing! My clothes vanish off me as I hit the door "Well come
in and lets have fun!" I purr back at her.
Sara shakes her head at me and 'facepalms' in defeat "This if going to
be a long night!" and she slams the door shut.
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Tuesday, March 13 6:15 am
Poe cottage--my room
I sit up suddenly in my bed and find Sara next to me? And my head is
pounding like a drum at a parade! "What happened last night?" I groan
out.
Sara, does not move at all. she just lays there like a slug and is all
curled up in my sheets. When I give her a firm shove and she wakes with
some more of my prodding. I ask her again "What happened last night?"
She smiles up at me, from her laying postion, "Nothing really? Sex wise
that is!" She now pouts her disappointment of that at me.
"So what are you doing here. I can't remember anything past my dinner?
And a cake?" I question even more, with a fog covering over the nights
events in my head and a growing thumping of pain on top of that.
"Well Ayla? She gave ya a candy and that simple chocolate? It seems is
your bane in the world. It drugged ya, then made you stoned and horny as
all heck!"
"What!" I shriek out at her.
"Yep! It did! You tried to pickup on Hank and Doogie. Then finally me
and Ayla?"
"Ohh my! Gaea I am so embarrassed!" I scream and pull the sheets over my
head again.
"It's alright? None of them took ya up on the offer?" she smiles at me.
"What ever, but I did do it!" I mumble from beneath the sheets.
"But what hurt me the most was?" she admits to me "I had to tie you up
all night in my tentacles! Or I am sure you would have run off and found
someone!"
"AWWW fuck!"
"Nope we did not do that last night....to my great pain! Gods it was
hard for me not to take advantage of ya! All your pawing at me and
saying fun stuff!"
"Sorry?" I mumble again and I pound at my bed in anger.
"It's okay? And then fun at the same time! I thought you had finally
lost it, when you asked where Peeper was roomed at?"
"I did!" I suddenly shoot up in bed, as I shout out at her.
"Yep...ya did and it was funny!" she laughs back at me, barely able to
stop.
I collapse back to the bed in defeat "So Ayla got rid of that candy?"
"I am not sure if she did? I did order fifty...one pound boxes of it
last night though? For later research?" she smiles evilly at me, her new
intent.
"Why would you do that?"
"You know why?" she grins even more evilly at me, "besides trying out
that candy, under controlled conditions? It might be fun?"
"Fun for you? But I blacked out! I don't remember a thing!" I warn her.
"Hummm? How about we try small bits, till we find a bad issue?"
"What? You're still insisting on this?"
"Ya, think of this as drinking? You did that in your past lives? Did you
not?"
"Yes, and since you put it that way? Now it does sound kind of fun to
me!"
"Yep, now I have to make sure that you don't get away from me and go
bone Peeper!"
I shiver at the thoughts of being with Peeper in that way "If I do get
away from you! I will curse you!"
"I am sure you will and I will curse myself, for letting THAT happen to
a lover of mine!"
"Well I had better get up and get ready for the day!"
"Yep, but remember? Tenent has you on a very limited leash, so no class
for you and you have to go see Bellows today?"
"Shoot! When is that pain scheduled for?"
"8 am?"
"So?" I grin to her "We have time till I have to go?"
"Yes we do, but I have to take it easy on ya. As I just know you're
still hurting!"
Over an hour later after we had some fun, I walk back into my room from
getting showered up and find that Sara is still in my room? And laying
on my bed too!
"Why are you here...love?" I ask her, as I toss a wet towel into my bin
of laundry.
"I wanted to make sure you're all good?" she winks at me, "Can't I do
that?"
"But don't you have class too?"
"Yes, but I have a more independent schedule than you do, I can skip
some classes once and a while," she grins up at me, while rolling over
onto her side.
"That must be real nice to have?" I say to her, as I pull out today's
underwear and start to put it on.
Sara, gets up from her laying there on my bed and tempting me again. To
help me into my top, then brushes out my long hair for me, while I grab
a bottle of nail polish and start to put it on.
