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<br>[10:22] <onine> Everyone just stares at Magpie.

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<br>[10:23] * Magpie looks at them. "What?!" she asks, in her normal voice. 

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<br>[10:23] <onine> "Wh... what was that Magpie?"  Epheri asks a little stunned

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<br>[10:26] * Magpie decides insouciance is the best course. "I dunno."

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<br>[10:27] * Yengo shakes his head, leaning back against one of the trees heavily. "That makes... two of us."

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<br>[10:28] * Magpie frowns, looking at him. "Are you okay? Because you don't realy look okay."

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<br>[10:28] <Anona> "Whatever it was... and I have my suspicions... I suggest we return. For now. If that rapid-passage of time wasn't an illusion, we should get back to see if Vana has returned... wherever she is.

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<br>[10:29] <Yengo> "No... I'm... fine." He turns to Anona. "That's a good idea. We still have the other problem to deal with, after all." He coughs.

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<br>[10:31] * Magpie moves over to stand by Yengo, and clutches his sleeve. She peers up at him. He still didn't look okay. His cold, probably. "So lets go back." She was a little anxious to get out of these woods anyway.

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<br>[10:31] <onine> "If we're even able..." Epheri says direly, looking up at the red sky.

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<br>[10:32] * Yengo casts a tired smile down at her. "Yeah."

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<br>[10:34] <Anona> "We'll just have to try our best, won't we?" Anona sets off in the general direction of "away".

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<br>[10:35] * Yengo follows after her, staring ahead a little glassily.

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<br>[10:35] <onine> Epheri shrugs and follows.  "If she can keep us out she can probably keep us in you know?"

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<br>[10:35] * Magpie trots beside Yengo, casting worried looks at him whenever he so much as sniffled.

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<br>[10:35] <Yengo> "If she does, she'll be sorry."

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<br>[10:37] <onine> Epheri clutches her bow a little tighter.  "Fair folk... they're strong right?"

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<br>[10:37] <Anona> "Some of them. That's the problem with chaos. It's chaotic."

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<br>[10:37] <onine> "Oh come on, how would you know Anona, you've never even seen one!"

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<br>[10:38] <Anona> "No, but *I* paid attention in class, Epheri. "

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<br>[10:38] * Anona rethinks that and states more honestly, "Well, MOST of the time."

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<br>[10:39] <Magpie> "You mean, she's a...a fairy? I thought they only existed in the the Threshold. Why would she even be here?"

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<br>[10:39] <onine> "You were setting *fire* to things!"

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<br>[10:39] * Epheri considers Magpie's question

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<br>[10:39] <onine> Epheri considers the question.

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<br>[10:40] * Yengo fingers the iron spoon strung around his neck absently. Might come in useful, after all. "I'm surprised she let us leave without a fight. Now that we know she's here, we could tell anyone."

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<br>[10:40] <onine> "She hasn't let us leave *yet* you know, dont count your yeddims."

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<br>[10:41] <Anona> "You can set things on fire and listen at the same time. You have hands AND ears, don't you?"

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<br>[10:41] <onine> "...untill they've ...er..."

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<br>[10:42] <onine> "...dare me? *laughter*"  Magpie hears a boy's voice, as does Yengo.  The two dragonbloods feel a faint change in the wind for a brief moment.

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<br>[10:42] * Yengo shakes his head at Epheri's comment, then abruptly stops. "What was that?"

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<br>[10:43] <Anona> "... I'd hope 'she' realizes that if we aren't 'allowed' to leave the forest, there won't be a forest to leave very shortly... eh? What, Yengo?"

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<br>[10:43] * Magpie scowls. "You're just a coward meany!" She shouts back into the woods.

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<br>[10:44] <Yengo> "A voice in the woods..."

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<br>[10:44] * Magpie 's eyes widens. "It sounded a little like Luc. Not a �lot�, but..."

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<br>[10:44] <Anona> "Like the other things you were seeing?"

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<br>[10:44] <onine> Magpie, as you turn your head looking for the voice you find yourself looking at the village.  You look back at the others... they're not there.

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<br>[10:45] <Yengo> "Maybe, I don't know..." 

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<br>[10:45] * Magpie turns in a panicked circle. "Yengo, Anona!" she shouts. "Where, where are..."

