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 Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 3:26 pm
"I know why you did this. I know you wanted to forget," she said. The pain in her stomach was fading with Jeanette's spell, but they had so little time. So little time!
She pulled away and took Kallman's hand, tugging him out into the fog. "Come away, Kallman," she said again, taking him into the darkness.
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:30 pm
:: Kallman followed her into the darkness and the silence fell between them. Kallman knew she was dying. Knew it was time to say goodbye. If only things had been different. Kallman had wanted to spend his life with her. He was an outcast just like she was. They weren't as different as they thought and yet Kallman could not even begin to understand the pain Hanna was going through now. Kallman looked to her and smiled.::
"I'm sorry Hanna. I'm sorry I wasn't able to protect you."
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:29 pm
Hanna blinked and her hand tightened around his.
"I know," she said. "But there is hope for you Kallman. Don't give up again, or I swear I shall haunt you from my grave." They moved on in silence.
The fog outlasted the rain, giving them complete cover as they returned home. Somehow, though Kallman was not sure how, except that perhaps it was magic, for they could see nothing. They came to the swamp, then past it, through the forest and over the Land of the Dead and up into the Snow Mountains, where at last the fog drifted away, and Hanna turned to him. Her eyes glowed and an aura of power was beginning to drift off of her in tendrils.
"My brother," she said, grasping his arm so tightly it hurt. "Promise me that you will keep him safe."
"I already did," Kallman replied in confusion. "Don't you remember?"
"It goes beyond," she whispered, making no sense. She bounded off, and Kallman chased after, suddenly worried. What was she doing?
"Hanna wait!"
He found her standing in the middle of a tall pool, staring at the sky.
Not in. On.
"Sé rás thall," she was muttering, staring at the sky.
"Hanna?" Kallman said cautiously.
Her eyes focused on him for an instant. Then she fell beneath the waters of the pool. It flashed blue-gold, and then she was beside him.
"Aiféalach, Kallman. I did not mean to startle you," she whispered. She looked tired. "We should go and see Aurora. Perhaps there is something she can do."
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:46 pm
"All right. I'll take you to her." smiled Kallman taking her hand and leading her inside Aurora's mountain home. Kallman followed his nose to the hall of graves but Aurora was not there.
"Aurora, Aurora it's me Kallman." he shouted.
::Aurora and Kai didn't know what to do. Was this a trap? That's when they heard her.
"I freed him from Jeanette. He is himself." smiled Hanna.
:: Aurora led the way and opened up her mother's grave and smiled at them.::
"Sorry had to make sure that Kallman wasn't evil." laughed Aurora.
"Hanna." began Kai knowing she was dying. "I wish to help you."
"I'm fine." Hanna began but then Aurora spoke up.
"My dear go with Kai. I'll be in a minute. I wish to speak privately with my brother." smiled Aurora.
"All right, whatever you say." nodded Hanna following Kai to the medical room where she was ordered to sit still on a medical bed.
"Tell me everything." asked Kai.
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:07 pm
"There is nothing you can do," Hanna replied, sitting calmly on the edge of the bed. Her feet dangled above the floor, dripping water.
"There has to be something."
"There is not."
"Why are you so stubborn?" Kai asked, finally annoyed.
Hanna smiled faintly and leaned on her elbows. "I know what I know," she replied. "There is no way to heal me. I am beyond even the help of my own people, even should a great one somehow be near."
"Your people?" he asked.
"The Blue Nation," Hanna replied. "Fionnuisce Náisiún."
"Where are they?" he asked curiously.
"Far away, across the ocean and another world. They live in the Wetlands of Escrion, a place so perilous that only the desperate will flee into it, and only the bravest will hide there. My father was a gypsy."
"Your people," Kai said cautiously, "what do they...look like?"
Hanna laughed and spread her arms wide. "This."
Her normal clothing rippled like water, changing into strange clothing that seemed made of seaweed and gold, and her blue skin stood out almost defiantly against the room. Kai leaped back in surprise and Hanna slipped off the end of the table.
"Draíochta arís," she sighed. "I did not mean to do that."
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:06 pm
"Allright, I think I understand but please sit down." asked Kai.
