"Then why can't they just say that? They may not think I'm stupid, but that's how they made me feel. I'm not that great at expressing stuff either....but I wouldn't say things that I knew could be hurtful. Sometimes I say the wrong things not knowing it....but that's different." She wipes her face again and tries to get herself under control, "They think we're rushing? At least we knew each other for a couple weeks first...and we're not even getting married right away, we're waiting until the end of the month. Kama and Elena knew each other for like two days....I just don't understand why it's okay for her and not for me. I don't need a bunch of horrible relationships to know what I want or don't want. I was raised by a total psycho...so I'm pretty clear on what I don't want...how could they think that I don't know?" She says as her voice still trembles slightly.
"Maybe they're not happy about Kama and Elena and are transferring their feelings onto you. It's probably not on purpose, but, you know, it's hard to accept change when everything around them seems to be changing day by day," Dillon reasons. "Do you always say the right thing when you're in the heat of the moment?"
She sighs, "Oh....you mean like I did right before I ran out of the house and insinuated that she didn't care about my happiness? I guess not...but what am I supposed to do now?"
"How about I make us some tea and you get a little calmer before going back? You'll have to talk it out at some point," Dillon says, taking Rajni's hand. "Let's just enjoy some time together first."
She nods, "Okay honey." Putting her arms around him for a few minutes she leans her head against his chest, "You always help me make sense of stuff. I just...I can't always be objective like that when it's in the heat of the moment and I don't know how to get out of my own head so I can figure things out....but you always seem to understand things when I can't. I'm sorry I keep dragging you into the middle of my family issues....but soon they'll be your family too so best you learn these things early. I have noticed that they can be a tad overprotective....but I came to them from a really bad situation...so I guess I can understand that part. I'll try talking to them again later okay?" She says as she sighs softly against him.
"Right" Sādhanā says noting Mirrin walking past them as he does, a slightly amused expression crossing her face. "Magestreia, how much do you know about the Anizari?"
"Maybe. We'll see how that goes." Cyna answers with a chuckle.
Sienna chuckles as well. "I'm not sure what I'd do."
"Absolutely nothing," Magestreia answers.
Dillon nods then heads to the kitchen to make some tea.
Getting up off the couch she follows him to the kitchen and sits down at the table.
Leaving the bathroom door open so she can hear Celine playing in her room, she draws another bath and puts in a few drops of lavender and chamomile oil. As the tub fills up she adds some soap to it that actually bubbles up before she gets in the tub. Easing down into the warm water she lets out a little sigh as she takes the washcloth and starts washing herself while letting the aromatic water relax her mind as well as body. After a little bit she doesn't hear anything coming from Celine's room and calls out to her just to hear giggling on the other side of the bathroom door, "Celine...what are you doing? Are you getting tired of playing with your blocks, bear and dolly?" I really should see about getting her some other things to play with. She needs some books, maybe some puzzles...I don't know.
Celine pokes her head into the bathroom and points at her teeth. Coming in the bathroom she pulls her little stool up to the sink and climbs up on it so she can reach her toothbrush and brushes her teeth. When she's finished she rinses out her mouth and climbs back off the little step stool and puts it back. Leaving the bathroom door open a little like she found it she goes back out to the living room to play.
Arista just smiles and goes back to bathing. After washing herself really well she lathers up some soap in her hands and washes her hair really thoroughly before completely rinsing the soap off of her and shaking out her wings. She wasn't even sure how to wash them or if she needed to. Even if she needed to wash them she couldn't reach them right now. She sighs as she stands up and wraps a towel around herself. After drying off she goes back to her bedroom and puts on some warm clean clothes that have already been altered to accommodate her wings.
Tesia goes upstairs and starts getting their things together before starting to get her armor on.
Mirrin throws her pack on the ground as she reaches the shore and dives into the water. She starts swimming in the frigid water toward the ocean. The lighthouse drifts past her as she continues at a frenetic pace. Soon, her muscles begin to tire, nothing around her but the deep blue water. The cold numbs the pain but she cannot continue. She waits for that desperate moment where she would want to live again, but it never comes. All her feelings are ash scattered to the wind as her body grows heavy, too tired to struggle against the waves. Her heart slows as the icy water envelops her. Eventually, everything goes dark and the moment of her passing slips by, unnoticed.
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"Ah well it's.....a learning experience. First of all your tattoos...theye're morE than that, sort of a symbiotic living part of you. They'll change with you, sometimes reflecting important parts of your life with their patterns, as well as enhancing things about you. Yours are blue, like mine but paler. They're defensive, acting as armor, toughening your skin. The colors have different significance, like Celia's amplify her talents with healing."
