May 16, 2008 13:44
After the couple glasses of water Leon managed to gulp down during breakfast, the mage felt immensely better. He was still a bit tired, but that was nothing a little lounging on one of the sofas wouldn't cure. Stretching his arms above his head, he couldn't help but wish he'd had the chance to grab one of his new doctor's coats before leaving his
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She recognized him, of course. She wondered idly if Terreille held any Blood who wouldn't. Briefly, something tugged at the back of her mind, faint familiarity that was just barely more than tales and warnings could account for.
Lia swallowed with a dry click that seemed terribly loud to her own ears, forcing her expression neutral and her shoulders square. "Prince," she replied, the greeting both cautious and carrying the ingrained courtesy that had tripped her up so very often on the road.
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"You've just awoken here?" Again, it was a question and it was not. He'd not sensed her presence earlier, but then again, something about the daylight hours here occasionally muddled his senses, as it did their abilities.
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She hoped so, anyway. It was tied together with the good of her companions, in her mind. If she had been captured, but hadn't been there long, there was a possibility they had escaped. Illogical as the train of thought was, it was something to hold to.
"I admit, I didn't expect to wake up in Hayll." It was less than even a guess on her part. It was a stab in the dark, with its only real virtue being that Hayll was a long, long way from where she might have expected to awaken.
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He left it at that, for the moment. No need to overwhelm her and terrify her from the get-go.
"You recognized me," he added after a moment's hesitation. "And I apologize for not recalling your name, though you are familiar to me. Have we met before, Lady?"
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She bit her lip and shook her head slightly at the question. "No. I don't think we've ever met." There was hesitation in her reply, however, and uncertainty in the faint furrowing of her brow. Unless...
It could be an elaborate trap, but why now, when she was already caught?
"Have you ever heard of the Invisible Ring, Prince?"
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"You're the Gray Lady!"
He should have known that! Could remember clearly now, although it had been generations since she'd lived and died. Her impact, however, had long been a thorn in Dorothea's side, and he'd remembered her and her court fondly.
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It was true from her perspective, certainly. She'd not yet taken up the title, not become the Queen of Dena Nehele. May not ever, she remembered, and pressed her eyes shut against a surge of pain.
"Well. I was."
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"What do you mean, Lady... Lia? That is what Lord Jared calls you, is it not?" A careful bit of wording, a curious probe, uncertain as to what the last thing the Lady Ardelia remembered was, precisely.
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"I mean that Dena Nehele can only stand as long as the Gray protects it, Prince." Her eyes shadow as she looks down. Despite what he had said earlier, the fear that she had shattered her Jewels in that last desperate attempt to protect Ranon's Wood lingered.
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"What is it that worries you, Lady? Or shall I attempt to explain more about this place to put you at ease? Although there's little enough about this place that may do that, I'm afraid."
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Her fingers twisted together, and she clasped her hands tightly to keep them still. "My worries are very selfish, I'm afraid. And most of them won't be allayed until we're gone from here." It was true enough. Even if she heard that the others had all made it safe to Dena Nehele, she knew she'd not be entirely able to believe it until she could see them with her own two eyes.
"Please, I'd like to hear what you can tell me of this place."
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"It sounds..." Lia trailed off, eyes narrowing in thought. Something had snagged in the lapsing filter of her mind, hard enough to pull her thoughts from another cycle of confusion. "What if this place is the delusion? Some very intricate sort of illusion web?"
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