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<br>[10:45] <onine> There is a figure standing over by the wall, his back facing you.  It looks like Luc, it wears the same clothing.

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<br>[10:46] <Magpie> "Luc! Luc, you're alive!" In the sudden wash of enormous relief, Magpie forgets the taunting boy's voice she had heard. She runs over to him, to grab him by the shoulder.

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<br>[10:49] <onine> You pull him around and are met with the boy's alabaster pale face.  His eyes are open, and they are like black voids that seem to swallow you, just as Boughs did.  You only see it for a fraction of a second before the forest returns in a blink.

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<br>[10:49] <onine> To the rest of you, Magpie runs a short distance into the underbrush.

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<br>[10:51] * Magpie swallows a scream, and falls to her knees, shuddering.

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<br>[10:51] * Yengo takes a few halting steps after her. "Magpie, are you... all right?"

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<br>[10:51] <Anona> "...the hell?"

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<br>[10:53] * Magpie sees Yengo standing there, and struggles to her feet, and tears through the bushes headless of thorns tearing long scratches on her arms and legs. "I saw him again. Luc. Only he was like �her�."

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<br>[10:53] <onine> Magpie sits on her knees before a tree.  Up against the tree is (to Yengo) a boy.  Pale, looks like he's been starved for weeks.  Closed eyes.

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<br>[10:54] * Yengo takes a step back, away from the body, uttering a short sound of shock.

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<br>[10:55] * Magpie lifts her head, and sees the boy there. She shuffles frantically away from him on her hands and knees.

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<br>[10:56] <Anona> "You know... Epheri, isn't it interesting that, so far, only the mortals present seem to be seeing things? I wonder...

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<br>[10:57] <onine> "...if we're immune?"

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<br>[10:57] <onine> The dragonbloods see an odd mound of leaves against the treetrunk.

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<br>[10:58] <Yengo> "Don't touch him, Magpie. Let's just..."

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<br>[10:58] <Yengo> "Just..."

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<br>[10:58] <Anona> "That's a possibility. The only other guess I have is that, if this is one of the Fair Folk... maybe our feelings aren't 'tasty' to it." 

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<br>[10:59] <onine> "Well... " she speaks lower.  "We've had pretty good lives thoigh, not much suffering to look back on... you know?"

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<br>[11:01] <Anona> "YOU, maybe. Maybe losing my parents isn't as devastatingly heartbreaking as whatever THEY went through, but I think if it COULD have effected me, it would have."

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<br>[11:01] * Magpie scrambles to her feet, lunges forward to put Yengo between her and the corpse. She peers around him. "Burn him? That would be right, wouldn't it? Anona can burn him, and then he's had a funeral and we can all go away."<br>[11:01] * Yengo takes the girl by the hand and starts to back away, yelling, his voice angry and panicked. "What the hell are you two DOING back there?"

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<br>[11:02] <Yengo> "Yeah." He doesn't care about examining the body. He just wants the hell out of here.

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<br>[11:02] <onine> Epheri walks over and pokes the leaves, which seem to lose their 'humanoid' shape and fall to the ground.  The mortals see the shape of Luc fade into leaves.

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<br>[11:02] <Anona> "Wondering why you're getting so emotional over a pile of leaves."

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<br>[11:02] <onine> "Yes, its nothing!  You have to realise that."  Epheri adds.

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<br>[11:04] <Anona> "Hmm... I don't suppose either of you have anything made of cold-wrought iron, do you?"

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<br>[11:05] * Yengo glares at Epheri. "Let's wait and see what she shows you, then maybe you won't find it so easy to say it's nothing." He turns to Anona, pulling off the spoon he has around his neck and tossing it to her. "Here."

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<br>[11:06] * Anona tosses it back. "I'm not the one who's needing it, Yengo. Next time you see something... or Magpie seems to be seeing something... try poking it with the spoon. If it's real, no harm done, if it's glamour, it should be disrupted."

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<br><Yengo> "Ah. I... I never thought of that..."

<br><Yengo> "Ah. I... I never thought of that..."

<br><onine> "She's feeding..." Epheri says quietly.  "Getting stronger before facing us..."

<br><onine> "She's feeding..." Epheri says quietly.  "Getting stronger before facing us..."

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