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Post by manisha on Jan 17, 2016 15:49:01 GMT
The air was hot as the sun reached its peak in the sky. It was in order to seek a mixture of solitude and a way to escape the midday heat that Manisha had come to the lake accompanied by Noctus. Unlike him however she had no particular urge to go for a dip. Instead, she sat by the edge of the water reading or at least trying to. Whilst for once the light was more than sufficient for her to see the words but the words were still a little faint and blurry. She could see them but was forced to squint and periodically ajust the distance that she was holding the book at. Her patience was already wearing thin as she could already feel the warning signs of an upcoming headache should she continue trying to read.
She turned her attention to her dragon as it splashed around in the water. He, at least, seemed to be enjoying himself. Letting out a sigh, the young woman folded the corner of her page marking where she had been before putting the book down and calling it a day as far as reading was concerned. Instead, she watched her friend. This peace and quiet was a welcome break from the camp. It wasn't that she particularly disliked anyone in particular, truth be told, she hadn't really met anyone to feel hostile towards yet. It was more the hustle, the people coming and going that she wasn't used to.
Alone, with just Noctus and not having to worry about anyone else, now that would be nice: no Excalibur, no Knights of Purity, no Court of Dragons... Letting out a sigh, she rested her head against the tree behind her and closed her eyes, relaxing in the sunlight.
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Post by AMELIE ROSE CHAIRMONT on Jan 18, 2016 21:39:28 GMT
Amelie was running and she was running fast. She had just angered a very... temperamental group of Ryluths scouts. It seemed as though she had lost them but she still wasn't sure, so she decided to run to the lake just in case. She ran right past the girl leaning against the tree, not even seeing her, and leaped into the water, holding her breath just before sinking deep enough to stay hidden in case the scout dragons flew overhead. She waited there for three minutes, which was as long as she could hold her breath, and then resurfaced, grateful that she hadn't seen anything fly overhead. manisha
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Post by noctus on Jan 19, 2016 19:52:08 GMT
It had been comparatively early on that Noctus had learnt that when Manisha said that she "needed space" it was best not to argue and to give it to her. When she'd declared that she was going to go to the lake, for once he hadn't been too reluctant to come along. The chance to go for a swim was not one that the blue dragon was going to pass, especially not in such heat. The water was cool and refreshing and whilst his human rider might be rather more reluctant to get wet, he wasn't about to sneer at the chance to swim.
He cast his red eyes over to the young woman as she read her book. He could sense that she was struggling. Perhaps he should offer her some assistance? Instead, he opted for diving back under the water. There were fish down there too, he was getting a little hungry. Opening his mouth, the dragon swam after a rather large trout. It was then that he spotted something entering the water not to far away. For a moment, he thought little of it, it was probably just a tree branch falling from a nearby tree or something. Then the object or being as it turned out, resurfaced. It was too large to be a bird and judging by how it was kicking water to stay afloat, he was pretty certain he knew what it was.
"Manisha!" He called out telepathically to his rider. "We're not alone anymore!".
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Post by manisha on Jan 19, 2016 20:14:44 GMT
Manisha was a little ahead of her dragon. She's actually seen somebody jump in. Whoever it was, they'd been in quite a hurry and the young woman hadn't quite been able to make them out correctly as they'd plunged into the water. She'd seen them go in though and that was enough. They looked like they had been in quite the hurry, maybe even running away from something, although she supposed that they could simply have been really desperate for a dip but somehow she doubted it. With an exasperated sigh, she got to her feet and decided to check it out.
"Manisha..." Her dragon's words echoed through her mind. "We're not alone anymore."
"I know, I saw them jump in." She replied walking steadily around the lake. "Stay hidden. Lets keep the benefit of surprise. How long can you hold your breath?" She knew that he could hold his breath for quite some time, longer than any human in any case and she found it unlikely that anybody would check the water to see if there was a large dragon down there with them. She walked steadily round to where the stranger was in the water. It was a young woman, several years younger than herself. She frowned slightly leaning against a tree. She couldn't recall meeting this person before, although she didn't exactly know everyone in Excalibur.
