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Post by cassandra on Jul 12, 2007 21:21:39 GMT -5
Cassandra walked up Kaden as he entered the library and took him by the arm and led him to a table some distance from Eli. Motioning for him to take a seat, she looked at him for a long moment, then softly asked, "Have you thought anymore about what I said?"
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Post by Kaden on Jul 12, 2007 21:40:40 GMT -5
"Actually it's the only thing I've been thinking about." Kaden said. "Besides you of course." He added somewhat quickly. "Um...I'm wondering, does this...whatever or whoever it is, know that you know it's around? Cuz if so, you're in danger that I don't want you in."
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Post by cassandra on Jul 12, 2007 21:49:44 GMT -5
"I think it would have to. I've done little but obsess and skulk around while you've been away, Kade. A lot of things have fallen into place for me. I always said being with Zane, and Tristan, was like being under a spell. Like...they had more control of me, and my emotions, than I did. I think that was more true than I knew. It didn't really stop, or change..until I met you. That's when I started seeing things clearly. I think...I think....your love protects me in more ways than you can imagine. Since this entity knows so much about us....it has to be invisible or something...I'm sure its heard me telling you and Eli what I think...and...and...there was an incident in the cemetery...I just woke up there..right before I found you...on the ground....I don't know how I got there..or anything...I think it knows...and I think its pissed." Cassandra finished softly.
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Post by Kaden on Jul 12, 2007 22:01:50 GMT -5
"And just why didn't you tell me that before?" Kaden asked frantically. "I would think that waking up randomly in a cemetery is important enough to tell me." He added, anxiety more based on his own previous blackouts and waking up in random places. The last thing he wanted was for her to go through what he had to, as improbable as it was. "Sorry, sorry." The wizard finally said, calming down a bit. "This just means its a lot more urgent that we find whoever we're looking for."
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Post by cassandra on Jul 13, 2007 8:42:30 GMT -5
"Well...but I wasn't sure it wasn't just another of my 'glitches'. It's just that now...when I add it up with everything else that I think its...something else. Kaden? Doesn't it seem to you like...something dark is following me? It sent me here, for a reason. It just didn't count on you...Cassandra gave a little shiver, wondering just what would have happened to her, had not Kaden fallen in love with her.
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Post by Kaden on Jul 13, 2007 12:38:34 GMT -5
The wizard pulled her into a hug. Breathing in the scent of her, he sighed softly. "I'm not going to let anything happen to you Cassie." Kaden whispered. "Not as long as I'm alive."
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Post by cassandra on Jul 13, 2007 17:34:39 GMT -5
Hugging him back for a long moment, then pulled away to look him in the eyes. "It doesn't want just me Kaden. It just wanted to use me to get to what it did want. Night World. I think...I think it somehow feeds off the magic that's here and....." As soon as those words left her lips, Cassandra fell down on the floor of the library, writhing in pain. "Help me, Kaden! Get me out of here! It's...."and she could say nothing more.
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Post by Kaden on Jul 13, 2007 18:38:52 GMT -5
Kaden's eyes widened in fear as Cassandra collapsed and writhed in agony on the library's floor. Agony that it seemed he could feel, but at the same time couldn't. Dropping to his knees near her, he had barely even touched her when he felt it. The darkness. If he still had his vulnerability to dark magic, the concentration of it emanating from her right now could have sent him into a coma. It's here. The wizard grimly thought as he lifted Cassandra from the floor. Holding her in his arms, he moved to carry her from the library.
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Post by cassandra on Jul 13, 2007 23:30:07 GMT -5
Cassandra woke up in Kaden's arms feeling as if someone had taken a Louisville Slugger and knocked a few home runs off her entire body....."Baby? Could you sit me down for a minute? It's hurting me to even have you carry me."
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Post by Kaden on Jul 13, 2007 23:36:28 GMT -5
He opened his mouth to protest, but found that he couldn't willingly cause anymore harm to come to her. Sighing, he gently placed her in a nearby chair. "I don't want us to stay in here any longer, whoever's after this place is here. They already attacked you once without me knowing." Kaden said, almost wincing at the words themselves.
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Post by cassandra on Jul 13, 2007 23:49:03 GMT -5
"I know...I know...I'm sorry...I just need a moment to...recover..." she said haltingly.
"Kaden? Something else has occurred to me. Strong magic killed my mother. Strong, dark magic. And now, the same brand of magic is trying to kill me. I don't believe in random coincidences. I think...I think we're dealing with the same thing that killed my mother. That means...it wants Night World...and my father's kingdom. I think it had planned on using me to get both. That's the reason it created the illusion of Zane/Tristan for me to....think I was in love with." Then, giving a sarcastic laugh, she said, "Well...for me and every other female in Night World to think they were in love with. Wonder how they're all gonna feel when they are forced to see that what we were fighting like mad cats over.....was nothing but an illusion...smoke and mirrors, basically.
Then, looking Kaden in the eyes again, she continued. "But, does knowing what it wants help us in fighting it? At all?"
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Post by Kaden on Jul 14, 2007 0:01:26 GMT -5
"If it had planned to use you to get control of your father's kingdom, then it has to be whoever would gain the throne upon your death. That doesn't help in fighting it at all, no, but it's nice to know." Kaden said dryly. "But wait a minute..." He added suddenly, looking up and around as if realizing he lost something.
"Knowing for a fact that this is dark magic we're dealing with...I've beaten a grand total of two dark wizards in my lifetime. One of them almost killed me but...Anyway, I may have been able to do this if I had my magic..." The wizard said, aware that he probably wasn't making much sense. "I can't fight it like this. We have to get you out of here." Kaden finally said.
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Post by cassandra on Jul 14, 2007 0:09:22 GMT -5
"Yes, I agree that we need to get out of here...but...Kaden...it just tried to kill me..and it couldn't! Your magic is there...your ice is still there....you just have to believe it...when the time comes.....just do whatever it is you do...and the ice will come. But for now...just get me somewhere safe...so I can rest and build my stregnth back up." So saying, Cassandra rose shakily to her feet, and leaning heavily on Kaden, began to follow him out of the library.
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Post by Kaden on Jul 14, 2007 0:26:26 GMT -5
It was starting to get to him, the wizard had to admit. She had more faith in his magic than even he did. Perhaps that was why it hadn't come back yet? He couldn't help but crack a mental smile at the thought that maybe his magic was sensitive. Back to business, he walked slowly with her leaning on him until they got to the door of the library. Pushing it open with his foot, he barely got her outside before he felt the concentration of dark magic flare up behind him. He didn't even have to look. Making sure she was safely out the door, he sat her down on the ground to the side...before going back inside.
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Post by cassandra on Jul 14, 2007 7:37:18 GMT -5
Cassandra watched in stunned disbelief as Kaden walked back inside the library. Realizing that she couldn't make it back inside on her own in her present state, she shifted. The act of shifting itself healed a lot of her injuries, and she knew the rest would heal very quickly now that she was in her animal form.
Walking easily now, she nudged the library door open and made her way back inside, dreading what she would find.
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