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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:18 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:21 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:23 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:25 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:28 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:30 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:32 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:42 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:18 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:25 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:13 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 7:07 am
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(( I had no internet for the last several days, and had nothing to do but write. I cast Summon Wall of Text! ))
Daniel wandered about his patrol, absently patting at Batakos in its sheath at his thigh. His latest social botch had been troubling him more so than any other had before. It hadn’t been an especially horrendous encounter, but it had gotten him thinking. Would he ever be able to talk another person without feeling like he was inconveniencing them? Would he be able to be around a group of people he knew as opposed to strangers? Or being drowned by the ever growing feeling that he didn’t belong? Too many questions. Turning a corner Daniel watched as a group of young people walked by, laughing and talking over one another. One of them mentioned that she always loved visiting family over the holidays, but she was ready to head home again, and that sent Daniel’s train of thought off down another track.
He had begun to come to grips with the fact that he wasn’t human, at least not really. And he was beginning to learn that he just wasn’t meant to interact with people on a personal level. But one of the nagging thoughts that had been wandering his mind since beginning the search for himself, was whether he had a home. Was there somewhere out there where he wasn’t a unique oddity? Somewhere he actually belonged. Daniel allowed the quaint daydream to continue a moment longer as he wandered into the men’s locker rooms. The rooms were empty, but Daniel wandered through them checking about anyways. Satisfied that everything was fine, he was about to head back out when a tingle at the back of his head brought him up short.
Looking to one side, Daniel saw a doorway that lead to the nearby sauna. Daniel took a step towards the door when he suddenly felt a familiar sensation, the feeling he had felt in dame’s apartment, and when he had popped open locks on the stores, and most recently in the front lounge. But this time there was a difference. Almost like a vibration, a deep inaudible thrum. Daniel found that he had apparently drawn Batakos from its holster at some point. It was still in its short rod form, but it too felt as if it were vibrating. At which point, Daniel had thought. Mahvatshi had called Batakos a ‘conduit’. A conduit for what?
Daniel stepped closer and the feeling around the door became stronger. As he reached out to touch the frame around the door, Daniel swore that he could almost see something, running along the frame. Daniel pushed the door open, and saw the entry to the sauna beyond, but felt something else as well. Reaching out a hand, Daniel held it through the doorway. The feeling coming from the doorway shifted somehow, the vibration quickened. Trying what he had learned with Batakos, Daniel nudged at the area ahead of him with a thought, trying the mental flick that he had become familiar with. As he did, it seemed as if the world slid off to one side.
Daniel struggled to hold steady, but none of his limbs seemed to be responding properly. The best he could do was to keep on his feet as he stumbled forward through the doorway. As the rest of him passed through the doorframe, the scene before Daniel’s eyes stretched and blurred to the point of being nothing but an unrecognizable rainbow of chaos. Daniel forced his eyes to remain open, to take it all in. He was determined to remember this, whatever it was. From the sauna, the door swung open and a man clad only with a towel about his waist strode into the now empty locker room.
(( To be continued, over in EE ))
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:38 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 4:11 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 4:21 pm
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*with a couple of hours left before Karrie was going to take him home, Mitri decided to go to Aqua Springs. He'd invited Thistle to go with him, but as soon as the door was opened and she felt how cold it was, she changed her mind. Velcore had accompanied him, though.
Walking into Aqua Springs, he nodded to the girl behind the desk, who he didn't recognize, and walked over to the lodge area. Tommy looked up when they walked in*
Hey Velcore. Hello, Mitri. Would either of you like anything to drink?
Sure, some warm cider would be nice. *rube his hands together, wishing he'd worn a pair of gloves*
Cider sounds good. Are there any muffins left?
I'm sure there are, Velcore. *chuckles and starts heating the cider for them*
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