[IC] A Twist Of A Knife, The Birth Of A Legend.

[The Slenderman]

Celaena looked at Aery within her mask and then walked back to Aery " Hey, Don't worry.. IronHeart, we'll get them back.. but please be strong for me " She said then whistled three tunes and an Asterion horse came running from the side of the compound (The fastest horse in that realm ) "Yes we can Aery, " Celaena said and then crouched down linking her hands together to assist Aery up on the horse and then clicked " Can you actually hear me.. Aery " She added

[RomanAria]

Aery saw Celaena's lips moving, but because it was behind the mask, she couldn't really see what the word was. Wordlessly she tapped her ear and shook her head. "I-I can't hear at all." she said, softly, and started to cry silently, tears streaming down her cheeks
She accepted Celaena's help at getting onto the horse, but couldn't stop the groan of pain that came from jostling her broken bones. She really should have taken the tablets--no. No. Be strong, Aery. Be strong. She gritted her teeth and attempted to settle herself more comfortably, finally giving up and shifting so she was riding sidesaddle.
"Thank you, Celaena. Wait, shouldn't we grab our packs?" She winced at the thought of trying to jump down from the horse and land on her broken legs, for it was a VERY tall horse.

[The Slenderman]

Celaena shook her head and tried to do sign language that was meant to be ' No.. The Back up guild has everything we need ' She was sure she messed that up, She then climbed upon the horse and began to ride for Xandria, which on a Asterion horse would take seventeen hours, they'd have to stop at The White Pig Inn in Melisande for refreshments though.

[RomanAria]

Aery resisted the urge to laugh. Backup house needs nothing? Really, Celaena?
"Just turn towards me whenever you need to talk and actually talk, Celaena. I was doing okay at reading lips. Anyway, I'll have to practice, for when I'm in the real world."

[Slendy]

Before Ailen could tell Celaena his Fae ability the small girl from before collapsed by the pillar. As he watched his sister rush to her side ,he jumped to his feet and slowly followed behind her. He didn't want to intrude on their conversation so he stood a few inches behind them listening to the words that was exchanged between them. Soon Celaena whistled causing a horse to appear next them. She helped the smaller girl to her feet and helped her onto the horse. So her name is Aery . Ailen thought to himself as Celaena mentioned her name. She seemed very important to his sister so Ailen decided that it was his job to make her problems go away as well. He whistled and a horse by the name of Hugo rushed to his side. "Sis. If you don't mind I'd like to tag along." He would show her his Fae abilities at a later time. For now he was focused on doing his best to be the most help he can be.

[The Slenderman]

Rowan whistled for his horse and it ran slightly in front of him as it was running he jumped up on it and saddled him self perfectly as he raced towards Celaena's horse, he got close to Aery " You haven't finished your training little one " He looked at Aery's eyes as if to say you're getting dangled off the glass castle.

Celaena turned to Aery and in the distance seen Xandria Horse guards " Take the Reigns Aery" She pulled her bow from her back and leant sideways of the horse and notched an arrow " Keep it steady" She said and aimed the bow at the sentry's in the distance

[RomanAria]

Aery winced at Rowan's reminder. "Sorry, sir, but I've got to rescue my little sisters. They trump my training, meaning no disrespect. Those girls are the only real family I have, besides Celaena." She gasped as Celaena thrust the reins into her hand, but held the horse steady. Years of riding lessons as a princess had enabled her to get the horse under control quickly. Then she saw Celaena swing her bow off her shoulder, and cringed, though the arrow was obviously not meant for her. Her hands twitched, but at the last second, she stilled the reins with her free hand so that the horse wouldn't panic and go galloping.

[The Slenderman]

Celaena breathed in, she was Aelin Galathynius, she seen the guards getting closer to them and she one arrow fly right into the guards Larynx causing the guard to lose control of his horse, it was by chance that the guards were in a tight group as the first sent a domino effect on the guards toppling them, Aelin smiled at her work and pulled her self back up and put the bow back.

Rowan did not like her answer and got closer to Celaena's horse and attempted to backhand Aery mid-ride, He continued to glare at Aery and cursed under his breath 'Curr ' he said and moved away from her horse

[RomanAria]

Aery yelped at Rowan's blow. One of the cuts on her forehead that had mostly scabbed over began bleeding again, dripping into her eyes. She sighed in disgust, for now she was temporarily blind as well as deaf. Wearily she wiped the blood from her eyes and used one hand to funnel the blood away while the other still clutched the reins. "What was that for, Rowan?" she asked softly. "What did I ever do that made you my enemy? Can you really fault me for looking after the ones I love?"

