| Alan looks to her. "Very well. I have the perfect place." she smiles and leads Alexi out of the room to speak, leaving the tension of thge boys. |
| Alexi follows silently, until they come to a stop. "Alan, I'd like your...help." She sighs and looks out a window. "I was told that I needed to gain the trust of your people before I could ask them for assistance. I can't do that when I know nothing about them." Alexi looks back to Alan. "I was hoping you'd help me." She smiles shyly. |
| (This one is going to be kind of long...Sorry 'bout that!) Zaine continues to catalog his belongings into three piles; wet, sort-of wet, and mostly dry. Cyn watches him out of the corner of his eye for a while before getting up. "Hey," he says. Zaine doesn't look up but stops his cataloging. "I just wanted to say---" "Save it." Zaine says, not harshly, but as if he's tired. "I don't know why you thought that was necessary but--" "Can you swim now?" Cyn asks as he takes a couple steps closer to Zaine. "What?" Zaine looks at him now. Cyn face is pretty swollen where he punched him. "I guess so....not well anyway..." "Good." Cyn pauses. "But you're still not too happy with water right?" Zaine stands up now. "I don't know what you thought--" "Answer the question, would ya." Zaine stares at him for a moment. "Yeah. I'm still not a big fan of water." Cyn smiles. "I figured it wouldn't be that easy..." He motions to the pendant and Zaine's equipment. "Everything alright?" "A little wet but yeah, everything's fine." "I see." Another pause. "Alan seems to really like you." Zaine shrugs. "I like her." "Hey, are we cool?" "Cool? What do you mean?" "Yeah, you know, like fine. Not angry, maybe not friends but---" "I'm just messing with you man." Zaine taps Cyn on the shoulder. "Yeah, we're cool." Cyn sighs then laughs a bit. "Alexi is seriously pissed with me now." Zaine laughs too. "So's Alan. But I don't think she's that mad at you." "I'm gonna have to sleep with one eye open now..." "Alexi is something else." "You can say that again..." Cyn walks over to the window. Zaine follows him. Some birds are flying around the cliff face. "You Cyn, I don't think you have to worry." "About what?" "Alexi being mad at you." "You don't know Alexi." "She likes you, ya know." Cyn watches as the birds swirl around and around each other, as if they were doing some kind of dance. "I know." He said it almost as if he was sad. "What you gettin all down about? She likes you. And I know you like her too." "She likes me sure. But not the same way that I like her." "Oh." Zaine folds his arms and leans against the wall. "Why don't you just tell her?" "Yeah," he says sarcastically, "because Alexi is the most touchy-feely girl I know. That will go so well." Zaine shrugs. "Whatever man." He walks back to the bed and starts messing with his equipment again. He starts to maintain his sword, idly sharpening it. Cyn watches the birds fly away, then turns around and leans against the windowsill to watch Zaine. His eyes follow Zaine's hand as he runs the whetstone along the edge of the onyx blade. "That's a nice sword." "I made it myself." "You're a smith?" "Yeah. That's what I was doing when you guys came to Phanaphos. I've made hundreds of swords and axes. But I also make other things, like pots and cooking utensils for people." "That's a pretty useful skill to have." Zaine chuckles. "Not really. My sword won't do me much good if I'm up against someone who has a weapon like Alexi's." "No. You could still win." "What?" "Weapons don't matter in a fight." Cyn takes out one of his knives. "It's the skill of the warrior that determines the outcome of battle." "You sound like Sparrow." "Hey, I've got an idea." Cyn smiles. "You up for a little fun?" Zaine stops sharpening and looks up at Cyn. "What'd you have in mind?" "How's about we have a little sparing match? Just you and me. Your sword against my knives. What'd say?" Zaine smiles. "I haven't sparred in a long time. Sounds like fun." He stands and sheaths his sword. "Let's go." |
| (Wooooooooooooooow) Alan smiles widely. "How great! What should you need to know?" she looks at her curiously. (now i feel inferior due to that awesome fn page reply :p) |
| (How great? Ugh, this girl...) Alexi shrugs. "Well, I'll need to know a few things. For instance, the history of your people, their culture, religion, et cetera... Things like that. But just the important stuff. At any rate, whatever you can tell me will help tremendously." (Again, I'm sorry that was so long...When I was typing it, it didn't seem to be so. And your reply is a bit small compared to mine. XD ) |
