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August 21nd, 2007
Somewhere in the mountains of eastern Oregon.
Somewhere in the mountains of eastern Oregon.
Late at night
Shesu is awoken late at night by Jacob, who shakes the older man awake. Shesu comes awake slowly, having fallen asleep amongst the others who are lying about the cabin in various borrowed sleeping bags, his normal light sleep having been disrupted by the long day, and magical healing. Lara and Zack, lay passed out his right, the pair having used their combined powers to heal the various injuries of the group. Behind them lie Sam and James, James still in bandages, and taking up the cabins only bed, Sam having fallen asleep at the foot of the bed still clutching James' hand. Alex has curled up at the foot of the bed, and Mu, has chosen her sleeping bag as a good place to curl up upon and sleep. Nearby Mu lies Golem, the small creature having been warn out chasing the cat around and appears to have fallen...dormant? asleep? at the foot of the bed.
Eve lies to his left still asleep, Joe across the room against the far wall, snoring peacefully. Abdul and Jacob were to Eve's left, but their sleeping bags have been cleaned up, and rolled up neatly and placed on the Table.
Jacob has his shirt off and his wings unfurled the gentle blue glow filling the dark cabin with an eerie light. The wing that was "popped" in the final battle glows a little dimmer than the other, but much of its vitality has returned after Lara and Zack's power has had a chance to work on it. Jacob smiles his child like grin when he sees Shesu awake, but his face darkens a bit, tinged with sadness when he says.
"I've come to say goodbye."
August 22nd, 2007
Somewhere in the mountains of eastern Oregon.
Somewhere in the mountains of eastern Oregon.
Dawn:
ShesuAshari Shesu and Eve are walking in the woods outside JosephCooper's cabin. The day had passed slowly, but neither one had any inclination to do much of anything. The nightmare images from the battle at ZaizensTemple temple were still fresh in their minds, and the events of the past weeks weighed heavily on them. They had left the others back at the cabin, and decided to take a walk to clear their heads. The lofty canopy filtered the sunlight as it fell to the forest floor, and as the gentle breeze rustled the treetops, the dappled shadows danced along the leafy duff. There was no path to follow, but the underbrush was light enough that they could walk where they wished. They wandered slowly up a gently sloping incline, towards the top of a short hill overlooking the cabin, each lost in their own thoughts.
"I need to do something," Eve exclaimed, breaking the silence of the mid-afternoon. "I can still feel all of them, all of the others... Lily, Genevive, and that black thing, I mean. They're still in my head, and I can hear them, and all of this quiet is making it worse. Let's go somewhere, anywhere."
In his deliberate cadence, Shesu replied, "I too have been thinking as much. I have been troubled by what I saw in Zaizen's temple. That place needs someone to heal it, someone to guide it back from his corruption to its natural state. I know that the temple must hold special meaning for you, and... it would mean much to me if you were to come with me, back there, and help me set it right."
"Yes... that place, I don't know what I think about it yet. Parts of me feel like it is home, and parts of me revile it. I want to make it into something new, something better. I was thinking of a refuge, you know, for metahumans. A safe place, where we could go to be amongst our own kind. A place protected from all of the shit in this world." Eve kicked a rock up the hill ahead of her, and every few steps it rolled back to her, and she kicked it again. She continued, "And, we could clean it up... it might be difficult, but if you could get Golem to come with us, I'm sure he could help us unwind all of the runes and magic that's been laid into that cave."
"So you will come?" Shesu turned to her, expectantly.
"Yes. We should leave, now, before resolve fades." She pauses, "What of the blade?"
