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 Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:06 pm
"Hey... what are friends for?" lalughs Lyssan relaxing in her seat. "Does Talesian know about it?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:37 pm
*Kero shakes his head*
I want to...*His bracelet chimes, and he immediately disappears, headed off to help his beloved, a happy smile on his face*
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:44 pm
"Wanna take dibs on what it looks like?" laughs Amestru with a wicked grin.
"Like Tes, I hope..." says Lyssan grinning back.
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:46 pm
*Kero is gone for an hour...and then...to their horror...they hear a howl...a dragon's howl...a snake's hiss....and a lion's roar...somehow layered on top of one another. Kero appears soon, holding Tes close, both of them with tears streaming down their cheeks*
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:52 pm
"Are you two okay.... that sounded... ummm... well that sounded..." offers Amestru gently.
"Awful..." quips Lyssan knowingly.
**tears of joy or fear?**
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:55 pm
**Sorrow**
*Kero looks up, his light blue eyes streaming with tears and buries his face in Tes's shoulder, just as she does in his*
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:59 pm
The Okami pair are on their feet in a flash, urging the two into their chairs and calling for some hot calming tea. Kero tries to get up, but Amestru gently pushes him back down and shakes his head.
"Kero, what happened?" begs Lyssan worriedly, holding Tes close and letting her cry on her shoulder.
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:00 pm
*Kero stares at her, and shakes his head*
S...St....
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:08 pm
Lyssan sighs and cradles Tes in her arms. "It happens, more so when one tinkers... I'm sorry... I'm truly sorry."
Amestru pours a mug of tea and shoves it into Kero's hands, then does the same for Tes. "This will dull the edges a bit, but not the mind. Drink... then talk. Get it all out now, hold nothing back. If you do it will fester into what ifs and might have beens. And neither of you need that."
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:11 pm
*Kero drinks, and he and Tes start, each switching off*
It...It was going so well. He was kicking. And even punching once. I loved to...Kero loved to listen to him in the mornings....to watch for him to move and listen to his heartbeat...then...today...today she was going to give birth...and we were doing everything right...but he...he came out...dead.
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Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:18 pm
Amestru nods. "It happens, even with the best of preparations. Maybe something happened in his development and he couldn't live in an air based environment, maybe something happened during the birth... it's a highly stressful event. You need to remember it wasn't your fault. Fate can be ugly at times. I don't want to csound cold and calculating, Kero. But could you fetch me the body? SO I can determine exactly what went wrong. If I do then you'll know whether or not you can try again."
"Amestru..." warns Lyssan testily.
"No, Lyssie... they need to know. If Kero's methods are sound, then they should try again... if not, then they'll know not to. But he shouldn't be the one to be forced to find out."
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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:21 am
*Kero blinks, and flickers away, reappearing with a small draconic in his arms. Looking like Tes, save for the grey scales*
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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 7:14 am
Amestru takes it gently from his hands and tells him to stay there with Tes. Then he flicks away himself, going to his treehouse lab, his face grim and tired.
"Sit." says Lyssan to Kero who hovers in place, torn between joining him and staying behind. "He's done this thousands of times. He'll find out what's wrong. He has had almost as many failures as he has had successes in his breeding programs, trying to bring a strain of his people forward in time. But it won't be done over night. And he'll treat your young one with the respect any living creature was due."
**okay, you interjected this theme... you have any serious issues you wish to cover with it, like how or why it happened, that I should work with**
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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 7:27 am
**No....I was originally toying with the idea of Voidmages being unable to breed for a reason, but then I thought about Rhea**
*Kero simply holds his wife close, crying, even after she has stopped. It's obvious this has hit him extremely hard.*
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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:32 am
Lyssan looks at Tes and shakes her head. "Let's get him someplace less public, hmmm. He needs to rest anyway. My study should be empty. No one goes in there without my permission and it has a couch."
Tes nods and helps her guide Kero down a hall to a carved wooden door, festooned with scenes both fantastical and real, only knowing Lyssan, they are probably all quite real.
Leading him to a couch the kitsune encourages him to lie down. "Tell me what you can, Kero, about how you by-passed the sterility problem. Maybe I can pin point something in your method that might help Ame." She points Tes in the direction of a pile of blankets and has her bring over one or two to cover him.
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