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Post by Ryhe on Jul 27, 2006 12:40:44 GMT -5
Ryhe looked up at him. The old elf sighed and took off his glasses, "It's no use, laddie. I needed these even befer our little shindig. But, if it'll make you happy, knock yerself out."
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Post by Kilian on Jul 27, 2006 12:50:28 GMT -5
Somnus snorted. "He'd kill himself if he thought it'd do any good. But Sol is a very good healer." He looked at Ryhe with a small, awed smile. "I've been very near dead twice and twice my brother very nearly gotten himself killed saving me. And then there's the fighting a legion of soldiers just to get to me. If you asked him, seriously, to move the earth, he'd try."
Sol got up and stumbled over to Ryhe. He rubbed his own eyes before setting his fingertips near the corner of Ryhe's eyes. His face took on a look of deep concentration and a soft light gathered around his hands.
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Post by Ryhe on Jul 27, 2006 12:53:37 GMT -5
Ryhe saw how wobbly he was, then he gently took his wrist and moved his hand away, "On second thought, don't. Not until you've had some days to rest and gotten some food in ya. You both need it." He gently placed Sol's hand down.
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Post by Kilian on Jul 27, 2006 12:58:27 GMT -5
"I'm rested." Sol insisted. "I heal when I heal others too. I promise. I'll be fine."
Somnus smirked. Too bad who couldn't teach his brother some more disreputable things. He'd be really good at them, better than he was. Somnus was too easy to read. He had a habit of letting his emotions show.
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Post by Ryhe on Jul 27, 2006 13:02:34 GMT -5
Ryhe chuckled, "I donna believe ya." The older elf crossed his muscular arms and smiled. "I'll let ya in two days, if I see ya rest and eat well enough."
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Post by Kilian on Jul 27, 2006 13:11:59 GMT -5
Sol scowled blackly at Ryhe and sat beside him. Somnus gave him some meat, a piece of bread, and fresh apple. His brother ate absently and stared at the fire. Sol paused in his eating and held a hand out to the fire. A whisp of it came to his hand and began to creep over his clothes and skin. Somnus shivered.
"That's creepy. I don't know how you do that."
"What's the difference between fire and the sun?" Sol asked and smiled as he watched the fire move.
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Post by Ryhe on Jul 27, 2006 13:17:30 GMT -5
Ryhe flinched away, "The fact that's it's a few million miles away and unable to burn us." Ryhe inched away once and yawned. He looked around. His hand wandered to his own bag, that the bandit kept at his side this whole time, and he fingered his fiddle, thinking as he started at the sky.
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Post by Kilian on Jul 27, 2006 13:35:12 GMT -5
Sol smiled. "Possibly. The sun is my element, like night is Somnus' element."
"Yeah, I'm the lucky one... I think." Somnus grinned and then looked surprised. "Hey, we never showed him transmutation."
"Hasn't he had enough excitement since he met us?"
Somnus pouted. "Please?"
"Ask him, not me."
Somnus turned to Ryhe and pouted at him. "Please?"
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Post by Ryhe on Jul 27, 2006 13:41:46 GMT -5
Ryhe blinked and looked between them, "What? Oh... um, transmutation?.... It sounds dangerous... Will it hurt ya?" He leaned forward and looked at Sol, then Somus.
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Post by Kilian on Jul 27, 2006 14:13:21 GMT -5
Sol and Somnus shared a devilish grin. "Only if we try it on someone."
Somnus picked up a rock and held it between his hands for a moment. When he opened his hands he held an emerald. He closed his hands again and made a key and then turned it into a piece of gold. He held it out to Ryhe.
"See, no harm." He said with a smirk. "Wanna hold it. It won't change unless I want it to."
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Post by Ryhe on Jul 27, 2006 14:15:39 GMT -5
"Good lord..." Ryhe put on his spectacles and held them a bit as he gently picked up the gold and examined it. "Solid gold, my word." He chuckled and placed it back in his hand, "You boys are really sumthin'."
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Post by Kilian on Jul 27, 2006 14:39:16 GMT -5
Sol and Somnus burst out laughing. "Dunno if it's worth anything, but you can keep it if you want. Tranmuting isn't hard to do, now that we're used to it."
Somnus set the gold down and watched the fire creep over his brother. He shivered again and began to eat a piece of meat.
"Fight?" Sol asked, glancing at his brother.
"You sure? You worked a healing earlier."
Sol grinned mischievously and eyed his brother. "Positive."
"Okay then..."
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Post by Ryhe on Jul 27, 2006 14:44:05 GMT -5
Ryhe rolled his eyes, "C'mon you two, you need to rest! I know that you may be different from normal people, but I refuse to let you two do ana'thin else until yer both doing fleven-swanchi backflips, alright?" He set his hands on his muscular hips and looked between them.
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Post by Kilian on Jul 27, 2006 14:54:37 GMT -5
The brothers shared a looked and then shrugged. They looked back at Ryhe with impish grins.