"Love this long hair, but it does take time out of the day to brush it?"
she asks.
"Yes, it does? I find that time is great for calming myself for the day
to come, that small task and the time it takes."
"Humm, now I can see why the long hair. It makes more sense now!"
After she is done for me, I stand and my armor pops onto my body. I give
it a few adjustments and go to hug her before I go.
Sara stops me, and then studies me rather strangely "Why the armor?"
"I just feel like wearing it?"
"But you have so many nice things to wear now? Why wear, what you wore
for so many years back then? It makes no sense to do that now?"
I sigh back to her, after I give her a shrug "I have no idea, this just
'felt' better today for some reason?"
"Well off ya go! Tell Bellows for me, that I found some more of your
loose screws last night!" She smiles at me, then wraps a deep hug and
kiss on me.
"I think telling him of my candy addiction is a bad thing?" I question
her logic.
"Ya, but such fun to see what those limits are!" she warns me and gives
me the littlest evil smirk, "Now! git going!" Then she smacks my
backside, as I get shoved out the door of my room.
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Tuesday, March 13 8:00 am
Doyle med center
After I close the main offices door, I smile to Doogie, "Well how was my
party last night?"
"Very fun, after you left!"
"Ohhh pooo! On ya!" I almost shout at him.
"So are you feeling, more like yourself?" he whispers to me.
"Yessssss, and don't you tell the doc! OR any doc about that...ever!"
"Never, my lips are sealed. Doctor-patient privilege!" then he waves at
the door for me, "the doc is waiting for ya, go on in?"
After I go into Bellows office, I close the door behind me slowly as I
greet him "Hi Doctor Bellows, I was told to come on in today?"
"Yes, Rohanna. You were, please have a seat?" he points at one of his
large wingback chairs by his desk.
Before I go to sit, I just have an urge to go look out both of his
windows and once that is done. That chair he pointed to, I move it to a
better spot. One that I feel is more comfortable and go sit in it.
After I give Violet a wave to go perch herself, I ask Bellows softly
"Why this visit...sir?"
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My simple task of task of checking the room out, before I sat. It looked
to him like this, rather than the simple thing it was in my mind.
Before he begins talking to Rohanna.
Doctor Bellows makes several notes, on what he just watched the Drow
teen do when Rohanna entered the room.
After she closed the door behind her softly, she then locked it and
checked it to be sure. Then walked slow measured steps, across the room.
Like she was judging the distance to be sure, to each window in turn and
checked each window to be sure it was locked.
What was a surprise to him at each window, was that she placed a very
small spell on each and tested the glass to know it's strength with a
small 'tap'? Next she paced the room off towards the set of chairs and
moved the one farthest from the door. Over to the wall, with it's back
at the wall. The other chair, was moved ever so slightly, to cover the
door and give her something to 'duck' behind?
Next, as she sat down. She flicked her hand 'just so' and that Pixie of
her's. Flew off and found a spot to cover her, from behind him! When
that Pixie landed on her spot to perch, her wicked sharp spear came out.
This change in her, was alarming indeed to him.
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"Well Rohanna? I called you in to have a regular chat and maybe? We can
discuss if any of the attacks on you, have affected your well being or
feeling of safely at Whatley?"
"Okay...sir?"
"So, do you feel safe here?"
"No," I say more than flatly.
"Alright? I can understand that?"
"Really...sir? You understand being a 'pin' cushion?"
"Please, I am trying to help you?"
"Hummm, okay? Then 'help' away?" I wave a dismissive hand at him.
"I understand you don't like coming here to see me, that is normal to
most who do come here?"
"Yes, that I am sure of. But in my case, I do know I am 'nuts' and know
exactly what is wrong with me."
"That 'thing' you can't talk about?"
All I can get out to him is a simple nod of my head, that's enough for
his understanding.
"We will try and come back to that if we can? But let's work on that
feeling safe issue?"
"So? I am not feeling safe here at all, anymore after this last issue?"
"Well lets us try and fix that, shall we?"