She has to resist the urge to smile as a stray thought of Ylrhea's favorite benefit of her tattoo's flickers through her mind.
"There's also another...more unique aspect of being Anizari."
"Comme toi moi" Amelie purrs, curling up against Gerard's side, her fingers playing with the hair on his chest.
Recognizing the direction of the conversation, Celia smiles quietly to herself. It would probably be quite a shock for the woman, whoever she was before her "rebirth."
Excusing herself, Rhadaya heads upstairs, coming up behind Tes and riding off the ground into the air to brush her hair aside and kiss the back of her neck, before helping her with the straps on her armor.
Tesia hums softly as her wife kisses the back of her neck. After they finish getting her armor on she turns and puts her arms around Rhy. She softly kisses her forehead, nose, cheeks, and finally her lips, lingering there for just a little longer before pulling back, "We better get going before I forget what we're supposed to be doing." She says a bit breathily as she looks into her wife's beautiful eyes.
"Hyggindi sensed her," Toni says. The eidolon nods. "She cannot be summoned until this matter is cleared up. Tarja poses a threat to everyone, especially you." "The choices are we journey to the eidolon plane and resolve this matter or we unbind her from you," Toni says flatly.
Drago thought for a moment, this was not a decision to make lightly. I made her a promise to help her and my Father sacrificed his spiritual energy for me to realize my potential as a Summoner. He absent-mindedly rubbed his neck, But then again, what if she hurt someone before I could stop her? What if it was Yulia or worse, our child? Can I really risk it? And what of physically traveling to her home plane? The pain of when I dream walked there was bad enough. It was hard, but he had finally decided.
Looking at Toni, "I promised her I'd help her fight her madness, but if the last encounter is any indication, I'm not sure if I can and I can't risk her hurting someone else in the meantime. Perhaps it would be best to.............unbind us." There was a catch in his voice as he said it. An indicator of how heavy his heart was over the choice.
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"Oh?" Magestreia asks, noting the Anizari that passed them.
Toni nods and waves her hand over Drago. He feels his very essence being pulled from him. Just as it feels like his very life might end, the sensation ends. The mark disappears from his forehead. "It is done."
Konstantyná feels a strange sensation and looks down at her arm. One of the marks disappears, but not the one she was hoping for. It's probably for the best.
She sighs and starts cutting up herbs for her concoctions.
"You could run for Mayor I don't think we've got one of those yet." Cyna says.
Sienna waves her hand. "Arista's better at that than me."
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"You think she'd want to do it?" Cyna asks.
Sienna shrugs. "She likes fighting a bit more than sitting behind a desk. Still...she's a caregiver and wants to help people out."
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Cyna nods. "Then we'll skip past Mayor and go straight to Empress."
Gerard smiles and closes his eyes. A few minutes later, he falls asleep, his arms still around Amélie.
"So what is this 'unique aspect'?" Magestreia asks.
Dillon finishes letting the tea steep and hands a cup to Rajni before fetching the honey and sugar. "I still don't know how you like it."
"Meh, I don't want to be in charge of things," Sienna says. "I'm not necessarily good at following orders, either."
She gives him a smile and kisses his cheek, "Usually just a little honey. I like it just a little sweet." She says as she uses a spoon to put a little honey in her tea and stirs it.
Dillon blushes a little before adding some sugar and honey to his tea.
She smiles a little more as she sees him blush slightly and sighs as she sits back in her seat and sips on her tea, "Ahhh that's better. I didn't realize until I sat down just how cold I got outside. I guess I was out there a bit longer than I intended to be....but....I was just upset and needed to work off the frustration of everything." She says a bit more quietly as she looks down into her cup.
"That's understandable."
Looking up at him she gives him a small smile. After a few more sips she says, "You know...we may not have a lot of the same interests, and I know that in reality we haven't known each other for that long...but, you just...you seem to really understand me and you help me understand things, or see them in a way that wouldn't normally occur to me. You help me make sense of things that just...well, don't make sense and I don't think I need a bunch of horrible relationships with people that don't give a crap about me to know that I love you and only you and want to be with you and only you...and I don't know why I can't make other people understand that." She sighs and takes another sip of her tea, "You're the only man I've ever been with Dillon...and I'm okay with that."
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"Meh, I don't want to be in charge of things," Sienna says. "I'm not necessarily good at following orders, either."
"Then we'll just have to beat up a bunch more people before we retire." Cyna says.
"Not everyone gets what you have and it's very hard to understand," Dillon says.
"I'll figure it out eventually," Sienna says with a chuckle.