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 Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 2:29 pm
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It felt like an enormous amount of responsibility had befallen the dragon. Never meant for such greatness, the beast had not once thought there was even a slight chance she would come to rule anything.. let alone an entire kingdom. The human kingdom at that! Aurum spent time running from such things, spent her whole life escaping anything that felt too confining to her. It wasn't fair to expect so much of her, to try to mold her into a perfect queen, to put this.. this unexpected cage around the dragon. The longer she stayed with the humans, the more she was around them, they wanted more from her. She showed up and they wanted better manners, she behaved herself and they wanted her to dress the part.. she dressed the part and they just kept going on and on picking at every little detail that she failed to measure up to. They tied strings to her arms and legs, they wanted her to be some sort of example - the beasts are no different from us! But she was different. Aurum was probably the worst choice for queen out of almost everyone in the kingdom.
If the dragon could at any point pull this off, she wasn't doing what she could to hurry it along. In fact, there was far too much of her time spent achieving just the opposite. Coming home at all hours, if ever.. like the night before. Over the past few months in particular, the young woman had found solace away from this life, away from her children, and away from Kael. The children were not like her. Though only three, they grew much quicker than humans - but that didn't stop them from resembling their father in almost every way. Their magic felt and acted like his, they favored his mannerisms and aside from Khafka's hair.. well, they did not look like her. Aurum felt isolated, she felt like she no longer had control of her own life. She didn't even look like herself! She was a glimmered up version, a fraud in her own skin.. maybe that's why she kept amassing her hoard. One day, she would show him what she had collected, but for now that was her's alone to know of. But that was something else that separated her from her family - they were unable to transform, they had no interest in collecting, and they did not understand her need to grow her collections.
The last three years were filled with those damn elven tomes - so much so that the princess had actually begun reading the pages. The language was not an easy one to fully learn, but one book had turned to many, and that many had turned into a very large portion of what she had spent years prior building. Aurum had dedicated her time away to the one thing she could truly control in her life: her hoard. She practiced her illusions - if only to feel some kind of connection to her loved ones - and kept everything safe from prying fingers. The dragon dreamt of nothing else but to help Kael, to dispel the magic that surrounded him and deconstruct the spell that bound back his full potential. It was no easy feat to find these books, and there were times that the young woman would return to Kael in conditions that would have left humans near death and crippled. This last trip - the one that kept her away until late in the night - had proven far more difficult than she had anticipated, and when she heard Kael's nagging through the stone, she groaned and tossed the thing to the other side of her bed.
Sitting up slowly, the sore princess managed to catch the tail end of her husband's nagging.. and her blood went hot. She stood far too quickly, and let out a small cry of pain as her side throbbed. Aurum dressed in travelling gear with little hurry, almost as if to spite Kael, and grabbed her usual pack. She slid the stone into the bag and began walking to her prince's study - avoiding the help along the way and keeping from speaking to anyone that she didn't want to interact with.. which was everyone. When she reached the study, she was calm and quiet while entering the room, but when the door closed there was a fire in her eyes that Kael would know all too well, and Aurum erupted, "How dare you!" She yelled, her hands in tight fists, "It's every time with you, isn't it? I don't want to go to your damn dances, I shouldn't have to!" She felt like she shouldn't have had to do anything for these humans! Aurum huffed loudly, she opened her hands and closed them again quickly - something to help control her use of magic that she had been practicing - before she spoke again, "You just can't let it go though, huh? It's been two years, Kael.
Let it go."
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 3:52 pm
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Shaking his head as he thought of what he has said into the stone. The young prince shook his head and tossed the stone into the air before catching it. "That was not called for Kael" the young prince muttered to himself. "Aurum is trying her best atleast. It's not something that comes over night. Knowing how to act as a princess soon to be queen." Tossing the stone back to his table he groaned. It seemed as of late, he had less of a patience for Aurum's actions then before. Even to his horror on many times under stress he had snapped at his wife. A rage at times welling up inside of him during times when the couple had come to verbal blows over anything. "I do hope she wasn't listening in to the stone at the time" he groaned turning back to roll up the last bits of paper on his desk.
