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Post by The Mad Hatter on Jul 11, 2007 11:10:41 GMT
It had now been almost 5 days since Zeque had abandoned the candy house back in the dark woods. He still had no idea that it was Cas and Dinah that had been inside. He thought it was town people and that idea was enough to send him running as far away from the damn place as he could.
So far in his little journey he had met some very very scary little munchkins that tried to sing a song at him when he wandered into there village. Then he had met Jack, the weirdo with the cow. The next few days had been full of rain, trees and walking in circles with no idea where he was going.
He had been sure he had been walking in the same direction all day, only now that the sun was starting to set he could see that he was no longer heading towards it like he had been the day before. "Oh for fucks sake!" He had seriously had enough of this. Who knew that the world out side his house would be so damn confusing.
Momentarily giving up the witch threw himself down on t he grass beside the path and just lay there. It wasn't worth it, he should have just stayed home and if town people had come, well dealing with those had to be easier then this, right?
After who knows how long, he sat up again. It was dark now, no trace at all of the sun on the horizon, that meant that again he had no way of knowing what direction he was walking in. He felt the sudden urge to just scream. So this was what it felt like to be hopelessly lost and to have had hardly any sleep for the last 5 days.
Not wanting to panic, he tried to think on the bright side... only right now there didn't seem to be one. OK think of something happy... anything...
For some reason the first thing that came to mind was Ziggy stardust by David Bowie. So he quietly started to sing to himself and hoped that soon he would just pass out or fall asleep.
"Ziggy played guitar... jamming good with Wierd and Gilly... the Spiders from Mars.
He played it left hand, but made it too far, became the special man, then we were Ziggy's Band."
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Post by Sleeping Beauty on Jul 14, 2007 3:18:18 GMT
Aurora was now walking in circles wringing her hands in total freak out mode. Her face was full of worry and no matter how many times she paced around the bad feeling in the pit of her stomach didn't go away. Having so many thoughts in her head was giving her a headache and the pounding in her head was only worsening the feeling.
An hour before she had found herself a few miles away from her castle with blood on her hands. It didn't take to long for her to remember stabbing her husband while he was yelling at her. Normally Aurora was used to him calling her stupid, but finally she had snapped. She couldn't take him being mean to her anymore. Now she was just worried about what she was going to do. The fact that her husband was laying in the castle dead, didn't bother her. He had called her an idiot for way to long, he had it coming.
She had washed most of the blood off her hands but there was still some traces on her hand. Later she would have to take care of that. Stopping her walking around she looked around at her surroundings, she was going to have to figure out something to do. Running around in circles was going to get her nowhere.
The sound of singing made her stop and turn around and walk slowly in the direction. This was a really good distraction from her thoughts, and of there was somebody maybe they could help her out. Stepping out onto the path she could see a dark haired man on the grass just outside the path. Walking over she stood in front of him. "Hi." She said brightly, totally forgetting about that she had just been freaking out for murdering somebody.
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Jul 14, 2007 16:11:20 GMT
Not being able to remember the words after the first verse, the witch just went into quietly humming to himself, zoning in and out of his own thoughts. He was sick of this, he just wanted to go home now. Screw the town people, they could try anything they liked, it was better then this.
Maybe that Jack guy could help him get back on the track home... if he could even find Jack again. That had been three days back.
Usually he would have heard the girl coming, he was almost always on guard being paranoid like he was. At that moment though he was far to tired and caught up in his own little world to notice the girl walking over.
Her voice cut off his thoughts but he didn't move at first, it took a few seconds for it to even register that she had spoken to him. Trying not to jump to the worst case scenario, he slowly looked up at her.
She didn't look like the people he had seen so far around this place. That meant she must be from elsewhere. Not good.
"Hi..." He answered, watching her closely. She looked to well dressed to be from that town he was running away from, unlike those people she actually looked like she had taste. Still, he didn't trust her and her clothing style did not keep him from worrying about who she might be or what she might want.
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Post by Sleeping Beauty on Jul 14, 2007 20:26:01 GMT
Aurora was taken aback at how he looked like she was untrusting. As far as she knew she was far from dangerous, except of course if you repeately called her stupid, then she might get a little dangerous, but at the moment she was back to her self.
Finally noticing where he was at and what he was doing, made her realize that he could be lost. Whenever she got lost sitting around and waiting for help was what she did most of the time, unless it started to get dark then she would go off an wonder by herself.
In the dark she couldn't really see him to well, but as her eyes adjusted she started to get a more clear view of what he looked like. She was hoping maybe he was someone she had met before, but everything about him was unfamilier so she couldn't of seen him before.
"Are you lost?" She asked getting straight to the point. If he wasn't from around here, she knew the way out of wherever they were, which was an amazing feat for her.
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Jul 15, 2007 22:46:41 GMT
The witch listened, still not taking his eyes away from the girl infront of him. Was she alone? No, they where never alone. But he could neither see nor hear any other people around.
That didn't make a whole lot of sense. If she was totally alone and really was just a normal girl who wasn't part of some town people trick, then what was she doing talking to strangers in the dark? Maybe she had a knife? Or worse, maybe she had a gun.
'Are you lost?'
He just stared up at her at first. He wasn't really sure why, but he did not want to admit that he was. Not to some strange girl. "Are you?" He asked, tilting his head slightly to the side.
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Post by Sleeping Beauty on Jul 15, 2007 22:57:46 GMT
She didn't know why he was just staring at her, like he expected her to do something at any moment. All Aurora was trying to do was find someone to distract her from her predicament she had got herself into. She didn't like getting in trouble and there was no doubt in her mind that her parents would be quite angry with what she had done.
She shook her head "No I'm not going anywhere so I can't be lost." She said even though her own words confused her a little. A confused look came to her face, did what she say even make sense....oh well she had already said it and it sounded good in her head so it must have sounded not confusing to him.
