Tersha watched the group look after Nimandle as he regained strength. She
bent down and tried to pick up the green shards of her necklace then there
was a hand placed on top of hers.
"Don't worry about it hun, I will make you a new one, just like it. It will look like new!" Silva pulled the girl up and took her hand in hers. "Hun you did a good thing for Nimandle two days ago, I don't know if I would ever have the courage to do that for someone." Silva tried to smile and comfort the wood elf girl but nothing formed from her tiered face. "By the way I am Silva, the dwarf that's Darin, don't mind his comings and goings. And the mage over there-that's Aldor. And it looks like you already know Nimandle."
"Thank you Silva, and you really don't need to make me a new necklace, it was a gift from someone I hated and I am glad that it broke, because he used it to manipulate me and use me again my own will. Don't burden yourself on making something to replace something that horrible."
"I will make something more magnificent for you then." Silva patted Tersha's hand and then walked over to Aldor. And leaned against his shoulder. Tersha sighed silently and looked at the ground. Where was she to go now, she had to keep running from Myosin because he said he would be back for her. And now what about the others, they had gotten enrolled unconditionally. The world seemed to spin uncontrollably. She shook the thoughts from her mind and picked up Nimandle's sword that still lay in the same place after she dropped it. The blade became heavy and she noticed that it was as heavier than i it was two days ago. She brought it over to Nimandle and he looked up to her slowly, his eyes seemed to shake as he strained himself to look into her eyes.
"You stayed." Nimandle barely got the words away from his mouth. She nodded and dropped the blade at his feet.
"I have no where else to go."
"Stay with me-urhm us stay with us. We don't know what were going to do next but I know its involving Myosin."
"How could you come and put yourself in danger for a girl you've never met, or understood! Look at me Nimandle." She grabbed his chin and thrust it to look at her straight on. "You know nothing of me, my family, my past. You don't know anything, foolish."
"I may not know you but I understand more than you think." He struggled to stand and she helped him up out of the goodness of her heart. "I was born in Freeport as were you and I understand what a person goes though when both parents die, I know how it feels to be torn apart by war. I know how it is to be mocked of a trait. I am human Tersha, look at me! People say human as an insult, you have it better than me; a girl with black hair, I don't see that everyday. Then they move on, but they linger and laugh at me because I am one of few. I understand how you do things, why you say things, I understand I just don't know." Nimandle stumbled forward loosing his balance and Tersha caught him in her trembling arms. She was scared to death on what he understands. She set him back on a bench and sat next to him as she watched the others talk about random things from armor to spells. It seemed peaceful now but Tersha knew once they left the walls of HighPass they were in for some major damage. Tersha knew Myosin all to well, he said he would be back for them, and he would have the guild scattered all across Norrath looking for them. She looked up at the darkened sky and felt a crack of emptiness inside of her; the green shards still lay scattered on the ground an Aldor walked in between them towards the bench.
"Tersha, please tell me what is it Myosin wants from you?"
"He wants me dead, he wants you dead, Silva dead, Nimandle dead. The only exception here I think is the dwarf." Darin looked up from cleaning his axe.
"What about a dwarf? Where?"
"Forget it Darin." Aldor said calmly. "Why dead?"
"Because I can kill him, you can kill him, we possess his weakness mage."
"Which is?"
"Love."
"Well Darin loves? Does he not?" Aldor cocked his head to one side.
"I love." The dwarf grunted and went back to scrubbing his axe with a small cloth.
"He loves fighting, healing, metal. We love people."
"And who might you love young druid. Do you find time to love?" Aldor never angered when talking about things with others. Tersha found it easy to talk to him and understand his thoughts. Her relationship with these companions wasn't based on knowing she figured out. It was all understanding every ounce understood.
"A human." She said slyly trying not to hint to anyone in particular. "And Aldor the great mage finds time to love Silva in between spells and books." Silva looked at Tersha astounded. "But love isn't what drives him to kill us, it's his want for power. Ever since he was small he wanted to captain of every game, leader of every duel, beginner for every race. He thirsts on blood. Mine especially since I am considered the best druid, the one he loved for so long but I never had the heart to love a control freak." She trailed off loosing her stain of thought and totally lost the companions and Nimandle had fallen asleep again. Tersha pulled his head off her shoulder and stretched him out across her lap. She could feel his breathing return to normal. Myosin sucked so much life from him it could take days to recover. But Tersha believed Nimandle would be ready the next day because he w as a true warrior to the core and never gave up a good fight. "Then why had I stopped him from killing Myosin? Wasn't that a good fight to be fighting? Killing the man that could destroy all of Norrath?" She drifted of into endless thoughts again. When she awoke she was on the ground covered in a blanket and her head was cradled into someone's arms. She blinked her green eyes and looked to see who it was that kept her warm. It was Nimandle. She quickly sat up and he embraced her tightly.