The answer to his question came quicker then he had expected as the door behind him opened. It was soft at first, to his thoughts being one of the maids again losing control over their children. "Have you lost the children again then head maid?" Kaelthas called turning around as the door closed to see Aurum. Who as soon as the door closed began to lay into the prince. She yelled at him with a fire that was alike much of the past few months had started to become. As Aurum yelled and boiled at him at first Kaelthas could do nothing but stand their. His eyes wide and mouth agap.
Shaking his head as the last of Aurum's protest given the prince cocked his head. "Every time? Of what, I ask you to be around from time to time to atleast show the essence of a princess. Some time to show face here, your presence at a party there. The loving affection of a mother shown more often then not." Pushing the chair he had been leaning against back Kael took a step towards her. "I haven't asked as much as should be. A princess of a kingdom soon to become a queen, allowed to come and go for the most part as she wishes. What kind of luxury do you think you have from that? I stay to run this country, continue to push towards a long overdue unity. I even find the time to act as a father to Aveli and Kahfka. And yet what little I ask of you is to much to ask of you? That instead I should let go such freedoms I make sure you have by taking more on myself? Please Aurum, tell me how that is a fair trade in a relationship? I am not asking to cage you but you need to understand since the marriage that you are now a part of something more. More then a small horde of gold, or flight over plains of the middle kingdom. You are part of the next face of the entire kingdom of man. You are the mother of two beautiful children, and the wife of someone who tries to give his queen the space she wants. All I ask is you hold to both your promises and vows"
At the last of his words Kael struck the desk behind him. His words impassioned to say the least. There was almost no anger in his voice as he yelled towards Aurum. He understood her not wanting caging. Giving a loud huff he looked back at Aurum. "I only bring this up as you have a habit of skipping out of things you see as useless or boring. This isn't something that I need you to do this with. Of all the times I need you to act like a princess. You are escorting the King to the middle kingdom if you remembered or even cared for what I said a week ago about this. I am not asking you to do anything with this, only follow with him. I am even bringing the children with me so they will be out of your hair for a time." Taking another step towards Aurum Kaelthas crossed his arms as he looked firmly at her. He was doing his best to not get angry this early in the morning, but it was already starting to show on his face.
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:47 pm
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Aurum rolled her eyes as the prince decided to lay into her, crossing her arms over her chest and letting out a bored sigh. It always happened like this. He brought up the Winter Gala every time something "mattered" to him or the kingdom or whatever he decided to bring up to her. And no, she wasn't listening closely as the human drolled on about how he should be asking more of her, about how he had to be a prince and a father. The dragon simply didn't.. care. She did, however, hear his quip about how she was now a part of something larger than her own wants and needs - well.. not in those words, but she growled and bit back, "I didn't ask for this! I don't want to be part of something bigger!" The dragon's voice cracked some as she yelled, throwing her hands to the side. Kael hit the desk behind him and the temperature in the room rose just slightly.
The dragon was hot, her body burning up as he yelled back at her. Her face turned pink and she took in a deep breath, though there was a quick twitch of her eyebrows as she felt the pain in her side once again. Her eyes welled up, but the anger kept it from spilling over, "I was never meant to be a damn queen! Or a mother!" She spread her arms, her voice heavy with the weight of her own words, "<********, just look at me! This was not the life I was supposed to have," When he stepped towards her she tossed a hand to him, forcing him away from her, "You've known your whole life that you were going to be king, Kael! It isn't fair of you to expect any of these changes to come easily to me!" Aurum's voice cracked again and she could hear her children in the distance, a maid ushering them away from the hall. She was not the mother they deserved, especially lately.. coming home the past few weeks and doing nothing but fighting with their father. But the princess had been guilted over and over again by Kael, he brought up her shortcomings more often than he might have admitted.