"Maybe, no on that? You're not a warrior and have no idea on how to fix
it? So I guess we are done!"
After I am done barking at him, I spring to my feet and walk to his door
at a quick pace. But Bellows stops me with a simple request "Please stop
Rohanna? I am trying to help you?"
I stop at his door, with the knob in my hand "And what if I want to
leave today?"
"Leave this office or the school?"
"The office, of course?"
"Please stay, you need this time with me today and if I have too? I will
insist on you staying? You made a promise to Carson, to let me try and
help you over this issue and many others?"
"That I did, but using it as a weapon? That is not a good idea on your
part?"
"Please sit, as a friend with me and not as a patient?"
I sigh deeply back to him, "I will do it for you, only you because you
asked me the way you should."
And I retake my seat, but not before checking the room again, with a
quick glance as I sat!
"So, why the armor you're wearing today?"
"It felt, right, good to me and so I wore it?"
Bellows takes down some fast notes on his pad, then asks "Did you notice
the way you walked into my office today? Was that planned, or you just
being you?"
"No planning on my part? Everyone tells me I walk funny? Or look over a
room more than once in my strange way?"
"Well I noticed a vast change this time, from your normal way of coming
into my office?"
"Ya, doc? What?"
"You locked my door, checked the window locks, dropped a spell on each,
and then moved both of my chairs to cover the room better, with your
back at the wall? Then add Violet, she is behind me and her weapon is
out?"
As he goes down that long list of what I just did, I go down my own list
of why I did that!
Sara's little attack and what it showed me. I may have gotten over it,
but it still was there? The Big Boston fight and how I was treated...by
humans as a monster! Then the other Boston trip and it's issues with the
same humans.
Next was Truck and his little spat, that I let get too far? One that
almost killed me? Heck it did kill me! But what I saw there shocked me,
I wanted to stay?
Now this week, with Aunghadhail and her experiments. That made me feel
so used, and dirty! She violated the basic laws! But punishment will
never come for her now?
Then the other days attack? I am sure that one is linked to Boston and
that Reverend who chases after Sara, to kill her for being a GOO. And
now that same mad man, he is chasing after me somehow?
I run my fingers through my hair nervously and stare at Bellows as I
almost whisper back to him.
"So? I am not feeling safe here at all, not anymore after this last
issue?" but my mind goes over that vast list of many issues of why this
place is not safe, too many issues I just listed not a second ago to
myself!
"Is there any idea that you have, that can help with that feeling of
yours?"
"Leave and find a place where only us Sidhe live?" that is the only
thing I can think of to fix this?
"I don't think that is possible or smart right now? To cut off a whole
section of people from the rest?"
"Let's not go there, it's not a good place for someone to enter...that
does not know what is coming?"
"What is coming then? Please tell me?"
"War."
"With what? War, with who?"
"Something so old, just looking at one would kill you. That is the only
reason for me to be here?"
"So you are thinking about that 'I am weapon' issue again?"
"I am one...and" I try to tell him what Aunghadhail did to me, us but
can't and that blasted book again, it stops me cold!
"We can help you past that feeling? Maybe you can try being a student
first? I heard you taught the archery class very well, the students
loved you!"
I grin at him "I know, I love that teaching and showing others new
skills."
"We can try and get you more classes to help TA with?"
"I would like that a lot" then it hits me again. I am training others to
kill, just like before?
When he sees or feels how suddenly sad I get, he asks me at a near
whisper "What Rohanna, you were happy just a second ago? What changed?"
"I remembered why I trained others?" I sniff now, as my tears now fill
my eyes, "I was training more weapons!"
"But here, you are not doing that? Archery class is more about the sport
here, or the simple challenge it brings to most."
"I guess?" I say back to him, so not sure anymore what is real?
"Well it is? I have not heard of any archery powered students at this
school this term? And if we do get one, that uses that power? We can
have them train with others? Is that a good way to solve this?"
"Maybe, maybe...not? What if they die someday and what I might have
taught them, could have saved them?" I worry on in my head, that future
and the unknown past of my training others? Did I fail some students of
mine way back then?