After a few more moments, internally debating with herself. She decided to reveal her presence, if it had gone unnoticed. After all, she had a dragon for backup should the stranger suddenly turn hostile, so right now, Manisha considered herself to be the one with the high ground. "What are you doing down there, kid?" She asked, blunt and to the point, far from amused at having her peace and quiet disturbed in such an irritating manner. This kid had better be able to explain herself and have a pretty good excuse or else she might just have to answer to some abuse or perhaps even a fist.
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Post by AMELIE ROSE CHAIRMONT on Jan 25, 2016 18:37:16 GMT
Amelie let out a loud laugh, closing her eyes to shift to her back to kick atop the water and keep herself afloat. Suddenly, she heard a voice and she straightened up, keeping herself afloat as best she could. "Well, hey there!" Amelie had been conditioned not to startle easy. Her friends were the type that would tackle, jump at, sling shot and do all manner of random things to you when you 'weren't expecting it'. In all reality, it had gotten to the point where it was hard to frighten anyone in the clan before. "Just running from some -erh- trouble makers. Figured the water was a good place to hide... what are you doing here?" with her last question she talked in a faux serious tone, clearly mimicking the other woman.
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Post by noctus on Jan 26, 2016 16:33:14 GMT
Under the water, Noctus couldn't make out everything that was being said. He was an air dragon after all and whilst he could stay under here for quite some time, it wasn't exactly indefinite and the young dragon's curiosity made him wonder what could possibly be going on above the surface. He forced himself to stay away, aware that with his large body, he couldn't stray too close to the human before she would notice him. As such, all he could make out was some of the disturbance as she stayed afloat. Considering that Manisha wasn't currently fighting her, he guessed that she posed no threat. Perhaps she was even a friend, not that his rider had much of a concept of those...
He grumbled slightly, sensing his friend's temper slowly getting the better of her. Just how a human could have so much fire in their blood was beyond him but he knew it could easily lead to her starting a fight. With them both so new here, that was best avoided. "Manisha..." He called out to her. "Mind your temper..."
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Post by manisha on Jan 26, 2016 16:47:24 GMT
Manisha frowned as she looked at the stranger. She couldn't place her face to a name which meant precious little as she wasn't the sort to bother much about such things. She could be a member of Excalibur, just as easily as one of the Knights of Purity, a dragon slave or some person who'd gotten a bit lost. Ordinarily, Manisha would have paid little heed to the stranger much further than potentially punching her in the face or simply ignoring her but with Excalibur's camp so nearby, she figured that she had at least some responsibility to ensure that this wasn't an assassin or a spy.
"Well, hey there!"
Seriously? Couldn't she see that Manisha wasn't in the mood for this and that trying her temper wasn't the wisest of ideas? The young woman felt like wading into the water and dragging the stranger out to get her to talk. It was only Noctus' voice, low and calm as it always was which prevented her from doing so. She must have been partnered to the most goodie two-shoes dragon in the world! "I know, I know... Breathe, right?" She replied telepathically before following her own advice.
When she did explain herself, the young dragon rider found herself not much more enlightened. With a frustrated roll of her eyes, she decided that she'd better set things straight. Now. "Okay, listen here. I don't know what you're playing at but right now, you're a little too close to my-" God, she hated to use the term but it was the only one that she could think of. "-Friends for comfort. Which means I am literally this close." She illustrated the distance with her fingers, showing only about an inch. "-From killing you and believe me, all I need do is snap my fingers." So long as the big blue lug felt like it that was. "Now, who are you? Whose side are you on? And who is chasing you? Answer quickly because I'm only going to count to ten."
