What a surprise!

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After that unusual encounter of meeting that fallen angel at Serendipity Village, Thaylias decided she should explore more of the villages. She had no choice but too, she supposed. Curiousity was so strong in her that it was fueled her, what gave her energy to move. But, of course, she had other, more secretic movetives that she cared not to escape from her lips. And who, nowadays, didn't have darker pasts? It seemed like everyone carried around heavy burdens upon their shoulders. Then again, these weren't the best of days. She knew that very well. Who didn't?

Thaylias wandered down the road, avoiding some people riding smoothly on the backs of equines or relative-type animals. She watched as a carriage rushed past, the wheels grumbling over the ground as the horses' hooves thudded and tapped. Her lush, forest emerald eyes blinked as she watched, almost awestruck. Such simple things, she thought. But with that she not only felt more intuned to her body, but to her needs, such as the one that struck her empty stomach. She looked around hopefully for a fruit stand, with slender, snowy digits brushing back loose, long ebony lucks behind her ears. Her delicate-looking face bright with an almost child-like curiousity that seemed very innocent.

The flash of a tender, bright red caught the attention of her eyes. She trailed back to the previous location of the red and eyes flickered. She recklessly stepped out into the road - stupidly enough - a carriage was coming at her. The horses saw, rolled their eyes as the clear whites flashed. She yelped and the horses kept coming and didn't stop. In fact, they went right through her. In time she had realized that she could go through any solid object and the rush that went through her gave her a sharp, tingling sensation that traveled down her spine and made her shiver, sweat beading her brow. That had been painful but not nearly as painful as if she would have been trampled beneath hooves and wheels. And so, with this she trotted off, her attention reverted to the fresh apples as she made it across the road. This time with no problem at all. She bought an apple and sank her teeth into it and hmmed happily as she leaned against a wall nearby the stand, watching everybody walk by. Now, after her stupidity she could, perhaps, recline and watch everyone?

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"Well, well. Wasn't that interesting?" said a quiet, cheerful voice from behind the girl. The source of it emerged from the (convientently located) small alley nearby. It was a figure, a tall man with a lanky figure and hair that flopped across his eyes. Crelessly, he brushed it back.

"You seem to have walked straight through a horse, and not taken notice," he said almost to himself. Kael, as he was called, leaned against the wall next to the girl. He did so casually, like he had known her all his life. "Quite unusual, I would call it. Then again, you don't see many things you would call normal around these days." He stopped a moment and stared into space, then shrugged some mental cobwebs off.  "In any case.. I'm Kael. And you are?" He turned his head questioningly, searching her eyes with his sapphire ones.

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Thaylias, although she had been an assasin of sorts, she was not incapable of surprise. By far of course. She nearly jumped out of her skin, a jolt rocking her as she snapped her head to look to the origin of the voice, large, luminous eyes already growing larger with her surprise. She had snapped her head to look at him so fast it caused the long, belly-button length braid of hair to casually flick over her shoulder. She sighed, though, when he was a non-threatening sort. Well, she'd have to be more alert, despite her abilities.

When he spoke of her run-in with the carriage and horse she gave a soft laugh, one of her effortless smiles gliding onto her face. She loved to smile and laugh and it came with natural ease to her. She never oppressed her facial expressions, whether it be scowl or smirk. Unless she really needed to get away with something and lying was involved...

"Hello and I'm Thaylias. Yes, around here nothing seems unusual, does it?" She spoke, a brow lifting as she gazed into his blue eyes.

Lovely blue eyes, she thought. She dismissed the thought - stupid girly harmones. She bit back into the apple with a smile, chewing and swallowing. She tilted her head, resuming looking at him with mild interest. She shifted against the wall, the sole of her sandle pressed against the wall her back was pressed against it.

"How're you?" She said, not uncomfortable just more at a loss for something to say.

