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 Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:04 pm
*Kero's eyes widen*
By all seventeen elements...what happened, Talesian?
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:09 pm
tam smiles ruefully... nothing really... i'm no spring chicken ye know... i told ye how old i was... or rather i told ye how old i thought i was... normally i don't feel me age... tonight... all those years... well it's kind of coming home to rest....
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:20 pm
*Kero shakes his head*
Alright, Tam...I won't beat around the bush...I know I was naughty today...more so than usual...but that usually doesn't knot your tail like this...what has got you so riled up, Talesian?
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:22 pm
well... i broke a trust today... and that's something i don't do lightly... and the thing is, kerobian... if it would happen again... i'd probably do the same damn thing...
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:24 pm
*Kero sighs*
Okay, Tam...let's talk this out...whose trust did you break?
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:42 pm
tam sighs... in this existence there are those who are gifted and those who are not... and among those who are gifted exists a truce, hard forged, that that which we gifted do does not affect those who are not... i came damn close to condemning myself the other night of one of the worse crimes a gifted talent can do... it is one thing to feed... it is another to devour... and i thank thee, kerobian for keeping me sane... for had i gone that route... he shudders and closes his eyes... another would have come to make sure i did not repeat the act, believe me... for i am a guardian, pledged to protect those who cannot protect themselves... and when one of us turns, they are eliminated... tonight... tonight i made a choice... whether for the good or the bad, i do not know... but tonight o chose not to remove thee... and before ye ask... yes... i could have done so easily with this.... tam places a small sparkling dagger on the table...
he smiled grimly... i believe that as a voidmaster ye know what that blade contains... before ye say anything... it wasn't what ye did... for ye did no lasting harm... and in truth i was not faced with the task... yer childish prank was nothing more than that a childish prank, though my dear dear friend... ye could have done lasting harm all the same... but i found myself sitting there facing ye and i knew... that if i was indeed faced with that possiblity, i could not perform as i hae been told to do... i will not ever harm thee, kerobian, i... i cannot... you mean too much to me for me to ever do that... but a guardian's trust.... is not something taken lightly... if my superior ever learn of this....
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:50 pm
*Kero's eyes darken*
Even the Guardian's answer to my call, Talesian...above them I am not...but nor are they above me...we are equals, Talesian...and even with Twilight, I'm more difficult to eliminate than I look.
I know ye feel ye broke a trust these past two times...but consider this...I did keep ye sane...and as a child, I cannot do any lasting damage...and even the guardians allow for children, who cannot be expected to be mature enough to wield their power properly...I should know, Tam...I was one myself, long, long ago...before I truly became a wild Voidmage.
And as fer yer hunger...even the best mages lose control sometimes...ye did not turn...only lost control of yer hunger...be glad it wasn't me that did it...and just so you know, I smoothed that incident over with the watchers...
Tam...ye are fine...ye have broken no trusts, and no damage was done...ye're perfectly free to go to the faire tomorrow...all I have to do is this.
*Takes a small onyx and breathes into it...filling it with Aethr*
Just hold it up and say my name...and I will lose all my power for two minutes...that should help ye keep things under control.
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:00 am
tam chuckles sourly... kero, ye tell me nothing i don't already know... did i not say yer prank was not but a prank... a firm scolding, which i gave by the way, should have been enough to handle that...
no... that is not my problem.... my problem was me choice... for i chose you over the others... in my heart i knew.... i knew that faced with that possibility i would not be able to perform... that were i called on to indeed render ye ineffective.... and we do not always kill our quarry, believe me, most we render harmless by whatever means possible, others we cage... elimination is the final and most absolute of our solution.... but what we do is moot.... i would not be able to do it whatever the course.... i... i care for ye too deeply... some of me peers would say me judgment has been marred....
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:03 am
*Kerobian chuckles*
Ye're overlooking one fact, Talesian...just as I have no power over them...the guardians have no power over me...they cannot touch me, by the ancient laws, for to interfere with me is to interfere with death...and that cannot be allowed to happen...you need not worry about being called to chastise me, Talesian...for it will never happen...
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:07 am
tam smiles ruefully... be that as it may... it was a choice i made... and because of it... i have been marred... though in truth, if caring for someone that deeply mars a person... then i... i don't know what to think... forgive me... i should not have burdened you with this... it is my problem... my problem alone... i... bid thee a good night....
tam gets up and wanders back to the bedroom....
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:09 am
*Kero smiles...and weaves a spell for Tam...one that will allow him to see all sides of his problem and show him the solution to make it better in his dreams...he will have to reach it...but by morning...he will know the way to fix his problem*
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:22 am
tam sleeps fitfully that night, tossing and turning, moaning softly until the early hours of morning.....
when he awakens, he seems no closer to a solution than the night before, though in truth his solution has been with him all along.... sometimes one must take what the all father has given and be glad for it, even if one does not understand the why or wherefore of it in the least.....
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:25 am
*Kero wakes the next morning, and immediately goes and sits in the corner*
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:26 am
tam chuckles softly and goes and picks him up... oh no ye don't... i refuse to sit in the corner today... let's go eat....
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:28 am
*Kero giggles and pats Tam's nose*
Okay...
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