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Rite4fun: I am glad that you get excited when you read my story and that you love it that much that you can't put it into words. Now if I went with my original plain I wouldn't have put that part in but I decided to since it will be a long time until a whole chapter of fluff.

Now about Kori and Richards's relationship. My intention was never to show how "unique" but to show how "human", they are. I really wanted to show that if you stripped away Kori's situation with treasure hunt and her past (you guys must hate me for saying that over and over again) that she is just a woman who is afraid to love because she knows if she does, she won't be able to fall back out. And for Richard I just wanted to show him just wanting to have Kori's love.

I am going to quit babbling and so onto the story.

Liars Should Never Prosper

Kori fell onto the soft sheets. Over the year and a half, roughly close to two now, she had grown accustomed to sleeping alone in the giant bed. It wasn't exactly pleasant feeling to know but at least she was feeling something. And in her opinion that was better than feeling nothing at all.

Right now she was staring blankfully at the ceiling as if could give her all the answers to her problems.

And as she stared at the ceiling, she couldn't help but think. Maybe if she did this better, maybe if she didn't do that, maybe if she hadn't reacted like that. She hated those questions. She could always find something wrong but it was so much harder to find something she did right. She often scolded any of her friends for asking those stupid questions, but now she just felt like a hypocrite.

From the doorway, Kori heard a soft chuckle and she strained her neck up to see who the person was. Once she caught a glimpse at the form she let her head fall back down onto the fluffy pillow disappointed. It was only Esmeralda.

Kori didn't know why she was so upset to see the woman but Kori figured it had to do with the fact that she was brutally honest and right now her wounded ego couldn't take it anymore.

Esmeralda ignored the disappointed sigh and spoke anyway.

"So how many times have you sighed? At least fifty I would think." Esmeralda's joke went unappreciated by Kori as she continued to lie on the bed staring at the ceiling with empty spring green gold speckled eyes. To Esmeralda she resembled a lifeless rag doll.

Esmeralda knew that Kori had heard the joke but looking back at the still woman, she was starting to doubt if she was even alive.

With a quick worried glance, Esmeralda walked over the bed, letting a knee dig into the soft mattress. Without any hesitance, she quickly crawled her way onto the bed. Esmeralda stopped by Kori's head and positioned her knees so they were underneath her but. Then she lifted Kori's head and set it on her lap.

Kori didn't reject as Esmeralda started to play with her crimson colored hair and let her features relax at the comforting action.

"Did you tell her?" Esmeralda asked soberly.

"She knows about Gar, her mother, Violet and the chances of her having a child." Kori explained with a sigh, she could still see the shaken expression on Raven's beautiful face.

"Don't you think that is way too much information to tell her at once?" Kori lifted her head up and glared at Esmeralda as if to say 'Do I look like I care?' Esmeralda just laughed and cracked a smile.

"Well at least you can move on now. What's left to teach her?" Esmeralda asked as she continued to rhythmically running her hand through her hair, humming a gentle tune.

"Partial beings and power check ups. I hate students." Kori moaned as past faces flashed before her eyes. "Their annoying, want to learn way to much, and don't know when exactly to shut up and listen.

"You know you were the one who told Raven too much information." Kori again lifted her head up and glared at the gypsy. Esmeralda untangled her fingers from Kori's silky hair and held them up in mock surrender.

"I suggest that you don't become a teacher." Kori lifted her head and glared menacingly at the gypsy, giving her look that said 'really'. The woman could be sarcastic when she wanted to be Esmeralda thought with a chuckle.

"Just think when this is over you can go hide somewhere nice and quiet." The thought must have been a happy one because Kori's eyes closed, her lips pulled into a dreamy smile and sigh that wasn't irritated, disappointed or angry came out of her mouth.

"I hope." Kori whispered breathlessly from her mouth. Hopefully.

