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Elias let out a powerful laugh. "I let you sleep long enough don't you think, I had to have some time to hide all my antique weapons and sharped my little obsidian friends, look familiar?" he asked with a sly smile as he flashed one of his obsidian daggers neck to her luscious red lips.

((Die on me? I think not RP...I think not...mwaha. Oh and no need to quote there Shinga.))

After managing herself away from Vincent, she had gone to, her now doubled, room. Sure enough, the Watcher had knocked down a wall, her eyes hadn't been playing tricks on her earlier. So she had, despite what she had said, taken to cleaning up the rubble. Aura couldn't stand her room to be messy. But now she had taken a break and was lying on her bed, reflecting upon things. Right now it was her weaknesses. Thought of Alexander had brought it up. From Eclipse's telling to her, Alexander favored ice, this is non naturally produced ice. And it made her worry. After all, she was allergic to such a thing and a slip up around Alexander or something on a rye, and if it involved his favored thing, she could very well die from it. Damn that allergy. Aura's mind was concocting how to overcome, or at the very least diminish the allergy. She had known that in some cases, exposure to said thing that you were allergic to could cure it, or lessen it. The idea was immensely intriguing. Of course, she'd have several people angry at her for doing such and act if something did go wrong and she ended up at deaths door, most likely in mob form, Eclipse and Vincent at the head of the mob. That thought made her chuckle and she sat up on her bed, stretching her arms above her head. It was still worth a shot. She just didn't want any accidents to happen and then that lead to worse. Yet if she took precautions, she could come out better if said ice related accident did occur. Yes, a very intriguing proposition indeed.

The green eyed watcher paced a set path back and forth infront of his bed in his moonlight room, He had been wracking his brain for a way to help Naliah with her nightmares, and still the only thing he had come up with was to go in to her head and handol things hands on. It was a simple task to get inside her mind as long as she was asleep, the only problem was the method of fighting whoever was causing the deams, Physical and magical damage, as far as he knew would would temperaraly put the creature out of commition and he neeeded a much more permanate soultion, not to mention that while inside her head, depending on what this thing was and how creative it could be, it could have sceased complete controle over her subchoncous, in wich case would make fighting it damn near impossable. He had been at this for hours, just paceing the same cource thinking.

Niah tossed and turned in her bed. She was finally sleeping again.

"Well my dear. Did you think I wasn't coming back? You wouldn't be that lucky."

Niah winced. "Damn you. Where have you been?"

THe voice laughed, "You're a mortal my dear. Mortals, much to my chagrin, need sleep to survive."HE sighed as though she was stupid.

"Can't you just leave me alone!" Niah shook her head and sighed.

"But that would be no fun my dear. Are you ready to play some more? I have something...interesting in mind for you tonight."

Nailah winced again. She remembered his last 'interesting' thing had involved killing Aurahkah. She refused to let it happen again. "I won't let you hurt anyone else I care about."

"I wouldn't dream of it my dear. No my target is different tonight."

Niah glared at him. "No. You aren't that powerful you can only manipulate my dreams after all." Niah's hands hit her hips in her gesture of anger.

HE materialized in front of her and narrowed shadowy eyes, "So you are not aware how connected your dreams and your reality really are. Be careful mortal, I am much more powerful than you."

She refused to let him intimidate her. "You wouldn't do anything to me, you need me too much."

"Need you? My dear girl there are thousands of incompetent idiots that I can use. I simply prefer to use you."

Niah glared at the thing. "I am neither incompetent nor an idiot!"

The voice laughed maniacally "Ah but I can kill you without even touching you. THat sounds like incompetency and idiocy to me."

Nailah clenched her fists. She refused to let him goad her.

The voice grew passive "What no retorts? I find your silence as a signal to begin my game. I trust you're ready to play?"

"You're asking. Seems you can be taught something."

"You won't be laughing for long my dear. I can assure you that."

Nailah simply held her pose and waited for the game to begin. It happened a few moments later. Seh waited for the familiar swirl of colors that signaled he was taking her to her past but they never came. Instead she was picked up and tossed back into a wall, her head slamming against hard stone. Shackles seemed to appear out of nowhere and closed about her wrists. She hung about a foot off the ground held by the metal encasing her wrists.