"They would rather be with you, anyway!" It was high-pitched and very, very hurt, "I can only imagine what you say about me in my absence," There were times that echoed in the young woman's mind - her children asking why she cared more for gold than for them, asking why she had to be away from them so often, one child explaining to the other that Kael was their real parent - and they caused an ache deep inside of her that she couldn't explain. She shared these things with him, she told him she wanted to be a good mother and she just wasn't cut out for it. In fact, it seemed like the only thing she was cut out for was living on her own terms. Aurum gave a huff and crossed her arms over her chest, "Your kingdom hates me, your father tolerates me, and the children watch me like I will snatch them up and fly away," Never mind the fact that she had, at one point, taken them and flown to her hoard with them. She had hoped flight would spur on their transformations, she wanted them to connect with her in some way, and she couldn't think of another way to do it besides showing them what their mother truly was.
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:17 pm
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When Kaelthas was again pushed away from Aurum he stood near his desk clenching his teeth. Aurum continued to yell at him, about her own short comings, about his insentience on her. She even went as far as saying she felt she was an unfit mother and that he spoke ill of her to the children. Everyone one of Aurum's complaints fell on deaf ears as the prince stood there letting her vent. His teeth held clenched as the room seemed to heat up around the two of them. It was something that was becoming far to common between them. This kind of arguing. Loud, verbal, and scathing arguing that two loved ones should not be doing.
"Enough!!!!" Kaelthas yelled slamming his hand down on the desk again. A sudden pulse of dark energy seemed to flow from his fist cracking the desk and throwing papers about. The aura in the room seemed to darken as the prince inhaled sharp. "I would not be so low to talk ill of the mother of my children in a bad light. Do you think me some sort of commoner with naught better to do? During your absences, I have little knowledge of where you have gone to, so I tell the children to my best guess. Their mother has gone on an errand of their grandfather. " Lifting his hand out of the now fist sized crater in his desk Kaelthas shook his hand a tinge of pain flowing thru it.
"Tell me if this life is so much to your disliking, why is it you stay? Why is it you continue to suffer day by day in such agony as having to put on a pleasant face towards me and the children? Are we all so unimportant that you are unable to take some time guarding a horde of gold in a cave somewhere? You have a home here, and a family that loves you and wants to see the best for you. Instead, you gallivant around. You shirk at any help that anyone within the country tries to give to help you adjust. You seem to think my father holds anything less of the love of a daughter for you. Worst yet, you refuse to spend much time with our children. The reason they look at you like that is you are almost a stranger to them. The head maid has spent more time with them over their lives then their own mother. Tell me in what world that is something that should be? Of all of this the only one to blame for the reactions of anything is you. You need to grow up Aurum. It's time to realize that a horde in a cave isn't the only thing in life that matters." Biting his tongue Kael took a step away from his desk as he walked towards the nearby windows, crossing his arms. He knew he had said to much but his anger was fuming. It was taking everything in him to keep his voice from raising as he continued with her.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 9:25 am
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The dragon felt the shift in the air only seconds before her husband yelled and cracked the desk. Aurum took a step back, uncrossing her arms and keeping her hands open as a small defense. A growl came from her in a deep, angry rumble.. but her face turned pink and the tears that had lined her eyes began to spill over. The dragon threw energy toward him, taking another step back and putting her hand to the door. Everyone expected so much of the damn girl and she just wasn't like him, or them, or the whole damn kingdom. She was a sore thumb on a hand that already had enough fingers. Her words were sharp and hurt, her voice wavering as she spoke, "I don't leave because I didn't think I had a choice, Kael," She cried, but her hand stayed on the door, her actions showing her willingness to run away from it all.
"I'm just a kid, I'm not ready for this," Aurum was crying harder, but she watched him take another step towards her and her hand flew out to stop him. She was so hurt by him, by the way he spoke to her, by the expectations he held for her. He spoke like she should have been prepared for any of this, like she should have already adjusted.. but she was not and it caused these fights. Aurum wiped her eyes quickly, shaking her head and opening the door, "Don't wait for me to return with your father," Her tone was pure defeat, her shoulders slumped, but the door was quiet behind her and she walked down the halls completely aware of the stares and the whispers.. but all it did was fuel the need to leave, to run away, to leave this life behind.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 10:47 am
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As the tears began to stream from Aurum's face, the anger Kaelthas was feeling ebbed. His anger lately had overwhelmed him again like many times before when they had argued. It was coming more often lately then before. This angered prince wasn't who he wanted to be and wasn't him. Calming some Kaelthas reached out for Aurum, who took a step away from him. Instead she moved towards the doorway at the other side of his study. Her tears flowing moreso then before.
