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Post by katrina on Nov 6, 2008 22:39:16 GMT -4
"Do you think you can do it now?" She asked simply to be cautious. She didn't need to have him nearly dieing again. Joke or not it scared her and she didn't want to relive it. And now that so much energy was thrown between them she didn't know how much she could handle. The star had given her more energy than she could carry, but he had to have used so much of his strength to get her there and he could be exhausted. "I don't want you pushing farther than you should."
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Post by Kioh on Nov 6, 2008 22:44:13 GMT -4
"I can do it!" he said, sitting up straight and proud. "Really I can." Kioh took one last gulp of the water, and paid the baker for the meal. He turned back to Katrina, "Do you feel up to it?" he asked.
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Post by katrina on Nov 6, 2008 22:51:02 GMT -4
She nodded and stood with him. Once the baker was paid she took his hand and led him past the door to the building and past where he had stolen the star's strength. There, past the end of the road, was the forest where they would make her wand. She looked back to Kioh, smiling with eagerness to hold her wand again. "Will you run with me?"
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Post by Kioh on Nov 6, 2008 22:55:59 GMT -4
He looked down happily as she grabbed his hand this time. Kioh followed obediently, smiling to himself the whole time. When she invited him to run, his grin grew. "Always." he answered. "Lead the way."
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Post by katrina on Nov 6, 2008 23:16:11 GMT -4
She smiled for a moment and started to run. The world was a blur around her as she ran with quickly placed strides that were fast enough that they left no tracks. Her silver-tipped hair flew behind her with the wind as she kept going. She did not run for long, but it had led them far into the forest and she doubled over gasping for air. Any normal elf would have been fine, but she lacked their endurance.
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Post by Kioh on Nov 6, 2008 23:20:40 GMT -4
Kioh ran after her joyfully, his feet carrying him fast over the ground. He stopped when she did, and looked at her curiously. "Are you alright?" he asked, watching as she breathed heavily. Kioh laughed, "You look like a fish out of the water!" he teased. The way she gasped reminded him very much of a fish.
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Post by katrina on Nov 6, 2008 23:26:20 GMT -4
"Shut up," She snapped unintentionally. She didn't like having to stop. It made her feel weaker than she should be, something she could never allow to come to pass. She let herself fall against the roots of a tree enjoying the rest and letting sleep slowly pass over her. "I just need rest. Here you can make my wand."
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Post by Kioh on Nov 6, 2008 23:36:19 GMT -4
He stopped his laughing. "Alright." he said, bowing to her again respectfully and sitting upon the tree roots beside which she lay. Kioh watched her as she slept for a moment. She looked like something out of a painting, perfect and flawless and peaceful, washed in the contrast of shade and moonlight. But he looked away as he remembered that elves were still perfectly aware of the things around them as they slept. Sure, they could sleep like humans did, if they wanted to, but most slept like the rest of their race did. Kye looked back at her and drew upon her energy, beginning to sing the spell. The words came from his mouth with wonderful sound and tone, and he concentrated on the wand, Katrina, and himself, balancing the energies between the girl and the magic. He himself didn't lose much energy, as it was hers that he was using to make the wand. But he did have to take in a tree, or a few grasshoppers every once in a while.
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Post by katrina on Nov 6, 2008 23:42:40 GMT -4
Energy was being pulled. she could feel her strength being pulled away from her and her mind screamed for her to make it stop. She hadn't counted on her own reflexes telling her to stop. It would drain her strength faster, but as long as Kioh spoke the spell well then he should be alright. She had to trust him. He said he loved her. He wouldn't let her die.
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Post by Kioh on Nov 6, 2008 23:48:07 GMT -4
He put a hand on her shoulder, making the energy transition a little more bearable for her, so that it flowed directly to him and then to the spell, rather than flowing from her and to him through the air. Kioh drew from a great tree and gave her strength, using it for the spell as he drew it again from her. She had said that it would take a year to make a wand, but Kioh knew that he could do this in a month or less.
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Post by katrina on Nov 6, 2008 23:53:42 GMT -4
The tree and his hand against her made things much more bearable for her as he hoped. In her mind she could already feel the tree that would form her wand under the ground, something that she had spent months to accomplish. He truly was powerful.
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Post by Kioh on Nov 7, 2008 0:05:23 GMT -4
Kioh watched her, watched the soil where he could feel the tree beginning to grow, observed their energies and gave them strength when they began to get low. For many days, Kioh did this. The first week they could see the sapling sprouting from the ground, and the second it was getting taller, but still a mere twig. The third week it was a baby tree, officially able to stand upright and sprout leaves. On the fourth week, the end of the month's time that Kioh had predicted, a beautiful tree had formed. A young, very young tree, but it was a wand tree. It was Katrina's wand tree.
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Post by katrina on Nov 7, 2008 0:12:35 GMT -4
Her eyes opened then for the first time in the month that she had been feeding her strength to him. The energy flow stopped and the spell did as well. She did not move towards her tree though, lackiing the strength to do it. But she only stared at what they had created together. No matter what shame it was to make a second wand it didn't matter to her. She hadn't technically made it herself. She had help and he did it. Maybe he could be a wand-wielder too, with the right teacher. It was her duty to pass along the tradition to the next generation. But then, he wasn't actually the next generation, he was the same as hers. But if she broke the tradition of there being only two wand-wielders in existence it wouldn't matter. "You did it." She whispered weakly knowing he had to have been much more exhausted than her. "Thank you. you don't know what you've done for me."
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Post by Kioh on Nov 7, 2008 0:19:46 GMT -4
Kioh smiled at her. "You're welcome." he said sleepily, yawning a bit. "It's my pleasure." the elf stretched out over the tree roots and closed his eyes.Kioh didn't feel as shy around her now. His face didn't grow red in bashfulness when she thanked him. Or not as much, anyway. He wasn't sleeping, but simply trying to regain the strength that he had lost singing the tree. True, he could have drawn the energy from something else, but he decided not to. Rest was free, and nothing had to lose strength for it. "Do you like it?" he asked, opening one eye and glancing at the pretty little tree.
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Post by katrina on Nov 7, 2008 0:26:45 GMT -4
She smiled as he stretched beside her, but her smile was faced away and he could not see it. But he would have noticed how she forced her self to let her body move again. When her body could relax she was close to him, their bodies separated by less than an inch. she didn't mind it as much, not after what he did for her. The young willow would take a while for it to burst and free her wand, but she didn't mind the wait now. "It's better than the one I sang."
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