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This land has been swallowed by the sea.

There was a green place in a land far away, a place with a sheltering bay surrounded by jagged peaks and the shadow of a giant snow-clad mountain. To this place came a group of beings, as diverse as beings can be to one another, and they put down roots and made homes for themselves. Now, this is not to say there was peace in this land. With diversity also comes conflict and soon sides were taken, some friendships forgotten and lines were drawn. Some, thinking bigness means power, blamed the dragons for the conflict. Others, believing magic was the source, blamed the elves and fae. And of course, there were those that said that where you have humans, you will always have problems! So, instead of living in harmonious consort with each other, they split into their respective groups and moved to the four corners of the realm, eyeing each other with much suspicion and chagrin.
But of course, as we all know, in order to survive you have to get along with someone. So new friendships were forged and new bonds made. But in the Isle of Arran, those bonds do not last for long. Someone ALWAYS brings a shadow of a doubt to the fire…and then…things happen.

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Scare

The demon Ivarru (Conner Revnik) comes up behind the fae queen "Cassie". She feels a wind, realizes she is not alone, looks up when her friend calls her name, then lets out a scream "aaassckkkss!!"
Ivarru "why are you screaming? what is wrong?"
Casandra Shilova too frightened to move, sees the strong black legs of the huge spider come closer and closer and encompass her.
Ivarru says "pea must have put a hex on you"
Casandra gasps "ah ah spider, a huge SPIDER"
Ivarru responds "why do you have so much fear? there is no spider"
Casandra staggers back, wings a tremble
Ivarru "why do you move away?"
Casandra panics when she is followed and surrounded with the legs again, twists and turns unable to free herself, wings jerking.
Ivarru "i will nto harm you. pea has done this to you"
Casandra lets out a panicked yelp and desperately takes to the air
Following her to the fae meadow, he said "why did you fly away?" Casandra huddles terrified in her chair with the HUGE black spider hovering over her on some kind of monster strand
Ivarru "hmmmm" and takes to the air flying over the kingdom to locate the troublesome fae.
SweetPea FeatherFeet (Emyly Beaumont) swoops down from the skies and smiles "greetings lady casandra"
Casandra looks up at the friendly voice "he..he...hel...hello SweetPea"
SweetPea cocks her head 'what is wrong? you sound funny'
Casandra finally stops shaking, reassured by how calm her friend is "I...I was scared"
SweetPea, knowing that hardly anything frightens her friend, asks solicitously 'What has frightened you? You are much braver than I am'
Casandra replies "a spider. Not just a small little garden spider that can surprise you when you are walking, but a oh my goddess HUGE spider. As big as a...a...cottage!!! with monstrously long legs, that catch me like iron bars *shudders* and won't let me go!!!"
SweetPea shuffles her feet, knowing Lady Casandra's fear of spiders. "a great big one?' she frowns and then smiles slyly "you are afraid of it as you should be'
Casandra "I saw it a few days ago, in the tavern. Remember? You were there. You were warning me about being friends with evil ones, and I was reassuring you that not everyone who is dark is evil. Like Ivarru, he's not evil. And he was there, and then all of a sudden, he wasn't. This huge hairy spider was there. And it trapped me in it's legs, I couldn't get out."
SweetPea puts her hands behind her back and nods "uh huh. It was really big and hairy and ugly and had big googly eyes.' she looks at Cas closely to see if she suspects anything and says carefully 'but you are all right now? I mean, you are here...'
Casandra "I don't understand it, I truly don't. How did such a thing get into the tavern? It has to be too large. and no one else seemed to see it. They think I've lost my senses. But you saw it, didn't you SweetPea?"
The demon enters the fae area again "what have you done to her witch" 
Casandra looks straight ahead at her friend Pea and tries very hard not to pay attention to any thing else around her and closes her eyes, as she hears her friend Ivarru's voice, afraid of what she will see and starts trembling. As she feels air currents ebb and flow around her, she squeezes her eyes tighter
SweetPea feels a presence behind her and turns, giggles and then scowls at Ivarru, who says "what did you do? tell your queen"
SweetPea says "i did nothing to you. I just cast a little glamour' and she waves her hand a bit.
Ivarru "a glamour. undo it. she is greatly frightened of me"
SweetPea says "it is just a little glamour, my very first" she smiles and nods "I know. she SHOULD be frightened of you. She is all too trusting'
Ivarru says "well that is your first is obvious by the botchery of it all"
SweetPea moves a bit further away from the demon and watches her queen to see how she reacts to Ivarru. Casandra sits with her arms wrapped tightly around her legs, straining her ears to try and hear the words
SweetPea says to Ivarru "so are you going to leave my queen alone now?' as they watch Casandra squeeze her eyes shut and reach out with her hands around her to reassure herself there is no one or no thing within reach
Ivarru "i will find a way to put an end to this little fae
SweetPea laughs, thinking he is all threats and no substance. Casandra feels the change in the currents again, realizes he has gone and opens her eyes
SweetPea peeks at her friend "Did you see anything just now?'
Casandra looks around and breathes a sigh of relief "I made it through"
SweetPea heaves a sigh of relief. she is a bit sorry she chose a spider for Cas to see when she looked at Ivarru, but really, there was nothing else she could think of at the moment
Casandra sags back in her chair and gives a tremulous smile to her friend "I am glad you were here, and I didn't have to face that alone"
SweetPea shrugs a bit guiltily and says "I was glad I was here to keep you company' she scowls "i don;t trust that Ivarru and you shouldn't either'
SweetPea shrugs a bit guiltily and says "I was glad I was here to keep you company' she scowls "i don;t trust that Ivarru and you shouldn't either'

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