' I don't leave because I didn't think that was a choice, Kael. Don't wait for me to return with your father'
These words were all that Aurum left with before disappearing out of the door. Kaelthas was able to say nothing in response as he instead stood there. A look of shock as his hand extended towards the now empty doorway. The anger that had subsided in the prince welled up again as stood there. The dark aura from before wafting off of him. "Why can't you understand" he growled clenching his fist. "I only want was is best for YOU" he yelled as he spun and slammed his fist into the desk. The desk underneath his fist crumpled. The force of the blow echoing thru the desk, shattering it from the middle as the force continued into the floor. Around him the papers he had been going over fluttered into the air around him. The papers caught in a slight cross wind that had blown in thru the nearby window. Huffing, Kaelthas stood there as the remnants of his anger fluttered down around him.
After some time when the room had finally become silent. During the princes anger, the staff had stayed well away from the room. Finally tho with the sun set skewed in the sky a single figure approached the room and knocked. After no answer rendered, a member of Kaelthas's traveling party entered the room. Inside the room had looked ransacked. The table in the center of the room lay shattered. The chair's and tables of the room lay thrown about. Papers lay scattered on the floor, and deep cracked imprints covered the wall. In the side of the room, hunched against the wall lay prince Kaelthas. Dried blood caked his hands and he looked disheveled to say the least. "Your Highness" the traveling partner called to him registering his presence. This inticed an acknowledgement from the man. "The time for travel is soon upon us. The horses and traveling items packed and ready. They await only your presence. Lady Aurum has departed already." Looking back over his shoulder the man gave a nod to the two maids who huddled behind him. "Make sure the prince is ready for depature soon." Turning from the room the man headed back towards the cart as the maids moved into the room.
Several more hours passed the sun now hanging low in the sky. A soft clopping of horses echoed from the path. Within the interior, two small children's heads hung out of a window. Their expressions wide eyed as they traveled towards the destination. The prince had composed himself and cleaned up before setting off. Aurum and his anger weighed heavy on his mind as the almost melodic clopping filled the air. The air smelled of mid spring with the scent of summer intertwining. It would be several days before the prince would arrive at the kingdom of Amular to speak with one of the Yarls. In that time the prince would try to return to his normal self
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 11:19 am
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The darkness that surrounded her husband had only grown in the past years - and in the past weeks it had begun the show itself more often than not. Aurum was no angel, her energy was dark and her magic was chaotic at best - inciting fear and pain to those around her. But this was different. This was something that, unlike her, Kael did not control. It was a magic that surrounded their children, a magic that had only broken through in pieces, but now it was far too often - and it was far too dangerous. Aurum could feel and hear his tantrum even once she had entered the carriage and began to ride away. The king spoke with her but her thoughts were elsewhere.. as they often were after a fight. Her face still pink and stained with tears, the dragon tried to sleep off her worries.. but her dreams offered her no aid.
When she did wake many hours later, Aurum jolted upright with her hands opened defensively, ready to unleash a spell against the beasts that plagued her sleep. When she saw it was only the king, her hands fell and she let out a sigh, "I'm fine, why are we stopped?" There was some kind of block in the road, a tree that had fallen in a recent storm. The dragon got out of the carriage and stretched, looking to the tree with suspicion but watching these men work in the dark to move it. She could have moved it herself, but she was still not revealed for what she was.. nor was the extent of her power shown. Aurum leaned against the carriage and waited for the party to finish up, arms crossed over her chest.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:04 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 1:00 pm
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By the time the first arrow flew, Aurum had uncrossed her arms and stood straighter, no longer leaning against the carriage. Her hands opened up and she used one to try to get the king back into safety. The dragon's eyes went wide as a man fell just next to her, and she stayed stuck for a moment as she watched the blood pool around his head - only to be brought out of it by an arrow whizzing by her own head and sticking into the carriage. Aurum brought her head up and snarled, muttering an incantation and throwing her hands in the direction of these arrows. Balls of fire erupted from her hands, some making a satisfying connection with an archer or two, but most hitting the trees and illuminating the travel party. She could hear the king shouting, giving off commands.. but most importantly, not in the carriage.
