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Post by Avice Locke on May 23, 2019 18:46:55 GMT -8
And she could see him again!
"Certainly a waste of energy for me to have gone down on the first blow. Forgive me." She accepted his helpful hand. "Unbeknownst to her, she would actually be in better shape than him at this point. But if she had been struck again... there wouldn't have been a chance. Thankfully he went for her legs instead of her chest. "Although You kept going low with your attacks, that can't be easy given that I am much shorter than ya. How in the world was that your best course of action? It left you quite open and prone to losing balance if you are not careful."
Use:16/20 Qi sense - This is a static addition to her Qi, does not take a Qi slot. Avice can now sense those whose Qi energies are as strong or weaker than her own. She cannot sense Qi from those whose energy is stronger than hers. Must be within 50 feet of Avice to sense. Walls do not matter- she can sense them through any object not designed to block her.
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Post by Drake on May 23, 2019 18:56:28 GMT -8
Drake shrugged.
"My first attack was me trying to get used to this flail, and it failed. And that last attack, what you were unable to see... was that I turned into my child self, so in that moment I was much shorter than you."
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Post by Avice Locke on May 23, 2019 19:20:35 GMT -8
"Hm... And here I thought your voice cracked..." She chuckled.
"Well, once I get my eyes... I'll need to work hard to make up the Void my Qi had left of me." Her foot kicked something as she walked. Reaching down she felt it be her gun and once she picked it up there was a swift jerk of her arm and it unclipped from its fold and clipped back straight into a long cane of sorts. She was already prepared to be blinded for the rest of her life. "Hell even if I don't ever get them... I'll have to do the same either way." She didn't like the thought of it but she was preparing to tough it out.
"Do you mind if I ask you something? I understand you know about as much of Kentler or Leon as I do... but... Well, do you think they are trustworthy?"
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Post by Drake on May 23, 2019 19:47:00 GMT -8
Drake thought about it for a moment before answering.
"If I'm being honest. Ik not quite sure anyone is ever truly trustworthy... but I am taking a chance and hoping that this time, the Sudeki can prove me wrong."
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Post by Avice Locke on May 23, 2019 19:56:26 GMT -8
"The Sudeki Clan have been not but good to me letting me stay here and caring for me. I've hardly done much to pay them back. But at this point, I feel obligated to do so... And yet I wonder..." she found this hard to put into words. "The horrible drug trip that cost me Leon's eyes and my Qi pointed something out to me that I have yet to really come to terms with. Leon has been keeping unusually close watch over me, Kentler is allowing me to keep doing as I please, Raikotsu got close to me and even as I can rationalize all of that as they are kind people I almost can't help but wonder if there is something else to it. More so the last instance I had seen Leon there was Kentler and I can't help but wonder what they were talking about before I entered the conversation. A lot of suspicions and not enough proof for me... I was suggested by Leon to Align myself with others I would align myself with the Sudeki's... if only it wasn't just that Leon suggested it and that I have that burning paranoid feeling that there is a Joke that I am not in on."
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Post by Drake on May 23, 2019 20:11:24 GMT -8
Drake would raise an eyebrow and look at Avice.
"Ya know... I have a constant distrust of people and their motives... and even still, you sound paranoid to me."
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Post by Avice Locke on May 23, 2019 20:21:50 GMT -8
She grumbled. "Aye, that's my point... I play it through my mind and while I still have that suspicious feeling and I can not get past two things my mind was on drugs when this lined up and two I am untrusting and paranoid with no evidence that I should be or otherwise." She exhaled. "I ought to just let it go and do what's necessary aye?"
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Post by Drake on May 23, 2019 20:25:44 GMT -8
Drake would nod.
"After our visit with Hypnos, I have discovered that letting go of the past is the best way to move forward towards the future."
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Post by Avice Locke on May 23, 2019 20:35:13 GMT -8
"What did Hypnos do to you?" She grinned. He almost sounds different, more mature, and more enlightened. Giving her the advice of sages while she is still sorting through the loose ends of her steps backward. "She hadn't thought there was much else that had happened when She was asleep under Hypnos' power.
