Tombprince

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Blin "Brytag" Alborse Eli Wyn

Blin grinned as Eli approached him and punched him, in a friendly manner, in his shoulder. Kal moved to the other side, carefully keeping its own eyes on the red furred little mouse creature. Blin clapped his iwn hand on Eli's shoulder.

"It's great to see you made it down...."

"Yes," Eli replied with a nod of his own, his expression growing serious for a few moments, "Now we miss only one - I hope she's okay. I really hop-" As he was about to finish, a shuffling sensation cut him off.

A blur of white, and Kalikorix had shot from Blin's shoulder and ran along his arm onto Eli, the red fox-mouse squeaked a battlecry of pure terror and startled from its hiding place began to shoot around Eli's upper torso. Kal followed swiftly but not as fast, its wings seemed to impede its speed as it raced to follow.

Blin took his arm back in shock at Kal's action and stared to speak when he noticed something subtle about the chase. Kal was losing ground. No the mouse-fox was gaining it. The distances between the two altered and all of a sudden Blood Terror of the Night Sky was chasing Kalikorix the White Dragon around.

"What the...."

Kal had suddenly leapt from Eli and glided to Blin's shoulder, Blood Terror in sheer abandon jumped the distance to follow. They did one pass around Blin's shoulders before Kal's claw dug into Blin's shoulder and it tipped over onto its back. Kal back legs clawed into the cloth Blin was wearing and a little into his flesh (again) and its front legs splayed up and outwards. Blood Terror ran into Kal, it squeaked shrilly once again and darted it's tiny head about looking for escape.

Both the friends companions were breathing heavily and Kal's head drooped backward on its long flexible neck before its eyes closed and its panting began gentle snores. Its two front legs didn't exactly grip the scared mouselike creature, more like gave it a hug.

"...Hell?" Eli finished Blin's sentence as he watched the race unfold. The two seemed to be getting along and it actually looked as if their respective companions held some traits similar to their owners - if that's what Blin and Eli even were to them. Eli approached the fiery mouse, before gently taking it away from the "death" hug of the White Dragon. "Rest a bit, furry." Eli said with a smile, as he put it into the front pocket of his shirt.

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@Sigurd

You can take it that Ellaryn has arrived at the bell-tower. I'll only post if someone wants to interact with Els before we all get to Ofnir.

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Sorry for delay, I should have posted days ago.

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Angfort ~ Ellaryn Bracegirdle

Ellarym looked about the common of the inn, her voice fading out when she reached the quiet room. Even though it was the middle of night and (she shuddered) the people in village slept like the dead, her thoughts became fixed on the prior evenings events. The happiness she had felt with her companions and the village folk bought tears to her eyes as the memory of their kindness and the following fight upstairs.

Calariel shot past her moving swiftly to the front door. Ellaryn's head slowly turned to follow her movements, but too slowly, it was like she folowing her shadow behind her, and even that escaped her gaze as the door was flung open in her haste. Her gaze fell on the bar and spied something glinting as the moonlight shone inside.

Ellaryn (too herself at least) moved slowly, her small size meant she did not even clear the top of the bar. At that point Thurin stomped downstairs, his huffing and booted footfalls could not be mistaken for any other man, elf or hobbit in the village. Her dazed thoughts were lost into a deepening spiral of darkness she hadn't felt for a lifetime. As her thoughts turned to a past memory she tried to rid herself off for years following, she focused her eyes on the glinting object infront of herslef.

The delicate glass dome had cracked sometime during the night, gently removing the glass she uncovered the removing cake she and her companions had shared. Not everyone had taken a piece. She carefully cut a slice, as neatly as possible, placing on a plate and putting on the bar counter.

"For you innkeeper, may you enjoy it in your next life."

She cut a second slice, putting on a seperate plate beside the first.

"For Nora, so you you can be together."

Then she hesitated, and decided to sut a third and final slice.

"Because good cake should be wasted, for the stranger to share, because three makes for company."