Aurum spun around, ready to force the man into the craft if she had to, and the twang! of nearby bows kept her distracted if nothing else - she heard nearly all of them before she felt anything. There was a gasp that escaped her, but it was followed by an inhuman roar as she looked to the king, "Get in the damn carriage!" One hand went to her gut, the arrow protruding from her body with a circle of red surrounding it.. but the other she threw behind her, forcing those away from the carriage and to the ground. There was a shutter in the illusion that surrounded her with the more magic she used, her real human form peaking through. She snarled, her upper lip curling as she turned to face the leftover traitors - though the trees still hid many, the fire lit up the grounds and Aurum could see them far better than the party she traveled with. She let out a yell, throwing what she could at these people, and her illusion fell completely.. but there were more of them than she had anticipated, and she heard it before she felt it all over again - this time through her shoulder. She yelled out and a mist began to surround her. They would soon see the dragon that was to be their queen.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 1:19 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 10:04 am
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Someone from the inside had betrayed the king - even if the intention was to betray the beast princess. Or perhaps it was both, but Aurum had little time to process the situation while another round of arrows came down against the dragon. She heard her name being called - by a soldier, and then followed in a panic by the king - but by then it was far too late and the woman had already transformed. What had been a fatal wound had now turned to a minor annoyance at her feet, the arrows hitting her left knicks and scratches but did not enter her body and protrude from her. The roar that came from her shook the trees, her front legs stomped and she lifted her many wings before quickly pulling them forward to throw the men down with gusts of air. Aurum whipped her tail behind her, causing two things: one, the guard was rolled over and crushed under its weight.. and two, the carriage was flung into a tree with full force.
Not yet realizing what she had caused, the dragon stomped towards the traitors, grabbing some up in her claws and tossing their bodies against the trees, but scorching others with her breath. Aurum didn't slow down until it seemed that most of the group was gone or dead, another roar echoing through the trees and bouncing back to her now that the battle had died down. And it was now that the princess turned to look at the carriage, her heart sinking as she watched those loyal to the king surrounding the broken carriage.. the wood splintered and cracked, the door and wheels demolished, and the king.. the cry that came from her made the ground quake. Aurum went to move toward the carriage, and was met with resistance from the men.
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 7:30 pm
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Having spent most of the day traveling, Kaelthas and the children came to salvation. After some time of travel. The Prince arrived at the neighboring kingdom. "It seems we have finally arrived here children" Kaelthas called. The carriage was soon pulling thru the gates with two children hanging almost out of it's side. In the time of travel the soon to be King had taken time to think about things. His and Aurum's relationship had become rocky at best in the past months. From what he could best come up with, a small break from one another might be for the best. He would need to see if he could speak with her soon to see if she would be okay with his idea. As he leaned back in his chair, he could feel the carriage coming to a complete stop. It was clear that they had finally arrived at their destination.
"Ahh the soon to be king has finally arrived at our doorstep" a voice called. "How has the prince of man faired in his travel to us?" A voice called out from outside. Poking his head out, Kalethas was now looking at one of the few people he disliked in the world. A friend of his fathers and one of the greatest down talkers to his plans to unite the kingdoms. "Mathais Krane" Kalethas called as the doors to his carriage was open. True blow hards, could not hold a candle to the man that lay before the prince and family. "How have you been of late friend" Kalethas called as he walked up and hugged him. The smell of liquor and cigar smoke weighed heavy on the mans clothes. The color's of the kingdom, Purple and brown. Colors that looked more like a bruise in the kingdoms side to the prince. "Come, how long has it been since I have seen you? It was not to long after the birth of my children. They have grown so much in the past few years. They take so after their mother and father." With a smile Kalethas beckoned his children over who sauntered slowly and gave a small bow.