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He said nothing for a moment, but kept eye contact, and almost concerned expression on his face. He looked as if he were trying to read.. well, her sould, almost. But the moment passed, and he looked away, out into the busy street. "Yeah, anything's possible," he said, sounding happy and almost childlike. Still, something wistful tugged at him, but he ignored it. After all, he couldn't just sit there and stare at the world forever, could he? No, he had to get used to it sometime.

He glanced back at his unusual companion. "Thankee, I'm good," he said amiably. "You seem new around here," he remarked, not knowing if that was the case or not, but guessing anyway. "Checked out the castle yet? 'S rather pretty. Bit to fancy for me, though. I'm a more.. simple kinda person."

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Thaylias thought he was rather oddly distant. He had kept eye contact with her but he had seemed to be looking at something deeper than her. At least her exterior, as if trying to look at her soul. But perhaps she was reading to much into his azure gaze. She continued to study him, taking another bite at her apple hungrily. Mmm! Good, she thought. She shifted again, feeling her spine grate against the wall irritabily but she remained resting against the well, getting more comfortable with the more time she spent with her back pressed against it.

"Yeah, I am new. Oh, no, I haven't checked out the castle. Fancy does make sense for a castle. Eh, well, I just float around, never really stay one place," she responded in one seemed like in one breath.

Kael had seemed, earlier, rather childlike. Not that that was a bad thing of course. And he had looked at her with something near concern... mind playing tricks? Very likely, she thought. And with that she felt a sharp pang shoot up her body and made her wince the very slightest. She couldn't believe her luck -- she had contracted that stupid virus. And it always happened at sporratic moments. Maybe it was just something she'd have for a short while. She was still going through the change of species and maybe with fully acquiring her phaser abilities her changeling ones will dissipate along with the virus. Or she would have to search for some cure in which she had heard of. It was somewhere.. a plant or potion, she couldn't be sure. Maybe both? Oh well. Time would tell.

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Kael quickly turned his head towards her; he had been studying her, too, out of the corner of his eye. "Alright?" he asked, his voice still easy and pleasant. Still, he had seen her shifting restlessly. Was something wrong? His eyes again met hers, and the faintest flicker of concern again passed through them. After a moment of hesitation, he let it pass. If it was, she was a big girl, and could probably take care of herself.

After another moment, he turned towards her. "Apple?" he asked, seeing she was almost done with her firstm devouring it at a remarkable speed. "Well, another?" He had produced an apple, albiet a rather beat up one, presumably out of his pocket. With one hand, he held the apple towards her. with the other hand, he again brushed his oaken-coloured hair back from his face., which now had an earnest and innocent look displayed on it.

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Once again she was mildly surprised about his question. She should be more aware, or perhaps this virus was misting her senses? She didn't know and it annoyed her very slightly. That simple fact that a virus was in her veins and she could swear it was mocking her as it lulled in her blood. Gah! Geeze, she was acting so, rather, pyschopathic lately. Not like she was sane any other time, just this was an unusual insanity and she wasn't pleased with it.

In response to his one-word question of 'alright' she simply nodded with a merry smile. She gave a soft breath, the smile still lingering on her lips as she twitched again. Odd pains in her chest and head. Almost a heartattack or headache but she knew it wasn't neither. It was just a spontaenous threat inside her that was cast out by the virus that hummed and lived within her being.

A grin flickered over her lips, pulling her lips up at the corners as she finished off the rest of her apple. Yes, she did eat rather fast. She blinked at him when he offered her his apple that he had taken from his jacket. Although she trusted him, one could never be to trusting about certain things like that. And she had always been wary about food others had given her, a pet peeve of sorts because as a child her siblings and friends weren't always the kindest to her or one another of course.

"No thank you," she responded to him.

She paused, thinking of something to say. What to say, what to say?

"What brings you here?" she asked him, curious of his answer.