Raven's head resembled a battlefield. New thoughts and information had swirled dangerously battling the morals she held in high regards. Her eyelids felt oddly heavy, as if the mental battle was affecting her, as if she was tired and she was glad that her legs went to autopilot. Raven feared if they weren't she would be a crumpled heap of limps on the wooden floor.

However, there were some fears she had on her legs in autopilot mode. First that meant she had a vague idea of where she was going but she hated being in the dark about it. Usually it lead her to where her heart desired and about now she wanted little to do with the emotion feeling organ. She was forever an Azerthian.

Raven watched as her surroundings became nothing but colored blurs and she didn't finally stop until she was already deep into the ship, in front of Gar's door.

She knocked on the door once but when she didn't hear an answer she threw her polite manners out the door and threw the door open in a frantic violence.

The room was the same as always. Clothes were spewed in random directions, covering most of the floor and the items that littered it. Raven quickly glanced at the chest to see how many garments were in the right place.

One, two, three, no that was a piece of tofu, there it was, three. Three articles of clothing where they should have been, it was a new record.

Amused, Raven let her eyes wander the clothes covered ground to find what else she could possibly find in here. In the corner, she found 10 empty mugs stacked on top of each other, sheets rolled up and twisted on the stiff looking beds, a few clothes hanging on the rail.

Raven didn't pay any more attention to the mess because then she called out Gar's name as loudly as she could.

Both Gar and Vic looked down on her with bewildered and Raven used there gaze to find them. They both were sitting on top a closed black with gold decoration, discussing something, while drinking deeply from a glass mug filled with rich bubbly amber liquid.

Setting the glass down carefully on the only free spot of floor, Vic got up from the chest and made his way to Raven. Raven believed for a moment that he would continue to walk past and pay her little attention but he stopped in front of her, patted her reassuringly on the shoulder before disappearing into the dark hallways.

Gar followed in Vic's actions, because Raven watched a he cleared a place for his mug and walked over to her with some difficulty.

Raven's mind had just became uglier, bloodier. Her mind told her to leave, logic told her to tell why she couldn't be with him and her heart was ignored. Raven had been ignoring her heart for years, the heart was the center of emotion and she believed if she ignored it long enough, it would die off and she wouldn't have to worry about emotions.

However, her heard didn't die off, instead if it waited patiently for the moment it could influence her actions or just a tiny bit.

Without a warning, Raven grabbed the front of Gar's shirt, when he is close enough, and she pulled him close to her so they were almost touching nose to nose, her fingertips moving in small circles into the soft fabric.

"Would you lie to me?" Raven asked in a soft voice, her body trembled from fear, her eyes pleaded his, shaking back and forth, and she resembled someone who was slowly losing to insanity.

With no hesitation, Gar wrapped two protective arms around Raven's waist. He knew that he was taking a big risk but it was a chance of a lifetime. Raven had never let herself get this vulnerable; he didn't think it was possible, but she was. She was scared and frightened, she wanted someone to reassure her, and she had come running to him. Not Vic or Richard or Xaphier but him. Gar! The goofy lanky teenager who annoyed her all hours of the day.

It was too tempting for Raven that the possibility of holding back was impossible. Burying her head into the crook of his shoulder, Raven took a big gulp of air, breathing in large amounts of his scent.

He smelled like warm beer and faintly of vegetables and tofu. It was an odd combination but when she took the intoxicating scent in it made her feel safe. Special.

"I never lie to you, Raven." Gar reassuringly whispered into Raven's ear.

Raven visibly relaxed under Gar's touch. To show she appreciated his reassurance she tickled the crook of his neck by brushing her nose across the bare skin.

Gar couldn't have been any happier. Right now thousands of electrical shocks were multiplying, running wildly through his veins that made his brain forget about logic, or lack of, and solely rely on emotions. And those emotions were telling him to peel Raven of his shoulder and kiss her until she was exactly like him. He wanted to see her eyes glazed over, her mouth curled in a smile. He simply wanted to see her breathless.

