Learning

[Verdan]

Verdan, waiting for Shadow's reply looked around the room. He noticed that Ariadne was sitting unusually still for someone who was so eager just a short time ago. Her long hair was falling over her face, so he could not tell what she was thinking. Verdan slowly reached out and gently brushed away a lock of her hair, seeing that Ariadne's eyes were closed and that she was breathing slowly and deeply, as one does only when they are sleeping. Verdan smiled a small unnoticeable smile. She was clearly uninterested in his medical explanations.

[Shadow]

Shadow Laughed. "Ah, but my body is trained to heal quickly. I have done this for many years, and am used to the pain. I mis-realigned the bone once, and i learned from that mistake. thanks for the splint." looking over at ariadne, he smiled. "obviously she isnt going into the field of healing."

[Ariadne]

Ariadne was deep in her dreams....She was reminiscing on that horrible afternoon where her life changed forever. She saw him...His long scaly fingers, his piercing red eyes, his dirty silver hair that fell to his eyes. "Ill always be watching you" he whispered to her. As she suddenly screamed for her life hoping someone would wake her up from this nightmare. "Your dead" Ariadne kept whispering in her dreams but it just wasnt in her dreams she really was whispering out loud. Ariadne started shuddering as tears fell from her eyes.

[Verdan]

Verdan places the two pieces of wood on wither side of the leg and begins to wind the cloth strip around them, winding them tightly, which would hurt more, but be a better splint. He laughs. "Yes, she's definitely not going to be a healer. If she is she's just gonna fall asleep in the middle of some healing process." he says jokingly, continuing to wind the cloth. Once he finishes, he ties it neatly. "There. Now you shouldn't try to do anything too physical, but you will be a bit more mobile with the splint than without it. Good thieving!" Verdan says, accepting the fact that everyone makes money in their own way, and this was just one of them. "Now, you still want me to teach you that glowing trick? But only if you teach me something in exchange. This is, after all, a school."

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Verdan looks at Ariadne, concerned. She was muttering in her sleep and seemed awfully unrestful. He reaches out an gently shakes her by the shoulder. "Are you ok?" he asks her.

[Shadow]

Shadow got up and walked over to ariadne, who was obviously haveing a bad dream. putting his hand on her shoulder, he shook her a bit. "wake up... its only a dream..." he shook her again, repeating what he said and getting louder.

[Ariadne]

Ariadnes eyes suddenly burst open as tears started falling from her eyes. She saw Shadows lips move but she couldnt hear the words he was saying all she heard was "Ill always be watching you" over and over again. Ariadne put her hands to her ears trying to block out those words. But to no avail. The words already sunk in.

[Verdan]

Verdan got up and moved closer to Ariadne, kneeling in front of her and looking deep in her eyes. He saw fear, rage, anger, pain, suffering. His own eyes clouded over as he saw this. He put his palms up to the sides of Ariadne's head and attempted to bring her beck to this world by trying to take some of her burden unto himself. He has only heard about this being done, but this was an extreme situation. Verdan felt simself becoming weaker, his mind eing corrupted my despair. He was only kept up by the hope that this was helping Ariadne.

[Shadow]

Shadow shook his head. pulling out a hip flask, he opened it cautiously. a blast of flame came out, almost singing his face. "nope." Pulling out another one, he opened it cautiously and seeing that nothing was going to jump out at him, peered inside. "ok, here we go." drinking some of the liquid himself, he filled a small cup with the clear, water-like substance. "This stuff better work..." he pulled out a small pouch and dumped some black powder into the liquid. satisfied with his work, he picked up the cup and pausing for a moment, slammed it onto the floor beside him. the result was an intense flash which was followed by an enourmous bang, so startling, that even shadow, who knew what to expect, jumped. and covered his ears.

[Ariadne]

Ariadne jumped back as she heard a loud bang. After recovering from the loud bang. She turned to look at Verdan and said "Trying to take the pain away from me and onto yourself doesnt work anymore...It seems hes gotten past that." Ariadne said as she dried the tears from herself with a cloth she took out from her cloak pocket. She suddenly felt foolish. She had this dreams when she was smaller but shes already old enough. Everybody told her her died that afternoon....She had killed him.

[Verdan]

Verdan flinched slightly from the bang, getting up in one swift motion and looking around, alarmed. Realizing that it was Shadow's work, he calms down and looks at him, half-disapproving, half-relieved. He turns to Ariadne.

"What happened there? In your dream?" He inquires.

[Ariadne]

Ariadne looked at Verdan..not sure if she should tell him, but she decided to tell him...mostly because of the fact that he was willing to take away her pain and her sorrows onto himself.
"Sure...sit down..." She told them as she sat down on the floor with her legs crossed waiting for them to sit.

[Shadow]

Shadow cleaned up the pile of soot that formed from his explosion. looking at ariadne concernedly. "A past event. one that cannot harm you unlesss you allow it to... am i right?" he sat back down, and put his stuff away, pausing with the first hip flask he pulled out. Smiling mischeviuosly, he handed it to verdan. "Dont open that."

[Verdan]

Verdan sat down across from her and slightly to the right, leaving room for Shadow. This was going to be long, he knew, why else would he need to sit down?..