"Like you just said, maybe and we can never know the truth of then?"
"I want to go now, can I?" I beg him.
"Sure, why not? You gave me a good try today, so let's stop and pick
this up tomorrow?" he suggests to me with a smile.
"Tomorrow?" my head tilts to him, as I question his statement, "I have
classes tomorrow, one of them is teaching archery, if you keep letting
me do that?"
"Okay then, let's do this after that one class. I will not take that
from you, unless you want to stop it?"
"One class?" I question on more.
"Yes, one class. I am excusing you from the rest of them for the day and
maybe Wednesday's classes too?"
"Why?"
He hands me a sheet of paper from his printer, "Please go and ask Sara
for me? She may explain this better to you, than I can?"
I take the offered page and my power over reading fast goes to work. It
drops it all into my mind in a second, but I don't understand any of it
at all? And most of all, one word..... Hypervigilance?
"Are...are you going to send me back to ARK?" I have to ask him and see
if he tells me the truth!
"Never! I will fight with all I have, to keep that from happening to
you. That would be a death sentence, at best for you! I can't live with
that outcome for you?"
"Thanks...sir. For telling me the truth?"
With a nod from him, I go to the door and leave. As I exit the outer
office, I notice I am hungry and skipped breakfast today in my haste to
get here. Or maybe, missed it because of Sara and that last fling!
When I get outside of Doyle, I port off to Crystal to fetch myself that
missed breakfast. As I stand in line, my phone rings and I look to see
who is calling me? A picture of a evilly grinning Sara, shows me who is
there and I answer it fast!
"Where ya at? Bellows called me and told me you escaped!...Nutty Drow on
the loose!" she giggles to me.
"I am filling that void, from last night?"
"Hummm?" she questions me, with sexy intent dripping on the very sound
of her voice.
"Food, not that!" I shriek out.
"Ohhh I thought you found Peeper...and!"
"Yeeech! Now I am losing my appetite!" I pretend vomiting at the phone.
"I'll be right there!" she sings at me over the phone.
"Wait, I think we need to talk somewhere more personal? Bellows gave me
a note to show you? I don't understand what it says, the words are none
I have ever heard of?"
"Okay, he did call and tell me that. So wait there for me, grab a to-go
box and we will eat out somewhere?"
After I grabbed a small bag full of to-go boxes, just filled with food.
Sara came rushing into Crystal and up to me "Well lets go!" she beams at
me.
"Where too?" I question her.
"That small hill where Sam set-up that range to shoot from? I saw she
added a nice group of benches and a great table that looks like a rock?"
With a touch and a small thought on my part. We are there, that bag of
food gets dropped on to the table and as I go to sit. Sara asks me "That
note, I want to read it while you eat some?"
I hand it to her, as I start on the first box of food. While I eat, she
paces the stone table all around me, reading that note and as she does.
Sara sounds out "Hummm?" or "Okay?" once and awhile. That sound from her
bothers me greatly, as I can't read her body language to tell if that is
good or bad for me!
As that first box of food is finished off, I just have to ask her. It's
killing me! "What!" I shout at her, "what is it?"
"This basically says to me and I agree with Al...ahh Bellows. You are
having issues with being hurt so much, so now you are overreacting too
much?"
"What does that mean?" I squint to her.
"That armor you're wearing, you checking locks and sometimes more than
once. Resetting a chair, so your back is against the wall?" she waves
her hand all around us "Even out here, I am sure that you're feeling out
to the winds or the plants? To see, who maybe around us now?"
"So? I do that, what is the issue with it?"
"You did not do it last week?" she states to me and the worry shows in
her voice to me now.
I look back over the week in my head. She is right, I did not do that
last week? I used to in the far past, as everything was out to kill me?
But not now!
"What gets me, is why you're acting this way? I know you got messed up a
bit this month?" she questions herself "the change, dealing with Aung
suddenly. My attack, and I hope you are past that?" she grins at me.
"Yes love...we are far past that!"
