Keelix stares at Fia in horror, and his voice is much more human sounding, his tone shaken but more respectful, "Making it worse? How can healing not work? What do we need? Whom do we need? I will bring them."
Also, will wait to respond to Keelix after I know what Fia knows...
Ryvin darts in once Chen's back is turned and slashes at the heavy cloth restraining the Novices, hoping to release them.
Still here of course. :)
Shakkakhan
Still here. Fia and I were waiting on a response from you.
Here.
Here
Ryvin sneaks forward and slashes at the bag tied around CHens body. Out falls a couple of Accepted and Novices, blank stares and pale faces look through you and beyond. One woman falls out, her white dress tinted red from her throat being torn out. Another Accepted falls out on top of the others, her mouth, hands, and white dress painted red from blood. A crazed look fills her face as she looks about. Seeing the red hue of the Master Ward surrounding her, she screams loudly, drops to her knees, and channels. She channels not at anyone, but at the landing everyone stands upon.
Weaves of Earth and Fire and Water flow out from her hands and lays upon the floor surface and with shocking speed, the hard floor you stand upon suddenly turns to a heavy stew of liquid rock and metal.
The precise area where Jasmine's master ward turns to liquid and the floor drops away, like a bucket that had its bottom removed.
The suddenly liquid stone falls from the 13th level onto the 12th, much to the surprise of the guardsman and few Aes sedai and trainees that assist. The sheer force of the liquid drives many of these men and women to their backs, and leaves many broken at worst, bruised at least.
Chen and the blademaster fall together, grappling for position. Unfortunately Chen twists around just right and lands upon the Blademaster, crushing out the blademasters life.
Ryland and Ryvin, although they land on their butts, are not seriously injured aside from an ache that is like a total body charlie horse.
Ryvin, near Chen and the blademaster, falls, only to land upon the stairs and rolls down several of them before stopping.
Jasmine falls, and surprisingly lands upon her feet, her billowy dress catching enough air to arrest her sudden fall.
All the Novices and Accepted that were in CHens bag falls into a heap, while the one who channeled falls hard upon her face and breaks her neck, her crazed look finally one at peace.
Ryvin staggers back to her feet, swaying, the Void and saidar teetering wildly for a moment until she can bring them both back under control.
"No good deed goes unpunished," she grumbles.
Then her eyes land squarely on Chen and she frowns. And channels. "I don't know what's wrong with you. But we need to settle this somehow," are the words Chen hears as another red dome springs up and envelops him and the blademaster's corpse.
Chen frowns at the blademaster crushed below him. He had hoped to defeat the man honorably, not by the random chance of physics and interference of the power.
Pushing himself to his knees, he surrounded by a red ward. He twists until he sees Ryvin. His eyes burn from behind his faceplate Release me he commands.
Jasmine says to Chen I am sorry Alantin, I must refuse. I cannot allow the killing to continue. The weave is tied off and as such is not broken easily or quickly. So if you ever wish to complete your mission you cannot kill us as I will need Ryvin's help to remove the ward. In addition, should you kill anyone else inside this ward, you can kill me as well, for I will not remove the ward and you will never be able to complete your mission.
Jasmine emphasizes the word mission each time in the hopes that Chen will understand that his only way out is for Jasmine to release him and as such he needs to do what she asks.
"She is exhausted beyond her body's ability to recover. She was already running on adrenaline for days, and I think the birthing has taken her last reserves of strength. I cannot help her Keelix. We need to find a yellow sister."
"No...", Keelix's voice is a tiny thing, he had not realized until the possibility of losing Vala was real how much he had come to care for her. "I will find one. How much time do I have?"
"Not long at all." Fia says softly. It was hard to say for sure, but something told her that Vala had but a handful of minutes in this dream. She was about to say more, to say that she was faster than his wetlander legs and so he should stay to be with her while she went instead... and yet somehow he had made it into this shut and locked room before her, without even using the door. There was something at play which she didn't know or understand, but perhaps whatever it was he could do would make the difference.
Keelix seems to make some kind of effort though he does not move.
A few seconds later he tries again and simply vanishes from the room.
At this strange woman's pleading words, something in her tone reaches Chen. He is no longer so sure of his righteousness. Why was he here? What had he been doing? Reason seemed to fall away and without it, he felt... tired.
Sitting on his knees, he breathed heavily, he had been fight for hours, days it seemed like, he braced himself against his sword, letting it bear the weight of his upper body.
He stares at the two women in silence.
Fiallain gapes for a second as Keelix pops out of existence, then turns her attention back to the woman beside her. She holds Vala's hand and does whatever she can think of to help keep her alive for as long as possible.
"Why were you doing this?" Ryvin demands to know.
[spoiler=Ryvin]All sense of Keelix vanishes again.[/ooc]
In Tel'aran'rhiod
Focusing intently upon the need to save Vala, the need for a yellow sister, the NEED, Keelix closes his eyes, and jumps.
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Jasmine closes her eyes for a moment giving silent thanks to the creator, before returning her gaze to the Ogier. Ryvin is right, we must know what happened. Chen, what do you remember? she says in a calm soothing voice. Looking around at the various bodies, she stifles a sob at the loss of life.
