ooc: GYAH! It ate my post! And it was so good and long and *sniff*
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He didn't know how long he was out, but he was roused by the cool towel being dabbed across his chest. At first he simply thought he was getting cold, that his body was slowly shutting down and death was traveling up through his limbs. Ah! Cruel world! He was far too young to die, but here he was being overcome by the cold of death. He still had so much to do in life! His dreams! Oh his dreams! He had yet to become so rich he could spend his coin on anything he so desired. He still had to fall deeply and madly in love! Lust was easy, it was an integral part of his life...but love! Ah love! he had yet to meet the person with whom he would stay forever!
What a cruel, cruel world!
The cool was gone and his eyes flickered open, slowly adjusting to the dim light of the room. He was just in time to see Megan walking away and he couldn't supress his sigh. So she had died too! It was too terrible! All of his hard work, and here she was...dead with him...because of him? He hadn't been able to help her! Whatever had happened he was completely unconcious and she ended up getting hurt.
And now look! She was being dragged away by demons! How awful! She must have led a horrible life to be taken away by a red-haired demon into the endless realm of fire and ice and....
He yelped as he shifted and his wound pulled. It hurt like crazy, the dull thud, thud, thud of pain began running up and down his arm and torso. Which meant....
Shit.
The gal!
WIthout thinking he sat up, feeling the stitches tear from his side which caused him to fall back onto the bed with a yelp. He panted as he closed his eyes against the pain. That had been exceedingly stupid.
But he wasn't dead! That meant that Megan hadn't been taken by demons, but by someone else!
"Damnit!" he growled, pushing himself up slowly with his good arm. He needed to help her, to save her...again! GYAH! But why did he have this strong sense of duty? He wasn't getting paid for this! This was something that he stupidly decided to take on for his own moral fiber. Not cool. He coud always just walk away...leave her....after all, hadn't he done his duty? he tried to save her! She was the one who managed to get captured this time! He should just leave her where she was and hope that this high lord wouldn't kill her or something. Although, it seemed as if the other people didn't want her injured at all...they were bound to treat her kindly....even if just a little....
Right?
He could just quit.
He winced at the thought. Quitting was not his strong point! And this was certainly quitting...even if he was never employed in the first place. Quitting....he couldn't do that! But it was the only way he'd get out of this circle of intrigue! He needed to just go! Go on his merry way, find some sort of paying job...yeah...that was the best idea. He'd get healed, rest for a few days...and then be on his way....he was finished with that crazy girl and her stalkers.
Quitter
DAMNIT!
He couldn't do it! he couldn't! he would not be labeled a quitter! Not in his own mind, and certainly not in anyone elses! Not to mention, he was probably going to be the next target! After all, that one man who was with Hyuthes was still at large and would certainly report back to The Man about Megan's mysterious body guard.
Fabulous. Even if he ran it wouldn't do any good, he'd still be pulled back in one way or another.
Which left only one thing.
Time to go after her.
With a grunt he swung his legs over the side of the bed and attempted to stand. He was barely on his feet when the Healer returned from his errands and took no time in pushing his patient back onto the bed.
"What are you doing? You can't move!" he cried, forcing Andwyad to lay back against the pillows, noting that the girl was nowhere to be seen and Andwyad had been cleaned of the blood that had settled on his skin. He frowned.
"I gotta go." Andy muttered through hooded eyes, "A man...a man took 'er"
Immediately Loeard's eyes narrowed, not needing to ask who had been taken. The girl. Fantastic....she wouldn't last two weeks without the salve for her shoulder! The poison would begin spreading again if She wasn't seen!
"Well you can't go anywhere in your condition. if you want to have use of that arm again, you'll stay where I put you."
"But....we need t'get 'er!" he protested, pushing himself up on his good arm, mindful of his side this time.
"I know....I know" Loeard pressed the heals of his hands against his eyes. Goddess, but he didn't know what he was going to do! He needed to find that girl.....but this man couldn't be left unattended! What a horrible predicament!
"We'll go together....slowly....we'll follow them." he decided after a few minutes, "The guards can't do anything if they leave the town...But you" he turned his attention back to Andy, "You are going to have to listen to me every step of the way. When I say it's time to rest, we stop."
Andwyad nodded. He completely understood, at least now, in a few days when he was feeling stronger? Well, they'd cross that road when they came to it.
"When will we leave?" he asked instead.
"After I pack a few things."
And that was that.
ooc: Ok...so what are we going to do now? It sounds to me as if this thread is finished and we're going to be split up for a while. Maybe we'll posted a wanted in the Echoes of the Future to find someone to play the High Lord and Megan can RP with him for a while, while Andwyad and Loeard search for her?