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Post by Drake on May 23, 2019 20:48:22 GMT -8
Drake would fall silent for a moment.
"He... showed me the truth of my past, even the night of my conception and what really happened. It turns out everything I used to hold as truth and fact was naught but deception and manipulation."
He would look back to her.
"I will recount to you what I saw if you wish, since you told me what you experienced in your dream. But fair warning. My tale isn't for the feint of heart."
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Post by Avice Locke on May 23, 2019 21:09:52 GMT -8
"Only if you feel comfortable Drake, Frankly the least I could do after all you've done for me is be someone who is here whenever you might have need of me. If I can better understand then I am willing." She wouldn't be nosey or put him in an uncomfortable position so she would leave it up to him.
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Post by Drake on May 23, 2019 21:33:17 GMT -8
"Oh?"
Drake would say smirking.
"And here I thought you were going to say since you told me your story I should tell you mine. Ya know, your whole, 'give what you get' philosophy."
He would say teasingly.
"Anyways, I was first shown how the Dragons, Leon and Mathew, locked my father into a room with my mother. I discovered that they were doing this as a way to pop my father's cherry. Leon had even gone so far as to pay the Madame, Aryn, for the premium services.... But what my father received was... torture, harassment, abuse of all sorts that no one should ever have to suffer during any form of sexual encounter. What she did to him, even my most hardcore patrons wouldn't want nor ask for..."
Drake shook his head at what he had witnessed.
"Then she threw him out of there even after he proclaimed his love for her. Naturally he was in some sort of shock. The two elders then took him and celebrated unknowing of what he had just been through. And my father, being inexperienced as he was didn't know any better that what he had just been through was bad, since everyone seemed to be treating it as something good."
He would sigh.
"Then, next I saw was my childhood. Me as a child sitting there and I asked my mother where my father was. She proceed to give me a beating so bad that I could barely stand. She yelled and cursed at me, saying I should never mention my father to her again. She told me he and his friends were wild and wicked men, then she would give me a hug and told me she loved me... only I could see her face. Every time she touched me she was disgusted. Almost as if my very existence was poisonous and caused her to be physically ill every time she touched me. This pattern repeated for years, even when I had long accepted the fact I should never ask about my father, she would mention him or bring him up and blame me, now I know, it was merely an excuse to beat me senseless and then manipulate me telling me that the only reason I was hurting was because of my father and all the other Dragons. They were the reason that she and I were hurting like we were, and that they were the cause of all of the bad in my life. All while lying to me about how much she loved and cared for me..."
Drake fell silent to let the story sink in.
"Hypnos showed me that all that I was lead to believe, everything that I had known and accepted as fact, but nothing more than lies stacked on top of lies, stacked on top of more lies. Now, I know. That I need to change not just my direction but myself, if I'm ever going to find out what I want in life."
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Post by Avice Locke on May 23, 2019 22:20:33 GMT -8
"I hardly think you owe me a damn thing. As I said after all you've done for me..."
But hearing it was a whole other animal. She could not imagine anyone who would ever have been more manipulative and vile. Moved with Greed and festering with Hate. "Aye don't ever introduce me to her... Children shouldn't have to put up with such pain and hate."
"Still... this new tune you are singing, I hope it works out far better for you."
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Post by Drake on May 23, 2019 22:42:46 GMT -8
"Ha!"
Drake would let out humorlessly.
"You would have to get in line behind me should I ever come across her again. Needless to say I'm making it my personal goal to never return to that brothel ever again."
But even despite his big talk in his heart he was unsure if he would ever be able to harm that woman. No matter how much she had hurt him...
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Post by Avice Locke on May 23, 2019 22:54:31 GMT -8
"Cold floors are cold floors, aye? No matter how our stories are different we both slept on cold floors with no warmth to turn to. I'll be 'ere all you need to do is say the word." She grinned.
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