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Post by AMELIE ROSE CHAIRMONT on Jan 27, 2016 1:14:40 GMT
Amy could tell the woman was getting annoyed with her, but she didn't really care. She swam closer to the show, acutely aware of where her knives were on her boots in case she needed to use them. She couldn't keep afloat forever, though, so she had to get to shore at some point. Close to her friends? What friends? Amelie reached a point where her feet could touch as the woman described how little time she had before being killed. Amelie couldn't help but chuckle at that but tried to hide it by closing her lips tightly. "Aw, I see. Well," she stopped and stood there, about ten feet from the woman, "I'm not really on anyones side so I'm not sure how to answer that..." she lifted a hand to gently stroke the bottom of her chin in thought. "Woah, woah, counting? What're you, my mother? I'm just running from some angry scouts of Ryluths, Aright?"manishanoctus
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Post by manisha on Jan 27, 2016 8:19:49 GMT
Manisha watched as the woman came closer, no doubt she needed to get back into her depth. Manisha glanced down at her boot briefly, she had her weapons stashed there should she need them and was fairly certain that the stranger would have spotted them as well. It would have been one of the first things that she would have checked: was this other person armed? Unfortunately, in the case of this rather wet intruder, she couldn't make out clearly and so was doubly cautious. Ten feet wasn't much of a distance and unless this kid could move like grease lightning, Manisha couldn't see herself missing should she have to put her knife throwing skills to the test. Besides, with a dragon on her side, she was fairly sure that the odds were in her favour.
For all that though, the girl didn't seem to be taking her very real threat all that seriously, even daring to chuckle. It was people like this that made Manisha have sympathy for Ryluth's cause. She listened none-the-less to what the stranger had to say, taking in each of her words with a healthy amount of scepticism. "Ryluth's scouts, eh? Well..." She cast a glance to the sky, just in case. "They don't seem to be here now and that doesn't tell me whose side your on. So you're no slave, what does that make you? A knight? One of Excalibur? Or just a passing mooch? I'll put in this way, say I was with Excalibur, would I want you dead?"
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Post by noctus on Jan 27, 2016 8:34:49 GMT
Manisha was getting near to kill mode. Should she try something that stupid, he supposed he would have to intervene. It would hardly be the first time. The girl couldn't control her temper, well actually she could but more often than not he found himself suspecting that she lacked the will to do so which was arguably worse. The blue dragon narrowed its eyes as he watched the strange human in the water move slightly, she was heading towards the banc, mostly he guessed to find her footing. Unfortunately, that would also lead her to draw ever closer to his partner, dangerous ground if ever there was any.
For a moment, he contemplated breaking his cover. He would be yelled at and called an idiot for certain but if it prevented his friend from getting into yet another fight he would gladly risk it. They didn't know who this person was but he supposed that they should perhaps hear her out rather than turn her into a pincushion... If she was somehow related to Excalibur, he doubted that their superiors would take kindly to Manisha's 'strike first and ask questions after the said person was in need of medical attention' attitude... Sometimes, he wondered if they hadn't been born the wrong way around and whether or not he should have been the human and she the dragon.
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Post by AMELIE ROSE CHAIRMONT on Jan 29, 2016 5:50:27 GMT
Amelie raised another quizzical brow as the woman seemed to get more and more fumed. At the word 'dead' Amelie raised her hands up in surrender, "woah, woah. My only enemy is Ryluth and her band of murderers. Excalibur is pretty chill, I dunno!" she wasn't smiling now, more because she was holding it back so that she didn't make a fool of herself and get herself killed. "Mooch is a harsh word, friend," she added, dropping her hands back to her sides. "I've earned everything I've ever gotten and never mooched off nobody. Not even a little Excalibur-" she almost said the word princess as a derogatory term, but then she remembered that the woman had the high ground. She sighed, "listen, my clothes are getting soaked. Can I come out of the water now without you slicing my head off?" she asked, taking one step but waiting for an answer before moving any more. manishanoctus
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Post by manisha on Jan 29, 2016 10:12:50 GMT
Her threat seemed to have paid off, earning a small and satisfied smirk from Manisha. The woman raised her hands, she was unarmed, good. If she said that Ryluth was their enemy, then she supposed that they had that much in common. With a sigh, she relaxed slightly. Perhaps this girl was telling the truth after all. They might want to warn the others if that were the chase or was this one of these unimportant things that wasn't worth worrying people about? She was new to this place, new to working with anyone other than her dragon. It had been just them for so long and before that she'd only ever had to worry about herself, now she didn't know how to act if there was a threat towards their newfound allies. Heck, she wasn't even too sure just where she and Noctus fitted into Excalibur, if they did at all.