[The Slenderman]

( 17 hours later. )

Rowan climbed off his horse and seen Celaena was climbing off her's, he saw as she helped Aery down, He seen how pissed she was at him for hitting Aery, He did want to train her but she was frail and POSSIBLY couldn't handle the full extent of his rigorous training. He walked to The White Pig Inn and entered, then bought out the whole Inn, He waited for Celaena and Aery "Can I have a Sweetroll." He asked the Inn Keeper

[RomanAria]

Aery looked around briefly to get her bearings. She was quite exhausted and in pretty serious pain from all the jostling, and wanted nothing more than to go sleep for twenty hours or more. But before she could a fairly heavy object hit her back, and she gritted her teeth as she fell on her hands hard, to turn around and see what had hit her. It was one of the younger Park urchins, with the single black string that meant a trainee runner.
His mouth moved a hundred miles an hour, and she realized with a sinking feeling that she couldn't understand him. Rather than try to talk over the boy
SLOW-DOWN. HEAR NOT-ABLE ME. She signed. The boy froze, then signed back to her, his hands a blur.
NOT-ABLE HEAR? WHAT-HAPPENED?
THINK-ABOUT NOT. STORY-TELL NOW.
S-I-L-L-Y GO-TO DOCK GET ON SHIP WANT-TO. FIND YOU WANT-TO. MUST HURRY.
Aery groaned, of course Silly would be trying to find her. But the boy wasn't done.
A-M-E HURT BAD. MAYBE POISON.
Aery froze, looking hard at the boy. She tried to bring her hands up into the sign for "torture" but couldn't do it.
The boy seemed to understand what she wanted to say, and nodded and brought his hands up into the sign for knife.
HURRY MUST. TELL OTHERS NOW.
Turning behind her, to Celaena and the others, Aery said, "I've got to hurry, apparently Silly's trying to get on the boat to Xandria to come find us!"
Then, hobbling along on her poor broken fee and legs, half-crying from the pain, Aery went running through the city, trying to keep up with the six-year-old boy who was her guide.
(Wait, @The Slenderman I just realized we left Shadow in Xandria.)

[The Slenderman]

Celaena ran with Aery leaving Rowan in the Inn, "Damn it, so much travelling " Celaena sighed and kept following Aery, She had heard what the Urchin said, he must have tremendous energy because they were in Melisande, she was impressed with the Male Urchin. But they had to get Silly, before it was too late

( I did say they had to stop in Melisande )

[RomanAria]

(Right, you did. I just wasn't thinking.)
Aery had black spots dancing in front of her eyes when the little boy finally stopped. She doubled over, gasping and wheezing, and coughed up a mouthful of blood. Oh. Not good. Too much exercise. Too much. Too... much. She panted until the black spots faded and then she let herself stand up, to see the boy frantically motioning. Silly was proudly handing a gold coin to an armed soldier. The soldier stepped aside with a little bow and Silly started walking up the gangplank.
"Silly, no!" Aery called, then choked, spat another mouthful of blood out, and straightened up, desperately calling. "Silenia Laelyn Silverheart, look at me!"
No one ever used the royal name for an urchin. Not even Silly. Only Aery had, and only jokingly. But hearing it made Silly whip around, catch sight of Aery as battered and bruised as she was, and come sprinting across the dock. Aery barely braced for the impact before Silly tackled her to the ground, weeping. Aery was crying just as hard as she hugged Silly back. "I know, I know, Silly, and I'm never going to ever let go of you again, you hear me?" And Silly was babbling a thousand miles an hour, until finally Aery forced out the words, "Silly, I can't hear you!"
Silly froze. She signed HEAR NOT?
Aery shook her head. HEAR NOT.
WHY? Silly asked.
MATTER NOT. A-M-E WHERE?
Ame poked her head up over Silly's shoulder weakly. The girl was wrapped in at least two, probably three blankets and tucked into Silly's knapsack and yet she was still shivering. She was awfully pale and her eyes were unfocused and she was sweating.
HI A-E-R-Y. Ame forced a smile, which looked more like a grimace of pain.
"Ame oh my god, oh my god." Aery lunged for the girl, scooped her up from the backpack. Ame whimpered when she did, and Aery soon saw why. Blood and infected pus was visible on the girl's skin, coming from an awful number of lacerations.
Aery clutched Ame to her chest, feeling a red mist settle over her vision not entirely caused by her own pain. Her voice was almost unrecognizable when the words "I'll kill them. I'll rip their bodies to shreds. I'll kill them for what they did to you, Ame." were torn from her throat.
Silly tapped Aery's arm lightly, and Aery still winced as it sent a shooting pain up it.
ALREADY-DONE. She signed. ME HIM STABBED.
Aery hugged her tightly, too.
"I'm never leaving you girls again, okay? From now on we'll do everything together. Aerienna Rosilyth, Silenia Laelyn, and Amethystia Naeren Silverheart-Galanythius. For I adopted you and Celaena adopted me. Sisters forever, right, girls?"
Ame coughed weakly, and signed I-LOVE-YOU. Silly looked up at Aery, her green eyes glimmering, stood on tiptoe and kissed her cheek, and Aery saw a tear trace down her face.
The three girls turned back towards Celaena, fear, pain, and sadness on their faces. And yet, something else, something terribly fragile. Hope.

