"Duncan!" Roslyn whispered loudly with surprise
"Yes, come on we can get out off here"
"But you… you've been missing for years we thought you where dead"
"I'll tell you everything later lass, just move a little faster he'll come back to check on you soon" He hurried her along.
Changing into mist form she pulled the bed back into place then sifted herself though the small vent into the walk space in along the wall.
"This way" She floated still waiting
"Um Duncan… which way I cant see you"
"Sorry… um put out your hand"
"Have no hand I'm mist"
"Just like your mother… You'll be right in normal form for now"
Roslyn chanced back instantly she felt his hand grab hers
"This way" He directed her to the left though the narrow passage.
Merrick had fully calm down walking back to Roslyn's new room, yet he knew he still had to be cautious of her powers. His firmly clenched fist pounded on her door
"Roslyn" He called her name as a warning that he was entering. A metal key combined with a cloudy crystal turned the lock making the door open with a loud click. Pushing the door open he expected her to be sitting on the bed or in front of the fire glaring at him, his own arrogance made him believe there was no possible way to escape the room making his eyes widen in shock when he didn't see her.
"Roslyn?" He called closing the door behind him marching into the centre of the room. Not looking around he could tell she was close and came to the conclusion she was only hiding
"This is childish come out immediately" He walked over to the fire place, bent down and looked up the chimney. Frowning slowly his nostrils flared easily telling she had been there not long to ago
"Roslyn…" He followed her scent track to the middle of the floor then over to under the bed. Getting down on his hands and knees he peered under the bed with his bright yellow eyes to see nothing there.
"That's impossible!" he yelled getting shitty, he designed this room himself to keep her in.
Roslyn heard Merrick's words echoing down the narrow walls chasing them, as they moves at a quick pace it seemed the walls where getting more narrow with every step as desperation to escape was heavy on their minds.
"Watch your head we have to crawl through a small dark crawling space before we reach the outer wall"
It was not so dark Roslyn could see Duncan by the echo off the wall like her mother had taught her.
"I can see you" She whispered following him, she expected to see him naked but he was fully clothed and had a beard
"I thought you had to be naked to full come invisible" She whispered crawling though the small space
"I can will things invisible if I touch them, keep moving"
"Nice beard" She sniggered almost at the other end.
"I'd shave if I could see my face" He chuckled seeing the funny side of it. They came out into a small area in front of a large metal grate, though the middle of the small area was a curved in gutter where the water flowed along.
"These gaps all come from the roof so the water can drain down and out the grate"
Roslyn could see a small make shift bed in the corner
"You've been living here?"
"Yes, I've been watching Merrick and what's he's up too"
"But Erika and Lilly needed you"
"I would have left years ago, if I could!"
"Where stuck in here?"
"No, with your ability of getting though bars and such we can finally break free! I couldn't believe it when I heard you screaming at Merrick"
"So what's the plan from here on in?" Roslyn was more desperate to get back to her mother as quick as possible in case she was still alive.
"Up there, I climbed it about a year ago but there is another metal grate at the top but it has a lock on it, even with hybrid power I can't break it free but there is a key near the edge of the roof that someone has dropped I think it is the right one"
"That was a year ago, it might not be there"
"Well they are busy constructing the rest of the castle and add on there is no point going to the tarot"
"Okay let's get going" She leapt up into the narrow steeply angled tunnel, she could hear Duncan scrambling up behind her.
With her haste and scratching claws scraping up along the tunnel as it became even steeper she finally reached the grate.
"Can you see it?"
"Um…" Roslyn pushed her face against the bars looking onto the large stone roof, a small piece of slightly rusted metal caught her eye
"Yes! Yes its still there!" She changed into her mist and progressed though the bars.
"Careful" Duncan whispered eager to finally taste freedom.
