As Cor'ellis pushes past him to go out into the melee, Renlo says, "Peace, Lady Cor'ellis! If we must go out there to try and find children, then you should remain here. You are no Aes Sedai. We will find children and bring them back."
The noble Lady's cinnamon eyes flashed as they met Renlo's, gathering the reflected candlelight until they seemed to glow. She scoffed, loudly. “Yes, for one need be Aes Sedai to comfort frightened children.” And she marched right on her way, unwilling to be delayed another moment.
Still the caution in the Shienaran's tone seemed to have reached her on some level as she takes a calming breath for a moment and seemed to be listening for something as she moved more slowly down the hallway. Val sticking close to her side.
Smilng as he watches Cor'ellis push past the Shienaran swordsman, 'Guess I shouldn't have asked what will happen , if I'm not willing to intervene as well.' Elek begins to move towards the door, 'I wonder if she will listen to Renlo, I think he had a better chance of talking the dog into not following her.'
Moving past Bataar, grunting, "Leave that sword in its scabbard this time, yeah."
Nearing Marik he asks, "Hey Marik you have another one of those? I havn't been in a fist fight since a miner pinched my sister." His smile widens, 'I don't have to tell him it was last month.'
"I don't but to be honest, you are probably the better fighter, I've just been in a bar fight or two nothing major. Take it."
He began handing over the sap, he instead armed himself with his thin bladed but heavy hilted sword and a dagger, he could just bosh a fellow over the head with the hilt if he had too.
'Willing to give what he has away, I did not expect that.' Seeing Marik in a new light, Elek winks, "I was just kidding, you hold on to it." He then raises his hands and then closes them into fists, "Besides, I have these, I think I'll be ok."
Seeing the look Cor'ellis gives Renlo, "I would not want to try and stop her once she sets her mind to something.' Moving toward Renlo he slaps the Shienaran on the shoulder, "Come on Renlo, we don't want Marik to look like the brave one." He then follows Cor'ellis out the door, unconsciously slipping into Cat Crosses the Courtyard as he moves.
Renlo stares at Cor'ellis nonplussed as she heads out into the melee. "I said nothing about comforting children, merely that it is unsafe for a Lady who cannot channel to venture out into such a fight..."
He follows the Kandori out into the corridor, ready to fight as needed.
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Korin reacts belatedly to the commotion outside, or perhaps more truthfully, did not react to it. The recent revelations within their own room seemed far more pressing and of more importance than a sudden brawl amongst the locals. Particularly since the Bataar fellow was probably behind that too. He could not afford to be distracted here.
Korin's gaze slid from the self-confessed male channeler over to the Aes Sedai and back again. His eyes narrowed. Aes Sedai were famous for being unreadable when they wanted to be, but this one had barely reacted at all to the man's confession. Did she know all along? Light preserve us! Are they working together? She did let him flee back in Fal Dara after all. To what end though? Or perhaps, is she waiting so as to not provoke him? Just what did I stumble into?!?
He risks a quick glance as some of the others slip out of the room, apparently following Cor'ellis' lead, but his mind was still on the other puzzle. Shared dreaming? What sort of shadow-wrought nonsense is he babbling about? He is probably the cause of it all.
Korin stands his ground, hand on the hilt of his sword and inwardly determined not to let the channelers out of sight - though if one or both were the cause of this, what he could actually do about it was beyond him at the moment, especially alone.
stepping out from the Bulwark's front doors, you look onto a scene of limited Chaos. Here and there, men and women are fighting. Some men are fighting each other, some women, even the rare man fighting a woman. But it's limited. Limited to just a handful of people spread throughout the town area. Screams filter down the narrow paths that are considered "roads" in this thorp, yet the finality of some instances are clear as day.
In front of you are two groups of people. Two men fight to your left, and a man and woman fight off to the right.
Not seeing any children that needed help, she kept her distance for the moment placing the wall at her back and Val taking up a protective stance between her and the combatants.
"Fortune stab us all! What do be wrong with these folk?!" She asked of the nearest group of unaffected people.
