Faylinn slid around the side of the building trying to find a way in.
'I know there was a way in once before…' She mulled to herself as she scanned the side of the castle, a small crack caught her attention.
The crack was barely noticeable. She cursed herself as she realized she probably wasn't going to fit into her old escape route.
'I don't have a choice…' She told herself as she snuck up on the crevice. 'Here goes nothing.'
Faylinn slid her leg into the crack, turning her hips one direction and her torso in a different direction as she slowly melted into the wall and out of sight. 'God I hope there's not someone on the other side of this, I'll be toast.'
After what seemed like long grueling hours, but really only a few seconds, she stumbled into a hallway in the castle she once had grown up in.
'Now… If nothing has changed…' She mulled to herself as she quickly scanned up and down the hallway. 'To the right will be the main room and to the left…' She turned to look up the hallway. 'Yoko's locked off hallway…'
If anything as valuable as the Rosencratz Stone were hidden in the castle that is where it would be.
Faylinn quickly ran down the hall and sided into a doorway. 'Damn it.' She cursed as she grabbed the first robe she saw in the room, throwing it over herself just as a demon walked by with two girls on his arms. If she were to be caught the punishment would be far worse than what the High Counsel did to her. She would be tortured slowly and painfully until death finally came.
'And…' She thought as she looked over her shoulder and continued up the hallway. 'They would make sure it never came…'
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Kurama woke with a start, the fire he was beside had gone out and there was no blond headed elf anywhere in sight.
'Did she go on without me…?' He wondered as he sat up and stretched slowly.
He felt his inner demon bristle at the thought of the golden haired girl.
What's your problem? He asked the Kistune it had been nearly a year since he had actually spoken to his inner self; Yoko seemed perfectly content to stay quite around Moon and he still had no idea why.
Oh so you don't remember the dream we had? The animosity dripped from his voice.
Kurama blinked, they had been dreaming?
No… He started. I don't remember dreaming about anything.
Yoko cringed with anger and made his human counter part turn to the two girls in the clearing with them, mainly the one that had been frozen on a flower.
We dreamed of her. She came to us.
Kurama stared at the figure, he had never seen her before in his life, but Yoko had and was far more willing to share her with him.
Quickly images of a tall Pale woman with midnight hair flashed across his mind.
And then he knew, he knew one of the few secrets Yoko had been keeping form him.
You loved her.
Does that shock you?
Well I guess it shouldn't but I never thought you were the type to fall for one woman.
She was different.
I can see that. Kurama had watched the images of the regal looking woman and in turn knew exactly like Yoko would love this woman. She must have been an amazing woman.
Yoko bristled against his mind in anger. Obviously you don't know anything.
Kurama was shocked for a moment but soon realized that the topic seemed to be a touchy one for his youkai half; so he tried to peruse another one.
We should go after Faylinn. She could be in danger.
Yoko scowled vehemently at the mention of Faylinn's name. Yes I suppose we should, she obviously has had no training in being a thief if you caught her so easily.
Kurama was stunned, he couldn't figure out where the anger was coming from, but he couldn't think about it now. He had to go help Faylinn.
With one last glance at the girl in the ice he bowed his head and took off to the castle.
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Faylinn wedged her way in between the boards that covered the empty hallway. 'I AM going to get in here!!' She told herself as she finally got her tail free of the slats.
The corridor was gloomy and the air was musty as the elf stood there, letting her eyes adjust to the lack of light.
As her eyes finally adjusted she saw three separate doors.
'Three…?' She asked herself as she looked at each door in turn, and then it dawned on her. Her mother had once told her that she had lived with her sister in a separate part of the castle until she began living with her father.
'One of these doors must be my mother's room and one must be my aunt's room. But what about the third door…?'
Out of pure curiosity she reached for the handle of the third door.
"It doesn't open from the outside…" A male voice answered from behind.
Faylinn jumped and turned to face the man behind her, it was Kurama.
"Kurama…?" She asked as she stared at him. "What's up with your eyes…?"
Instead of his emerald green colored eyes these eyes for golden, liquid amber.
Kurama blinked and the green returned around the edges of the amber. "Yoko showed me the way in without alerting anyone. He's seeing through my eyes."
Faylinn blinked a few times. "Well how do you get into that room?"
He turned and went to the door down the corridor on the same side as the door in question. "Through here first…" He stood there, his hand outstretched to open the door, but he was frozen in place.
"Well if you're not going to open it…" She started as she pushed past him to the door. "I will." With that she grabbed the knob, turned, and through the door open into the room.
"Oh…" She murmured as she stepped into the large bedroom. "Oh wow…"
She stood there, taking in the whole room. "It's huge."
"It was Cytheria's…" She knew it was Kurama's voice but it was Yoko talking through him.
Faylinn walked over to a door on the opposite side of where the one she wanted to open was located; it was a bathroom.
"My god…" She murmured before she turned back and closed the door. "This doesn't answer the question as to HOW we get in that other room."
Kurama walked over to a wall hanging and gently lifted it up, walked behind it, and vanished.
"HEY!!!" She called as she ran to the wall hanging. She pulled it back to reveal what looked like a closet; the silk kimonos glittered in the dim light. "Wow…" She whispered as she walked in.
"You loved her a lot to give her all this…" She murmured as she continued down the hall.
Then she noticed something odd.
"She didn't have any weapons."
"No… She never fought with a knife. She only really used a dagger to cut open the skin of a person to plant one of her seeds in them. She had an issue with demons in her past and wanted most of them to suffer a painful death for her childhood trauma."
"What trauma was that…?"
He turned to look at her. "She watched her father and your mother's entire village be slaughtered. Everyone was killed, man, woman, and child. The only reason you're here today if because your aunt followed her father into the village and rescued your mother from her mother's corpse."
Faylinn's eyes widened. She had never heard this story before from her mother. "You have to be kidding."
"No…" He turned away. "I'm not."
With that he continue to the end of the closet and ran his fingers over the stone.
"What are you looking for?"
"The release switch."
She blinked before she jumped. "Oh!" She ran over and began running her fingers over the wall.
As they reached the center of the wall their hands ran into each other.
Faylinn blushed and tried to pull back but Kurama kept her hand. She turned and realized just how close they had become. His smell swept over her; the smell of roses and damp lush earth. Their noses bumped as she moved to gaze up at him; their lips inches apart.
Kurama moved closer, his breath mingling with hers.
Just when she thought he would kiss her she went tumbling backwards and the wall suddenly vanished from behind her back.
"Are you alright?" It was Kurama this time; Yoko no longer spoke through him.
"You ass!!" She yelled as she jumped up.
"I didn't know! I swear."
"I don't ca--" She stopped as a faint sparkle caught her attention. She turned to the dim glow. "Look! Look it's the stone!!" She explained as she ran over to the large red-ish stone.
Picking it up she quickly wrapped it in her scarf she had brought and tied it to her waist instead.
"Let's get out of this hell hole." She said as she slid her way past Kurama, careful not to touch him.
Down the corridor and out through the slats that blocked it off and she was nearly home free.
Nearly…
"Not so fast half breed. You know the consequences of coming back here."