| (Yeaaahhh maybe Brink will pop up soon ;D) Alan nods in understanding. "Our history is dark but I shall show you how it lightened." She clears her throat to begin. "Over millions of years ago, This planet was not just of water. It was Ea and another who was, Ulei. Ulei was a blackened, unpure, super power that despised Ea. He despised her beauty, her care, her intelligence, and he wanted to be her. However he could not, for she wanted to lead her people with kindness. So after refusing the offer to let water and oil mix, Ulei took over the planet killing millions in his thick refuse. Ea became weak and the Saiin of that time had the whole surviving Halloins group together using their sculptural intaglio and put Ea in a world where she could gain her strength. Many years later she becanne strong and created a hurling typhoon to destroy Ulei and ever since we have tried repopulating and rebuilding this world." She pauses and wipes tears from her face. "This is why I must give my life to Ea. So we can be strong. So we can live. Because when Ea dies, we die with her. She is still so weak from the typhoon. We must heed her and help the people of Kavarda. For her wishes, Alexi." |
| (YAY BRINK! btw, I didn't know you could switch out an M for two N's like you did in the word became...very ingenious!) Alexi nods. "I see." She pauses, letting Alan collect herself before continuing. "There is a similar tale we have on Kavarda; only yours ends much nicer." (SO the Halloin people love water because it is representative of this Ea person that saved them from a guy named Ulei...great...This is going to get annoying.) "Anyway, I would think there is more you can tell me about your people. What of your government, or your trades? What do most Halloin people do on a day-to-day basis?" |
| (Yep, lingo fail wooooo!) "Well, our government is pretty self-explanitory. Ea is our leader, judge, advisor, juror, everything. As for trades, I dont know what you mean. We the people of Halloin are quite different and everyday, we do many things" she smiles hoping she has answered her accuratley. |
| "So Ea does all the important things for you and your people." Alexi makes a sound that is a combination of a laugh and a sigh. "What I meant by trades was jobs. What kind of jobs do your people typically do? And do you have any trade arrangements with a foreign planet?" |
| "Not exactlly, we are often known by other planets as, inferior. As for jobs we make our living through many ways whether it be through serving Ea, food services, clothing, and so on." She smiles happily. |
| "I see." Alexi says, uninterested. "Alan, if I simply asked your people for help, do you think they would help me?" --- Zaine and Cyn stand on the beach outside, near the same place that Zaine's pendant fell into the water. The water is calm, and the waves almost reach them as the water comes in. "You ready?" Cyn raises his knives up and gets into a fighting stance. "Yeah. Let's go." Zaine says as he readies himself. Waves lap the shoreline three more times before the two men run at each other. |
| Alan looks sad suddenly. "We have had trusts broken in the past with other planets, but I feel your pain. Our world was once destructed, and if Ea says it then the people will help but you must gain that trust and make them an agreement which we both can benifit from." |
| "That's the problem." Alexi said, almost irritated. "I don't know how to do that, let alone what we can do to benefit both sides." She walks close to Alan, and grabs her hands. "This is what I need you to help me do Alan. This is what I want you to help me with." |
| Alan smiles and looks determindly into her eyes. " I can most certainly do that, Alexi. I most certainly can." |
| "Good!" Alexi smiles. "So, what's the first step?" --- Five minutes has gone by, and already Cyn and Zaine are tired. Neither one has held back a blow. With Cyn throwing some cheap tricks and Zaine going for kill shots, both have had to stay on edge. Cyn had gained a large gash on his left arm from when he had blocked Zaine's blade incorrectly, along with several bruises. Zaine had gained an equal share of bruises, but mostly he had gotten cuts. The worst ones were on his face; one above his right eye that wouldn't stop bleeding, and one on his cheekbone that was pretty deep. Both men were slowing down in number of blows and strength of the blow. |
| She ponders this. "We wiill hold a conference with the Răspunde to see what we could get in return and how we shall do our deed to help you." |
| "Hold a conference with the what-now?" Alexi says, puzzled. "And there's another problem...I'm not sure what I can give in return. I can't speak for all of Kavarda in anycase. I'm not an ambassaador or delegate or something..." |
| "He is our "delegate" that you speak of. And why not invite somone? Like, Mr. Brink?" She has hope in her eyes. |