"Don't do that."
"Do what?" Tersha said puzzled her eyes looking behind Nimandle.
"Sleep like that! You were sleeping for four days, you must be famished."
"Not really, umm four days?"
"Four days little one." Aldor bent down and handed her a cup of water that he poured from a small flask that he kept in his bag. "We were going to leave once you woke up three days ago, but you never woke up, Darin said that you were extremely tired and that Myosin must have done something to you physically or mentally that we weren't aware of."
"Were is Darin?" she took a sip from the cup and then set in on the ground next to were Nimandle held her in his lap with his arms around her slender waist. The sun had finally peaked though the clouds and a dim light shimmered onto the open courtyard.
"Exploring with Silva, they got board so they had to find something to do."
"Sorry to burden you."
"No burden dear, but we cant stay here for long, something is not right and I worsens every step I take." Aldor bowed his head and turned to put his flask back in his bag.
"Where do we go next warrior?"
"Erudin."
"Out of all Norrath why Erudin, its just as bad as Freeport! No one lives there anymore, a low cloud of destruction and hatred hang from the sky like tapestries. Other things inhabit it now, and it isn't safe."
"We have to Tersh, Myosin isn't going to win, we aren't going to let him, and I refuse."
"As you wish." Tersha stood up and brushed off her tunic and got her bag of supplies ready. She put a water flask in her bag and she found a box. She pulled it out and opened the small white lid. In the middle laid a Elven woven chain and a small red gem attached by a intricate metal leaf clasp. He lifted it carefully out of the box and let it spin around a moment. She was entranced on how beautiful it was.
"It's a ruby." Silva poked her head over Tersha's shoulder and smiled brightly her hands behind her back. There are matching earrings in there too." Tersha pulled out the earrings and looked at them in her other hand then clasped them onto her pointy ears. The necklace still lay across her hand. "Put it on hun, it wont bite or manipulate you against your will." Silva smiled again and turned away.
"Dwarven women wear the finest metal jewelry, better than the elves, I will have to get you some!" Darin said as Silva stepped past him. She heard it and took her cream colored hand and put it on his helm and shoved as hard as she could and the dwarf toppled over and grunted in disgust. "And something else about dwarven women, they are better mannered and prettier too."
At this Aldor kicked him lightly in the back. "Shut up Darin, she will do something else to you like charm you-how embarrassing."
"Humph." The dwarf picked up his bag and slung it on his back. Tersha chuckled and stood up. Everyone seemed ready. Tersha remembered her Toxxula port, and offered to port everyone even though she felt uneasy to even be going into the forest or the city. She hadn't been there for a while but that is considered a good thing by most of the races in Norrath. She motioned everyone close to her and she began casting slowly doubting this was the right thing to do.
"Hug the druid, and we're off!" Tersha sped up the casting rate by a little bit and Nimandle put his arms around her waist taking the hug the druid litterly. Tersha smiled and closed her eyelids and they zoned peacefully into Toxxula. They landed at the druid circle and looked around, it was murky and damp not the homiest place. Tersha pulled her cape out of her bag and gave it to the elf maiden who wore a tank top and a slimming skirt with her thin robe over it. She took the cloak and tied it around her neck and grasped the edges instantly feeling warmth. There was a snapping twig and Nimandle had his sword already drawn and the Dwarf tried to whip his out that fast but it flew and got stuck in the trunk of the nearest tree. He wobbled over to get it and jumped repeatedly to try to reach the handle.
"Drat." Darin kept jumping.
Aldor walked over to him and tried reaching it as well but the silly dwarf had to fling it high into the tree.
"Nice going." Aldor turned and went back to where Nimandle stood listening to every moving sound in the whole perimeter. There was a couple more twig snaps and then utter silence. Nothing moved the wind didn't blow and the dwarf even stopped thumping the ground from jumping to reach his axe. Tersha looked to her right without moving her head and her ears picked up a soft breathing. She drew her blade and moved slowly to the origin of the sound. Silva stood silently next to Aldor and Nimandle and she closed her oval eyes and threw back her head softly. Little puffballs of light floated out of her fingers. Aldor was amazed and went to touch one. His finger rubbed up against it and it was soft, it had little fuzzy fir that glowed. It revealed what the companions had heard.
