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 Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:35 am
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:26 pm
Tianara took his hand for a second and squeezed lightly. They would find Aria. They had to. She pushed back her dark hair and smiled at Allen. "I..."
Cookies? What the hell were cookies? Were they good?
She looked at Joshua for an explanation, before deciding that it didn't matter. She'd ask him later.
"We'll find Aria first and come back," she said lightly. "Maybe we can have one then."
She hoped that answer worked. Not knowing what cookies were, precisely (although she figured they were probably those things that Allen had sitting in the kitchen), she was fumbling with her words a little.
Stepping back towards the door, she looked out at the view from the front porch. How far away could Aria be?
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:34 pm
I wanna be the very best To catch them is my real test
Like no one ever was To train them is my cause Joshua returned the squeeze on her hand. They wouldn't give up until they'd found Aria. Seeing her confusion, he almost chuckled but kept himself in check. He gave her a look that said he would explain about cookies later. He headed outside, scanning the beach for a moment. He nodded upwards. "Let's try that way first. I doubt she'd work by the rapids." He suggested. It also meant moving away from the creature, whatever it was. 'Unless it moved....' A small part of his mind whispered suspiciously. What id the creature had tried following them over the land route? He shook his head to clear it then stepped out along the beach. "Let's get going." Clickies please? You know you want to click the adorable pokemon on my farm
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 9:41 pm
Tianara nodded briefly. "Okay." He knew Aria better than she did. Since Aria was not an ocean child and didn't really have enough power for Tianara to sense easily, she would have to defer to Joshua's judgement.
"Up?" she asked, following the movement of his head. With a glance in the other direction - and a quick shiver - she said softly, "Yes. Let's go. Quickly."
Leaving it at that, she headed down towards the beach. Once she got there, she'd let Joshua take the lead.
There was really only two ways she could have gone from here, the girl thought, looking from left to right. Up the beach. Or down.
But she'd never gone to the house. Not if Allen thought she was still with them. So...had she just stopped to look for shells on the way?
Tianara could only hope that was all it was.
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 4:52 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:33 pm
Tianara's eyes snapped up at Joshua's words. She studied the boat - but more than that, she felt the air around them.
Heavy. Cold. Full of terror and disgust and wrongness and she couldn't explain why but somehow she knew--
When Aria screamed, Tianara jerked out of the half-nightmare, half-daydream she had been sliding into. Grabbing Joshua's hand, she broke into a run.
They had to get there now. Right now.
"Aria!" she called over the sand dunes.
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:35 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 2:25 pm
((OOC: D8 Apologies, my love. Inspiration was low. And still is. ))
Tianara ran across the sand to Aria, not bothering to look at the forest. "Aria, come on," she said, meeting the girl halfway.
She knew that it was here. That thick, heavy feeling in the air couldn't be mistaken for anything else. They had to get out of here. Looking to the water, she hesitated - and shook her head. That trick wouldn't work a second time.
Grabbing Aria's hand, she ran back across the dunes towards Joshua. She shoved the girl towards him. "You two head back towards the house. Get to Allen. I..." She looked towards the forest. It wasn't out, not yet, but It was coming.
She shuddered. "Go. Hurry. I can distract it, and then..."
She could make it to the water. She could get deep enough to escape. Joshua and Aria - especially Aria - couldn't.
"Go!"
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 4:34 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:36 pm
Tianara hesitated. Her eyes flickered from Joshua's face to Aria's. Then she shook her head. "Go," she said quietly. "The best thing you can do for me on this battlefield is to go, Joshua. Then the only thing I have to protect is myself."
She couldn't defeat it. She didn't even know if she could hold it back. If Joshua and Aria didn't leave, they would take away her option of running. They would all die.
Briefly, her mind flashed back to Mika, the seer woman. She never thought we would all survive. Maybe we won't.
Maybe we won't.
But I have to try to make sure he does.
"Please. Go. I'm not asking for me," she said, not looking back at them - instead, her eyes were fixed on the forest. "But for the merfolk. They need humans who will stand for them. They need you, and dying here won't help anyone. Go."
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 3:49 pm
((OOC: *bump of awakening*))
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:16 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:14 pm
((OOC: T'is all good. Are you through them now?))
Tianara watched them go. She could feel the cold dread beginning to seep into her, and she indulged in a brief shiver before turning back to face the woods.
She didn't want to die. She would do everything she could to not die. But she felt a sinking, shivery feeling that warned her she might not have a choice.
Needing some sort of connection, she reached out briefly - out towards everyone she loved, human and merfolk alike. Her brother, her family, and her friends alike felt that mental touch, and they responded to it with a strength of feeling that made her smile. Hesitantly.
If she died today, she would do so knowing she was loved.
Staring into the woods, she felt the stir. Its attention had been caught by the girl. She smelled like food, she realized. That was why It was paying attention.
Her eyes were focused on the creature as it came rushing out of the forest, onto the beach, and towards her like a freight train - It was endless, Its hunger consuming.
She would never be able to fight that thing.
Shutting down her mind so that there was no connection It might follow if she wasn't fast enough, she turned and raced for the water.
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:45 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:06 pm
((Gah! XP I missed a lot XP What's the present plot going on? I'll try hopping in XP Sorry for the long leave XP I feel so bad about it XP))
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