"So that leaves, Boston and the maybe of who did that?" When she says
that, I look away suddenly and she catches that move of mine.
"Then Truck and his group? I know that shook you up badly, but you can
kill them all at anytime! You let them beat you...love!" she almost
cries for my pain "To show that blasted Carson you can control
yourself!"
"I am trying, I did let them go too far? That TK guy got me off guard
with that attack of his?"
"Okay, one day he will get his!" she shakes a fist at nothing and
crumples that paper a little more, "But then add, this last sword deal,
then maybe Aunghadhail and that issue with Caitlin you both will not
talk about?"
I nod as best I can to her, on that issue of Caitlin and Artificers.
"So there is nothing else? All of that is bad, but nothing else to add?"
I look away from her new stare, or I might lie to her with my very eyes!
"DARN IT! there it is, there is something else! Tell me!" she demands
from me, just after she spots my glancing away from her.
"No," I say at the woods beyond us, that I now stare at.
"Please tell me?" she pleads to me now and grabs onto one of my hands.
"No, last time I did. You got lost in yourself and hurt me. That might
not happen this time, you hurting me? But you getting lost, that might
still happen?"
"I will not get lost?" she gives me a very questioning look to the
strangeness of my answer, "Whatever that really means?"
"LOST! As in, do something stupid and get sent away from here or worse!"
"Me?" she questions my logic.
"Yes you!"
"Tell me what this is? Or I can not fix it, or avoid it?"
"I have someone working on it, for us both?"
"Ohhhh you do! That can be only one person...or THING!" she shouts out,
now mad as she can get and the shadows grow in size around her in her
anger.
Suddenly, with her great speed. Sara grabs on my arm, 'actually' she
latches on to me! Then drags me off at great speed to Poe and her
basement room. She blows us both into her already open door and then
slams it closed.
Next, She shouts out at the pentagram on the floor, "DADDY! Get here
right now! I demand answers for this...thing you did! Or are hiding from
me!"
While she stands there waiting and she is very angry at the world. She
places me on her bed and grabs a soda for me, "Here Rohanna...love, have
this for now? I have a father to hurt a little!"
As usual, a dark circle of shadows forms on one wall and a tall man
wearing an faultless white suit walks out of it. "Good day Rohanna? I
hope your classes are doing well?" He greets me, when he exits.
"They are Gothmog...sir? I am finding out so much now and showing some
of the other kids what I know of archery?"
"Good to hear that! Did you need anything?" he grins at me.
"Not that I know of?"
"Good please call on me, if I can help out with anything?"
Sara's tapping foot, now gets his attention "Well my pumpkin? What is
this call for, if not for Rohanna and her well being?"
"IT IS DADDY! You hid things from me! What are they?"
"What are you talking about, Sara...dear?" he grins to her.
"Something happened this month and that is affecting Rohanna's balance
in life. Doc Bellows is calling it Hypervigilance syndrome," she tells
him rather flatly, with very little in the way of respect to him.
"I see? Well we can not have that. I am dealing with that issue and now!
I will speed up my dealing with that and put much more effort into it's
resolution!"
"Tell me daddy!" she demands again.
"No, I promised not too involve you in this."
Sara glares at me sipping on my soda, while sitting on the bed, "You
asked him to leave me out of what Rohanna?"
"This, last time I got hurt. This time, I want it handled differently?"
"We are both past that...place? Please tell me or let daddy tell me?"
I shake my head, just a little to them both.
"DARN it! Please?"
"See what I mean, you get lost in it?"
Her dad laughs at her, as he watches us both talk "The Drow is right,
this one is a smart one! She does know our kind very well indeed! The
younger ones of our race, like you my dear? They do get fixated and get
as she says 'lost' to the subject in their anger."
"DAD! You are not helping me here! Rohanna needs help, or this will get
worse?" Sara snarls at her father now.
"I am helping her and will now double or better my current efforts to do
so?"
"See, all is well...my love?"
"No it's not, how can I help out if I do not know what is wrong. If this
'unknown' passes right before me now, I will miss it and you will get
hurt for it?" she pleads with me.
