MidnightRose

Wing and Storm

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My Dread Return

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Brave New World [Gooble 'n' MidnightRose]

Brielle watched them walk away for a minute before exhaling. Her heart was racing and she just realized that her hands were shaking. She hasn't noticed until they were gone but she had been terrified. After all what if they hadn't listened to her? What if they had decided to jump her right there. She all too easily could have just died. The thought made her head spin. She quickly shook her head, "Stop it!" She muttered to herself. "You're not dead. You're fine and you need to keep moving." As she walked back to West she thought about it and realized there would be plenty more stupid and desperate people that she would have to deal with in this game. People in this world were just as much of a threat as any of the creatures.

She put her smile back on her face as she stood before West. "It's all right. I understand. It's harder dealing with people than it is dealing with pixels," she assured him gently taking her staff from his hands, trying to make her own hands stop shaking. "I'm sorry that I got you dragged into that. I'll work harder on keeping a low profile." She took a few steps, "So let's carry on then. We need to get to work after all," she said cheerfully.

She was suddenly looking forward to this dungeon. She was looking forward to a straightforward battle where she could simply attack with no consequences. She wanted to demolish an array of creatures that would evaporate to nothing and meant nothing. Because thinking about the gravity of human life in this game made her feel sick.

Brave New World [Gooble 'n' MidnightRose]

Brielle glanced the side at West. She could see him doing that strange analytical thing in his brain that he seemed to do whenever faced with an opponent. However this time was different. This time he seemed off. It was as if whatever he was figuring in his head wasn't working out correctly. This concerned Brielle because although she hadn't known him long she had never seen him look like this.

"Hold on one second boys," she said to the thugs before turning to Lutwin. "Hey why don't you go on ahead and I'll catch up with you in a minute, okay?" She said calmly, studying his expression. "And hold this for me," she added placing her staff in his hands. She smiled at him reassuringly, "It'll be okay. Just give me a minute," she said quietly.

She turned back to face the three thugs. Now she wasn't as confident as she appeared to be for West. In fact she wasn't at all sure of her actions. At best she was taking a huge gamble. But she didn't know what else to do. She didn't want to kill these guys and honestly she didn't think they wanted to kill her either. They appeared to her to be cowards and brainless thugs governed by fear with no real fighting strategy. Their stances and the way they held their weapons haphazardly told her that these were inexperienced players. But that was a risk she was taking not knowing what kind of people they were.

She stepped up to the ring leader, "Look do you really want to risk your life and the lives of your friends here over a few coins?" He sneered its three against two." "But you don't know our skill level. You also don't know if we're willing to kill players that cross us. It's a whole different game here. I might be willing to kill anyone to survive, are you?" She gave him a hard look and his cocky smirk faltered, his friends looked at each other uncertainly. "Why don't you and your friends go back to the quest board, pick a low level quest and come back to me later if you still feel the need to fight." He glanced up at her before scowling and walking away muttering something about how she's not worth it and his friends quickly followed.

Brave New World [Gooble 'n' MidnightRose]

Brielle took the satchel gratefully putting in her bag with great care. "Thank you!" She was impressed that he had already gathered so many items for their quest. She glanced towards the path she had come from but the player that tried to take her money didn't seem to be following her. Her shoulders relaxed a bit and she became distracted by West's actions. She noticed he was staring quite intently at the group of people near the board. Or was he staring at the papers on the board?

He was so focused on watching them that she was a bit stared when he suddenly got up and rushed to the board. He was back in an instant with a satisfied smile and a handful of papers. When he explained what they were she smiled impressed, "Wow! Good work! This will keep us busy for awhile." She briefly scanned over the papers seeing that they were for the dungeon they intended to enter today. Her heart jumped at the thought of the dungeon. She knew that they could succeed if they planned their moves and worked together. However the thought of entering a territory where the objective was to kill you in a game with no respawns still made her nervous.

When he said they should get going she nodded in agreement. "Right! Let's do this!" She said with a grin following West out of the town. They had just exited the city walls and entered the forest on the pathway when a voice called out behind them. "Hey bitch! I've got a bond to pick with you!" Brielle rolled her eyes and turned to see the punk that had tried to take her coins. Only this time he had two friends with him: one wielding a mace and one wielding a battered axe. She stepped forward shifting her staff to a two handed grip, purposefully placing herself between West and the three players. "What's wrong? Your foot a little tender?" She asked the ringleader. "Look I don't want any trouble so why don't you and your friends just leave and we'll be on our way." The thug sneered and took a step closer to her, "See I asked you nicely the first time and you disrespect me. So now I'm just gonna take what I want since asking didn't workout the first time," he drew from his sheath a sharp dagger. "And you," he gestured with his dagger over Brielle's shoulder at Lutwin, "I'd start walking if I were you. This is between me and the lady." "and your two henchmen," She couldn't help but smirk. These guys were thugs all brawn and no brain but still she didn't wanna put Lutwin in any danger.

Brave New World [Gooble 'n' MidnightRose]

Brielle blinked as the morning sunlight filtered through the window shutters. She shot upright, disoriented, forgetting for a moment where she was. She quickly looked around the room then saw her staff and sighed. Everything that had happened the day before came flooding back to her. She exhaled running her hand through her hair. She had half wished that she would wake up in her own room in the real world. No such luck. She shook her head.

"Oh well, on with the day." She got up and walked to a wash basin with a mirror hanging above it. She washed her face and pulled her vibrant red hair back into a braid. She paused for a moment studying her too perfect character features in the mirror. She blinked at her large green eyes, her soft blush lips and her flawless skin. She couldn't help but appreciate the beauty this world afforded to her. She picked up her staff in one hand and walked out to the lobby. An NPC stopped her to deliver a message. From this message she learned that West had already left so she quickly headed out the door.

She kept glancing over her shoulder as she walked down the street. She felt pity for the players that were begging in the street but she tried to ignore them. She couldn't afford to worry about them. She had to focus on West and the plan. She was interrupted in front of an alley where a boy about her age stood in her path. "Hey you have any coins to spare?" He asked holding out his hand. She shook her head and quickly stepped around him, "Sorry, excuse me." He caught her arm jerking her back, "Hey come on! Just a few coins. We all gotta look out for each other." She glanced around not wanting to make a scene then glared at the punk, "I said no." She brought her staff down on his foot, hard, causing him to release her with a yelp.

She took off down the street and almost ran past where West was sitting. She skidded to a stop and walked over to him. "Hey!" She said with a cheerful smile, "Sleep well? Ready to get started? We should probat head out." She rambled glancing in the direction she had come from, gripping her staff with one hand.

Brave New World [Gooble 'n' MidnightRose]

Brielle nodded and called after him as he walked away, "Goodnight!" She shook her head slightly. She was beginning to realize that West was not one to partake in idle chit chat or social formalities. She found it odd and yet endearing. She had never met anyone like him. Perhaps because people like him would be too shy to talk to a busy overachiever like her.

She pondered these things as she walked down the hall. She purchased a room locking the door behind her. She laid on the bed staring up at the ceiling, her staff laying on the mattress beside her. She couldn't help but think about her younger sisters. They were only three and five years old. Her mother had remarried when she was thirteen years old. She had to get used to her stepfather but those girls... They were two of the best things that ever happened to her. Every night she would read bedtime stories to them. Laying in this small room she missed them.

She shook her head and exhaled slowly. She couldn't think about them. If she was going to have the best chance of seeing them again she couldn't afford to worry about them. She had to focus on the here and now. She had to focus on the plan she and West had. She trusted him and she believed that together they could do this. She slowly closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

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