Okay so this was harder than the scene between Arianna and Ekerian
Without warning she ran the other direction. "It's pointless." Ekerian yelled after her.
"I have to try."
"She doesn't give up does she?" Bei Berou asked.
"Nope." Said the two Nourasians in unison.
Arianna ran so much her heart almost couldn't bear it and her back felt even worse, she could tell there was seepage as she felt a trickle or two oozing down her spine but she pressed on. When she couldn't sense him anymore she stopped.
"Tenari! Tenari please just listen to me. Just this one last time and then I promise to leave you alone for good. I know you hate me and you believe I'm a liar, I just wish there was some way for us to get past this and talk it hi instead of hiding. I didn't kill your sister Tenari, she's alive! She's alive and I can-" He suddenly dropped down from the trees above and towered over her. Anger and doubt all over his face. "I can prove it."
"If this is another one of your tricks I swear i'll-"
"You'll do what kill me?" His fingernails dug into her already damaged arm and she smelled blood. It took all her self control not to scream in pain. "You want to end my life so badly fine. I won't stop you." She turned around, his grip loosened and his fingers came out of the wound with a sickening popping noise. "Just…do it after we get there." She sighed. "Come on…" Arianna led him straight back to where she had ran from to go find him. In her absence they had built a fire, when she returned they were all sitting around it.
"Senti?" Tenari breathed. Casting a shocked glance at Arianna. "Its really you isn't it?" He came closer and paused. "Senti?" He gazed angrily at Arianna. "What happened?"
"She had her memories wiped." Arianna explained. Tenari was angered by that statement.
"You weakened her so she couldn't fight back!"
"No!"
"And what was your plan exactly? After I found out she was alive? What were you going to do? Lure me into a trap?"
"No…" Arianna said again. This was going in the opposite direction.
"Nice try, but your little damsel in distress tactic isn't going to work."
"I'm not trying to trick you."
"Like you did with them?" He asked nodding at Veruka and Hine. "I find it rather hard to believe that a mere human took down two highest ranking sorcerers of my world."
"Your right." Arianna said "I didn't."
"But I did." Ekerian said stepping up next to Arianna. Showing him the bloodied bat in his hand "Well, Urdu and I actually, however I did stop him myself." He remarked of Hine. "From mind bending your sister off the balcony. If he hadn't been so focused on Urdu, she would be dead."
"But who did this to her?"
"Veruka-"
"I wasn't asking you."
"You won't take my word for it but you'll take everyone else's?" She was furious and distraught at the same time. "I have shown proof of my innocence and yet you refuse to hear anything I say."
"You wouldn't understand…"
"Yes…I would." Arianna said. "I may not see it from your perspective, but I understand more than you might realize." She gazed at Veruka. "I don't know why, but she…she forced me to relive the memory she gave you."
"You expect me to believe-"
"When it happened, you remember my whereabouts?"
"You were a good two hours distance…why?"
"Because. 'Just be careful and don't let her words in-" Tenari's look of shock at her reciting what his sister had said was plain to see. "I was given this memory out of spite. Veruka believed I couldn't find a loophole and enjoyed watching me struggle. She wanted me either on my hands and knees begging, or give up altogether."
"So are you done trying to convince me? He asked. "Because quite frankly I'm done entertaining this wild fantasy you have in your head."
"…Yeah." She said sadly sighing, struggling severely to remain serene. "I'm done."
"And your agreement?"
"You'll never see me again."
"I better not." He took. Erasentia in his arms and walked away without a second glance. Arianna ran as fast as she could back to the Earth team module. Not wanting to share a room, Arianna went in search of a place of her own, she finally found one after turning a wrong corner and finding herself staring at a wall that on second inspection was not fully a wall, she walked past it to see various mattress a few heaters and other various things she needed. This place had never been found with all the dust surrounding it. She set to work on her fortress only stopping when she was done. She made sure her hideout stayed hidden, covering the hallway ahead with the remaining slabs of wood.
"I tried Tenari..." She cried, her back sliding downward on the brick wall. "I don't know what else to do." She said. Later on after waking up from her nap she discovered that she was hungry. Thankfully it was way too early for anyone else to be awake so she had dibs on the food and hot cocoa. A walk outside told her that the sun was barely starting to rise. She had once watched the sunrises in Tenari's company in his universe. It was a ritual for them. Just like this moment, he had come out a few minutes ago but she was not about to let that ruin the start of the day. She'd likely dwell on it later. But not now as she felt the warmth of the sun heating her up. A brand new day. Arianna left when the sun reached halfway up the sky. And just as he had done, she didn't even spare him a passing glance. If she had Arianna would have noticed that he was staring after her. Arianna went back into hibernation, waking up only because she felt the presence of another. She opened her eyes to see Tenari standing over her.
"I don't know who you are or what your involvement in my life is, but your just a regular human and I've always hated your kind from the beginning. So for you to say such things as if you know me or my secrets is quite a tall tail for you to spin."
'Sounds like Ekerian.' Arianna thought. Instead of communicating Arianna decided to stay silent. His countless rejections had taken their toll on her to where she had no fight left. Her spirit had been broken, so with a heavy heart Arianna listened instead of running away to hide which is what she felt like doing.
