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Clowie Zephyr
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Date Posted: 00:24:33 07/20/02 Sat
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's message, "Ungraceful beginings" on 22:29:50 07/19/02 Fri
"But I don't..."
She started to say something, but stopped short as her last memory of her real home surged forward.
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She was sitting on a small couch in the middle of a large near banquet hall, perched before a fireplace in the Zephyr Sky Palace. Her uncle paced back and forth in front of her, deciding something.
"Now listen, Clowie. Where I'm going to send you maybe strange, it may be frightening, hell it might even be dangerous, but you'll have to remember, it is this furture that is in store of your now poor race. Things might even be a little weird. That one soul you were given has split in two, and I have no idea why."
Justin turned his back to her, letting Clowie just look into his etheral wings for a moment, then he looked back over his shoulder, giving her a warm smile.
"Since there's no one else to handle this problem, a trip to what lay in store for your kind might be the only way to find out."
He turned full face to her and walked up to her on her couch, the one she had claimed since the day she'd arrived. Justin knelt down in front of her.
"Just know that whatever it is you see, you'll always be linked here. You can get back here by just wishing it, but only if you really have to. Understand? Good. Now close your eyes."
She did so, then felt the light warmth of Justin's hand over her eyes, then the sensation of falling.
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She blinked, breaking herself back into the babble of the young man in front of her as he pressed the dagger into her hand. The hilt felt...odd for some reason, almost like the scales of a dragon on her skin. Something was wrong, and she couldn't quite place the feeling slowly creeping over her.
"..know any Ankarlyn..."
Though the name soundded so familiar to her she swore she should have known it.
Reality swayed for a moment, then wavered. A rip sounded from thin air, a shredding of sky and a gem appeared above her head. A glittering black gem. Her infinity flickered into view then flickered from topaz to amber, her eyes taking on the same hue.
Imperius...nomas....Dragauth...variosinsa....Dragauth nomas...
The words slipped from the air. Clowie lost all her senses there in a moment and gripped the hilt of the dagger tightly. Amber eyes focused on the boy again, a sheer look of ice. Then her eyes rolled back and she plunged the dagger into her chest, cracking through her sternum and piercing her lungs. Then it was pried free with the same hands and Clowie fell backwards, her front now completely soaked with silvery red blood. A gurgle, a hack, and she coughed up blood as well.
Then something black and silvery rose from the wound like smoke, the two colors intermingled with each other. It rose almost serpentinely, both black and silver intertwined together as a pair of snakes. Then it opened a mouth an gave a noiseless hiss before continuing upwards, encircling and entering the black, glittering gem that hovered in the air. The gem then glowed with a red and black intermixed light, then the voice, sounding from just the air, but seemed to resonate from the gem. You have done well.....
Then the gem hurtled for the boy at a blinding speed, it meant to gain itself a new...."host."
Imperius...nomas....Dragauth...
...variosinsa....Dragauth nomas...
Clowie coughed again, spraying a fine mist of blood into the air. She rolled in and out of darkness, and for a vague moment she thought, if this was how she was going to die, she wished she could at least be home.
Thunder rolled in the distance, and a bolt of lightning cracked over head. Then she was gone. The only proof that Clowie Zephyr had been there was the pool of silver red blood staining the ground, and the dagger with the glowing hilt, covered in the same blood.
....Dragauth...
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