]"It has been some time has it now. They have grown quite like weeds in the garden" the man quipped. The jab meant to be a jest but stabbing into Kalethas's side like the thorn the man was. Mathais, a man so self centered he knew little of those around him that hated his guts. "How has Varyian been of late? How has the news of you being able to get a wife held with him?" The man, seeming to hold a wafting of alcohol on his breath chuckled. Leaning over he gave a light pat to the heads of both of the children, each of which darted behind their father. "Where are my manners tho, I am sure you trip has been long, and you are weary. Lets get you inside and we can have you rest before the proceedings of the marrow." Without another word, the man spun on his heels beckoning the family as he walked towards the front. Soon in tow Kalethas and the children would soon follow.
Laying in the now wreckage of his carriage. Deep wounds and gashes covered King Varyians body. His breath ragged as he tried to push pieces of lumber off himself. Before him a dragon that had once been his son's wife, was rampaging. The hunch that something was not quite human about her, finally shone truth. A dragon, Kaelthas had bedded and married a dragon. He wondered if his son even knew what his wife was, an image of his son's reaction to this filled his mind. A coughing laugh brought a spatter of blood. A chunk of the carriage had pierced the man's lung, and blood was starting to fill it. As he focused back on the dragon that rampaged in front of him. Several of the soldiers that had not died in the arrow barrage rushed to him. Their yells and cries muffled and distorted. He had lost quite a bit of blood already, and there was no stop in sight.
As Aurum turned back, and seemed to have finally seen her handywork. A dragon that was currently in a place to become queen. Trying to say something another cough of blood was all that came out as several of the soldiers moved him. He was places in a sitting position as they began to try to stop the bleeding as best they could. A dragon, with the power to destroy a carriage with a single flick of her tail. With the power to destroy an entire forest and all the would be usurpers who attacked from their covers. This was the woman that his son had taken the hand of. A realization of the reason she was naught around as much as a human mother. His hunches starting to make sense as flash backs to times during the war of his younger years. The strength and restlessness both a strength and a weakness in them.
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 6:20 pm
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Another cry let out from the dragon, a loud screech that had some of the men covering their ears. The beast took steps towards the dying king, thick mist surrounding her as she did. Perhaps her cries would be heard even through the pack, hitting the stone and connecting to Kael. The few steps it would have taken to reach the king turned into a run as the small girl pushed past guardsmen to meet his bleeding body. Tears covered the princess and her hands fluttered over his wounds, her mouth constantly forming incantations to heal.. though the blood loss was beyond repair and Aurum was sputtering out the spells by the time she realized this. Men tried to pull her away and she fought them off to keep trying, eventually yelling out, "Let me fix this!" The dragon went digging through her pack, shoving away the soldiers over and over again. She could hardly hear them over her own heart and the king's gurgling breaths, searching through the pack in a flurry. When she found the stone, she spoke into it between gasps.
"Ka.. Kael! I ne-eeed you here," Aurum dropped the stone right after, her hands shaking as she tried to force her way back to the king's body.. but her body was weak as well, her energy spending as she tried to use magic that did not come naturally to her. Healing spells, light magic - these things were not as easy and she was trying with all her might. The dragon yelled unintelligibly as the men held her arms back - both in physical pain and pain from her actions. They all blamed her - they didn't understand the accident of being too large on a small battlefield.. they just know that the dragon was the reason their beloved leader was dying. She thrashed against them, only causing herself more pain, but she did manage out a sentence to the men - and through the stone, "Let me take him home!" They did not let up their resistance, and Aurum let out a few more cries as she attempted to rip away from them.
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 7:10 pm
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As he lay there, Aurum rushed over to his side. The king coughed a few more times as his eyes, slow in their sockets, moved to look at her. Gone was the fierce dragon that had stood before the group moments before. Now, a child who realized they had done something terrible remained. Her pale skin now showing thru the the light given off by near by torches, no longer the glimmer darkening it. Tears streaked down the girls face as she pushed her way to his side. Her actions broken, erratic, and scared. The girl hadn't meant to do what she had done during the ambush. It was evident from what the king could see in her actions. As Aurum started to mutter something a slight burning seemed to encompass his chest. It was a healing spell, he had felt many an effect of it in the past during the war. He better then anyone else around him knew it wouldn't be enough as the girl was set on by the guards.
