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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 19, 2010 21:34:18 GMT -5
"Thanks." Rebekah groaned once she had stopped, wincing at the increasing pain in her chest cavity. "No. No help. It's fine. Really." she replied quickly, shaking her head. "Healing would make it go faster." she shook her head. "I’ve been like this for a year now. That's another year I haven't turned into a monster. Coughing and hemorrhaging aside, I'd like to stay that way." she explained.
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 21, 2010 22:03:07 GMT -5
"perpetually coughing up a lung and denying what is often called 'impending doom'? you'll be in pain the entire way through. our way, we do it when you're sleeping. the transition is smooth, and we're able to keep you in control of your human mind and your magic." Rayne said, water flittering around her as she spoke. "and you won't have to fight it anymore. a Kelpie, correct? what's so bad about being a Kelpie?" "water?" Ember said, frowning slightly as her fire flickered. "sorry. automatic reaction. the healing only gives you most of it. the rest is instinct controlled. and i think about water, i think it's bad. which, for me, it is."
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 21, 2010 22:11:46 GMT -5
"I lived in Israel for the first few years of my life. If that doesn't make you immune to pain. Heh." Rebekah coughed a little, more blood droplets staining her lips. She shrugged. "I find that difficult to believe." she stated simply, rememberingfriends who had try tocontrol themselves with magic and failed miserably. "And what's so bad? Off the top of my head, it being that there is a monster in me yearning to destroy and drown everyone around me, being one. Another being the fasct that I need constant water."
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 21, 2010 22:26:44 GMT -5
"that's why we teach control from the moment you wake up. the magic isn't a stone wall; you learn control, and as the magic shield fades slowly, you have enough time to learn control and ease into it." Breeze said, frowning as she saw the blood. "and there's an underground river." Rayne said cheerfully. Ember groaned, remembering the water.
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 21, 2010 22:30:41 GMT -5
"Lovely." Rebekah commented dryly. Control was not something she was sure she wanted. She did not like this magic. She did not want it. In fact, she had been happier as a plain, ordinary human. Back when her biggest issue was going to college. Well, it looked like that was off the table now. "So how does that get done?" she asked absent-mindedly. Her words were not ones of concern, but rather of something to fill up the space.
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 21, 2010 22:36:34 GMT -5
Ember read the thoughts going through her head and answered. "there's no escaping the magic, Becky." she said. "we get some mind twisters to go in with some time speeders and speed up the process without aging you. then the mind twisters put up 12 shields. one dissolves every month. so you have an entire year to learn control. it usually takes 6 months to learn and master it, though." Rayne said, stepping up to the rock. "the question is, do you want to do this? only the stable and complete can enter."
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 21, 2010 22:44:19 GMT -5
"I've lived with this magic for three years now. I'm painfully aware." she stated. It was odd that her transformation should last so long without any visible results. By that point, she should have been a complete kelpie. "Stable and complete?" Rebekah repeated, a wry grin playing on her lips. You know, it's either this, or you get someone to kill you when you finally lose control she reminded herself. "Fine." she consented. Become the willing monster she thought to herself, feeling something akin to dread, but continuing anyway.
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 21, 2010 22:49:41 GMT -5
"we're not monsters. we're just forced into change." Breeze murmured, walking over to the tree a few good feet away from the rock. she pressed in a piece of bark and slipped in, the wall giving way to illusion. Rayne entered after her. Ember looked at her. "we're not monsters. when you've completed your change and gained control, you'll realize that. monsters are the ones who want to be monsters. the ones without hope." and she slipped into the tree.
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 21, 2010 22:59:03 GMT -5
"Never said you were." Rebekah stated simply. "Don't know you enough to make that call. Doesn't seem like it anyhow. But I've known me enough to call what's inside me a monster." she replied evenly.
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 21, 2010 23:15:27 GMT -5
"magic thoughts." Rayne murmured. her hand poked out of the tree, dragging Becky into the darkness. the wall closed itself, and then there was a flash.
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 22, 2010 15:29:44 GMT -5
Rebekah flinched, wincing at the flash and recoiling from the light a bit. Her nerves were on edge and this was not helping. If anything, it only awakened the conflicting urges of the creature she was growing to be. A mixture of anger and fear.
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 22, 2010 23:02:29 GMT -5
as the light dissapeared, they were in an underground war room. "river is in the next room. i have to go check us in." Breeze said, floating off. "it's rather clean. would you like to join me as we wait for your appointment to be set?" Rayne asked, extending her hand. "i think i'll go find somewhere else to be." Ember said, frowning at the thought of water.
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 23, 2010 15:17:46 GMT -5
Rebekah resisted the urge. If there was water, she knew that her ability to control herself would lessen. So, despite her yearnings to, she shook her head. "I'll stay with Ember." she replied, looking at the faerie with a quick, pleading glance.
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Post by illyxmusicxloverx on Dec 24, 2010 16:41:43 GMT -5
Rayne and Ember both noticed the glance. "sure. come on. there's this awesome room where it has this awesome bonfire in the middle." Ember said, taking her hand and floating over to the room.
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Post by Cheyenne on Dec 24, 2010 16:45:16 GMT -5
"Thanks." Rebekah murmured to Ember. She was grateful for both her words and her hand. She could barely walk as it was and such allowed her a bit of balance. She smiled softly to herself, feeling the creature inside recoil from the thought of a bonfire. "That's sounds...awesome." she repeated her friend's term for it with a chuckle.
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