[Ariadne]

Ariadne looked at Verdan and then to the floor, unaware where to start her tale. “It all started when I was 7 years old and my mother told me to go to the Local Priest to get something from her that he was supposed to give her. My mother suggested me to bring someone along the walk but even as a child I was stubborn so I declined. Why?” Ariadne asked herself. “Because all I really wanted to do was continue playing so if I brung someone along they will surely slow down my pace. So I went off to the Priest house. The walk was roughly a mile long and the path there was well-worn. Plenty of times I had walked over there, so I thought today would be no different. So off I went. As I began my “journey” I decided to run to get there faster. So there I was running until I felt tired so I decided to slow down my pace. As I was walking I heard a pebble being thrown. How did I know it was a pebble? I saw it skipping along the way. My mother always told me if I find myself alone and I hear noises behind me to not look back because if I did I would be looking into the eyes of the devil and he would always follow you.” Ariadne told both of them. She then finally looked up to see their faces. She turned and looked at Shadow “That’s why when we were in the library and you began talking about how cool shape-shifting was and etc. I freaked out about being followed.” She then lowered her gaze back to the floor in front of her and continued on with her story. “So I decided not to look back, but then it happened again and curiosity got the best of me. My mothers warning forgotten at the moment. I looked back but only to be at nothing. This freaked me out so I hurried up my pace and began speed-walking then speed-walking began running as adrenaline pumped through my veins. As I ran my footsteps weren’t the only ones I heard I also heard another pair heavier than my own. As I ran the footsteps started becoming closer and closer. So I decided to run into the forest thinking that the trees would hide me from my chaser. But I was wrong. It seemed as the chaser knew the woods better than me. I soon had fallen and the chaser had cought me. As he grabbed me I looked up to see a man looking down at me with piercing red eyes looking at me with a malicious grin upon his face. I started to struggle but to no avail. He was a man and I just a little girl. Soon he started running south from the path. Screaming would have done nothing. As he ran I soon became unconscious due to the fact that trees kept hitting my head.

I soon woke up in a dusty old wood shack. The door was bolted tight and there was no possible way that I thought I could get out. I screamed for what felt for hours as tears ran down my face. My pretty purple dress that I had worn that day was now a faded color with blood stains. As I looked at the blood I began to panic even more. Suddenly the door opened and there he stood. He looked really familiar. “Let me go” I screamed as I marched up to him and kicked him and punched him with my little hands rolled up into a fist. “Feisty little girl aren’t you” he told me as he had slapped me to the floor. As blood started to fall from my lip. I thought he wasn’t going to hit me again. But he did. It went on for what I thought were hours. Every now and then he would pick up a random object and beat me with it. A rock, a branch, and so forth.” Ariadne said. She then exhaled and inhaled air as tears started escaping her eyes against her own will. She then dried them and continued on. “He then got a bucket of water and threw it on my fragile body as the water made contact with my body it burned my skin. He kept me in that shack for days. I had finally figured out who he was. He was one of the founding fathers Great-Great-Great-Great Grandson from our Town. So he was well-respected among the Townspeople. I was starving and tired. When one day I just imagined life outside this wooden wall. When suddenly the brown wall wasn’t there anymore. That was the first time I had a “magical occurrence” So I took that chance and milked it for all its worth. I ran North, I ran and I ran until I came to the familiar path that I just was on days ago. I ran to my village. And stopped as a group of men that I recognized from my village ran up to me and hugged me. I started crying uncontrollably and they carried me to my house. My mother saw me and fixed me all up. The days that past were of much commotion. Everyone was asking me what happened and all I could say was “I was kidnapped” then they would ask who? Describe us to him….But I couldn’t tell them. He would find me and kill me. Plus no one would believe a little girl. Well….one day the village was celebrating something I don’t quite remember what. And he came. The villagers told them what had happened and he had came up to me trying to comfort me but I couldn’t take it anymore and I had spat in his face and he told me I was a rude little girl. I told him to leave. The villagers already started to gather around us. He looked at me and his glare shot daggers at me. I told my mother it was him who kidnapped me and she started questioning him. He told my mother not to believe me that I was a lying little girl but my mother had none of that. She believed me. The men from the village surrounded him and managed to push all of them out of his way. The celebration was held around the river. We were all around the rivers shore. He started yelling that it wasn’t true that probably nobody kidnapped me that I did this to bring attention to me. As I heard these words I started getting angry. Really angry. When suddenly my body was floating in the air as the water from the river started forming around me and then all of a sudden all the water hit him with full force. Thus wise making him drown. I had killed him. I murdered him.” Ariadne said as she again looked up to see their faces. She hoped that they don’t think she’s a psychopathic lunatic that goes on killing anybody that gets her angry. She also hoped this wouldn’t change the way they viewed her. Ariadne looked back down again as her hair fell down to cover her face.
“After that I told everybody what happened and they thought he deserved what he got. My mother was proud of me because I could become a mage and you can say I lived a RATHER normal life. But then I started getting these dreams with him in it. Every Night and soon it was every time I fell asleep. I would wake up screaming with tears in my eyes just as you saw before. Sometimes he says different things. Hell either say I know where you are, Ill always be watching you, Don’t go in the dark ill be there. My mother didn’t know what to do. So she took me to the local Priest and he would try to do what you did Verdan. And all my troubles and pains would go away. The priest would do this daily to me. But I guess he gotten another way to get into my mind so trying to put the pain unto yourself Verdan would be rather pointless……The End.” Ariadne said as she finished telling them her story. She looked up at them and waited for their reactions.

[Shadow]

Shadow slowly shook his head. "and i thought I had trouble sleeping... he looked up at her. "when he is in your dreams, where is he? or where are you? because someone once told me that that has a connection of how to solve these deams... or something like that." He smiled. "but that certainly deserves merit, going into a rage like that. Atleast you didnt kill everyonein the vicinity of your enemy, like i did..." He shook his head. "But thats not the point."