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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:27 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:23 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:33 pm
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Andrea watched as Locke left. She wasn't sure what was going on with him, but knew the others may think the same of her. She looked to Jack at the mention of being wounded and shook her head. "I am fine Jack." She didn't want the princess seeing, she hoped he would understand. She soon stood though looking to Aya apologetically. "Aya, forgive me, but I will return shortly, all right?" She watched the girl nod then headed from the room looking about for Locke. She didn't want him beating himself up over something that was possibly nothing.
Aya chuckled as the Silver one left. She looked to Jack after a moment and shrugged her shoulders. "She won't let you help her in front of me. She's very stubborn like that. I told you she never wanted to see me hurt. Not since the first time." She ate a few more bites of fond before going to a sink to clean her dishes. Just because she was a princess, didn't mean she had no manners. "She still likes him. The one name Locke. She thinks I haven't figured it out, but she's torn on the subject. She said she hated my father the King too, but there were times when she would blindly defend him. It always surprised him, and she would play it off that it was for me. But when she would tell her stories, of your group and her childhood, call it intuition, but I did get the sense she loved Locke by how she spoke of him."
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:45 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:58 pm
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Aya looked to the mechanic of the group. The word still seeming strange to her as she thought it. "Give them time. Silver one knew Locke cared for, Demona was her name? I figured since I've not met this other that Silver one wasn't too familiar with, that she's no longer or moved on. I'm sure it's hurt Locke. Silver one has been hurt many times, sadly, mostly by my father. She doesn't want a relationship, at least she doesn't think she does." She gave a light smile taking her seat once more. "I've seen men given permission to peruse her by my father. He would never want to let her go, but sometimes he respected that he may have to to keep her by his side. Many warriors have tried. She made them fight her, and every one of them failed. I think she was looking for something she wasn't going to find in our world. And when she beat them, it was near death. She doesn't like to be touched."
He listened as he ate between everything going on around them. After Aya's last comments he began to worry. "Should be worried then that Aya's comments of Andrea beating men nearly to death for trying to court her? If anything for Locke's safety?" He heard the girl giggle and wondered if that was his answer.
Andrea looked about tracking Locke till she would eventually find him. Looking him over she could guess the problem. The conversation she had heard entering the room made it a little clearer. "Want to talk about it? Something is eating you alive. I know I have know grounds to speak on this, but trust me. If you keep bottling yourself up, you'll end up like me. You're too good for that Locke. You always were the better one."
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:17 pm
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Locke stood on the balcony on the roof. He was overlooking the town, when he heard Andrea appear. He let her talk, but it didn't help any. "I'm not the better one, Andy. I don't know if you remember or not, but I'm not as innocent as you think. From what Aya has told us, you fought, and killed, in defense. I, on the other hand, killed that man in cold blood... the one who abducted you. I'm a murderer... And after Demona was killed by Guarin, I tried to do the most despicable thing an alchemist is capable of... Believe me. I'm no better than the people who trapped you in that hellish place..." Locke went on like this for a few moments, self-loathing and punishing himself...
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:26 pm
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She listened to him shaking her head. "You're human Locke. People, in general, no matter what race do things in emotional stress." She moved to stand next to him looking out at the city, trying not to look at him yet. "You killed in defense. You did what you did when they had me, knowing they would only come back again and again till they would succeed in killing me. I don't know what happened with Demona. I'll let you have that secret. But you weren't the one to fight in a war that wasn't your own, killing anyone and everyone in your way." She sighed turning towards him with a more serious expression. "It will be hard, but it's time to move past the past. Go forward into your future, before you get lost in something that doesn't exist anymore." She moved away from the edge starting to head back. "I'd say it gets easier, but it doesn't. Then again, killing could have made me cold, and bad for giving advice on emotions of others." She called over her shoulder.
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:57 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 5:06 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:30 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:41 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:58 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:19 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:58 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:17 pm
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She glared at the one called Jack feeling the hit on her head. "I am not a girl, nor am I a child. I am the Princess of my father's kingdom. Touch me once more without permission and you will be punished." She didn't agree with the methods of this one. She would cross her arms before trying to calm herself, though her voice was still even toned. "It is father's orders, and personal preference. I wasn't referring to being attached at her hip the entire time I am around. I was referencing the comment about traveling." She looked to them all a moment sure they had no clue about the people of her world.
Drake chuckled watching the interaction between Aya and Jack. It was amusing to him how adult she was for her age, compared to how child like he was for his. "Miss, Aya, he meant no harm in it. In this world children are not, let's say, as strong willed as you are. To us you act like an adult, when it's clear you are still young. And as far as the travel, of course I would ask Andrea to join us since she's seemed to make it clear you're her ward."
Andrea looked to him as he spoke, though only shook her head. "That battle didn't help." She was silent unsure what to say. The healers in the other world usually had to hold her down, though Locke was a friend and didn't want to hurt him, intentionally anyways. She removed her shirt, still covered enough by undergarments, allowing him to see the bruising that seemed worse then before since it had started setting in. "I need to be mobile in case the Nethariens come back for Aya. Damn Grignack broke my armor."
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