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He just looked at her for a moment, and raised one eyebrow slightly. The apple was stil in his outstretched hand. He shruged, and took a large bit of the apple, still looking at her a bit suspiciously. Her smile seemed... transparent, somehow. Maybe it was just him. Yes, that was probably it. He really was never good at reading other people, and didn't want to misinterperet someone he had just met.

In response to her question, he said, "Actually, I dunno myself. I wander a lot, don't belong to any place in particular. Itchy feet, you know." He grinned, a crooked sort of grin that got him out of all sorts of trouble as a kid. As if to prove his last commet, he raised his right foot and scratched it throught the thin leather of his boot.

Kael set his foot down, and suddenly reached out his hand. He took a small strand of her hair in his fingers for a moment, looked at it, and tucked it behind her ear. Then he looked at her, and blushed furiously, and looked away. "Sorry," he muttered. "Didn't mean to infringe on any.. er, space."

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Her amused, lush emerald eyes seemed to smile and twinkle in a unison with her plump, glossy lips. A soft, almost musical, but lilting laugh echoed from her in response to him about his feet. She nodded her head, understanding what he meant. Her own feet were rather 'itchy' as well. She was never in one place long, usually wandering around and staying for a few weeks, perhaps even a month if she seemed content in the new place. But she usually never stayed in a place long if she lacked in friends.

Her luminous eyes widened in her delicate face, more in surprise then anything else. She wasn't used to people tucking a strand behind her ear. It was, well, new to her. Especially to strangers, even if she didn't mind. It was, well, odd to her. But then again, this place was odd to her but yet it all felt right.

"N..no. It's okay ^^' Heh," she said softly in response to him, still blinking to get over that oddness.

She couldn't help the faintest traces of a blush light up her cheekbones with the softest reddish hues as she looked at him, clearing her throat.

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He coughed slightly, and looked back at her. His blush was nearly faded, but traces of it still remained.

"Ah.. er..." he said, feeling extremely awkward. He tucked his own hair behind his ear yet again, as if to reassure himself with the familiar movement. He shifted from one foot to the other. "How about that sunset?" he asked, pointing toawrds the west where the sky was indeed streaked with brilliant colors, as if assigned by a painter's masterstroke. He fell silent again, this time just watching beauty which had been there since the dawn of time, or so it seemed. He signed slightly and leaned his head back against the wall, staring into the eaves of the building.

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Thaylias, catching his drift of uneasiness it flickered into her. She felt a twinge inside her head and the world bubbled and faded, focusing and unfocusing. She closed her green eyes and then opened them, gazing out at the beautiful artist strokes. A smile crossed her features, breathing out very gently. It was so beautiful.

"It's so beautiful," she breathed, her eyes caught by the beauty painted across the sky.

A happy bubble rose inside her, making her feel girlish. But she clapsed her hands together and her fingers laced together tightly as she smiled dreamily. But it faded as she just rested against the wall, watching the sunset. Breathtaking of course. Such natural beauty never grew old for her.

But not even a sunset can last forever. It slowly sank, leaving shadows in the place of light. The village seemed so quiet with the abscence of light. It made her look around, off balance by the sudden disappearance of people. It was odd how with the sun they were gone, to bed or dinner she didn't know. But the soft glow of candle lights inside houses confirmed that mostly dinner was going on. The roads seemed oddly empty and her shoulders slumped as she relaxed against the wall. Another sleepless, dreamless night. It seemed she'd be walking the village streets, people thinking her a thief or something.

"How long are you staying around here?" She asked softly, not wanting to shatter the present serenity that had simply veiled the village.

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He was silent, his eyes still fixed on the fading twilight and deepning dusk. After a moment he exhaled deeply, as if he had been holding his breath. Then he shrugged, the cloth of his shirt catching on the rough stone of the wall.