Roslyn hovered slowly since the roof was slightly wet
"Bloody key" she grumbled since it was right near the edge. She had slightly overcome her fear of heights but that was because her mother was there to catch her if she fell now she had to do it on her own. Duncan pressed his face against the bars and watched the small key eagerly, just waiting for the moment for it to hover over to him only to see it slip over the edge along with Roslyn's cursing
"Fuck!"
"No!" Duncan yelped
"Wait" Roslyn slowly and nervously crept to the edge, it had fallen onto the brick edge below
"Its okay I can still get it… I think" She spoke quickly and nervously reaching out over the edge for the key.
Duncan watched eagerly waiting he couldn't see anything happening
"Roslyn?" There was no reply
"Roslyn?" He almost lost his grip and fell when she suddenly appeared in from of him holding the key
"Roslyn!" Merrick's voice boomed from below, Duncan jumped with fright this time loosing his grip of the bars and falling, Roslyn instantly used her instinct reached though and grabbed his arm by chance. She saw Merrick right though Duncan, his yellow eyes blazing
"Oh shit! How the hell did you get in here?" Duncan grabbed hold of the bar pulling himself up
"Unlock it quick, quick!" Duncan continuously glanced down at Merrick crawling up the tunnel.
"So this is where you have been hiding Duncan!"
"Hurry up come on Roslyn!" Duncan panicked he could almost feel Merrick at his heels
"I'm trying but it wont turn its stuck!... or the wrong key" She jiggled the key around trying to get it open.
"No it has to be! Keep trying!" Duncan kicked about barely holding on
"Come on you bastard" She tried turning it again, she could see Merrick was closer then ever almost in arms reach of Duncan
"Roslyn don't make it worse for yourself you belong here" Merrick growled
"Oh fuck up I'm sick of your babbling shit you don't make any sense" She growled getting angry still trying to turn the lock.
"Roslyn!" Duncan called feeling Merrick grab his ankle
"He's got me!" Roslyn sat back panicking
"Shit" She quickly looked around then crawled over to the edge
"Roslyn where are you going!" Duncan called thinking she was leaving.
She turned aground with a chip of brick that she broke off the edge
"Move your head" She pushed the brick though aligning it with Merrick's head. Merrick looked up just as she let go
"Ros… argh" he didn't quite dodge it in time clipping the side of his head but not enough to let got of Duncan.
"Let him go!" She hissed trying the lock again.
"That wasn't a smart move Roslyn!"
Duncan then took him by surprise by kicking him in the nose this time making him lose his grip
"Got it!" Roslyn chirped after pulling a chunk of dirt out of the lock then unlocking it.
"Yes!" They pushed the grate open, Duncan leapt onto the roof swirled around and slammed the grate shut placing the lock back on just as Merrick reached the top.
"Roslyn…" he growled then suddenly spoke calm and gently
"Roslyn, I could give you a good life and help you unlock your true self. I would treat you like my daughter if given the chance, just hand me that key"
"Like a daughter? You will never replace my father you scum ball! And you killed my mother! I fucken hate you!" She threw the key off the tarot in anger.
"That was not a wise move, you have no where to go"
"Really" She opened up her wings
"Mum taught me how to fly. Asshole"
"Right!" He growled weaving his arm though the bars grabbing hold of the lock twisting and pulling at is
"Fuck he's breaking it!" Duncan stepped back
"Let's go"
"You can fly?"
"Yes, like I said mum taught me… I just haven't carried anyone… or flown by myself yet"
"Oh… you're afraid of heights right?" they quickly spoke as the metal began to twist.
"I have to over come it, grab onto my back" Duncan grabbed onto her shoulders as if she was going to piggy back him.
"Okay… breathe" She whispered opening up her wings to full span. She moved to the edge then hesitated
"Don't look down, look at the horizon" he tired to help her.
"I know"
He could hear her heartbeat racing, her fear was strong. The metal lock gave way to Merrick's awesome strength making part of the lock ping.
"Roslyn, I know you can do it but you have to do it now!" Duncan yelped looking back at Merrick who leapt clean out of the hole then ran at them. Roslyn looked back with a yelp of fear Merrick was right behind them she fell forward in shock of him being so close and fell right off the edge.