The guilt kept him from doing it. The guilt of actually knowing he was lying to her, while she stayed in his arm beautifully calm because she thought he was safe. Deception free. And as his fingers ran through her short violet lock he listened as her breaths became even, calm, so enchanting her warm breaths fanning his shoulder. Liars should never prosper.

Raven found herself standing in the middle of the very familiar empty room, all alone and dreading this meeting with every fiber of her body.

Just then Kori opened the door not even a minute later, smiling way to wickedly for Raven's taste, the same book she had brought last encounter, resting safely in her hands.

Kori closed the door gently behind her before throwing the book at Raven, who caught it with ease. Raven was severely curious about ever since Kori showed it to her. Idly Raven opened the books and swiftly scanned for neon pages in the see of brown tinted white.

She was about to turn the next page when she a neon color blotted her vision. Quickly as she could, she tore the page she was going to flip down and stared at the page with wide amazed eyes.

When she looked at the page, she saw it was two pages that were soaked in bright colors, not one. They also bore a resemblance to the two other pages she saw not to long ago. Just to make sure her hunch was right, Raven gazed unwavering at the pages for a lengthy time before she saw what she was looking for. Right in the middle, she could see a thin line of black running down. These were the same pages!

However, Raven decided that figuring out how in hell this book worked was not her first priority so she reset her vision so she was staring straight at the mysteriously colored pages.

Both pages had neat words cramped into long paragraphs that surrounded a picture; however, the picture was much larger and took up more room. On the left, there was the same human shape form that was colored the exact same as the sky. A beautiful silk navy color with a shimmering glitter as the stars.

Unlike the other two, the auras did not surround the darkly shaded human form. Instead, the aura wrapped around itself what Raven assumed to be arms in a molten gold.

The second picture on the right was similar to the other. The human shaped form was the same color of silk navy with shimmering glitter that reminded her of the night sky, expect this time the magenta wrapped snake like around the thin twilight legs.

Raven was sure that the other pages were blank but she didn't want to close the book without checking. However, Raven was wrong and there were two more pages, exactly like the two before it. This time the picture on the left had a glowing satin blue aura snaked around the forehead and the other aura was a glowing crimson red, like a fire, painted on the abdomen.

"A partial being is someone who's emotions which physically formed in one area of the body." Kori began her lecture.

"The most common areas are the arms and limbs, since blood has to regularly flow there. Now the easiest way to defeat a partial being is to cut off the circulation. The other way is to have an all out battle and guessing on your stamina and the fact you're an Aztherian you will win."

"There are always odd balls in any type of race and that doesn't exclude magical beings. There are those who have amazing control over their powers. Some can store their energy in their brains. This is dangerous because the brain controls all the body functions and if anything were to go wrong they could kill off one of their organs or just kill themselves." Kori had this ghost of smirk on her face as she illuminated this information to Raven and Raven had a strange feeling she was remembering a hilarious memory.

"The only way to defeat them is to hit them in the forehead with a powerful surge of energy. If you don't cause the magic to go haywire they can easily heal and attack you." Kori paused as a thoughtful look came over her face. "They are kind of like bugs that never go away no matter how many times you kill them."

"And the last partial being is the toughest to defeat. Very few partial beings have enough control to get to this level and even then it takes years and years of training." Kori's smirk got wider. "In order to keep their powers below the ribs they have to have complete control of their powers. If any powers got out of control they have free access to hit vital organs."

"Now the only scientifically proven method to beating these partial beings is to stab them through the stomach with the biggest surge of powers you can control. The reason for this is if you can catch them off guard, your magic will scatter theirs, scattering thought there body killing them quickly."

Suddenly Kori's smirk turned into an ear-splitting grin and her voice changed. Raven didn't know how to explain it but she really didn't want to dwell on the line any longer.

"But don't think you can even lay a finger on me."

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