"Nevertheless there are certain things that I have yet to understand. And even though you are the last person I want to talk to you are the only one who seems to know anything and according the Prince we had an interaction. I remember telling him off, but as to who I was with it is a complete blur." He paused. "But I see the way Nourasians and humans have bonded together, so for all I know you have him wrapped around your finger and the two of you are in on it."
No matter how much she told herself to just be the listener it was getting harder and harder to stay silent. Her hands were fisted into balls so hard she eventually cut her own skin with her fingernails. At least the pain was helping her bite her tongue with what he was saying. Focusing her mind on the blood she continued to listen.
"I can still hear my sisters words deep inside my mind, as though it was yesterday. Telling me not to trust you and dying in my arms." He sighed. "I dug up the grave and put her in it and yet she stands before me very much alive. I buried a corpse, not a living person. I knew she passed on. I wasn't wrong. So then if that's Senti then who did I bury?"
His voice sounded so sad, but she refused to comfort him or even look up. She was focusing all her energy in trying not to cry. She was fighting a losing battle and she knew it was only a matter of time before she caved. Arianna hoped he would be gone by that time, he didn't need to see this side of her.
"I've already said, but I'll say it again who are you and how did you get involved? What makes you so special?"
'I wish I knew' Arianna thought to herself feeling the tears coming closer to falling. 'by god I wish I knew.'
"But that kiss." His voice had all of a sudden gone from anger to a pleasurable hiss. "Oh my god that kiss. I've never experienced such a strong feeling ever in my life. A wolf only mates with one person and those feelings made me want to strip you of your clothes and take you right there in the middle of the forest, and damn the consequences. I've never felt so close to anyone…nor so distant. Where are those memories? Why are they gone?" She had never heard him outcast how he felt about their sexual life before. Arianna hadn't realized he felt…like this which made the tears she had been holding start to fall. "Its just been this constant ongoing loop, every time I try and make sense of it my sisters words flash in my head again. I trust her completely, but how can I trust in the memory of the dead when she's fine and standing right in front of me?"
She heard him knock over something and realized her fort was now just a regular pile of rubbish on the floor. He breathed deeply closing his eyes and sighed while turning over the heater that had been emitting heat. There came a pounding of footsteps "Arianna?" She heard Molly's voice from far away, however the steps were getting closer and Arianna realized she didn't want to be around anyone else. Without thinking she grabbed the sleeve of Tenari's shirt and pulled him to the corner setting a mattress up against two other ones on the wall. Tenari put a hand on her wrist, she gazed up at him only seeing his eyes widen as he saw the tears still dripping down her face. She realized she was still tugging on his shirt and let go to wipe off her tears and look away. "Arianna?" Molly's voice filled into the room. "Guess I was hearing things." Molly's footsteps faded away, though neither one of them moved.
"And there's something else…" Tenari said catching her attention. "Something that so many people have tried to do but failed at every turn. You can duplicate memories, but certain scents cannot be mixed. You see there are some that believe if you just spill a smell over another or mix them together they would get away with saying they had bed one another. Those people were liars. All of them. There's no way to do that unless you mate…" He sighed. "When I stepped foot on my pod…I could smell our lovemaking, it wasn't just confined to one room, it was everywhere." Arianna blushed as she looked into his eyes. "I can still smell it. Not that that's a bad thing. It's quite a turn on actually." She blushed more as he came closer. "How do I get those memories back?"
"First of all…" The mattress fell to the floor revealing the faces of Delabarte, Urdu, Sakki, Molly, Aikka and Ekerian. "You need to stop hiding." Delabarte said.
"Told you they were here." Urdu said. Tapping his contraption. "Hine's devices are beyond my comprehension, but they get the job done." He gazed back at the two of them. "The balls won't break." He took one out to show. "No matter how far up I go."
"Hune and I found him and can vouch for that as we aided him even giving him a lift. Flew as high as I could." Hune made no remark to his first name when Sakki said his first name nor did they give an explanation to why the two of them were together or why Delabarte had been riding him.
"So now what?"
"This one has an inscription on it." Tenari remarked.
"Where?" Urdu asked baffled.
"Here." He pointed. As he touched the ball though he was envelopes in blue electric field. Not stunning him, suddenly the ball grew smaller until eventually it disappeared.
"What just happened?" Ekerian asked.
"I remember everything…." Tenari said falling to the ground.
"Isn't that a good thing?"
"Why don't you find the others." Arianna said to the group as she noticed Tenari staring at the wound he gave her. "While we sort things out alone." She held out her hand. "Your place?"
"You still want to be with me after what I've done?"
"It wasn't your fault. You were spelled to believe something else entirely."
"I remember the fear on your face. Why did you come after me if you were so afraid?"
"Because my love for you is stronger than my fear." She said still holding out her arm. "Now come on. Let's kiss and make up."
"Okay thank you for that imagery." Delabarte said. "could have done without it. Now I need to bleach both my brain and my ears."
"No sir what you need…" Urdu patted him on the shoulder. "Is to get yourself laid." He left a stunned Delabarte behind while everyone else in the room howled with laughter.