"You have become much too cocky my dear. It's time to remind you who your true master is."

"I have no master and never will!"

The thing laughed. "I think I must disagree. You see my dear, in a matter of moments I have reduced you to helpless."

Nailah slowly sat up and pushed the covers off. She stood her movements slow and sluggish. Walking to her dressing table she picked up the dagger that was laying there adn slowly walked back to her bed. She sat on the silk sheets and began to play with the dagger, tracing it's sharp point with the pad of her finger.

]"I believe it's time to prove to you who your master is. Now where shall I put my brand?"

Nailah began to struggle in her chains. She kicked adn suddenly her ankles were encased in metal as well.

"Touchy aren't you? Ah I think I've found my place." He walked up to her and reached out, shadow moved across her face. "But then why destroy such beauty? No, I'll simply force you to wear long sleeves forever. Of course by that time you will proudly bear my mark."

Nailah shivered as she felt something strange on her cheek. Seh turned her head away and heard his laughter. He moved away from her and she was almost afraid to know what would happen next. Suddenly blinding pain wrenched through her body. Her arms were on fire. Blood began to pour adn she felt it slither slowly down her raised arms. It joined with her hair and the acrid smell reached her nose. She writhed in pain adn screamed.

Nailah turned her left arm so that the smooth skin was presented for her view. Lifting the dagger she had been playing wiht she began to mark her skin just below her wrist. Methodically she began carving symbols into her arms. Blood poured down and spotted the sheets but the lady continued to carve. when she had carved a few of the symbols she moved to her other arm. Beginning at the same spot she began to carve the symbols into her other arm. Blood had poured and soaked into the already carved areas making them a dark red color. The overall effect was extremely frightening. Her arms were coated with the red substance but she continued until she had seven symbols combined.

((whew...that's a long one. almost as long as yours saradin...))

He snorted and dropped back to his haunches, one ear down, as his mind caught on to Aurahkah's. He gave another snort and stood, walking a few paces, slipping into a shadow walk and popping back out again right beside his thief. "Like I'm really going to let you do that. Maybe when I'm around, but definitely not by yourself, and not right now. We have bigger problems."

She brushed her bangs from her face and looked to the wolf. "I figured you say that. What problems are you speaking of?"

He swished his tail and took hold of her bracelet in his jaws, where he pulled her into a shadow walk with him, bringing both to the great hall. Once there again he pulled her along, near to the infirmary where he dropped her arm. "Saradin's double is back. But don't over react. He's different this time. I don't know what happened but they're both badly injured, I believe they fought."

She gave him a puzzled look then moved to go into the infirmary. But stopped as the wolf caught her forearm gently in his jaws. "Eclipse?"

"No, don't go in."

Alexanders eyes wondered over her again, his head sinking into his palm for a moment in thought, He wasnt sure what to do, He had never had anoyone dieing before him that he didnt want to be that way. The only sound he managed was a growl as he dropped his hand, his hands soon snapped out grabbing her bedsheats, freeing them form teh bed he shread it into two strips in moments and went down to wrap her arms and stop the bleeding.

Aura gave Bastet a soft smile and shook her head softly. Approaching her friend she looked the cat eared woman over, making sure that none of the blood was her own. "Better than you it seems...are you alright Bastet?"

Eclipse noticed the blood on her for the first time as well. How much had those two lost? He gave a sniff to the air around her and snorted. Turning tail he disappeared into the kitchen and came back with a warm wet rag in his jaws, offering it up to her.

Noting that her little attempt was not working, her ears sank a little. She walked around the room some, slightly distraught. "It all happened so fast, I did not even have time to react until after the fact." Sighing she stopped pacing and gratefully took the rag from Eclipse, whipeing at her skin deeming her outfit a lost cause. "Thank you. I am fine I guess, just worried. They will heal, but he was trying to kill him. He said that he understands now, but the understanding is not a fun one. Great, I am babbling..." Finally she walked over to one of the giant plush chairs and sat in it.