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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2024 4:05 pm
Salem Everett Status: On Edge. Location: The Hospital. ____________________________________________________ Salem was keeping a mental map of where each child went. Rem was now a Sorceress, which meant as far as Salem went that she was now under his jurisdiction. Now the real question was, what was being targeted, Sorcery or Everetts?
Anyways, his cold eyes gazed on Mai as she gave him the run down. The confusion that seemed to strike her about the event caught his attention, it was how people talked about... uh, what was his name. R-Ri... Riyel. That man after the final battle. "Thank you, Mai." He hated to see these kids going through this stuff, this was exactly the kind of thing him and Nona had fought against for the last twenty years. At least it wasn't war, although it could be a prelude.
Salem's eyes softened as he put a comforting hand on Mai's shoulder. "I have to ask you to keep watch over Raeka, as a SeeD. I do not know if the attempt on his life is over, and I need to wrangle together the other potential targets." He should his head a little bit. "If anything happens, just keep him alive and contact me. Can you do that?" He kept eye contact as he asked. Seeing if she was in a emotional state to do what she asked, or like some of the others needed more time to comprehend the events before acting.
Unfortunately all of his wards had decided to split up, which meant Mai's availability would affect who he could protect. ____________________________________________________
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2024 4:20 pm
Rem Estellise La Faustina Nipal
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Stock: Fire (x3), Protect (x2), Shell (x2), Esuna (x2)
Status: Critical malfunction
”-no vehicles leaving the city!” Nyale heard the Madame President’s voice shouting through the phone before the conversation even started!
”Laytos,” she addressed the girl a moment later. ”Do you know where my kids are?”
Why yes, Nyale did! Even with the chaos over the line, the girl heard Nona’s breath suck in when she said Rem was in the hospital.
”Is she hurt??”
No.
”Is Kalen there?? Is he alright?”
Yes.
Relief. But Ny heard the growl of frustration that left Nona on the other end of the line.
”I’ll be there as soon as I can,” Nona insisted, but both of them knew that would not be soon enough. Not with this disaster. ”Tell Kal to stay with her.”
”Please.”
Nyale had never heard Nona Nipal sound like a parent before.
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Rem shook. Her grip eased, but Kalen could still feel her shaking. She didn’t budge unless physically moved by him. But by the time he was apologizing, she was mostly leaning on him instead of clinging to him. She sniffled with every other breath. When she worked up the strength for words, her voice was a small, fragile thing.
”I saw you,” she whispered. ”With her. Last night.”
Oh.
Him and Koyuki.
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Ellise Belmont Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2024 4:27 pm
Mai Zeigmus ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━═✥═━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ Mai tensed up when Salem placed his hand on her shoulder, her expression was filled with uncertainty, more so in what was going to happen to Raeka after he lost his power like that. Was he in a situation like she was back then? Was he robbed of his magic just from being close to people and dying? She didn't understand how it worked, and she couldn't help but worry for her man. She looked up at him, seeing him as more reliable than she was, since she failed to protect him in the first place. Regardless, she nodded to him. "I'll protect him with my life." She said seriously to him, meaning every word of it. She held that militaristic expression, turning off her emotions and falling back into her training. "I'm going to guard his room now, sir." She gave a salute to him, and made her way to her man's room, entering it while Salem went and dealt with whatever he needed to.
Mai was certainly done being in Unita now. She stood over Raeka's bed, staring down at him, seeing him in a position similar to her own. She wished he didn't have to experience something like this, the pain, the humiliation, the robbery of magic. All of it. It made her mad. Furious even that someone would subject Raeka to what she did. But then, what was up with his third eye? That, she couldn't explain, and his anger earlier? That also confused her. What happened before the shot rang out? What was he doing? ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━═✥═━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2024 4:53 pm
Lost in skies of powdered gold xxxxxxxCaught in clouds of silver ropes xxxxxxxxxxxxShowered by the empty hopes xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxAs I tumble down, falling fast to the ground
I know I'll wither, so peel away the bark xxxxxxxxx'cause nothing grows when it is dark xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxIn spite of all my fears, I can see it all so clear
xxxxN y a l exxxxL a y t o s▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬⊰ ✮ ⊱▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
It seemed Nona was in full leader mode, as Ny could hear her yelling orders before the girl even said a word. She held the phone away from her ear for a moment until the voice on the other side returned to a more reasonable volume.