"Dunno," he responded in the same quiet tone, his voice thoughtful. "Maybe a day, maybe a month." He paused. "Maybe forever. I just seems so peaceful here, like time doesn't even touch this place... just wish life was like that." His eyes also flisked to the windows of the houses lining the road, with their cheerful fires throwing light through the windowpanes. He envied, in some small way, those who were warm by those fires. How ironic Thaylias ask the question he himself was thinking. All the paths he had carefully laid in his childhood, and he had taken none of them. He didn't even know where he was going to be that night, much less in the intangible 'future'. He sighed slightly, and then laughed very softly to himself as he almost jumped at the sound.

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Thaylias breathed out a soft sigh, looking down at her sandals. She brought up her right foot, inspecting the worn sandals she took them off, sighing as it nearly fell apart with the thud. She took from a pouch that had been conscealed by her body two pairs of slipper-like shoes and a better pair of socks. She took off those, blinking at the tons of miniscule holes and loose threads. She slipped on the new sock onto her foot, this one not have the split between her large toe and the rest like tabi socks. She donned the sock and black slipper shoe and shifted to change the other. She picked up the sandals, two socks and apple core and dropped it into the pouch for her own reasons. She would need some kind of fuel for a fire for tonight. She could make the fire but if she would catch a snooze it'd have to last on it's own.

"It is peaceful. I don't know how long I'll stay myself. I heard that there was something here and it would help me greatly if I found it. If it's not here I'll move to another place," she said rather softly.

What was she supposed to find? The cure to the virus that corrupted her blood. She wanted it gone because the nagging feeling that it wouldn't go away with her previous powers but stay and take away years of her life. If she didn't find the cure, if she didn't find the mystery plant she sought to rid her of the virus that still curdled her. She looked at Kael and laughed softly, masking the pain writhing in her chest.

"I agree with you.. about wishing that life was peaceful," she responded.

But it seemed like it'd never, ever happen. She tried not to kill, and she hated the vicious cycle. And yet, she had to protect those who could not protect themselves against people who wished to do the weaker harm. She had tried to not hurt anyone but determination was a powerful thing. Indeed it was.

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Kael watched this exchange of footwear avidly from the corner of his eyes. He was still in his casual lean against the brick-ish wall, seemingly staring up at the eves. However, every muscled of his body suddenly tensed, and his senses went on full alert, so to say. Still casually, not to alert anyone (especially the girl besides him), he turned his head and looked to his right, deep blue eyes scanning everything, especially the skirt of woods barely visible at the edge of the village. But nothing out of the ordinary caught his eye. Just a few villagers and the like walking along the edges of the road, mostly too and from the taverns. Slowly, he forced all the muscles in his body to relax, then he turned back to Thaylias.

"Hm? ..Yeah," he said, with a bit of a distracted look in his eyes. Then they focused sharply. "What precisely are you looking for? A hot meal? Or maybe it's treasure.. oh, or maybe a companion for the night?" he asked playfully, accompanying the last question with an exaggerated wink.  But he, too, was looking for something. Heck, he didn't know what, or even if he was on the remotely right track. But there was just this vague, half-feeling that he needed to find something. And it was urgent. So he just followed his feet, hoping they knew better than himself.

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Thaylias noted how he had seemed so oddly distracted. She had seen him sense and had watched him glance around, as if he was looking for someone, or something. She didn't comprehend what he was seemingly so tense about. She sighed - it was none of her buisness, she reminded herself coolly. She always meddled in another's problems or overly cared about someone even if she really didn't know them. She disliked that fact about herself, forcing herself onto others and into other's problems. But hey, no one was perfect and she certainly was not.

When he asked of what she was looking for her brows arched at him and when he ticked off some guesses she began to shake her head and when he mentioned the last one she started giggling. Two ways that could be taken, innocent or not. Whichever, it was still funny.

"Oh. More of a cure, really. To one of my biggest problems," she said, only responding to what he had asked.

No use in telling him needless information, right? Only tell him what he asked for. Never burden a person when unnecessary. That's how she figured it anyway. But she didn't mind taking the burden because she had done it for her friends and family. It was just her, only her problems.