Calling her a 'mooch' seemed to have offended her somewhat. Initially, Manisha couldn't have cared less, it wasn't exactly supposed to be a compliment. Then it dawned on her that the term had been an odd one to use, especially given her own history. It struck the young woman as she listened to the stranger's claims of being an honest person that it was a particularly hypocrital thing to say. She looked away for a moment, thinking of all of the people she'd tricked and what she had stolen. "More fool you..." She muttered as a reply to the young woman.
It was probably fortunate that the intruder stopped herself before she finished her sentence. "A little Excalibur-" Manisha didn't know what she'd intended to come afterwards but she was willing to bet that it wasn't friendly. Her dark eyes narrowed as she dared the stranger to keep on going and finish what she had intended to say. Luckily for her, she had the good sense to change topic. She had half a mind - the cruel and unforgiving half - to try and prevent the stranger from coming out and to leave her in there with the fishes and her soaking clothes but a mixture of a lack of interest and the remainder of her headache from earlier caused her to step away from the bank. It was a bit of an afterthought when she turned back to the water and remembered the blue dragon that was still down there holding his breath. "You can come out now."
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Post by noctus on Jan 29, 2016 10:26:20 GMT
Swimming round in circles had lost its attraction to Noctus and now the dragon simply wanted out of the water, more specifically to be able to get a breath of fresh air and to fill his lungs with the oxygen they were so desperately crying out for. He'd give her another thirty seconds before he surfaced. He understood his rider's concerns and the urge to keep his presence a secret so as to conserve some of the element of surprise should things turn nasty but there was no way that he was about to allow himself to drown just because Manisha asked him to.
Finally, he received the message he had been longing to hear for a few minutes now. With a mighty beat of his wings and a kick of his leg, he surfaced barely waiting until his head was out of the water before gasping for breath. "About time!" He declared to his partner, making no attempt to hide frustration in his voice. "I almost drowned!". His red eyes slowly acclimatised to the world above the water, fixing themselves on the stranger. She was a human, he always had trouble with human beings at guessing their age and sometimes even telling if they were male or female, they were all rather squishy and hairy for his liking. He guessed that this was a young female, perhaps a little younger than Manisha although he couldn't quite tell. "Who is this?" He asked his rider, growing curious.
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Post by AMELIE ROSE CHAIRMONT on Jan 30, 2016 23:42:41 GMT
Amelie was fuming silently as the woman turned back to the water. Why was she- holy mother of pearl. She heard it first, the sound of the water rustling behind her. She spun around to see the face of a dragon gasping for air. Her eyes widened and she was having trouble distinguishing the words it was saying due to the shock. She held her hands up in surrender, again, and backed up until she was on shore. "I'm sorry for bothering you're swim dragon, sir, I'll just go now-" she turned back around only to find she was face to face with the woman, almost at eye level. "That is... if you'll let me?" manishanoctus(Hahha this thread is so funny XD)
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Post by manisha on Jan 31, 2016 13:49:00 GMT
Noctus surfaced behind her, discrete as ever. A small smile tugged at the corner of her lips as she noticed the girl's surprise. Maybe the big blue lug was useful for something. She frowned, watching him splash around in a rather clumsy manner. He seemed rather keen to take out his frustrations on her. There was no way she was going to tolerate being blamed for him almost drowning himself, it didn't take a genius to know that if you were running out of oxygen, you had to come back up to the surface to be able to breathe! "I didn't tell you to stay down there until you drowned!" She told him. "Did holding your breath that long starve your brain of oxygen?"
She turned back to the stranger, wondering how to answer her dragon partner's question. "I don't really know. She says she's an ally of Excalibur. At least, I think she did. Maybe you could chat with her..." The girl seemed to be rather intent on putting some distance between herself and Noctus. She grinned in a slightly menacing manner as she blocked the other's route. It was a mixture of spite and mischief which caused her to reach out in an attempt to push the stranger back into the water.
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