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Re: [YOLW] Re: What Lies In The Heart (closed)
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?The wind had begun to pick up so high up into the mountains and she felt the biting wind cut at her flesh, but still she kept going.? In the distance she could hear the howl...a howl that sounded like her name but she did not stop. She would not... She simply couldn¡¯t. (The Dragon, Angus) A large black hound came running up behind Mikayla, passing her and then planting itself in the middle of the path she'd been fleeing on, blocking her way.? It didn't growl at her however, or bare its teeth.? It simply stared up at her, a look of canine pleading in its eyes.? If she moved to the left or the right, it moved with her, continuing to block her path but at no point threatening her.? Now and then it lifted its head, as if gesturing in the direction she'd come from, and then looked at her expectantly, waiting. ??Mikayla ¨C Mikayla did not move. The dog wanted her to go back¡to the castle¡No. No! NO! She frowned and shook her head. Mikayla stopped and did not take another step. ¡°I don¡¯t want to go back there.¡± She said to the hound. ¡°I am sorry. He is rude and aggressive and obnoxious and I just want to go home. Please,¡± she said. Instinctively Mikayla just knew that animal could understand her. Angus must have sent it. He was such a kind man. ¡°Tell Angus.. That I respect him and understand he has a job to do which is why he sent you to me. But I am not going back. I can not be humiliated like that again.¡± The wind had started to pick.. She stood there shivering. Her body growing cold as her hair whipped about her.? (The Dragon, Angus) The hound looked up at Mikayla with soulful brown eyes for a long moment. Finally, as if coming to a decision, it began to speak. The sound was decidedly strange, somewhere between human speech and a dog's gruff growling and whining. But it was speech. The hound was speaking to her. "The master cannot help his nature," it said.? "It is a constant struggle for him, always keeping the beast in check.? But he was not trying to humiliate you.? He was _testing_ you. To see if you have the gift. And... apparently you do." "But you stopped too soon," the hound went on urgently, "and left the spell you were reading unfinished. And you left him only half-done.? He is caught in-between now, and in enormous physical pain.? I _beg_ you, mistress.? Return with me to the keep." The animal turned to look back up the path, then looked back to her once again, eyes pleading.? "He needs you, mistress. And only you can help him."? - Mikayla - She blinked...then blinked again...she shook her head...no...no...it could not be...there just no way.... But it was happening to her. The hound....the creature... spoke to her...it....talked...to...her...?Mikayla opened her mouth to speak but it snapped shut just as quickly. She shook her head. And blinked again. How in the hell....and it sounded like. ¡°Angus?¡±?mentally this was too much for her to process...This day had been too much for her to understand.. She blinked once last time to fight off the dizziness it was no avail. Her eyes fluttered closed and then sink like stone in a dead faint ?(The Dragon, Angus) The hound stared at the unconscious Mikayla for a moment, then let his head droop in the canine equivalent of a sigh.? He was strong for a dog, but dragging her back along the path to the keep was not an option.? But neither was leaving her here in the wild forest where she'd be vulnerable to any predator that came along. There was nothing for it then, he decided, though he dearly wished there were some other solution to the dilemma. ? Closing his eyes inconcentration, the hound began reciting an incantation - one of the only two he knew - the only part of which was comprehensible was the three times he repeated his own name.? A green mist swirled up from the ground, glowing brightly as it enveloped him, and when it disappated moments later, Angus was restored to his human form, crouched on all fours on the ground by the unconscious young woman.? Stark naked, a fact which made him distinctly uncomfortable and not prone to dawdle. ? Scooping Mikayla up from the ground in his arms, Angus started back up the path towards the keep, hoping that the girl would not awaken until they were back in the keep and even then not until he'd had a chance to clothe himself once again. ?- Mikayla - Mikayla yawned a loud sleepy yawn and rolled to her side. Her body nestling deeper into the warmth of the big fluffy bed and comfy down comforter.? Fluffy bed...comfy comforter... She sat straight up in bed. She blinked. What...was she doing back here? how...who did this? Mikayla mind raced. She was trying to remember the last few minutes before...did she pass out? She had to have.? Standing from bed, she wrapped herself in the robe that was at the end of the bed then moved to find Angus. __,_._,___
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