Exiting the door behind the Lady, Elek looks first to the left then to the right. 'I don't particularly care if those men beat each other silly, but by the light, I won't let a man beat up a woman, not if I can stop it.' giving Cor'ellis and her dog a wide berth, 'Good, she'll be safe there.' he walks over to the couple fighting, trying to put himself between them, he yells
As he leaves Bataar eyes Korin warily. The man had said nothing and was still bearing down with an inscrutable glare. Bataar agrees that he should keep his sword sheathed for now, he could always use it as a blunt instrument. He perks up seeing his ethereal encounter partner, Oh light, now they're fighting in the real world.
He follows Elek and follows up his command with, "Now!"
Renlo takes a more direct route than the other two, walking over and trying to forcibly separate the man and the woman.
While Elek and bataar attempt to browbeat (in a very non-threatening manner) the man wailing on the woman, Renlo rushes up on the guy and body checks the man. His heavy body, clad in armor, slams into the unarmored and unarmed man, sending the villager reeling. He flies off of the woman and lands hard upon his back, his gaze looking up at the sky.
The woman, gasping for breath, pushes herself onto her side and begins to fast crawl on her hands and knees, attempting to pursue her victim. A heavy snarl rips from her throat, rage hard etched upon her face.
Renlo steps in front of her. "Peace, lady! The man is unconscious. Leave him be. Are you not making a scene this way?"
'Nice body check, since the innkeeper didn't listen, I don't know why I thought these idiots would.' Seeing the woman crawling toward the man to continue the fight. 'Speaking of idiots,' Elek rolls his eyes, reaching down attempting to grab the collar of her blouse, growling. "By the flame lady, enough is enough."
He moved forwrad and tried to slide his hands sbout her hips to pull her away from the man, only clearly it didnt work.
The woman spins around, and from her weird, crab like stance, howls a fierce shriek at the top of her lungs.
Renlo, Elek, and Marik take an involuntary step back from the sheer ferocity of this woman's unknown rage.
howls a fierce shriek at the top of her lungs.
"Light oh light someone put her down!"
He began in a panic clearly swinging wildly at her with the sap while starting to backpedal away from the mad woman
'Blood and ashes, maybe we should have worried about saving the man from her.'Surprised by the crazy woman's ferocity, he steps back.
'Someone put her down?' From the corner of his eye, he sees Marik take a swing at her, 'Well, t least she and the man aren't fighting anymore.'watching to see if they need to rescue Marik from the hellcat.
Renlo is surprised by the woman's ferocity. What madness has overtaken her?
Marik clearly panics, and even Renlo has to admit he's a bit hesitant, but he says, "I am terribly sorry about this, but you are clearly a danger to both yourself and others."
He attempts to grab her, but the weird, crab-like stance she's in makes it difficult, to say the least.
The woman yowls again, her mouth hanging wide open, her tongue hanging out, a distortion affecting her gaze; she snaps up from the strange crab-like position and flings herself upon Renlo. Her fingers flex, grasping at Renlo with a vise like strength, fueled by her rage. Her legs and seem to grow several more joints as they seek to wrap around renlo's legs. She begins to snap and chop savagely towards renlo's exposed neck, seeking to take a bite out of him.
'She's trying to bite him.... that's really....disturbing.' Surprised the woman is trying to bite Renlo, Elek tries to help the man push her off.
Where intimidation falters, when a swift solid blow doesnt land, the One Power shows how it is a scalpel in a fight. The thread of Air, seen clearly by Tenora reach from the front of tenora and encircle the stark mad woman, immobilizing her crazed attack upon Renlo.
A slight gurgle and moan lifts through the air, drawing attention to the two men that were fighting off to the left, ignored by others to attend to the woman and man fighting. One man kneels above the other, his hands wrapped firmly upon the other who lays upon his back. Red faced, flushed with anger, the man on top flexes his arms as hard as he can. His hand collapses further upon the man's throat, obvious that he just crushed his opponents throat. The man upon the ground, eye bulging, hands grasped firmly, now suddenly go limp; his entire body going limp.
The stark raving woman, the mad gnasher, suddenly grows calm, cool, docile. the sounds of fighting from throughout the area suddenly stops as well, yet the noise of people screaming and hollering continues. Cries of HELP and NOOOO begin to filter through the air. The man who had just crushed the other guys throat suddenly leans back, looks up at the sky, and screams a wordless scream, pain, anger, heartache, misery all coming through this emotional scream
The woman subdued with air, he moved to make sure the murderor (whether intentional or not) Is taken care of, Slipped behind him and wordlessly tried to knock him cleanly out before anything else maddening happened.