Gothmog winks at me "She is correct on that logic? But it is still your
choice, to do as you wish on this?"
After several minutes thinking and my frustration growing with every one
of those seconds. I give into the logic of her's "Okay, tell her
everything Gothmog. Sara is right on that logic...simple black and
white. Her not knowing can get us both hurt?"
Gothmog, he nods his understanding of my wishes to me and runs down the
whole incident in his strange language to Sara in mere seconds. When he
is finished, she looks at me and is very upset at it all.
"So Reverend Englund is at it again?" she questions both of us.
"I don't think so? I questioned him days ago and he seemed to know
nothing of this attacks on us both?"
"You did?" Both of them say almost in unison to me.
"Yes, he seemed to believe me, a little bit?"
"I have to wonder why he would do that now?"
"Maybe he understands, that I" my head tilts in the old thoughts of back
then, "a hunter of the GOO. If I don't see you...Sara, as a threat? Then
you are not one?"
"So all of this, so far is this new Roberts guy?" Sara asks us both.
"That is what the last assassins in Boston told me?" Gothmog tells his
child.
"Yes, that leader of that small group of three and the sniper, they both
ousted him," I add my knowledge to the subject.
"But daddy? You said you talked to only two?" then she turns to glare
me, still sitting on her bed "What or who is the third one Rohanna?" she
now asks me.
"There were three of them, in that team of snipers. One shooter, a
leader and some get-away driver" I sigh a little to her, as I look down
to the floor in apprehension, "I killed the last one, by snapping his
neck."
"YOU WHAT?" she asks in shock of my act.
"I killed him and it felt rather good to me at the time. Crushing that
life from some," I nearly spit the next word out to her in my anger
"HUMAN! That was trying to kill us both, for only the want of money!"
"Damn it! Why did you do that, was it that damned Drow part of you
again?"
"Yes and don't disrespect a whole part of me! That 'Drow' is me, a very
large part of what I am now!" I shout back at Sara.
Sara lowers her voice, to just above a whisper to me "I am sorry, I
forget sometimes what it might be like to have two halves and having
both parts fighting in your head like that?"
Gothmog, cuts the sudden silence of the room with his next bit of
information "Just so you both know this? When I found a hidden meeting
place of this cabal? One that they had just left hours before and burned
down after their leaving. My personal, they found. No felt, the presence
of Mythos in the room and it was a very slight one?"
"That would make the sword that got SHOVED through Rohanna make more
sense?" Sara tells him, then looks at me for answers.
"Yes, that would make sense to me? That blade was rare in ancient times,
I only ever saw two of them in all my time? We all thought, at the time.
The blades were made by Mythos magic and used by their assassins on my
kind."
"Well that changes things, now doesn't it!" Sara quips in now.
"Yes it does," Gothmog tones out slowly to me, "But which one of my
kind, would have allied themselves with a human priest, that chases one
of us?"
"I am sure the human knows nothing of what he is dealing with, or is
being controlled by that GOO your team felt?" I suggest.
"But who of us, would come after me?" Sara asks her father.
"Not you, they want me and killing you is a way to that goal. Then add,
I am sure this being, wants you out of the way and add to that....your
dad?"
"Who would want that!" She shakes her head at the idea and paces the
room in thought, "None of my family want me that dead! My uncle, maybe?"
"There is only one, that gains from all three of us dying and that now
includes Nikki too!"
"Who is that?" Sara questions me, but I can tell her dad...he knows who
I am talking about.
"The Bastard, the one who is solely responsible for my life being
ruined!"
"How can you be so sure of that?"
"Rohanna is correct, my daughter. That is the only one, who can even
hold these cards in the game being played now?"
"This is his first move, or one of the first moves?"
"I am sure also," Gothmog adds to my theory.
"Well, how about the both of you figure this out? As I have no idea what
is out beyond the campus grounds and I have no real contacts out there
to use."
After I finish that short statement, I start walking to the door to
leave both of them.
"Where are you going Rohanna?" Sara asks me , just as she notices me at
the