"Why do you ask?" She asked, curious.

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He half-shrugged, raising and lowering one shoulder. "It just seems like everyone is looking for something these days. It's not good to generalize, but seems like it's true. Thing is, not everybody knows it. The ones who do... well... seems like their troubles are a bit heavier." It also seemed that this was the case with Thaylias. However, despite his usual lack of tact, he decided not to push the issue. Sounded a bit corny, but if she wan'ted to talk, she'd talk. He didn't really like not knowing; his curious nature compelled him (especially as a child) to ask about everything. With a bit of effort, though, he kept his mouth shut, and only looked at her.

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The world began to bubble, swooping as the world tilted beneath her feet. She closed her eyes, pressing her back firmly to the rough brick-like wall as her eyes closed. When you spin around you sometimes get that odd feeling in the pit of your stomach, well, it felt like that ten times worse. She sighed as her eyes flicked open, and she smiled lightly at Kael. Stupid virus, she thought. Why did things happen to her? Oh well, why should she be treated any different from the rest of the world? She sighed softly as she stretched her legs.

"Perhaps," she responded to him as he had spoken.

"Hey, have you seen any white flowers around here?" She asked him casually.

She had been told the cure lies in a white flower. She didn't know what kind or what exactly she was looking for. Her source had just told her that she'd know when she had found the right one. She'd have to eat the flower, even though it would, more than likely, taste horrible.

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"White flowers?" he echoed, slightly confused. He thought a moment, flicking the bit of hair near his ear.

 "Er.. just lilies they sell in the market sometimes... and sometimes some of the wildflowers are white. I don't really pay much attention to that kind of thing, to be honest." He looked back at her, one eyebrow raised slightly. "Is that your cure? Seems a bit odd to me, but each to their own, I guess." He thought for a moment. "Really, though, if that is what you're looking for," he shrugged, "I guess you could look at some of the flowers in the woods or summat." He paused a moment, looking around again, his brows now furrowed. ".. a bit late to do that now, though. Gets dark fast 'round here, I find. A bit hard to see anything, much less flowers."

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Thaylias listened to him calmly, nodding her head in answering to him. So he didn't really take notice to those things. She sighed - desperate hope. Oh well, she'd find it. She was still unsure of what kind of flower. Delicate and small? Or large and vibrant? She didn't know, the knowledge beyond her. She was left with nothing but hope and looking for every white flower desperatly.

"If light is what I'll need.. I have that covered," she responded softly.

Ignoring the tendrils of pain flickering in her skull she flicked her hand out, palm up as a silver flame danced over her palm. She watched the flame dance and narrowed her intense lush eyes as the flame grew, the light intensifying. It cast it's glow as she continued to ignore the pain. Stupid! She let out a soft breath from between her lips as she looked back too Kael. With that she blinked as she faltered, falling towards him as she turned her body and forced herself where, instead of her going through Kael, he went through her. If she did it the other way she could wind up hurting him. If he went through her it would hurt her, granted, but it was better than hurting him. She let herself sink through the ground and push herself through the ground back beside him, although staying in a sitting position.

"Sorry about that >>" she said, the flame in her hand reappearing, having disappeared with her falling.

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He started to nod in response to her answer, thinking she meant lanterns or the like. However, when the flame burst across her palm, he stopped, and his sapphire eyes widened almost imperceptibly.

"Wow, I didn't know y--" he started to say, but again stopped, this time seeing her sway, then fall. But as he reached out his arms reflexively to catch her, she went right through him (he didn't know it was the other way around). Despite the fact that he had seen her do this once before, it still gave him a shock. He was even more amazed when she simply sat and started the fire again. He started to reach for her, take her pulse, pat her head, something to reassure either of them, but drew back abruptly. She had seemed uncomfortable a bit with physical contact and even if she hadn't, it might not be the best thing at the moment. So he sufficed for staring and saying (almost yelping), "Are you alright?!"