"Do you live here?" Asked Aurora. If he was then he could tell her where exactly she was. it was dark and nothing looked familier and it wasn't starting to make her a little worried. yes she had nowhere to go but she would have at least liked to know where she was.
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Jul 15, 2007 23:29:23 GMT
Well that did make sense. Or at least it sounded like it did, he didn't really think about it enough to notice if it didn't, he was far to tired for word games. He didn't even notice that in saying that, the girl had made herself confused. "Oh... yes I'm lost." He didn't know where this journey was supposed to be taking him, he just assumed that he would know it when he found it.
Now though he just wanted to go back home.
He shook his head when she asked if he lived around here. Oh hell no, did he look like he would fit in with those little scary munchkin people and there scary welcome to Oz songs? "Nu-uh... I live about 5 days ago" OK that did not make a lot of sense at all but he didn't really care, it made perfect sense in his head.
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Post by Sleeping Beauty on Jul 15, 2007 23:40:47 GMT
Well that wasn't good, being lost wasn't very much fun. "I'm sorry that isn't very good is it now?" She asked looking down at him. It seemed silly to be standing when he wasn't so she sat down across from him delicately. Being a princess she was basically programmed to always be graceful with everything she did. It had become almost like a second nature by now.
After his next words she just looked shocked and amazed. "You're from the past?" She asked not quite understanding what he had meant. She had seen a lot of weird things in her lifetime and somebody who could time travel didn't seem so far fetched.
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Jul 15, 2007 23:55:27 GMT
As the girl sat down, Zeque instantly pulled his knees up to his chest. He hugged his legs tightly and stared over at her as if she where mad. Anyone would have thought she had tried to bite him or something, not just sat down on the grass across from him. "No its not good at all" He answered, still watching her.
Her next words almost made the witch laugh. From the past? Well, if you thought about it, wasn't everyone? "No no, I live where I was 5 days ago" He wasn't even sure why he found it funny, it was more the way she had looked really amazed when she said it. Even if he had come from the past, 5 days ago wasn't exactly something to get all impressed about.
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Post by Sleeping Beauty on Jul 16, 2007 0:08:09 GMT
Completly oblivious to his abvious discomfort she remained where she was at. "Why do you look so nervous?" She asked finally noticing that he seemed to be trying to get as far as way as possible from her. This was all a little new, usually grown up people weren't afraid of her.
"Oh" She said with a slow look of realization. "Well if you need help getting back to the woods I can show you, I remember how to get back out of here." She said nodding trying to be helpful.
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Jul 16, 2007 0:32:06 GMT
"Um..." Zeque bit his lip, then lowered his voice slightly, tearing his gaze away from the girl to look around, "Because I don't think you're alone." He still couldn't see or hear anyone else close by. There where hardly any sounds at all here aside from the two of them talking.
What she said next only made him even more freaked out. He hadn't trusted her as it was, but now he was sure that she was not a normal girl who had just happened to find him while she was walking. "And how did you know I was from the woods?" He hadn't even told her his name yet, let alone where he came from. All he had given her so far was that he was not from here.
Actually thinking about it, maybe it would have been better to let her take him there first, or tell him the way before he got all spooked. At least then he would be getting somewhere.
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Post by Sleeping Beauty on Jul 16, 2007 0:49:24 GMT
Aurora looked nervously around, as far as she knew she was completly alone, unless someone had followed her. She hadn't heard anybody but some people were really sneaky. "As far as I know I'm alone, I don't think anybody was following me." She said letting her gaze fall back on him.
She shrugged her shoulders "I don't know I just kind of guessed, most people seem to be from there and since you're not from here I figured you were from the woods." She explained. "So do you want help?" She asked starting to wonder if this was even worth it, he obviosly didn't trust her very much.
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Jul 16, 2007 1:15:04 GMT
What she said sounded kind of believable. Not so much her actual words, but more the way she had seemed genuinely to think that she was alone. He decided that she must either be a pretty damn good actress, or she was telling the truth. There was no one with her, and that thing about the woods really had been just a guess.
He thought about it for a short while, watching her again. "Ok... thank you Miss" With that the witch got up to his feet and looked around again. It was to dark to be walking around.
With that thought in mind, Zeque closed his eyes for a moment and mumbled something quietly to himself. Almost instantly, a small green flame appeared, floating in the air between them. The flame gave off about as much light as a lantern would, at least now they could see properly.
"Ok then miss, which way?" He waved his hand over the little flame, commanding it silently to follow, then waited for the girl so that they could get going.
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Post by Sleeping Beauty on Jul 16, 2007 1:46:36 GMT
"You don't have to call me 'Miss' my name is Aurora." She said with a friendly smile, though she didn't know if he would be able to see it in the dark.
She got to her feet and looked around quickly at her surroundings, seeing the path where she walked off of when she heard him singing. She was about to point it out but she instead jumped in surprise and whirled around to look at him when she saw a light. Now she was really amazed, "How did you do that." She asked breathlessly staring at the flame.
She pointed behind her at the path, her eyes still glued to the green flame. "Its that way on the path."
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Jul 16, 2007 2:10:43 GMT
"Ok Aurora. Nice name. I'm Zeque by the way" Well Aurora was a nice name. He had heard it before though.... actually seeing her in the light, she looked ever so slightly familiar. He didn't know her, he had never met her before... but he was sure he had seen her before.
He forgot about that for now when she asked about his light. "Magic" He told her, flashing her a grin. "Don't worry, it wont burn you or anything, its harmless... If anything its probably cold"
When she pointed, Zeque started walking, heading down towards the path. The little green light followed after him, bobbing up and down in the air about 4 feet above the ground.
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