Barely heard through the red tinge that prevents Chen from moving more than a few inches in any direction, Chen listens to the Aes Sedais compelling words. A strange detachment overcomes his driven mind, his impulse to kill all those marath'damane and those who oppose him. His mission?! What was his mission? His mission was to protect Lady Zira, ensure that she learned her place in this world, and when ready report back to the Corenne. And if she becomes complacent, he was to kill her. Yet he didnt kill her, but she has died, because he couldnt protect her. Sure he could rationalize that it wasnt by his hand or his inaction, but by her inadmission that did it, that has made him feel compelled to no longer protect her, but in the end He is DeathWatch, and he does not give up on an Order.
But he did.
Instead he was swayed by these other marath'damane. Some spoke these odd statements that the sul'dam were hidden marath'damane's. It shook what his understanding. his firm grasp on reality.
Why did he go after the marath'damane in white? what was the point? He did not know, not anymore. All his actions that he has done since that day not 4 days ago, on that field, are in question.
Who am I? What have i done?
He then thought about his time in this tower. His capture. His questioning. His training didnt help him underground, infact this strange, sensual marath'damane teased and urged him to have strange feelings. Thoughts of Intimacy rise in his head, only to be banished by what she truly is. A Marath'damane. and she used him like an adult uses a toddler.
A heavy sigh releases from his body, the absolute realization of his situation.
He is a failure.
need...i need a healer Keelix thinks to himself and leaps.
as he leaps in TAR, he know immediately that he didnt dedicate his whole self to the need.
He instead leaps into a blackness...
and suddenly finds himself standing over a young woman pressing her hands upon the chest of a man who has a sword through his head.
I can save him she screams to no one, yet all around you both you rages an unholy battle between trollocs and humans.
Men and trollocs all fall fast, body parts fly through the air and paint everything red.
Keelix looks around and avoids a sword slash.
BLood and ashes he swears, a sword appearing in his hand and he hacks through his opponent.
a strange ripple in the scenery happens and the man with the sword is healed. He stands up, removing the sword from his skull and rushes into battle.
suddenly keelix and the young lady stand before 3 aes sedai.
you have done well, young lady. to be aes sedai at the age of 15 is unheard of. yet you have done that which no one has. brought back the dead! amazing
While basking in her shawl, the three aes sedai are cut down by assassins with horns and axes.
shrieking, the young lady channels and burns them all to cinders, while bringing the dead back to life.
keelix finds this odd, and then finds himself compelled to her side as he stands protective over her.
I choose you as my warder, handsome one. and we shall marry and have a family Keelix looks down and sees her, now a bit older, fairer of skin and larger of breast. he feels a stirring, a passion boil up from his loins as he picks her up and lays her upon a bed.
He only gets so far as her blouse when the spears penetrate his sides, causing blood to gush out from his mouth and cover her.
NO! MY BELOVED! She shrieks. everything turns to ash and she channels. the spears disappear and Keelix stands by her side, protecting her...
the scene repeats.
first in battle,
then the aes sedai
then the wedding night.
it progresses, worse and worse. each time keelix barely stops the sword, or kills an assassin that was missed, or is impaled by other weapons.
Finally, he is tired, his mind is sapped, the sword falls upon him killing him. But he is brought back again, only to die again, and then live, and then die.
again
and again
and again
and again
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and again
and again
and again
and again
and again
and again
Jasmine looks at Chen a moment longer before turning to Rhyvin and saying I need your help, there is a lot of injured here and I need to stabilize as many as possible. I need you to go through them and mark them in terms of severity: 1 is minor injuries, broken bones, superficial cuts and that sort of thing; 2 are those that have more severe injuries but could last a few hours if they had to; 3 are those that are at imminent danger of bleeding out or will probably die if they do not receive treatment immediately. She pauses for a second, her eyes tearing up a bit before continuing, ...Use an X for those that are no longer in need of...healing.
She then begins to go around through all of the wounded, stabilizing them all as quickly as possible. She doesn't bother with full healing at the moment since there isn't time.
"I got no problem marking out the dead, luv, but I'm no healer. Can't say too much about what injuries the rest have 'less they're bleeding on the spot or bone is sticking out..."
In spite of this, Ryvin does her best to perform triage.
Argrand sputters at Analin, "Analin Sedai, what power did she use! Have we a chance of even stopping her!?"
"A forbidden weave." She shook her head. "It does not matter. It does not make her invincible, simply reckless and dangerous. We are dangerous, too."
a psychic ripple causes everyone to grab their heads in momentary pain (similar to when the Wolf is present) as Keelix suddenly appears next to Ryvin.
He blinks rapidly, his body quivering in pain, his blood covering him from head to toe from thousands of cuts and gouges.
Vala...Dying! Help! he sputters out, a gout of blood vomiting from his mouth and covering ryvin in a crimson sheen.
He coughs and then collapses, unconscious.
Blood and Bloody Ashes!!! Jasmine leans down and hurls all five threads of the power into Keelix.
Once awake Jasmine says Keelix, where is Vala?
Fia watches helplessly as vala's breathing grows shallower until finally her chest stops moving all together...