Feeble and shaking, Varian lifted a hand up as he made a beckoning motion to remove the guards from Aurum's path. They already had come to despise the girl in the last few moments. Her actions, meant to help them all, ended in a different way then envisioned. His wounds were an accident, that much even he himself knew as he struggled to call for Aurum over to him. His body was heavy and his eyes tired. "Aurum" Varian coughed out as he mustered up the strength to put himself to a sitting position. His body screamed at him as he tried to move again beckoning the guards to let her thru as the did begrudgingly. "I am sorry child." Varian chocked out. Her healing earlier,while not being able to save him, allowed him some extra time atleast to stave off death.
Having settled in some after his trip. Kaelthas wandered the chambers now, looking for the children. Both had been in his quarters until he had stopped long enough to look at one of the treaties he had brought. Within moments of that, they had vanished. " Aveli, Kahfka " Kaelthas called out as he wandered towards the doorway to poke his head out. "Aveli, Kahfka!" he called again into the empty hallway. "Will you do me a favor and go find the young" Kaelthas questioned to one of the two guards that stood outside of his room. As the man gave a nod and started down the hallway a muffled noise came from his room.
Turning to find the noise he started to look around. His thoughts had turned to it being either his son or daughter playing a game of hiding. "Come now children, I know you haven't been able to play in some time but Papa needs to work." Kneeling down Kaelthas looked under his bed and around the area with no luck. As he started to stand tho, the sound this time was much clearer.
'Kael, need'
It was still muffled but even so it was a voice he knew. It was Aurum's voice, from the stone he had given her. It seemed she did know how to use it when she wanted to. "Maybe she has cooled down a little bit since we parted ways yesterday" Kaelthas muttered. Going to his pack, he started to dig around in it for a few moments before finally finding the stone. A shock hitting his hand as he did tho making him real in surprise. "That was......strange, it shouldn't do that." Testing the stone again this time there was no shock from it. Gripping it he brought it closer. "I am sorry Aurum. I wasn't in the room earlier to hear you, Aveli, Kahfka have taken off into the castle. What is it you needed?" he asked the stone.
'Take him home'
Aurum's voice was once again muffled and distorted. There was something wrong with the stones connection. "Take who home? Kahfka? He isn't able to be brought home currently Aurum. You know I am atleast a day or so ride from home. Look, in a few days once this is all over you can come see both of them. Just make sure to come home with my father. I know you say that he hates you. You haven't given him a chance. Sit down at talk with him while you are heading to the middle kingdom. I am sure that you will come to realize he is the same as me. He only wants what could be best for you, even if you don't think so." Looking around the room, Kaelthas sat on the corner of the bed as he held his stone. He wanted Aurum to return with his father and not take the route she had hinted to when she left. They hadn't grown so far apart that he felt their marriage was not yet unsaveable.
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 7:45 pm
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Once released by the angry men, the dragon moved on her adrenaline alone and rushed back to Varian. Her eyes lit up as he spoke, and she helped him to a sitting position as he struggled to continue. The guards grabbed her as she did this, but Varian stopped them and Aurum kept on crying, her mouth barely forming the incantations to heal the king.. she put most of her energy into this, trying to give him enough life to hold on, to make it until at least the skilled healers were around. When he choked out an apology, she looked up and sobbed, her face contorting into an image of realization and pain all at once, "Don't give up, please don't!" It was a yell, a knee-jerk reaction to the wave of tragedy surrounding her. She moved back to his wounds, healing the minor ones that proved the easiest and returning occasionally to the main problem.. but the stone went off and she caught enough to feeling of hopelessness all over again.
She stood and took in a deep breath, but her tone was full of a false hope, "I'm going to get him home, I'm going to fix this," She pushed around the guards to grab pieces of the carriage frantically - an unbroken bench cushion, a large plank of wood, and some of the royal curtain that surrounded it - and grabbed up her pack and the stone, catching some of the message but not all. A shock hit her when she touched it, but she picked it up and turned it over, feeling weight on her as she saw the crack in the stone. "Khafka? ... I am at least a day.. home ... You can see both.. come home with my father. ... heading to middle kingdom. ... best for you.. don't think so," She tried wiping her face and started towards the king once again, "Go home, go home. We need you to go home. There was an accident," the men yelled in the background, distorting her message, "I don't know how much more I can do, just please come home."
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