:: Hanna sat down back on the medical bed and stared into the blue eyes of Kallman's younger brother. Hanna wished he could heal her but she knew it was impossible.::
"Kai, listen." began Hanna. Kai put his hand to her mouth and told her to shh. Kai looked to her with deep concern.::
"Please don't speak. As a healer, I'm supposed to help people. Supposed to be able to cure the uncurable. Now here I stand with you and I can't do anything. Do you have any idea how it feels to know someone is going to die and not having the power to save them." cried Kai as tears fell down his face.::
"Kai, you are a great healer. " smiled Hanna.
"No, I'm a healer but I'm not great not if I can't even save one person, one soul." cried Kai.
"Do not worry Kai, it is the will of my people. I was not meant for this land or this life." spoke Hanna.
"Don't tell the others but once I managed to bring someone back to life with my skills and now I find I'm useless." spoke Kai wiping his tears.
::Hanna reached her hand out to him and rubbed her hand over his cheek.::
"Don't ever say that. Kai, you are a healer and you're healing will save many lives. Just believe in yourself." smiled Hanna.
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:57 pm
That feeling that there was some knowledge just out of reach grew and Hanna dropped her hand with a frustrated sigh. "I wonder if my grandmother will know when I am gone?" she wondered. "I am so far away."
Kai blinked in surprise, looking at her. "What do you mean?"
"Grandmother always knows when someone passes," Hanna said. Somehow the thought that she might never know troubled Hanna more than the thought of dying itself.
(What is Aurora talking to Kallman about anyway?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 5:38 pm
Ferin stumbled to the door and leaned against it.
"She'll know," he said.
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Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:09 pm
Hanna looked at him and saw the wounds on his one revealed arm and the tears in the black cloak.
"What happened!" she demanded, pulling him in and making him sit. He looked tired, as if he had run from the small town to the mountains without rest. And Hanna, knowing him, realized that he probably had.
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Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:12 pm
"You don't think I'd just let them get away with kidnapping you," he replied, raising a quizzical brow. "Besides," he added. "I hate the Reaver as much as you do."
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Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:02 pm
(Allright here it is)
"Kallman why?" asked Aurora worried.
"Why what?" asked Kallman back to her.
"Why did you sell your soul to Jeanette? She's a hunter!" demanded Aurora stubbornly.
"I....I...don't remember." began Kallman.
"Oh, the effects of the spell haven't completely worn off yet." spoke Auorora softly.
"Spell?" asked Kallman. "I chose to be changed."
"And that is why I want to know why you did such a thing. The Kallman I know would never sell his soul to any demon hunter." complained Aurora.
"I'm sorry sister, I just don't remember."
"Go to your brother. Maybe he can fix what I can't. It's obvious there's nothing I can do to help you if you can't remember. Kai can probably do something to help you remember. After all he's a great healer and a great brother. Go to him. And go to her before it's too late."
"Yes, sister." sighed Kallman as he walked out the door and entered to see none other than Ferin and Hanna together again. His worst nightmare.
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Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:16 am
Hanna looked up as he entered and beckoned him in. "Ferin went to fight the Reaver's lucht leanúna," she said. "He was hurt." She stepped aside as Kai examined the wounds. "At least they weren't using poisoned blades," Ferin said wryly, pulling off his tall hat and flattening it. It vanished between his hands as though it had never been, and Kai jumped. "Unusual," Hanna said thoughtfully. "The only reason to use clean blade is if they did not intend to kill."
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:24 am
"Which means they wanted you alive," Ferin replied.
"Fat chance of that," Hanna replied darkly. "They missed their chance. They won't get another one."
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 2:41 pm
"Brother can I speak to you once your done tending to Ferin's wounds." asked Kallman knowing that it was Hanna's choice to chose Ferin or him. Kallman knew in the end it was Ferin who deserved her. If it hadn't been for Charlie and the hunters, they would have never met in the first place.
"Sure." smiled Kai bandaging up the wounds on Ferin's arms. They didn't look bad, which meant they healed within a week's time. Kai was glad, he hated to see someone in pain. Pain, there was many different forms of it and Kai knew in his heart, Kallman needed his healing more than anyone else right now. His heart was hurting.
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