(Earth) Chasing Shadows
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What: Searching for Whatever Maleficent's People Are Up To
Who: Mabry, Medrau, Others
When: May 6, 2011
Where: Earth, Oregon, Gummi-Ship, Wherever the Trail Takes Us
Mabry hesitantly landed the borrowed gummi-ship at the agreed upon coordinates. She was still only an indifferent pilot, but necessity had forced her to it. She felt lonely. She had left Ashlyn at home, and while it wasn't the first time, it wasn't yet something that seemed routine. Just last week, they had celebrated Ashlyn's second birthday with cake, ice cream, presents, and her first pair of "big girl panties." Leaving her just now was especially difficult. And then there was Songbird. Mabry had just as strong an inclination to go to Twilight Town to be there for her younger sister.
But this had to come first. There was no avoiding it. So she flashed the gummi-ship's lights and settled herself to wait for Medrau.
Who: Mabry, Medrau, Others
When: May 6, 2011
Where: Earth, Oregon, Gummi-Ship, Wherever the Trail Takes Us
Mabry hesitantly landed the borrowed gummi-ship at the agreed upon coordinates. She was still only an indifferent pilot, but necessity had forced her to it. She felt lonely. She had left Ashlyn at home, and while it wasn't the first time, it wasn't yet something that seemed routine. Just last week, they had celebrated Ashlyn's second birthday with cake, ice cream, presents, and her first pair of "big girl panties." Leaving her just now was especially difficult. And then there was Songbird. Mabry had just as strong an inclination to go to Twilight Town to be there for her younger sister.
But this had to come first. There was no avoiding it. So she flashed the gummi-ship's lights and settled herself to wait for Medrau.
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Date: 2011-05-07 08:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-07 08:16 pm (UTC)Medrau crept further inside, still holding her knife. "I think..." she murmured, "..is that another doorway to the side there? These things are built into cave systems..."
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Date: 2011-05-07 08:49 pm (UTC)The passage wasn't long, but its narrowness and twisting course made it feel that way. It wasn't carved like the front of the temple. The walls were rough and raw, cramping so close together in places that it took some squeezing to get through. Faint light reflected down from cracks in the roof of the cavern.
Medrau didn't say another word until they reached the end. No one hid in the cavern. It ended abruptly in a small, circular chamber, against the back wall of which was a roughly hewn pedestal.
"Well..." she commented, edging closer to the object that was held there. "It's certainly not nothing."
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Date: 2011-05-07 09:19 pm (UTC)"Us and the end of the world. Just like old times..." She moved suddenly, bringing the knife down to drive it into Mabry's chest.
She aimed for a lung.
The injury wouldn't kill immediately, but it would cause enough pain and difficulty breathing to prevent the use of any inconvenient magic. She would have preferred a nice, dramatic speech, but it would have been rather embarrassing to end up under a Stop spell half-way through. The gloating would just have to wait, she supposed.
Letting Mabry fall, she stepped back and snatched up the black stone which had waited in the temple for so very long. Her mistress would be proud.
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Date: 2011-05-07 09:33 pm (UTC)"Why?" her blood-spattered lungs mouthed.
She stared at the stone in Medrau's hands, but her thoughts were of her husband, of Ashlyn, of Song. There was still so much she wanted to do. She did not want to die like this.
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Date: 2011-05-07 09:44 pm (UTC)But she was nothing like the cheerful, slightly mad girl who had plowed ahead to unravel the mystery of the temple.
"Fun, mostly... I wish I had more time to chat, really I do, but I don't actually want you to die just yet... Mistress might not like it, but I did warn her I was bad with secrets. Ah well..."
Swiftly she stepped past the fallen Refugee, turning in the doorway to face her.
Then she changed.
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Date: 2011-05-07 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-07 10:59 pm (UTC)Her hair was not the only difference. Her face had changed, though only just enough. Robin had always been mistaken for younger than she was. Medrau's claim of being twenty instead of twenty-four was only natural.
The rest had been more difficult - the acts, inventing a personality that was as far from Song's as she could manage. Trying so hard to disguise her manner of speech. Carelessness, shortness... She'd played a fool as well as an innocent. If anyone had caught on, it was too late now.
Tinuviel had what she wanted.
But Song awoke with barely a fraction of this knowledge. She remembered attacking her sister - the knife was still clutched in her hand. She remembered blacking out again before that, just after she'd convinced Seph to leave. She wasn't sure, but it felt like days ago...
And she remembered the phone in her pocket, though she seemed not even to notice the mysterious stone which had been slipped into the other. All of her mind, still foggy, was set on making the call for help. She didn't know, but it was Tinuvial - Medrau - who drove her to that just as she'd influenced so many other decisions.
The settings were already changed to audio post. She spoke shakily, "help. I need help. In India... Earth. Track the ship. We're in a cave. It's Mabry..."
The call made, she fell to her knees beside her sister, trying almost robotically to stop the bleeding.
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Date: 2011-05-08 02:40 am (UTC)Her fingers were numb, but she tried to clutch at her sister.
Clinging to consciousness was difficult, for while she had tried to hide it, she had not been well for some time. Mabry did not brag when she claimed to be the second most powerful healer known to the refugees, and the recent return of illness had struck her harder than she had shown. It was ironic that her inability to breathe kept her from healing an injury that on another she could have mended with only a few whispered words.
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Date: 2011-05-08 02:52 am (UTC)She did not share the same illness as her sister. With Medrau so active, there was more darkness in her than not. Her black-outs and weariness had been the shadow's doing, and now, for whatever reason, the shadow made her strong.
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Date: 2011-05-08 02:58 am (UTC)She tried again to speak to say her sister's name, but no sound came out, only a spattering of blood on her lips.
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Date: 2011-05-08 03:14 am (UTC)Now came the most fun part.
The shadow retreated, this time completely, and the weight of what had happened was left to sink in.
"Mab... Mabry?"
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Date: 2011-05-08 03:17 am (UTC)Put on a brave front, she told herself.
She tried speaking again, and a faint whisper of sound finally came out. "Song?"
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Date: 2011-05-08 03:24 am (UTC)Her face grew hot and her throat constricted when the magic wouldn't come.
"I'm sorry." The words were strangled and breathless, as if she'd been the one stabbed.
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Date: 2011-05-08 03:32 am (UTC)"I tried to..." Song looked at the knife she'd dropped, and did not finish her sentence.
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