She wiped her eyes, the smoke from upstairs was getting thicker and from somewhere outside a bell began to toll a hurried tone. It snapped her into action and she left the inn. Thurin was outside leading two of the mounts away, he seemed to be going in the direction of the ringing bell. At least, thought Ellaryn, he had the right idea. This village was going to be getting dangerous and her thoughts were on the fact that all of them could be getting the blame for the burning inn and its occupants.

Ellaryn spend into the stables, she quickly got her own pony ready and then thought it prudent to take Calariel's own mount with her. She had to close her eyes and remember which was hers but she soon found it and prepared it travel as well. It? she thought, she looked at the horse but couldn't tell if it was male or female.

"Let's go and Sandy, girl, be on your best behaviour."

Her pony shook its head and gently butted her shoulder. As Ellaryn led the pair outside the moonlight clearly showed her own pony was male.

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@TombprinceI am for the option in which you post first. I am intrigued.

@Sigurd

Working on it then, it'll go up today or tomorrow (depending on timezones) and I'll double check if anybody else has posted before it finally goes up.

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Might grab a few bottles of wine, lel. Aelin is a poor artist after all..

@Azazaa

I'm getting more cake XD

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@shylarah

Yay, welcome back.

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Got an idea or two for my next post, can I just ask if everyone is on their way out (if they haven't already left like Princess Calariel) or has left poor innocent little Ellaryn alone downstairs?

I just need to know roughly if people are leaving or hanging about for my post.

(No, Ellaryn will NOT be robbing the inn....much.)

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Blin "Brytag" Alborse

The little dragon had seen the girl with fiery bird, had rapped Blin on the forehead as she appoarched.

"Aw...", she pronounced in disappointment when he woke up.

"I'm awake." blin blinked a few times.

Kal was moved up to Blin's shoulder as he greeted the girl. He grinned at her, "Hi just Sera. I'm Blin" He was completely oblivious to his little dragon, it sat there glaring at Sera as gently punched his shoulder. "That thing could have killed us all, no-way I'm doing that again." He looked at his improvised staff that was weilded as a spear, it was now a third of its length and didn't look like it could strike any more blows. Unless something was vunerable to a splinter attack. While Blin tossed the wood to one side, Kal made a subtle movement towards Sera before backing off, it still watched her closely but seemed a litle more relaxed that no harm came to Blin.

Blin turned to the fallen boney bird, looked at the second and finally at the mushroom person. He tried his best to decide if he should ask about the new creature that lived in this strange forest or go for the sword. He still felt the connection to it, but with Sera and Nikki both being much capable in a fight than himself, could he he any claim over it?

"That..." he tried at the same time to gesture to both the bird with the sword and the mushroom creature at the same time. His arms did a strange dance almost unseating Kal. The white scaled beast once more dug it's claws into Blin to hold on, giving a tiny sigh at the same time. "..ow" Sera moved over to Nikki to greet her and Blin followed, her antics in the fight were on par with Eli. He wondered if two of them were actually related.

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Angfort ~ Ellaryn Bracegirdle

Ellaryn knew she should have followed the wizard's command to head downstairs, but he words on the lifeless husks that were burning on the floor unnerved her. She made herself small, keeping the torch both away from herself and the wall behind her and waited. Vamyr soon opened the door and dodged the walking cadavar that lunged out from the room. At the same time she swung her torch into the corpses knee, Vamyr entered his room as the blow unbalanced it. The torch set the thing alight and it stumbled onto the hacked innkeeper and his daughter before it unnaterally went up in flames.

Ellaryn stared down and the three burning corpses, she'd never hurt anyone this bad before. She tried to tell herself that technically, they were already dead, but somehow it didn't help. She snapped out of her dark thoughts when the wizard spoke about the stables, and once more she mentally slapped herself, this time for not considering her pony.

"I'm coming Sandy, don't be scared girl." Whether it was the wizards words or the thoughts of the pony, she ran downstairs towards Aelin yelling "Awake! Fire! Fire!"