| Alexi almost shudders at the thought. (Ugh. I hate government officials...) "I suppose that that might be a good idea..." She takes out a transciever from her pocket and holds up a hand. "Give me a sec, okay?" She takes a couple of steps away from Alan, then dials the number. "C'mon," she mumbles to herself. "Pick up." |
| "Jackson Abbott speaking, Mr. Brinks office, how can I help you?" Abbotts voice sounds fakely cheerfull. |
| "Hi Jack. It's Alexi Alvaro." Alexi says. "Listen, is Brink available? I need to speak with him. It's important." |
| "Why yes he is in. Please hold Mrs. Alvaro." Obnoxious elevator music starts playing as he puts her on hold. "Hello Officer Brink speaking." |
| Alexi changes her tone of voice to a more business-like one. "Hi Brink. It's Alexi Alvaro. I need to ask for your assistance on a matter of foreign, um, policy. Come to Halloin. I'll fill you in on the details once you arrive, should you choose to show up." |
| "Very well, I shall come at once." he hangs up abruptly. Alan waits patiently "Well?" |
| Alexi sighs with relief. "He said he'd come right away." She sighed again. "I'm glad. That one weight off my shoudler..." --- Cyn and Zaine are both lying on their backs on the sand, completely spent. Zaine Sword lies stuck in the ground a ways away from him, and about fifteen knives lie in various locations across the beach. "That was...fun." Zaine says. Cyn chuckles to himself. "Yeah." He lifts his fist towards Zaine. "Good match." Zaine taps his against Cyn's. "Good match." "Think the girls will be worried when they see us?" "What?" Cyn says sarcastically. "Nah. They won't even notice." They both laugh for a minute, the tension and anger between the two gone. "We should probably head back..." Zaine says. "Yeah..." Cyn agrees. "But I don't feel like moving." Zaine gets up, sheathes his sword, then offers to help up Cyn. "C'mon. Don't make me drag you." Zaine helps Cyn picl up his knives on the way back. |
| Alan smiles happily. "Good then we should head bsck!" |
| (That was on purpose :p) |
| The guys were in the room for less than a minute when the girls walked in. Cyn and Zaine were sitting on the beds talking, still a bit bloody. Alexi stopped walking. She couldn't see Zaine's face, but she saw Cyn's just fine. His face was bruised up pretty bad, his lip was split, and his left arm had this horrible gash on it. "What did you do!?" Cyn and Zaine froze in place. "Don't move, and they can't see you." Cyn said in a hushed tone to Zaine. "I thought it was, 'if you can't see them, they can't see you?'" Zaine said to Cyn in an equally hushed tone. |
| Alan walked in beside Alexi and at this sight she ran right over with tears in her eyes. "Oh please don't fight or hurt eachother! I am sure we could settle this!" she continues on frantically. |
| Zaine stands up. "Hey. Calm down. Everything is fine." The cut above his eye is still bleeding a bit, but the cut on his cheek is bandaged. "Yeah." Cyn stands too. "Me and Zaine just had a little sparing match down on the beach." "A sparing match!?" Alexi says incredulously. "It looks like you two tried to kill each other!" Cyn and Zaine both look at something other than Alexi. |
| Alan puts her hand firmly against her heart and releases it. Her hand is then full of crisp and cool water. She takes this and cleans Zaine's cut above his eye. |
| Cyn, Zaine, and Alexi stare at her for a moment. Zaine reaches up and touches the spot where his cut is. "That kind of stung..." "What was that?" Cyn asked. "Where the hell'd that water come from?" Alexi looks concerned. "Can all Halloin do that?" She says quietly. "I'm sorry Alan." Zaine says. He puts a hand on her shoulder. "I didn't mean to make you upset." |
| Alan gives him a light hug around his waist. "Please, I cant let my new friends be hurt.." She lets go of her embrace and looks to Cyn and Alexi. "That was my sculptural intaglio.' |
| "Your scjultual--what?" Cyn says confused. Alexi nods. "You told me about that when we were talking. But I didn't know exactly what you were talking about at the time." Zaine sits back down and badages the cut above his eye. |
| "Yes, this is also the technique I told you all Halloins have, this is how we would help rebuild Kavarda." She looks to Zaine as he heals his wounds. 'I am sorry if I made it too cold." |
| "No, no," Zaine says. "Don't worry about it." Alexi took out her gun, switched a cannister wheel on it then held out her hand to Cyn. He put his arm down, gash-side up, then Alexi slowly drew the gun over it as she pulled the trigger. "You two are idiots." She said, as if she were very tired. Cyn smiled to himself. "Maybe." "Not maybe. You are." When she finished with Cyn's arm, she flopped down on one of the beds. |
| Alan sits down on the floor quietly and runs her fingers along her forhead gently. |