Ny proceeded to answer the woman's questions as much as she dared without revealing too much about the truth of the events. She would let someone else drop that bombshell. Thankfully Nona's questions were short and to the point, and mainly about her children's health. At her final request Ny hesitated before answering quietly. "You got it" And with that, she hung up. To hear the usually stoic president of UNITA speaking in such a way about her offspring had been a little unexpected, and it touched Ny. In any case she did not intend to go and interrupt Kal and Rem, but she did fire off a quick text to him, per Nona's request.
MAMA BEAR SAYS STAY WITH SIS ʕ ᵔᴥᵔ ʔ
"Alright...guess that's it" There was nothing else she could do here. Kalen was comforting Rem, Mai would likely watch over Rae, Salem would also be occupied with his son, not to mention Nona and her mother would likely arrive soon, and Ny didn't particularly want to encounter either of them right now. "You know what you have to do" She muttered to herself, but still she felt her stomach twisting with apprehension. The girl quickly and quietly made her way to the stairwell, following directions to the roof of the hospital, and emerging outside through a locked but weak door which she kicked open. She made her way to the edge, looking out across the city which was rapidly darkening.
"I'll find you, wherever you are. And you'll pay"
Ny summoned her wings and took off into the sky.
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Eko Domini Tsurugi Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2024 5:57 pm
┏┉┄┈┈┈┈┈⌣̊┈̥-̶̯͡ ː̗̀ǁ KALE N ♝ VICARIA ǁː̖́┈̥-̶̯͡⌣̊┈┈┈┈┈┉┓ Status: With a Crying Remington Rifle Location: hospital room Company: Rem Thoughts: I'm a therapist today Weapons: Hrunting ll Thunder Rose Magic: Crystal Stock: Earth (x10)
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Kalen sat with Rem, holding her snuggly as the room remained filled with just the litany of sniffles from her still form. There really seemed to be no other thing to be done now, the second day of the Concert moving towards an ugly conclusion like the prior had before. After so many years of good to great events, they had finally stepped onto the one that was damn near catastrophic. It couldn’t get any worse, could it? His stare at the floor didn’t break, not wanting to interrupt the moment between the two until he felt his phone vibrate, letting loose from Rem to open it and peruse the contents.
From Nyale…stay with sis…. Ah, she had gotten into contact with mom. He replied with a simple thumbs up before closing it. It was a lucky thing he hasn’t lost this damnable device or thrown it into the depths of a ravine in the countryside. Perhaps Rem nagging him to keep it was beneficial. Kalen’s view towards technology was rather rudimentary. He preferred the basics of life over the constantly revolution of technology that many seemed to push towards and taking this phone was only at the behest of his mother and sister. Well they gotta be right sometimes…
Rem’s words made him slowly lower his phone and look towards her, his brow furrowing. ”You saw that?”. His eyes shot downward to the floor, unsure of what to reply. Of course she saw it. It was on the news. ”It was nothing. I had to be there and all I got was an empty “I love you” and a punch to the stomach for my troubles. She’s gone now…it’s nothing compared to nearly getting shot.”. He closed his phone and put it in his pocket, looking at her. ”What just happened to you…you, Nyale, and the others are the important ones here. You don’t have to worry about me, you know?”. His voice remained gentle, but Rem would know he was dancing around the subject at hand. His face betrayed nothing and to anyone else they might have believed it. But she knew him since the beginning. She also knew he believed what he meant, he wasn’t as important as the others around him. Guardian Force: none Status: Silent Spells 0
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2024 6:25 pm
Rem Estellise La Faustina Nipal
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Stock: Fire (x3), Protect (x2), Shell (x2), Esuna (x2)
Status: Fragile
Rem’s fingers twitched on Kalen’s shirt.