"No!" Merrick growled jumping for her he barely grabbed her foot but couldn't get a grip falling off the side off the tarot. Roslyn and Duncan screamed as they fell yet slowly began to glide outward flying over the Voradors watching below then back up in a clean swoop back into the air, Merrick meanwhile landed with a crash going though the roof of a small shed below.
"I'm doing it!" She managed to fly past the castle boundary
"Yes!... no Roslyn the ground!"
"Argh!" Roslyn never had much luck with landing, and landed like an airplane into the long meadow grass tumbling along the ground down a bank and into some trees.
"Ouch" they both groaned getting to their feet.
"Hey… I can see you!"
Duncan looked down at his hands that he could finally see for the first time in years
"It must have been those crystals… I'm finally free! Freedom!" He leapt about. He looked tatty, his hair was long and his clothes torn his beard was a mess she barely recognized him. He stopped noticing her staring
"Sorry a William Wallace moment" he chuckled so happy to be some what normal again
"We'll you saved my ass… you look so different"
"I probably look like a bum… anyway you helped me out saving my ass too! I can't believe we made it" he leapt forward and gave her a hug. She could smell he probably hadn't had a decent shower in months, years even.
"Duncan… we better get going!" She heard footsteps running across the clearing.
"Right lets go" They headed on foot Roslyn leading the way back to where the fight had taken place.
Lucian sat next to Selene watching her suffer even more when Dorian began clearing away the snow even more from the tomb stone
"Dorian what are you doing! Have some respect"
"Well did Saxon live with anyone?" Dorian asked looking up at him, Lucian frowned
"And there was things taken, this place was obviously destroyed from the inside"
"How did you know what I found"
"I may be human but I'm not daft"
"…Yes Saxon lived alone" Lucian realized in their tiredness and eagerness to find Saxon they didn't really look at the evidence. Lucian god up and began to help Dorian dig
"And we are looking for… ?"
"Stone"
"Stone?"
"Yeah this is a court you can't bury someone in stone" They continued to dig wildly when Lucian noticed Selene had sat up watching them with great intensity
"Selene…"
"Have you found stone?" she almost whimpered as if using the very last little piece of hope she had left in her.
"Lucian" Dorian called reaching the bottom. Lucian almost didn't want to look he wanted to spare Selene that pain, she needed something to go right and finally as he looked down at the ground he could give her that hope and news she needed. There beneath the snow in a small clearing was tightly packed stones not only a court yard base but it had tightly backed tree roots strangling the stones
"There is no way you could bury someone here, the tomb stone is just sitting on the stones. This is not a grave" Dorian spoke up, there was no reward better for using his initiative then a mothers smile of hope reinstalled in her.
Sorry about the delay but I can't hook my machine up to the net yet L I had to sent this chapter though 3 networks and across 5 drives to get it here! A pain in the bum. Anyway a not so interesting chap sorry 9after all that) but I hope you enjoy sorry again for the wait.
-Evelyn.
Synch14: He he it's a great saying.
Christian Jonsson: Yes I know. But its addictive.
dArK-dAeMoIs-DeA: Ahh Roslyn wasn't in Burwood, Merrick was against Odthran who rules Burwood not Merrick I think thats why the conversation eariler was confuseing. Well nothing gets past you on the story front you knew lol.
Chou-hime: I hate maths. hmmm how Eriak died well that goes more into the Kain part of the story. I know it didnt say what happened to Dunanc but it will in time :)
Glil: You knew it before I posted it hehehe very clever. Thankyou.
Jondy13: It is but what doesnt kill you makes you stronger Selene jumped to the conclusion too fast.
Chrmd red black rose: It is supposed to be depressing at the moment, Selene has awoken to a would of fear chaos and suffering if she wants to fix it like she says she needs to feel what its like living in this new world. That is also why teh remaining life so desperatly wants the ledgend to be true and come to life to fix everything.
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