"Don't worry about it hun, I will make you a new one, just like it. It will look like new!" Silva pulled the girl up and took her hand in hers. "Hun you did a good thing for Nimandle two days ago, I don't know if I would ever have the courage to do that for someone." Silva tried to smile and comfort the wood elf girl but nothing formed from her tiered face. "By the way I am Silva, the dwarf that's Darin, don't mind his comings and goings. And the mage over there-that's Aldor. And it looks like you already know Nimandle."
"Thank you Silva, and you really don't need to make me a new necklace, it was a gift from someone I hated and I am glad that it broke, because he used it to manipulate me and use me again my own will. Don't burden yourself on making something to replace something that horrible."
"I will make something more magnificent for you then." Silva patted Tersha's hand and then walked over to Aldor. And leaned against his shoulder. Tersha sighed silently and looked at the ground. Where was she to go now, she had to keep running from Myosin because he said he would be back for her. And now what about the others, they had gotten enrolled unconditionally. The world seemed to spin uncontrollably. She shook the thoughts from her mind and picked up Nimandle's sword that still lay in the same place after she dropped it. The blade became heavy and she noticed that it was as heavier than i it was two days ago. She brought it over to Nimandle and he looked up to her slowly, his eyes seemed to shake as he strained himself to look into her eyes.
"You stayed." Nimandle barely got the words away from his mouth. She nodded and dropped the blade at his feet.
"I have no where else to go."
"Stay with me-urhm us stay with us. We don't know what were going to do next but I know its involving Myosin."
"How could you come and put yourself in danger for a girl you've never met, or understood! Look at me Nimandle." She grabbed his chin and thrust it to look at her straight on. "You know nothing of me, my family, my past. You don't know anything, foolish."
"I may not know you but I understand more than you think." He struggled to stand and she helped him up out of the goodness of her heart. "I was born in Freeport as were you and I understand what a person goes though when both parents die, I know how it feels to be torn apart by war. I know how it is to be mocked of a trait. I am human Tersha, look at me! People say human as an insult, you have it better than me; a girl with black hair, I don't see that everyday. Then they move on, but they linger and laugh at me because I am one of few. I understand how you do things, why you say things, I understand I just don't know." Nimandle stumbled forward loosing his balance and Tersha caught him in her trembling arms. She was scared to death on what he understands. She set him back on a bench and sat next to him as she watched the others talk about random things from armor to spells. It seemed peaceful now but Tersha knew once they left the walls of HighPass they were in for some major damage. Tersha knew Myosin all to well, he said he would be back for them, and he would have the guild scattered all across Norrath looking for them. She looked up at the darkened sky and felt a crack of emptiness inside of her; the green shards still lay scattered on the ground an Aldor walked in between them towards the bench.
"Tersha, please tell me what is it Myosin wants from you?"
"He wants me dead, he wants you dead, Silva dead, Nimandle dead. The only exception here I think is the dwarf." Darin looked up from cleaning his axe.
"What about a dwarf? Where?"
"Forget it Darin." Aldor said calmly. "Why dead?"
"Because I can kill him, you can kill him, we possess his weakness mage."
"Which is?"
"Love."
"Well Darin loves? Does he not?" Aldor cocked his head to one side.
"I love." The dwarf grunted and went back to scrubbing his axe with a small cloth.
"He loves fighting, healing, metal. We love people."
"And who might you love young druid. Do you find time to love?" Aldor never angered when talking about things with others. Tersha found it easy to talk to him and understand his thoughts. Her relationship with these companions wasn't based on knowing she figured out. It was all understanding every ounce understood.
"A human." She said slyly trying not to hint to anyone in particular. "And Aldor the great mage finds time to love Silva in between spells and books." Silva looked at Tersha astounded. "But love isn't what drives him to kill us, it's his want for power. Ever since he was small he wanted to captain of every game, leader of every duel, beginner for every race. He thirsts on blood. Mine especially since I am considered the best druid, the one he loved for so long but I never had the heart to love a control freak." She trailed off loosing her stain of thought and totally lost the companions and Nimandle had fallen asleep again. Tersha pulled his head off her shoulder and stretched him out across her lap. She could feel his breathing return to normal. Myosin sucked so much life from him it could take days to recover. But Tersha believed Nimandle would be ready the next day because he w as a true warrior to the core and never gave up a good fight. "Then why had I stopped him from killing Myosin? Wasn't that a good fight to be fighting? Killing the man that could destroy all of Norrath?" She drifted of into endless thoughts again. When she awoke she was on the ground covered in a blanket and her head was cradled into someone's arms. She blinked her green eyes and looked to see who it was that kept her warm. It was Nimandle. She quickly sat up and he embraced her tightly.