’It’s nothing.’
It was not nothing! But where Rem Nipal expected to find righteous indignation, she found only something small and frail. No argument. No insistence. Rem backed down. They lapsed into silence again. Kalen listened to Rem’s shaky breathing. Rem listened to Kalen’s heartbeat. At last, she managed only this:
”Are you okay?”
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The Princess
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Eko Domini Tsurugi Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2024 7:10 pm
┏┉┄┈┈┈┈┈⌣̊┈̥-̶̯͡ ː̗̀ǁ KALE N ♝ VICARIA ǁː̖́┈̥-̶̯͡⌣̊┈┈┈┈┈┉┓ Status: Being held up by a Remington Semi Automatic Location: hospital room Company: Rem Thoughts: Oh God, Stop Interrogating Me! Weapons: Hrunting ll Thunder Rose Magic: Crystal Stock: Earth (x10)
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Are you okay?
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
The question was like a bullet, sorry not sorry Raeka, that shot through his psyche. Was he okay? The prior night was still cycling through his mind, the chaos and power that emitted from his birth mother was apocalyptic by nature. Even her touch left a lasting impression on him, the electrical current being a unique and enduring experience that had him feeling on the thin blade between life and death. All of this came at the hands of someone that he felt was supposed to watch him, to take care of him...to love him. His heartbeat stayed steady, betraying nothing of what went on between the confinement of his brain as he danced over the possible replies that he could surmount to give to her.
Part of him wished that Rem had fired back at it with her regular political spunk, trying to derail him and drag the truth out like she always would. It made it so much easier to ignore and laugh off, telling her that she was too serious and that no guy would be able to approach her with a stick that far up her tiny a**. That's what he would normally say, but here he was in a precarious and fragile position with the woman who was one step away from a breakdown almost like the woman the prior night had been. That was not the way. He listened, her quiet and shaky breathing overpowering his silent and controlled ones. Could he even find an answer?
"I'll be okay...eventually." A political answer if there ever was one. "I don't know how to feel about it. I'm worried how people will look at Yukiko. Noone will say anything about me, I'm safe. She has to deal with the effects of it all directly." He crossed his arms, pursing his lips in discontent. "The past two days have been disasters, and part of me is not convinced that this is any coincidence. SHE is gone to Galbadia, so who knows what is happening to her and if I'll ever see her again. I stood up to help her for nothing." His voice went flat, staring through the window of the door as people passed by. "It doesn't matter anymore now."
His attention went to her.
"Are YOU okay...with all of this? I'm not asking if you're okay with having powers or anything, I'm asking if you want to tell everyone or keep it between us all. Its your body. Its your power. Its your choice. No one has to know."
Guardian Force: none Status: Silent Spells 0
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2024 7:40 pm
Rem Estellise La Faustina Nipal
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Stock: Fire (x3), Protect (x2), Shell (x2), Esuna (x2)
Status: Fragile
Eventually.
That was enough. For now. A tired Rem’s mind trailed after Kalen’s. Yukiko…She’d seen her mother go through this as well, and hadn’t even been there with her. And the Concert…! This was a nightmare! There would be no more celebrations after two days of catastrophe in a row. First, the terrifying headmaster of Trabia Garden scares the life out of the city with her earth-shaking madness. Then, one of the most famous men in the world gets shot in broad daylight, in the middle of the Concert meant to bring nations together! Could their mom keep it together under the weight of so much calamity?
She didn’t know. She didn’t know anything. She couldn’t think. Couldn’t help. Couldn’t…
Silence lingered in the wake of Kalen’s question. She wasn’t going to keep trying to out-stubborn him, was she? She didn’t win when they were twelve, and she wouldn’t win now!
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Zzz…
Rem’s head nodded against Kalen’s chest. Her breathing was steady at last.
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The Princess
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