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Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 6:50 pm
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The clouds hung thick and heavy in the air like an oppressive blanket across the sky, their leavings a thick coat of moisture that clung to every leaf, twig, and blade of grass. The atmosphere was dark, though it was only midday and it threatened to rain at any moment, though for now it seemed the storm's rage had played out.
Taper stood out against the grey backdrop of the wooded clearing, her pure white coat and red hair glistening from the fresh rain. She cursed under her breath at the weather, but still refused to take shelter. She was waiting for Miseria to return from her meeting. She'd insisted on going alone, the stubborn fool. The misfit growled, her eyes scanning the direction Miseria had departed in. It was taking too long. Taper again cursed herself for not following the zamphir to her meeting. There was something about the way Miseria talked about Vampirella that just set the misfit on edge. But she had given her word that she would wait for Miseria to return, and so she waited. And is still waiting.
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Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 7:09 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 7:19 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 7:30 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:11 pm
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Miseria's eyes sparkled with unshed tears at the hurt and anger in her mates eyes. Her heart ached, she lacked the words to explain to her love how it felt to serve the Goddess. "My love, please understand. All of these things you are asking me, "Are you enough," "Is our life together enough." They are all things I once asked my self. I wandered for a long time, searching, wondering why the life I created for my self, as a favored warrior of the Goddess, praised for my skill in battle, why was this life not enough? Why was satisfaction of battle no longer enough to satisfy my soul. I wandered, killed time and time again, still feeling empty..."
She took Taper in her arms gently, placing a kiss on her mates forehead, holding her close so she would not see the tears falling from her eyes.
"My life was devoted to the Goddess, Vesira . I knew nothing else, she was my world, protecting my race, doing battle against our foes. That was what I lived for, blood and battle."
Her voice grew softer as she spoke, trying to hide her despair
"I left the temple, ashamed that this life was no longer enough for me. I knew not what I longed for. When I found you, I knew, it was love, and a family that I was longing for so badly. You my love have changed my life.. for the better."
She tightened her grip on her mate, longing never to let go.
"I expected Vampirella to show disdain, to mock me for leaving the temple. My once rival, my absence was her opportunity to take the favor we had so long battled for. Instead she did none of these, she simply said to go to our Goddess, to seek the redemption I so sorely crave. I want to make it right with her. I want her to accept you. I love you Taper, I will not live as though I am ashamed of that. I am not."
She stepped back, still gripping Taper's arms, tears drying on the zamphir's face, a fierceness had settled in her eyes.
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:21 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:39 pm
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"Vampirella is of no concern. If she meant to kill me she would not have met with me to speak. We Zamphir are too proud in battle to lure our pray into a trap. Vampirella would be committing suicide were she to lure a follower of the Goddess into her own temple to kill her. Vesira would not have it."
She looked into the eyes of her mate, seeing the worry, her fear shimmering in her eyes.She paced quietly, glancing occasionally up to the spot in the trees where she knew her faithful companion Cantare was keeping watch.
"Vesira is a Goddess of great power. She is unmatched in battle, not only in her strength and cunning, but in strategy. She plans, she watches. Her mind has already thought of every possible outcome and planned accordingly so that the odds are always on her side. Her followers are her children, and she values loyalty above all else. But never mistake her love for her followers for weakness. She drives us to work hard, to be better than we were last. She will both tell you well done, but never let you forget that there is always someone out there better than you are, waiting to defeat you if you do not work to improve."
Her eyes shimmered as she walked, her feet making no sound on the ground.
"I knew the Goddess intimately as any but her mate. She showed me kindness when I did not deserve it.. I was the only one to whom she was kind without first earning it. I owe her my very life."
She paused looking into her mates eyes as her voice trailed off.
"I know you have many questions. Tonight, ask and I shall answer."
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:45 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:57 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 6:41 am
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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 1:46 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 1:56 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 2:03 pm
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