"Don't do that."
"Do what?" Tersha said puzzled her eyes looking behind Nimandle.
"Sleep like that! You were sleeping for four days, you must be famished."
"Not really, umm four days?"
"Four days little one." Aldor bent down and handed her a cup of water that he poured from a small flask that he kept in his bag. "We were going to leave once you woke up three days ago, but you never woke up, Darin said that you were extremely tired and that Myosin must have done something to you physically or mentally that we weren't aware of."
"Were is Darin?" she took a sip from the cup and then set in on the ground next to were Nimandle held her in his lap with his arms around her slender waist. The sun had finally peaked though the clouds and a dim light shimmered onto the open courtyard.
"Exploring with Silva, they got board so they had to find something to do."
"Sorry to burden you."
"No burden dear, but we cant stay here for long, something is not right and I worsens every step I take." Aldor bowed his head and turned to put his flask back in his bag.
"Where do we go next warrior?"
"Erudin."
"Out of all Norrath why Erudin, its just as bad as Freeport! No one lives there anymore, a low cloud of destruction and hatred hang from the sky like tapestries. Other things inhabit it now, and it isn't safe."
"We have to Tersh, Myosin isn't going to win, we aren't going to let him, and I refuse."
"As you wish." Tersha stood up and brushed off her tunic and got her bag of supplies ready. She put a water flask in her bag and she found a box. She pulled it out and opened the small white lid. In the middle laid a Elven woven chain and a small red gem attached by a intricate metal leaf clasp. He lifted it carefully out of the box and let it spin around a moment. She was entranced on how beautiful it was.
"It's a ruby." Silva poked her head over Tersha's shoulder and smiled brightly her hands behind her back. There are matching earrings in there too." Tersha pulled out the earrings and looked at them in her other hand then clasped them onto her pointy ears. The necklace still lay across her hand. "Put it on hun, it wont bite or manipulate you against your will." Silva smiled again and turned away.
"Dwarven women wear the finest metal jewelry, better than the elves, I will have to get you some!" Darin said as Silva stepped past him. She heard it and took her cream colored hand and put it on his helm and shoved as hard as she could and the dwarf toppled over and grunted in disgust. "And something else about dwarven women, they are better mannered and prettier too."
At this Aldor kicked him lightly in the back. "Shut up Darin, she will do something else to you like charm you-how embarrassing."
"Humph." The dwarf picked up his bag and slung it on his back. Tersha chuckled and stood up. Everyone seemed ready. Tersha remembered her Toxxula port, and offered to port everyone even though she felt uneasy to even be going into the forest or the city. She hadn't been there for a while but that is considered a good thing by most of the races in Norrath. She motioned everyone close to her and she began casting slowly doubting this was the right thing to do.
"Hug the druid, and we're off!" Tersha sped up the casting rate by a little bit and Nimandle put his arms around her waist taking the hug the druid litterly. Tersha smiled and closed her eyelids and they zoned peacefully into Toxxula. They landed at the druid circle and looked around, it was murky and damp not the homiest place. Tersha pulled her cape out of her bag and gave it to the elf maiden who wore a tank top and a slimming skirt with her thin robe over it. She took the cloak and tied it around her neck and grasped the edges instantly feeling warmth. There was a snapping twig and Nimandle had his sword already drawn and the Dwarf tried to whip his out that fast but it flew and got stuck in the trunk of the nearest tree. He wobbled over to get it and jumped repeatedly to try to reach the handle.
"Drat." Darin kept jumping.
Aldor walked over to him and tried reaching it as well but the silly dwarf had to fling it high into the tree.
"Nice going." Aldor turned and went back to where Nimandle stood listening to every moving sound in the whole perimeter. There was a couple more twig snaps and then utter silence. Nothing moved the wind didn't blow and the dwarf even stopped thumping the ground from jumping to reach his axe. Tersha looked to her right without moving her head and her ears picked up a soft breathing. She drew her blade and moved slowly to the origin of the sound. Silva stood silently next to Aldor and Nimandle and she closed her oval eyes and threw back her head softly. Little puffballs of light floated out of her fingers. Aldor was amazed and went to touch one. His finger rubbed up against it and it was soft, it had little fuzzy fir that glowed. It revealed what the companions had heard.