| Cyn sits back down. "So...what's the plan?" "We wait." Alexi said. She felt exhausted for some reason. "Brink's coming to help us." "Brink's coming?" Cyn tried to keep the detest he felt out of his voice. "Why?" "Because he can do things that I can't do right now, and we need him to do those things." "What things are you talking about?" "Shut up Cyn." Alexi said, though it was practically inaudible. she was falling asleep fast. |
| Alan took her clothes off and sprawled out on the floor. 'Mr. Brink will know what to do!" Suddenly the door was kicked open, Brink stood with a smirk. "Abbott, is it me or does this look like a group expiring from a night at Galacta-Hut?" Abbott speechless tried to respond. "Well sir, uhm..I" |
| Zaine couldn't bring himself to say anything. He still wasn't used to the whole naked thing. His face turned red, and he had to look away. (Great time to do that Alan...) Cyn, not having previously experienced the nakedness nearly died. Instead of turning red in the face, he turned a ghostly white and looked like he was going to pass out. (WHAT THE HELL!? She just took off...) Alexi jumped when Brink kicked the door open, which turned her mood foul. Taking in the scene, she stood and greeted Brink. "Impeccable timing Brink." |
| "Yes, well, you know me captain." He gives her an handsome snmirk. "So what exactlly is going on here?" Alan continued laying down with her eyes shut. (I am sure Alexi will explain just fine.) |
| Alexi leads Brink out of the room, leaving Abbot there. "Alright. Here's a brief explanation." She takes in a quick breath. "Starting with the room: Halloin people don't think of nudity the same way as we do, Zaine and Cyn are all messed up because they decided to have some kind of sparing match, and I am rather tired of being the babysitter. As to why I called you here: I need your help with the Halloin people. I'm not diplomat or representative for the people of Kavarda, but you are. So I need you to meet with the Halloin guy and talk about what Kavarda can do for the Halloin people if they help us." She lets out a sigh. |
| Brink looks at her seriously. "Well, honey. Why don't you put the kids to bed? Then we can take little Annie away to show us to Mr. Warbucks? Then problem solved. Hmm?" |
| What Alexi really wanted to right then was slap him right across his face. Or punch him. (Punching him would be fun.) She decided against it considering she felt dizzy and wasn't sure she could make the swing. "Why don't you put the kids to bed this time dear?" Alexi said with venom. "Afterall, I've been caring for the children all day. I think I deserve a break." She hit lightly on the face--just enough to make an audible slap--and walked unsteadily down the hall. |
| Brink smiles. "You know what they say about strong hands.." He walks back in the room. "Alan, I would like to speak with this delegate of yours." Alan sleeps soudly on the ground curled up in a naked ball. Brink looks down at her a bit irritated. "Well then.." |
| Cyn had moved over to the window by now, staring off into space. Zaine was 'busy' examining his pendant. --- Alexi made her way down to the pool of water where she had seen the person Alan called Ea. She sat down by the edge of the water and held her hands out in front of her. "Damn." She watched as they shook ever-so-slightly. (What is going on with me? Maybe I'm coming down with something...) |
| Brink sighs. "Tomarrow then." He walks out with Abbott. Alan still lays fast asleep. |
| Alexi sits, running her hands through the water slowly. "Alexi." Her blood runs cold and she stops her swirl pattern. (No way...) "Alexi. Don't run around now." "What do you want?" Despite her best efforts, she can't keep herself from letting the fear twist her voice. A hand touches her shoulder. "You know exactly what I want. It's just a matter of when I choose to take it from you." He chuckles. She stands up fast--too fast; her earlier dizziness has caught up with her. Alexi sways for a moment, manages to stay upright. "You've already taken everything. Just leave me alone." She sounded five years old again. Laughter. "You're just like your mother. Did you know that?" Alexi turns around quick and shouts "Leave me alone!" into empty space. A hand grabs her neck from behind and holds her there. She can feel him against her back and it sickens her. "I will never leave you alone, little songbird. Not until you give me what's mine." |
| ...(uhm...lol) |
| Alexi felt the grip on her neck release. She looked over her shoulder to see if he was still there, but no. Then she sunk down to the ground. (Damn him! I swear if things were different, if I had the hand he has...Damn it!) Tears swelled and clouded her vision. (I won't be able to protect them at this rate...) After a few minutes, Alexi collects herself. She walks back down the hall to see if Brink has made any progress with 'the kids.' |
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