"Okay, your choice, but we aren't going to hurt each other."
Sol gulped the rest of his food down and stood up. He shifted to his dragon form and nudged his brother with his nose. Somnus laughed and pushed his brother away. He stood up and shifted too. Sol swiped playfully at Somnus.
~ You watch... this is fun. ~ Somnus told Ryhe and began to tumble with his brother.
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Post by Ryhe on Jul 27, 2006 14:59:44 GMT -5
Ryhe put a hand up and made a noise like he was going to say something. But, he huffed, he cannot stop them without going berserk and hurting them again. He sat and crossed his arms, "Fine, but be careful."
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Post by Kilian on Jul 27, 2006 15:08:56 GMT -5
~ We always are. ~ Sol replied and shifted into another form.
Somnus followed him into the new form and they continued play fighting. They growled and shoved and snapped and snarled, but neither of them tried to hurt the other. They shifted several more times before Somnus was pinned under his brother. He made a sound like a cross between a chirrup and a whimper. Sol let him up and they shifted back to their human forms.
"That wasn't so bad," Sol said as he and Somnus sat beside Ryhe again. "See, we didn't kill each other."
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Post by Ryhe on Jul 27, 2006 15:13:29 GMT -5
Ryhe sighed, " Yet." He chuckled and bit and leaned back. The old elf looked at the boys, they were odd, yes. Strange, mebbe. But they were good boys from his eye. He couldn't understand why they were treated like him, like an outcast. He was a mass murderer back home, so, he understood why he was treated so. He sighed, "Were you two born with such powers?"
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Post by Kilian on Jul 27, 2006 15:27:45 GMT -5
"Yep! Dad was a dragon and mom was an elf." Sol looked at him with a smile. "A unique mix, no?"
"It took us years to learn them all and control them right. Up until a few years ago we still didn't have very good control. Sol was better than I was, but I never practiced." Somnus told Ryhe and began eating again.
"Yeah, I mastered most of my talents when I was seventeen. It took Somnus... a little longer."
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Post by Ryhe on Jul 27, 2006 15:34:47 GMT -5
Ryhe's eye twitched and he looked away. A dragon and an elf...Tass.... His mind wandered to nearly four-hundred years ago to a wife he had. She herself was a half-dragon. Her own dragon father mated with an elf. He remembered why he was no longer with her. She was one for the dragons that attacked him and ruined his right eye. Then when he finally forgave her and they married, she was killed. On their wedding night, when they were trying for a child, they were attacked and her own father was forced to kill her in order to stop her from bearing his child. They almost killed him, but, he had his hemo-berserk to thank for being here. Because of that beast, he still lived.
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Post by Kilian on Jul 27, 2006 15:40:19 GMT -5
The brothers shared a look and then turned back to Ryhe.
"We didn't say something wrong, did we?" Sol asked him pensively. "I'm sorry."
Somnus nodded to him. "I apologize as well."
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Post by Ryhe on Jul 27, 2006 15:44:09 GMT -5
Ryhe looked up, then smiled weakly, "You did nothing wrong. I was just thinkin'." Ryhe's smile faded as he stared at the embers of the fire. His eyes flickered back and forth, watching the dance of the flame as his mind wandered again.
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Post by Kilian on Jul 27, 2006 16:06:19 GMT -5
Sol popped Somnus' arm jerked his head off towards the forest. Somnus rubbed his arm as he got up to follow him. They stopped behind a tree, but still within view of the fire.
"What'd you hit me for!?" Somnus asked in a hoarse whisper.
"Well, you were apparently not going to move."
"I'm still hungry!"
"Go hunt."
"But-"
"HUNT!"
Somnus glared and then growled as he disappeared into the shadows and semi-darkness. Sol took the form of a mountain lion and walked back to the rock. He stretched out on the ground and watched Ryhe quietly with a molten gold gaze.
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Post by Ryhe on Jul 27, 2006 16:10:10 GMT -5
Ryhe finally broke lose of his thoughts and he sighed, taking off his glasses, rubbing his eyes. After rubbing for a minute, he let his hand slide down his face and he rested his bearded chin onto his palm as he rested his elbow on his knee. He looked at Sol, then back into the forest. As he gave the campsite a quick glance around, he asked, "Where's the other?"
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Post by Kilian on Jul 27, 2006 16:17:00 GMT -5
Sol got up and paced over to Ryhe and sat beside him. ~ He was still hungry, so he went hunting. He will return as soon as he is finished. Are you sure we didn't say something upsetting? I feel as if we have. ~
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Post by Ryhe on Jul 27, 2006 16:20:18 GMT -5
Ryhe smiled and looked back into the fire, "Positive. Why do you ask?" He looked back. He wondered about the boy, if he loved some girl like the way loves his wife. His thumb twisted his wedding ring on his finger, making the indention deeper.
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