Re: Reaching Salvation: Post-Acer Part 8

[Big Uri]

"I-I don't think that would have been good, either," Luke replied shakily. "I was a wreck there. I wouldn't have recognised you, and I might have burnt you since I kept erupting in those days."

[Stabberz]

"Maybe more than four..." Amelia mused. "Think about it, there are four areas that need covering. The Illuminati village, the Acer Village, Kira's forest and the neutrals..."

She glanced up at Erika. "If two from each area were selected a council of eight would be in charge of the alliance." Hearing what she said about Nathan, Amelia shrugged.

"I don't think he'll be taking Heidi again. He's already achieved what he could as far as training her goes, the rest is up to her."

[Ra The BlazeWingPhoenix]

After healing the person in the room, Sage pulled herself out, and wince slightly, covering her wrist.

"There's so many in here..." she said to herself. "...I wasn't aware..." She looked up at Joey, and walked up to him.

"Is there anything I can do to help?"

[MrMissMrs Random]

"That's right. But the only ones who live in the forest are Luke and Kira... I vote for Kira having dominion over it still, she's taken care of it and let's us forage and hunt in it when we ask."

The neutrals however may need a representative or two." The woman said, before giving a sigh of relief at Heidi not going with Nathan again. Though she hadn't given a whole lot of information, it must've been dangerous...

OOC: Gotta go.

[quackers are yummylicious]

Kira sighed, looking at Luke. "Maybe things would have been different..." she suggested, letting go of his hand and wrapping her arm around him as they walked.

[Big Uri]

"Maybe. But look on the bright side, we're together now," he replied, putting his free arm around her shoulder and smiling reassuringly. He pointed to the burnt out ruins of a town visible in the distance. "That's where the hideout is."

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Tom poked his head around Amelia's door.

"Is Eithne here?" he asked, trying to be polite but forgetting to introduce himself as Tom instead of Shima and explain that he was staying.

[quackers are yummylicious]

Kira bit her lip, moving closer to Luke. "Ah...um...what happened?" she asked, almost afraid to ask. The town was scary looking.

[Book the Hero]

"Sage..." Joey said when he saw her. "...I'm sorry for not having noticed earlier."

[Big Uri]

"It was abandoned," Luke told her. It was mostly, but that was his guilt and he didn't need share that with Kira. "Got burnt out by exposure to me."

[Ra The BlazeWingPhoenix]

Sage looked at him with a confused look. "Oh...I'm...sorry about how Nathan had reacted...I shouldn't have told him last night..."

[Stabberz]

"But neither she nor Luke will be without the other." Amelia noted before Tom came in. She shook her head.

"He's walking with the baby."

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Nathan meanwhile was looking up at his old mountain. complete with modified prison that had been turned into a fortified stronghold.

[Big Uri]

"Cheers," Tom replied before his head vanished through the stone wall. He went around town looking for Eithne, finding it difficult to sense in a new town.

[Book the Hero]

"No, it's my fault." Joey said. "I should have noticed what was going on..."

[Ra The BlazeWingPhoenix]

Sage shook her head, and put a hand on Joey's shoulder. "Joey...it's my fault. People...are just freaked out because of my ability. I can make anything happen, just with a few words...Humans, are afraid of things different. It's alright. I'm the one at fault."

[Book the Hero]

"Sage, that is ridiculous." Joey said. "You can't blame yourself because of what you can do, and it is no reason for people to treat you different then anyone else."

[Ra The BlazeWingPhoenix]

Sage sighed, and turned around. "Did you know, in the old days. Humans would burn women who they thought were witches? They would drown them, simply because they knew herbal remedies, would try to work a man's job." she said. "My ability...makes me a witch. I suppose, even in this time, and what's happened, we're still afraid of things that shouldn't exist."

[quackers are yummylicious]

Kira nodded slightly, suddenly feeling afraid that her forest could end up like that. Even if she wasn't burned in the fire herself, she'd die from all the damage from the burning plants. She bit her lip, reminding herself that Luke was better now. "I...I'm s-sorry..." she murmured.

[Big Uri]

"For what?" Luke asked absentmindedly, pulling open the door to an underground cellar, probably used as a basement or a storage cellar for a shop. Luke couldn't remember what the building on top had used to be.

[Book the Hero]

"Sage, we all have Flow." Joey said. "We can all do amazing things, such as cure people, rebuild building with ease, and move stuff with out mind, by that logic, none of us should exist, age, you have the right to be treated the same as everyone else."

"Stop taking all the blame, and stick up for yourself." Joey said.

[quackers are yummylicious]

"F-For asking t-to come h-here, a-and for..." Kira bit her lip, finding herself unable to admit that she had doubted him for a second.

Seeing Luke pull the storage cellar door open, she started shaking slightly. "D-Down th-there...?" she stuttered, her claustrophobia starting to kick in.

[Ra The BlazeWingPhoenix]

"Could I get your help for a project?" Sage asked, changing the subject completely.

[Book the Hero]

OOC: -.^

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Joey sighed. "...What is it?"

[Ra The BlazeWingPhoenix]

OOC: Yes. She just did that.

(~)

"I'm planning on making a swimming pool for both villages!" Sage said to him. "For relaxing."

[Big Uri]

"Oh shit," Luke replied, despite the fact that he was trying not to swear around Kira or indeed at all as much as he used to. "It's pretty spacious down there, but I dunno if that matters since it's underground..."

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Tom picked Eithne out soon enough, turning the corner to come face to face with the Scot.

"Hi," he started.

[Stabberz]

"Hi..." Eithne responded, tensing immediately as he held a sleeping Lucas in his arms.

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