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Survival. That was his most favored excuse, wasn't it... Still... she could hardly argue with him. It made sense, after all. His arm slung around her shoulder and Minette blinked, color rising to her cheeks, turning her pale skin pink. Apart from their brief dance, which had seemed almost...

She'd been worried for him, though it hadn't been clear to her how worried until they had finally reached that water and the weight of agonizing fear had lifted from her chest, watching him dive beneath the surface. Her ankle... it would have healed on it's own, but he was growing weaker by the...

Her ankle had not fared well, but if Minette was anything, it was resilient. Thalion was a mess - pale and weak, surviving, no doubt on will alone, and even that seemed to be fading fast. They had been traveling so long, and the extent of his injuries was hardly apparent on the surface. For a...

A smile, when disingenuous could make discouragement all the worse, but when it was real? When it was real and brightened the light in his eyes, it was all she could do not to cry for joy at the sight. She needed it, more than she was willing to admit, to know that he hadn't given up, to know...

{slide=open | 800 | Jack Chambers} Of course she wasn't alright. He was an idiot, just for asking... How in the world could anyone think she was alright, nevermind a professional therapist, trained to recognize the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress. Her eyes remained fixed on the man in the...

The smile never reached his eyes, but Minette had no delusions that he would feel much effect by her words. They were hardly encouraging, considering all that they were up against. They had survived thus far, but the danger was hardly over and done with. In fact, if they were honest, it was...

{slide=open | 800 | Jack Chambers} "I hope to God Mr. Snuffles is an animal... because otherwise, you have a very unfortunately named significant other. Though this day and age, it wouldn't exactly surprise me..." It was amazing how lonely the life sounded from the outside. He'd lived it for...

There was a frustration in duel nobility. She wanted to protect him, but he wanted the same for her, and in their mutual desires, there was no real compromise. It would do little good for her to try and stay away from him, if he was going to feel compelled to keep watch over her. But whatever...

"Important to..." Blinking, Minette leveled her gaze on Thalion, and unbidden, color rose to her cheeks. She hadn't anticipated, not for a moment... the possibility that he might actually care for her. She had assumed that the reason he protected her was an effect of being better than his...

...From this gilded cage, I fly... The flash of metal in the darkness and Alora could barely make out the initials. What little it meant to her, it apparently meant endlessly more to Samson, for his expression shifted. Alora knew little of tragedy, beyond what she had perceived from...

{slide=open | 800 | Jack Chambers} “Ouch!” He laughed, holding a hand over his heart with a feigned grimace, “You just… went right for it, huh? Throwing no punches. It's cause I'm neat, isn't it. I'm not married, Ms. Dean… and before you ask, no girlfriend or boyfriend either. Hell, I don't...

{slide=open | 800 | Jack Chambers} Laughing softly, Jack rubbed the back of his neck, shaking his head, "No, no! I... That came out so wrong. You just seemed kind of distracted? Which I'm pretty sure is par for course after scalding yourself with boiling water. And then I figured Melissa...

"That sounds like fair reason... And it will give us some time to heal, before we get up North, if it's really as bad as you and Fal both said." She had no doubt it was, but then, she was beginning to think there wasn't anywhere in all of Evernight that wasn't dangerous. It made sense. Thalia...

Very briefly, she had seen his side earlier that morning, when he'd lifted his shirt to show her the scratches he'd received, but that had been the extent of it. To see him, his torso fully exposed, the scars the littered his form was absolutely heartbreaking, and for a moment she could do...

"I don't think anything is broken in my leg. Just a bit swollen, scraped up... Nothing a few hours of rest won't help. In the meantime..." She brushed her fingertips along his ribs and frowning softly, shook her head, "I don't know much about healing, but... There was a girl in the village...

As he slept, Minette kept watch. Over time, the dragon settled, lying down beside the crevice entrance with a huff, smoke and dust furling beneath his nostrils. There was almost something childish about the way the creature behaved, like a small boy who hadn't gotten his way and planned to sulk...

Something, perceptively, had shifted. She had a feeling it was largely due to the magic, but there was something else as well... something that very nearly frightened her. The sense of pressure in her chest, her heart beating fast, too fast, in no regard to the creature outside, but rather the...

The risk he has taken, letting her live. The chance of angering his mother, of stoking her fury... He'd had a chance to reconcile all of that. To end it, and in a way that undoubtedly would have answered far better to his conscience than shooting her in the back with an arrow. But once more...

{slide=open | 800 | Jack Chambers} Through the office, down the hallway and out of the building, Jack managed not to trip, to listen wholeheartedly to Hannah's apology and keep his tongue when he felt that sudden urge to ask her if everything was alright. She wasn't a patient. She was a...

They weren't out of the woods, just yet. No, they weren't even close, really. Whatever he'd done, the shield... it had worked, but only in as much that the dragon couldn't get to them immediately, but it was clearly angering the creature, and it didn't appear to be something Thalion could...