[The Slenderman]

"From now on, we stick together as one" Celaena asked them to form a circle like shape and held Silly's hand to the right and Ame's hand to the left and looked forward to Aery, Celaena exhaled and puffed up her chest "We stick together...Always.. and forever " She looked to Aery as if to say, Did-I-do-good-with-that-speech, nothing was going to break this girl group apart..NOTHING. Not even Rowan could separate them as that moment happened Celaena tapped into her mind and used her Fae powers to make a swirling fire circle about 45 inches outside the girl group to protect them much further

[Slendy]

After the long travel Ailen decided to stay back with Rowan at the inn. He was tired and needed to be at his best if he wants to kill every person that hurted his sister. Ailen actually slept on the roof of the inn. He was gonna wait up there until his sister and that Aery girl came back from their mission. The sky never seemed to change when Ailen looked at it before he dosed off.

[The Slenderman]

Rowan went to bed after searching the perimeter, After he was satisfied that no one was there, he sat on his bed, because you never know who could burst in at night, He kept his sword close to him just in case, He had seen Ailen climb the roof further protecting the tavern, Aelin had chattered non-stop about her brother, not that he cared, he just wanted to train Aery

[RomanAria]

When they'd gotten back to the inn, Aery was so exhausted that she could barely see straight. She kept coughing up blood (and every cough felt like one of those glowing hot knives in her ribs. Her legs and arms felt like they were on fire, too, which didn't exactly help, and her head was pounding.) But she had one more thing she had to do before bed. Rowan had very kindly left his boots in front of the room he had taken, and she went to rap on his door. "Rowan? Rowan! I need your help! A-Ame's poisoned and I think she might be dying."
Poor Ame. The girl had obviously been poisoned. Soon after the ritual with Celaena, she'd collapsed in delirium. By this point she was writhing and whimpering in obvious agony, her skin was painfully hot to touch, she was shivering so hard she was practically convulsing, and she was talking nonsense in a hundred different languages. She was probably dying, but there was nothing Aery could do. She'd drunk Aery's entire water flask and her skin was already dried and cracked like she was dying of dehydration. Beyond the water and keeping Ame swaddled in blankets to try and sweat the fever away, there wasn't much that she could do. But Rowan...

[The Slenderman]

Rowan heard her and quickly opened his eyes. He got up from the bed and opened the door within two swift movements, He wrenched open the door, and took Ame in his Arm's "What type of poison is it." He knew she was a Mage and even knew Mage's knew every poison that was in the Realm, Still Fae Enchanted Healing Items healed everything, He reached into his Satchel and took the Fae liquid and softly neared it to her lips. "Drink." Was all he said, as he waited for an answer to his question. He then seen Aelin stroll in after them, and sighed at her as if to say 'Don't talk to me' He looked for Ailen " Ailen !!!" He shouted

[RomanAria]

"I have no idea. According to Silly she's been like this for... ten hours? The bastard that grabbed her took them and cut Ame up and beat Silly. I couldn't get her to tell me what kind of poison or anything..." Tears trickled down her cheeks even as she watched Ame calm down, even open her eyes, under the influence of the healing potion. "I've got no magic to help her. I feel so useless."

[The Slenderman]

"Don't worry, I know of some one in Briarcliff.. Her name is Ansel... I assume Fireheart mentioned her to you." Rowan looked at Aery and looked back to Ame.. She was apparently healing. "Ansel is an extremely powerful witch, she can train this little one to absolute perfection... and she is also an Assassin equally your abilities Aery, SO no annoying her" He smiled as he sat back down, "Aery, Go and get a Sweetroll for me.. I sort of like those" He began laughing as he clenched his sword and began running his finger down the length of the sword .