"What in the light is wrong with this place?"
He called out to the others more than a little pale.
Seeing the woman immobilized, 'Tenora must be holding her with the one power.' He turns to watch the fight, just in time to see the stangled man go limp, then turn noticing the woman suddenly relaxing. Pointing toward the dead man. "Blood and ashes, did she just relax when that man died?" Hearing Marik's question, he turns to his cousin. "Have you ever heard of anything like this?" Then turning to the others, "Has anyone?"
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She turns to Elek.
"NO I haven't. There are many things that I don't know of. Perhaps it's some strange work of the Dark One. The light bless us"
The fighting ended, Renlo looked at the woman somewhat uncomfortably before saying, "We should head back into the Bulwark and release the innkeeper. If everyone has stopped fighting, we should be okay."
'Blood and ashes, perhaps work of the dark one...how do we know for sure. If we can't identify it how can we stop it? Blast, we have no way of helping these people.' Sighing, he looks from Tenora to Renlo, shrugging. "At least till it starts again. We should get what we need and get out of town." He runs his fingers through his shoulder length hair, turning to Bataar. "What are we going to do with Bataar?"
Cor'ellis kept out of the mess, mainly to keep Val from attacking some fool innocent in the confusion. Her eyes were drawn to the shrieking woman as she trashed against bonds of air and then grew still.
But her jaw dropped when she recognized that one of the men had actually been killed. She shook her head to Elek's question, but then seemed to think of something. "There did be strange dreaming in Illian too, before I left. Dreams that did seem no to be one's own. I do no know how or why, only that they did be dark dreams... Unwholesome." She shuddered slightly, rubbing her arms with her hands, vainly seeking warmth.
'Blood and ashes, perhaps work of the dark one...how do we know for sure. If we can't identify it how can we stop it? Blast, we have no way of helping these people.' Sighing, he looks from Tenora to Renlo, shrugging. "At least till it starts again. We should get what we need and get out of town." He runs his fingers through his shoulder length hair, turning to Bataar. "What are we going to do with Bataar?"
"We do need to learn what can be known. Bataar has been here longer, he knows of these strange dreams, yes?" She addressed the last to the male wilder himself.
the man who had been knocked unconscious by Renlo's body blow awakens with a groan, clutching his head and rolling to his side. He vomits loudly, the contents issuing forth in a horrible, smelly spray. He heaves several times until finally, nothing comes forth, and he rolls onto his back. Ow... he says weakly.
'Nice, now we get vomited on.' Stepping back so he is not vomited on, Elek looks to the man and asks "What were you thinking?"
Renlo walked away from the man - he had nothing more to say - and went back into the private dining room where they'd left the innkeeper.
Tenora turns and looks at Cor'ellis, shocked.
What by the light?
She walks over and whispers.
"A word in PRIVATE Now." She gently grabs her blouse.
The noble Lady's eyes widen for a moment as the Aes Sedai approached her with purpose. The younger woman had been content to keep her distance up until now, which suited Cor'ellis just fine. Val snarled softly, sensing her unease, but Cor'ellis placed a hand on his brow and he quieted instantly. Drawing herself to her full height, she nodded and allowed herself to be led by Tenora to speak privately... though not by her blouse and with Val in tow, as always.
"What do be the trouble, Tenora Sedai? Should we no be hearing more about these strange dreams?"
'What the blazes?' Looking from the recovering man toward the departing Renlo then to the two woman. 'This town has gone crazy, is it now effecting those two?' Elek's mouth drops open but he says nothing to the woman, looking at Merik and Bataar, he shrugs and asks "Now what?"
Renlo unties the innkeeper, then says, "You've had a rather rough go of it, it appears. Why don't you fix your clothes, then I'll help you back to your kitchen so you can sit down and have a drink of water."
Once the innkeeper fixes his pants, Renlo helps him up and walks towards the kitchen with him, asking as he did so, "We found several people outside just started fighting for no apparent reason. You wouldn't happen to have an idea of what that's about?"